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at the game the morning after adding up the kisses and the laughter knowing how you would play it if the chance to play it over
But then a Monday morning quarterback never lost again.
easier to win it when you know you never play it quite the same but then this Monday morning quarterback never lost again
Good morning everybody, the music of the stars on there.
And
it's...
No, we've got a program to do
Frank.
Well,
we have our own
plans, it's...
to a warmer place.
Warmer's gonna be 95
degrees.
Off we go now to the Independence Day Week, and a lot of cool stuff.
Americana is our theme.
The music of the stars.
Not a football fan, but
Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers cemented their status as America's dominant football team back 50 years ago.
Made that small town Wisconsin franchise into a national phenomenon.
I remember
that.
It's an enduring symbol of...
Midwestern Americana.
Here's an Oscar winner for you.
Happy holiday,
everybody.
A certain word, democracy.
What is America to me?
The house I live in.
A plot of earth.
A street.
The grocer.
The big thing.
the city
Tony Bennett sings the God Bless America, written for the Boy Scouts of America by Irving Berlin, and he never took a dime for that.
All kinds of music for you on the music of the stars on this Independence Day holiday, but there's more, more than just Francis Selbert.
Well, I've got, I've got songs here you never heard.
I've got songs here you never heard.
Please rise and remove your caps.
Performing God Bless America for us tonight.
Please welcome 15-time Grammy Award winner, Tony
Bennett.
on the B19, she's never quit.
video.
Everybody.
Everybody's birthday today, right?
Right.
199 years old and... Are you in the fireworks
display later tonight?
I just want you to think of me as your own personal Roman candle.
All
righty.
Good evening.
I'm Johnny Carson.
I'm going to bring you a safe and sane forth tonight, because a monologue is a dud.
The reason I'm here tonight, actually, I wasn't going to be here, but my favorite campsite was filled up.
Have you been out on the roads at all?
You can't move, I understand.
Out at the beaches.
Did you go any place today?
No, this is it for me.
I mean, I'm celebrating right here.
Ah.
As I often do.
Tom, how about you?
How about what?
It's those toughies that throw it.
Tommy, he loves fireworks.
Well, Tommy does every Fourth of July heat.
He lights a crayola and yells, bang.
Incidentally, you know, fire department regulations, we thought we should have something to celebrate the fourth tonight.
But fire department regulations say we cannot have on stage a display of live fireworks.
But don't despair.
We have a skyrocket under each of your seats.
We'll be fired off sometime during the show tonight.
So this is a nice day today.
Beautiful weather out here in California.
And this is the kind of year.
time of year that Americans kind of set aside their differences and join in a calm celebration.
Even in New York City, where they're celebrating the Bison 10L, the sanitation workers have agreed to pick up the garbage every 200 years.
How did you do anything to celebrate the 4th of July today?
You go out in a picnic or go to the beach or anything
like that,
Tom?
No, but I'll weigh
that.
He's rolling tonight.
Everybody has their own way of celebrating the 4th of July.
For instance, the oil companies are going to celebrate by sending the price of gas skyrocketing.
Next year actually is the bicentennial, 1976.
You think back 1776, with great men of wisdom we had then, Jefferson, Washington.
Franklin, and today... Oh, Vice Boyle celebration.
So I can't get those famous words.
What?
I didn't know your brother was getting my shit.
Mike follows me everything.
Now, but remember the famous saying, these are the times that try men's souls.
Remember that?
It's easy to remember.
It was said last week by Mayor Beame in New York.
You know, we still have minute men though today who spring into action every time somebody wants to pass a gun law.
It was just a little social comment and I should have left that out.
Did you know?
Don't try to do, you know, social comment humor.
Did you know one of my ancestors?
Was John Quincy Carson?
Really?
Yes.
Now, the reason you don't see his name on the Declaration of Independence, because that particular day he had a guest founding father sign in for him.
That's why you don't see it there.
Burbank had its annual fireworks display today.
It's, uh, it wasn't a biggie.
What happens in a Burbank at nine o'clock?
The mayor stands on a chair and turns on his key ring flashlight.
Really, the spirit of 76 has affected everybody.
Even Vice President Rockefeller, he celebrated Independence Day.
He freed Venezuela today.
That's what he did.
A lot of different people celebrate the holiday differently.
One well-known show business couple has come an unusual way.
Johnny Mann's wife, in honor of the 4th of July, hangs her husband out the window.
This is pretty safe and sane, all right.
It is, isn't it?
They sell skyrocket in a moment.
Did you read this in the paper?
Where are you going?
Stay here.
Did you see this in the paper?
They had a flood.
Where do you think they had a flood?
Las Vegas.
They don't know it's the 4th of July, but they know that they had a flight.
They had a flight flood up in Las Vegas and a hundred cars were washed away.
They had two and a half inches of rain in something like two or three hours, which is incredible up there.
But Las Vegas never stops.
They had rowboat junkies.
To the gambling... One little old lady, it was desperate.
They could not get her away from the nickel slop machine.
She just stood there during the flood, bailing things out with her Dixie cup.
Anyway, good night.
Send up a flare that ignites an eye There the can is boom sky rocket zoom and missiles fly
Fourth of July, a crazy flag off on the jackals.
You came by.
Don't do a thing, just stand there.
Watch the explosive stop.
to me and I think it is to you.
I'd like to take just a minute or two to tell you why it's a personal song to me and should be to you.
It's a song about this great, big, wonderful, imperfect country.
We live in it.
I say imperfect because if it were perfect, it wouldn't be any fun trying to fix it, trying to make it work better, trying to make sure that everybody gets a fair shake and then some.
My country is personal to me because my father, who wasn't born here, rest his soul.
He made sure that I was born here.
And he used to tell me when I was a kid that America was a land of dreams and a dream land.
Well, I don't know if our country fulfilled all of his dreams while he was alive, but tonight with all of us together for this hour, it sure fulfills my dreams.
In the country, and all of you watching tonight, here's a song about a place we call home.
Probably the greatest nation ever to be put on
reserve.
A certain word, democracy.
What is...
And the people that I meet.
The children in the playground.
The faces.
Well, we lost our feet, I apologize.
Can't
understand
that.
And more like a prayer.
One channel
gone
out.
We sing as we land through the air.
Look below, there's a field over there.
With our full crew aboard and our trust in the Lord, we're coming in.
She can
be found everywhere, from posters to t-shirts to coffee mugs, clad in blue overalls, hair wrapped in red and white bandana, glaring determinedly as she rolls up her sleeve, flexes her bicep and declares.
We can do it.
Since her introduction during the Second World War, the figure of Rosie the Riveter has become a feminist icon, a potent symbol not only of the thousands of women who flooded intermunitions factories and other non-traditional jobs in support of the war effort, but of the limitless capabilities of all women.
But how did this 80-year-old propaganda character become the iconic figure we know and love today?
Was Rosie the Riveter ever an actual person, or just the product of some artist's imagination?
No more real than the scowling, finger-pointing figure.
of Uncle Sam.
Well, as with everything, the answer is complicated, but also fascinating.
The entry of the United States into World War II in December 1941 saw the induction of over 3 million men into the US armed forces, severely depleting the ranks of industrial workers needed to produce tanks, ships, aircraft and other war material.
To make up for this shortfall, the United States government turned, as it had during the First World War, to a huge, largely untapped pool of labor.
women.
The impact of this policy on the American economy was staggering.
In 1940, women made up 13% of the labor force.
By 1945, this figure had risen to nearly 37%.
The combination of military mobilization and the entry of some 2 million women into the economy also accomplished what nearly a decade of depression era New Deal social programs could not.
Dropping unemployment from 6% to nearly zero.
However, contrary to our popular image of the war, most working women were not employed in factory production.
Rather, the vast majority worked in clerical or secretarial roles, the war granting them new opportunities to advance to better-paid positions.
Some 100,000 also served with the American Red Cross as nurses, while 350,000 joined the American Women's Volunteer Services, a vast organization that provided dozens of services, including motor transport, canteens and childcare for industrial workers, legal advice, telephone, switchboard operators,
and the selling of war bonds and stamps.
But more than 300,000 women
did take up more production jobs recently vacated by men serving overseas.
For instance, 50,000 served in the Women's Land Army as agricultural laborers, 100,000 in military auxiliary divisions like the Women's Army Corps, or WACs, and the Navy Women's Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVs, while nearly 1,000 female pilots formed the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots, or WASPs, who trained combat pilots, test flew newly manufactured aircraft, and ferried them from factories to overseas military bases.
of the most famous wartime female workers were the 85,000 members of the Women Ordnance Department, or WAUS, who were engaged in the production of aircraft, tanks, rifles, artillery shells, and other weapons.
Initially, however, many women were reluctant to leave domestic life and join the workforce, so government propaganda departments set about finding suitable role models to drive recruitment.
And one of the first such mascots and the template for Rosie the Riveter was not an American, but a Canadian.
Like the rest of the British Commonwealth, Canada had been at war since September 1939, and thus got an ahead start in war production and the mass employment of women.
One of the largest armament manufacturers in the country was John Inglis & Company, which was contracted by the Canadian government to manufacture some 40,000 Bren-like machine guns.
Those are the Who's
Your Hot Shots.
This is a great country, a great country.
So let's shout it clear and loud.
Shout it loud.
Take a look in your history book, and you'll see why we should be proud.
Be proud, that's all.
That's all.
To America, the home of the free and the brave.
If this is flag.
Any disc recording session for the men overseas, here's a final waxing by Charlie Barnett and his boys.
It's called Keep the Home Fires Burning.
And from what I know about the Barnett brand of swing, there's not a chance of those home fires even beginning to flicker.
When I lay me down to sleep And pray the Lord my soul to keep If I should die before I wait drift off Into this beautiful recurring dream Pray the Lord my soul to take Something I've come to look forward to With a sense of wonder and delight This dream I keep dreaming each and every night I don't know what it means Maybe you can tell me Or if it means anything
But it's different from normal.
Like no other dream I've ever had.
Maybe you can tell.
What happens is this soft pulsating music comes creeping over the lavender edges that rim the distance.
There it is.
A distance that seems to stretch out forever.
And they're far off.
Somewhere.
The shape of something begins imperceptibly to take forward.
Who is it?
The question has become part of the ritual.
Almost as if the dream scape itself is asking.
Then a wind whispering in the choir.
Curls itself around the stranger who's now becoming...
Everyone I've ever known, you know me.
You know who I mean?
What's his name?
I was on the tip of your tongue.
Anyway, it's someone mysterious who looks so familiar it hurts.
You get the feeling you've known whoever it is for as long.
For as long as who can remember.
There he is.
Moving closer to where you are in the crowd that is suddenly gathered.
made itself comfortable in the vast camaraderie, shoulder to shoulder.
Hey, what's happening?
Knows to the grindstone as he, whoever he is, comes closer and closer through the lavender glow that's beginning to brighten.
Looks great in slow motion, so graceful.
Then he climbs up on an improvised stage.
I have no idea how it got there.
Now he's within the earshot of all of us.
What's he going to say?
What's he gonna say?
to the home folk in Vegas and for my lady and for little Sam and big mama.
I dreamed a dream in times gone by when hope was high and life worth living.
Would be forgiving But I was young and unafraid And dreams were made and used and wasted There was no ransom to be paid
But the tigers come at night With their voices soft as thunder As they tear
As they turn
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