Trailer: Hope, Through History

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Audacy | Cement City Productions

Documentary, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Welcome to Hope, Through History with Jon Meacham. This limited series explores some of the most historic and trying times in American History, and how this nation dealt with these moments, the impact of these moments and how we came through these moments a unified nation. Season One takes a look at critical moments around the 1918 Flu Pandemic, the Great Depression, World War II, the polio epidemic and the Cuban Missile Crisis. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a day of national consecration and I am certain that on this day my fellow America
0:09.3	expects I will address them with a scandal and a decision with the present situation of
0:18.2	our people in peril.
0:19.8	So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to say is
0:29.5	be a self.
0:39.1	Today, tomorrow, and for an indefinite number of days to follow, the world faces a terrifying
0:47.9	crisis.
0:49.9	It's natural to feel as if nothing like this has ever happened.
0:54.5	But for many of us, that's probably true.
0:59.3	But our country has been through hard times before.
1:03.9	The influenza of 1918, the Great Depression, the Second World War, polio, and the Cuban
1:14.1	Missile Crisis.
1:16.9	And in each case, our national character has been tested.
1:21.6	But no one doubt that this is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set
1:26.9	out.
1:28.4	Many months of sacrifice and self-discipline lie ahead.
1:33.0	Months in which both our patients and our will will be tested.
1:37.9	But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.
1:42.4	I'm John Meacham and this is Hope Through History.
1:50.9	Together we'll talk through five moments in time when America's leaders and citizens
1:55.8	were forced to confront crises of historic magnitude, where we banded together and made
2:02.8	it out the other side.
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