Times, whether you were researching them on the internet or doing research for your papers in this class but there are a number of stories that continue to be circulated and perpetuated. What i like about this is you get to not only debunk these things but try to figure out where they started and why people grew so attached to them ecause that also tells you a little bit more about how people understand the past and how they use it or misuse it. So, remember earlier in the semester we talked about the Jackson Magnolia. I think a number of you went into detail about the Jackson Magnolia. Alex, was it you who wrote about the Jackson Magnolia . You already know this. But think about to when johnson pivska visited the class and we talked about the Jackson Magnolia. Who remembers the story . Andrew jacksons wife died right before he went to office so he planted this tree because it was her favorite tree. Matthew and he brought the seeds from the hermitage in tennessee and do you remember wh
Of staff for one of the greatest president s we have ever had in this country donald j. Trump so thank you mick for everything you do. Hes a South Carolina in. I served three and buy one for. Its been an amazing. Dont you think this guy is an incredible asset to the white house . Lets get into it. When i give a lot of talks around the country about the economy people asked me what is the single most important thing that donald trump has done to create this lackluster economy and i struggle with that myself. I want your thoughts about what has made trump so successful and just in case you are wondering this is stephens ordinary breakfast conversation. I havent had any coffee yet. Its unbelievable. Its so near and dear to my heart. I think that the regulatory, i know its not and people are going yea dereg but its one of those things we talk about with structural changes. I can lower your Corporate Tax rates and lower your individual rate and that kind of stuff and somebody else comes and
Action conference is meeting just outside of washington d. C. This week at chief of staff Mick Mulvaney spoke to the Group Earlier today. [applause] good morning. Good morning folks thank you for getting up so early. Its good to see so many people. We are going to have a little bit of fun this morning. We are so honored to have Mick Mulvaney. As you all know he is the chief of staff for one of the greatest president s we have ever had in this country donald j. Trump so thank you mick for everything you do. Hes a South Carolina in. I served three and buy one for. Its been an amazing. Dont you think this guy is an incredible asset to the white house . Lets get into it. When i give a lot of talks around the country about the economy people asked me what is the single most important thing that donald trump has done to create this lackluster economy and i struggle with that myself. I want your thoughts about what has made trump so successful and just in case you are wondering this is stephe
Of people including myself to think about Something Like the opium war as maybe an anomaly or something very particular to a very particular time and place and i have to say im guilty of thinking about it that way but great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer high, like a lot of the work done at the Washington Institute forces me to see the world ina totally new way. This book has forced me and i think it forces all readers to really focus on the eternal and incredibly expensive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from war conducted by people who are often on a form of drugs, some form of psychoactive substance. It extends to wars and conquest of drugs or the Raw Materials for drugs. It extends to wars for markets and outlets for drugs and of course we are all familiar with warsagainst drugs but as peter argues so effectively , this phenomenon, this interaction between psychoactive substances and conflicts is leased throughout history and up to th
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