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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Church Committee History And Legacy 20240621

Beverly so, we will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived. Others may trickle in from lunch, but thank you and welcome here to this panel on the Church Committee at 40. My name is beverly gage. I am a history professor at yale. And i will be up here mostly timekeeping and asking some questions. Before i introduce the panelists, i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it and some of the issues i hope we are going to be able to address. So this year, 2015, marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees certainly of the 1970s. And i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee which was chaired by Senator Frank Church began its work in the spring of 1975. And for the 16 months between the spring of 1975 and when they delivered 14 volumes of reports in 1976, the Church Committee held hearings, performed investigations, dug into Backgro

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The Money Makers And Right Out Of California 20160214

Thank you. You can buy them in the library or the museum store, he will sign as many as you want. We are going to get underway to begin by saying at the end when youre asking questions of our photographers asking you to come up and use the microphone to ask your questions. Good evening. Im the owner of the avid reader and i want to welcome the two authors to tonights book event. They shared the same professional as historians and the same university. Topics on the books this evening are founded in the same era and they also happen to be married but they are after all individuals as of course are there books. The author of right out of california the 1930s and the big business roots of modern conservatism in this book she examines the labor dispute in the agricultural year in california she said how this set of events caused dismissed leaders at the time to rethink their relationship to american politics. She finds in depressionera california the crucible for strongarmed policies agains

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politicians actually duest more good when they are not so ready to their principles and ials and he says the parliamentarian, or the legislature is elected to serve this elector is not to serve himself. we have valorize this notion of e visionary political party that low right wrongs or lten to the future. i have never heard of conservatism that pledged itself to the future whether it was the american and i will make one last point which is to say before we arrived too quickly the absence of democrac participation in engel and let s remember who participated in american democracy. it was a slave nation, so when we say that embedded in our historic values are human freedom let s remember it took quite some time before they became widely disseminated. one last point and then i would like to hear from the audience, there is a great political scientist i believe a colleague walter burns may be here tonight he was identified a remarkable arguments and identified to equally imptant

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