C-SPAN 2 TV Schedule
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Marc Johnson, "Mansfield and Dirksen"
1 hour, 4 minutesHistorian Marc Johson discussed the political and personal relationship between former Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois and former Democratic leader Mike Mansfield of Montana in the 1960s. The Lewis & Clark Library in Helena, Montana, hosted this event.
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Vice President Gerald Ford
1 hour, 16 minutesHistorian Richard Norton Smith talked about Gerald Ford - and the vice presidency - on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford becoming Richard Nixon's vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned amid an income tax evasion scandal. This was part of a conference on American vice presidents hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Presidential Foundation.
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Reel America: Social Security in Louisiana - 1937
11 minutesTwo years after President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, this 1937 film described the benefits that an unemployed Louisiana workman would receive through the state program. It was released as "Your Job Insurance." Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films.
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Dick & Pat Nixon World War II Love Letters
43 minutesThe World War II correspondence between Richard and Patricia Nixon - he serving with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific and she part of the war effort in San Francisco - recently was made public. Author Heath Hardage Lee talked about their letters and wartime experiences in this virtual program hosted by the White House Historical Association.
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The Civil War: Wounded Soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
1 hour, 17 minutesHistorian Wayne E. Motts discussed patients treated during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. From the barn where the 11th Corps Union Army Hospital was based, on George and Elizabeth Spangler's property in Gettysburg, he talked about Southern soldiers who were cared for alongside Union wounded. The Gettysburg Foundation in Pennsylvania hosted this event.
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Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 Televised White House Tour
41 minutesFirst lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave Americans a televised tour of the restored White House public rooms on Valentine's Day 1962. A reported 56 million viewers tuned into the CBS broadcast. James Wagner -- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum exhibits specialist - talked in this virtual program about Mrs. Kennedy's restoration and the tour that captured the nation's imagination.
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Lectures in History: Television, Internet & White House Communications
1 hour, 15 minutesChapman University Professor Lori Cox Han discussed how television and the internet impacted White House communications strategies. Chapman University is located in Orange, California.
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Vice President Gerald Ford
1 hour, 14 minutesHistorian Richard Norton Smith talked about Gerald Ford - and the vice presidency - on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford becoming Richard Nixon's vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned amid an income tax evasion scandal. This was part of a conference on American vice presidents hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Presidential Foundation.
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Reel America: Social Security in Louisiana - 1937
10 minutesTwo years after President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, this 1937 film described the benefits that an unemployed Louisiana workman would receive through the state program. It was released as "Your Job Insurance." Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films.
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Dick & Pat Nixon World War II Love Letters
43 minutesThe World War II correspondence between Richard and Patricia Nixon - he serving with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific and she part of the war effort in San Francisco - recently was made public. Author Heath Hardage Lee talked about their letters and wartime experiences in this virtual program hosted by the White House Historical Association.
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The Civil War: Wounded Soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
1 hour, 17 minutesHistorian Wayne E. Motts discussed patients treated during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. From the barn where the 11th Corps Union Army Hospital was based, on George and Elizabeth Spangler's property in Gettysburg, he talked about Southern soldiers who were cared for alongside Union wounded. The Gettysburg Foundation in Pennsylvania hosted this event.
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Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 Televised White House Tour
41 minutesFirst lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave Americans a televised tour of the restored White House public rooms on Valentine's Day 1962. A reported 56 million viewers tuned into the CBS broadcast. James Wagner -- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum exhibits specialist - talked in this virtual program about Mrs. Kennedy's restoration and the tour that captured the nation's imagination.
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Lectures in History: Television, Internet & White House Communications
1 hour, 15 minutesChapman University Professor Lori Cox Han discussed how television and the internet impacted White House communications strategies. Chapman University is located in Orange, California.
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Vice President Gerald Ford
1 hour, 15 minutesHistorian Richard Norton Smith talked about Gerald Ford - and the vice presidency - on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford becoming Richard Nixon's vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned amid an income tax evasion scandal. This was part of a conference on American vice presidents hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Presidential Foundation.
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Reel America: Social Security in Louisiana - 1937
11 minutesTwo years after President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, this 1937 film described the benefits that an unemployed Louisiana workman would receive through the state program. It was released as "Your Job Insurance." Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films.
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Dick & Pat Nixon World War II Love Letters
42 minutesThe World War II correspondence between Richard and Patricia Nixon - he serving with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific and she part of the war effort in San Francisco - recently was made public. Author Heath Hardage Lee talked about their letters and wartime experiences in this virtual program hosted by the White House Historical Association.
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The Civil War: Wounded Soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
1 hour, 16 minutesHistorian Wayne E. Motts discussed patients treated during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. From the barn where the 11th Corps Union Army Hospital was based, on George and Elizabeth Spangler's property in Gettysburg, he talked about Southern soldiers who were cared for alongside Union wounded. The Gettysburg Foundation in Pennsylvania hosted this event.
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Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 Televised White House Tour
41 minutesFirst lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave Americans a televised tour of the restored White House public rooms on Valentine's Day 1962. A reported 56 million viewers tuned into the CBS broadcast. James Wagner -- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum exhibits specialist - talked in this virtual program about Mrs. Kennedy's restoration and the tour that captured the nation's imagination.
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Lectures in History: Television, Internet & White House Communications
1 hour, 15 minutesChapman University Professor Lori Cox Han discussed how television and the internet impacted White House communications strategies. Chapman University is located in Orange, California.
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Vice President Gerald Ford
1 hour, 14 minutesHistorian Richard Norton Smith talked about Gerald Ford - and the vice presidency - on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford becoming Richard Nixon's vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned amid an income tax evasion scandal. This was part of a conference on American vice presidents hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Presidential Foundation.
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Reel America: Social Security in Louisiana - 1937
10 minutesTwo years after President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, this 1937 film described the benefits that an unemployed Louisiana workman would receive through the state program. It was released as "Your Job Insurance." Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films.
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Dick & Pat Nixon World War II Love Letters
42 minutesThe World War II correspondence between Richard and Patricia Nixon - he serving with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific and she part of the war effort in San Francisco - recently was made public. Author Heath Hardage Lee talked about their letters and wartime experiences in this virtual program hosted by the White House Historical Association.
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The Civil War: Wounded Soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
1 hour, 16 minutesHistorian Wayne E. Motts discussed patients treated during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. From the barn where the 11th Corps Union Army Hospital was based, on George and Elizabeth Spangler's property in Gettysburg, he talked about Southern soldiers who were cared for alongside Union wounded. The Gettysburg Foundation in Pennsylvania hosted this event.
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Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 Televised White House Tour
42 minutesFirst lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave Americans a televised tour of the restored White House public rooms on Valentine's Day 1962. A reported 56 million viewers tuned into the CBS broadcast. James Wagner -- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum exhibits specialist - talked in this virtual program about Mrs. Kennedy's restoration and the tour that captured the nation's imagination.
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Lectures in History: Television, Internet & White House Communications
1 hour, 14 minutesChapman University Professor Lori Cox Han discussed how television and the internet impacted White House communications strategies. Chapman University is located in Orange, California.
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Vice President Gerald Ford
1 hour, 14 minutesHistorian Richard Norton Smith talked about Gerald Ford - and the vice presidency - on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford becoming Richard Nixon's vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned amid an income tax evasion scandal. This was part of a conference on American vice presidents hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Presidential Foundation.
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Reel America: Social Security in Louisiana - 1937
10 minutesTwo years after President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, this 1937 film described the benefits that an unemployed Louisiana workman would receive through the state program. It was released as "Your Job Insurance." Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films.
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The Civil War: Wounded Soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
1 hour, 15 minutesHistorian Wayne E. Motts discussed patients treated during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. From the barn where the 11th Corps Union Army Hospital was based, on George and Elizabeth Spangler's property in Gettysburg, he talked about Southern soldiers who were cared for alongside Union wounded. The Gettysburg Foundation in Pennsylvania hosted this event.