Good evening. Im tony clark from the Carter Library. Cant tell you how excited i am to see you all for the audience, watching this. It has rained all day long, and it is raining very hard right now. And to see you all turn out tonight, i think is a tribute to ingrid and her organization and the book. So thank you all very much. I appreciate it. If you have not been to our Author Program before, i would encourage you to good on to the judgmenty Carter Library website. We have two to three authors, sometimes four, every week, and they are just fascinating. Later this week we have a book called wilmingtons lie about the rise of white nationalists and wilmington, North Carolina, back in the 1880s. We have judge douglas ginsburg, talk us about his book, voices of the republic, a tiein with a pbs series on thursday. We have a whole bunch of wonderful authors so i encourage you to take a look there and come back see is again. Im delighted for tonights program. Inning grids newkirk was born in
American policy on nuclear war. Good evening. Im tony clark from the carter president ial library. Im really glad that you all are here tonight. I was excited to get our author tonight because with his topic, the bomb, because it brought back memories for me. Back when i was a high school, i was a debater. One of the years the topic was about Nuclear Weapons, and we also read herman khans unthermal nuclear war. It was a big deal at the time. And so now to go back and listen to what has happened to Nuclear Weapons from truman to trump is, is really, really remarkable. Our author grew up in the midwest in kansas, went to Oberlin College thinking he was going to be a lut major lit major, but watergate changed him to political science. And then he went on to graduate school at mit, and it was International Relations and Nuclear Strategy. Then he moved to washington as a defense policy adviser for the house of representatives. But, you know, government work being what it is, he decided that
I appreciate it. If you have not been to our Author Program before, i would encourage you to go on to the Jimmy Carter Library website, we have 2 3 authors, sometimes for every week and they are just fascinating, later this week we have a book called wilmingtons fly, the rise of White Nationalist in wilmington North Carolina back in the 1880s. We have judge Douglas Ginsburg talking about his book, voices of the republic into tiein with the pbs series on thursday, we have a whole bunch of wonderful authors so i would encourage you to take a look and come back and see us again. I am delighted for tonights program, Ingrid Newkirk was born in england, youll be able to tell that with the accent. She lived in europe until she was seven years old and then her parents moved to new delhi where her father worked as a engineer and her mother volunteered for Mother Teresa and various charities. Her early volunteer experiences packing pills, rolling bandages for people who suffer from leprosy, stuf
His undergraduate work was done where my father and my brother attended that school at the same time, and randy has turned into one of our great modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is that he minds the resources of the president ial libraries. He has come here to the Carter Library and has gone through and found a very interesting document that other people have not seen before and he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that he is also mind the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And in addition to that on top of his Research Skills come he , he is an excellent writer. Ive had the privilege of reading many of his books including the one thats just come out. And i can tell you that as much as i followed the subjects and have done my own research there were many points i came across new information and said wow , that really explains whats going on. So if you want to
Things. I was looking up a speech that president carter gave in naming building in texas after congressman brooks and one of the things the president sent at the time was hes a new president who thought ill just have one congressman who disagrees with me, im the president of the united states, its no big deal. Then he found out that one congressman was jack brooks and it was a big deal. It talks about how president and Congress Work together and i think at this time, it is very important that we hear that message about how they work together. We are pleased tonight to have his son here with us. Jeb has worked in the financial industry and companies for more than three decades. He started his career at citibank in taiwan, Vice President of city groups National Securities and hes currently the managing partner and is the chairman of the Jack Brooks Foundation which provided the wonderful reception so please join me in welcoming and thanking jeff brooks. [applause] thank you so much for t