history. well, it s such a pleasure to be able to introduce dr. holly a mayor who is been a dear friend of mine for decades. now. we are catching up a little bit on the terrace earlier trying to calculate the years, but it s been it was back in the 1900s when we first met one another that s not amazing how that sounds now holly dr. mayer is now a professor emerita from the mccannulty college in the graduate school of liberia arts at duquesne university in my hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania where she taught for many decades she did i think two stints as chair of the history department there after joining duquesne after receiving your phd at the college of william and mary. she also has served as the visiting herald-kay johnson chair of military history at the us army war college out in carlisle, pennsylvania at the carlisle barracks and is currently during this academic year at west point where she s serving as the charles bowl ewing visitor professor of history. she is a
history. well, it s such a pleasure to be able to introduce dr. holly a mayor who is been a dear friend of mine for decades. now. we are catching up a little trying to calculate the years. it was back in the 19 hundreds when we first met one another. it s amazing how that sounds now. doctor mayor, is a professor emerita from the make adult the college of graduate school of liberal arts at duquesne university in my hot stat hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, where she taught for many decades. where she did two stints as chair of the history department there after joining duquesne. after receiving your ph. d. at the college of william & mary. she has also served as the visiting harold k johnson chair of military history at the u.s. army war college out in carlisle pennsylvania, the carlile barracks. and is currently, during this academic year, at west point, where she is serving as a charles bowling professor of history. she has also been in commission, served with the u.s
reagan, s life, work, and legacy. one of the topics discussed was her time in the white house,as it was captured through the phographers lands. here is a portion of that program. we were in los angeles, it was partfhe just say no campaignwhich, she really took heart! she met the pope. just before we were going out, everyone had prepared to line up for the stage. she said, i want to talk to his holiness myself. the two of them sat down on the yellow catches yellow catches, green couches! they talked. they talked about the horrors of seeing children just utterly destroyed. what could we do to help? how do you do this? how do you live with the implications of children who do not make it? they are lost to their families? i see my photo editor right there. she and i had a big target about that! i like to the big wide sofas. no, gotta go in tighter, gotta go in tighter! we have a whole staff that make surewe are doing our jobs gh if we don t, we hear about a! [laus] i thought t
years, but it was back in the 19 hundreds when we first met one another. isn t that amazing how that sounds now? holly, dr. mayer, is now professor emerita from the mcanulty college of the graduate school of liberal arts at duquesne university in my hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, where she taught for many decades. where she did two stints as chair of the history department there after joining duquesne. after receiving your ph. d. at the college of william & mary. she has also served as the visiting harold k johnson chair of military history at the u.s. army war college out in carlisle pennsylvania, the carlile barracks. and is currently, during this academic year, at west point, where she is serving as a charles bowling professor of history. she has also been in commission in the rotc and served with the u.s. army reserves. so, she stands a long time ago but still stands fairly straight, still recognizable as a military person still. she is the author of a whole slew o
about, you see a group that was called the america first committee. some of them were antisemitic, some of them were isolationist s. but they used washington s farewell address as a real avatar to work against the united states getting involved in the second world war. this hits an absurd extent when they german bund hold a rally at madison square garden. this functions as an american at nazi party rally. there is a giant poster, flag, billboard of george washington in the background. the keynote address is all someone misappropriating the text of the farewell address. this is paid for by a foreign government. so it shows how you need to be careful of the misappropriation of documents. washington is warning against foreign influence in our politics. that is one of the reasons to stay out of this. here you have a foreign government, the nazis, misappropriating the farewell address to argue against getting involved in a foreign war. so by the way, that backfires a badly on them