Next, on lectures in history, Purdue University professor Kathryn Brownell teaches a class about political advertising in the 1950s, highlighting Dwight Eisenhowers president ial campaigns. She compares radio and early televised ads and examines what components made them successful. Her class is about an hour and 10 minutes. Nothing perhaps captures the popular memory of the 1950s like the slogan i like ike. This idea that this pin that so many people wore around the campaign of 1952 and 1956 conveys a notion of nostalgia and simplicity. It really emphasizes this idea of the 1950s as this era of prosperity where america was a world leader and the 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, conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal tha
And hes also an author of that column of the in town or what once was. Again, if you worked in with d. C. History, and d. C. History conference, that has been involved with it. The journal, just anything history in d. C. , owing also around the d. C. History lists serve. Thank you for that, on behalf of the city. So, today is gonna be talking about James Garfield his, death and efforts to commemorate his life and death, here in washington d. C. I want slate to much about it, i wanna i dont steal this, team but please join me in welcoming math. [applause] thank you very much. So, the storm unitel might be ripped from today or recent headlines, there was a president ial memorial delayed for years, caught up in congressional fighting, legislation pending to displace immemorial and replacing with another a powerful law between the memorial of choosing the site, and choosing the design criticizing the press. And it designer, without competition, decided very close to the capital, on marylan
Prof. Gutin welcome everyone. This is for the people who are here for the first time tonight the making of the president s 2020, better known as a political circus of the century. Im going to be talking about two different, and yet related topics. The first has to do with the factors that are considered when we look at president ial effectiveness. The second part id like to look at, a few of the more recent president ial elections. So, were going to start with this. And im coming on the work of Professor Robert dallek, a wellknown president ial historian. Dallek writes, the 20th century saw an impressive expansion of president ial powers, due to the vision and leadership skills of nine men who served in the office Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano roosevelt, harry s. Truman, dwight d. Eisenhower, john f. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines johnson, richard nixon, and ronald reagan. Now, professor dalleks analysis only looks at the 20th century. Im going to throw in some of the pre
Taking its toll on those around the world a new survey from. The World Health Organization. Are. Making. Their 9 pm in helsinki. Here in moscow this choose the october 13th welcome to our to international my name. The faltering ceasefire in new car of bike has entered a 4th day with armenia and azerbaijan again accusing each other of violating the truce amid a series of shelling attacks on saturday the 2 nations however which border and europe agreed to lay down their weapons and Exchange Prisoners and those killed in the fighting in the nearly 700 on exploded munitions have been find in the disputed enclave on the armenian Prime Minister has warned of a potential humanitarian catastrophe the government for its part reported several of its own region shelled baku also accuses or many of bombarding the 2nd largest city in the country killing at least 10 people and entering doesnt were looking here at the aftermath of that attack europe denies the claims a conflict stretches back more th
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