Panel and we are each going to say a few words about are quite different roles. Well nathan and i have the same rule. He is trying to steal the 20th century for me and doing a good job. Well have a different roles and back stories. We will talk about that a little bit. Then were going to open it up to questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes of back story. In fact, rarely are we in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like. I talked to him every week even though. Introducing myself. I am a professor at the university of virginia. I cohost back story and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost Nathan Connolly is known to most of you as an outstanding scholar. He is the herbert back stir adams chair Herbert Baxter adams at the john hops guns university. The remaking of jim crows south florida. He is also hard at work on a book that is really a deep transnational
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Thank you for braving the elements and joining us this evening. I am the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. As our members and regular attendees know [laughter] that is wonderful, i have not done anything yet. We provide workshops, run National History day, convene academic seminars and mount exhibitions. More than anything, what we do is hold an amazing collection of almost 14 million items, and we provide to historians and researchers for free. In our holdings we have the equivalent of 2. 5 president ial libraries. We have the papers of john adams, John Quincy Adams, and personal papers of Thomas Jefferson. That is important to mention because we have a special program with a special connection. We will hear about the publication the president s, in which noted historians rank the president s in a variety of categories. Persuasion of the public, leadership, moral authority and more. If theres anything we like to talk about more than president s, it is historians talki
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Ok recent polling shows show most americans disapproving of president trumps handling of the virus what do you think. Yeah its a mixed record its kind of surprising because d leaders tend to go up with a time of crisis because theyre given an opportunity to really do what the people. Need them to do because no one else can do it so i mean its a long story larry but i would say that the Trump Administration was a bit slow at the outskirt but it wasnt all their fault because honestly they were not left with a lot in place for the preceding ministrations i can tell you by coincidence that in 2014 tom ridge the former secretary of Homeland Security and i were asked to cochair a commission a Bipartisan Commission on bio of the fence and a big focus of it was are we d ready for an Infectious Disease pandemic we put out a report yeah 2015 and we said that the country is not prepare made a series of recommendations a number of them are actually put in the statute by congress and the president