Historian troy talks to 60 minutes correspondent lesley about the impact of the Clinton Administration on foreign and domestic politics and culture. [applause] i have to turn my phone off before we do anything. Wouldnt that be something if it went off . I was told you that i know grill because he is a president ial historian and i met him when he did his book and we met at the Reagan Library and hes the most generous person. He was helping me. I didnt know what i was doing out there. He taught me how to work in a president ial library so we have been friends ever since. This book is wonderful having read every word. Because its not just a portrait of a president and his life butn that ten years he calls at theft age of clinton so we learned about the 90s in general. So i guess with my first question is you call them the gilded age. How much of that prosperity anda a sense of wellbeing that we had in the 90s do you attribute this to clinton and bute the choices that he made . It was a p
Tectonic plates of politics undergird us. Theant to look at event that is the most traumatic event of the last halfcentury of American Life, the. Ssassination of jfk and at almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode . Surprisingly there is. Jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nations grief and outrage and led to the d formation of our political consensus. It was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of americas law liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. Whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. We have david brown and the author of a biography of Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter is important because he is one of the leading midcentury. He consensus liberali
Undergird us. We want to look at the event that i think most people would agree is the most traumatic event of the last half century of American Life, the assassination of jfk. Even if we judge september 11 more consequential. At almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode . Surprisingly there is. Jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nations grief and outrage and led to the d deformation of our political consensus. It was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960 s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of americas long liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. Whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. We have david brown and the author of a biography of Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter is important becau
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