University of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well look to explore the dynamics therein, but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program, we were established in 1998, and our goal, we are the only institution of this kind doing it, is to analyze and transcribe the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1940 through 1973, thats from Franklin Roosevelt through Richard Nixon. We do this work at the Miller Center. We do it offsite as well, because so much of our work these days is browserbased. But we publish work through the university of Virginia Press and its electronic imprint, rotunda. The president ial recordings digital initiative, digital edition, is our publication. We
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When i first moved to bozeman, there were so many things named story, story street, story motors, story distributing, story hills. But there was not a lot written on him. There was a historian who once said to me, you know, bozeman is misnamed. It ought to be story. Or storyville, or story town. Personally, i think bozeman has a better ring to it than any of those other options. So it remained bozeman. But i was curious about nelsons story since his name was plastered all over the place here. I just wanted to find out more about it. There has not been a fulllength biography about him, so over the years, i put it together. Nelson story was one of the more successful western capitalists in the history of the American West. If you take a step back and try and name others, you come up with Leland Stanford in california. Im sure that name rings a bell area you would have John Creighton from nebraska. John e live from northern colorado, and all of those people were very good. They started th
Tonight, please use the microphones that we will place, one there and one to the side. That is so your question doesnt get lost on cspan. I want to welcome all of you and let you know how much we appreciate you being here tonight. Especially knowing that the Democratic Party has done a little counter programming. [laughter] we have another 15 months plus to get our fill of 2020 president ial campaigning. Here we will take a few moments to remember a man who won it in 1988. A president , who seemed the longer he lived, the more loved and appreciated became. I was struck like many others i think by the national outpouring of respect in the days leading up to and through the funeral of George Herbert walker bush. At the funeral of his wife barbara, seven months earlier, al gore said he served our nation with extraordinary integrity and grace. [applause] the country seemed anxious to separate those qualities last november and december. A world war ii hero before he began his long political
And while the transfer of power was ultimately peaceful. Adams did forego his successors inauguration. I think thats also happened another time or two, but i wont bring that up. And those two men actually remained at odds for many many years. It was only later during their retirement. Did they actually rekindle their friendship . Discussing many different topics in their correspondence including the topic of death adams actually wrote to jefferson in 1822 these words quote. I answer your question. Is death an evil . It is not an evil. Is a blessing. To the individual and to the world yet we ought not to wish for it. To life becomes in supportable end quote he was 86 years old when he wrote this note. Perhaps adams had become comfortable with the idea of leaving the world. But it was four years later. That both men adams and jefferson passed away on the same exact day july 4th 1826 and while he was not present when his father died John Quincy Adams later recorded his fathers last words