Next, the Smithsonian Associates host an event looking at the life and death of president garfield. This is two hours. , the one that i find the most interesting is the one we are going to discuss tonight, James Garfield. For quite a number of reasons, first of all, garfield is one of the most intelligent president s we have ever had, he is up there in the top half dozen. When we go through his life, by the end of it or a middle of it you can start laughing, because you are going to say no, that cant be. He cant be that good in that field. It is not possible. And then we find something else. And you are going to say no. He is just incredibly bright. The hope for his presidency was enormous. We are going to discuss and absolutely brilliant human being. I was chatting with a friend before and he has me five are garfield most intelligent, i dont know how you test Something Like that. Its not like you give president s iq tests. Its easier with things that are easy to measure. Tall and shor
Turn your cell phones off because you wont need them, you can look your cell phone for the next hour i guarantee it. It was good to be completely mesmerized by our author, that we are so proud to bring you today. Thank you for supporting book passage. We are an independent bookstore one of the very few remaining independent bookstores. [applause] thank you. We are very proud of that fact. Thanks for coming to our core the madeira location we have a beautiful store in the siri building in San Francisco. If youve never been there, its a beautiful store, go in, by a few books and have dinner in the city. Its a wonderful way to spend your evening. Remember, book passage is so much more than just a bookstore, we bring to you probably a thousand author readings every year, if you can believe that. In addition we also have all kinds of classes, language classes, writing classes, we have book groups, childrens classes and finally, and proud to say we are going green. We have put in producing a
Was that leading u. S. Senators were sidiing essentially with te antiwar faction and an amendment to end the war were appealing to the public, and doing it in a very cool and calm and rational and thoughtful way, and this was a very important moment for the Antiwar Movement, that it wasnt just in the streets. It was in the senate and the congress as well. You hadnt seen this before, whats your impressions, your first reaction to just the tone of this thing . Its a very serious piece. These are very earnest men who are both republicans and democrats, moderates and liberals, people who have come to the conclusion that the United States should not be fighting in this war, that the tragedy has mounted so much over the years that they have to and they are trying to use the legislati legislative branch to bring the war to an end, in a sense creating a bit of a constitutional clash with the president of the United States. Its a very moving piece, and those are all very prominent senators. I k
Good evening everyone como welcome to book passage, thank you for coming out tonight on a tuesday night, there are so many things you could be doing, you made a really good decision coming here this is a smart crowd you are going to be mesmerized and just fascinated by the program we have for you tonight. In that vein, we ask that you turn your cell phones off because you wont need them, you can look your cell phone for the next hour i guarantee it. It was good to be completely mesmerized by our author, that we are so proud to bring you today. Thank you for supporting book passage. We are an independent bookstore one of the very few remaining independent bookstores. [applause] thank you. We are very proud of that fact. Thanks for coming to our core the madeira location we have a beautiful store in the siri building in San Francisco. If youve never been there, its a beautiful store, go in, by a few books and have dinner in the city. Its a wonderful way to spend your evening. Remember, b
Were siding essentially with the antiwar faction and an amendment to end the war were appealing to the public, and doing it in a very cool and calm and rational and thoughtful way, and this was a very important moment for the Antiwar Movement, that it wasnt just in the streets. It was in the senate and the congress as well. You hadnt seen this before, whats your impressions, your first reaction to just the tone of this thing . Its a very serious piece. These are very earnest men who are both republicans and democrats, moderates and liberals, people who have come to the conclusion that the United States should not be fighting in this war, that the tragedy has mounted so much over the years that they have to and they are trying to use the legislative branch to bring the war to an end, in a sense creating a bit of a constitutional clash with the president of the United States. Its a very moving piece, and those are all very prominent senators. I knew several of them and worked with them.