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Electoral College Count map as well as the balance of power for the u. S. House and senate. Stream live or on demand anytime on Election Night, cspan. Org election. Good evening. I am alan price, director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum. On behalf of my library and foundation colleagues i am delighted to welcome all of you who are watching tonights program online, thank you for joining us this evening. I would like to acknowledge the generous support of our underwriters. Lead sponsors, but bank of america and media spots. A robust question and answer period, you will see full instruction on screen for somebody your questions via email or in the comments on are youtube page. We are grateful to have this opportunity to explore president kennedys earlier years in depth protesting the speakers this evening. This is our first major work about president kenne ....
Library and museum. On behalf of my library and foundation colleagues i am delighted to welcome all of you for watching tonight program online. Thank you for joining us this evening. I would also like to acknowledge the generous support of her underwriters of the Kennedy Library forms. Lead sponsors bank of america and the Lowell Institute and her media sponsors, the boston globe and wbur. We look for to a robust question and answers this evening turkey will see full instructions on the screen for submitting your questions via email or in the comments on our youtube page during the program. We are so grateful to have this opportunity to explore president kennedys earlier years in depth with a distinguished speakers this evening. This is the first major work about president kennedy in many years we have been anticipating this for some time. Much of the research took place i ....
Against american populism which began with wilson in world war one before that even before that. Gave rise to the decade political system and trouble thats right well i mean that there are a couple of ways to talk about it but you have to realize that populism which is an american invention well its used as a curse word you know by liberals in europe its an american invention and it describes a working Class Alliance between poor farmers the working class in the u. S. And initially at least africanamerican sharecroppers in the south and it was the most dangerous threat to the american all darkie that ever existed i urge your viewers to read lawrence goodwins the populist moment if they dont already know about it so they can learn about it but it was viewed as a threat by the original gilded age titans in the 1900 centuries they destroyed it. Part of it turned rancid and antisemitic and racist but it never went away and in a sense ....
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