Today's American Minute
THE BIG SWITCH: Intimidation to Entitlement with LBJ's Great Society Welfare State - American Minute with Bill Federer
Race Politics Race Politics Jim Crow Black Codes
Democrat Senator Lyndon Johnson told Democrat Senator Richard Russell regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957: "These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference."
United Nations: Intentions vs Track Record; Whittaker Chambers vs. Alger Hiss - American Minute with Bill Federer
United Nations: Intentions vs Track Record; Whittaker Chambers vs. Alger Hiss
President Dwight Eisenhower at the National Junior Chamber of Commerce, June 10, 1963: "The United Nations has seemed to be two distinct things to the two worlds divided by the iron curtain ... To the free world it has seemed that it should be a constructive forum ... To the Communist world it has been a convenient sounding board for their propaganda, a weapon to be exploited in spreading disunity and confusion."
Pirate Captain Henry Morgan, War of Jenkin's Ear, and Ballad of the French Fleet - American Minute with Bill Federer
In 1731, a Spanish commander in the Caribbean detained an English ship. He cut off the ear of the English Captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his King. This began the War of Jenkins' Ear. British Admiral Edward Vernon recruited 400 American colonists, including Lawrence Washington, George Washington's older half-brother. They sailed to Panama and captured the port city of Porto Bello.
George Whitefield & the Great Awakening Revival - American Minute with Bill Federer
Beginning in 1740, George Whitefield preached seven times in America. He spread the Great Awakening Revival, which helped unite the Colonies prior to the Revolutionary War.
A Pope who resisted Socialism, John Paul II: Polish Resistance to Tyranny - American Minute with Bill Federer
