Change. Unlike anybody it was a First Responder somebody was a police officer, a fireman, and emt, paramedic, please stay on up. Thank you very much for what you do in keeping a safe every single day and thank you for the mission you do every single day for us. Now in tonight his program is absolute pleasure to have garrett back with us here in the last time he was here, you spoke about the government his doomsday plan from his last book, even rock. The story of the u. S. Government secret plan to save itself where the rest of us die. [laughter] and tonight we are welcoming back to the museum to discuss another various sovereign topic. The terror attacks of 911. Hes collected in 363 account told through the voices of the people who are experienced in his new book, the only plane in the sky. Scruff is in a distinguished magazine journalist bestselling historian and a regular tv commentator has brought more than a dozen years covering politics and technology and National Security. It is
And emt paramedic to please stand up. [applause] thank you very much for what you do in keeping us safe and keeping us safe every single day. And thank you for the mission that you do every single day for us. And now onto the knights program. It is absolute pleasure to have Garrett Graff back with us here. The last time he was here he spoke about the governments doomsday plan from his last book raven rock of the straight u. S. Government secret plan to say that some of the rest of us die. [laughing] tonight we are welcoming him back to the museum to discuss another very somber topic, the terror attacks of 9 11. He has collected and organized 360 degrees account of the day told through the voice of people who experienced it in his new book, the only plane in the sky. He is a distinguished magazine journalist, regular tv commentator was spent more than a dozen years covering politics, technology and National Security. Garrett is the author of a number of books including the First Campaig
those of you who are here in the audience those of you who have joined online on c-span. welcome. this is going to be a riveting conversation and i say that as someone who is a historian. so just a couple of minutes of comments before i turn it over to my friend and colleague steve moore who really will be running the show tonight. and that is in 1994. i was president of my university s college republicans. and it was more than a dream as a son of the reagan revolution. that army would soon be the majority leader. that phil graham s economic expertise along with leader armies at least for a narrow window in american political history would be ascendant in this town. and while we have to be careful as historians not to dwell in the past we can as we are on the brink of a red wave and i mean that philosophically not as a partisan. this year know that that isn t merely about party registration. about one party being in charge instead of another it is about the ideas that defin
that phil graham s economic expertise along with leader armies at least for a narrow window in american political history would be ascendant in this town. and while we have to be careful as historians not to dwell in the past we can as we are on the brink of a red wave and i mean that philosophically not as a partisan. this year know that that isn t merely about party registration. about one party being in charge instead of another it is about the ideas that define us as a people namely freedom. flourishing and this town and this government spending a hell of a lot less money than it does. and so it is a great great privilege to have army. senator phil graham my one of my political mentors who a couple years later. he was thinking about running for a different office. he was in louisiana, and i said senator, you know, this is before there was a red wave in louisiana, would you adopt us as as our third senator? he said yes, son. you just keep doing what you re doing. so here
i was president of my university s college republicans. and it was more than a dream as a son of the reagan revolution. that army would soon be the majority leader. that phil graham s economic expertise along with leader armies at least for a narrow window in american political history would be ascendant in this town. and while we have to be careful as historians not to dwell in the past we can as we are on the brink of a red wave and i mean that philosophically not as a partisan. this year know that that isn t merely about party registration. about one party being in charge instead of another it is about the ideas that define us as a people namely freedom. flourishing and this town and this government spending a hell of a lot less money than it does. and so it is a great great privilege to have army. senator phil graham my one of my political mentors who a couple years later. he was thinking about running for a different office. he was in louisiana, and i said senator, y