right during the 1920s. republican presidents, fairly conservative ones, were elected by landslides, 1920, 1924, and 1928. congress was in control of the republicans throughout the 1920s. with support of congress, republican presidents signed bills which rolled back the income tax increases that were passed during world war i. and the leading social movements on the left, labor unions and the socialist party, both lost members during the war. in fact, the socialist party was never really a factor in american politics, again, after the 1920 election. and people on the left generally, whether people we now consider to be liberals, former progressives or radicals all on the defensive during the 1920s. the most popular president in the 1920s, calvin coolidge, took office in 1923 when harden died of a heart attack and was reelected in 1924. famously said in the mid-1920s, the business of america is business. it was a prosperous time for a lot of americans, though, certainly not al
1974 when the new opry house was built. but during the run of the 40s, 50s, 60s and early 70s, some of the most famous people in all of country music history debuted here at the grand ole opry including hank williams, george jones, dolly parton, all these brand names of country music cut their and got their start in this wonderful building. the ryman auditorium almost didn t happen because of the 1884 presidential race versus grover cleveland versus blaine. and the democrats had lost literally six presidential races and had not won since 1856. and tom ryman, who was a river boat captain here in this town, was a very bad gambler. and he was walking the streets of downtown nashville and got goaded on to start betting on the presidential election. and the blaine people were all out thinking that blaine was going to win, and ryman basically took all bets or people that thought that blaine would win. so he d say i ll bet $100 to you, $500 to you, $1,000 to you. and before capt
and providing support. my pleasure to offer up the floor and i want to thank him for his significant efforts in the past months on a number of different fronts. we appreciate egypt s leadership on the cease-fire and it is my pleasure to recognize you to the floor. thank you, john, for your kind words. we have undertaken this in the context of the responsibility and reinforced by your support. thank you for your efforts you have exerted. let me tell you how important this call for the convening of the security council. since they have held a meeting following a series of other meetings for regional and international efforts in order to assist and obtaining security and stability in iraq. this requires the mobilization of an international position that can take a single line against isis and terrorist group in general, both in iraq and the region, in order to pave the way to uprooting this horrible group in the region. it has bee
anybody else? i don t know of that is something i should comment on with the fbi. i agree. i got to three passes. but this study of four to talk about it how is it you impact the enemy s center of gravity? many people think what we re doing is action and the engagement but not at the end of the day impacting the harm to the united states is there one thing you think would impact the terrorism threat to the united states around the world and what would be the of primary weakness or that center of gravity? to impact the outcome? let me answer the question in this way from 98 just experience, it is important that in our efforts to not enable the enemy to recruit faster than we can capture or kill. so along with the efforts of the military and the partners overseas there has to be an effort to counter the propaganda with those violent extremist threats as pointed out by members of this committee the groups in the current a jar good as a propaganda and recruitment to n
british protest singer billy bragg and will coffman. history has a habit of repeating itself every now and then and the songs that he was riding in the 1930 s an 1940 s and 50 s can often have an amazing relevance for what is going on now. i think it is about time people started listening to woody guthrie again. and we hear the legendary folk singer pete seeger describe his first meeting with woody guthrie. he took over for 20 minutes and entranced everybody. i come from oklahoma, you know. it is a rich state. if you want lead, we have lead. if you want coal, we have coal in oklahoma. woody guthrie. all that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. amy goodman: commemorations are being held across the country this year to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the country s greatest songwriters, woody guthrie. born on july 14, 1912, in okemah, oklahoma, guthrie wrote hundreds of folk songs,