good evening. on behalf of director carl whites in-box and executive for presidential libraries legislative archives and museums dr. jim gardner, welcome to the eisenhower presidential library museum and boyhood home. i am tim reeves, the deputy director. i m pleased to introduce jim newton, who spent so much time in abilene doing research for his biography of president eisenhower that he deserved to be an honorary citizen of kansas. jim has worked as a reporter, editor and bureau chief at l.a. times for more than 20 years. he is currently editor-at-large. jim now serves as a member of the times editorial board, advises on editorial matters and writes and edits for the editorial page and op-ed, including a weekly column examining policy and politics of southern california. jim has previously reported for the atlanta journal-constitution and the clerk of the new york times where he served as columnist james reston s a system. jim is a graduate of dartmouth college and th
strife and a lot of labor risk. and as the country went into the 1920 election, the country made a real swing to the right and repudiated the progressivism of wilson and the like did a very conservative republican ticket, which was composed of harding, nominated for president and calvin coolidge for vice president. frederick lewis allen only yesterday has characterized the late days, said the nation was spiritually tired at the end of world war i. worried by the excitement of the war and the nervous tension of the big red scare, they hope for quiet and healing. they were sick of wilson in a stock of america s duty to they hoped for chance to pursue their private affairs without government interference, and the result was a g.o.p. landslide. during this campaign, calvin coolidge made this statement; he said in a free republic, a great government is the product of a great people. they will look to themselves rather than to the government for success. this became a theme of that
mr. tucker discusses his book at the john locke foundation in raleigh, north carolina. this program is about an hour. [applause] thank you very much and especially to the john locke foundation for inviting me today. i ve been looking forward to this. they were very generous in giving me a lot of latitude as to what i talked about today, and what i d like to do is try to answer the question that i ve been getting a lot or ever since the book came out. as most of you all know, this is my first attempt and probably only attempt at writing a book, and so lots of people have asked me, well, why did you write it or what did you hope to accomplish with this book, so that s what i m going to try to answer today. as i thought about it, there are really three reasons for my writing the book or i would sort of distill it down to three reasons, and the first two reasons were thoughts or reasons that i had in mind when i started, and the third one interestingly enough is one that i sort
congressman-elect again demands he gets his government health care now. and the insurance industry plan b from 2007 against the movie sicko is revealed. push michael moore off a cliff our guest wendell potter explains they didn t mean that literally. policy ostriches. i ll fight every day to keep washington politicians from mortgaging our children s future. but congressman steve king and bauchmann won t serve on the house appropriations committee because they would then get blamed for the actual budget cuts. the return of worsts, not really. and another inevitable result of islamaphobia. and a senate hearing on junk. a leak of 400 body scans, an apple video on the fiasco, and a man who designs security saying none of this is necessary nor even useful. the tsa versus the usa over tna. all the news and commentary now on countdown. good evening from new york, this is wednesday, november 17th, 720 days until the 2012 presidential elections. elections that pres
with the man who broke the story, sam stein of the huffington post. dr. harris doubles down. the anti-government health care congressman-elect again demands he gets his government health care now. and the insurance industry plan b from 2007 against the movie sicko is revealed. push michael moore off a cliff our guest wendell potter explains they didn t mean that literally. policy ostriches. i ll fight every day to keep washington politicians from mortgaging our children s future. but congressman steve king and bauchmann won t serve on the house appropriations committee because they would then get blamed for the actual budget cuts. the return of worsts, not really. and another inevitable result of islamaphobia. and a senate hearing on junk. a leak of 400 body scans, an apple video on the fiasco, and a man who designs security saying none of this is necessary nor even useful. the tsa versus the usa over tna. all the news and commentary now on countdown. go