Note. At the news of his passing president obama tweeted e. L. Doctorow was one of americas greatest novelists. He taught me much and he will be missed. The prizes he won include National Humanities level, the saul bellow award for achievement in american fiction, and the National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to american letters. Joining me now is my great friend, kate medina, she was his editor at random house and knew him well as a writer and as a friend. So we are especially pleased to have her come here this evening and talk about her friend and the man she had the great pleasure to edit, e. L. Doctorow. Welcome. You said in an interesting way through books and characters i will never forget, he showed us americas great flaws and its astonishing promise and our own. So where is his place in American Literature . Kate for me, it is right at the top. It was exhilarating, always to read him and one of the things i loved most about edgar as a writer was he was a
The library of Congress Packard campus in culpeper, virginia, preserves and provides access to the libraries collection of films, television programs, radio broadcast, and sound recordings. American history tv visited the packard campus to learn about the earliest films, including u. S. President s, the spanishamerican war, world war i, and the first ever political ads created by the Democratic Party in 1912. Im head of the moving image section in the library of congress. Today, we are at the packard campus for audiovisual culpeper,on in virginia, dedicated to preserving our audiovisual heritage. One of my favorite films we have in the collection is what we believe to be the very First Political ad. 1912, and this is a race in which William Howard. Aft is a republican candidate Woodrow Wilson is a democratic candidate. Theodore roosevelt is running the progressive bull moves party. The film is produced by the Democratic National committee. Its called the old way and the new, and it ope
Reverse itself. We are going to turn back a little bit to the beginning of the american participation in the war and take that right through dday. The next time we will do the dday invasion. There are the bases in east anglia. It is only about 60 miles from london but it might as well be six centuries away. As i say in the book, it is shaped like a giant hachette aimed at nazi, germany. Flying across from here this is the closest in england that you can run a bomber operation. The fighter boys were down here. The british raf pilots and Bomber Command was north near york. I have this map in your book. It is pretty good although it is not in color. You have the ranges of the fighter aircraft. How far they could get roundtrip from england. That tells you the course of the year were. Air war. In the beginning, the americans could only do shallow penetration missions. If youre trying to knock out uboats then, and that is featured in the great film, 12 00 high. They are mostly british spitfi
Military budget without degrading its ability to deter foreign incursions. Terrorists, on the other hand, might be interdicted at the borders. As for the rest of what the notral government does, only can it be scaled back, and should be scaled back in the hamiltonian point of view, but slowly so that people can adjust and markets can growth and. Phasing out the department of not end all education in the United States. It would merely force parents to fund their childrens education, which most of them can do if their taxes werent so high. Entitlementd programs hamilton would phase out over time, and in the process render the poor better off. Yes, ive gotten the sign right on that. I set it on the National Bureau of economic research, one of many, showed that Social Security redistributes wealth from poor black men and hispanics to white middleclass widows. They pay into it and they die and they never received anything in return. Securityut social would not relegate the nations elderly t
Provide useful services at the end. The services we provide are specific to the farmer. We are working with each one of them. Watch the communicators monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. American history tv is on cspan3 every weekend featuring museum tours, archival films, and programs on the presidency, the civil war, and more. It is a clip from a recent program here is a clip from a recent program. Oppression makes a wise man mad. Your fathers were wisemen. If they did not grow mad, they are restless under this treatment. They felt themselves the victims of grievous wrongs. It was at this time the idea of total separation of the colonies from the crown was born, resolved that these United Colonies ought to be free and theyendent states, that are absolved from all allegiance to the british crown, and that all political connection between the colonies and the state of Great Britain ought to be dissolved. Fathers made good that revolution. They loved their country better than they lo