Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts 20160313 : vimarsa

So if youre on that side of the street you look over and say, hey what is that . Positioning the sculptures where visibilityws greater. As you enter from the west side you come inrth end, on axis with that brothers in arms sculpture. You can see it all the way down the street. From the elevation perspective having the raised park will allow people, especially in the winter, to see down pennsylvania avenue. They will make that connection with the rest of the street where they cant now. If we can get people into the , they will see it and see out, they will have a greater connection with the urban area. Elevated space with greenery. The idea is we are doing figures to create a sense of elevated humanity. Going on from that. Now we have to get this done. What is coming next is we have to meet with the centennial agencies we need to meet with. Address their concerns. So we can create something that answers not only how we would come to the table but also elevates to a higher level artistically because they are art. Rned coming out in the stage one began with just looking at the site. I had never been to d. C. Up until stage one of the competition. All of my initial research was based on photographs and thankfully google is an amazing research. Resource. Looking at newscast where you can see the park over someones shoulder, how they are using the space. Places where people are actually going to go into. Knowing why they do that is a big part of the design process. The site itself the sitedoes breakdown. Where do people come from. It just kept evolving. These of the more cleanup versions. I had more than 20 designs. Of these drawings with me to the first meeting of the commission. Create, give back what is the fountain space to the people of dcs park space. It is a part of the city where there is not a lot of green space. I think people want to use it. People fought for freedom and public space is a freedom. Back,re you can get back areas where communities can develop and bring your family. Give them as much of it as we can. Sacrifice is about the group. A lot of memorials you see out there are about individuals, like the Vietnam Memorial. It is really about the names. Rather than remembering the individuals here, it is about the group. Collective is made up of immigrants and firstgeneration People Living in the u. S. They came together to go over to europe to fight for our freedom. Rather than remembering them as individuals, that name comes from the moral weight that that group carried. Also the fact that it was a group. That more than anything drove the concept. Hopefully what people take away when they see the memorial is knowledge of the past more than anything. With the 100 year anniversary, we want to educate the American People about this event. So far the response i have gotten has not been about the design, they said thank you for doing this. They had parents or grandparents who served in the war. They deserve to be remembered. More than anything, i hope that is what people take away. What we are being asked to do is to create a visual narratives. What i do in the studio is an explanation of what world war i looked like. A most 80 of our knowledge through our eyes. I have to be historically correct. Arch that is elevated to explain something that is of such great importance historically. The north and south walls are soldiers, from historic figures. On the south wall leading you into the wall of remembrance it is all about before the war and things like Woodrow Wilsons speech on neutrality. Keeping the u. S. Out of the war. We are trying to convey how people felt and give people an idea of what life was like before the war. , or quotationsll about the war itself. Trying to get people who might move all the way around to see the change in how they saw themselves in the world. How they were transformed. Opportunity to go to the world war i museum in. Ansas city find journals and manuscripts of actual soldiers and letters home. You can see from the beginning to the end how they transformed as people and what their attitudes were towards war and how they in the country saw themselves. To help you make this is the wall of remembrance. From joes idea we want to do a beginning middle and end. It is a professional wall. That the in my mind world was different. You had the sense of divine order. A gentlemanly war. It turned into industrial massacre. There are rhythms in this area with the horse. There is a human quality. As we move over to this side of becomes more aggressive. This becomes the war itself. He angular nature of it the middle panel is the brotherhood of arms. The three figures are represented, the middle fi soldier and wounded they are allegories for the past , the present, and the future. Drawing you can see the translation from the photograph. A lot of artistic structural construction that goes on. I am trained as a classical artists so i am bringing to at this sense of order and design based on how the universe is assembled mathematically. Andvery interested in light how light illuminates structure. I see the figure is having two parts. The dichotomy of architecture which is the skeleton and the muscles and the drapery which of the energetic spirals the travel rhythmically through the composition. Soldier is falling down but then with the drapery and the light there are all these things that are rising up towards the future. The futures face is the most illuminated element of the whole composition. Also an infinity symbol that i constructed into this. How the arm is picked up by this hand which is picked up by the drapery the continues through with this hand going behind it. The head of shoulder and the arm. Other allegories that are described within how i designed it. The infinity symbolism is about eternity. About how this is an element that will always be there. You have this sense of caring humanity the senses humanity. We create the collective . Where all of humanity is represented. Nobody is left out. Interwovene sense of connectedness and that is why we also had this terminology about brothers in arms and weight of remembrance. This sense of our society as a whole and how that is represented within the memorial. Fromat idea really came working on the dialogue that we had. It is a great war about advances ,n technology but we wanted to for going to remember this for the people. Very realistic figures. Thoughabstract war even it is so abstract in the mental consciousness of the country right now. It is about real people who had real stories. We want to tell those stories. It really evolved as trying to celebrate the connections that people made in this war and the connections the country made. Thereuntry getting out and stepping up into the world stage. Moving away from being an isolationist nation. Were trying to wrap up all of those things into this memorial and not just havent the guns blazing. The Vietnam Memorial did weigh heavily on my initial thought process. People dont necessarily grasp when they see that a lot of it is about time. The way that those walls elongate as you walk along them and they get taller. It translates into something where you have the beginning of as the datese end go along chronologically. And the dies back down. Were trying to capture similar ideas about time. The whole memorial itself the way it wraps around that park space. Quotes along the north and south walls bringing the war into the wall of remembrance. Merge fromo come and the ground to become this tall wall of remembrance. Was a singlew it format the time has eroded. Is reemerging now. In that way we can connect back to the centennial. I want people who visit this memorial to feel like maybe his part has always been there. They just have missed it. They just walked past the memorial. Things is why human beings . Something theyat look at the wall and the wall covers the different feelings mad,all human beings have sad, glad, and scared. They will have a connection with the art. They will walk away from that memorial remembering what they saw and having a greater sense of connectivity with humanity. It is got to have a visceral reaction on the viewer. , if we had not put figures in here we wouldve done lin. Hing like maya we dont want to copy someone else. We have taken her idea and brought in the idea of figures and meshed the two together. It is modern and it is traditional. We are trying not to neglect anybody who comes to this part because anybody will understand it. They will react in their own personal way to something that is universal. What we do with these is we brought them down to the level where people can touch it. A durable enough wall that we want people to have that and rub the finger. Through that tactile experience people can create their own memories. Is accessible. It is accessible. You can reach out and touch it. We are giving him that same sense of transformation but at hand level. Bronx withhe south live models. 50,000 hours of that. These people are not professional models. People that i found on craigslist. World war i was made up of the same demographics. You didnt have live looking models. People that fit the criteria. We are not done yet. This is just the beginning of the evolution. There is an even larger variety in this country of immigrants. The initial stage i started here before joe. That didnt make it to the finals. I started all over again. Very classical. It was not fitting and appropriate to the site. When i got the call from joe, joe had a phenomenal idea that i thought sit very well with right do which is making art about conductivity and humanity. How the human spirit gets elevated. And went toom this iptych. I went into the studio for our. Irst meeting three figures at once. I put that together and i tried harmoniousit with qualities. Outsideres than on the which were six or seven shots all put together. I traveled to a stable and upstate new york to find a horse and put myself in it. The guy in the courtyard. I would go back to jail with the images. Talking through the perspective of it. He was a model on the apollo sculpture. Brian works at the maritime college. He had access to a cannon. We recreated the same scene. It was inappropriate for the time. Period. These drawings are twice the scale of the originals. Now we are in the middle of a process of taking these forward to a whole different level of evolution. In the next age. This is what we did up to the competition. What follows now is that im starting completely new because i have to speak to all these different groups. And bring their ideas into the picture as well. I want to clarify this is not what will be in the final. My process in moving forward involves going back and getting the uniforms that are real uniforms like these. I have to get real people for the photographs. Already the input has started. I bring my experience as a sculpture. Or. They bring the historical knowledge. 17yearold boys were put into this. So i have to get models that are much younger looking. That i have to get the right arms so this is historically accurate. I have to do this in an aesthetically artistic way that conveys the story that is not boring. A sense of elevation of spirit. I compare this to doing the Sistine Chapel almost. 81 feet long. 30 figures. Also a background. Background is also vegetation. With joes help i took the and he helped digitalized this. At the beginning of the war the vegetation is still intact. As you move over it turns into a moon crater. Just completely bombed out and destroyed. I need to do our research in terms of what are we going to present here. How do we deal with all the concerns of all these different committees. Im serving. My work is in service of the memorial. Task. A monumental the pershing statue is exactly where it is right now. Were trying to preserve it but also to play off of it. The upper lawn is proportional to the area around the memorial. There is that connection. With the statue of pershing. Him serving the troops with his binoculars. To aing the statue down height where people can go open touch it. A level that is even with the wall. Purchasing surveying the troops but also surveying the wall. The freestanding sculpture of ofanity is about the ties these three figures. They are standing on the precipice. There is no going back. They are in the process of firing the cabin. They are looking back for guidance you can see that relationship. Theyre looking back to past experiences. Looking to others who arent in this picture. Once they make that decision to fire the cabin there is no going back. Humanity iss of about moving forward but also looking back. Entering into something that is very destructive. A very active composition. So theed the perspective figures look more monumental. Things are pulled tight. Almostse of Movement Like superheroes. Because of where the viewers eye level is. The trees that are going to be placed along the upper portion are species of red maple. One of the approved street trees in d. C. They are called the blaze of glory maple. They have these great rich red leaves. At the end of october and early november we will have this coloration right in time for the armistice every year. We are hoping to have one tree for every battle that the u. S. Was a part of. Joe and i just came back from the mall. We looked at the world war ii memorial. The Vietnam Memorial. The lincoln memorial. Process weep in our are starting to redesign with the committee. None of this would be possible unless we come up with the funding. This is not paid for by tax dollars. This is completely based on citizen donations. Where you cansite see what we have done and we are the process of moving forward. The committee is in the process of raising funds. Can put our artistic talents in sculpture and architecture to work. Hopefully we will have a blog that people can follow along as well. They can see what they are donating four. Be more involved in the process. We are kicking off this process now. Were hoping to finish up by the end of 2016. Breaking ground in 2017. The big push is for onmemorating the memorial november 11, 2018. The centennial of the armistice. The next step is to go through the design. In november 2018 is just unfathomable. It is so important. It represents something that is so historically crucial. Back into theople history of those years. Pushing up to that date. Hopefully it will be a big success. We can get people back in this back knowing something about their wars and history. There is no other option but success. You can watch this or other american artifacts programs at any time by visiting our website, cspan. Org. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country. A look at our recent visit to anaheim, california. Youre watching American History tv, all we can in every weekend when peoplet. When people need a little sunshine in their lives, to feel the optimism that fills the soul of this little country, i can assure them they will find it in Orange County. [applause] Orange County is where all the republicans go to die, and for the most part, that remains true. It is the largest republican county in the united states. It has traditionally prided itself on being a conservative, urban area. In a state where virtually all the other urban areas are very liberal. It has changed today. It is not like it was 10 or even 20 years ago. It had this reputation of being staunch, wherever you went. We live between los angeles and san diego. We have about 3 million people, and the center part of the county is the most ethnically diverse. The southern part of the county is the most white and affluent. The northern part of the county is a mixture, it has pockets of wealth. They are mostly older neighborhoods, and pockets of more bluecollar. Orange county has been conservative since the beginning. Really, starting in the 1920s and 1930s, the county was founded in 1898. By the 1920s and you had a 1930s, pretty strong conservative movement. That was the reputation throughout the 20th century. There is a strong conservative and evangelical religion is Orange County credit the Traditional Values Coalition which now has its main headquarters in washington dc. It has been very outspoken against gay marriage, and also in terms of rights established for lgbt people. This got started in anaheim. There is a tradition of religious political activism. I think what people in Orange County are the reason it is conservative is the general idea of limited government, the Less Government is better, more freedom. The smaller the government, the larger the person. People are very concerned about their freedoms in Orange County. As far as Property Rights and doing what people want, that is important, and so its toward the conservative side. I would say the conservative movement reached its peak during your spirit that seems to be reagan years. That seems to be a demarcation point where it was at the most fever pitch and this orange curtain concept was at the highest. Bob dornan, he was one of crazy, they were off the charts. The word is hutzpah. I called him shoot from the dornan. Rarely concerned about offending anybody. He was really strong on military. B1 bob. He led the drive to build the b1 bomber. He is catholic and was very strong on social issues, mostly in terms of being prolife and in terms of attitudes on lgbt issues. 2000 wild, partying homosexuals, hundreds of them almost naked in our biggest, most dutiful most beautiful taxpayer owned and operated auditorium, directly across the street from the actual starspangled banner, the 30 by 40 foot flag that flew over fort mchenry up at baltimore, on the north wall of the National Museum of American History. Directly across the street is this homosexual jubilee. Unbelievable. I represent the largest vietnamese population outside of vietnam in the world. That was from the vietnam exodus. They are incredible, they are becoming political leaders. Hisoded his loss how did loss to loretta sanchez, does that mirror what is going on in Orange County . Its a big landmark, 1996, the demographics are changing to be increasingly latino. You had a latino candidate that was very charismatic. The immigration issue was shifting, right there. Proposition 187 was approved by voters in 1994. This came from Orange County, and this is very important, because it attempted to take all social benefits, public benefits, away from people in the country without proper documentation, including excluding them from going to school. That was challenged in court as unconstitutional. Eventually, it was the key ingredient in turning people against republicans in greater numbers. I think the Vietnam Memorial<\/a>. It is really about the names. Rather than remembering the individuals here, it is about the group. Collective is made up of immigrants and firstgeneration People Living<\/a> in the u. S. They came together to go over to europe to fight for our freedom. Rather than remembering them as individuals, that name comes from the moral weight that that group carried. Also the fact that it was a group. That more than anything drove the concept. Hopefully what people take away when they see the memorial is knowledge of the past more than anything. With the 100 year anniversary, we want to educate the American People<\/a> about this event. So far the response i have gotten has not been about the design, they said thank you for doing this. They had parents or grandparents who served in the war. They deserve to be remembered. More than anything, i hope that is what people take away. What we are being asked to do is to create a visual narratives. What i do in the studio is an explanation of what world war i looked like. A most 80 of our knowledge through our eyes. I have to be historically correct. Arch that is elevated to explain something that is of such great importance historically. The north and south walls are soldiers, from historic figures. On the south wall leading you into the wall of remembrance it is all about before the war and things like Woodrow Wilsons<\/a> speech on neutrality. Keeping the u. S. Out of the war. We are trying to convey how people felt and give people an idea of what life was like before the war. , or quotationsll about the war itself. Trying to get people who might move all the way around to see the change in how they saw themselves in the world. How they were transformed. Opportunity to go to the world war i museum in. Ansas city find journals and manuscripts of actual soldiers and letters home. You can see from the beginning to the end how they transformed as people and what their attitudes were towards war and how they in the country saw themselves. To help you make this is the wall of remembrance. From joes idea we want to do a beginning middle and end. It is a professional wall. That the in my mind world was different. You had the sense of divine order. A gentlemanly war. It turned into industrial massacre. There are rhythms in this area with the horse. There is a human quality. As we move over to this side of becomes more aggressive. This becomes the war itself. He angular nature of it the middle panel is the brotherhood of arms. The three figures are represented, the middle fi soldier and wounded they are allegories for the past , the present, and the future. Drawing you can see the translation from the photograph. A lot of artistic structural construction that goes on. I am trained as a classical artists so i am bringing to at this sense of order and design based on how the universe is assembled mathematically. Andvery interested in light how light illuminates structure. I see the figure is having two parts. The dichotomy of architecture which is the skeleton and the muscles and the drapery which of the energetic spirals the travel rhythmically through the composition. Soldier is falling down but then with the drapery and the light there are all these things that are rising up towards the future. The futures face is the most illuminated element of the whole composition. Also an infinity symbol that i constructed into this. How the arm is picked up by this hand which is picked up by the drapery the continues through with this hand going behind it. The head of shoulder and the arm. Other allegories that are described within how i designed it. The infinity symbolism is about eternity. About how this is an element that will always be there. You have this sense of caring humanity the senses humanity. We create the collective . Where all of humanity is represented. Nobody is left out. Interwovene sense of connectedness and that is why we also had this terminology about brothers in arms and weight of remembrance. This sense of our society as a whole and how that is represented within the memorial. Fromat idea really came working on the dialogue that we had. It is a great war about advances ,n technology but we wanted to for going to remember this for the people. Very realistic figures. Thoughabstract war even it is so abstract in the mental consciousness of the country right now. It is about real people who had real stories. We want to tell those stories. It really evolved as trying to celebrate the connections that people made in this war and the connections the country made. Thereuntry getting out and stepping up into the world stage. Moving away from being an isolationist nation. Were trying to wrap up all of those things into this memorial and not just havent the guns blazing. The Vietnam Memorial<\/a> did weigh heavily on my initial thought process. People dont necessarily grasp when they see that a lot of it is about time. The way that those walls elongate as you walk along them and they get taller. It translates into something where you have the beginning of as the datese end go along chronologically. And the dies back down. Were trying to capture similar ideas about time. The whole memorial itself the way it wraps around that park space. Quotes along the north and south walls bringing the war into the wall of remembrance. Merge fromo come and the ground to become this tall wall of remembrance. Was a singlew it format the time has eroded. Is reemerging now. In that way we can connect back to the centennial. I want people who visit this memorial to feel like maybe his part has always been there. They just have missed it. They just walked past the memorial. Things is why human beings . Something theyat look at the wall and the wall covers the different feelings mad,all human beings have sad, glad, and scared. They will have a connection with the art. They will walk away from that memorial remembering what they saw and having a greater sense of connectivity with humanity. It is got to have a visceral reaction on the viewer. , if we had not put figures in here we wouldve done lin. Hing like maya we dont want to copy someone else. We have taken her idea and brought in the idea of figures and meshed the two together. It is modern and it is traditional. We are trying not to neglect anybody who comes to this part because anybody will understand it. They will react in their own personal way to something that is universal. What we do with these is we brought them down to the level where people can touch it. A durable enough wall that we want people to have that and rub the finger. Through that tactile experience people can create their own memories. Is accessible. It is accessible. You can reach out and touch it. We are giving him that same sense of transformation but at hand level. Bronx withhe south live models. 50,000 hours of that. These people are not professional models. People that i found on craigslist. World war i was made up of the same demographics. You didnt have live looking models. People that fit the criteria. We are not done yet. This is just the beginning of the evolution. There is an even larger variety in this country of immigrants. The initial stage i started here before joe. That didnt make it to the finals. I started all over again. Very classical. It was not fitting and appropriate to the site. When i got the call from joe, joe had a phenomenal idea that i thought sit very well with right do which is making art about conductivity and humanity. How the human spirit gets elevated. And went toom this iptych. I went into the studio for our. Irst meeting three figures at once. I put that together and i tried harmoniousit with qualities. Outsideres than on the which were six or seven shots all put together. I traveled to a stable and upstate new york to find a horse and put myself in it. The guy in the courtyard. I would go back to jail with the images. Talking through the perspective of it. He was a model on the apollo sculpture. Brian works at the maritime college. He had access to a cannon. We recreated the same scene. It was inappropriate for the time. Period. These drawings are twice the scale of the originals. Now we are in the middle of a process of taking these forward to a whole different level of evolution. In the next age. This is what we did up to the competition. What follows now is that im starting completely new because i have to speak to all these different groups. And bring their ideas into the picture as well. I want to clarify this is not what will be in the final. My process in moving forward involves going back and getting the uniforms that are real uniforms like these. I have to get real people for the photographs. Already the input has started. I bring my experience as a sculpture. Or. They bring the historical knowledge. 17yearold boys were put into this. So i have to get models that are much younger looking. That i have to get the right arms so this is historically accurate. I have to do this in an aesthetically artistic way that conveys the story that is not boring. A sense of elevation of spirit. I compare this to doing the Sistine Chapel<\/a> almost. 81 feet long. 30 figures. Also a background. Background is also vegetation. With joes help i took the and he helped digitalized this. At the beginning of the war the vegetation is still intact. As you move over it turns into a moon crater. Just completely bombed out and destroyed. I need to do our research in terms of what are we going to present here. How do we deal with all the concerns of all these different committees. Im serving. My work is in service of the memorial. Task. A monumental the pershing statue is exactly where it is right now. Were trying to preserve it but also to play off of it. The upper lawn is proportional to the area around the memorial. There is that connection. With the statue of pershing. Him serving the troops with his binoculars. To aing the statue down height where people can go open touch it. A level that is even with the wall. Purchasing surveying the troops but also surveying the wall. The freestanding sculpture of ofanity is about the ties these three figures. They are standing on the precipice. There is no going back. They are in the process of firing the cabin. They are looking back for guidance you can see that relationship. Theyre looking back to past experiences. Looking to others who arent in this picture. Once they make that decision to fire the cabin there is no going back. Humanity iss of about moving forward but also looking back. Entering into something that is very destructive. A very active composition. So theed the perspective figures look more monumental. Things are pulled tight. Almostse of Movement Like<\/a> superheroes. Because of where the viewers eye level is. The trees that are going to be placed along the upper portion are species of red maple. One of the approved street trees in d. C. They are called the blaze of glory maple. They have these great rich red leaves. At the end of october and early november we will have this coloration right in time for the armistice every year. We are hoping to have one tree for every battle that the u. S. Was a part of. Joe and i just came back from the mall. We looked at the world war ii memorial. The Vietnam Memorial<\/a>. The lincoln memorial. Process weep in our are starting to redesign with the committee. None of this would be possible unless we come up with the funding. This is not paid for by tax dollars. This is completely based on citizen donations. Where you cansite see what we have done and we are the process of moving forward. The committee is in the process of raising funds. Can put our artistic talents in sculpture and architecture to work. Hopefully we will have a blog that people can follow along as well. They can see what they are donating four. Be more involved in the process. We are kicking off this process now. Were hoping to finish up by the end of 2016. Breaking ground in 2017. The big push is for onmemorating the memorial november 11, 2018. The centennial of the armistice. The next step is to go through the design. In november 2018 is just unfathomable. It is so important. It represents something that is so historically crucial. Back into theople history of those years. Pushing up to that date. Hopefully it will be a big success. We can get people back in this back knowing something about their wars and history. There is no other option but success. You can watch this or other american artifacts programs at any time by visiting our website, cspan. Org. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country. A look at our recent visit to anaheim, california. Youre watching American History<\/a> tv, all we can in every weekend when peoplet. When people need a little sunshine in their lives, to feel the optimism that fills the soul of this little country, i can assure them they will find it in Orange County<\/a>. [applause] Orange County<\/a> is where all the republicans go to die, and for the most part, that remains true. It is the largest republican county in the united states. It has traditionally prided itself on being a conservative, urban area. In a state where virtually all the other urban areas are very liberal. It has changed today. It is not like it was 10 or even 20 years ago. It had this reputation of being staunch, wherever you went. We live between los angeles and san diego. We have about 3 million people, and the center part of the county is the most ethnically diverse. The southern part of the county is the most white and affluent. The northern part of the county is a mixture, it has pockets of wealth. They are mostly older neighborhoods, and pockets of more bluecollar. Orange county has been conservative since the beginning. Really, starting in the 1920s and 1930s, the county was founded in 1898. By the 1920s and you had a 1930s, pretty strong conservative movement. That was the reputation throughout the 20th century. There is a strong conservative and evangelical religion is Orange County<\/a> credit the Traditional Values Coalition<\/a> which now has its main headquarters in washington dc. It has been very outspoken against gay marriage, and also in terms of rights established for lgbt people. This got started in anaheim. There is a tradition of religious political activism. I think what people in Orange County<\/a> are the reason it is conservative is the general idea of limited government, the Less Government<\/a> is better, more freedom. The smaller the government, the larger the person. People are very concerned about their freedoms in Orange County<\/a>. As far as Property Rights<\/a> and doing what people want, that is important, and so its toward the conservative side. I would say the conservative movement reached its peak during your spirit that seems to be reagan years. That seems to be a demarcation point where it was at the most fever pitch and this orange curtain concept was at the highest. Bob dornan, he was one of crazy, they were off the charts. The word is hutzpah. I called him shoot from the dornan. Rarely concerned about offending anybody. He was really strong on military. B1 bob. He led the drive to build the b1 bomber. He is catholic and was very strong on social issues, mostly in terms of being prolife and in terms of attitudes on lgbt issues. 2000 wild, partying homosexuals, hundreds of them almost naked in our biggest, most dutiful most beautiful taxpayer owned and operated auditorium, directly across the street from the actual starspangled banner, the 30 by 40 foot flag that flew over fort mchenry up at baltimore, on the north wall of the National Museum<\/a> of American History<\/a>. Directly across the street is this homosexual jubilee. Unbelievable. I represent the largest vietnamese population outside of vietnam in the world. That was from the vietnam exodus. They are incredible, they are becoming political leaders. Hisoded his loss how did loss to loretta sanchez, does that mirror what is going on in Orange County<\/a> . Its a big landmark, 1996, the demographics are changing to be increasingly latino. You had a latino candidate that was very charismatic. The immigration issue was shifting, right there. Proposition 187 was approved by voters in 1994. This came from Orange County<\/a>, and this is very important, because it attempted to take all social benefits, public benefits, away from people in the country without proper documentation, including excluding them from going to school. That was challenged in court as unconstitutional. Eventually, it was the key ingredient in turning people against republicans in greater numbers. I think the Clinton Presidency<\/a> had something to do with it. When Orange County<\/a> became more culturally diverse, that made a difference. Santa ana Hispanic Community<\/a> is very burgeoning, active, and embraces a lot of the local history. That has also, i think steered out of what Orange County<\/a> used to be. The more culturally diverse we have become, it has helped become politically diverse. I always tell my republican pals you should get more republicans. Does you would get more republican pals if you would exhibit about illegal immigrants. I really do believe mexican immigrants and their children are naturally conservative, more libertarian. They hate the government, they dont like taxes, they want to be left alone. They would naturally, i would say, go republican. The minute they hear republican politicians going on and on about mexican destroying the country, these people say, screw the republican party, i am voting democrat just to spite you. Even though democrats dont offer much to mexicans, they will vote democrat out of spite. It is fascinating to watch the democrats. Everything is starting to go their way in terms of Voter Registration<\/a>, but they have not capitalized on elected office. At some something has got to point, change. Either republican policies are going to be more friendly to these communities or democrats are going to start seeing more people elected. I could go on and on about this. Republicans, you look at the board of supervisors, they are all republicans. Congresspeople, we only have one democrat. State senators, only one parent thats not real progress. They are token democrats. Republicans have lost 10 point in Voter Registration<\/a> since 2000 but hold as many partisan seats now as they did then. This is a testament, in large part, to having a better network. They have a better farm system for bringing up candidates, and more experience in getting people elected. That continues to prevail for the time being. Orange county will always be conservative, there is too much money here to make it liberal. There are pockets, but you will never have the republican a democratic revolution and say newport beach, where the rich folks are, it is never going to happen. The democratic party, if theyre going to grow, they are going to have to have visionary leadership. Youre not going to see that for a couple of years. Definitely, with the leadership right now. Orange county is going to continue to grow more and more diverse. Veteran will continue. It is ultimately going to become more balanced than it was before. Like many communities do, just by the influx of immigrants, it is getting more diverse. I think Orange County<\/a> will continue on that track. Our cities to our staff recently traveled to anaheim, california to learn about its registry. Learn more about anaheim and other stops on our two are cspan. Org. Youre watching American History<\/a> tv, a weekend, every weekend on cspan3 a. Of next in the president ial campaign ads. First, one for very goldwater. Lyndone for johnson campaign. On october 18, 1960, speaking and heads of a net when he was running for Vice President<\/a> , Lyndon Johnson<\/a> said i dont want some bearded dictators 90 miles off rubbing his nose at us. Now to debate him on the segment, here is buried goldwater, who calls into account for this administrations colossal bungling on cuba and castro. The same dictator is still off thumbing his nose at us. The bay of pigs has left us a dark blot on our national pride. The u. S. Must provide the leadership, which will deal effectively with the problems of cuba, and will stop the spread of communism in the western hemisphere. In your heart, you know he is right. Vote for barry goldwater. I dont know just why they wanted to call this a confession. I dont feel guilty about being a republican. I have always been a republican. My father, his father was, the whole family is a republican family. I voted for dwight eisenhower. I voted for nixon. But when we come to senator , goldwater, it seems to me we are up against a very different kind of man. This man scares me. Maybe im wrong, a friend of mine said to me, listen, just because a man sounds a little irresponsible during a campaign doesnt mean he will act irresponsibly. You know that theory, the white house makes the man. I dont buy that. You know what i think makes a president . Aside from his his judgment and experience, are the men behind him. His advisers. The cabinet. So many men with strange ideas are working for goldwater. You hear a lot about what these guys are against, but what are they for . The hardest thing for me about this campaign is to sort out one goldwater statement from another. A report will say senator on such and such a day, you said, quote and then goldwater said, well i wouldnt put it that way. I cannot follow that. Is he serious when he says he wouldnt put it that way. I dont get it. A president needs to mean what he says. President johnson, at least he is talking about facts. He says, we have a tax cut bill. Because its not you get to carry home x number of dollars every payday. We have a Nuclear Test Ban<\/a> and there is x percent less radioactivity in the food. By goldwater, i cant figure out just what he means by the things he says. A craven fear of death is running across america. What does that mean . That people dont want to fight a nuclear war . He is right, i dont. But when i read some of the things he says about total victory, i get a little worried. I wish i was as sure that goldwater is against war as some of these other things. I wish i could believe that he has the imagination to shut his eyes and picture what this country would look like after nuclear war. Sometimes i wish i had been at the convention in san francisco. I wish i had been a delegate. I really do. I would have fought, and i wouldnt have worried about party unity. If you unite behind a man you do not believe in, it is a lie. Those people who got control of the convention, who are they . When the head of the ku klux klan when all these weird groups come out in favor of the candidate of my party, either they are not republicans or im not. I thought about just not voting in this election, staying home. But you cannot do that, because that says you do not care who wins. I do care. I think my party made a bad mistake in san francisco. I will have to vote against that mistake. Vote for president johnson on november 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay home. You can watch more from past campaigns on road to the white house rewind, sunday at 10 00 eastern on American History<\/a> tv on cspan three. Up next, on American History<\/a> tv, author and playwright Calvin Ramsey<\/a> talks about the significance of victor greens travel guides, used by africanamericans to find places to eat, sleep, and visit between 1936 and 1937. This is a subject of his upcoming documentary, the green book chronicles. This event is about one hour 15 minutes. We are thrilled to present at program dedicated to the green book, which you do not know about it, was conceived and published in the writing is to help africanamerican travelers travel safely during the time of segregation. Awareness of the guys faded until our anything speaker, awardwinning author and playwright started working on the green book chronicles, which is a documentary that will chronicle the rise and fall of bookreek as those green by those who were around to use it. Give us roughl footage from the upcoming film and talk about the history of the publication and how this began. I am happy to start a trailer for the upcoming film. Enjoy. Whether you are traveling on business or pleasure, the chances are youll troubled by motorcar cried the motorcar has been accused to open new horizons, not for the few, but for all. We drove constantly, we did not stop. Segregation was not in the south. Travel was difficult in those days. They had colored restrooms and they were filthy. But what you do if that is all you have . No place do you do any commotion, attract any attention. This was not a history that was told in school books. This was not the history that you can find. The place was surprised that re was such a thing as a black marine. Mr. Greene was a mailman for 40 years, he lived in harlem across the street from duke ellington. Mr. Greene was a man with a seventh grade education. He helped put together a publication that touched all aspects of life. My parents liked to travel. They thought it was important for our education. The thing was to find a black section of town, and find places to eat. I always knew that we cannot stay places. Even as a child, very lovely unusual to have a black client working with a white printer. They dad found what was first place that he could stay between new orleans and the end of the drive of that first day. And the next day we drove all the way to miami, and we stay at the lord calvert hotel, which was listed in the grade book also. Green book also. Those stations had these books in iraq outside the pump. In a rack outside the pump. And i find a motel in pensacola, florida. My parents owned the first fully accredited africanamerican travel agency in the united states. They were able to convince people of our time. It took many groups, and eventually took thousands of people abroad. He described the fighting and the dog being sick on them, and people who had died for the right to stay anywhere. [applause] is now my absolute pleasure to introduce tonights special guest. Author,amsey is an photographer, and playwright whose works have been shown all around the country. With the objective of shedding light on the overlooked and missing pages of africanAmerican History<\/a>, ramsey was just you can educate and bring the audience closer to truth is his first play had its premiere at atlantas the ethical outfit. And then went on to win recognition as a finalist in the 12th annual last frontiers the , wherence held in alaska it was critiqued by prominent playwrights, actors, and directors. This while success was followed by other critically acclaimed works. Mr. Ramsey has also served on the Advisory Board<\/a> of elections at every universities library in atlanta, Georgia Council<\/a> of the arts theater panel, and he is a proud recipient of the dr. Martin luther king jr. From major for justice award. Please help me welcome Calvin Ramsey<\/a> to the stage. [applause] [laughter] mr. Ramsey good afternoon. Glad to see you all out tonight. New a new transplant in york city. I have been here 2. 5 and 2. 5 years and i really love new york. Part of my reason for coming to new york was because of victor green. Hugo green, the man who started the green book right how many of you have great parents born in another Country Green<\/a> book. How many of you have grandparents born in another country . You started the immigration story as well. Community, gotn on the road, to look for a better life for themselves and their families and they called it the great migration. Victor lawrence than a whole 60 Panel Exhibit<\/a> on this that was here last summer. I had the fortune of being able to go and film all panels. But what the green book is about is about traveling with dignity. Being on the road, being a stock, eat, use the restroom. You just feel safe. Humiliation, without threats of violence or death. Victor green, who had a seventh grade education, lived in harlem, he worked and happens like new jersey as a letter carrier. 1913, and working in in 1918 he got married to a woman from richmond, virginia, 938hen back to harlem Saint Nicholas<\/a> avenue. 20 years later he started the green book. Take his wife home for summer to visit her family in virginia, they ran into difficulties on the open road. He had each of his friend who told him about their troubles traveling, and said they had their own trouble. So victor green got the idea from his friend, and he started this green book. He cannot do it alone. Resources, hettle was a fulltime letter carrier. But he had an army of letter carriers all over the united states. Mostly men, a few women. These were the guys that would go out and get addresses and places of business and places where people could frequent while they were on the road. They sent those things into him, and that is how the green book got started. And from that point on, it just grew and grew. The first year you did the green book, it was just on new york. Just like other parts of the country, there was jim crow in new york as well. After the 14 was able to expand other parts of the country kept to book going from 1936 1964. And history was to undergo out of business. He wanted to have it so africanamericans could have accommodations on the open road. That was his dream. He did not live to see it. Retired from the Postal Service<\/a> in 1952, and he worked on the green book fulltime. But when he started on the green book on the Postal Service<\/a> in 1913, he was able to join a union, the National Association<\/a> of letter carriers, which was a white union. Somehow or another, he got in this union in hackensack. From that, he cannot use his members to give him information, in thatmary 1930 same year of 1913, mostly male , the grandfather of the first mayor of atlanta, in 1913, this union started, and green and this union would become partners. This was his force. These were his pied pipers. Just like today, the military are in your neighborhood knows more about you than anybody else in your neighborhood. Is in trouble, who might be getting in trouble, and all of that. That, and to knew ask is not to ask. Of american women played a major role, because back then most of the men were working, and they were homemakers. The woman were at home working, and milkman would ask them, with a nice being in this book. If you look at the green book you will see the address was always mrs. Soandso. It was never mr. Lewis, mr. Brown, or anything like that. It was always mrs. , because the woman to get upon themselves to make sure that these listings were listed. They were called tourist homes, both most of a small hands cows did not have negro hotels. Workers, for railroad traveling salesman, and just single guys on the road and they were not suitable for families to stay in. But these tourist homes were regular homes. There were no phone numbers in the green book with paul, knock on the door, and save your traveling and need a place to say. Some people would charge of that, some would charge nothing. And this went on and on. Later on, victor green have the good fortune of coming in contact with the gentleman named billboard jackson who was an educated black man who worked in the Commerce Department<\/a> under hoover. He was probusiness, and randy shaker. His father, and his hotel, ad a 10 room service station, and a taxicab stand. He was not a physician. Part comes from his mothers side. The father was the just as god. Ad a service station billboard without and got black men trained to run the stations all over the united states, and these stations advertised in the green book. A lot of people would ask why would rockefeller because he was why wouldtandard oil, John D Rockefeller<\/a> get involved in a program like this . Was he trying to corner the market in travel . Most people point to rockefellers wife, who immigrated to ohio. Her father was a congregational minister, and their home was part of the underground railroad. Sojournerreports that truth stayed there any a nice, talking to his children and spending the night. Had amilys last name school named after them. 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