Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to serve b ultheir country in any capacity and the power belong to the people and would bepo returned to those who held it. He like to say i never forget who i was, where i ca
Depicted. He is a fellow with but the library of congress and the u. S. Capital Historical Society. This is about an hour. William welcome to the u. S. Capital Historical Society lunchtime lecture series. My name is william digiacomantonio im the chief of , stories here at the society. It is great to see everyone here. Our speaker today is a guy named matthew restall. I want to read his title, because it is ponderous. Not like matthew. I do know what to leave anything out. He is the edwin earl sparks professor of latin American History and director of latin american studies at penn state. Oxford, ucla,d at and has published numerous books on the spanish conquest. Some of you might recognize his name and some of the themes he will be touching on from our last dome, where he has an article on how montezuma keeps inrendered in different ways the art of the capital. From his various titles and the subjects of his books you might and for correctly that he is an art historian, but this is a
Don ritchie and dick baker were great role models and give me a lot of help. Brian i have a lot of video clips from different events in history. I get to throw anything up i want and look to you to be experts on this. Lets start with Everett Dirksen who was a senator from illinois until 1969. Here he is talking about the differences between republicans and democrats. Could you tell me, what is the difference between a republican and a democrat . I am afraid we would have to devote the whole evening to it. I could highlight one or two things. One, of course, is the insistence on the part of republicans that we balance out our Fiscal Affairs and make sure that we are going to have a solid country. I think, generally speaking, our friends on the other side of the aisle are prone to spend money and go in for new activities when it is rather doubtful whether or not it is good for the country and for the interest of the people. Because, you pile up up your national debt, interest, staggering
Don ritchie and dick baker were great role models and give me a lot of help. Brian i have a lot of video clips from different events in history. I get to throw anything up i want and look to you to be experts on this. Lets start with Everett Dirksen who was a senator from illinois until 1969. Here he is talking about the differences between republicans and democrats. Could you tell me, what is the difference between a republican and a democrat . I am afraid we would have to devote the whole evening to it. I could highlight one or two things. One, of course, is the insistence on the part of republicans that we balance out our Fiscal Affairs and make sure that we are going to have a solid country. I think, generally speaking, our friends on the other side of the aisle are prone to spend money and go in for new activities when it is rather doubtful whether or not it is good for the country and for the interest of the people. Because, you pile up up your national debt, interest, staggering
Don ritchie and dick baker were great role models and give me a lot of help. Brian i have a lot of video clips from different events in history. I get to throw anything up i want and look to you to be experts on this. Lets start with Everett Dirksen who was a senator from illinois until 1969. Here he is talking about the differences between republicans and democrats. Could you tell me, what is the difference between a republican and a democrat . I am afraid we would have to devote the whole evening to it. I could highlight one or two things. One, of course, is the insistence on the part of republicans that we balance out our Fiscal Affairs and make sure that we are going to have a solid country. I think, generally speaking, our friends on the other side of the aisle are prone to spend money and go in for new activities when it is rather doubtful whether or not it is good for the country and for the interest of the people. Because, you pile up up your national debt, interest, staggering