Lets started does not make covid seem like a very distant memory. This is great to be back again with lets ndget started. Does this not make covid seem like a very distant memory . It is great to be back again with all of you. You know . Just to be able to talk to so many friends. Well, i am just delighted to greet you and the audience in grand rapids, michigan, as well as our cspan audience added four. I am the executive director of the gerald r. Ford foundation. It is my honor to be your host, along with a lot of other good people today and to welcome you to our 2023 addition of americas first ladies luncheon. This years event is centered around. It is first ladies pat nixon and betty ford. Leadership, courage, and grace. Three great words to describe these remarkable women. Our nations longrunning first ladies series is the brainchild of the first daughter, susan ford bales, who is here with us from texas. Susan, thank you for your dedication for all these years. And joining susan a
Amount of political difficulty. In the 19 six progress in elections, the democrats had not , butcontrol over congress lbj had lost 47 seats in the house, this was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. You can see a decline across 1967. On a more fundamental level, what you see leading into 1968 as the breakup of that coalition int lbj had depended on 1964. By 1967, as lbj looks forward in 1968, he can see that was a thing of the past and the coalition he had cobbled together was fracturing. Here on American History tv, we are focusing on the war in vietnam. For the next hour and a half we are going to focus on the state of the war in 1967. To help us do that, our guests are professor lienhang nguyen, history professor at Columbia University and author of the book hanois war. Also mark lawrence, professor of history at the university of texas at austin and author of war ak the vietnam Concise International history. For years of you in the eastern and cen
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For journalists in america since 9 11. And today in the aftermath of the attack in annapolis, the Capital Gazette is honoring their five fallen colleagues with this front page. Even after the newsroom was turned into a bulletriddled war zone, the Capital Gazette continued to publish. Theres been three editions since thursday. Theres also been an incredible outpouring of support from the community. A reminder of the power of local journalism and the importance that it has in the lives of so many americans. We want to talk in depth about what happened at the Capital Gazette office on thursday and how the papers recovering now. Lets start by talking to two staffers in one after their first interviews. Rachel pachella and phil davis were inside of the newsroom on thursday. Two of the six survivors from inside the building. Thank you so much for coming on the program. Absolutely. Thank you for having us. Rachel, i know you are injured. You have what looks like a black eye a few days later.
The pool. In early hours of march 30. Teddy kennedy, his younger son patrick and 30yearold nephew William Kennedy smith found themselves at grounds of a trendy palm beach bar. What ted didnt know, when he suryed the boys out of bed, this night would end up in a courtroom with a sensational rain trial of his nephew. Young woman claims she was brutally raped. For those who were able to reminisce about previous kennedy embarrassments, the palm beach story seemed all too victim. But it was centered on William Kennedy smith. William Kennedy Smith was one of its most conpic conhe commandedf the attention then the story takes a dark return 1969 when ted kennedy drove off a bridge in chappaquiddick leaving a young mary jo to drown. That is the beginning of the kennedy saga, not just taking a dark return is almost irreversible but the public beginning to see behind the curtain for the first time the difference between the mess they had perpetuated in the darker steaming or reality of what was g