Category Past Daily Reference Room

St. Lawrence Seaway history

A Seaway Named St. Lawrence – Proposals For A Waterway – 1946 – Past Daily Reference Room

Our Foreign Policy – Proposal For The St. Lawrence Seaway And Power Project – March 9, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The St. Lawrence Seaway, a 189-mile (306-kilometer) stretch of the Seaway between Montreal and Lake Ontario is…

President Johnson - 1967

1967 – The View From Capitol Hill – Senator Mike Mansfield And The Johnson Era – Past Daily Reference Room

Issues and Answers – Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield – March 4, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1967 – a year of sweeping social change, primarily among the youth and countercultures. A year of turning corners and taking…

Gathering opinions in 1948

Do Opinion Polls Serve Democracy? – 1948 – The Accuracy Of Getting A Nations Pulse – Past Daily Reference Room

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”42722″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”Do Opinion polls Serve Democracy? – Chicago University Roundtable – June 27, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Opinion Polls – gathering data and trying to figure out where the public was going, where…

Young women voters - 1952

Are Women Changing Our Party Alignments? – 1953 – Women In Politics – Past Daily Reference Room

Are Women Changing Our Party Alignments? – American Forum Of The Air – January 18, 1953 -Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1952, when General Eisenhower swept into the White House, becoming the first Republican President since Herbert Hoover, it…