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American History TV:
Explore Connections to the Past
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Highlights for Saturday
on C‑SPAN2 include a look
at “The Troubles” in Northern
Ireland and the chief architect of the 1998 path
toward peace for the region; The Presidency
focuses on President Martin Van Buren and his
rivalry with John Quincy Adams. Plus, American History TV examines the early months of Gerald Ford's
presidency in the sixth episode of its “First 100 Days” series.
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Georgetown
University history professor Darragh
Gannon chronicles the Irish diaspora and the role
of the United States during “The Troubles” and in the Northern
Ireland peace process. The above 1995 image shows President Bill Clinton with
John
Hume, an Irish nationalist politician in Northern
Ireland. In 1998, John Hume was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his
efforts as an architect of the Good Friday Agreement —
which ended most of the violence from a 30-year conflict among
Northern Ireland factions.
Georgetown
University is located in Washington, D.C.
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James Bradley, “Martin Van
Buren: America’s First Politician”
The Presidency
Watch:
9:30 am/pm & 12:30 pm
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James Bradley, co-editor of
the Martin Van Buren Papers, talks about his biography of our eighth
president, the first in-depth look at his presidency in decades.
Known as the “Little Magician,” Martin Van Buren was an adept
political strategist — with James Bradley writing — “He
dominated his field because of his superlative talents as a manager
and tactician. An astute student of human nature, he understood what
drove voters to the polls, what attracted citizens to larger
political movements, how allegiances were formed.”
The
Martin Van Buren Papers are housed at Cumberland
University in Lebanon, Tennessee.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham,
“Dear Miss Perkins”
Watch: 5:10 pm
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Frances Perkins was the first woman in a presidential Cabinet,
serving as Labor Secretary in the Franklin Roosevelt Administration
from 1933–1945. Historian Rebecca Brenner Graham
recounts her life and career as detailed in her book “Dear Miss
Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from
Nazi Germany.” She has the distinction of being only
one of two Cabinet members to serve for the entirety of FDR's four
terms as president.
The Franklin
D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park,
New York, hosted this talk.
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Jennie Jerome Churchill
& Sara Delano Roosevelt
Watch: 5:55 pm
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The
mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill —
American Jennie Jerome (shown left with a young Winston)
— and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's mother — the
formidable Sara Delano (shown right with a 5-year-old
Franklin) — are the subjects of a conversation about
their lives and considerable influence.
Hosted by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at
Hunter College, the discussion is held at
the New York City house that Sara Roosevelt had built and shared with
her son FDR and his family. Speakers include biographer and
historian Amanda
Foreman and Charlotte
Gray, author of “Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons:
The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt.”
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This
Saturday features the sixth episode of American History TV’s “First 100 Days” series.
With insights from historians and authors, these 10 programs focus
on what each administration accomplished in its earliest days,
and how those results impacted the remainder of the presidential
terms and the nation up to present day. This week, we look at
the early months of President Gerald Ford’s
term in 1974, including his pardon of former President
Richard Nixon, who resigned from office during the
Watergate investigation.
• 7 pm:
Gerald
Ford - 1974
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Coming up Sunday on C‑SPAN
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Q&A: Rep. James Comer (R-KY),
“All the President’s Money”
House Oversight Committee chair Rep. James
Comer (R-KY), author of “All the
President’s Money: Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes That Made
the Biden Family Rich,” talks about his committee’s
15-month investigation into the business practices of then-President Joe Biden
and members of his family, including his brother James and son
Hunter. Congressman Comer argues that the Bidens have benefited
financially from corrupt financial dealings involving Ukraine, China
and other countries.
Tune in at 8 pm
& 11 pm or enjoy Q&A as
a podcast.
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C‑SPAN’s‑The‑Weekly: DEBT FRET — In Their First Speeches to Congress, New
Presidents Are in Anguish About the National Debt
When presidents come into
office, traditionally their first big speech to Congress is about the
budget — like President Trump's remarks this past week.
Instead
of a State of the Union address, newly elected presidents —
or
new-ish — tend to share their economic
agenda and vision for the coming four years. And almost always in
that big budget speech, they are in anguish over the escalating
national debt — such as what President
Ronald Reagan said in 1981:
“Our
national debt is approaching $1 trillion. A few weeks ago I called
such a figure, a trillion dollars, incomprehensible, and I’ve been
trying ever since to think of a way to illustrate how big a trillion
really is. And the best I could come up with is that if you had a
stack of $1,000 dollar bills in your hand only 4 inches high, you’d
be a millionaire. A trillion dollars would be a stack of $1,000
dollar bills 67 miles high.”
And what President Bill Clinton said in 1993:
“I
well remember 12 years ago — President Reagan stood at this very
podium and told you and the American people that if our national debt
were stacked in $1,000 dollar bills, the stack would reach 67 miles
into space. Well, today that stack would reach 267 miles.”
• What
have other new presidents said in their economic speeches to Congress
about the debt?
• Which
presidents have blamed other presidents?
• And
how has rhetoric about the debt changed over past decades in these
speeches to Congress?
Find out in this week’s episode of C‑SPAN’s podcast The Weekly
as we hear new presidents fret about the debt.
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