Find out where cspan local content vehicles are going next, online at cspan. Org. You are watching American History tv. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] next, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell speaks about the life of fellow kentuckian senator Albin Barkley who was majority leader of the u. S. Senate between 1937 and 1947 and was minority leader from 1947 to 1949. Democrat, Alben Barkley it was 35th Vice President of the United States elected with hair harry truman in 1949. This 45 Minute Program is part of a series of talks by Mitch Mcconnle about former u. S. Senators from kentucky. Thank you very much, linda. Its great to see all of you. I enjoyed my tour of the museum and i recommend you do it. Ive been doing a series of speeches over the last couple of years on some of the more significant members of the United States senate from kentucky. Weve had a bunch of them because we came into the union in
In the era after the civil war, america changed radically from a nation of Small Farmers and small producers and small lateacturers, and by the 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, we had concentrations of wealth. We have growing inequality. We have concern about the influence of money and government. He spent the later part of 1890s giving speeches all over wisconsin. If you wanted a speaker for your club or your group, he would give a speech. He went to county fairs. He went to every kind of event that you could imagine. He built a reputation for himself. By 1900, he was ready to run for governor, advocating on behalf of the people. He had two issues. One, the direct primary. No more selecting candidates in convention. Two, stop the interests are , specifically the railroads. For all our events on cspan2 on book tv. The 2015 student cam video competition is underway. It is open to all middle and high school to create a 57 minute documentary on the theme the three branches in you, showing how our pol
Josephine rivera as she tried to field shield him from the impact. The Accident Investigations Division is lead the probe a young couple turned the car in about 6 00 oclock this morning to the 19th district. After seeing Surveillance Footage on the news of the hitandrun. Now, the boyfriend owns the car. Hes from williamsport but says he and his girlfriend were visiting relatives when they length the car to a 19yearold relative a plant. They didnt know anything was wrong they even drove car back to williamsport before realizing the awful truth. They just said they borrowed the car which wasnt unusual for them to lend the car to that person and they brought it back in night. And they drove off to williamsport that night not realizing that there was a little bit of damage to the car. Upon coming back yesterday they realized, hey, this may be the car involved. Reporter now again police say they have reached out to the man that they believe was behind the wheel a 19yearold relative of that
Mcconnle about former u. S. Enators from kentucky. Thank you very much. Its great to see all of you. I enjoyed my tour of the museum and i recommend you do it. Ive been doing a series of speeches over the last couple of years on some of the more significant members of the United States senate from kentucky that weve had a bunch of them because we came into the union in 1792. But honestly some were way more significant than others. And the man im going to speak to you about today was by any estimate one of a handful of the most significant senators weve ever sent to washington. Ive been pleased to become a friend of his grandson, alvin is sitting here to my left. I had an opportunity take he and his wife around the capitol when they were up there a couple of years ago. And he noted that i had in my office in the capitol the Leaders Office two portraits up on the wall, one of Alben Barkley and one of john sherman cooper. Nd of course barkley was quite bored frankly after serving as Vice
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