This happens to be kind of a happy confluence of Kansas City Public Library programming. Its the latest in our series with the u. S. Army command and general Staff College in Fort Leavenworth on marking 75 years since world war ii, but it also comes in the middle of the librarys partnership, and its from january through may with the eisenhower president ial library and foundation in abilene, and its on the Dwight Eisenhower exhibit. We have a series of programs running on Dwight Eisenhower in may. The next one of those is in fact is next wednesday. Tonight, we focus on eisenhower and George Marshall. The chief the army chief of staff who targeted ike for advancement as a military officer, keen eye for talent. Spy george patton, spied omar bradley, and he became one of ikes chief mentors from 1939 to 1945. Marshall, of course, went on to become secretary of state and win a Nobel Peace Prize. David mills is an assistant professor of military history at the command and general Staff Colle
State university. We are very grateful not only to have one of the mentors of kennesaws tom scotto over here, but david parker is a good representative from my department. Thank you, david, for coming. And thank you to all of you for being here, and thank you to our speaker for making it here. Because we had actually planned for him to come to a Different Event some time ago and the weather got in the way. This time, the weather did not prevent him from arriving and we are so excited to have Steve Woodworth. Stephen i do go steve and i do go a long way back. He taught for eight years at toccoa, so he has some good georgia roots in that area, and he went on to texas christian university, where he is the powerhouse. Different people who say, who should i study with . He is one of the first names to come up for them and for me. One of my first books of steves was Jefferson Davis as general. It wasnt an area that did not have his name associated with it. I picked of volume that had a thoma
Vote convict or quitt an impeached president. How any time said he personally gone through any kind of an impeachment trial . Senator byrd i have sat through three impeachment trials of federal judges. As president pro temp of the the democrats were in control of the senate, i presided over the convictions of two federal judges, which i believe is probably the highest number of convictions over which any president progra temp has presided. I also prepared for the impeachment trial of former president nixon. Host what is the public going to see that they will be surprised about . I hope that well, whichill see a trial in there will be proper the quorum decorum. I dont expect them to see, annd d i would want to go to a corner and stand in shame if they saw the senate engaged in a trial such as the o. J. Simpson trial. Its not a criminal trial, an impeachment trial is not a criminal trial. Differently. Ed e that concern an offens is not indictable in a court of law, and thats important to
Largest salt producing region in the country. We are on top of a trapped ancient sea, a 600 millionyearold source. This has been dissolved by a freshwater aquifer which means it runs under us like a salty river. This was pushing up in springs and places, which is how it was discovered, mainly by large animals. Deer and elk and buffalo were here. Native americans came for hunting and gathering salt for themselves, and as european settlers moved west across Allegheny Mountains they found this valuable source of salt, which we take for granted today, how important salt was before refrigeration. The salt industry really started to grow in the early 1800s. The ruffner family, the dickinsons, really started to grow this industry. And it was an industry that grew on the backs of slaves. Valley was one of the largest industrial slave uses in the country, like many other industries. There were over slaves in the 5000 valley and 250 on the property alone. By the 1840s we were the largest salt ma
Watergate committee. He recalls the day he served president Richard Nixon with a subpoena. Subpoenaed the president 46 years ago on july 23, it was the first time in the history of the country that a committee of congress had ever issued a subpoena to the president. Becauselectrified washington was filled with anticipation. The did not know whether president was going to be totally indicted or what was going to happen to him. When those takes were finally revealed, that was the way they removed mr. Nixon from office voluntarily. He saw that his own words convicted him. What was your role during watergate . I was the deputy chief counsel. Was the chief operating officer. I was there to serve as the righthand man to see that things were working well, the train kept running. Coordinate the hearings, who the witnesses would be, how they would be handled. It was a big job to run a committee with competing personalities and a lot of computing staff. It was my job to just see that things work