Spending wars, and hosting parties. According to mrs. Clinton mary lincoln drew criticism for attempting to keep up appearances through lavish diplomatic dinners despite the ongoing civil war. This hourlong event was part of the Lincoln Forum symposium in gettys gettysburg, pennsylvania. Its my pleasure to introduce your second speaker this morning, dr. Catherine clinton. Dr. Clinton earned her bachelors degree at harvard and ph. D. At princeton where she studied under dr. James mcpherson. She taught at the citadel, wesleyan wesleyan, brandeis, and Queens University in belfast Northern Ireland. Since august of 2014, shes been the denman endowed professor at in American History at the university of texas at san antonio. So from Northern Ireland to texas, thats quite a journey. And 2016 shell assume the presidency of the Southern Historical association. Her prestigious post recognizing her standing in the field. Shes the author or editor of two dozen books, many focusing on family, gende
Site. Your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out and submit it to the festival committee. Mr. Mccutcheon and mr. Mark will be signing books immediately after this presentation, copies are also available at the politics and prose tent at the festival here. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event and we want to keep it that way it does help the book festival if you buy a book here. The more books we sell for our events the more publishers will want to send their authors to speak with us, and purchasing books from politics and prose benefits the local economy, supports jobs and the book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in the position to do so, please purchase a book. Mr. Mccutcheon is the coauthor of the 2012 and 2014 editions of National Journals almanac of american politics and was coeditor of Congressional Quarterlys politics in america 2010. Mr. Mark is a former Senior Editor at politico and political
November president ial election. This is an hour and half. One of the best things about sitting across from you is that, for all of us who have been part of the institutes staff, we are wondering what you been thinking, with this experience has been like for you over the last yearandahalf, two years. So tonight, we get to hear for the first time your reaction to the campaign. Thank you very much. I want to thank the in boyer for the support the university has given the institute politics, including making it possible for us to hire such Extraordinary People like Steve Edwards and been restored and all of the other people and ben reeseberg and all the other people. [applause] you have been wondering what i have been doing and i have been wondering what you have been doing. [laughter] those who were disappointed by this outcome, the democrats elated by this outcome given the conventional wisdom around this campaign, the president s Approval Ratings that were barely above 50 , often dippi
The colonists were sending ships ever where to get muskets and cant after the british had sent more troops to boston after the Boston Tea Party and the so called coercive acts and it is clear that the colonists were pulling together ammunition. Maybe they did not intend to use it but that was a big debate. The king prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies are less it was officially sanctioned. They were very alert to this. As soon as the colonys found out about the order prohibiting ammunition and munitions from being sent to the colonies, in New Hampshire and then rhode island, colonist patriots over the monitions so everyone knew what was coming in the winter of 70741775. This brighter suggests that 1775 was a critical launching point of the revolutionary war and american independence. That is sunday night at 8 00 on cspans q7a. Next a discussion with the all women delegation to congress from New Hampshire. For the first time in u. S. History, th
President ial candidate, how to deal with the stop light, how to spotlight, how to deal with the national politics. She may be the smartest politician ever and she may be able to come out of alaska to handle all of this. But i will give her three weeks. Three weeks, well know if this is real. Three weeks to the day, she did her interview with katie couric, which effectively ended it for her. I thought they might make [laughter] i thought that they might make a conservative choice, someone who had at least a taste of the National Stage or, which was more of a consensus in the political committee, that he might take rob portman from ohio because ohio is so important. Portman was a guy who is a centerright conservative, who might be more broad. I think barack was surprised by the choice. Do you think portman could have changed the outcome . I dont know. There is a lot of reflection on that in romneyland. When you were talking about the adjustment that obama felt he had to undergo, and tel