Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome under secretary of state, patrick kennedy, former secretaries of state [inaudible] [applause] good afternoon. It is my great pleasure to welcome everyone here today for the groundbreakinger is mopeny for the new United States Diplomacy Center. We are celebrating the start of construction of the center, a state of the art museum and educational resource that will ill straight the department of states 225year history of supporting our Nations National security efforts. As undersecretary of state for management, my office has long supported this project. I also suspect that i was asked to officiate today because i might be the only member of secretary kerrys Leadership Team who has actually worked for every single secretary of state in attendance, beginning with secretary kissinger. [applause] as a Career State Department employee, i have the privilege of representing the multitudes of civil and Foreign Service employees, americans and host nationals,
Succession. Actual soldiers had a delight in destroying the cradle of the confederacy. They use them as bringing the war upon them. I think we have one more question. Why did it stop . Citieswe not see further earned in the same kind of mercenary manner . Withdrew back into virginia and they were occupied. Did notticular strategy move forward from that point on. Did theire certainly fair share of burning throughout the war. They did not have the opportunity as much in the north. Burn parts of town. For a monetary reason . There were a lot of soldiers. Ofy took great joy in our revenge on both sides. Field or because these were the houses that a woman whose that at us or that kind of a vengeful action. That was more individually direct did. Screeria nigeria. Tenness that resulted in the almost total destruction of his army. Remind your children in this by centennial year, when we are the first generation of the americans who have experienced attacks on the continental United States, we
Wilderness. Is he going to go bushwhacking in the wilderness . Youre setting them on fire, g e nice, brooks. Brooks is going to speak to us contingencies and circumstances, u. S. Grant and the problem of virginia in 1864. Ks brooks simpson. S [ applause ] well, good morning, everyone. Id like to first thank the teas at the civil war institute. Especially alison and diane as well as peter. I must admit that i feel naked up here without a scarf on. Peters fashion attire will whie understand that reference. While peter recognizes that his adviser Gary Gallagher made d nc mistakes, my binder did no suchs thi thing. I also thought they would dwell on the Sexual Practices and fantasies of confederate generals and their historians. N i thoughtab id tell a little story of my own in this regard. Not about me. Thats a tmi moment, youll have to join me on facebook for that one. That several years ago, my wife, cheryle and i went to wife haven, which is the plantation where ulysses s. Grants inlaw
Slowing in the Housing Market might have constrained the rise in household leverage, as mortgage debt growth would have been slower. But the job losses and higher Interest Payments associated with higher Interest Rates would have directly weakened households ability to repay previous debts, suggesting that a sizable tightening may have mitigated vulnerabilities in household Balance Sheets only modestly. Similar mixed results would have been likely with regard to the effects of tighter Monetary Policy on leverage and reliance on shortterm financing within the Financial Sector. In particular, the evidence that low Interest Rates contribute to increased leverage and reliance on shortterm funding points toward some ability of higher Interest Rates to lessen these vulnerabilities, but that evidence is typically consistent with a sizable range of quantitative effects or alternative views regarding the causal channels at work. 4furthermore, vulnerabilities from excessive leverage and reliance
Mr. White is the coauthor of a season of slaughter the battle of Spotsylvania Court house, may 821, 1864. This talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Our first speaker today is a man for whom i hold the utmost respect. Three years ago this again, in fact, we sat on the back porch of a little building next to the stone lodge action shrine and we were thinking, you know, what can we do to help people become more invested in these stories of the civil war . That is were the emerging civil war blog first came to be. Since then, over the past three to a, we have expanded publishing series that we will talk about this afternoon. Of course, the symposium and a number of speaking engagements, as well. We are continuing our outreach to help people become invested in these very important and engaging stories. Historian ander former licensed battlefield guide at gettysburg here he is one of those men who you could drop him on any battlefield, take off the blindfold, a