Registrars Prepare For Large Voter Turnout; Presidential Election Analysis; KPCC Listener Focus Group; Status Of Forces Agreement; A New Look At The Fall Of The Shah Of Iran; The Art And Craft Of Greene & Greene
Registrars Prepare For Large Voter Turnout
Larry talks with Dean Logan, L.A. County Registrar Recorder, Neal Kelly, Orange County Registrar Recorder, Kari Verjil, San Bernardino County Registrar Recorder, and Barbara Dunmore, Riverside County Registrar Recorder about how Counties throughout Southern California are preparing for large voter turnout.
Presidential Election Analysis
Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama yesterday. His endorsement came just hours after Obama's campaign disclosed that it raised $150 million in September - obliterating the old record of $66 million it had set only one month earlier. Also this weekend Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin poked fun at herself as a guest host on "Saturday Night Live." Larry Mantle talks with Pomona College professor of politics David Menefee-Libey about how the latest news in the presidential election may influence its outcome.
KPCC Listener Focus Group
Larry talks with KPCC listeners Susan Judd, Bob Raphael, Stephen Salazar, and Rose Ramirez about the Presidential election.
Status Of Forces Agreement
Larry talks with L.A. Times reporter Ned Parker in Baghdad about the "status of forces" agreement that is being negotiated between the U.S and Iraq which calls for all US troops to be out of Iraq by 2011.
A New Look At The Fall Of The Shah Of Iran
In a new report based on previously classified documents, scholar Andrew Scott Cooper suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations undermined the position of the Shah of Iran in the late 1970s and contributed to the country's Islamic Revolution. The report, published Friday in the fall issue of Middle East Journal, examines the role of White House policymakers who, trying to roll back oil prices and curb the Shah's ambitions weakened his position, thus precipitating the takeover of Iran by Islamic radicals. Andrew Scott Cooper joins Larry to discuss his research.
The Art And Craft Of Greene & Greene
On October 18, The Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in partnership with the Gamble House and USC, opened the most comprehensive exhibition ever undertaken on the work of Arts and Crafts movement legends Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene. Larry talks with the co-curators of the exhibition which chronicles the Greenes' lives and careers over a 90-year period and features some 140 objects from 25 of their commissions, including significant examples from the best-known period of their work between 1906 and 1911. Larry talks with Ted Bosley, Director of the Gamble House, and Anne Mallek, Curator at the Gamble House.