And let me just leave you my definition of leadership as i think about stewart udall. Leadership demonstrates an unwavering philosophical underpinning of service to others. Anchored in humility, courage, humanity, and gratitude. And if you were to take a look at those whom we have honored as a people in your National Park system, theres a lesson there. There are those who have given of themselves, who have given of themselves, that in the end as the people of the nation, those are whom we honor most of all. Its interesting. Just take a look at those individuals by name. Those have been of service to others. That is the american legacy. To honor those who have given to others. Lastly, before we open it up to questions, on this centennial. Yes, august 25th is a big day. And i know you historians like to traffic in facts. So contrary to popular belief, i was not there for the signing of that act in 1916. Ive been around a long time but not that long. With respect to the centennial and the
Historians anymore meeting about the agencys origins and its current challenges. This is 1. 5 hours. Welcome to this session. We hope more and be coming in. I know you are giving up your cocktail hour. We are going to have a reception a black curtain. He were all cordially invited. I will make some introductions. We will proceed after the introductions i will talk a bit about the collaboration and about promised the report which was commissioned by the national by members ofone oah and issued a few years back. Right,nding here to my grew up in fort worth. He was recruited into a summer seasonal job while he was a college. T houston that began a long career now stretching out some 54 years. As a stalwart member of the National Park service. He started in grand teton National Park. He worked his way all the way to the top when bill clinton appointed in director of the National Park service from 19972001. Before that, he was superintendent of National Capital park in the washington dc are
We have one microphone over here on the side please ask your questions after the presentation so we can be cut of the recording debut will have a site being up front put them against a shelf that would be helpful. Is my pleasure to introduce our of berg tin and author of the new book the crime and the silence. The account of a tragedy for sell many involved that covers the truth of the tide and also with the polish journalist and she has also won a lot of awards for her journalism with her tonight is lydia a friend and also with npr id will be doing some readings. [applause] i would like to welcome on the view all of you. Thank you. Jedwabne is a small town northeast of poland. Half of the population was jew half was polish. A place they could live their life together. Jedwabne they were very close together. In 1939 when it belindas occupied by the said it would ashley soviets in they invited good jews but in july the inhabitants the jewish inhabitants were humiliated. There were kille
[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Welcome to politics and prose. My name is candace. I work at some of the events in the store. Thank you for being here this evening. Just a few logistics before we get started. If you could make sure that your cell phones are this silent, we are recording this evening. Cspan is here, and were doing our own bay area recording as well as an audio recording, so to we dont want to disrupt those. So if you can make sure that your cell phones are on sigh p lent, thatd be great. What were going to do is have about an hourlong event, half the time is going to be a presentation by our author, half the time well open it up for some questions. We have one mic on the side over here next to this pillar. If you can make your way up to the mic after the presentation is over to ask your questions, we can all hear it, and it can be caught on the recording. And then finally, afterwards well have a signing up front here. If you could fold up your chairs a
[inaudible] okay. I know you dont want us to say any more, but i just want to say [laughter] i got that impression. No, i just want to say that i think its an antiquated system from the era of Good Government and the progressives, and its really, you know, designed so that gentlemen can come in one day a week and oversee the police department. Thats nonsense. The Police Chiefs should serve at the pleasure of the mayor. Theres a lot more, we could talk a lot more, do a lot more questions, but my job is to get us back to our [inaudible] [laughter] but i really want to thank everyone. I think it was really interesting to hear. I wish we could go longer go to the drugstore and get a swig of vodka. [laughter] we have a book signing, other books to sell, certainly, and i want to give everyone a big round of applause. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you all for coming, and make sure that you come here to buy all your books. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on csp