The happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. I want to give you a version of what ive been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. Will present this room as a las vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us led headed thinkers turned into gold tone scholars and teachers picture a process of something that works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes class mates once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleagues, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little because money came to yale to study with harlem are a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that racked up group of students in american studies. clapping not a cold or exactly but we did become friends, puzzling over readings, yawning over brilliant, but sometim
Collection book . Well, im here on franklins coattails because had written a book about Ben Franklins years in, france, when he is essentially paving way for the American Foreign service, hes really first foreign ambassador. And in the years that he spends in france, puts america on the map and as that is the genesis really of the department of state in the beginnings of, American Foreign policy. Im here in a way, as Ben Franklins companion. And that, of course, is your book, the great improvised about Ben Franklins time in france. You describe franklin as combative, prideful, callous and overbearing. Does that make for a diplomat . No, i think is ben franklin, as he dealt with his colleagues, a curious thing about franklins years in france is that he essentially hits the ball out of the park on every front, except when dealing with his fellow commissioners in paris and especially john adams. And so those are adjectives that i think john adams would have quickly applied, franklin, wher
We talking to you at the state department . Largely because we have glorious newly refurbished rooms to celebrate any beautiful, opulent book that gives us the history of those rooms and the collection in its entirety to celebrate as well. And we are sitting in the ben franklin diplomatic room at this time. What is your connection to the state departments americas collection book . Well, im here on franklins coattails because had written a book about Ben Franklins years in, france, when he is essentially paving way for the American Foreign service, hes really first foreign ambassador. And in the years that he spends in france, puts america on the map and as that is the genesis really of the department of state in the beginnings of, American Foreign policy. Im here in a way, as Ben Franklins companion. And that, of course, is your book, the great improvised about Ben Franklins time in france. You describe franklin as combative, prideful, callous and overbearing. Does that make for a dip
We talking to you at the state department . Largely because we have glorious newly refurbished rooms to celebrate any beautiful, opulboy of those rooms and the collection in its entirety to celebrate as well. And we are sitting in the bein s time. What is your connection to the state departments americas collection book . Well, im here on franklins because had written a book about Ben Franklins years in, france, when he is essentially paving way for the American Foreign service, hes really first foreign ambassador. And in the years that he spends in france, puts america on the map and as that is the genesis really of the department of state in the beginnings of, American Foreign policy. Im here in a way, as Ben Franklins companion. And that, of course, is your book, the great improvised about Ben Franklinsin france. You describe franklin as combative, prideful,overbearing. Does that make for a diplomat . No, i think is ben franklin, as heeaith his colleagues, a curious thing about fran
Celebrate any beautiful, opulent book that gives us the history of those rooms and the collection in its entirety to celebrate as well. And we are sitting in the ben franklin diplomatic room at this time. What is your connection to the state departments americas collection book . Well, im here on franklins coattails because had written a book about Ben Franklins years in, france, when he is essentially paving way for the American Foreign service, hes really first foreign ambassador. And in the years that he spends in france, puts america on the map and as that is the genesis really of the department of state in the beginnings of, American Foreign policy. Im here in a way, as Ben Franklins companion. And that, of course, is your book, the great improvised about Ben Franklins time in france. You describe franklin as combative, prideful, callous and overbearing. Does that make for a diplomat . No, i think is ben franklin, as he dealt with his colleagues, a curious thing about franklins ye