Election and his defeat in 1980 by mr. Reagan. Mr. Balmer spoke at the Jimmy Carter Museum in atlanta back in 2014. Welcome. Its a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall balmer, professor of arts and sciences at dartmouth college. I have followed his career for a long time. His under graduate work was done at a school where my father was a dean and my brother joe attended that school at the same time. And randy has turned into one of our great, modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is he really minds the resources of president ial libraries. He really mines the resources of president ial libraries. He has come to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents that other people had not seen before. And he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And on top of his research skills, h
Next, as travel for Many Americans is limited or a most impossible, we invite you to america. Lm discover the aerial trip across the u. S. Supported the johnson initiative about highlighting natural and manmade attractions from coasttocoast. Narrator an invitation to discovery beckons from each shoreline of this land, the most diverse upon our planet. So it looked to norsemen who, in ships with dragon prows, discovered the vinland of the year 1000. So it looked to dutchmen who, in weathered galleons, discovered these palisades and founded the settlement of new amsterdam. They made a purchase for an island and bowled upon their village green. The Bowling Green remains today. But time has brought a change. Among the myriad changes, one of the most dramatic is our modern way of travel. The airplane gives visitors from overseas and americans alike a means to answer the invitation to discover america by air. [chatter] [indiscernible radio chatter] narrator it is our plan now to take you on
So it looked to norsemen who, in ships with dragon prows, discovered the vinland of the year 1000. So it looked to dutchmen who, in weathered galleons, discovered these palisades and founded the settlement of new amsterdam. They made a purchase for an island and bowled upon their village green. The Bowling Green remains today. But time has brought a change. Among the myriad changes, one of the most dramatic is our modern way of travel. The airplane gives visitors from overseas and americans alike a means to answer the invitation to discover america by air. 71 now makes the landing [indiscernible] narrator it is our plan now to take you on a most remarkable voyage, a flight on which youll glide over wonderlands from historical new england to the islands of hawaii. Lets begin our voyage where pilgrim fathers dug deep into the shores of freedom. A monument in provincetown remembers them beside the foaming sea where lobster pots line up to point to gray head and nantucket. Before whaling d
Eastern and central time zone we will hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are in that mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001, and keep in mind you can always text us at 202 7488003. We are always reading on social media on twitter and facebook. We are all under stress now because of the coronavirus pandemic, but a new report from the American Psychological Association Shows that stress is taking a toll on parents. I will read to a little bit from that report right now. Many are experiencing considerable stress related to the virus and are reporting higher levels of stress than in recent years. American parents are on average suffering significantly higher levels of stress than adults without children. It is related to education, basic needs and missing out on major milestones. The average stress level related to the coronavirus pandemic or adults is 5. 9. When asked to rate their level in general, the average reported stress or u. S. Adults is 5. 4. This is higher than the avera
Mascot, so it must be saturday. I know it is saturday because i toie, that is a cue understand that today is not saturday. Today is saturday of memorial day weekend, day 84 to talk my young, a number of superstars said to me, this is memorial day weekend coming up, and we have been working for 83 state days. Days, maybe we do something different, maybe we take a day off, it is what they are trying to suggest. I said tomorrow i will stay home. So, i am at home today, i never said i was going to work. I said tomorrow i would stay home. But, we are today, working. 84 straight days. When the covid virus takes a day off, we will take off. We are in the new york state executive mansion, it is not really my home, it is the peoples home, the residence for governors in new york. It was built in 1856 in the state acquired it in 1877. They were going to finish the state capital in 1899, which was and is a beautiful mac masterpiece, and the governors residence is a stones throw from the state capi