Next, in an interview with cspan, former first lady rose lynn carter talked about the lessons she learned as first ladies, as well as her time in the white house and working alongside her husband, former president jimmy carter. Do you remember when you and president carter started having conversations about him running for president . I do. What was that like . What was that conversation . It was very interesting. We had a friend that wrote and told jimmy that he thought he ought to run for president. Well, we couldnt even say the word. That my husband is running for i didnt tell anybody because we kept it very quiet. And but then once he decided that he would do it, that was when i couldnt he could hardly say im going to be president. It was just something that was we never ever dreamed would happen. And but it was exciting. I was excited about it. I had campaigned whole last year before the governs race. And it was hard. And amy was a baby. And i didnt like to leave her all the time.
Great modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great, he really mines the resources of president ial libraries. He has come here to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents other people had not seen before. Hes done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. In addition to that, on top of his Research Skills he is an excellent writer. I had the privilege of reading many of his books including the one thats just come out. I can tell you as much as i have followed the subjects and done my own research, there were many points i came across new information, i said, wow, that really explains whats going on. If you want to understand the difference in the United States between the 1970s and 1980s. In case you have forgotten, there were very significant differences and you wanted to know about the transition to
Election and his defeat in 1980 by mr. Reagan. Mr. Balmer spoke at the Jimmy Carter Museum in atlanta back in 2014. Welcome. Its a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall balmer, professor of arts and sciences at dartmouth college. I have followed his career for a long time. His under graduate work was done at a school where my father was a dean and my brother joe attended that school at the same time. And randy has turned into one of our great, modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is he really minds the resources of president ial libraries. He really mines the resources of president ial libraries. He has come to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents that other people had not seen before. And he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And on top of his research skills, h
According to the constitution and the laws so help you god. The clerk will call the names and record the responses. Was january 7, 1999. From the floor of the senate the trial of president till clinton. We had never seen anything like this before. Thelast trial was back in 1850s, no television with Andrew Johnson. What do you remember about what happened and how this transpired . The senate trial was fascinating because of the idea that it was called a trial but. T is not a legal proceeding it had so many interesting dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd of west virginia, a stall wart constitutional , not a supporter or friend of bill clinton. He ended up at one point throwing up its hands and admitting this should not have happened. And heal was misguided even told a colleague that he was going to introduce a motion to dismiss the whole thing. Different senators play different roles. The house managers were fascinated to listen to the president the president s legal team was
The house judiciary had already undertaken that and had established that the inquiry could really run very widely. It was not going to be limited to just a certain number of witnesses or certain number of days, or even just to the Monica Lewinsky question. They gave themselves wide running room rate democrats try to keep that from happening. ,he rules were established and our memory is, partyline vote, the republicans were in control of the committee and moved pretty swiftly. The house floor was ready to take it up under the Republican Leadership of the house at the time. Those of us here remember so much drama. We went through three speakers within a couple of days, first with the resignation of speech or of speaker Newt Gingrich. Bob livingston became the next in line, then what happened . There was a scramble. Allies Bob Livingstons tried to talk him out of it. Had made the decision to resigned with some agony. Was aigned because there full on press in the democratic world. Larry fl