Festival at the key school. Well be starting in just a minute. This session is being broadcast on cspans book television. We ask you, please, silence your cell phones, remain quiet during the session. If you need to leave in the middle of the session, you may do so through the side doors. At the end of our discussion, we will spend a few minutes taking questions from the audience. Youll be asked to use the microphone in the middle of the aisle, and we may not be able to get all the questions. Cspan panels are back to back today, book signings will take place immediately following the discussion in the activity building next door. We will need to get our panelists there quickly so the next panel can come in. Please, do not approach the panelists while in the building. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is ivan bates, and i will serve as the moderator for todays panel, black in america. One of the things thats very interesting here at the key school, we have the opportunity to look and l
As 2016 is a president ial election year, the Program Committee assembled a roundtable of scholars willing to talk about president ial leadership, what about its failures gather rather than its successes. This seems particularly timely as the trump juggernaut rolls forward. Just yesterday the clinton and Sanders Campaign engaged in a verbal sparring match about who is the most unqualified to be president. So things are getting interesting. The panel we have here today, all of these scholars, have written about president s who were bad in their own special way. Although it didnt occur to me it did occur to me on the train coming up that bad to whom might be an important qualifier. What did it mean to be a bad president . What counts as bad . How do we define a bad president . And specifically, who might have been the worst president ever. Our panelists are david greenberg, associate professor. Are you cool professor now full professor now . Sorry, a little inside baseball. Associate pro
Host welcome to the oah 2016 , and welcome to the plenary panel, worst president ever. I am claire potter, professor of history and director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at the new school and i want to let those in the audience, who are tweeting know that the tag for oah badpres and you might want to add the tag oah2016. The theme of the conference, as chosen by john butler is on leadership. As 2016 is a president ial election year, the Program Committee assembled a roundtable of scholars willing to talk about president ial leadership, what about its failures gather rather than about its excesses. This seems particularly timely juggernaut rolls forward. Just yesterday the clinton and Sanders Campaign engaged in a verbal sparring match about who is the most unqualified to be president. So things are getting interesting. The panel we have here today, all of these scholars have written about president s who were bad in their own special way. [laughter] did occur to me on the train
I am a professor of history and chair of the panel. For those tweeting, the tag for this session is oah badpres and you might want to add the tag oah2016. The theme is on leadership. As 2016 is a president ial election year, the Program Committee assembled a roundtable of scholars willing to talk about president ial leadership, what about its failures gather rather than its successes. This seems particularly timely as the trump juggernaut rolls forward. Just yesterday the clinton and Sanders Campaign engaged in a verbal sparring match about who is the most unqualified to be president. So things are getting interesting. The panel we have here today, all of these scholars, have written about president s who were bad in their own special way. Although it didnt occur to me it did occur to me on the train coming up that bad to whom might be an important qualifier. What did it mean to be a bad president . What counts as bad . How do we define a bad president . And specifically, who might hav
That. I can certainly do a better job of explaining how we make decisions. I agree. I think so many people have so much information or distractions, the idea role of the media is not one that interest people. I think we are much more interested in the topic than anyone else. By and large the best thing we can do is do our job and youre asleep and well. I do think there is a humbling that occurred over the past 15 years as the industry has done much less well. So i do share the view that if we can be more transparent, that is helpful and consistent with who we want to be as an organization. Like we wrap up, i would for each of you, the journalist out there, to give a sense of how you tried to inspire the people that work with your theeagues to mind for difficult story and why it is important. Left to right,om please. I would say i have done the last a lot of work at reuters to encourage more excitement about the bigger and more investigative stories. As a news agency you can be tempted