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Alan Price, director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, talked about the Kennedy Administration’s efforts on women’s rights. He explained that women’s rights were a part…

Margaret Leslie Davis discussed first lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s political and diplomatic coup in bringing the Mona Lisa to the United States despite opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. Leonardo da…

Louis Galambos, editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, talked about the evolution of Ike’s leadership style from a West Point cadet to president of the United States. The Kansas…

Education director Mark Adams showed items in the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum collection that tell the story of President Truman’s decision to use atomic bombs, including…

Archivist Craig Wright talked about a fall 1921 road trip that future first lady Lou Hoover took with her newly widowed father -- traveling from California to Washington, D.C., long before…

This program looked at presidential retreats, with a focus on Abraham Lincoln’s summer cottage, Herbert Hoover’s Shenandoah mountains fishing camp, and stories about the Kennedys, Clintons, and…

Douglas Brinkley and Carolyn Barta talked about independent presidential candidate H. Ross Perot (b. 1930). Professor Barta participated from her home in Dallas as they talked about his campaigns and…

Matthew Costello talked about his new book, The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President. He discussed the ways that Americans…

Authors Scott Farris and Jules Witcover talked about 1972 Democratic presidential nominee and anti-Vietnam war candidate Senator George S. McGovern (b. 1922) and responded to telephone calls and…

Dan Carter and Joe Reed talked about the life and career of George C. Wallace, Jr. (1919-1998) and responded to telephone calls and electronic communications from in front of the Alabama Governor’s Mansion. Peggy…

Juan Williams and Mick Caouette talked about the life and career of 1968 Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978). They responded to telephone calls and electronic…

Rick Perlstein, Bill McCune, and Darcy Olsen talked about the life and career of 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998). They responded to telephone calls and electronic communications and to questions from members of…

Historian Richard Norton Smith, former Senator Adlai Stevenson III, and Newton Minow, who had worked for him, talked about the life and career of 1952 and 1956 Democratic presidential nominee Adlai E.…

Richard Norton Smith and Thomas E. Dewey, III, talked about the life and career of 1944 and 1948 Republican presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey (1902-1971). They responded to telephone calls and electronic…

University of Central Arkansas historian Marcus Witcher explored conservatives' criticism of President Reagan’s foreign policy toward the Soviet Union during the 1980s. He also explained how…

This was a conversation about portraying Abraham Lincoln on the stage. Ford’s Theatre director Paul Tetreault talked with playwright Richard Hellesen who wrote Necessary Sacrifices -- a Ford’s…

President Jimmy Carter (D) accepted his party’s presidential nomination for a second term at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York City. In his speech, President Carter called the ideas of his…

Ronald Reagan accepted his party’s presidential nomination at the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan. The former California Governor called on Americans to “recapture our…

President Gerald Ford accepted the nomination to be the 1976 Republican candidate for president at the Republican National Convention held in Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri.…

At the 1976 Democratic National Convention, Governor Carter delivered his acceptance speech as the Democratic presidential nominee.