Conference, but you need something to tie the room together. Why dont you have a leading scholar come in and present a manuscript in progress and really bring some of the leading scholars and practitioners who can critique that manuscript before it is too late . We have all been there when our book has come out and you participate in a panel and people always say, you should have done this, you should have done that. Today, we do have one of the worlds leading scholars, jeff engel, who i will say a word about first. Jeff is presenting his manuscript very much in progress. The title is when the world seemed new george h. W. Bush and. E end of the cold war an associate professor of history and the director of the center for president ial history at Southern Methodist university. He is the author of numerous books. Includehe most recent into the desert and the fall of the berlin wall. And we are really fortunate to have jeff with us. He is going to say a few words about his manuscript. He
When the weapon was found, it still had green marks from the branch and they were able to find exactly where he had the branch on. A few years ago, for the 50th anniversary of the freedom riders, they had a reunion here in town, and one of the gentleman that came into town this is his bus tickets he had carried with him all these years. It is also the receipt he received for getting out of jail. He was arrested with all the other freedom riders that came into town for a breach of peace. It meant so much to him he carried them with him all these years. He was from san francisco. He came as an 18yearold student because he wanted to make a change. The impact it had. To immediately arrive here in jackson and the throw to in jail, for trying to improve society. You can tell when he gave it to us, this held a deep lays in his a deep place in his heart. The freedom riders consisted of hundreds of different people from across the country, all of the africanamericans, as well as a lot of white
Very well in politics. He reached the highest peak. He was the president of the United States. But we must remember as has been pointed out in this statement that was released he was a texing otexas oil pioneer. He was a very successful businessman. He really gave that up to serve his country in another way outside of the military. Absolutely. There is an expression, you see this at his president ial library, i mean his office, his personal motto, he has two of them. One was faith, family and friends. And the second was to your point, any definition of a successful life must include service to others. So while a lot of people think of him as being raised in
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Cleveland. Oscar fulsome had been married and had a daughter. Cleveland was a bachelors of cleveland kind of accepted responsibility to pay for the child to go to an orphanage. But heres where the other part of the scandal comes in. Oscar fulsome dies a few years later in a carriage accident writing, driving his carriage, recklessly drunk, apparently breaks his neck. He leaves a widow and his young girl. Grover cleveland makes an enormous amount of money as his law partner, and cleveland kind of takes care of the widow and the young girl, pays for them, sets them up in a nice home. He becomes the godfather, if you will to the little girl. They are very close. She calls him on coca leaves, which should be part of a hint. He pays to send her to college. What happens is as francis is growing up, clevelands relationship with her changes. Changes from uncle cleve to a romantic interest. Cleveland start sending her letters and poems and roses. Its a fullcourt press on courting her. You can w
Days as a navy pilot, shot down by the japanese in world war ii over the pacific, to his humanitarian work with president clinton and of course so much action in between. Although his presidency lasted just one term, he oversaw some of the defining moments of u. S. Foreign policy in the 20th century. He guided the brakeup of the soviet union, operation desert storm, known to most of us as the gulf war. His final words were to his son, president george w. Bush, who told his son, i love you too. George w. Bush remembered his father as a man of the highest character. President trump, who has fought with the bushes, said this in buenos aires today. He was a wonderful man, a very fine man. He met him on numerous occasions. He was a high quality man who truly loved his family, one thing that came through loud and clear, was very proud of his family. He was a desk guy. Hell be missed and led a full life and a very exemplary life too, i will say. He ordered flags at halfstaff for 30 days and a