Youre looking at some of the images from the 1884 election and listening to songs in support of james g. Blaine of maine and his running mate, john logan. Tonight our series continues and were live in the home of james g. Blaine, and since 1920, the official residence of maines governor. Were inside the blaine house with maines sitting governor. Do you have a sense of the man while youre here . Absolutely. Welcome to maine and welcome to the peoples house. Mr. Blaine is here every day and we see his spirit every evening, because we always say good night to him. What is your sense of living the house was built many years ago, many people have lived in it over the years, but he really is president in a lot of ways. What have you come to learn about the man by living in his midst . He not only was a very strong supporter and founder of the Republican Party in maine but a national leader, and started maine on its course to where we are now. And very, very influential both in the press, in
Good evening, everyone. All right. I think our technical difficulties are finished and id like to welcome you all to the opening women. I do want to report welcome you all to the 104th meeting of the association. My name is lionel campbell. It is my honor to bring together on a, well it is my honor to convene hillary this plenary a. When i think when we were planning the conference, we always liked to bring our heavy hitters out, and i think today is one of those occasions in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address our theme, so what we decided to do is to run the plenary more as a roundtable, as a moderate did conversation about issues with the great migration, and i want to introduce our panelists and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work, and their perceptions and ideas about the great migration and then move on into our question and answer, followed by a discussion, followed by a question and answer session wi
Joining us now on is author richard. Here is his book. Its called go big the Marketing Secrets of richard, a viguerie. Mr. Viguerie, what do you do for a living living . My mother went to her grave a few years ago, not really understanding what did. I was fortunate. Back in. 1960s, early sixties to pioneer political direct mail. People have been raising money for a long time and theyve been raising it money through the mails for charities, churches, etc. Nobody could combine the two politics and the mails. And i did that in the early 60. For about 20 years, i had no competitors. And i went out there and and helped the conservative movement. And i can a case that without direct mail would be no conservative movement worthy of the name. When i did my pioneering work in the sixties, the left wasnt doing. Now theyre doing a better job than the are. Have you always been a conservative when you even when you were growing in texas . I grew up right in pasadena, texas, outside of houston. And
Richard. Here is his book. Its called go big the Marketing Secrets of richard, a viguerie. Mr. Viguerie, what do you do for a living living . My mother went to her grave a few years ago, not really understanding what did. I was fortunate. Back in. 1960s, early sixties to pioneer political direct mail. People have been raising money for a long time and theyve been raising it money through the mails for charities, churches, etc. Nobody could combine the two politics and the mails. And i did that in the early 60. For about 20 years, i had no competitors. And i went out there and and helped the conservative movement. And i can a case that without direct mail would be no conservative movement worthy of the name. When i did my pioneering work in the sixties, the left wasnt doing. Now theyre doing a better job than the are. Have you always been a conservative when you even when you were growing in texas . I grew up right in pasadena, texas, outside of houston. And kids in neighborhood playing
Mr. Viguerie, what do you do for a living living . My mother went to her grave a few years ago, not really understanding what did. I was fortunate. Back in. 1960s, early sixties to pioneer political direct mail. People have been raising money for a long time and theyve been raising it money through the mails for charities, churches, etc. Nobody could combine the two politics and the mails. And i did that in the early 60. For about 20 years, i had no competitors. And i went out there and and helped the conservative movement. And i can a case that without direct mail would be no conservative movement worthy of the name. When i did my pioneering work in the sixties, the left wasnt doing. Now theyre doing a better job than the are. Have you always been a conservative when you even when you were growing in texas . I grew up right in pasadena, texas, outside of houston. And kids in neighborhood playing cops and robbers, you know, were 11, 12, 13 years old. I wont tell anybody. Im not shootin