to learn more about the cities on our 2014 tour, visit www.c-span.org/localcontent. we continue with our look at the history of madison. this is american history tv on c-span3. [traffic noises] together! we were very small when the movement began. ago, 49 yearss ago, those opposed to the war were in a distinct minority. but over the course of the next six years, we would grow into wherejority to the point the majority of the american people became opposed to the united states being involved in the war in vietnam. we are on the steps of the state capital of wisconsin in madison. this location was significant for two reasons, i think. in the first instant, it is where the first demonstration against the war in vietnam was held in february of 1965. four years later in 1969 and of0, this was the location the massive antiwar demonstrations against the war in vietnam with tens of thousands of people, so that is why this is significant. when the united states started escalatin
government. so there are many different approaches. jimmy carter, for example, wrote a wonderful book of poetry, called always a reckoning. it reflects the man. the good man that he is and the life that he has led, and his insights into the world around him and into the life of the south, for example, where he came from. and some of the contradictions of life in the south. he captures those things in poetry and he talks about his politics, too, in poetry. so yes, in all of those things, presidents wrote poetry also did that. ok. well, thank you very much, i appreciate your attention! [applause] i wanted to point out that he has some copies of his books over here on the table if anybody would like to look at that. i thought he was going to bring a whole bunch and this was all he had left! so if you re interested in seeing the book, you may want to take a look at it tonight. thank you very much for coming, and thank you so very much. [applause] [captions copyright national