gifford pinchot, son of the conservationist.sident kennedy describes gifford pinchot as a trained scientist, gift administrator, articulate publicist, and governor of pennsylvania. but as a man who would prefer to be remembered as a forrester and conservationist. for milford, a flight of 1000 miles to duluth. at a side trip by helicopter over the apostle islands barrier over lake superior, for a lander at ashland, wisconsin. to the welcoming throng at the ashton airport, president kennedy announces the convening of a conference to study the water pollution problem in the area. the scene is, to conserve our resources now for those who come after us. the same night, the fieldhouse of the university of minnesota at duluth. the president addresses the land and people conference for the northern great lakes region, relating our national responsibilities to the problem of the world community. a short flight over fertile farmland to the university of north dakota at grand forks. president kennedy receives an honorary degree, and urges

president kennedy describes gifford pinchot as a trained publicist,articulate and the governor of pennsylvaniaa man who would prefer to be remembered as a conservationist. from milford, the flight of 1000 miles and a side trip by helicopter over the island area of lake superior for a landing at ashland, wisconsin. to welcoming throng at the ashland airport, president kennedy announces the convening of the conference to study the water pollution problem in the area. the theme is you can serve our -- conserve our resources now for those who come after us. addresses the conference of the northern great lakes region, relating our national responsibilities to the problem of the world community. flight over to the university of north dakota. president kennedy receives an urgesry degree and students to participate in the burdens of citizenship. after 600 air miles and a plane change, a landing and a warm greeting. in answer to a presidential question. yes, the boy scout growth is still the same. remarks at the university of wyoming field house. billings, montana. airport is crowded for a city of only

authority in 19th century" and another one between the cycles, esshe i essays on t republican gifford pinchot. you may also have heard brian on the nationally cindy indicated radio. we have two american history guys. >> will be an honorary guy. thank you, for the introduction. this morning, i would like to discuss a period of extreme partisanship and polarization in congress. a period of us against them. a period of do or die politics. a period filled with talk of doom and destruction and even some physical violence. a period in which new technologies broadcast some of those extreme claims to a national audience with ever increasing speed. the polarization, the emotion, the extremes, in many ways i have described our current political sdiet gieft but in fact, i'm talking about the late 1850s. a period when the struggle for the soul of the union, a struggle grounded on the problem of slavery, ultimately ripped the nation in two. what i would like do this morning is briefly discuss that political crisis of the 1850s with an even briefer glance at an earlier and equally polarized crisis to explo

and the great conservationist under teddy roosevelt gifford pinchot exposed this. collier magazine publicized it and created a great controversy as to whether ballinger had acted corruptly. and president taft said, i've received a report from my attorney general george wickersham and i find that mr. ballinger has acted quite properly. well, there were congressional investigations, collier's hired brandeis to represent it because they feared libel suits. and brandeis, by me tickously putting together facts in the public record demonstrated that the wickersham 54-page memo was back dated. taft didn't have it when he cleared ballinger. taft had lied, ballinger has lied, wickersham had lied. so this makes it not surprising that taft and wickersham were these virulent opponents of brandeis when he was not named. -- nominated. also among his opponents were the powerful interests in boston who felt that brandeis, originally their lawyer, had not just beaten them, but betrayed them. come tok his defense was his protege, a young harvard law school professor who wrote in the

howard taft fired gifford his forster that stayed on because he blew the whistle that they were coal mining in that national forest in alaska, that was the roosevelt reserve. pinchot got fired because they were letting cut companies out of seattle dude no money blown up the mountains in alaska because taft thought the conservation had gone too far. after tr came back and got the last laugh, he created the bullmoose party in 1912, split the republican party into and came in second and taft finished third. the most successful third-party movement in american history was the bullmoose party. incidentally, but franklin roosevelt once he got polio a big thing was not to seem like a weakling and what he could do was build his upper body strength. he look like a big-time wrestler if you looked at his upper body because of all the late weightlifting he would do. on the high seas sport fishing, he had terrible health problems, today there might be something for him form but he had terrible sinusitis, all of the time which he would not have when he was at sea. with a little bit of sun, his polio condition and his health would go upward. he spent like one out of every four d

howard taft fired gifford his forster that stayed on because he blew the whistle that they were coal mining in that national forest in alaska, that was the roosevelt reserve. pinchot got fired because they were letting cut companies out of seattle dude no money blown up the mountains in alaska because taft thought the conservation had gone too far. after tr came back and got the last laugh, he created the bullmoose party in 1912, split the republican party into and came in second and taft finished third. the most successful third-party movement in american history was the bullmoose party. incidentally, but franklin roosevelt once he got polio a big thing was not to seem like a weakling and what he could do was build his upper body strength. he look like a big-time wrestler if you looked at his upper body because of all the late weightlifting he would do. on the high seas sport fishing, he had terrible health problems, today there might be something for him form but he had terrible sinusitis, all of the time which he would not have when he was at sea. with a little bit of sun, his polio condition and his health would go upward. he spent like one out of every four d