This is about 40 minutes. [applause] all right everybody. Thank you, phil. I want to thank you all for being here this afternoon and i wish to welcome all of you again to Georgetown University. Behind me is Isaac Hawkins hall. [applause] right there. We are here to dedicate this annemariealong with hall, the oldest building of our campus just a short walk from here i wish to offer a special welcome to our community who are present this afternoon, some traveling a great distance to be here for this day which includes this dedication, our energy of remembrance, contrition and hope which concluded just a few months ago, and some special gatherings and presentations into the afternoon and this evening. I welcome all of you, especially the members of the hawkins family and all of the extended members of your family. We are grateful and honored by your presence and by the efforts of so many around the nation to share in the events with us, on line and in gatherings in new orleans and baton r
Fun to accuse his opponent of bestiality because whether or not it was true, he had to defend himself. Right. And so i think theres been a lot, you know theres always been this sort of lets put this out there and see what, you know what dance they have to do to make this, to get out of this. So yeah. And that was probably said, obviously with him in the preinternet age. [laughter] where you can put anything out now about anybody. Bun of the nice things and hopefully our book is part of this is there is a way of trying to hold politicians accountable and things like fact check and the Tampa Bay Times political practice you can change the accuracy of the statement and i would love to see personally more of those type of things and how politics come and again we hope that our book, by eluding people to the fact they fall back on these wellworn expressions can contribute to that understanding. I understand how these spread so quickly with the internet but who comes up with them in the firs
I want to thank you and welcome you to Georgetown University where we are gathered and behind me is Isaac Hawkins hall. [cheers and applause] right there. Which we are here to dedicate along with the oldest building on our campus located a short walk from here around the corner of this building. I wish to offer a special welcome to the members of our descending community who are present this afternoon, some traveling a great distance to be here for the state to my day which includes this dedication, our liturgy of remembrance contrition and hope which concluded a few moments ago upstairs and gaston hall. Some of the special gatherings this evening. It want to welcome all of you, especially members of the hawkins family and all the extended members of your family. We are grateful and honored by your presence and by the efforts of so many around our nation to share in these events with us online and in gatherings at Southern University in new orleans and baton rouge, we want to thank you
Remember, the festival has some sources of funding, but mostly it depends on donations from people like you. You can donate on the festival web site, from the app, on facebooking, or you can do it the oldfashioned way, in person at the Festival Headquarters here. [laughter] we will be ending the session about ten minutes before the hour or so. First, well hear from dr. Daryl carter. He, hes written a book called brother bill president clinton and the politics of race and class. Hes an associate professor at east Tennessee State university, and and his areas of expertise are 20th and 21st century american political history. He particularly is interested in the new deal, in the fair deal, the great society, the clinton and obama presidencies and the intersection of race, class and gender. Hes been appointed to the world war i War Commission in tennessee and is a member of the board of directors of the tennessee humanities. Dr. Carter . Its yours. Thank you, judge. I wish to thank everyon
And growing community, that is where we are gathering around not only professional writers but folks who write for their own enjoyment and creative purposes and anyone who loves to read anything. We have ongoing collaboration in vanderbilt university, helping us program a special track every year. This year among a couple tracks we have going on we have one, all the kings men, the Pulitzer Prize is celebrating the 100th anniversary so the pulitzers at remember, the festival has some sources of funding, but mostly it depends on donations from people like you. You can donate on the festival web site, from the app, on facebooking, or you can do it the oldfashioned way, in person at the Festival Headquarters here. [laughter] we will be ending the session about ten minutes before the hour or so. First, well hear from dr. Daryl carter. He, hes written a book called brother bill president clinton and the politics of race and class. Hes an associate professor at east Tennessee State university