Good morning. Welcome to the nixon presiden library and museum. My name is joe lopez, Vice President of Marketing Communications for the Richard Nixon foundation. Were pleased to have you here today in yorba linda and a greeting to those of you watching on cspan and youtube today. Todays legacy forum is copresented by the Richard Foundation and the nixon president ial library, National Archives and administration. Weve done more than 30 of these nixon legacy forums over the past ten years, and you can find all of them on our website. Nixon foundation dot org. Id like to start by introducing Geoff Shepard. Jeff served as, associate director of the Domestic Council in the Nixon Administration and now a member of the board of directors of, the Richard Nixon foundation. Jeff, kick us off. Thank you, joe. Geoff shepard beginning in 2010, we began seeing what we call nixon forums and theyre cosponsored in the past the Nixon Foundation and National Archives as. They are usually recorded, vide
Today in yorba linda and a greeting to those of you watching on cspan and youtube today. Todays legacy forum is copresented by the Richard Foundation and the nixon president ial library, National Archives and administration. Weve done more than 30 of these nixon legacy forums over the past ten years, and you can find all of them on our website. Nixon foundation dot org. Id like to start by introducing Geoff Shepard. Jeff served as, associate director of the Domestic Council in the Nixon Administration and now a member of the board of directors of, the Richard Nixon foundation. Jeff, kick us off. Thank you, joe. Geoff shepard beginning in 2010, we began seeing what we call nixon forums and theyre cosponsored in the past the Nixon Foundation and National Archives as. They are usually recorded, videotaped by cspan and rebroadcast on. What they are in essence are group oral histories. They bring together the documents that are maintained here by the National Archives and people who produce
Good morning. Welcome to the nixon president ial library and museum. My name is joe lopez, Vice President of Marketing Communications for the Richard Nixon foundation. Were pleased to have you here today in yorba linda and a greeting to those of you watching on cspan and youtube today. Todays legacy forum is copresented by the Richard Foundation and the nixon president ial library, National Archives and administration. Weve done more than 30 of these nixon legacy forums over the past ten years, and you can find all of them on our website. Nixon foundation dot org. Id like to start by introducing Geoff Shepard. Jeff served as, associate director of the Domestic Council in the Nixon Administration and now a member of the board of directors of, the Richard Nixon foundation. Jeff, kick us off. Thank you, joe. Geoff shepard beginning in 2010, we began seeing what we call nixon forums and theyre cosponsored in the past the Nixon Foundation and National Archives as. They are usually recorded,
Stephen engle, the author of a great book about lincoln and the nations governors. Jonathan white, author of midnight in america. And soon to be with us, a book, our little monitor. And of course, Catherine Clinton , no stranger to us, author of many books. And, and author of a great ongraphy as well as edwards standin, called stand on edward stanton, called stanton. He told me, and i hope i am not revealing any confidence, he has a glint in his eye. Good luck with that. I am sure we will hear about secretary of the treasury salmon chase from professor clinton. Let me start with this. John barr, one of our members, wrote a great book but it is a door stopper, it is huge. Lincoln. Led loathing he said in his introduction that william f. Buckley, jr. Once said americans shall not remember why lincoln was loved until we come to understand why he was hated. Both emotions were shown after his assassination in 1865. Even those who as william , petersen said, even those who commemorated or tr
Williams, chair of the Lincoln Forum, and welcome to this panel of forum 22, relating to lincolns enemies. And im so pleased to have it distinguished, every time someone says distinguished i want to run to the merlot bar. Its like saying with all due respect in my courtroom. But we do have some great scholars with us this morning. Stephen engle, the author of a great book about lincoln, and the nations governors. Jonathan white, author of midnight in america, and soon to be with us, the book our little monitor. And of course catherine clinton, no stranger to us, author of mrs. Lincoln, a life, and many other books. And walter stolzier, as well as lincolns secretary of war Edwin Stanton, called stanton, and he told me and i hope im not revealing any confidence, he has a glint in his eye for sammen chase. Good luck with that. Because im sure we will hear about secretary of the treasury sammen chase from professor clinton. So let me start with this. John barre, who is one of our Lincoln F