Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 this one is written by a Pr Department for the white house in jerry fords time. Those of you who might remember with inflation now or wind, poor jerry ford couldnt even get that part of his administration correct. That came and went with incredible speed. Keep cool with coolidge is not generally remembered or win with wilkie because they lost. There are many slogans which are still current in an Ethnic Community or in a smaller segment that were just not generally aware of because they never became generalized but those are slogans which tried to be i am not a crook, certainly was there. But i am not a crook is like a mission accomplished. Its like one of those slogans which characterize an era or a person and im sure that people in love would rather they didnt remember them. The subgroup of snarky slogans or catch phrases. The one which has lasted the longest and you and i have talked about this is once deliberately not in the boo
The facts are we have to fixette. There is an extra trest yell doing it to us i guess. Someone somewhere has to take responsibility for this. That was ross perot during the second of three president ial debates talking about one of his favorite issues the u. S. Debt. In that election, the texas businessman won 19 of the popular vote. He ran a second president ial campaign in 1996 and tonight he is our focus on the contenders. Gooned good night and thanks for being with us. Were doing this series as a way to look at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who failed in their quest for the white house but have an outside impact on American History. Ss perot is our final of 14 people that were proniling this series. Tonight joining us is Doug Brinkley. He is not politics as usual. He is less interested in money and politics than doing right for our country. I believe this comes out of his Naval Academy background. Looking for p. O. W. s and m. I. A. s during vietnam
In 2018. Welcome to our latest lunchtime lecture. Im chief historian here at the u. S. Capitol historical society. Welcome. Im really pleased today to introduce you if you dont already know jeanne and david heidler. Theyve been speakers before and today were really honored that were one day into the official existence of their latest book on Andrew Jackson, the rise of Andrew Jackson. It was just released officially yesterday, so were at the threshold of greatness here with the book. And i hope yall consider buying it. Theyre going to be available afterwards to sign it for anyone whos interested. And i also want to point out their previous book ive said theyve been here before was washington circle. Were also selling discounted copies back there. Im told the hard cover were selling is 5 cents more than amazons soft cover, so that sounds like a winwin. Anyways, i hope youll have some Great Questions for jeanne and david. This is a hot topic. I assume some of you are familiar faces but s
Chapel hill. Im standing in front of the morehead building. Home of the morehead planetarium, which is now the morehead planetarium and science center. John motley morehead iii, from a famous North Carolina family, the moreheads, his grandfather was governor of North Carolina. John motley morehead iii, attended carolina as undergraduate student in chemist chemistry. Made an accidental discovery in a Chemistry Lab that led to the founding of Union Carbide and from that, he became an extremely wealthy man. And in the 30s when he conceived of this idea, what you did as a leading edge Science Education contribution would be building a planetarium. When we opened in 1949, the morehead planetarium was the first in the south. So his contribution was significant. We were also the first planetarium anywhere in the world on a university campus. So he visited the planetarium in chicago. The hayden planetarium. He also visited zeis, the leading lens manufacturer in the world. They arguably still a
Im head of Government Relations and Public Policy at wells fargo and im pleased to be here with you today. Were pleased to serve for the 8th year as a charter sponsor of the book festival and even prouder to watch it grow into the incredibly popular and impactful event it has become. I wouldnt be surprised [ applause ] thank you. I wouldnt be surprised to see us move the needle on some best seller lists today. But its even more important to keep the book festival a free event that serves the community. Its real purpose is literacy which leads to learning and opportunity which helps our goal in succeeding. Learning to love books is what the book festival is all about. In this session, ron chernow will describe his biography and certain other popular founding fathers. One thing i learned from the story of president grant is how people can evolve and through persistence and hard work, acknowledge and overcome their imperfections. Its an incredible story that reminded me that a person can