william jennings bryan and ross is like, what? and again, under his theory, this is an open and shut case. the only is did scopes teach evolution or not? but he wants to hear his hero go toe to toe with darrow. and he says, okay, and we have this moment. we have this moment. oh, sorry. quick, quick. darrow as part of that is allowed to have the experts put into the record the testimony they would have given, which gets reprinted in all the newspapers and becomes kind of a national biology lesson. you'll be reading a little bit of that a section next week. but it is but it is denied for the jury to it. but here's the thing. the courtroom was so hot, the floor was creaking, the ceiling was starting to crack from the new ceiling fans they had put in for the trial. and they decide they're going to move these final days of the trial outside. so you have this spectacle that on a stage they had built outside in preparation for the crowds coming to dayton. this is now where the trial is going to move. and in front of a crowd of thousands

william jennings bryan. huge. everyone would knew. william jennings bryan. there. there's made by his statue in the rotunda. remind me never to do that again. and he did not like darwin and reasonable some of the reasons he didn't like darwin is he particularly didn't like the way he did teaching had been used. he actually really believed that part of the german militarism that to world war one came from the germans coming to believe that darwin's principles were part would play into human society and that the global would be a struggle of survival for the fittest and helped cause a war that would cause 16 million deaths. and he didn't like that. darwin initially never. the term survival of the fittest is coined by a british associate ologist herbert spencer. but darwin will come to use it and they applied it to human life people are going to misuse it. brian hated the fact the great commoner william jennings bryan that the great wealth of the gilded age this is the biltmore mansion, the vanderbilts mansion made to look like versailles and asheville that the folks

william the silver standard for william jennings bryan and the gold standard prevailed because william mckinley won that election in 1896. but one of the interesting things about that election was the fact that the republican party went after, you know, labor, which was unheard of because, you know that is a democratic today. it's a democratic, you know, campaign trough. and i think william mckinley changed that because and i think that's one of the major reasons why, as mckinley was a congressman, he was also known as a very protectionist. and they placed tariffs on all these coming into the country because mckinley was raised, you know, a very middle class family. and he had a heart for middle class people in the working people. so i think the 1896 election was definitely it resounded with the people. and you kind of saw that election kind of come away from the actual populist candidate, which was william jennings bryan. and and then fast forward to the election of 1901, when william mckinley, with the the egomaniac as a lot of people like to say, teddy roosevelt, he actually ran wit

dayton, bryan college, named for william jennings bryan and the scopes trial lives on. there's a scopes festival today took a step back during covid but it's back in dayton. you can go to the monkey town brewing company in dayton and the trial stillgood evening. and welcome to the truman library. i'm kelly anders deputy director. and it's my great pleasure to introduce tonight's speaker matthew algeo mathews latest book. when harry met pablo truman, picasso and the cold war politics of modern art will be released tonight here at the truman library. matthew is an associate producer for national public radio, and he has reported from four continents from four npr news and other outlets. he is the of six other books, including one of my favorites, harry truman's adventure the true story, a great american road trip, which was named one of the best books of 2009 by the washington post. in addition to reporting and writing, matthew has held jobs as a convenience store clerk. gas station attendant, halloween costume salesman and a hot dog vendor in a traveling circus. even he'

but, you know, maybe william jennings bryan is an example. beginning in 1896, he ran a handful of times. he was a democratic nominee but never had redemption and never actually won, but was the nominee. several times, beginning in 1896. so it wasn't clear nixon was was going to have a path. so he's down in key biscayne, thinking, what do i do? and he doesn't know what to do. so he calls his friend reverend billy graham. graham, the picture first picture i'll show you is later, 68. this is a graham had a a a crusade rally. you can almost see at the very last letters of the word pittsburgh. so they're at the stadium in pittsburgh. and so nixon says to graham, i don't know what to do, whether i should run. would you please come down and counsel me on his decision and this is a fascinating part of the story that wasn't on the public record until my book came out. so the graham's allowed me to use billy graham's diary in this book, and it's the first book to use the diary. and the diary is fascinating. it's what i do in the book is not fair. it's

richard nixon, william jennings bryan i mean histories in in the making here so to his point doesn't the trump economy there's lots to boast about their but now you have american saddled with debt 47% higher debt than 3 years ago racking up credit card debt to pay for skyhigh inflation there was an opportunity to detail how he will crack those problem as it leaves the window new york times recently published a report saying trump policies will lead to higher inflation he needs to get out there in detail to voters he's trying to woo to come over and vote for him that he can correct those problem's as you look at the polling out there it's democrats who feel this. they are not optimistic about the future when it comes to the economy being in bad condition needs to reach out to independents who feel the same and perhaps there is a missed opportunity but he is a record to come on when it comes to the economy. >> there's a potential reagan ask mandate november the issues are there border economy status in the world change stage gel and from tennessee already something i saw the little dif