And then were each going to say a few words about our quite different roles well, nathan and i have the same role. Hes trying to steal the 20th century from me and doing a pretty good job of it, but we all have relatively different roles and backstory. We are going to talk about that a little bit. And then we are going to open it up to your questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes at backstory. In fact, were rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like, for instance, even though i talk to him every week. So introducing myself, im a professor at the university of virginia, i cohost backstory and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost nathan connelly, of course, is known to most of you as an outstanding scholar. He is the Herbert Herbert baxter adams chair of history at the Johns Hopkins university. He is the author of a world more concrete, real estate
Social media. On twitter, cspanwj. On facebook, it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling it now. Having this conversation after a historic week when it comes to opioid litigation. On monday. T happened the drugmaker Johnson Johnson was found to be was on support for contributing to oklahomas Opioid Crisis and ordered by a Court District judge to pay 572 million in fines. On tuesday, Purdue Pharma was reported to be in talks to pay between 10 billion and 12 billion to settle some 2000 opioidrelated lawsuits brought by states, cities, and counties. This was the scene in that oklahoma courtroom when the judge announced his decision in that Johnson Johnson case. [video clip] the Opioid Crisis is an eminent danger, and my judgment includes findings of fact and the law of the state mets its burden that the defendant, misleading inson, includingection one, the finding that those actions compromised the health and safety of thousands of oklahomans,
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
After the first u. S. Moon landing. Panelists including designers. The space museum was the host of this event here in washington, d. C. Weve assembled a panel of speakers, a really fantastic. Some of my favorite people i like to talk to when talking about spacesuits, to recount the making of the apollo spacesuits and to inform us on the lessons that we have learned as we are going back to the next spacesuit in the next thing in spacesuit development, be it going back to the moon, going to an asteroid or going on to mars. In order to save time for tonights program, im going to introduce all four speakers and theyre going to come up and tell their stories and then well have time for discussion and questions from the audience at the end. Our speakers tonight in order of appearance are first bill airy, who is a recently retired test engineer at ilc dover, the company that made the apollo spacesuits and the suits that astronauts use to space walk from the iss when they leave via the americ
University of akron. [laughter] time. Back in im an assistant director of applied politics. Im also a board member of the Akron Press Club and have been over a decade. And im a member of the white house transition project, which for those who dont know, it is a nonpartisan effort by presidency scholars to provide information on president ial transitions and white house operations to those who are transitioning into the white house. Its a very Important Organization that happened to be one of the founders of that organization is martha kumar, who i am happy to introduce right now. She is an emeritus professor at Towson University and director and creator of the white house transition project. She is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles, including before the oath how george w. Bush and barack obama managed the transfer of power. Shes also the winner of the apsa 2008 best book award. Editor of other books, influential books in the area. In addition to her scholarly work, sh