– NPR-PBS – Live Coverage Impeachment Debate – Day 1 – Part 1 – July 24, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – NPR-PBS – Live Coverage Impeachment Debate – Day 1 – Part 2 – July 24, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – NPR-PBS – Live
As we get ready to start the 2024 Democratic convention next month, I thought I would run a snapshot from another convention, this one from New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, accepting the party’s nomination for President in that harrowing year of 1932. FDR: “I pledge you, I pledge myself,
– July 20, 1969 – News Of The Day from KNX-FM, Los Angeles – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 20, 1969 – the day they walked on the moon. The day everyone who was around at the time remembers where they were, what they were doing
– Do Opinion polls Serve Democracy? – Chicago University Roundtable – June 27, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Opinion Polls – gathering data and trying to figure out where the public was going, where were they leaning and would they do what they said they would once they
On July 12, 1966 – With the Vietnam War pulling us deeper and deeper into the conflict-with-no-end, and Red China showing increasing antagonism toward the U.S. – and now that they had the Atomic Bomb – the balance of power in Southeast Asia was looking precarious, at least to our
It’s interesting to note that, sixty years ago, Congress passed a piece of legislation, first brought about by President Kennedy and then completed by President Johnson, that called for Equal Pay in the Workplace. Well . . .not exactly. The bill, passed in 1963 and enacted on June 11, 1964,
– The Starr Report – Commentary and review – November 19, 1998 – National Public Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Starr Report – in case you missed it the first time around, a cliff-notes version via Wikipedia: Originally dealing with the failed land deal years earlier known
– The Open Mind – interview with Upton Sinclair – May 2, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If Upton Sinclair were alive today it would be hard to say what his fate would be. At the turn of the 20th century, he was one of the most outspoken
– Dewey-Stassen Debate – 1948 Presidential Election; Republican Ticket – May 17, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When former New York Governor and Republican Presidential hopeful Thomas E-Dewey debated former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen during the Republican Presidential primaries of 1948, it was something new that hadn’t been
Even five years since the end of World War 2, Europe was still in the process of rebuilding and finding its way. Now with the added attraction of Communism and what, in its most abstract, became a popularity contest between Democracy and Independence to Communism and a central government around
