Cspan three. Brought to you today by your television provider. Many americans thought they were voting to bring our sons home from vietnam in peace and since then 20,000 of our sons have come home in coffins. I have no secret plan for peace. I have a public plan and as one whose heart has ached for the past temperature years over the agony of vietnam, i will halt the senseless bombing of china on inaugural day. It was 2 30 in the morning when George Mcgovern delivered his acceptance speech. He would lose badly to president Richard Nixon. Were live from the museum in mitche mitchell south dakota. Why is it 2 30 in the morning . The reason i think it was embl emblemmatic. And what happened was that as you heard the senator there, he was very, very strong on the issue of vietnam. One of the things that has drawn me is one of the most flufl of those that ran for the presidency but was not successful. I think he did two things. One he spoke about that war in ways that no president ial candi
Of heart burden had been year career in the nba, is a fourtime allstar and is currently an assistant coach with the bucks. We have a little news. This is a timely conversation. The president moments ago are tired ofle watching the political nba, basketball ratings are way down at becoming back. Football and baseball are watching and learning because the same things to be happening. That is the backdrop of this conversation. Join the conversation by tweeting congress by tweeting politico. To killed,ob blake was to Milwaukee Bucks decided protest and set the stage for sports. Take us inside the milwaukee locker room and tell us how the lawyers reacted and what the conversation was like . The conversation was highly emotional. It didnt just start in the locker room. I got a call from george hill that morning of the game. We met for breakfast prior to going to the arena. It was highly emotional, as you can imagine. The compassion he expressed, he talked about what had happened, he had talk
10 minutes. Nothing perhaps captures the popular memory of the 1950s i like ike. Nan this idea that this pin that so many peoplelike wore around the campaign of 1952 and 1956 notion of nostalgia and simplicity. It really emphasizes this ideaa era of1950s as this prosperity where america was a world leader and the American People were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike. Its so simple. And it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth. This ts a political construction. Ideathe 1950s in fact were s a time wrought with racial discrimination,nstr conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. It was a time in whichin anticommunism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently anticommunists took away civil liberties. These are all different areas of political pressures in terms of enforcing certain ideals and those that wenst
11th annual savannah book festivalpresented by georgia power, david and nancy cintro, the Sheehan Family and mark and pat sun. Many thanks to jack and mary romano, our sponsors, for this glorious venue, the Trinity United Methodist church. I want to extend thanks to our members and donors who have continued to make Saturdays Free festival event possible. 90 of revenues come from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have savannah book festival app this year for your phone. Please look in your program for information on downloading it. It well be helpful. I i have a couple of 0 housekeeping notes, immediately following the presentation, Robert Latiff will be signing festival purchased copies of his book just across the way in the square. If youre staying in this venue for in the next presentation, please move forward so uers can count available seats. Please take a moment to turn off your cell phones. And we also ask that you do not use flash photography. During the qu
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