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who are extremely demoralized and discouraged about the future. they feel themselves helpless. they feel they re powerless. they re cynical about politicians, which, of course, just strengthens politicians vulnerability to powerful corporate and other lobbyists in washington, d.c. when i lost a lot of friends in traffic accidents as a young man, i looked into how they could have been saved. and they could have been saved by seatbelts and they could have been saved by a whole series of engineering devices that we now take for granted in our cars: collapsing steering columns, better brakes, better tires, head restraints, padded dash panels. all of these and more were developed by engineers a long, long time ago, but they weren t applied because the companies, as some those of you who are a little older remember the companies were selling style and horsepower. they weren t selling engineering integrity, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, and mil ....
capital. west,are in the wild domes and columns in a similar look and style. it was the idea that we were part of this particular government right now. you see a lot of symbolism in the room. later, here about the internment of japanese americans during world war ii. i remember the day we had to leave. we did not know how long we were going to go. we didn t know where we would be sent. we just knew that we had to leave our farm. we begin the hour with a visit to the sacramento history center and a look at the items in the gold rush collection. the concept of where sacramento is is quite ludicrous in many ways. its low-lying marshland. probably the worst place to put a city. but the concept that it was more important for the monetary gain than it was for the long-term life of the city. what that caused in the end and what a lot of these things helped us document was how the city had to transform and change for self. it is a story of disasters. you can ask yoursel ....
thank you very much. thank you. thank you. [applause wanes] thank you very much. and thank the commonwealth club and everybody here who has come to listen to a different kind of message. and the message starts out, it s a lot easier than we think to turn our country around and a whole series of long-overdue redirections that are supported by a majority of the american people now and that will raise the promise and the morale of the american people who are extremely demoralized and discouraged about the future. they feel themselves helpless. they feel they re powerless. they re cynical about politicians, which, of course, just strengthens politicians vulnerability to powerful corporate and other lobbyists in washington, d.c. when i lost a lot of friends in traffic accidents as a young man, i looked into how they could have been saved. and they could have been saved by seatbelts and they could have been saved by a whole series of engineering devices that we now t ....
who are extremely demoralized and discouraged about the future. they feel themselves helpless. they feel they re powerless. they re cynical about politicians, which, of course, just strengthens politicians vulnerability to powerful corporate and other lobbyists in washington, d.c. when i lost a lot of friends in traffic accidents as a young man, i looked into how they could have been saved. and they could have been saved by seatbelts and they could have been saved by a whole series of engineering devices that we now take for granted in our cars: collapsing steering columns, better brakes, better tires, head restraints, padded dash panels. all of these and more were developed by engineers a long, long time ago, but they weren t applied because the companies, as some those of you who are a little older remember the companies were selling style and horsepower. they weren t selling engineering integrity, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, and mil ....
came in as very popular people. we re going to learn more about the trajectory of her time and her husband s time in office and her interesting story that not many people know today. let me introduce you to our two guests. katherine sibley is a history professor at st. joseph s college in philadelphia. she s a biographer of the first lady. her book is called first lady florence harding: behind the tragedy and the controversy. thank you for being here. david pietrusza is a guest as well tonight. presidential historian and the author of many books including 1920: the year of the six presidents. and that s really where i want to start tonight because we think of warren harding and we think of teapot dome and the other scandals of his presidency. but in 1920, when he came into office. it was in a landslide. 60% of the popular vote, 404 electoral college votes. so, set the stage for what brought these people into office and what the mood of the country was. david pietrusza ....