National archives. My name is Rodney Slater. The National Archives board chair and i am honored again to welcome you to your archives. We have the audience this evening. Ambassador Jim Blanchard and his wife janet. Ambassador blanchard is the past chair of, the foundation board. And so were very, very to see him. The National Archives foundation is nonprofit partner of the National Archives. We work to generate for the National Archives mission to, provide Public Access to the agencys vast holdings. As part of this effort, the Archives Foundation is proud to assist the National Archives in its National Exhibition and public programs. Much like tonights program, this important conversation as well as the National Archives, national, civic interactive programs that engage educators and students and the general public to learn about our past and to illuminate the future through. Their participation in our republic. We have a wonderful planned for you this evening. Celebrating ten years of
National archives. My name is Rodney Slater. The National Archives board chair and i am honored again to welcome you to your archives. We have the audience this evening. Ambassador Jim Blanchard and his wife janet. Ambassador blanchard is the past chair of, the foundation board. And so were very, very to see him. The National Archives foundation is nonprofit partner of the National Archives. We work to generate for the National Archives mission to, provide Public Access to the agencys vast holdings. As part of this effort, the Archives Foundation is proud to assist the National Archives in its National Exhibition and public programs. Much like tonights program, this important conversation as well as the National Archives, national, civic interactive programs that engage educators and students and the general public to learn about our past and to illuminate the future through. Their participation in our republic. We have a wonderful planned for you this evening. Celebrating ten years of
And another exercise there is a chapter in my book that in general why not punish id is the other way countries to . So i go through and i give examples what factors would you take into account . Is used to be of the race now is also a gender and political beliefs it any other category for hate speech not being athletic enough or what would be required and coming to grapple antitrust somebody else to make these difficult decisions it could be the lesser of two evils. So understanding where it came from give students a voice. And without it how is it for administrators . So to understand that rich history i tried to remind students quite frankly the goal of the university is to raise you up. So please give us the benefit of the doubt were not here to make a great living but to present ideas and trying to use shift to good. By coincidence do you have another final vote . [laughter] thanks to the panel. [applause] this event was hosted and produced by the freespeech podcast with the found
For information on our schedule and to give up with the latest history news. Next, nate jones, directory of the National Security archives freedom of information act project talks about his new book, able archer 83. A secret history of the nato exercise that almost triggered nuclear war, he explores ronald s thoughts on Nuclear Energy and jones also discusses ofhe discusses the process declassifying the government materials that were the basis of his book. This hourlong event is hosted by the National Archives in washington, d. C. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, mr. Jones the first place people look in a newly published book is the index. At the library of congress and other Research Institutions we look at acknowledgment pages and the bibliography also. Looking for ourselves. If you look at the able archer book, you will see different offices. The large portion of documents upon which the author based
I like to thank our sponsors and the mississippi folk festival for inviting us all here today. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] up next on booktv can train to raise together stories of Benedict Arnold and the revolutionary war general in his new fictional thriller. [applause] we are going to have fun tonight. One, weve got kids in the front row and that means chaos, people. Weve got cspan here. Lets hear it for cspan. No better than the washington d. C. Metro area. The viewers of cspan are in this room right now. That means the regular viewers of course. We welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple other things we do nowhere else and we are going to do here. First i will tell you about the difference between history and destiny. History is what happened, but destiny is what must happen. This is true. I cant believe this is happening, but my father, may he rest in peace, was struck by lightning. His father, my grandfather, im not joking, was struck by light