Worldwide. For more information about the National Press club, please visit our web site at press. Org can. On behalf of our members worldwide, id like to welcome our speakers and those of you attending todays event. Our head table includes guests of our speakers as well as working journalists who are club members. If you hear applause in our audience, i note that members of the to general public are attempting, so its not necessarily of a lack of journalistic object it. [laughter] id also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter using the hashtag npclunch. After our guests speeches conclude, well have a questionandanswer period, and i will ask as many questions as time permits. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id like each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced, and from your right, skip cottonhauser, an independent journalist who coincidentally organized ralph naders luncheon at the press club in 2004. Rehem
Rental meant to fight in world war i. He examines the regiments leadership, its actions in the field of battle, and the challenges the men faced following the war. This is an hour and a half. Now, gives me great pleasure to introduce the man of the hour, jeffrey t. Sammons. A professor in the department of history at new york university, where he has taught since 1989, Rutgers Research fellow at Rutgers University camden and completed his critically acclaimedded beyond the ring role of boxing in American Society in 2001. Sammons was awarded a fellowship by the Shomberg Center of research. And received a National Endownment humanities in support of harlem rattlers and the great war. Sammons is a native of bridge ton, new jersey, earned his bachelors in history at rutgers college, where he graduated magna cum laude, and elected to identify Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. He earned a masters agreeing in history from Tufts University and a ph. D in American History in 1982. In 198384, he was a pos
This is an hour and five minutes. [applause] [applause] these welcome margaret spellings. [applause] thank you for joining us today. As the announcer said, i am margaret spellings, the president of the bush president ial center in dallas, texas and i am so glad to see so many familiar faces with us for a special announcement. We would like to thank our supporting founders without whom we would not be here. The moody foundation, our friends are sitting on the front row is leading the way and their gift is making this possible. They are joined by two other foundations and the representatives from those organizations are with us today. Thank you to my partner and best friend Bruce Lindsey of the Clinton Foundation and my friend who is the ceo of the Library Foundation and the chairman of the lbj Foundation Library board in austin. Our National Archive partners are led by the affiliated libraries are here with us. And smu, Clinton School of Public Service at the university of arkansas, tex
He said keep it short, right . Hi, mom. [laughter] because we have a lot of to offer. Bill and i have become friends in the postpresidency. I admire his ability to communicate and lead. I know he wants his library to be relevant heading into the future as do i. I know 41 well. I have always admired president John Johnsons leadership and i know these centers are tremendous assets that need to be used properly. I felt, and i know bill feels well i will not put words in his mouth but i felt it is a fantastic use of our ability to bring people together. And i know in washington, as soon as we are talking about the next president or senator but we are not. We are talking about leadership in all aspects of life. One of the things i have learned, maybe through my painting, is i am trying to leave something behind and something to make the world a better place. We did that hopefully, people will judge that, but hopefully when we were president , but there is still a lot of life to live. And i
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