Another journalist in the book, that they were really consumed with this thought and concerned. I thought that i would read you from this chapter i will stay with you, mary, because its sort of rings that alive. I will read this. People, a. Mitchell palmer and J Edgar Hoover were heroes. For others, they were the villains. Those who saw them as villains might have chosen William Monroe for their alice paul heroes. Excuse me. An American Hero is someone who protested and justices come any quality, and prejudice . What was it someone who protected the American Public from protesters . Was it the man who rounded up a mob to attack an alleged murderer, or wasnt the man who took a bullet trying to stop him . What of the worker, who went on strike to improve wages and conditions . Was it the manager who struggle to keep production moving during the strike . American ideals of individualism and freedom sometime use the notions of villains and heroes. Their willingness to oppose the popular cu
War places, and the atlanta campaign. Up first this morning, Oklahoma State University Professor Jennifer Murray on the Gettysburg National park. She is, as you know, an expert on the civil war and in expert in military history in general. She has a full publication resume. Her most important book and most recent is entitled on a great battlefield the making, making, management, and memory of Gettysburg National park. It was published in 2013 at the university of tennessee press. She is currently working on a biography of general george which wille, hopefully be published by the university of North Carolina in the civil war series. A faculty member in her. Many of you have been on her battlefield tours which are outstanding, hardly because she cut her teeth as a young torian seasonal here for nine years . Nine years. Nine years. I am pleased to welcome jan murray to talk about her book on murray toon of jen talk about her book on the creation of the Gettysburg National park. Go get em.
Committee chair chuck grassley, former fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and others. [ applause ] hi, everyone. Thank you for coming. And thanks to pfizer for sponsoring the event. Just to reiterate, if youre into hash tags, go ahead and use axios 360 and we can have fun on the social networks together. And if youre also inclined, go to signup. Axios. Com to get our news letters, especially vitals, written by my colleague, Caitlyn Owens. We try to keep things short and light. And real quick, logistic, if youve never been to one of our events before, we try to keep things short and sweet. Four segments of interviews. We want you leaving here feeling smarter about what we talked about. And this in particular is about drug pricing in america, which obviously will continue to be an issue going into 2020. So with that in mind, id like to welcome our first guest, senator chuck grassley. [ applause ] good to be with you, bob. Thanks for coming. All right. I think its only its a good place to st
I would like to say to everyone that is here testifying today. Thank you so much. Because i do represent the sixth congressional district. I would like to give a warm welcome. Special thanks to a fellow georgian. Your written testimony examines the decline and competition in the georgia press. What has that meant for the information that they are going to receive. About the government at all levels. Thank you for the question. In a way, i guess you could probably answer it after the Spirited Campaign in the sixth district. I think it was clear that we devoted a awful lot of our folks to covering that. I mentioned that because i think it can be loss. Crucial elections where other news organizations may not be in a position in different parts of georgia to cover a campaign. To deal with the controversy to sort through potential misleading television thats. I also think that we increase the situation where we are not competing with each other as those organizations as much. Everyone is be
Tech companies to meet with members of congress, talk about some of the Public Policy issues they face. That is this week on the communicators. What is the point of bringing all this technology to capitol hill . As you know, we produce the Worlds Largest innovation event. In las vegas every january but not everyone on capitol hill can come to las vegas so we want to get less than one person here and feature the innovative things and even start up companies that could Show Congress the Great Innovation that we have in this country. What is the advantage of showing it . Some people can learn by reading or watching. Like a livehing experience when you talk to people who work for a company, explaining their technology and frankly anyone who comes here or any other industry event as a politician, they are learning something. Changing world where technology is moving so quickly and so many policies are affected whether it is self driving cars a robotics or drones or all this Amazing Software