You may have noticed this event originally called for our speaker bill fowler to be here. He is my predecessor at the Historical Society, which many of you already know. He is a distinguished repressor of history at northeastern professor of history at northeastern. We realized that such a fundamental story of the irish in boston would benefit from additional perspectives. He suggested, i will give him credit, this conversation would have more depth if we invited others, leading subject experts on the irish famine in the american response. We are pleased bill is joined tonight by catherine shannon, the guest historian of exhibition at westfield state university. We have christine can nearly, author and founding director of irelands Great Hunger Institute at quinnipiac university. Please welcome me in joining join me in welcoming, bill, christine, and kathleen. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you to all of your staff and trustees for hosting this exhibit. Louder. Louder, ok. Close
Specific, to cut through the accesses of regulation. Some of it i would get rid of many of the regulators who are leaning over on the farthest side of regulation. The cost to our country on regulation is estimated by professor is 102 billion a year. You need to find a balance between those who would rape and pillage the environment and wantenly spread poison and waste and those who would go so far you cut off all growth and offer only hopelessness to the pour in this country. We have to find the balance on regulation. Third thing i would do specifically is to have a tax cut, but not the popular one. Not the one out there that says, gee, were going to have a recession, lets cut taxes and stimulate denied. I wouldnt do it that way. I would have every facet of that tax cut aimed at increasing investment. What is called by economists a supply side tax cut. And it would be things to a family that found it difficult to save for a down payment on a house. Those savings accounts are going goin
Center. He experience a talented writer. Gregs project is ambitious. As he spent a quarter of a century reconstructing the life and times of 10 airmen aboard the between four liberator which disappeared over austria on october 1. As we will hear, he has a personal connection to this story and he has traced the lives of the fallen servicemen, situated them within a larger andy of combat in europe has reflected on his own personal journeys to the village in southern austria where the man disappeared. Willis the research we hear about today and it will inform his forthcoming book on the subject. Greg jones has been a Foreign Correspondent and investigative journalist for more than 30 years. He is the author of honor in the dust. Received stand, which a marine corps green junior award and red revolution which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Foras been a staff writer the los angeles times, dallas morning news, and the atlantic journal and constitution. He is covered the philippines a
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Behind them, and they have been evil men who have led them in wrong courses. We usually think of leadership however and those who take, who lead the people in the right direction. I think one of the main essentials for leadership is communication. We find that if we look back on men, president s in the United States, men overseas, men like winston churchill, we find so often we remember them years later and they are known better in history for things they said rather than for the actual deeds they might have performed. I think it is the case of being able to communicate to a people and persuade those people of the direction they want to go. Good leadership, of course, means having a belief in basic principles, moral principles, in things that are worthwhile. And for the good of the people youre trying to lead. Persuading those people of the course they must follow in order to achieve those. Help clarify your perspective and view on that who would you consider the three most effective l