Heather Cox Richardson
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7,649 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, I don't know anything about the times in which De Tocqueville visited America, she said, but I do know that at the time I came into the field of social work, these feelings were real.
With the Social Security Act, Perkins helped to write into our laws a longstanding political impulse in America that stood in dramatic contrast to the nineteen twenties philosophy of rugged individualism.
She recognized that the ideas of community values and pooling resources to keep the economic playing field level and take care of everyone are at least as deeply seated in our political philosophy as the idea of every man for himself and
In a nineteen sixty two speech recalling the origins of the Social Security Act, Perkins reflected that
Of course the Act had to be amended, and has been amended, and amended, and amended, and amended, until it has now grown into a large and important project, for which, by the way, I think the people of the United States are deeply thankful for
One thing I know, Social Security is so firmly embedded in the American psychology today that no politician, no political party, no political group could possibly destroy this act and still maintain our democratic system.
It is safe, yes.
It is safe forever and
and for the everlasting benefit of the people of the United States.
August thirteenth, twenty twenty six.
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Today Trump's hand picked Kennedy Center board voted to put Trump's name back on the Kennedy Center, this time in letters saying the building was restored and renovated by President Donald J.
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Trump.
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Trump is the chair of the Kennedy Center Board.
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His loyalists elected him to that position.
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Administration loyalists are not only cashing in as Trump's power wanes, they are also grabbing ideological ground.
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Although a UGOV poll released two days ago shows that only forty percent of Americans approve of Trump's handling of immigration, the administration has ramped up its attacks on immigrants.
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Hamed Ali Aziz and Miriam Jordan reported in the New York Times at the end of July that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has teamed up with the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, to enable ICE officers to arrest individuals with expired visas, many of whom are waiting for visa extensions or green cards and have valid work permits.
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In the past, those people were usually detained only if they had committed crimes.
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But the Trump administration considers all those who have overstayed a visa to be criminals.
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The Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, hopes to arrest two thousand immigrants a day, sweeping in foreigners newly married to Americans, an engineer waiting for an extension of his work visa, and so on.
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