Money to conduct a comprehensive exhibit renovation. Its the largest Fundraising Campaign in our foundations 73year history and its the First Comprehensive exhibit renovation in more than 45 years. The new exhibits will be unveiled this summer. We have been so encouraged by the response that weve received thus far and im pleased to report that we have raised 98 of our goal. Thank you. [ applause ] we want to finish the campaign before june 6th so that we can publicly announce this milestone to all the veterans who join us at the eisenhower president ial library and museum that day to commemorate the 75th anniversary of dday. Many of our friends have already made a gift to the exhibit renovation and id like to thank you for your trust and participation in this project. Theres still time to participate and i hope everyone will consider a gift so that we can reach our goal. Now, it gives me great pleasure to introduce tonights program. Louis galambos is a Professor Emeritus in the departm
One giant leap for mankind. On this 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing todays washington journal in conjunction with cspans American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern spaceflight. For the next three hours we are live from the national air and space museum here in washington, d. C. Where we will talk about apollo 11 with historians, command module pilot Michael Collins and you. You can call us and let us know your impressions of apollo 11 if you watched the moon landing and you want to talk about that day, your impressions of it, 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post cspan wj your thoughts and impressions of the 50th anniversary, do the same at our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Our show will be based here from the national air and space museum. A couple facts about the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission, it was astronauts Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin and Michael Collins, the team for that day. The launch
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I want to thank the ewing and coughman foundation for supporting extra series tonight. Perhaps youre aware that the Eisenhower Foundation is raising money to conduct a comprehensive exhibit renovation and its the largest Fundraising Campaign in our foundations 73year history its the exhibit renovation in more than 45 years. The new exhibits will be unveiled this summer and we have been so encouraged by the response that weve received thus far and i am pleased to report that we raised 98 of our goals. [ applause ] we of the to finish the campaign and thank the veterans who join us at the Eisenhower Museum to commemorate the dday. Many of our friends have made a gift to the exhibit renovation and id like to thank you for your trust and participation in this project. Theres still time to participate and i hope everyone will consider a gift so we can reach our goal. It gives me great pleasure to introduce to nots program. Louis is Professor Emeritus in the department of history and editor
American people were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike, its so simple and it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth and its a political construction. The 1950s in fact was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflicts, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. It was a time in which anticommunism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently anticommunists took away civil liberties. And these are all different areas of political pressures in terms of enforcing certain ideals and resisting against those that we will look at next week. But i like ike as a political construct shifted attention away from those divisions and it created a sense of consensus. In many ways again this is political construction. And at the root of it was a very innovative and transformative Marketing Campaign that transformed a military her