Good evening. Im jason kelly. Im interim director of the galvin in journalism ethics and democracy. And im excited to welcome you all to the 2023 red smith lecture. Its great. See everybody here tonight. I want to start by thanking our speaker Carlos Lozada and, the Notre Dame Institute for advanced study, which is the reason why this event is possible tonight. Carlos is here this year as a faculty fellow and they very generously made this event possible as part of his very busy schedule. So very grateful for that. So that the lecture tonight had a timely element. This morning when i woke up this morning, there was a notification, my phone from the New York Times that said Carlos Lozada latest. And so i dont normally click through the notifications but i went to that one right away and the headline said this is his new column just today in the New York Times i the mueller ukraine and jan six reports as though they were one long book that didnt have to say so. You dont have to. So Carlo
Im interim director of the galvin in journalism ethics and democracy. And im excited to welcome you all to the 2023 red smith lecture. Its great. See everybody here tonight. I want to start by thanking our speaker Carlos Lozada and, the Notre Dame Institute for advanced study, which is the reason why this event is possible tonight. Carlos is here this year as a faculty fellow and they very generously made this event possible as part of his very busy schedule. So very grateful for that. So that the lecture tonight had a timely element. This morning when i woke up this morning, there was a notification, my phone from the New York Times that said Carlos Lozada latest. And so i dont normally click through the notifications but i went to that one right away and the headline said this is his new column just today in the New York Times i the mueller ukraine and jan six reports as though they were one long book that didnt have to say so. You dont have to. So Carlos Lozada has been doing readin
Test test test test captioning performed by vitac how did henry clay enhance the powers of the speaker . The force of his personality. No one wanted to debate him, certainly he had the force to win the argument. I think that alone had great influence in power. I dont know if in other speaker would be comparative. He understood as the power of committee assignments. The committee is basically he understood that the speaker had the power to put the people he wanted ton the committees and want something important he was known to be a fair man, the speaker and that was very important. Both sides of the aisle respected him and respected his opinions. Never overwritten in his rulings and was fair in the makeup of the companies, when he knew there was a certain issue coming up, you can see a slight inclination that he wanted the issue to go a certain way. He understood early and changed the rules with his backing and gave the speaker more power and cut off debate to limit debate and allowed h
Joining him will be frank bond. Frank has produced awardwinning document riz on topics ranging from the role of the press in the Civil Rights Movement and the berlin wall. On issues like bias in the media, theres none of that, is there n two buy graph wall sketches of juniorism. Frank was a member of the team that created the museums new Museum Gallery an interactive look at the role of media in journalism today. So without further adieu im delighted to yield the stage and podium to our guests, harold and frank. Please join me in welcoming them to the stage. [applause] good evening. And welcome because tonights program is going to prove to you that history can be as enticing and sizzling and dramatic as anything netflix can serve up even Holiday House of cards. Just have to know where to find the stories and then how to tell them and harold certainly does that. In fact, harold help us at the museum with an upcoming exhibit president lincoln is dead. Well talk about president lincoln, a
President James Buchanan and crisis of national leadership, Lincoln Campaign biographies is his most recent book and he is currently editing a book with Harold Holtzer entitled the an no tated lincoln. Let me present tom horrocks. Hello, everyone. Can you hear me . Im going to be showing some slides early on of several lincolns calm ina biographies from 1860s. Dont get upset. I do understand im talking about 1864 but i need to show talk a little bit about the 60 Campaign Biographies to put the 1864 Campaign Biographies into conte context. Theres two points i want to make at the outset. One is the close relationship between the world of prim and politics by mid 19th century, many newspapers and their editors were aligned with a Political Party. Newspapers and their editors were openly partisan. This is a trend that began in the 1820s when newspapers became the favorite print medium for political news. Newspapers were part of an extensive and powerful Publishing Industry that emerged in