Series on elections, covering election operations, election integrity, and election security, which will be the focus of our conversation today with our guest, a former department of Homeland Security secretary, mr. Michael chertoff. Im going to read a little bit about mr. Chertoffs bio before i turned it over to our host, elliot burke. As secretary of the u. S. Department of Homeless Committee from 2005 to 2009, Michael Chertoff led the cutHomeland Security from 2005 2009, Michael Chertoff transformed fema into an Effective Organization following hurricane katrina. His greatest successes have earned if headlines because the Important News is what didnt happen. At the chertoff group, mr. Chertoff provides highlevel Strategic Counsel to corporate and government leaders on a broad range of Security Issues, from Risk Identification and prevention to preparedness, response, and recovery. For heading the department of Homeland Security, mr. Chertoff served as a header will judge on the u. S
Remember what you put but many of you focused on what historians would call the American Revolutionary era rather than the colonial era writ large. People like george washington, Thomas Jefferson, alexander hamilton, issues like taxation without representation, other founders and historical highlights and the imperial crisis in the war all popped up. A few mentioned paces, historic james town, plymouth plantation. A few mentioned slavery. What i thought was interesting was because it was because of either the 1619 project and the summer black lives matter protests. There were a few omissions. No one mentioned individual women or m Indigenous People by name. No one mentioned anything west of the appalachian mountains, much less west of the rockies or the west coast. Technically speaking this course runs from before contact of europeans with Indigenous People in the 15th century to 1763, the end of the 7 years war, french and indian war in what is now the territory called the United Stat
We take you live to a conversation with senator cory booker. Celebrate the illustrious career of our beloved colleague, distant wrist university professor, james a server. Jim is retiring this year after 47 illustrious years studying american democracy, contribute into it, and enlightening others about it. During that time, jim has done many things. Im sure hell be angry with me, the am going to embarrass him a little bit. [indiscernible] longtime advisor to both congress and the executive branch, a documentarian, acting dean, director of many things, including this center, which he founded. A sponsor of more than three to 50 events of converses, principal invested conferences, principal investigator, an author and editor of over 50 books and monographs, peerreviewed journal articles, and well over 100 book chapters and publications. As my colleague said earlier this week, jim is american university. When we started talking about these dialogues, we asked jim who he would like to inter
So were going to hear from Patrick Odonnell and learn the story of those eight bears. Patrick odonnell is a critically acclaimed military historian and an expert expert on elite units. He is the author of 11 books and he is the recipient of several national awards. He served as a combat historian in a marine rifle platoon during the battle of fallujah speaks often on espionage counter operations and counter insurgency. Foras provided consulting the awardwinning series band of brothers and just to read you a couple of snippets of reviews on this, his newest book, Exhaustive Research with fluid, mr. Odonnell relates the history of the unknown soldier their part in world war i through the soldiers experience. And from usa today a gripping story from one of the best and most gripping stories. Few authors have the same kind of enthusiasm that odonnell brings to this topic. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome Patrick Odonnell to the stage. It is really quite an honor to be introduce
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