They are going to talk about this morning. [laughter] mr. Williams but we will be entertained, i can tell you that. So what can we say about two of our very loyal members who have served for a long time on our board of advisors . John marszalek is my dear friend from Mississippi State university and executive director of the ulysses s. Grant association and now the ulysses s. Grant president ial library where i serve as president. And he is recently the editor, along with david nolen and louie of the annotated memoirs of ulysses s. Grant. The first time this has really been done. I highly recommend it. It is in the bookstore. Get one. And get two. [laughter] mr. Williams Craig Symonds, who is really a naval historian, but turned to lincoln and wrote a great book that won the lincoln prize here at gettysburg on lincoln and his admirals. I have to say this book that just came out, world war ii at sea a global history, absolutely superb. Published by oxford. Please get a copy. Ine of us a
Would have been next to impossible to but she created home wherever she was for the family, i guess. Susan swain as is the purview of army spouses i think over the years. Pamela sanfilippo right. Susan swain well, we have one more video of white haven, that beautiful green structure we showed you earlier, but youll have to go to our website to find it. Each week were putting a special feature on our website at cspan. Org first ladies. And we have a video there that will show you the grants life together at white haven. Youre looking at just a little glimpse of it now, and boy does it look green. [laughter] pamela sanfilippo its called paris green. Susan swain next is john, watching us all the way out in washington state, snohomish, you are snohomish, excuse me youre on the air. John my name is john grant, no relation to ulysses. But my greatgranduncle was one general grants staff. His name was cyrus blue comstock. And i have a copy of his diary. And in it, it mentions a number of times
and then the armed version, which is called reaper. and all the different technologies about it. you see this all the time on the news, and i ve had students now do dissertations about it, about what does it mean that these people are fighting in afghanistan and killing our enemies from air-conditioned, darkened trailers in las vegas? and how do they feel about it? and what do they say about it? and what is their reaction to it? one of my students who just finished his dissertation last summer was an air force fighter pilot, and he went in and did an anthropological study of these remote systems. and none of them actually said what samuel dana green said, but they said very many things that are very, very similar to that. and a few summers ago the air force held a symposium which i was invited to give the keynote for, called the future operator. who are we going to be, they asked themselves. because pilots are no longer the social who have always been the social backbone of
did ericsson picture in his head the bottom of the ship which was underwater, or did he just imagine the part that was on top? very good question. he designed it to be what he called a submarine battery. so the whole conception of the ship was that most of it would be underwater, which allowed the most destructive ways to just sort of flow over the deck and not damage the ship. also, because the turret was there, there wasn t much to shoot at if you were the enemy. so most of the crew he felt were well protected below the water line. nothing about that is necessarily a bad idea. but again, it depends on, you know, the seals between the two decks. there were if you look at this classic cross-section of the ship, it s really two hulls. there s this upper hull which is described as a raft which is wood clad by iron and this lower iron hull which hangs underneath it. and this was really one of the great weak points of this particular monitor. and probably what happened wh
years about the monitor was the work that they ve done here in the museum with children. and in what is now the monitor and pop culture gallery, a few years ago was basically full of children s art about the monitor versus the merrimack battle. and it was just amazing to see how this ship which still speaks to me after i wrote a book about b. it ten years ago and clearly speaks to all the people here in this room still in different ways speaks to children who are learning about it. and you found in these images everything from some kids just drew sailing boats, didn t want to deal with it at all. other kids drew, you know, fiery representations of the battle. one was sort of like jackson pollack, just scribbly mess, but the title said war is messy. and this one i actually published in the book from a young man named austin duch sto who lives here in virginia, just a very, very beautiful simple rendering of the ship where in a sense he really captured ericsson s origi