Circumstances, saying, hes the one who can get things cooking again. I believe this is a defining election. Defining for the nation, but also defining for your family. And i say that because, it will make a difference this election will. A difference for the nation, a difference for the families of america. And a difference for your own family. Today, romney will spend the entire day on the stump in the pivotal battleground states of ohio. Drumming up support there. If he does take ohio, takes the election, hell become the first republican challenger to didnt election without winning ohio. Obama still up by five points in ohio, encouraging to the campaign. Still so tight in so many states. A nail biter of an election everyone knows that. The way it is looking, romney is doing very well among white men. The president is doing very well among women and hispanics. Thats why you see emphasis on the ground game, getting those supporters out to the polls. Who ever gets their people out, that
After that we will open up for q a. You will see one fixed microphone there and another vocal microphone for the site of the house. If you wish to join q a, get up and stand behind the microphone. We have to do it this way because they are so mobile is for recording cspan and we do want your questions and answers to be an integral part of this broadcast. So there we go. Without further ado, ill begin my brief introduction. So heres the book. There we go. For those of you who know peter, you know this is unusual. Peter tends to write short books. You think to yourself, this is serious. Im not going to get into the details. Im going to see general things about the book at the first one is this book marks Peter Andreas thugs at because its wellwritten and is actually enjoyable. Its quite readable and clear and utterly devoid of jargon and it contains a powerful political message. The second reason to like this book is that it is not devoid of theoretical hats, pretension. Tijuana sociolog
Greatly to the character of america. This is just under an hour. Thank you, jim, and thanks to everybody at mount vernon for all the help they have given me to make this possible, and to bob and Clarice Smith for endowing this terrific lecture series and giving historians a place to come and try to convince you all to read our books. [laughter] um, for the past 25 years or so ive written about nell si cuts dis nelly cuts us the. She was fun and easy to write about. A beautiful, smart, intelligence, feisty young woman. And, of course, ive known about her grandmother for the same period of time, but i never quite got the enthusiasm to think about writing about Martha Washington. I knew what she was like, nellys grandmama. She was 60, 70 years old. She was frumpy and dumpy, and she was small and timid and perhaps not the smartest person around. I took in all the myths everyone took in. And i just couldnt think that it really was worth my while. But in year 2000 i was at the bicentennial a
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