Archives the focus on the 2008 economic recession, trade and finance. All of the programs that youre about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org and you can do for the search function at the top of the page. First and february of 2015, the American Enterprise Institute Peter wallace and appears on our Author Interview program afterwards. He argued that government policy caused the 2008 financial crisis. Hidden in plain sight pretty literally caused the world financial crisis and why it could happen again printed you remember the financial crisis. It was investigating the causes and oh seven and oh eight pretty and you said that not only in the democrats on the committee but also from the republicans appointees, what did you see that they did not. Ive been looking at the housing system in the United States printed donna frank ansari, fannie mae and freddie mac. For quite a while before i got in the commission. So i had a lot of background of what is
Peter your new book is called hidden in plain sight. You remember the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission investigating the cause of the 2,072,008 financial crisis not only democrats but also from the republican appointees what did you see that they didnt . The housing system in the United States fannie mae and freddie mac for quite a while before a lot of background of what has been happening in the housing sector. I was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac what role they couldve played in the housing crisis and i found the commission was not interested in that. They would not look at it to the degree that i tried to interest them and given all kinds of signals that is not something they would do but my differences with the republicans came from the fact that my view our responsibility on the commission was to make sure the American People understood what happened in the crisis and i was outside the partisan differences between the repu
Chairman of the friends of falls bluff, his tactical study is widely considered to be the definitive work on that subject. Lets welcome james morgan. applause good morning everyone can everyone hear me ok . I will be moving around, so this microphone can i get sound back there do you have sound back there . First of all our topic, our theme a small battles and big results. And balls bluffs meets this criteria. 1700 men on each side the numbers were almost dead even. 1709 confederate, 1700 federals. Makes him using to read the officers after actions report because on both sides they insist they were terribly outnumbered by the other side. The numbers were dead even. Not only a total number but also at every point of contact during the day as those numbers are increasing up to the ultimate 1700 or so. Every point of contact the numbers are fairly close. That is just kind of fun to read the after action reports. Small battle general charles stone, Union Division commander after the war, w
An incredible discovery back in the 1990s that saved this building from being torn down. All is like around of applause for his discovery. This Evenings Program is a pay what you please event, meaning that at the conclusion of the program encourage you to leave a donation based on what you thought the program and the museum is worth to you. For an evening of Civil War History the donation bin is at the bottom of the stairs at the front of the Visitor Center on the first floor. If you would drop something in their, all those proceeds go to support the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office museum. The museum is member supported as well. If youre interested in learning more about becoming a supporter of the museum, let myself or other Staff Members know. We would be happy to assist you. Tonight program, we are very excited about. We are going to explore how the civil war shaped the celebration of christmas in the United States. Tonights presenter is brad stone, a longtime docent at the ion
Partnership between the General Services administration and the National Museum of civil war medicine. Thisays like to ask question how many of you have been here before . All right, everybody. Great. Welcome back to the museum. Always like to make a shout out when we see mr. Richard lyons in the audience. The reason we are here in this space is because mr. Lyons made an incredible discovery in the 1990s that saved this building from being torn down. Always like a round of applause for mr. Lyons his discovery. [applause] Evenings Program is a pay what you please event, meaning at the conclusion of the program, we encourage you to leave a donation based on what you thought the program and the museum is worth to you and an evening of civil war history. The donation bin is at the front of the Visitors Center on the first floor. As you head out this evening, if you would just drop something in there. All of the proceeds go to support the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office museum. Interes