Symposium looking at mr. Madisons war. This is about okay. First i want to announce following our next presentation, we will take a tenminute break. Our next speaker will be speaking about mr. Madison will have to put on his armor, coburn and the capture of washington. Steve vogel is the author of through the perilous fight and the pentagon history. Hes a veteran journalist who wrote for the Washington Post until 2014. Most recently covering the treatment of veterans from the wars in afghanistan and iraq. His reporting about the war in afc was part of a package of the Washington Post stories that was selected as a finalist for the 2002 pulitzer prize. He covered the september 11th attack on the pentagon, and also covered the fall of beryl of the berlin wall. Hes actually currently working on a project on the history of berlin during the cold war, so maybe he has gone back in hi mind at least to the fall of berlin. A graduate of the college of william and mary with a degree in governmen
Because i was always unable at the time to keep any of these characters straight but, of course, the main character was Richard Nixon. And complex and impenetrable and not understandable but youve done about as good a job as anyone of trying to understand the kind of tortured mind that led us to this national crisis. And to look at nixons activities even post watergate as a way of interesting him. So tell us a little bit about nixon and what compelled him to do these things from your point of view. Some talk about when did watergate begin . Was born in this little town in yorba linda, california, where he was born. Now, i say this with some empathy. I think he was trapped in his own personality, in his own hangups. And hangup is too light. But i dont do any psychobabble. This was a man who all his life felt that everybody else was getting a break and they all had more advantages than he did and he had to show them that he was going to be he went out for football he couldnt run or throw
The war. It was what they experienced. Marshal was a virginian. He was a bit of a backwoods virginian, but he fought in a number of the battles in new jersey. But he became part of something that was a lot bigger than virginia. And he got to know people from many different states, many different backgrounds, and it changed, it changed him and he began to think of the United States as his country. Not virginia. And he became to think of the government as the government of the United States, not the government of virginia. And of course, this gets revisited in the american civil war. This is exactly whats happening. The secession begins. These states are asserting the rights that they retained when they voluntarily became a part of the federal union. The view of lincoln was thats not true. You cant leave. Youre in it, you stay in it. But its primarily over the belief of the Southern States that they were the primary unit. They had given certain things to the federal government, but they
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What you couldnt and i couldnt. Thats why the process matters. You have both sides weighing in on significant issue. Its the largest Domestic Initiative in our history. Sitting at the table working for it you think about the Civil Rights Act and how it passed, that was bipartisan. Social security and medicare, how to gratify the constitution, giving the women are the right to vote. It is because the United States congresss willingness to work on landmark initiatives and that is not happening with the Affordable Care act. It should have been a process in which everybody was engaged on both sides. I wont get into the why it didnt, but unfortunately it didnt. Ultimately, people are paying the price today. Thats why i think so many people are saying, you know what, i prefer gridlock. With so many problems of the implementation, they say. Not that there wouldnt be as your problems with an initiative of this kind, but it would be less awesome because you have more interest to make sure it wo