That really we shouldnt expect today in successful, modern, techdriven economy, and closing this gap was a big part of the motivation, both for my term of duty in Public Service as well as i wanted to write the book. Host the subtitle is how new technologies can transform government. How does the u. S. Government use technology and does it do it successfully. Guest were moving in the right direction, i think about American History in the book. Go back to our founding fathers. We have had a long tradition of having government keep pace and often lead the private sector in the use of technology to solve problems. I noted, for example, one of the Founding Technology oz ibm had its origins in a Census Bureau employee who face seemingly irsurmountmentables to calculate the number of people in the country. So governments have long history of being innovative and the capability to deliver Better Services, and the last several decades we have sign a divergence in the capacity in the private se
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He was subject to savage criticism but i think he retained a certain amount of popularity with the ordinary confederate citizens. On the three trips that he took to the deep south during the course of the war in december 1862 and again in the fall of 1863 and the fall of 1864, he spoke at a dozen or more venues during those trips almost too large and enthusiastic crowds. So clearly there was some residue of support and even affection for davis among the general population. At the same time that governors, senators, newspaper editors were savagely criticizing him. That doesnt mean he was as popular as lee or Stonewall Jackson by any means but i think he was probably more popular than the popular image with the image we would have of his place in the southern affections would indicate. Host in the record there is some evidence of the behavior for the Common People of confederacy even drilling his common escape. He passed an old woman in a cabin and she held up an infant child and she sai
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The book received eventually every prize in the world i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our Jefferson Davis award, the richard b. Harwell book award and the Richard Slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. I personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 simple pose yum about robert e. Lee. A sanchez often true, there is a story behind elizabeths emergence as a major civil war historian. She earned an m. A. In history from the university of pennsylvania studying withdrew gilpin faust, the now the president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard people were sayingment is this an unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of harvard. And i commented to her, i thought it was more remarkable that she was the first friend of the museum of the confederacy to be the first president of harvard. [ l