Ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my fellow citizens, i accept your nomination and your program. [ cheers and applause ] and now my friends that you have made your decision, i will fight to win that office with all my heart and my soul. [ cheers and applause ] and with your help, i have no doubt that we will win. [ cheers and applause ] help me to do the job in this autumn of conflict and of campaign. Help me to do the job in these years of darkness of doubt and of crisis which stretch beyond the horizon of tonights happy visions. And we will justify our glorious past and the loyalty of silent millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding, and for honest purpose. Thus, we will serve our great tradition greatly. I ask of you all you have. I will give you all i have and that was our contender this week, Adlai Stevenson, accepting the democratic nomination for president in 1952. We are joined by historian Richard Norton smith here in Adlai Stevensons old study in liberty
Clifton thank you, andy. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, truman scholars. To be here. I am honored to have been asked. Honored to serve on the board. I have to tell you im a little bit stunned. I was 19 your desk i was 19 years old with my mother in independence, missouri when the first truman scholarships were awarded in 1977. I was in college and i was sort of in all of being in that group. As my mother told me i should be. [laughter] clifton, allut it, of these young people are doing a lot better in college that you. Re are [laughter] the panels have been fantastic. This is a great way to spend the afternoon. Some have been talking about my grandfathers leadership style, his outlook on life, things i found out about when i was very young. My grandfather came to stay in new york city and he got dawn, wentrack of for a walk, and grabbed as many newspapers as he could find. My brother and i were the first ones down one morning. He was behind the newspapers and we thought we would tipt
Tramped and would be extended to hundreds of millions of people. New levels of prosperity would follow for all vindicating our economic system. Peace dividends could be redirected in combating hunger and misery. The National Budget would finally balance. The american president s of the future from whatever Political Parties have the opportunity to engineer for the world and new hybrid of democracy and free enterprise. How differently things appear now. After the longest wars in our nations history against elusive and decipherable terrorists thousands of deaths and casualties, trillions of dollars spent without clear benefit the most better decision and hostility between our political leaders racial unrest mass incarceration and a series of president s who have bored us and shocked us with more on discretion blundered unapologetically into war and according to our guest today disappointed us with empty rhetoric and incoherent execution. Aaron david miller says we live in a postgreat era
Decision to use the atomic bomb. In 1999, a poll of journalists ranks the bombing is the top new story of the entire 20th century. Beating out the landing on the moon, the attack on pearl harbor, and other prominent stories and events that occurred in the last century. The importance of a story of the atomic bombings of japan, has come over the last five decades or so, a enormous and highly acrimonious controversy, both among scholars and among the general public. It is safe to say that the issue of the atomic bombing is arguably and it is a strong argument the issue of the atomic bombings of japan is the most contentious debate in all of American History. I dont think we are going to settle it today. But i hope we will advance our knowledge of the subject and shed some light on some important issues and perhaps lower the volume of ill will at all to often has been a prominent part of this controversy. Trumanssy over decision to use the atomic bomb arises from two fiercely competing in
Put another way, the boys and girls received at least one injection of vaccine at four times as much protection as those without it. We can all be proud of the salk vaccine. We can all share in this victory. It will lead to many more in the years ahead. For maximum protection for paralytic polio, three inoculations. The second given no more than three weeks after the first. The third, no more than seven months later. Everyone in your community should be vaccinated now. Vaccination will saves lives from death or paralysis this year. Help your child grow up strong and straight. Free from crippling polio. Youngsters like david eisenhower, like polio pioneers randy kerr, are part of a bright new future which will see the Unconditional Surrender of infantile paralysis. Next on American History tv National Portrait gallery Senior Historian david ward gives a virtual tour. He focuses on president ial portrait including Andrew Jackson, abraham lincoln, and harry truman. The smithsonians portra