This Day (An America 250 History Show)

Our conversation about the life and legacy of Al Gore continues. We discuss what a post-9/11 era with Gore as president would have looked like, and how he turned to environmental activism with An Inconvenient Truth in the mid-2000s. Plus, how he's remembered today.
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Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia.

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For the forty-first installment of "50 Weeks That Shaped America" we talk about Al Gore's life and legacy. We use it as a chance to talk about the fateful 2000 election, plus his advocacy for climate change issues. This episode, Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss Gore's upbringing, how his political path reflected the larger politics of the 80s and 90s, and how he found himself in the middle of the most controversial election of our lifetimes.
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Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia.

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To cap off our collaboration with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, the This Day team went to Washington, DC, for a live conversation at the Howard Theatre about whether the next big realignment in American democracy is on the horizon -- and what history can teach us about the path forward. We were joined by Alex Lovit, host of Kettering’s podcast The Context, and  Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II—bishop, author, founder of the Poor People's Campaign and the Moral Mondays movement, and Kettering Foundation senior fellow. Thanks to everyone who joined us in DC, and thanks to Kettering for being our partners over the last month!
You can find out more about Kettering at kettering.org and listen to their podcast “The Context” at kettering.org/thecontext 

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Our conversation about Ross Perot continues with a look at his drop -- and re-entry -- into the 1992 presidential race, including those iconic infomercials. Plus, how his mix of personal wealth, folksy wisdom, and economic populism set a template for modern politics and politicians.
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For the fortieth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to 1992, when Texas billionaire Ross Perot crashed the presidential election contest. We talk about how Perot got his money, why he jumped into politics — and why a short Texan with big ears, a folksy charm, and lots of charts managed to captivate the nation.
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Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia.

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