Letter From America By Alistair Cooke: The Clinton Years (1997-2000)
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Sinopsis
Alistair Cooke on Bill Clintons second term including Monica Lewinsky scandal, the attempt to impeach him, the al-Qaeda attack on US embassies in east Africa and war in Kosovo.
Episodios
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Dot Dot Dash Dash, Over and Out
05/02/1999 Duración: 14minTo commemorate the last wireless telegraph, Alistair Cooke reflects on the creation of Morse code and its most famous uses.
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The Moral Pillar and the Moral Contortionist
29/01/1999 Duración: 13minAlistair Cooke reflects on the ethical dilemmas that arise when the Pope visits the United States of America.
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Striving for a More Perfect Union
22/01/1999 Duración: 14minAlistair Cooke reflects on Clinton's State of the Union address and asks why the only national holiday named after a human being is Rev. Martin Luther King Day.
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The US Senate trial of Bill Clinton, 1999
15/01/1999 Duración: 13minAlistair Cooke reports on the US Senate trial of President Bill Clinton, and reflects on some of the most interesting trials that he covered as a reporter.
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Illuminating Events with Unpredictable Results
08/01/1999 Duración: 14minIn the light of the impeachment trial of President Clinton, Alistair Cooke remembers the only other presidential impeachment that occurred 130 years ago.
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America, 1998
01/01/1999 Duración: 13minAlistair Cooke reflects on some of the more memorable moments of 1998.
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Decline in US personal savings
25/12/1998 Duración: 14minAmerican personal saving rates drop below zero and Alistair Cooke considers the economists who see this as good news, those who see it as bad and a culture that encourages credit.
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Operation Desert Fox begins
18/12/1998 Duración: 13minThe Operation Desert Fox bombing campaign begins in Iraq after the UN is refused access to weapons sites and Congress ponders whether Clinton should face an impeachment trial.
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Clinton impeachment hearing
11/12/1998 Duración: 14minThe House Judiciary Committee meets to decide on adoption of impeachment proceedings against Clinton Alistair Cooke considers this tortuous process and its likely outcome.
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Thanksgiving 1998
04/12/1998 Duración: 13minFrom New York to Sarajevo, Alistair Cooke considers the history and traditions of Thanksgiving celebrations, recent opposition and Churchill's first meeting with a turkey dinner.
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Saddam's nuclear arsenal
27/11/1998 Duración: 14minHow can America deal with Saddam Hussein's suspected nuclear and biological weapons in Iraq and does a resurgence in US financial markets conceal an unstable future?
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Some memorable letters from America
20/11/1998 Duración: 14minAaron Burgett's Alcatraz escape, a stolen premature baby and the decline of the summer bachelor; Alistair Cooke recalls his most popular and memorable talks of the last 52 years.
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Hurricane Mitch devastates Honduras and Nicaragua
13/11/1998 Duración: 12minThe aid effort begins after hurricane Mitch wreaks devastation in Honduras and Nicaragua and Alistair Cooke considers how relatively trivial news can distract from great disasters.
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Democrat victory 1998 midterms
06/11/1998 Duración: 13minClinton's Democrats gain seats in the 1998 midterm election, a first for a US ruling party since Roosevelt and 1934, California goes Democrat and Clinton regains his confidence.
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Congressional midterms 1998
30/10/1998 Duración: 14minThe Republican use of the Lewinsky scandal against Clinton during Congressional elections seems to backfire. Considering the parallel of Grover Cleveland's illegitimate child.
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John Glenn returns to Space
23/10/1998 Duración: 13minAs John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth prepares to return to space at the age of 77, Cooke remembers the extraordinary TV broadcast and Glenn's instant fame.
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Separated by Language
16/10/1998 Duración: 13minRemembering New York writer Jerome Weidman, Pulitzer prize winner and America's first 'street-smart novelist', Alistair Cooke considers the peculiarities of American English.
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Presidential infidelities impeachment
09/10/1998 Duración: 13minMisconceptions over the frequency of Presidential infidelities, recalling a time when the press never discussed a statesman's private life, and the impeachment process explained.
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The President's economic problems
02/10/1998 Duración: 13minThe Asian economic crisis expands into Brazil and Alistair Cooke considers that though there's little a President can do about economic problems, they will always get the blame.
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George Gershwin (1898-1937)
25/09/1998 Duración: 14minComposer George Gershwin's life and music is remembered for the centenary of his birth and a consideration of the history and post-Soviet boom in Russian immigration to New York.