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GETTING TEMPERMENT TOURS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.. BOOKTV JOINED TO LEARN HOW THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT LED TO PROHIBITION IN 1920 AND MY PROHIBITION WAS REPEALED...
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THE TOUR BEGINS AT THE LITTLE-KNOWN TEMPERANCE FOUNTAIN NEAR PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. SMACKED A SITE WHERE SITTING ON RIGHT NOW IS AXLEY SEVENTH AND PENNSYLVANIA...
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SO UNDER SENATOR PATRICK DANIEL MONAHAN AND OTHER NOTABLES, THEY DEVELOPED
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THE PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. IT WAS DOWNGRADED. IT WAS PUT IN ITS PLACE. I STARTED THIS TWO AND 2006. SO AT THIS POINT TO IN A...
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TOUR. >>
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SO THIS IS IT. >> THIS IS A TEMPERANCE FOUND. THIS HAS BEEN CALLED WASHINGTON, D.C.,'S UGLIES DOWN. YOU WILL SEE ON THE TOP ARE FORWARDS, FAITH FAITH,...
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| 00:02:36 |
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PAUL'S LETTER TO THE
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CORINTHIANS. THE FOUND HERE WAS ACTUALLY PLACED HERE IN 1882 BY A CALIFORNIA DENTIST NAMED HENRY COGSWELL. HE HAD MADE HIS FORTUNE IN THE GOLD RUSH...
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MUSEUM AND NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, THERE ARE
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TWO MUSEUMS IN ONE. IT WAS RENOVATED AFTER A SIX-YEAR RENOVATION, COST MORE MONEY THAN THEY THOUGHT BUT THEY DID A SPECTACULAR JOB. THIS USED TO BE...
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I WAS BRINGING THE
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AUDIENCE HERE INTO THE MUSEUM TO SEE THIS AND IT'S USUALLY KIND OF JAW-DROPPING. PEOPLE REALLY LOVE TO SEE. THE REASON I BROUGHT YOU HERE INTO THE SMITHSONIAN...
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TEETOTALER. HE DIDN'T
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DRINK IT HE THOUGHT FOR ALL HIS LIFE WAS LABRIE, ABOLITIONISM. BUT HE HIMSELF CHOSE TO BE A TEMPERANCE MINDED PERSON MORE OUT OF A
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PERSONAL CONVICTION. TAG FOR EXAMPLE, HE TOLD
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| 00:06:19 |
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A GROUP YOUR THAT WAS ONCE CALLED THE WASHINGTONIAN SOCIETY, THEY WERE LIKE THE EARLY VERSION OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS. HE TOLD A GROUP I'M NOT A TEMPERANCE...
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| 00:08:02 |
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OF HER. WE ALL JOKE THAT LEMONADE LUCY PORTRAIT. SHE MAJOR LEMONADE WAS SERVED AT WHITE HOUSE FUNCTIONS AS OPPOSED TO BEER OR ANYTHING ELSE. >> SO YOUR...
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| 00:08:40 |
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RATIFIED. BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY PART OF A CENTURY LONG MOVEMENT TO BAN ON-CALL IN THIS COUNTRY. THAT MOVEMENT WAS CALLED THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.
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THE IDEA BEHIND THEIR
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TEMPERANCE MEANT TO MODERATE ONE STRIKING, BUT
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| 00:08:54 |
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BY THE 1820s, THE MOVEMENT DECIDED THAT PEOPLE HAVE TO ABSTAIN FOR POLITICAL ON-CALL. THIS WAS LED BY EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT CHURCHES STARTING IN THE...
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| 00:10:34 |
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WAR I WHEN THE UNITED STATES WENT TO WAR IN
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| 00:10:38 |
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GERMANY IN 1917, THE LARGEST ETHNIC GROUP IN THE COUNTRY AT THAT TIME WERE GERMANS. AND GUESS WHO ALSO WORKED THE BREWERS? THE GERMANS, RIGHT? SO YEAH,...
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| 00:11:52 |
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B.C. YOU SEE HOW BRIGHT RED IS. AND ALL OF HIS BUILDING WHERE THAT BRIGHT MID. THE
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OTHER REASON HE WAS KNOWN AS THE RED ARCHITECT WAS BECAUSE HE WAS GOOD FRIENDS WITH KARL MARX. THE GUY WHO WROTE. HE WAS HIRED IN 1866 TO BUILD HIS...
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| 00:12:48 |
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OHIO. HE RECRUITED A COLLEGE SENIOR NAMED WAYNE WHEELER. WHEELER BECAME THE ASL COUNSEL, AND HE WAS, I CALL HIM THE KARL ROVE OF HIS DAY. HE IS THE GUY...
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| 00:14:15 |
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IN 1917, BEFORE EVEN HAVE GOTTEN TO WORLD WAR I. THE CITY WAS ESSENTIALLY DRY. LEGALLY IT WAS DRY. SO THE IDEA OF, WE CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION TO BAN...
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| 00:15:23 |
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GOT OUR FOOD LAWS BUT WE GOT INCOME TAX -- WELL, THAT'S A GOOD THING OR NOT, WE HAVE TO DECIDE ON HER OWN. BUT WE ALSO HAD PROHIBITION. THAT BACKFIRED...
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| 00:17:58 |
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BAPTIST CHURCH, WHAT'S NEXT? >> WE JUMP ON THE SUBWAY AND WILLIE GO SEE THE WOODROW WILSON HOUSE THAT HE WAS THE PRESIDENT WENT PROHIBITION WENT INTO
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| 00:18:07 |
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EFFECT IN
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1920. >> WE RODE THE SUBWAY ACROSS THE CITY TO DUPONT CIRCLE AND NOW WE'RE HERE AT THE WOODROW
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WILSON HOUSE. AND WHY DO YOU BRING HER TO HEAR? >> WOODROW WILSON WAS
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| 00:18:22 |
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THE PRESIDENT WHEN PROHIBITION WENT INTO EFFECT IN 1920. HE WAS ALSO, BY THE WAY, HE LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE IN 92 AND ONE, HE'S THE ONLY PRESIDENT
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WHO ACTUALLY RETIRED TO WASHINGTON, D.C.. EVERY OTHER PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY LEFT THE CITY. THAT MAKES HIM UNIQUE IN THIS COUNTRY. HIS WIFE...
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| 00:18:42 |
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BOUGHT THIS HOUSE FOR HIM. HIS WIFE, HIS SECOND WIFE I SHOULD SAY, SHE WAS MARRIED, SHE WAS A WIDOW, FORMERLY MARRIED TO A OR. AND SHE HAD SOME MONEY....
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| 00:22:30 |
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AND YOU CAN SEE SOME BOTTLES THERE FROM 1928 WHEN PROHIBITION WAS STILL THE LAW OF THE LAND. SO AGAIN, THAT'S WHY WE BRING HERE THE TOUR HERE, THE TEMPERANCE...
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CONSTITUTION. I'M STILL KIND OF FLABBERGASTED BY THAT FACT, THAT IN
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AMERICAN HISTORY, WE CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE TO DEAL WITH A CALL. ONE TIME TO BAN IT AND WANTED TO MAKE IT LEGAL AGAIN. SO ALL...
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| 00:31:32 |
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REPEAL. . . >> I STARTED THE PROHIBITION HANDOVER IN 2003 WHEN I TOOK A BOTTLE OF WINE TO MY GRANDMOTHER'S PLACE. I CAME FROM A METHODIST FAMILY...
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| 00:32:48 |
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RESPONSE. THERE WERE THREE OF A SET THE TABLE. MY GRANDFATHER, MY MOTHER AND MYSELF. THE LIGHT BULB WENT ON. WHAT HAPPENED HERE? I DRINK, MY MOM...
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| 00:36:11 |
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WHAT IS UP WITH THAT? YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT AS AN ADULT AT 18 BUT THIS ONE RIGHT IS STILL NOT GIVEN TO YOU UNTIL YOU ARE 21. WHY IS THAT? THE LAST CHAPTER...
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| 00:37:31 |
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ARE A NUMBER OF STATES THAT WANT TO SHIP THE DRINKING AGE BACK TO 18. THERE IS A MOVEMENT UNDERFOOT BY A
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GROUP OF COLLEGE PRESIDENTS. 135 COLLEGE PRESIDENTS SIGNED THE AMETHYST INITIATIVE CALLING FOR A NATIONWIDE DEBATE ABOUT THE DRINKING AGE, RECOGNIZING...
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GRAPES SO THEY COULD CHALLENGE THE FRENCH MONOPOLY ON BORDEAUX. THE FIRST PLACE
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THEY LANDED WAS PROVINCETOWN IN CAPE COD AND THEY DUG A WELL TO GROW BEER. THESE WERE PURITANS. PEOPLE FREQUENTLY BLAMED THE PURITANS FOR PROHIBITION...
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TODAY OUR BEVERAGES WITH A HERITAGE WHICH IS NOT EQUAL YET AS MODERN AS TODAY. IN TODAY'S BREWERY LABORATORIES KNOWLEDGE PASSED THROUGH THE CENTURIES...
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PROHIBITIONHANGOVER.COM. >> THERE WAS A CHANGE IN MY LIFE. GIVEN THE TITLE OF MY BOOK, I
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NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.