Is the moderator. Okay, well, i am quite honored and pleased to be moderating as session with two distinguished authors on american politics from different perspectives, there is Jonathan Darman was a journalist before, maybe he still, is before becoming an author. He was correspondent for news week and he covered among other Things National campaigns and in 2004 and in 2008. He most recently has turned his attention to another Political Campaign in the 1960s, his new book is landslide lbj and Ronald Reagan at the dawn of a new america. Jonathan will be talking about that and anything else we can get him to speak on. On my left is Chase Untermeyer who has been a practitioner of politics, he served in the president ial administrations Ronald Reagan, george bush and george w. Bush, his book when things went right the dawn of the reaganbush administration is drawn from his diary of the first years of the first Reagan Administration. Please give me a hand tour to authors. And we will get s
Two agendas. This election will decide whether we save the American Dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny. The president tonight condemning democrats and painting a bleak picture of a biting presidency, saying that no one would be safe and joe biden would quote, demolish the suburbs and take away guns. The president s speech hit all his familiar themes. He said he is ready to write the next chapter of the Great American story, pledging to create 10 million jobs in 10 months and restore the nations prominence as the worlds greatest superpower. Ktvu political reporter quickly is here and both parties have had their conventions and we are 67 days away now from the election. Reporter good evening, President Trump and other speakers tonight created an image of any phonetic restaurants. While its clear both these parties dont agree and a lot both nominees stressed how important the selection is. On the south lawn of the white house resident donald tru
Next speaker who so grateful for him coming in and joining us last minute and he is going to continue with our theme of bridges over troubled waters. Weve got ryan quint, whos going to present defending the bridges monocacy, another maine native like our first speaker, ryan quint is a park guide at the fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National military park. He formerly worked at the Richmond National battlefield park, Colonial Williamsburg and George Washington foundation. Ryan has a history degree from the university of mary washington. Hes one of the emerging next generation of civil war historian. Mr. Quint is the author of determined to stand and fight the battle of monocacy, july 9th, 1864. And hes contributed to other several service baby civil war titles. Lets give mr. Quint a warm welcome. Lets see. Well, thanks, everyone, for having me. Wish i was under better circumstance, but i know we all wish peter the best. A couple of quick tests. One, can everyone hear me . Yes. Check.
Next speaker who so grateful for him coming in and joining us last minute and he is going to continue with our theme of bridges over troubled waters. Weve got ryan quint, whos going to present defending the bridges monocacy, another maine native like our first speaker, ryan quint is a park guide at the fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National military park. He formerly worked at the Richmond National battlefield park, Colonial Williamsburg and George Washington foundation. Ryan has a history degree from the university of mary washington. Hes one of the emerging next generation of civil war historian. Mr. Quint is the author of determined to stand and fight the battle of monocacy, july 9th, 1864. And hes contributed to other several service baby civil war titles. Lets give mr. Quint a warm welcome. Lets see. Well, thanks, everyone, for having me. Wish i was under better circumstance, but i know we all wish peter the best. A couple of quick tests. One, can everyone hear me . Yes. Check.
Comedian by the name of tim sample and he has this great bit where he talks about getting directions and he says you cant get there from here. Ryan is a fell mainer and he has proven that you can get there from here. Ryan comes to you from the great state of maine. He began working here at the Military Park as an San Bernardino then as a seasonal. Hes also a tour guide at ken moore, an Historic House in downtown fredericksburg. The thing im most excited about with ryan and there are many things because he is an absolute rising rock star in the vein of kevin pollak. He said i love this story of monocracy and he started writing about lew wallace and monocracy and he was fascinated by it. And the emerging civil war gave him the opportunity to explore that passion and you could absolutely see it in the way that his research came together, in the way that he told the story and story and hes opened up what is essentially a littleknown bat until a fresh, exciting and especially relevant way s