S2 Ep 7 - Post Script

Nixon at War

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4.8 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

So what do historians think, fifty years out, about LBJ’s Great Society and its long term impact on American life and politics? In early February, series correspondent Melody Barnes put that question to three distinguished scholars, gathered before a live audience at the Miller Center for Presidential Studies, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Their perspectives are a thoughtful summing up of the Johnson Years, and a good place, we think, to close out this podcast series. The panelists: Kevin Gaines, the Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at the University of Virginia; Guian McKee, associate professor in Presidential Studies at the Miller Center; and Julian Zelizer, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Our thanks to them for their insights, and to you our listeners for your interest.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this bonus episode of LBJ and the Great Society.
0:06.0	I'm Melody Barnes, the series host and narrator.
0:09.0	Not long ago, the Miller Center at the University of Virginia,
0:13.0	where I hang my hat these days, brought three distinguished historians together
0:17.0	to talk about LBJ's Great Society and why it still matters half a century later.
0:21.6	The session was recorded for a live audience.
0:24.6	It went so well that we thought it were sharing, an excerpt form, with our podcast listeners.
0:30.6	I was privileged to moderate the session and learned a good deal,
0:33.6	not least about why the Great society continues to stir such passionate
0:38.6	debate.
0:39.6	I hope you'll find the conversation as valuable as I did.
0:45.3	Well, good morning, everyone.
0:47.3	You all are very quiet.
0:50.6	We are so happy that you are here with us this morning.
0:53.7	My name is Melody Barnes. I'm a professor of practice here at the Miller Center and co-director of the Democracy Initiative here at the University of Virginia.
1:03.0	And welcome to our program. We're going to have a fantastic conversation with some of the most highly regarded scholars of this period of time who are
1:13.6	who have joined me on stage and at the same time this ultimately will be edited into the seventh
1:21.6	installment of a podcast series that I'm doing called LBJ and the Great Society. That podcast will be distributed
1:30.3	by PRX and it is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In a minute
1:37.3	I'll introduce the members of the panel. But before I do, I also want to pause and say a quick thank you.
1:45.0	We owe a debt of gratitude to the LBJ library, but in addition to that,
1:51.0	those phone calls were transcribed and annotated by the Presidential Recordings Project
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