The Pepperdine School of Public Policy hosted the event. [crowd conversations] ok. We are going to get started. Good evening. I am pete peterson, dean of the pepperdines graduate school of Public Policy. It is a pleasure to welcome you to our calabasas campus for tonights discussion with dr. Gene kopelson on the relationship of ike and reagan. Those of you who are reagan aficionados may not have known was influential in reagans political career and a relationship that influenced many of the views he became known and praised for throughout the 1980s. Some of you probably do know president reagan had a longstanding and deep relationship with Pepperdine University. President reagan, first as governor, but then as president , made over half a dozen trips to our malibu campus and also to Downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills for events in support of Pepperdine University. I know our speaker tonight is going to be talking about some of those in the beginning of his lecture this evening. One
Reagan. That may be some of you who are reagan aficionados may not have known was influential in reagans overall political career and a relationship that influenced many of the views he became so widely known and praise for throughout the 1980s. Some of you probably do know president reagan had a longstanding and deep relationship with Pepperdine University. In fact president reagan, first , as governor, but then as president , made over half a dozen trips to our malibu campus and also to Downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills for events in support of Pepperdine University. I know our speaker tonight is going to be talking about some of those in the beginning of his lecture this evening. But one of those that jumps out at me, a few weeks ago, we had our annual Pepperdine Associates dinner in Beverly Hills at the beverly wilshire. This was on february 9 of 2020. In her remarks in talking about the future of pepperdine under our new president , our chancellor, sarah jackson, remarked tha
Host on the next washington journal, Terry Jeffrey and elanor clift discussed the current state of the American Dream in light of Court Rulings and race issues. Then the terms Big Supreme Court decisions and your comments. Washington journal live at 7 a. M. Eastern on cspan. We are partnering with our cable affiliates as we travel across the United States. Join us this weekend as we learn about the history and literary life of omaha, nebraska. One of the first advocacy groups fighting for racial equality began their. Re. It had the tradition as the city if you were black, you needed to keep your head down and be aware you are not going to be served in restaurants and stay in hotels. When the club began their operation, the idea the term civil rights was not used. They termed at social justice. The idea of civil rights was so far removed from the idea of the greater of the community of omaha or the United States that they were operating in a vacuum. They were operating without a net. Th
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