Corporate kind of support along with matt from so many of you as individuals that enables the great lives series to thrive. So i would like to ask our good friends from the law firm trust so we can acknowledge them. [applause] also, a special group tonight that i would like to knowledge, that is the simpson circle, a group composed of former Mary Washington members. We are here tonight and we would like to have them stand so we can acknowledge them. In introducing tonight speaker, dr. Joanne freeman, i would like to mention at the outset that one of her most commendable qualifications is that she received her phd from the university. Thats right, uva. [laughter] in any case, not long after receiving that degree, she was recognized already as one of the nations top young historians. She has subsequently has widespread recognition as a scholar of the revolutionary and Early National periods of American History. She is the author of numerous articles on those subjects which will appear in
Director of the center of the National Independent business. And i am delighted to introduce the vice chair of the white House Counsel of Economic Advisor. Preparing for the session i found that we have a foundational commonality and he is originally from sweden, im originally from minnesota, the land of american. He stopped a bit short of the minnesota border and currently on leave from the university of chicago where he is the professor of Public Policy studies at the University School of Public Policy. In the Freedman Institute program on research and healthcare markets and policies within the Health Economic initiative. Before rising at the university of chicago he served in several positions including his role as Senior Advisor to the head of food and Drug Administration and as a senior Economic Advisor to the head of the center for medicare and medicaid services. He also served as a healthcare advisor for john mccain during his president ial campaign. Thank you so much for joinin
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First debated, i rid keel skull then embraced the possibility of saving an hour of lay diagnose. No one can say for sure why were required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme . The most authoritative sources suggest was a pittsburgh industrialist, woodrow wilson, mon an horse in london, manhattan socialite, Benjamin Franklin. One of the caesars are the anonymous makers of japanese and chinese water clocks. Toy prisoning forward is a portrait of pock policy in 20th century, perennial boiling caldron of unsubstantiated science, mysteriously shifting time zone boundaries. A special comedy with congress in at the leading roll. Surrounded by a support cast of opportunistic ministers, movie moguls, stock both brokers, sports fanatics and railroad executives, Michael Downing this author of four novels including breakfast with scott and shoes outside the door, a history of the scandal that rocked the San Francisco center. He teaches creative writing at Tufts
Sharon i am sharon pratt. We are blessed to have our usual camera crew and cspan with us tonight. For those of you who want to find us later you can go to our page and we will upload it on youtube. Is that correct . Foundingon pratt, the director of the institute of politics, policy, and history of thehat the University District of columbia. We relaunched in january of last year by mayor bowser and president mason. We have the same focus as other institutes of politics, except a strong focus on the history of this city, and by so doing the country. F this unlike most other cities we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation. For those of you who saw the musical hamilton there is a song that says in the room where it happened. We are what happened. Washington, d. C. Topics ofave contemporary interest we always that topicl down on to talk about the historical origin. That certainly is true for the compelling topic of tonight. We are going to talk this evening about