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Madison in the Sixties – In Memoriam, part 2 –  business leaders Madison native Thomas E. Brittingham Jr., son of the great lumberman/philanthropist, and a  founding trustee of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, suffers a fatal heart attack at age sixty- one while driving near his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on April 16, 1960. A member of the campus Ku Klux Klan interfraternity in the early 1920s, Brittingham became president of the Research Foundation in 1955 and oversaw its suc...

World War I is becoming one of America’s forgotten wars. Ask the average American about it and many would not know what you are talking about. A few more knowledgeable people may recall General “Black Jack” Pershing, its overall U.S. commander or President Woodrow Wilson. But few outside of West Point or the Pentagon would recognize the name of General Peyton C. March. Yet this Easton-born soldier, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1921, was largely responsible for...

army to retreat to vicksburg and held the location under siege until the confederates surrendered on july 4th, 1863, ceding control of the mississippi river. this is a little over an hour. >> good reason to be in jackson this time. and that took place 40 miles west of here. this is quite a story, a story even some people around here dont know. is great fun for me. i need to start off talking about people lie always mention. at least some of you have some interest in the civil war for o...

>> what we claim we want in both the presidential candidate and a president. >> the man who did get it, a man called charles evans hughes, all but won the election in 1816. when wilson went to bed 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 rights what is he doing on foreign policy, does he -- germany baited us into war but wilson hughes would have avoided that. hes the one to ...

night, he thought he was beaten. >> if he had been elected how american history goes in several different directions on suffrage for women, civil rights what is he doing on foreign policy, does he -- germany baited us into war but would hughes have avoided that? hes the one you could write novels about. >> charles evans hughes on the supreme court, 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 fello...

things that hollande has proposed which are being portrayed as very left wing are not as leftist as they might seem when you get up close. take, for example, his proposal to reverse some of the pension reforms of mr. sarkozy. what he is basically saying is he is going to allow some people to retire at 60 who had already worked from the age of 18 and built up all their contributions. i think hes going to inevitably be in the center. jim is right that he has to take care of his left supp...

inevitably be in the center. jim is right that he has to take care of his left support before, running you up to the legislative elections in june am but i think hes already been sending signals, perhaps not strong enough to really get the message across but he has been sending signals that hes going to look after the public finances. we dont yet know the details of how hes going to do it in terms of spending cuts. and that is going to be an october stack el for him when he tells peopl...

jim is right that he has to take care of his left support before, running you up to the legislative elections in june am but i think hes already been sending signals, perhaps not strong enough to really get the message across but he has been sending signals that hes going to look after the public finances. we dont yet know the details of how hes going to do it in terms of spending cuts. and that is going to be an october stack el for him when he tells people how he is going to do that ...

jim is right that he has to take care of his left support before, running you up to the legislative elections in june am but i think hes already been sending signals, perhaps not strong enough to really get the message across but he has been sending signals that hes going to look after the public finances. we dont yet know the details of how hes going to do it in terms of spending cuts. and that is going to be an october stack el for him when he tells people how he is going to do that ...

jim is right that he has to take care of his left support before, running you up to the legislative elections in june am but i think hes already been sending signals, perhaps not strong enough to really get the message across but he has been sending signals that hes going to look after the public finances. we dont yet know the details of how hes going to do it in terms of spending cuts. and that is going to be an october stack el for him when he tells people how he is going to do that ...