President Eisenhower – Knowledge and an Education were key to America’s leadership in the world. President Eisenhower – Address to Students and Faculty at Columbia University on the occasion of the college’s Bicentennial anniversary – May 31, 1954. A reminder that we lived in different times in 1954 and we
We were good at waging war, lousy at waging peace. And it showed. It’s ironic that this episode of the long-running Public Affairs radio program “Town Meeting Tonight” ran on November 14, 1941, entitled “What kind of peace must we have?”, some three weeks before America was dragged into the
Googlemania in 2005 was an actual thing. This episode of Background Briefing from ABC National in Australia was first broadcast on December 1, 2005; twenty years ago. Twenty years ago Background Briefing looked ahead some nine years to what the world was going to look like in 2014. And the
State of Education – Franco-American relations – Listen To Washington – February 15, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1955 we were in the middle of what became known as the Post-War Baby Boom. Kids born after 1945 were either approaching school age or were well into elementary
In 1968 America was turning a corner – it was a country on edge. It was a country experiencing an intense upheaval. It was, for all intents and purposes, a year where America had to choose sides; being part of the problem or being part of the solution. It was
The Cold War was spreading everywhere. An unsettled feeling was spreading over the world in 1950. The Cold War was ramping up and bringing reminders of a previous war, a war that ended a little over five years earlier – a war that was still leaving its affects. A war
In 1973 we were overloading and shorting out. By todays standards, the stress, the feeling of being overwhelmed, the anxiety, the day to day hassle of life in 1973 would be comparative bliss. 1973; fifty-two years ago, we were at a breaking point – particularly America. We were constantly bombarded
Eugene Debs – Socialism was the way of the future in 1908. Opening his electrifying victory speech on Tuesday night in Brooklyn – Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani quoted the name Eugene Debs, one of the outspoken leaders of the Socialist Movement in America during the early years of the 20th century
– American Forum – 1956 Election – Jan. 29, 1956 – As the 1956 Presidential election season got underway, the slogan used by the incumbent Republicans most argued was “Peace and Prosperity”. In this debate, part of the American Forum radio series from January 29, 1956, the Governors got into
Dean Acheson – Address on NATO – March 18, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dean Acheson, Secretary of State in 1949 during the Truman administration, he promoted the idea of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an organization which constituted a system of collective defense, whereby its member states
