Law and litigation for more than 28 years. Hes a former chair of the cincinnati bar associations environmental olaw committee and graduate of the new college of the ba at Ohio State University of law. Jd cum laude. Rob received the International Livelihood award commonly known as the nobel prize for his years of work on pfo a. Please give a warm savanna welcome to rob billott. [applause] good morning. Thank you so much for inviting me here. With t to thank everyone the book festival. This is really an amazing event and im honored to be here. Its moving for me to be part of this group and looking through all the otherfolks that are here you are wondering this guy is a lawyer. Whats going onhere . And thats what i want to talk about today is why i ended up writing this oobook exposure and whats the story about and why i believe its an important story forall of us. You know, i think most of the people in this room have probably heard of flint michigan and the lead crisis, right . Im curio
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Brian the war started in 1861. Ronald yes. Your did i read it in book that does the first time that grant had ever met lincoln . Ronald this was the first time he had ever met him. Grant was out in the west. So he had never met grant before. Brian that particular date would have been where in t Civil War History . Ronald the troops were in their Winter Quarters but he brought to grant for the spring campaign. That was started in may. The Overland Campaign where greg would march into virginia remembering that four times before, then why ms. Had marched into virginia and four times before, they had retreated humiliating retreats. Brian how did you put that particular story together . I think it says so much about who grant is, the lack of pomposity, the self of basis that he was it was part of who he was. The only designation would be the stars. By contrast, i think todays leaders, it says so much about who this man is and why america did not simply admire him. They really loved him. Bri