Question first. I do want to say a quick note about the events we have in the near future. On thursday of next week to week from this thursday may 21 a historian will join us to talk about his book the will of the people and will be our third of three lectures excited to have him joining us virtually from his home and we also have on thursday an exciting new event trivia thursdays with the mt. Vernon folks. We have live feeds with myself and the president and the head of the historical federation. Im happy to say i won in im excited to defend my title. We have daily life streams across the week days monday through friday and the noon hour and beginning just this past week we are starting a Member Exclusive series on monday nights. This past monday, yesterday doug reverend conversations coming monday Martha Washington a historical interpreter and the following monday memorial day brick abington with his work on the American Revolutionary war. These are exclusive event. Youll have an opp
And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its our look at president clinton through the decades. The presidency is the highest office in the land. And over the course of our history, the men who held that post have each impacted and shaped this country. In 1992, the youngest man since jfk, 46 year old William Jefferson clinton, then jfk, 46 year old William Jefferson clinton, then governor elected our fortysecond president of the United States. Today on through the decades we take a look at the presidency and legacy of bill clinton. He was charismatic, intelligent and approachable but his eight years in office would be plagued by personal scandal but that didnt prevent him from leaving office with the highest Approval Rating of an outgoing president since world war ii. We begin, where it all begins for every president. With an election. By november, 1992, the reagan revolution of the 1980s had run out of steam. Reagans successor, president george bush, was seen as aristocrati
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Rental meant to fight in world war i. He examines the regiments leadership, its actions in the field of battle, and the challenges the men faced following the war. This is an hour and a half. Now, gives me great pleasure to introduce the man of the hour, jeffrey t. Sammons. A professor in the department of history at new york university, where he has taught since 1989, Rutgers Research fellow at Rutgers University camden and completed his critically acclaimedded beyond the ring role of boxing in American Society in 2001. Sammons was awarded a fellowship by the Shomberg Center of research. And received a National Endownment humanities in support of harlem rattlers and the great war. Sammons is a native of bridge ton, new jersey, earned his bachelors in history at rutgers college, where he graduated magna cum laude, and elected to identify Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. He earned a masters agreeing in history from Tufts University and a ph. D in American History in 1982. In 198384, he was a pos
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