And im your host, bill kurtis. This is through the decades. John fitzgerald kennedy. The thirty fifth president of the United States. The youngest man to hold the office and a tower figure in American History. His life, his death and the almost mythological shadow he left behind hold a unique place in our collective fascination. In the next hour, we are looking back at the moments, the celebrity and his lasting impact. But we begin with the arena of politics. History tends to cling most fervently to moments of change and despite the divisive politics in this country, its hard to dismiss john f. Kennedy as the faceof change in 1960s america. He was young, charismatic and intoxicatingly charming. All of which bled through on a new Campaign Tool known as television. Let me say first that i accept the nomination of the Democratic Party. Cheers in 1960, the American People had two very different choices for their next president of the United States. Either richard nixon, president eisenhowe
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1933 double eagle $20 gold coin is one of American Numismatics’ most notorious coins. Only one surviving specimen was ever monetized and made legal to own, yet an uncertain number of examples still exist.
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United States made the controversial decision in 1933 to suspend the gold standard that it had based its monetary policy on since the turn of the 20th century, most double eagles dated that year were summarily melted down. It was an ignoble end for the most spectacular of all American coin designs.
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens would have a hand in creating that design and remaking American coinage was no easy accomplishment. The world-renowned sculptor, venerated in his time and even more so sense, had a serious distaste for the Mint’s bureaucracy and an even lesser opinion of its chief engraver. He turned down more commissions than he could possibly accept. Commissions with even better terms. A
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