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Yorba linda california stephen hess talks about the relationship between nixon and his onetime adviser, Daniel Patrick moynihan. This is a little under an hour. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is jonathan and i am the professor of communications. Welcome to the president ial library on the occasion of the president s 100 september day. Before we start am i just want to say that todays a free admission day. So i encourage you to visit the white house right across the way. Take t...

Something on monument avenue that does not reflect that segregationist past. The result was this arthur ashe statue, which is pretty big. Not as big as jeff davis, but its pretty big. Its pretty large. So moving away from virginia, though, im sort of curious yeah, matt . In doing a paper, i actually came across an article that was in the southern southeastern geographer, and the article explored the symbolic meaning of lee to the city. This is about richmond. It is now mostly africanamerican. An...

Stephen hess talks about the relationship between president nixon and his onetime adviser Daniel Patrick moynihan. This is a little under an hour. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Few name is Jonathan Movroydis im director of communications at the Richard Nixon foundation. Welcome to the president ial library on the occasion of the president s 10 2nd birthday. Before we start, i just wanted to say that todays a free admission day, so i encourage you to visit the white house right across...

He gave a speech which i wont quote at length. But wallaces speech was very, very clear. The country should, quote, look to the south, end quote, as the true defender, quote, of the rights of states and individuals. Wallace also said that the country was on the brink of civil warfare. That also is a quote. And told his colleagues in the senate that if they passed a public accommodations bill, mandating that public accommodations be open, regardless of color, this is wallace, quote, you should ma...

Professor marisa chappell. This is 1 hour 45 minutes. So, today were talking about the war on poverty, and the urban crisis in the late 1960s in the United States. And were looking at the ways in which the black Freedom Movement raised the issues of poverty, and of racial disadvantage. Really to a level of national attention, and National Action that we havent really seen at any time since. So i want to start just by well, first i should lead you through the outline quickly. Well talk about the ...

White and black poverty in 1959 and 1968. Not a hard graph to interpret. What do you see . Cara . In 1968, poverty had declined a lot. But still black poverty is a lot higher than white poverty. And its still probably like that today. So there was change, but it wasnt theyre not equal. Yes. So we see progress for both groups over this time. But as you say, we continue to see a disparity. Any other comments on this graph . All right. I want to show you a little more detail here. And i want you to...

The arsenal at harpers ferry. There is no mention of the there thought of freeing the slaves. T theres none of that. None of it does it imply. Does it imply that it was a good thing . Oh, no. Its almost encyclopedic. A its one of those entries like e let me get the facts down and lets be done. Done. In fairness, most were done like that. Its odd they would have fas commemorated that. The it, too, is part of john t brown is part of kind of a segregationist memory,ever white supremacist memory, as...

If plattsburgh had been lost, god knows what wouldve happened to this country. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] she also details the societal attitudes towards impoverished minorities at the time, focusing on the challenges faced by single mothers. This class is about an hour and 45 minutes. Ur 45 minutes. So, today were talking about the war on poverty, and the urban crisis in the late 1960s in the United States. An...

It depicts this mythical encounter of brothers, one fighting for the union, one for the confederacy. Theyre embracing. If youre close enough you could see the Union Soldier has real shows, the southern soldiers shoes are falling apart. It is brandnew. Its next to, or across the hall from the plaques that talk about secession in a complicated way. But even though i think that this is very much all about reconciliationist memory, i dont know how you could possibly be more about reconciliationist m...

I didnt believe the data. The cant explain it to client, i gotta, you know, if not a rational explanation ive got to redo it, happening. Whats so numbers change for no apparent reason, its probably not right. Hope if there are any cable lookers watching this, when theres a poll that shows from everyid it other poll, rather than considering it hot news laughter youre probably doing your viewers a disservice. Difference between Campaign Polls and almost all done publicly are and for the newspapers...