Everyone who says it is wasteful has a great defense as to why it is there, but the real question atwill we become efficient how we spend the money of the American People . This is a big, big enterprise. There is nothing else in the size of the world. Unless we have the knowledge of it. I think there ought to be 500 35 waist bills every year, and then we ought to have the debate about not spending money wisely and have the information at our fingertips so we make great because, quite frankly, we do not make great decisions because we do not have the knowledge, and then what knowledge we do have, we transfer to a bureaucracy to wee decisions about it when should have been guiding these things. Decades would be different if we had effective oversight. These differences should be argued. Should beences resolved through civil discourse so they are not settled in the , just as the constitution provides for majority rule in our democracy while protecting the rights of the individual. The sen
My shoulder and any president that puts his hand on your shoulder gets your attention. Reagan was one of those historic figures. He said look it took us half a century to get into this mess. I have been the first seven years. Maybe you guys will have to do the heavy lifting on your own later. This is particularly special to me because so many people in this room have been a part of the process of my writing the book. I mean, everybody. Im looking around and seeing people who counseled me through the book proposal writing process and encouraged me when i thought i could never get it done, friends who called me up to find out about how the book was doing, my family, husbands here, so many people here who basically help me get a book done, and so its really awesome to be sitting here tonight in a room full of people who have supported me along the way. I even think, actually, over a couple years ago when we moved to maplewood six years ago getting coffee across the street, with a lot of y
How important was gettysburg. Right but i am honored. To present this mornings speakers. They are both exceptional people. Our first speaker will be professor gary gallagher. Who is the john l . No, is that the way its pronounced nau now . A Professor Emeritus in the history of the American Civil War and director of the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia. Hes the author coauthor and editor of numerous civil war era works. He has served as president of the society of civil war historians and received the Tom Watson Brown book prize from the society in 2012 for his the union war. Prior to that honor his the confederate war was a finalist for the 1998 lincoln prize copies of his books including this one causes one lost and forgotten how hollywood and popular art shape what we know about the civil war. This one is there and i got this one because i hadnt read it yet, but there are several others that are available in the symposium bookstore. Please help me to welcom
Speakers. They are both exceptional people. Our first speaker will be professor gary gallagher. Who is the john l . No, is that the way its pronounced nau now . A Professor Emeritus in the history of the American Civil War and director of the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia. Hes the author coauthor and editor of numerous civil war era works. He has served as president of the society of civil war historians and received the Tom Watson Brown book prize from the society in 2012 for his the union war. Prior to that honor his the confederate war was a finalist for the 1998 lincoln prize copies of his books including this one causes one lost and forgotten how hollywood and popular art shape what we know about the civil war. This one is there and i got this one because i hadnt read it yet, but there are several others that are available in the symposium bookstore. Please help me to welcome our professor gallagher whos topic this morning . Is going to be how should a
Had to do the fighting and we need the moses generation this weekend working with the joshua generation and dont let them divide us, old versus young. Some of this language clarence that we have heard before. The tea party is nothing but dixiecrat tenet was lee atwater who made that point. Lee atwater the southern strategy architect he said and ive got it on tape. You cant say it like you did in 1950 and 64. You have got to save us sing. You have got to use terms in the abstract and that is how he was able to capture the southern folk and they became republicans from dixiecrat to republicans. Its the same thing. Its just that they speak in abstract. America is getting smart. Everybody up here is absolutely right. It is no longer them saying its them, them, them. Its now us and these folks who are against medicare and social security, they are kicking their grandma under the bus. They are kicking their own people under the bus and i think mr. Turner is absolutely right. We are going to