Number of years ago, but it was different from what were trying to do. I have a background as ayg . Z historian, but im married to a woman who was in business. She was in washington d. C. Working for a defense contractor and had the opportunity to go to seattle to work for a small Startup Company that had not yet gone public. Microsoft. And when she started with microsoft, it was such a Small Company that they could have employee meetings in a small auditorium, a lunchroom, and she had the opportunity to listen to this man time and time again named bill gates, who didnt talk about making good products and capturing market share. But he talked about changing the world. And i think for her, that was such a, that was such a heady experience and the experience of being in a company like that at that point in time was so remarkable she really began to take an interest in the whole idea of success. What is it . How does it happen . What do successful people have in common with the rest of us
Sean strub talks about his life and efforts to bring awareness to the a. I. D. S. Epidemic in the 1980s. In 1990, mr. Strub, who him has lived with a. I. D. S. For over three decades was the first h. I. V. Positive person to run for congress. This about an hour. Very lovely. Thank you so much. And thank you. I i tell people about the tours im going on. 40some events, going to be so exhausted. But i love it. I enjoy talking to people and having the kind of conversations that have been arising at some of these events already. So, im going to read just for a few minutes, five or six minutes, the prologue from the book, and then we can go into questions and answers, and okay. Theres so many people in this room i could go around thanking. Steve and carol, and the photography ive enjoyed for years and years, and angus and thomas and mark and ted, and i go over here and lauren, or managinged it for at poz. The reason we never missed a deadline the terms of delivering the magazine. Despite our
Judicial decisions and you will see how much he loved his country. Within a year or two of the new government after the constitution it was clear we had two political factions that were at logger heads with one another. The federalists trying to put together a new government you should the constitution that would knit these 13 little states together. And provide for the common well the preemable to the constitution. Provide for the common defense, the general welfare. The power to tax, a power that here to for had only been reserved for states. It was doing something completely different. And Thomas Jefferson whos read the ancients and read them so much he knows in almost any republic there is somebody hungering for power, and someone who wants the take it over and be the dictator. And with that view hes suspicious of almost everything. And James Madison who initiallily is something of a federalist and by federalist i think interested in the entire union over the interests perhaps of t
The war. It was what they experienced. Marshal was a virginian. He was a bit of a backwoods virginian, but he fought in a number of the battles in new jersey. But he became part of something that was a lot bigger than virginia. And he got to know people from many different states, many different backgrounds, and it changed, it changed him and he began to think of the United States as his country. Not virginia. And he became to think of the government as the government of the United States, not the government of virginia. And of course, this gets revisited in the american civil war. This is exactly whats happening. The secession begins. These states are asserting the rights that they retained when they voluntarily became a part of the federal union. The view of lincoln was thats not true. You cant leave. Youre in it, you stay in it. But its primarily over the belief of the Southern States that they were the primary unit. They had given certain things to the federal government, but they
Them with the alcohol. It was so for example, a traveler reported quote, an election in kentucky lasts three days. During that period whiskey and apple toddy flow through our cities and villages like the uphradiies through ancient babylon. A number of runner were busily employed driving voters. Now today there are laws if youre promoting a candidate you have to be a certain distance from the polling place and youre not allowed to be pressing alcohol on potential voters but there were no such laws in the early republic. George washington was one of the most successful politicians of his time in virginia because he understood a practice known as treating which is that a candidate should host a barbecue in the run up to the election, invite all of the voters of the county to come to his barbecue and provide them with free food, these heaping slabs of smokes and salted meat and all the alcohol they could drink. Now, the belief at the time was that a candidate that is so generous is proving