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This happens to be kind of a happy confluence of Kansas City Public Library programming. Its the latest in our series with the u. S. Army command and general Staff College in Fort Leavenworth on marking 75 years since world war ii, but it also comes in the middle of the librarys partnership, and its from january through may with the eisenhower president ial library and foundation in abilene, and its on the Dwight Eisenhower exhibit. We have a series of programs running on Dwight Eisenhower in may. The next one of those is in fact is next wednesday. Tonight, we focus on eisenhower and George Marshall. The chief the army chief of staff who targeted ike for advancement as a military officer, keen eye for talent. Spy george patton, spied omar bradley, and he became one of ikes chief mentors from 1939 to 1945. Marshall, of course, went on to become secretary of state and win a Nobel Peace Prize. David mills is an assistant professor of military history at the command and general Staff Colle
Justice for all. Thank you. We have had the fortune of having Many Political journalists, both print and broadcast, speak here over the years. The one we have with us tonight has covered six u. S. President s beginning with president reagan. Speaking of president reagan, we were first introduced to canada back in 2002 when he and a handful of other experts came out to the Reagan Library to share stories about president reagan and our air force one tail number 27000. Stories we then used to make our visitors experience and our air force one pavilion that much more rich. Since then hes come to other times to discuss and find copies of his book, prisoners of the white house in 2013, and ultimate insiders white house photographers and how they shape history in 2017. Since he has been covering the white house since 1986 i am sure he is no lack of material for many more books, especially since today he continues to provide insight into the white house of donald trump in the world of presiden
We have had the fortune of having Many Political journalists, both print and broadcast speak here over the years but the one we have with us tonight has covered six us president s beginning with president reagan. Speaking of president reagan we were first introduced to him in 2002, when Kenneth Walsh and a number of experts shared stories about president reagan and air force one 27,000 which we use to make visitors experience that much more rich. Since then he has come two other times to discuss and sign copies of his book, prisoners of the white house in 2013, ultimate insiders, white house photographers and how they shape history, 2017. Since he has covered the white house since 1986 im sure he has no lack of material for many more books especially since today he continues to provide insight into the white house of donald trump in the world of president ial campaigns and if were lucky maybe he will share some insight into the upcoming election. Easier to discuss his book president ia
We had have the fortune of having many critical journalists both print and broadcast speak here over the years. The one we head with us tonight had covered six u. S. President s. We will first be introduced to him back in 2002. When they have a handful of other experts to share stories about president reagan and our air force one. Stories we then used to make our experience that much more rich. He is come to other times to discuss copies of his book. Prisoners in the white house. And ultimate insiders. White house photographers. Since he has been covering the white house since 1986 i am sure he has no lack of material for many more books especially since today he continues to provide insight into the white house of donald trump in the world a president ial campaign. Perhaps if her lucky he will share some insight into the upcoming elections. He chose tonight to discuss his latest book. Defining moments of the modern president. Speaking of the book. He wrote ken walsh one of the nations