C-SPAN TV Schedule
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Washington Journal: 08/16/2020
3 hours, 3 minutesWomen's Suffrage Centennial Commission Co-Chair Colleen Shogan discusses the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment and Center for American Women and Politics Director Debbie Walsh discusses the history of women in politics.
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Speeches from 1980 Political Conventions
1 hour, 42 minutesWith the Democratic National Convention getting underway this week, C-SPAN presented archival speeches from the 1980 Political Conventions with Ronald Reagan (R) and President Jimmy Carter (D).
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Campaign 2020: Massachusetts U.S. Senate Democratic Debate
57 minutesSenSenator Edward Markey (D-MA) and Democratic primary challenger Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA, 4th), participated in a heated debate including the topic of negative campaigning. Sen. Markey challenged Rep. Kennedy to ask his father and twin brother to cease helping to fund attack ads on him through a Super PAC. After Rep. Kennedy accused Sen. Markey of taking a donation from the chair of the ExxonMobil board. Rep. Kennedy said Sen. Markey has "taken more money from telecom industry than any living member of Congress." The candidates also answered questions about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, education and racial equity. The debate is sponsored by WBZ-TV-CBS Channel 4
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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
2 minutesOn CNN's "State of the Union," White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows discussed mail-in voting and preventing voter fraud.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders I-VT
2 minutesOn NBC's "Meet The Press," Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) urged Congress to come back in session and address current issues with the U.S. Postal Service.
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President Trump News Conference from Bedminster, NJ
19 minutesPresident Trump held a news conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and took questions on COVID, the 2020 election, the economy and his cabinet.
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Discussion on COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Hurricane Season
1 hour, 17 minutesFormer FEMA Administrator Brock Long joined the emergency directors of Florida and North Carolina in a virtual discussion on how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact hurricane preparedness and sheltering measures. The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted the event that highlighted the challenges some communities will face in the wake of the pandemic, including implementing social distancing procedures in sheltering locations, and addressing concerns that some families will not evacuate if the pandemic situation worsens. Mr. Long discussed how Congress could support the agency with additional funding and how states can employ preventative measures like enforcing building codes in housing and fostering better relationships with the private sector, who he said owns 85 percent of infrastructure like power grids and critical supply chains.
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Washington Journal: Colleen Shogan
1 hour, 1 minuteWomen's Suffrage Centennial Commission Co-Chair Colleen Shogan discussed the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
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American Artifacts: K "Rightfully Hers, American Women & the Vote"
48 minutesCurator Corinne Porter gave American History TV a guided tour of a National Archives exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th amendment.
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The Contenders: Wendell Willkie
2 hours, 3 minutesAmity Shlaes, James Madison, and David Willkie talked about the life and career of 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie (1882-1944) from the Rush County Historical Society. Wendell Willkie lived in Rushville, Indiana, and ran his presidential campaign from there. The lawyer and utilities executive had never before run for office. After loosing to President Franklin Roosevelt, he then became his informal representative to Britain, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, and China. In 1943 he wrote One World, the story of his travels. Video clips included speeches and campaign ads. There was an August 1940 audio clip of President Roosevelt. Remarks by Senator Lugar were pre-recorded. The historians responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
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Speeches from 1980 Political Conventions
1 hour, 41 minutesWith the Democratic National Convention getting underway this week, C-SPAN presented archival speeches from the 1980 Political Conventions with Ronald Reagan (R) and President Jimmy Carter (D).
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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
2 minutesOn CNN's "State of the Union," White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows discussed mail-in voting and preventing voter fraud.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders I-VT
2 minutesOn NBC's "Meet The Press," Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) urged Congress to come back in session and address current issues with the U.S. Postal Service.
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Q&A: Elaine Weiss, "The Woman's Hour"
1 hour, 2 minutesJournalist and author Elaine Weiss discussed her book, "The Woman's Hour," about the lead-up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920, that granted women the right to vote.
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Campaign 2020: Sen. Kamala Harris Vice Presidential Candidate Profile
1 hour, 4 minutesPolitical reporters Holly Otterbein and Seema Mehta joined to discuss the political career of Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), 2020 Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden's pick as a vice presidential running mate, looking back at video from her career as a public official. This included her first appearance on C-SPAN, at a discussion on the state of Black America in 2006, which she spoke at while in her second year as the San Francisco District Attorney. Also discussed was her rise to be California's Attorney General, and then her election to the U.S. Senate in 2016 and her subsequent service on Capitol Hill before entering the arena of presidential politics in January 2019. The reporters also talked about her relationship with Joe Biden, and the importance of their relationship to their campaign.
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Campaign 2020: Donald Trump Jr. Holds Sportsmen Campaign Event
55 minutesDonald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, both advisers to President Trump's reelection campaign, hosted an event to launch the "Sportsmen for Trump" group at a clay shooting range in Coplay, Pennsylvania. They talked about the Trump administration's support of various issues of interest to gun owners and hunters, including the opening of more than 4 million acres of federally managed public lands to sports uses. Also speaking briefly were Rep. Dan Mueser (R-PA), and Lisa Scheller, a Republican challenger to Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) in the Keystone State's 7th Congressional District.
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Q&A: Elaine Weiss, "The Woman's Hour"
1 hour, 1 minuteJournalist and author Elaine Weiss discussed her book, "The Woman's Hour," about the lead-up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920, that granted women the right to vote.
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The Contenders: Wendell Willkie
2 hours, 4 minutesAmity Shlaes, James Madison, and David Willkie talked about the life and career of 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie (1882-1944) from the Rush County Historical Society. Wendell Willkie lived in Rushville, Indiana, and ran his presidential campaign from there. The lawyer and utilities executive had never before run for office. After loosing to President Franklin Roosevelt, he then became his informal representative to Britain, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, and China. In 1943 he wrote One World, the story of his travels. Video clips included speeches and campaign ads. There was an August 1940 audio clip of President Roosevelt. Remarks by Senator Lugar were pre-recorded. The historians responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
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C-SPAN Cities Tour- Women's Suffrage
1 hour, 0 minuteThe C-SPAN Cities Tour explores the American story with a look at the Women's Suffrage movement which led to the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote.
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American Artifacts: Votes for Women
36 minutesHistorian Kate Clarke Lemay gave American History TV a guided tour of a National Portrait Gallery exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th Amendment. Starting with the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington D.C., she talks about the tactics women used to get the vote including picketing the White House and publishing political cartoons. The exhibit also explores the period after ratification of the amendment up through the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This is the second of a two-part program.
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President Trump News Conference from Bedminster, NJ
35 minutesPresident Trump held a news conference from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to update on the federal response to the pandemic. The president said that rates of positive cases and COVID-related hospitalizations have been going down across the country. He also expressed his hope for the return of college football, saying that the players want to play. When asked about claims calling into question Sen. Kamala Harris' (D-CA) eligibitlity to run for vice president, President Trump said he had "nothing to do with that," later adding "you would have thought that she would have been vetted by sleepy Joe."
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Speeches from 1980 Political Conventions
1 hour, 42 minutesWith the Democratic National Convention getting underway this week, C-SPAN presented archival speeches from the 1980 Political Conventions with Ronald Reagan (R) and President Jimmy Carter (D).
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Q&A: Elaine Weiss, "The Woman's Hour"
1 hour, 1 minuteJournalist and author Elaine Weiss discussed her book, "The Woman's Hour," about the lead-up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920, that granted women the right to vote.