In Salt Lake City utah, this runs about an hour. [applause] thank you. Its a great honor to be here and a great honor to see so many bright faces eager to talk about stuff i am equally eager to talk about with you. Ordering the destruction of the nauvoo, he turns to his secretary, William Clayton who happens to be the secretary of the Sacred Council that had recently been established in nauvoo called the council of 50. He turns to clayton and says i want you to go and burn the secret counsel weve been meeting with over the last few months. They could be understood as treasonous and he was anxious to keep them out of the wrong han hands. They might as well have remained buried because they remained restricted from scholars. It wasnt until they were going to be making it available for the first time in published form. They are kept hidden and secret. Until finally when there were the people that finally got access to the council 50 records some were disappointed by the content. He was be
Talk about stuff that i am equally eager to talk about with you. A week before joseph smith was killed in carthage jail when he was in some tense negotiations with the state to turn himself in and be tried for ordering the destruction of the knob works pozner he turns to William Clayton who just happens to be the secretary of the secret counsel established, counsel 50. Joseph turns to William Clayton and says i want you to go and burn the minutes of that secret counsel. He knew the contents of those records were very controversial and when seen in a certain light or a certain context they could be understand is treason and he was anxious to keep them out of the wrong hands. William clayton to the great benefit of the rest of us chose to disobey his profit and instead of burning the documents buried them where they remained for several months until the crisis seemed to subdue. Once the crisis subdued and William Clayton dug up those documents again they might as well have remained burie
Booktv and free speech tv. So i would ask to everybody to check their cellphones just to make sure that your cellphone is off. And also just so you know its being filmed tonight. We will be taking questions later, and passing around note cards, and then reading the questions from up here so they can also be part of the livestream and the booktv and there will be a booksigning afterwardded. Hay market books has a table and gary will by signing books. So please join is. This weekend i went to d. C. And had a couple of extra hour size went to she the king memorial. How many people have seen it . Its exceedingly depressing. Im sure he monument included alcoves to honor other civil rights martyr its but those were scrapped. King towers over us, the sculpture is flanked with a granite wall, 14 quotes on the wall, not one uses the word racism or segregation or Racial Injustice or apartheid, not one. Theyre earned like crossstretches, in 1963, 1967, 1955, 1963, 1964. Completely out of context
Nominating process. Then Bernie Sanders holds a rally in New Hampshire, parthams campaign is calling a worker appreciation tour. [cheering] thank you for coming. Fortunes above 50 million. You may get that big, pitch in two cents so everyone else has a chance to make it. We are doing the policy releases. People here want to get to know you, what you are about. As his Vice President , it is dd hisat honor toa name to the primary ballot today because we need america to give us four more years. Applause]d dr. Lara brown, that is a glimpse of the 2020 primary process. A process that attracted more than 20 democrats. Last time around, 17 gop candidates vying for the nomination. You have spent your academic career trying to understand and explain the electoral process. When you try to explain where we are today to people and how this process works, how do you explain it . Dr. Brown the thing you have to start with first is that competitiveness drives a lot of candidates. One of the things th
We are doing the policy releases. People here want to get to know you, what you are about. As his Vice President , it is my great honor toadd his name to the primary ballot today because we need america to give us four more years. [cheers and applause] dr. Lara brown, that is a glimpse of the 2020 primary process. A process that attracted more than 20 democrats. Last time around, 17 gop candidates vying for the nomination. You have spent your academic career trying to understand and explain the electoral process. When you try to explain where we are today to people and how this process works, how do you explain it . Dr. Brown the thing you have to start with first is that competitiveness drives a lot of candidates. One of the things that is so interesting, when we really understand why there are so many candidates in the democratic primary field, why there are so many republicans in the 2016 field, it was because the presidency was seen as being up for grabs in both instances. In 2016