And even better good to have those spectacular authors like David Mccullough sitting on this stage right here with all of us. [applause] i dont have to say this the most celebrated living historian of the american. [applause] and to take us through the ogermantown the building of panama canal truman or adams and the americans then has been given the president ial medal of freedom which is even better than honor. Excuse me and you have been writing about america. Your trajectory of 150 years since the revolution to Charles Lindbergh and to be on. Is there a theme quick. Yes. I now see it and some things you do gain as time goes thousand now see almost all of my books of americans who set out to accomplish Something Worthy that they knew would be difficult and going to be more difficult than they expected and who did not give up and learned from their mistakes and to achieve their purpose in the first place. But that is to increase our whpacity for gratitude for those who went before us
Brian david mccullough, your from 1989,peeches when did you get the idea to do this. Last summer. The summer of 2016. I was not discouraged, but distressed by the tone of the Political Campaign and the animosity and nastiness of some of it. I thought, ive got to do something to help bring some balance back and remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are, and what we stand for. I thought, ive been speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more. Maybe some of those speeches, if we dusted them off and put them together, not as an anthology, but speeches where id addressed ideas or subjects that pertain to reminding us about who we are and what our values have been down the years. And my daughter, who has been arranging all my speaking dates all these years, wanted very much to help with it. She had whatever records we had. Many of those speeches, there was no record of what i said. But we had enough that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commence
Host this week on q a, historian david mccullough, discussing his book, who we are and what we stand for. Host when did you get the idea to do this . Mr. Mcculloch i was upset by the tone of the political andaign and the animosity the nastiness of some of it. And i thought, i have got to do to bring someelp balance back to remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are and what we stand thought speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more, maybe there are some of those speeches, if we tested them off and put them together, speeches where i subjects thator pertain to reminding us about who we are, and what our values have been down the years. , who has beenr arranging all of my speaking dates all of these years, wanted very much to help with it, and she had whatever records we had. Nomany speeches, there was record of what i said, but we that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commencement speech or speech celebrating some Important National even
Host this week on q a, historian david mccullough, discussing his book, who we are and what we stand for. Host when did you get the idea to do this . Mr. Mcculloch i was upset by the tone of the political andaign and the animosity the nastiness of some of it. And i thought, i have got to do to bring someelp balance back to remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are and what we stand thought speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more, maybe there are some of those speeches, if we tested them off and put them together, speeches where i subjects thator pertain to reminding us about who we are, and what our values have been down the years. , who has beenr arranging all of my speaking dates all of these years, wanted very much to help with it, and she had whatever records we had. Nomany speeches, there was record of what i said, but we that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commencement speech or speech celebrating some Important National even
Host this week on q a, historian david mccullough, discussing his book, who we are and what we stand for. Host when did you get the idea to do this . Mr. Mcculloch i was upset by the tone of the political andaign and the animosity the nastiness of some of it. And i thought, i have got to do to bring someelp balance back to remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are and what we stand thought speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more, maybe there are some of those speeches, if we tested them off and put them together, speeches where i subjects thator pertain to reminding us about who we are, and what our values have been down the years. , who has beenr arranging all of my speaking dates all of these years, wanted very much to help with it, and she had whatever records we had. Nomany speeches, there was record of what i said, but we that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commencement speech or speech celebrating some Important National even