I am still ship before us at the center and studied at the Old University in japan welcome emily good to have you tell everybody. Hi everyone my name is emitted kid im the founder and director. Of Human Rights Organization and im also an International Human rights lawyer thanks for being on the stream and i try to tell everybody you know how wrong my attack most im a bank how base multimedia journalist and producer up are Current Affairs politics and ive been closely following the prodemocracy protests. Thank you so much tara let me let me just share this over with you and this is a statement that came in from the Education Minister just a couple of hours before the start of our show and he wanted to contribute to our show in some way this is the Education Minister in thailand he says we sympathize with many of the aims of the protest movement such as the need for constitutional reform but we must be realistic about the pace of our democrats turn station which will take time tara youve
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Representative democracy. Representative democracy at the college of william and mary. Globalization and populist movements rated these and other new developments are affecting americas democracy and any others. Democracy itself faces new forms of attack through the manipulation of social media. While collaboration among free nations is more important than ever, with it also seems more difficult than ever. What does this all mean for the future of the democratic experiment . America 400ere in years ago. Around thees it mean world . To help us examine these thorny issues, please welcome the moderator for this panel, chief Foreign Affairs correspondent for nbc news andrea mitchell. [applause] ms. Mitchell thank also much. It is wonderful to be back in williamsburg. A dozen years at the Colonial Williamsburg foundation as a trustee. Let me tell you how proud and happy i am to be here today. Commemorating this important anniversary. Panelists. Th these i want you to welcome place former Un
[applause] good evening. Well as you can guess im not an impartial observer when it comes to Andrew Burstein. Were both early american historians as mentioned we have coauthored madison and jefferson published by random house. We also write regular pieces for salon. Com, and we are real historians. We are professors at lsu. We have doctorates. We know things. And andy also is on the Advisory Board of the papers of Thomas Jefferson in princeton. Andy has written numerous books on early american political culture, but his new book is different. This book is about the many ways in our contemporary society although he is going to start with fdr but its about the curious, humorous and at types pathetic ways that modern politicians and public figures adopt and manipulate Thomas Jefferson. And they can claim him as you see, for whatever ideological position they want to embrace. Thus we have the subtitle of the book how Thomas Jefferson became an fdr liberal reagan republican and a tea party
Well im not giving anything away by saying that the left is a known jefferson and in the right doesnt own jefferson. The past owns jefferson. Every nation needs ennobling National Creation story. Thomas jefferson is indispensable to ours. I think it is not a scientific measure of anything, but you can learn something by taking note of the cabinet room in the white house where the president meets with his cabinet. And i thought that over the years to look at early photographs and read stories in the new york times, every four years when a new president comes into office, the cabinet room is redecorated and portraits are hung on its wall. So harry truman placed on the wall of the cabinet room for portraits of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and woodrow wilson. After his retirement from the presidency in 1953 truman remarked to a reporter, Thomas Jefferson is my favorite character in history. When eisenhower became president , he put up William Howard taft and George Washington replacing