After the program to sign an answer your questions. Hand answer your questions. Reenactor world war i and new york city tourguide, so you have seen him around a lot. He is from the world war i Centennial Commission for new york city. Please welcome Kevin Fitzpatrick. [applause] Kevin Fitzpatrick thanks, kathleen. I do so much thank you so much. The new yorknk Historical Society for inviting me and to congratulate you on a fantastic world war i e. On the trenches exhibition, beyond the trenches exhibition. Seven books are tied into new york history, this was the first one that challenge me to explore all five boroughs to great depths. From brooklynes to queens, i went to visit every world war i monument as i could. I have been in many neighborhoods. How many people here have been to the one in williamsville . Travis, Staten Island in the house. Brownsville, never visited, but so to see Triangle Park and the jewish names on that memorial was powerful. The book is in two parts. Part one i
It exceeded our expectations certainly. So thank you to everyone for all the terrific presentations. Thanks very much. [applause] and this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile an edit new volume in our women f. Cody series of the American West with the university of oklahoma press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to submit their work for consideration for this volume. Then all of the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. [laughter] stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights keynote speaker. Paul Andrew Hutton is an american historian. He is an awardswinning author, writer and television permanent. He serves as a distinguished professor of history at the university of new mexico. As we all know, he is published quite widely in both scholarly academic venues and popular magazines. He has reach add very large audience through that kind of work. His work has been recognize
On july 7, 1981, i was driving in my car where i was a relatively recent partner at my law firm. Our lawyers and our spouses had returned from a firm outing to prescott, arizona, which has the oldest rodeo on the fourth of july. Of course aware of the rumors that then judge oconnor was being considered for the Supreme Court, we asked her some questions. As you would expect, she was dismissive of the rumors and quickly turned in a conversation to another topic. As i drove that morning, i turned on the news. Just in time to hear president reagan say, she is truly a person for all seasons. I had missed the first part of his remarks and i had not heard him say who she was. During the rest of his remarks, he did not repeat the name. Only when i of course was pounding my Steering Wheel asking, who is it . Only when a reporter began speaking, i knew she was Sandra Day Oconnor. I reacted the way many women lawyers reacted, with great emotion. We hoped the world for women and law had changed th
Expect the total price tag to be . Guest last night the White House Office of management and budget sent out a letter, and what they are asking for is 7. 85 billion immediately. Most of that is for fema to replenish the Disaster Relief fund. Some good reporting from my colleagues, fema is burning through their disaster might have a stunning rate. Money added stunning disaster money at a stunning rate. The white house is expecting a longer resolution on spending. They also want to . 7 billion in cr. Their official and unofficial ask in the neighborhood of 14. 5 billion coming in the next week or so. These things are always tricky. I think the initial 7. 8, i think the white house will get that. We have not heard much so far. The key thing to look for is to go back and look at the Hurricane Sandy relief bill that became really political. It took a long time to get through. Conservativesse will want this emergency spending to be as clean, meaning nothing in the bill that they think is not
The heritage. Org as well as cspan networks. For those inhouse, we would ask that courtesy to know that mobile devices have been turned off. For those watching online, you are welcome to ask questions or comments anytime by simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Leading our discussion and welcoming our special guest is david croitzer our legal fellow. Our Senior Research fellow for labor markets and trade. Prior to joining us here at heritage, he taught economics at James Madison university from 1984 to 2007. He also served as director at their International Business program. In 1994, he was a visiting economist at the food and drug administration, and in the early 1980s he was also a visiting economics instructor at ohio university. Please join me in welcoming david coritzer. [applause] i want to welcome all of you here online and watching on television to our event, protecting Public Employees First Amendment rights major cases challenging abood. The way we will work it is i am going