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RAY KARABELL SHOWS HOW HE TRANSPORMD PATRIOTISM IN PROFESSIONAL CIVIL CITY. THE KANSAS CITY LIBRARY HOSTED THIS HOUR-LONG EVENT. >> THANK YOU, HENRY,...
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300 PEOPLE HERE, I WAS UNAWARE THERE WERE 300 LIVING AMERICANS WHO ACTUALLY KNEW WHO CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR WAS. [ LAUGHTER ] I USED TO SAY BECAUSE I...
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OTHERWISE C-SPAN WILL NOT HEAR IT. I KNOW IT'S -- >> AND WE'LL TAKE IT FROM THERE. >> YOU SAY ARTHUR WAS
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DESPONDENT DURING GARFIELD'S ILLNESS AND SUBSEQUENT DEATH BUT HE WAS THE VICE PRESIDENT. WHAT DID HE DO TO CONTROL THE GOVERNMENT WHILE THE PRESIDENT
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OBVIOUSLY COULDN'T? >> YEAH, I MEAN IT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION. THERE WAS KIND OF A LIMBO FACTOR IN THAT PERIOD OF MONTHS BECAUSE THERE HAD NEVER BEEN...
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OF TIME WHERE THERE WAS A PRESIDENT WHO WAS NOT DECEASED BUT NOT CAPABLE OF EXERCISING THE REIGNNS OF OFFICE AND THERE WAS A LIMBO IN THE LAND IN TERMS...
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IT'S
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A SHORT BOOK. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS IN THIS ERA, BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT NEWSPAPERS AND SO MANY DIFFERENT REPORTERS AND ARTHUR WAS IN ARTHUR...
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AND IMMIGRATION? >> PRETTY MUCH NO POLICY ON WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE, BECAUSE UNTIL REALLY THE TURN OF THE 20th CENTURY, THAT WAS SUCH A
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FRINGE MOVEMENT STRUGGLING TO BE HEARD, THEN IT BECAME A CENTRAL MOVEMENT THAT MANAGED TO BE HEARD REALLY AFTER. YOU KNOW, IMMIGRATION, AGAIN, HE WAS,...
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OF THE PRESIDENCY? HE DID STAND FOR A SECOND TERM, ALTHOUGH IT'S UNCLEAR IF HE
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DID SO, BECAUSE IT'S UNCLEAR IF HE WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT OR HIS PRIDE DICTATED HE WANTED PEOPLE TO WANT HIM TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT. I MEAN, THIS...
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WIFE DIES RIGHT BEFORE THE CONVENTION OF 1880,
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AND AGAIN, DIFFICULT TO PIECE TOGETHER, BUT FROM ALL ACCOUNTS, HE WAS ABSOLUTELY DEVOTED TO HER, SHE TO HIM. SHE WAS NOT CONTENT WITH THE MASSIVE AMOUNT...
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DID CONKLIN EVER GO AGAINST HIM, DID HE EVER -- WAS HE VINDICTIVE TO ARTHUR? >> NO, I MEAN, IT SEEMS THAT ARTHUR DID OFFER CONKLIN A SUPREME COURT...
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THE SUPREME COURT. CONKLIN SEEMS TO HAVE PREFERRED TO REMAIN IN PRIVATE PRACTICE. AT THIS POINT, HE HAD A GAMBIT WHERE HE RESIGNS IN ANGER IN THE EXPECTATION...
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