At the Manhattan Institute where he is also director of legal policy and you have read his work all over national media, youve seen him on television youve heard on radio and, by the way, he holds the jd and mba from yale where he was an owen fellow in law and economics, also a ba in economics from none other than unc chapel hill where he was a morehead scholar. Jim, so glad to have you with us here for our shaft spirit society. Thank you for joining us thank you for having me, donna, always a pleasure to speak to the good folks at the John Locke Foundation. Ive said it before, as someone who has worked many years at a National Think tank, so much policy happens on the state level and John Locke Foundation is really a Gold Standard think tank that has helped to reshape North Carolina and such a positive direction and lot of the strength and resilience right now and sound fiscal ain the midst of a pandemic is really due to the great work of the John Locke Foundation has done. Thank you
Of course we all know we are preparing to vote in a huge election collecting all sorts of folks and not just the president of the United States by congress and state legislators. Fascinating new book written by our guest today takes a look at the unelected , unaccountable elite and it is amazing and along to talk about it. Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute also leader of legal policy you have read his book all over National Media and by the way he was a jd and mba from yale where he was a fellow in law and economics mba from unc chapel hill. So glad to have you with us. Thank you for joining us at the john locke society. So is an honor i said it before as a National Think tank so much policy happens on the state level and the John Locke Foundation gives the Gold Standard to help to shape North Carolina in such a positive direction and then to be in the midst of a pandemic. Thanks for having me spin thank you for those comments i appreciate that. Your book writes about federal po
Book as director of legal policy and he holds a jd and mba from yale and a ba in economics and other firm chapel hill as a morehead scholar glad to have you with us. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Its always a pleasure to speak to those at the foundation i have said it before add a National Think tank so much policy happens on the state level and it is a Gold Standard think tank that has helped me to shape North Carolina and a lot of the resilience right now to have found a cisco flooding in the middle of a pandemic is due to the great work the John Locke Foundation has done thank you. Thank you for those comments you actually live in North Carolina so your book writes about federal policy but you follow state Public Policy as well and hopefully after we talk about your book you will get your take what is happening with Governor Cooper and Emergency Powers use here in North Carolina but i have to tell you the book is unelected you can buy the book now i think my col
Its taken me years to gather and find out what happened. Since its one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think its important to get that history straight. And were going to try to do that in a very summaried fashion today. Before i start though, i would like to remind you that other president s did tape starting with Franklin Roosevelt who used a when they first went to talky movies and they had a sound track, he had a system that was put in the oval office that recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sample. Let me go back. A quick sample of roosevelt taping. All right. You get a sample there. Let me give you a thats kind of an amazing when you think somebody today, when we have cell phones talking about the break through in that presidency of a walky talky that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back. Nixon got the idea of taping from lyndon johnson, his immediate predecessor. During the transition between the two presidencies, nixon and johnson met
Museum of the Civil War Soldier located near petersburg, virginia. He previously served as the first president of the association for the preservation of civil war sites from 1990 to 1994, an early version of what today we know as the American Battlefield trust. Hes also spent time as a historian including local fredericksburg in spotsylvania. Hes also served in other capacities. Dedicated researcher, a prolific writer, he has published more than 20 works on the civil war, on stonewall jackson, st. Petersburg, virginia, 1861 to 1865, and my favorite, the final battles of the petersburg campaign. His latest book, a campaign of giant is certainly a mustread a campaign of giants is certainly a must read for all civil war enthusiasts. I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to do the maps for buck. I said, you know what . Youre doing good work and he gave me an opportunity to showcase that so that im most grateful. Will is certainly a historian that we all look up to but hes not just