He is a professor of southern studies at lsu. He is a native of michigan, not far from lansing. He did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending some time working in washington dc as a congressional staffer. And then we have gone to the university of virginia where he studied under Gary Gallagher and published his dissertation with the university of North Carolina press which is entitled why confederates fought family and nation in civil war virginia. His most recent book published by harvard entitled the calculus of violence how americans fought the civil war. It was published in 2018. Aaron at lsu is a great place for him being in baton rouge and not far from new orleans. He is a selfproclaimed foodie though he has lots of places to select from in new orleans. Today he will talked with about his very important book and a book i should add has received two recent awards including the Jefferson Davis award from formally the museum of the confederacy and now the American Ci
In the u. S. There is a pileon as well. Stocks are close to records. The president is to have a rally and brag about the records. There is still the tweet fallout that the white house has to dial. We have blake burman. Reporter this will resume this evening in greenville, North Carolina, where President Trump hits the road to later tonight for a Campaign Rally there. The president saying earlier today, he will talk about the economy. He will talk about the stock market. But he also tweeted the following saying i will also talk about the people who love and hate our country, mostly love. Of course the president ing to these four Democratic Congresswoman who have been embroiled in this back and forth feud with the tweets and comments he subsequently made. Democrats call the president s tweets an comment racist. Republicans are trying to turn the attention to the policies and controversial comments that some of these congresswoman have made in the past, coming to the defense of the presid
Their candidate to before. Field organizers who currently make 36000 a year told the post they work a minimum of 60 hours a week which works out 13 an hour. Union members say in a drafted letter that this is to be expected. It is expected to be expensive of a campaign manager, theyre barely managing to survive financially which is severely impacting the Team Productivity and morale. Some field organizers have already left the campaign as a result. Lets start with you zachary. It is certainly not particularly good optics. Sanders has been good about raising a lot of money. Its not like they cannot pay this amount. They are not a bootstrapped campaign. It is a little puzzling that he would not put his money where his mouth is literally. It is money that he has and money that you can pay these people. Not the best pr knowing to mankind with Bernie Sanders and his compete. Gary, your thoughts . The great thing, its a learning lesson. I will paraphrase, give the definition of a conservative
Department services and programs. A panel of experts follows talking about how the va can modernize. The American Enterprise institute hosts the hour and 40 minute event. Lets try to get started here. Good morning. Welcome to aei and welcome to our program today. The value of our veterans, our conversation with representatives, mike levin and brad. Im gary smith, im a senior scholar here as strategic studies and im director of aeis program on american citizenship. I am going to skip a set of introductions since we will be talking the next two hours. So those joining us here in joining online or watching on cspan, if you want lengthier bios go to the website and go to the link for the page and you will see everybodys biographies. That may begin by giving a quick overview of the proceedings. We will first hear from representative mike levin, the recent elected congressman from californias 49th district, a district that runs along san diego to southern Orange County and quite frankly i ha
Welcome to aei and welcome to our program today. The value of our veterans, our conversation with representatives, mike levin and brad. Im gary smith, im a senior scholar here as strategic studies and im director of aeis program on american citizenship. I am going to skip a set of introductions since we will be talking the next two hours. So those joining us here in joining online or watching on cspan, if you want lengthier bios go to the website and go to the link for the page and you will see everybodys biographies. That may begin by giving a quick overview of the proceedings. We will first hear from representative mike levin, the recent elected congressman from californias 49th district, a district that runs along san diego to southern Orange County and quite frankly i have a niece that lives out there, im not sure why he decided to move to d. C. , a patriotic act on his part. He is the chair of the subcommittee on Economic Opportunity with the house of Veterans Affairs committee. F