Thanks to all of you for helping us put this program together from terre haute, indiana, the eugene v. Debs home and museum. Tomorrow night on American History tv in primetime, republican president ial candidate Charles Evans hughes. A look at his 1916 campaign against Woodrow Wilson. Foreign policy is a Campaign Issue in that election, and his latest tenure of supreme justice of the Supreme Court. Thats at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time part of American History tv in primetime on cspan3. On saturday, cspans issue spotlight looks at police and Race Relations. Well show president obama at the me roirl service for five Police Officers shot and killed in dallas. When the bullets started flying, the men and women of the dallas police, they did not flinch, and they did not react recklessly. And South Carolina republican senator tim scott giving a speech on the senate floor about his own interactions with police. But the vast majority of the time, i was pulled over for nothing more than driving a n
Called Charles Evans hughes was a governor of new york and a Supreme Court justice, all but won the election in 1916. In fact, when president Woodrow Wilson went to bed the night the Election Night, he thought he was beaten. If he had been elected, how American History goes in several Different Directions on suffrage for women, civil right, what does he do on Foreign Policy, does he really germany sort of baited us into war. Hughes would have avoided that. He is the one you could have wrote novels about. You have Charles Evans hughes who was on the Supreme Court, and then left the Supreme Court when he ran for president. And then went back on the Supreme Court. One of the finest minds on the court. A fellow justice called Charles Evans hughes the greatest in our great line of chief justices. Why hughes . Robert jackson provided part of the answer when he was attorney general. Jackson said that hughes, quote, looks like god and talks like god, end quote. Footage of Charles Evans hughes
Times for popular Public Affairs and history programs. Stay up to date on all the election coverage. Cspans radio app means you always have cspan op the go. Next on history book shelf, author james chace talks about his book. 1912 wilson. Roosevelt, taft and debs the election that changed the country. Professor chace describes the personalities and relationships between Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard taft and eugene debs. Welcome to viewers on cspans book tv. Today were here to discuss james chaces new book, 1912 wilson. Roosevelt, taft and debs the election that changed the country. It has just been published by simon and schuster. Woodrow Wilson Center is the official memorial to our 28th president. Created in 1968 by an act of congress within the smithsonian institution. Because Woodrow Wilson headed Princeton University before becoming president the center memorializes his legacy as a bridge between the worlds of academia and public policy. It fulfills this miss
And discouraged about the future. They feel themselves helpless. They feel theyre powerless. Theyre 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 werent applied because the companies, as somethose of you who are a little older remember the companies were selling style and horsepower. They werent selling engineering integrity, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, and millions were injured in ways that todays carswhich cou
To the Great Depression and it includes details of events that led to americas involvement in world war ii. It takes a critical look at isolationists and americas early reluctance to join the war effort and culminates in the attack on pearl harbor. Children i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [gunfire] [plane engines] narrator in the jungles of new guinea, on the barren shores of the on the barren shores of the aleutians, in the tropic heat of the pacific islands, in the subzero cold of the skies over germany, in burma and iceland, the philippines and iran, france, in china and italy, americans fighting. Fighting over an area extending 7 8 of the way around the world. Men from the green hills of new england, the sunbaked plains of the middle west, the cotton fields of the south, the closepacked streets of manhattan, chicago, the teeming factories of detroit,