Four this evening. I am evan dolly, on behalf of the History Program here, welcome. I should say at the outset, we are able to hold this top thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is doctor robert chiles. He studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history in 2012 at the university of maryland. The top he will be giving this evening is a result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i believe. Yes. He has, in the course of this particular research for this project received a couple of prestigious honors the new York State Library Cunningham Research residency, and the new york state archives Ownership Trust hackman residency, to conduct research on governor alfred e. Smith, and as part of his next research project, on a Congress Woman from the state of new jersey and an advocate from the fair labors acts, he has received from the new Je
American progressionism and the coming of the new deal. He argues thattal al smith lost the 1928 election, his ideals and policies paved the way for president roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome all of you here for our talk for this evening. Im evan dolley, and on blehalf of the program here, welcome to our history talk. At the outset for being able to hold this talk, thank you to the funding of the history fund which is supporting this event, and let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. So our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert childs. He is a graduate of tascun university. He began a phd in history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012, and the talk hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that phd dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has, during the course of this particular research, or the research for this project, he has received a couple prestigious
Find the best writers that we can and bring them to albany. Its like bringing the world to a particular place, and i dont think i cant think of any other organization, even some of the better known ones in major cities that that have such a rer flow of creative talent coming through and at no cost to the public. With our open door policy. So we bring the literary world to albany. So all these people whose names, faces and dates, events you see are people who have come from far and wide to read to the, to the general public here. And weve had somewhere, my most recent count now has gotten us up to at least 10 or maybe 11 Nobel Laureates across the years ranging from Toni Morrison who actually used to teach at albany to most recently a South African writer, and along the way people like the nigerian writer or the caribbean writer, derek walcott, or the irish poet, seamus haney. The names go on. But along the way, we archive all of the by video and audio all of the people who have come th
For more information on this and other cities on the local content vehicles tour, go to cspan. Org localcontent. Now, James Gustave speth argues that building a democratic and ec lookicallysustainable Economic System will bring about a new wave of prosperity. This program is about an hour, 40. [applause] thank you, john, and thank all of you for braving the weather and coming out, and thanks especially to the cosponsors who joined ips in this and the aflcio for making in the room available. Its wonderful to see so many people here and so many old friends here. So thank you all very much. I will try to not talk for too long. I have my watch. I didnt have it one time when i was speaking at yale, and im delighted to see some of my students from yale here, and i ran over real badly, and i apologized for not having my watch and letting things get out of hand, and students said, that east okay, dean speth, theres a calendar on the wall behind you. [laughter] its good to be here, also, on the
To create a title for the book to talk about alternatives to the one that you see. Then we capitalize on the notoriety of the volcker rule so why try that was rejected as too narrow someone else suggested a much more expansive than a volcker rule. [laughter] and the fellow on my left loved it. [laughter] but it was knocked out because they say the cute isnt cute so we took the title the triumph of patience because she did what he did. Researching the book i have the perverse personal and professional side he dove into the entire contents of the walkin closet including the Elementary School report card and also authorized by reviewing correspondence held in the Federal Reserve bank of new york. The fed did not like that one bit. And finally over 100 of interviews i assure you can guess. Let me turn to some substance. A story of the mansard under five president s serving under the five greatest crisis in history i will tell you about the crisis first broke crisis number one is cold. Some