Collector. We are here today to spend a little time on a visit to the museums civil war medicine and a couple of other things to show you. The National Museum of health and medicine was founded in 1862. We were known as the Army Medical Museum. The mission of the time was to collect specimens of anatomy and send them to washington for preservation and study to improve the soldier. At the time of the civil war, the museum staff were doing the business of Lessons Learned. Ensure those lessons with their colleagues in counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and this collection started during the war and in the early days, the museum was housed in the Surgeon Generals houses. The first few artifacts are on the shelf behind the generals desk. Then in a building that we know today as the rakes banks building your the white house. It wasnt until after the tragic ofnts of the assassination Abraham Lincoln and agents of the five of the museum moved into its first longterm residents. They a
Thing specially in fields that are really dominated by the left and i think this is because more conservatives would improve social sciences. Host is there an intimidation factor about teaching sort of things . Guest what do you mean by intimidation factor . Host theres a couple of movements in our current policy, all lives matter, black lives matter, triggers. Guest i think there is. I think its a problem that affect the left more than than the right because liberal professors tend to teach the courses to have subjects that might get them in hot water. Liberal progressives are more likely to teach courses on race, gender and thats largely because a lot of conservative professors teaching courses because theyre dominated by the left and does provide one benefit for conservatives which they tend to teach courses that are less likely to incite those kinds of movements and energies and passions, so theyre somewhat shielded, i think, from those movements. Host have you ever steered away fr
This, this is wrong. I think that puts you in a very powerful place. And also, the other secretaries when they want to do something it makes you a much stronger position to have that relationship, to be so candid you can say that is wrong. You cannot do that. I totally reject that. I think having that relationship made me a more effective general even though my critics used it as an excuse to be critical of my service. Host im curious its clear from the book you had a close relationship with the president. What is your relationship with him today, do you still talk to him . You say at the end of the book the president kept up with your move the things youve done since government service, so what is your relationship with him today . Guest when he comes to nashville we see each other and if im in dallas i see him. Obviously we dont talk and see each other like we used to when he was in office or in dc. I have a great deal of affection and respect for george w. Bush the man. He gave me s
Good evening, good evening. Thank you for coming out here to politics and prose, thank you for coming to politics and prose for another one of our lively and enlightened cant hear me . Okay. Thank you. Please silence all your cell phones at this point. Let me go through them some housekeeping details. And and during this questionandanswer period, and and in addition to recording your questions for prosperity. And audience members should be able to hear your questions. Thank you so much. Copies are on sale. Right by the door. Without further ado, city of sedition the history of new york city during the civil war is a very appropriate book for revising and reconsidering history. In regards to the civil war, we have often encountered a very narrow dialectic perspective, the adversaries are divided along the masondixon line between slaveholders in the south and industrialists in the north. Thankfully for the past couple decades, the faulty lens of history and city of sedition the history o
Some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Welcome to the National Museum of health and medicine. A special couple of other things to show you. The National Museum of health and museum was known as the Army Medical Museum. The mission at the time was to collect specimens of human anatomy. To send them to washington for care and preservation. Staff doing the business of Lessons Learned theyre trying to understand the nature of battlefield surgery and trauma and share those lessons with their colleagues in counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection started during the war and in nearly days museum is housed at the Surgeon Generals office and actually the first few Museum Artifacts were on the shelf behind the Surgeon Generals desk. That is the Riggs Building your the white house. It wasnt until after the tragic events of the assassination of president lincoln that the museum moved into its first longterm residence and moved into fords theater before movi