What was your thinking on that . How did you choose what not to include . Guest well, i feel like there are so many books out there that have kind of the negative and the nasty and the scoresettling and, one, thats not who i am as a person, but two, i wanted people to get the different side and a different perspective. And, frankly, after two and a half years in the white house and another almost year on the campaign of my experience working for the president was a very positive one. I loved my job, i liked the people that i worked with. That doesnt mean we didnt have difficult days and that there werent moments that id love to block out for the rest of my life. But overall, i really believed in what we were doing, and i enjoyed working for the president , and i actually liked my colleagues. And so i wanted a book that reflected that and reflected my experience, and that was what i tried to capture in those 12 chapters. Host lots of interesting stuff in here. One thing that caught my e
Elizabeth senate. Editor of an out annotated edition of grants memoir. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this event took place on line. Good evening. On behalf of the grand Monument Association, welcome to the special Online Program to mark president you leases as grants 119th birthday. By way of introduction, a grand Monument Association or gia may is a nonprofit that was organized during the 1990s as the successor to the organization of the same name and originally built and administered grants tomb in new york city until it was transferred to the National Park service. The gm a is that it catered to the preservation of which is the largest mausoleum in the hemisphere. An important part of our mission is to foster education about the life and legacy of general grant principal author of Union Victory during the civil war, and our nations 18th president. In recent years, we revived the gm aids tradition dating back to the 19th century to commemorate grants birthday with a dinner in new
Monument association is nonprofit that was organized in the 1990s. Theis associated with organization of the same name that until it was transferred to the National Park service. The dma is dedicated to the preservation of grants tomb, the largest muzzling them in the western hemisphere. An important part of our mission is to Foster Foster education , our ulysses s. Grant nations 18th president. In recent years, we revised the tradition dating back to the 19th century to commemorate grants birthday with a dinner in new york city. The program each year has been an educational one highlighted ia, quite in which general david petronius interviews a historian about different aspects of grants story. Another annual tradition is the official commemoration of grants birthday at his tomb. An impressive ceremony organized by the National Parks service and west point. We are of the pandemic all experiencing, both events have been canceled but we thought it was important to recognize grant;s birt
The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. Todays opening prayer will be offered by monsignor anthony j. Marcaccio, pastor of st. Pius the tenth from greensboro, north carolina. The guest chaplain let us pray. Blessed are you, lord god, of all creation. You are the gifter of ever good gift, of life and liberty, of peace and prosperity, of wisdom, understanding, and right judgment. We ask that in your divine mercy you would bless our republic and in a special way the work of our senators, that they may discern all that is true, all that is honorable, all that is right, all that is excellent and worthy of praise for our nation. In this moment, make us mindful of all that has brought us together as a country and how it foster passes that which can divide us. So when all is deliberated and done here, we may be preserved as one nation under god. Amen and amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the
Interacted with his contemporaries, how he viewed himself, and how we remember him today. Professor smith today, what we are planning to do is spend a little time talking about George Washington and the character he developed over a lifetime. If you think about what we have done for the duration of this course, we brought him into the story intermittently throughout, whether it is talking about individual bibles or how he organized men or how he recruited men to get them to stay in the service. One of the things i try to get across whenever i talk about washington is that washington is a bit of an enigma to the modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he looked. When i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians around the country rank our president. Who knows how current president is going to rank. Nonetheless. Whenever those rankings come out, these t