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[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] at 1 30, the year and News Conference from president obama just before the president departs with his family for hawaii. We will have live coverage of the briefing. Ahead to today posners conference, wondering about questions. Why didnt the president and that going to ferguson . What is the president s biggest accomplishment in 2014 . How will the navigate the relationship on capitol hill now that repu...

Put him on the national map. We want to begin this morning on washington journal by hearing from you on the late mario cuomo , his influence on the democratic party, when you remember about him, etc. Host you can also make a comment via social media. Host mario cuomo 19322015 the opening topic this morning on washington journal. Todd purdom writes in politico that he was the poet laureate of american literalism liberals and, the democratic partys most passionate defender of the underdog and its most articulate critic of the trickledown gospel of reaganomics. A fiercely proud son of immigrants,...

Increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the things we have set this up as a round table intentionally. All of us were going to speak for maybe about ten minutes, so kind of making a few brief remarks about the literature on the 197...

So, one of the things that we were thinking about in setting up this panel is the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking you about the 1970s, both in the contemporary political imagination of the time and also in historical scholarship. From water bait to the Energy Crisis, the urban crisis the fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is infused with this sense of danger and awareness of historical change. And histories of the decade, too, often treat it in these kind of heightened terms. Theres as many people have observed, the period of 1970s has gone from being easily dismissed histor...

In the early 1970s and i think one of our challenges to think about what some of the consequences of those are and as kim said whether or not these are connected to each other. So, between about 1971 and 1976 and 1977 we first of all, get millions of new voters in this country, right . So you get a constitutional amendment that makes the voting age 18 instead of 21, so thats early in the 1970s. You also get a transformation of the primary system in this country, right . Prior to the 1970s, you had primary systems they were not binding primary systems so the primary system that we all experienc...