He is a professor of southern studies at lsu. He is a native of michigan, not far from lansing. He did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending some time working in washington dc as a congressional staffer. And then we have gone to the university of virginia where he studied under Gary Gallagher and published his dissertation with the university of North Carolina press which is entitled why confederates fought family and nation in civil war virginia. His most recent book published by harvard entitled the calculus of violence how americans fought the civil war. It was published in 2018. Aaron at lsu is a great place for him being in baton rouge and not far from new orleans. He is a selfproclaimed foodie though he has lots of places to select from in new orleans. Today he will talked with about his very important book and a book i should add has received two recent awards including the Jefferson Davis award from formally the museum of the confederacy and now the American Ci
Honor of being the president and ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation. Its my pleasure to begin this evening by recognize seeing a few special guests. And ill start with a member of our board of directors the former governor of california, wilson and first lady gayle wilson. You. Steve craig, a member of the board of directors of the Richard Nixon foundation. Maureen nunn, longtime board member. Sandy quinn, the board member and former president of the Nixon Foundation. Dr. Daniel stroupe, president of Chapman University and a member of the board. And thank you to all of our Board Members that are here tonight. Id also like to recognize lisa sparks, chairwoman of the Orange County board of education and fred whitaker, chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County. Thank you both for being here. I want to acknowledge and thank all of the members of the president s council, the Associates Club in our audience and, those who are watching tonight online as well. Because your support thi
This hearing of the subcommittee on investigations will come to order. Welcome, everyone. Thank you for being here. My colleagues who are here especially the witnesses who have joined us. This hearing is about a culture of cover up. Its a culture of cover up that the coast guard has spawned and sustained for decades. It has discouraged and deterred victims and survivors of sexual abuse from coming forward. It has denied them justice and it has failed to protect them from retaliation and reprisal when they have stood up and spoken out. It has denied them justice and it has failed to protect them from ret for years, this culture enabled Sexual Misconduct to occur despite evidence of widespread, unaddressed and egregious violations of basic norms. We want to make sure that there is not only transparency but also accountability going forward. This culture has continued to refuse accountability. The type of accountability that comes from naming names and Holding Wrongdoers Accountable. This
This hearing of the subcommittee an investigation will come to order. Welcome, everyone. Thank you for being here. My colleagues who are here especially the witnesses who have joined us. This hearing is about a culture of cover up. Its a culture of cover up that the coast guard has spawned and sustained for decades. It has justice. Victims and survivors of sexual abuse from coming forward. It has denied them justice and it has failed to protect them from retaliation and reprisal when they have stood up and spoken out. For years, this culture enabled Sexual Misconduct to occur despite evidence of widespread, unaddressed and egregious violations of basic norms. We want to make sure that there is not only transparency but also accountability going forward. This culture has continued to refuse accountability. The type of accountability that comes from naming names and Holding Wrongdoers Accountable. It is the type of accountability that requires full cooperation with the subcommittee inqui
two 2024 potential candidates investigated by a special council, we ll bring in former fbi director andrew mccabe and former white house council john dean, you got two presidents under investigation, and now by special counsel, both about mishandling of classified documents, there s a fork in the road where each of their behavior seems to go in different directions but very significant, nonetheless to have these investigation absolutely. significant and i think you know, that s what this moment calls for, it calls for the justice department to handle at least at the inception each of these investigations in the same way, and by bringing into especially council to review the biden side of this document is a ago, i think the attorney general has done exactly that, he needs to now resource it in the same way that he has the other special council, he needs to step away from it, not subject it to the sort of day-to-day oversight that you would have given maybe to a u.s. attorney