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- Robert D. Vassen, retired Associate Director of the English Language Center at Michigan State University is interviewed by John Metzler, African Studies Center Outreach Coordinator and Peter Limb, Michigan State University Librarian and Africana Bibliographer. Vassen discusses growing up in South Africa during the late 1940's and 1950's as an Indian and living in the Indian community of Fordsburg, near Johannesburg. Vassen says he was active in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and in 1962, joined the illegal military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Forced into exile in London in 1964, Vassen says he continued to be an active member of the ANC and edited "Letters From Robben Island: a selection of Ahmed Kathrada's prison correspondence, 1964-1989."
- Date Issued:
- 2005-01-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama delivers the keynote address at the the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 46th Annual Legislative Conference Dinner. In his seventh and final appearance as president, Obama talks about ending his term and the accomplishments of his administration. He also discusses the importance of the coming election and tells the audience that he will consider it a "personal insult" if the African-American community fails to turn out and vote in the presidential election.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In the second of two interviews Dale Brickner, professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations and associate director of the Labor Education Program at Michigan State University, talks about being active in Bloomington, Indiana politics while he taught economics and labor relations at Indiana University. Brickner also talks about running the first firefighters union institute, the summer institutes at I.U. run for a variety of unions, local and Indiana political issues involving unions, civil rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and right to work laws. Brickner is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-07-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bill Clinton previews his last State of the Union address giving the credit for economic improvement to the American people and Congress. Clinton talks about his administration's place in history, Middle-East peace, poverty reduction, health insurance, and opportunities for college education. He reacts to George Bush's comments about reversing Clinton Era policies. Clinton acknowledges his personal failures but criticizes the "Whitewater" investigation as bogus and expensive and says it was all about power. He says he doesn't know if the outcome would have been different if he had been truthful about the Lewinsky affair. Clinton believe Hillary will be successful in her bid for the Senate. On "News Hour."
- Date Issued:
- 2000-01-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In the second of two interviews Dale Brickner, professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations and associate director of the Labor Education Program at Michigan State University, talks about being active in Bloomington, Indiana politics while he taught economics and labor relations at Indiana University. Brickner also talks about running the first firefighters union institute, the summer institutes at I.U. run for a variety of unions, local and Indiana political issues involving unions, civil rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and right to work laws. Brickner is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-07-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama delivers the keynote address at the the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 46th Annual Legislative Conference Dinner. In his seventh and final appearance as president, Obama talks about ending his term and the accomplishments of his administration. He also discusses the importance of the coming election and tells the audience that he will consider it a "personal insult" if the African-American community fails to turn out and vote in the presidential election.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bill Clinton previews his last State of the Union address giving the credit for economic improvement to the American people and Congress. Clinton talks about his administration's place in history, Middle-East peace, poverty reduction, health insurance, and opportunities for college education. He reacts to George Bush's comments about reversing Clinton Era policies. Clinton acknowledges his personal failures but criticizes the "Whitewater" investigation as bogus and expensive and says it was all about power. He says he doesn't know if the outcome would have been different if he had been truthful about the Lewinsky affair. Clinton believe Hillary will be successful in her bid for the Senate. On "News Hour."
- Date Issued:
- 2000-01-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Robert D. Vassen, retired Associate Director of the English Language Center at Michigan State University is interviewed by John Metzler, African Studies Center Outreach Coordinator and Peter Limb, Michigan State University Librarian and Africana Bibliographer. Vassen discusses growing up in South Africa during the late 1940's and 1950's as an Indian and living in the Indian community of Fordsburg, near Johannesburg. Vassen says he was active in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and in 1962, joined the illegal military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Forced into exile in London in 1964, Vassen says he continued to be an active member of the ANC and edited "Letters From Robben Island: a selection of Ahmed Kathrada's prison correspondence, 1964-1989."
- Date Issued:
- 2005-01-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection