Junior, three writings and kenneth wallick. This marks their first joint on camera appearance ahead of the 20 general election. Studied thens have legendary douglas debates which were not president ial debates, but for eight u. S. Senate seat. The candidates met facetoface seven times that year, and the subsequent election was won by stephen douglas. Stage for set the abraham lincolns campaign for the presidency two years ago in 1860. 102 years after those debates on september 26 1960, at the cbs studios in chicago, senator john f. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon came together in the firstever general election president ial debate. A televised affair that changed the nature of politics. Strick kennedy and mr. Nixon debated four times in 1960 and john f. Kennedy went on to win the presidency by a slim margin. Looking back at the Campaign Years later, mr. Nixon said i should have remembered that a picture is worth a thousand words. Those debates were sponsored by the three Major
And talked about and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history at purdue university, is organized by one of our panelists. It is also by nikki. We are thankful to all of them to get into this and discuss how history is going to be taught in the future. My name is connie doebele. We are fairly new entity the, here at purdue, our goal is to help professors from across the country used the cspan archives, which is over 250,000 hours of american political history in their classrooms and in the research. We do some other things but thats what we are concentrating on at this conference. I tweet at c. J. Doubly we we hope that you will follow us. On twitter. We would be interested in following you as we reach out to, specifically history professors across the country who are interested in using the cspan archives in their classrooms and research. Here is what we are going to do, we have three excellent panelists who have different areas of interest und
President ial coverage. After that, we sipped on for interviews with two president ial candidates, former governor Deval Patrick and former senator michael bennet. Susan patty rhule, in your job at the newseum, you and your team have been charged with telling the story of the news media in society. We will talk about today about news media and president s. When you think about that relationship from a macro standpoint. What has characterized the relationship between the president and the press throughout our history . Patty it is an interesting courtship, the relationship between the president s and the press. Early on during the campaign, the candidates want to woo the press. They know the power of the press to get their message outside. In office, when the celebration is over and the reality of governing comes in, and they realize that the role of the press is to be a watchdog, the peoples watchdog on government, to see how are they doing the job youre doing . To be a check and balan
I did not get a chance to email out his bio. Maybe, thebably, important critical , ther of the reagan legacy reagan flame, in america today. Frank work on the 1976 Reagan Campaign, he worked on the 1980 campaign. He worked in the reagan white house, he worked in the 1984 campaign, and he has also been longtime chairman of the reagan ranch, one of the three major touchstones in american politics today. If you know anything about the Ronald Reagan library, there is a reagan ranch. And we learned about Eureka College last week in illinois. So thank you for being here. Let me get right into it, and then the students, of course, will ask questions. You organized the very first conservative clinical action political 1973 action conference in 1973. Frank 1974. Craig right. And reagan spoke. Frank first of all, thank you very much for having me. It is great to be here with all of your students. Baseball player who used to play for the Union New York yankees, yogi bear y ogi barra, had a tenden
Tv,ext on American History historians discuss the effect of media and technology on 20thcentury politics. Governmentse the impact on Silicon Valley, Artificial Intelligence and Cable Television. This was part of a two Day University Conference Call remaking political history. Welcome to the Media Technology and the state panel. Larger two day a session call remaking american political history, where we are talking about history and how its going to be taught and talked about over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history at purdue university. We are thankful to all of them to discuss this whole issue of how history is going to be taught in the future. I am managing director for the center for cspan scholarship and engagement. Our goal is to help professors from across the country use the cspan archives, which is over 250,000 hours of american political history in classrooms and research. Thats what we are concentrating on. We would be interested in tolowing y