well, unfortunately, i think we could keep going on with these fascinating stories. but we have we have reached the end of our time. we have another program to conclude. i d just like to answer a question i asked about if the end of page program represents a loss to the country. and i think it definitely does because where else are we going to get something to produce people such as this? i think we need to give another round of applause to our panelists. [ applause ] each week american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the nation s college professors. you can watch the classes here every saturday 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern and sundays at 1:00 p.m. this week, author and political comment they tar michael barone observes the writings of alexis dete tocqueville. best known for democracy in america based on his traveling around america in the 1830s. mr. barone was in a course called the conservative intellectual tradition in america taught by professor mall
conservative intellectual tradition in america. this is just under two hours. well, thank you very much. it s an honor to be here and a special honor to be asked to speak on the fragility of ordered liberty and to speak on alexis de toqueville and re, re-reading de toqueville in preparation for this lecture, i kind of think he was something like mozart nap i was in the presence of the mind so far along almost anyone else in history that it almost book nos comparison with anybody else. you can listen to the music of mozart and it sounds pleasant and melodic and so forth, but if you really think about it, if you really analyze it, you realize that he s doing thing nos one else had ever done or was capable of doing, that it s so far above the level of ordinary even impressive achievement. that you re in the pressen of something rare. and i think you see the same thing with toqueville. it s easy to read toqueville fairly fast. you re in front of a television set. there s a conv
share. the differences come in the regulatory enforcement style and in the fact that we do still have a gap here in the protection of consumer privacy rights under law. that s a gap that we very much hope to fill. we think that as soon as that s filled, there would be the basis for entering a conversation with the europeans about really significantly lowering the barriers to the cross border flow of personal information between the u.s. and europe. but even in advance of that, we have been working very hard to explain to our european counterparts that once a company makes a commitment or an industry makes a commitment to one of these enforcible codes of conduct, in the united states that commitment has the force of law. it is an agreement that s binding on the companies. it is an agreement that is enenfor enenforceable under the federal trade commission. we would seek to have agreements enforceable by state attorneys general. we certainly think that one of the critical privac
republicans and the wigs. we always agreed on john c. calhoun. he would be more than happy to point out that for all their pretensions to majorityianism, they were all but wiped out in the elections. and that but for foul weather and harrison s infirmities, the americans might have well reached the 1840s with slave holding texas still an independent republic. i would usually be reduced to mumbling something about george mcduffey and how all the really big southern slave hoerlholders wigs. for those of you in the cspan audience who don t know who george mcduffey was, there are about a dozen books written by people on this panel who can instruct you about all of this. you could also go to google. but given the kind of sites on google where he might appear, i think that would be a bad idea. but do look him up. in and around 1846 sorry. in and around august of 1846, jim and i reconnected. the wilmont proviseo i am happy to say brought us back together again. his learned through
most important events and people in american history.ties and events associated with the american revolution and the early years of the republic. in particular, i mention the character and legacy of john adams and the character and legacy of thomas jefferson which won the national book award and founding brothers winner of the pulitzer prize in 1991. i should say i ve seen a lot of people walking around this evening with those books. i don t know if you re going to be signing books from your previous publications as well as those from tonight. but in any case, it s wonderful to know that you have such a huge group of fans. and tonight he is going to introduce us to his latest book which is titled his excellency george washington. just to fill in the biographical record, joe ellis is a graduate of the college of william & mary and received his ph.d. at yale. he has been teaching since 1972, a long time. but all of us, i think, have lived that long so we re with you. he