Author of the book the revolution of 28 al smith, american progressivism and the coming of the new deal. His Progressive Coalition paved the way for franklin roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome you all here to our talk for this evening. On behalf of the History Department here, welcome, to our evenings talk. Were able to hold this talk thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert chiles. Hes a graduate of town send university where he studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012. And the talk that hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has in the course of this particular research, the research for this project, hes received a
heritage foundation and no doubt as i scanned the audience a great friend of many of you individually. it still is a pleasure to introduce senator mike lee and i ll introduce him this way not just as one of the most thoughtful members of the united states senate not just one of the patriots of our age but someone who in spite of all of the challenges facing this great republic remains steadfast in his cheerfulness and so it is a wonderful privilege on behalf of all of us at the heritage foundation to introduce our friend senator mike lee. thank you. senator good afternoon to you. thank you. yeah good to be here. thanks. thanks for being here. so we re going to get into this wonderful book, which i told you earlier in the week. i had skimmed i have since read so i did my homework. and you can decide how well i did based on the questions. but before we get into the book, there s a lot going on in washington this week. i know you don t mind a question about that. what s your ass
states senate not just one of the patriots of our age but someone who in spite of all of the challenges facing this great republic remains steadfast in his cheerfulness and so it is a wonderful privilege on behalf of all of us at the heritage foundation to introduce our friend senator mike lee. thank you. senator good afternoon to you. thank you. yeah good to be here. thanks. thanks for being here. so we re going to get into this wonderful book, which i told you earlier in the week. i had skimmed i have since read so i did my homework. and you can decide how well i did based on the questions. but before we get into the book, there s a lot going on in washington this week. i know you don t mind a question about that. what s your assessment of what s happening in the country right now? well a lot s happening including the fact that we ve got people who want to protest at the homes of supreme court justices. we ve got federal statute that makes that a felony offense and a presid
thank you and welcome to all of you in this nearly packed auditorium, but those of you also who have joined online. for a gentleman who needs very little introduction? and who is a great friend of the heritage foundation and no doubt as i scanned the audience a great friend of many of you individually. it still is a pleasure to introduce senator mike lee and i ll introduce him this way not just as one of the most thoughtful members of the united states senate not just one of the patriots of our age but someone who in spite of all of the challenges facing this great republic remains steadfast in his cheerfulness and so it is a wonderful privilege on behalf of all of us at the heritage foundation to introduce our friend senator mike lee. thank you. senator good afternoon to you. thank you. yeah good to be here. thanks. thanks for being here. so we re going to get into this wonderful book, which i told you earlier in the week. i had skimmed i have since read so i did my homework
are all very kind. thank you and welcome to all of you in this nearly packed auditorium but also all of you enjoying online. for a gentleman who needs very little introduction and he was a great friend of the heritage foundation and no doubt in the audience a great friend of many of you individually. it still is apleasure to introduce senator mike lee and i ll introduce in this way, not just as one of the most awful members of the senate , not just as one of the patriots of our age but as someone who in spite of all the challenges facing this great republic remains steadfast and in his cheerfulness so it is a wonderful privilege to have them at the heritage foundation to introduce our friend. [applause] welcome. senator, good afternoon. it s great to be here, thanks for being here. going to get into this wonderful book which i told you i have since read. i did my homework. you can decide how well i did based on the question but before we get into the book is a lot goi