Bennet. And later, more from campaign 2020. Candidates meeting with voters in iowa. Next, a discussion of president ial misconduct by looking at the Trump Presidency and past administrations. From Fordham University law school, this is an hour and a half. Welcome. Thank you all for being here. Before we get started, i want to tell you i am so happy to be having this event because we never get to talk about history and historians. Politics talk about and the law and foreign policy. It is all very interesting. I think it wouldve been a very good thing if more historians were weighing and more frequently. This is our attempt to do that. Before we get started, let me say that this is being recorded by cspan. When you get the microphone, speak into the microphone. Wait for it for you speak. Be aware of the fact that it is being recorded. Started, let me introduce the men to my left. An editor of a book about president ial misconduct. That is the kickoff for our discussion. A historian who s
Live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Syndicatedrning, columnist Clarence Page discusses the generational divide in america and news of the day. Then a republican media strategist on the how on House Democrats impeachment push and what it means for campaign 2020. Washington journal live at 7 a. M. Eastern thursday morning. Join the discussion. Next, scholars discussed the history of president ial misconduct, looking at the Trump Presidency and past administrations. From Fordham University law school, this is an hour and a half. Welcome. Thank you all for being here. Before we get started, i want to tell you i am so happy to be having this event because we never get to talk about history and historians. We always talk about politics and the law and foreign policy. Politics and the law and foreign policy. It is all very interesting. And it is all very interesting. But i like the history, and i think it wouldve been a very good thing if more historians were weighing
Historians were weighing in more frequently. We dont have enough of it. This is our attempt to do that. Before we get started, let me say that this is being recorded by cspan. When you get the microphone, speak into the microphone. Wait for it for you speak. Before you speak. Be aware of the fact that it is being recorded. Before we get started, let me introduce the men to my left. Jim banner, an editor of a book about president ial misconduct. That is the kickoff for our discussion. A visiting scholar of history a , historian who spent most of his career teaching at princeton. His most recent book is about being a historian. I think it is about the profession and the worldview. He has edited and written numerous books. Including the one we are featuring tonight. He is one of the creators of the National History center. Jackson, the editorinchief. Let me tell you how i know him. I was a graduate student at yale. People would always say, there is this great historian. He is going to be
Our discussion, let me introduce the men to my left. Jim banner to edited the book president ial misconduct which is the kickoff for our discussion tonight is a visiting scholar in history at George Washington university. Having spent most of his career teaching at princeton, he is the founding director of the history news service. His most recent book is being a historian being a historian and he hasory edited and written numerous books including the one we are featuring tonight. He also was one of the creators of the National History center. Editorinchief of the quarterly review. Let me tell you how i know jackson. So, i was a graduate student at yale and people would always say there is this great historian, hes going to be so great, you are a few years older. He was one of the historians who proceeded to define a field which is basically how to think about culture in a way that spoke to many different parts of our political life. That might not be how the describes himself, but tha
Smerconish is up next is it, 1968 . The sequel Michael Smerconish in philadelphia this week in a deja vu of the vietnam era, Police Officers in riot gear across the country were called in to disperse antiwar protesters from College Campuses when they cleared out columbia universitys hamilton hall, it was on the 56th Anniversary of police arrests, ending a Student Takeover about the Vietnam Conflict in the exact same building and this august even more deja vu, the Democratic National convention will take place in chicago the same city which hosted the 1968 dnc, which was famously disrupted by both chaotic radical antiwar protests and the violent response of the police a bit of history, 1968 included lbj deciding not to seek reelection because of vietnam. Four days later, the assassination of Martin Luther king junior race riots, then the assassination of democratic frontrunner robert f. Kennedy, the republican challenger, Richard Nixon, who had lost to jfk in 1960, was promising to end