Thank you, jeff. Im honored to moderate this panel with four dear friends and valued colleagues. There is a concern afoot that as a moderator i might let it go to my head and try to interject myself too much in the discussion. So i will sit down there while they make their presentations and will come back up here during the actual q a time. You have the detailed bios of the speakers in your program so i will not repeat those first is professor richard emerman. His bio says he recent retired from temple university. I know richard well. Richard does not know the meaning of the word retirement. We are Close Friends and collaborators and the state Department Historical Advisory Council and he continues to be active as a scholar and mentor and is an active citizen in the guild of National Security scholars and historians. Next to him is a professor mel leffler of the university of virginia. Again, another titan in the field of diplomatic history. I started reading his books as an undergrad
These guys are money, as many of you know. We are so fortunate and privileged to be associated with them. Tonight, we welcome our two guests. Westra,lls, and kayla of the Minnesota West Community and technical college, the coauthors of great wartime escapes and rescues. Ill start by saying they had me in grade school. I was a fourthgrader when hollywood released the great escape, starring Steve Mcqueen and james garner, richard. And borough, and charles bronson, among others. It quickly became a tv staple all of the guys in my class fell in martinsburg, missouri fell in love with it. We played it out in recess. All of us wanted to be mcqueen. I think i ended up with the attenborough role. Get executed at the end of the movie. Of course, mcqueen survives. What we didnt realize then and what we probably didnt care about was that the movie was based on a true story, the escape of 76 allied soldiers and in 1944. From germany the film pretty much gave us the reallife tragic ending to that s
At the newseum, you and your team have been charged with telling the story of the news media in society. We will talk today about news media and president s. When you think about that relationship from a macro standpoint, what has characterized the relationship between president s and the press throughout our history . Patty it is an interesting courtship, the relationship between the president s and the press. Early on during the campaign, the candidates want to woo the press. They want to put on the best face and they know the power of the press to get their message outside. But when i get in office and the confetti is down in the celebration is over and the , reality of governing comes in, and they realize that the role of the press is to be a watchdog, to be the peoples watchdog on government, to see how are they doing the job that they are doing. To be a check and balance on the president. Few president s enjoy being criticized. That is often the role of the press. So that relatio
We come to gettysburg every november to commemorate the life and legacy of abraham lincoln. Our first speaker this morning is peter carmichael. Peter is the professor of civil war studies and director of the Civil War Institute at gettysburg college. I have seen some cwi hats around, wonderful to see them. He has a phd in history from penn state university, where he had the good fortune to study under gary gallagher. He is the author or editor of five books, including last generation Young Virginians in peace, war, and reunion, published in 2005. He is also one of the series editors for a civil war series, and i know him best in this capacity. He was my editor and i can tell you his thoughtfulness, careful attention to detail and generosity with sources made my book a better book. Today, he will tell us about his most recent book, the war for the common soldier, which was released in 2018 as part of the prestigious littlefield series with unc press. A review recently concluded, it is a
Audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public, and so any applause or reaction that you may hear are not, is not necessarily from the working press. So, let me begin by introducing the head table, and idd like to ask you to please hold your applause until all of the head table guests are introduced. So from my left and your right, we have shawn butcher, Communications Manager at disabled sports usa and editor of challenge magazine. We have retired navy captain jim noon commander of the american lee jun post here at the National Press club. Next to captain noon, we have retired u. S. Marine corps Lieutenant Colonel brooks tucker, the assistant secretary for the v. A. s office of congressional and legislative affairs. We have Lori Rousseau who is the president of the National Press club Headliners Team. We have max ledder who is the publisher of the stars and stripes. We have retired u. S. Marine corps Lieutenant Colonel jim burn, and he is the n