we d like to do things a little differently, they tell you. we d like to make a change to some customer belief that people have been attached to for the last two thousand years, but don t be alarmed, not a big deal. you don t even need to participate. all we ask is that you let us live the way we want to live. that s always the pitch. and, of course, you always agree to it. why wouldn t you, who could say no. some guy down the street wants to wear a dress? okay, fine. have a party. it doesn t affect you. you don t have to wear a dress so go ahead. live and let live. but it turns out that s never actually the deal. the guy down the street wears his dress but after a while that s not enough for him. he s still angry. and for some reason, he s angry with you. and that doesn t make sense because you re the person who had no problem with him wearing a dress in the first place. what did you do wrong? well, the problem is, you re not wearing a dress, and neither are your kids. your
Make your parents happy and avoid combat. That wasnt it. I wanted to do something positive, i joined the peace corps that summer. Host okay, all right. Well, why this book now . Guest well, i started working on it, i did jack kennedy a couple of years ago, and before that kennedy and nixon. I knew the story, and what i came to believe was how powerful bobby was. He was the leader on civil rights. He was the one that talked jack into the civil rights push in june of 63. He was the one who really got him through the cuban missile crisis, who advised bringing the turkish missiles in as a negotiation and answering the first letter from khrushchev. He also was the one that went to the excom group, the top advisers to the president , and said we cant be like the japanese, we dont believe in sneak attacks. Were not going to kill a whole bunch of cubans in some sort of big raid on cuba and kill a lot of russians. Were not that kind of country. So hes a moral compass. Thats the reason. And righ
Pbs. He is the author or coauthor of 16 books, including studies the Prairie School in iowa, and monument avenue in richmond. His most recent book was published in 1912 excuse me, 2012. Dr. Wilson. [applause] dr. Wilson thank you very much, kindle. Can you hear me all right . Ok. I want to thank kendall and the society for inviting me here. It is a little daunting to be here in this room. And i do want to also acknowledge anything i say tonight is actually built on the shoulders of other scholars who have worked on the different subjects here and so forth and different archives, and particularly to note Historic New England, which has substantial archives of the architects who designed this and i will be referring to in a minute. What i am going to try and do in my talk is to put lars and isabel andersons house and make sure there is an l and an i there, and see how many ls and is you can see by the end. This is in the context of other great houses of the latter 19th, early 20th centur
Constructed indoor miss homes enormous homes. In this program, Richard Wilson talks about the architects that define the era. Today we serve as the headquarters for the society of the cincinnati institute. A nonprofit that promotes the knowledge and achievement of america ended 10 independence. It was the winter residence of lars and into the isabel anderson. Their home was described as a Florentine Villa in the midst of american independence. With an interior that would be a dream of beauty and good taste. Dr. Wilson will investigate the architecture of Anderson House and other extravagant mansions built between the civil war and world war i. Dr. Wilson holds the commonwealth professors chair and architectural history at the university of virginia. He specializes in the Architecture Design of america both at home and abroad. He has served as an advisor and commentator for a number of television programs, including americas castles, and 10 most influential american buildings. He is the
Has banned all social gatherings and told all nonessential workers to stay home. That covers more than 8 Million People. Thats a live look, outside of our studios on sixth avenue on a friday afternoon, that place would normally be packed, not now. The number of cases around the world has now topped a quarter million, italy just reporting 6e day. Staggering. The biggest oneday total so far. Meanwhile, on the hill, the senate trying to figure this out, voting on a massive stimulus bill that could include checks for up to 1200 for many americans. Reporting a sour from coasttocoast begins on capitol hill with chad pergram there, chad, good afternoon. Good afternoon, bill, theyre trying to get this bill, phase s legislative response is so they have an agreement tonight. Possibly start that procedural machinations off tomorrow, again, the bill is not written, they were looking at about 50 billion in some capacities for the airlines, democrats have balked at being a straight bailout. They are