His line and say welcome to my house. I am pleased you could join us and whether youre here participating through facebook or youtube, welcome to those of you who are joining on cspan. Today we listen to christian teller discusses most recent book the great partnership, Stonewall Jackson and the state of the confederacy. Doctor keller is the eisenhower chair of the National Security and strategy of the United States Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania. This year he became a director of military history program. In many articles he is the author, coauthor or editor of several previous books on American Civil War including the germans ethnicity and civil war memory. In the introduction in the book he lays out clearly and concisely several things. Including the value of this book. Historical and what youll find in his notes versus the text itself. I greatly appreciate him confronting ahead on interpretive value and reliability of material particularly confederate wartime sources ver
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Okay, i think all of you know dr. Kim, who has changed the world in so many ways. But lets just take a look. A physician, an anthropologist, president of the world bank since 2012. President of dartmouth college. World Health Organization head for hiv and aids efforts. Cofounder of partners in health, 1987. One, its an honor to have you with us tonight. My thanks so much for having me. By the way, the wyoming answer. I think part of it is the absence of Tertiary Health care centers relatively speaking, right . Massachusetts would never win it as a result. This is strategy. Next time, you want to sit at the same table with dr. Kim. Three Global Crisis that you spoke about. Conflict, endemics, impasse on people being forcibly displaced. Countries and nearly every region turning inward. International and homegrown terrorism. As you thought about what you wanted to seek at the meetings, why did you pick these three crises to start with . Well, you know, one of the things that i have notice
Our Net Advantage is so huge. It means they want to avoid it as fast as they can. Im purposely prepared to walk out. It doesnt frighten me to walk out. Two, im a fairly impatient guy. I thought we would get it all done by now. The combination of not having either one makes me unhappy. Three, i was sort of bored this morning and thought it would start a new argument. You have to see those things to understand how the Trump Presidency operates. Im not trying to attack him. Im just suggesting that you have to look at the american tradition. Andrew jackson to have personalities that are as volatile and as aggressive as trump. If you go back and read how they were covered in their time but covering their time they were very much like trump and they were aggressive, they are willing to fight. Those characteristics are at the heart of how they approach everything. Look at iran. Look at nato. He is a very enthusiastic guy at picking fights. I thought that would slow you down. It did. I told th
The National Agenda series. We are working, the bidens, because again, the doctor and the board have been generous in allowing me to bring some major, serious staff people from washington who work with me and know you and you know them and to Work Together to produce some genuinely we have two objectives. One is to produce serious academic material that sheds light on the issues of the day. And two, to bring to the campus , exposed to my fellow men expose them to some of the best minds and leaders in the country in all fields, but mainly in this case, politics. Dr. Hoffman, thank you for letting us join your operation and thank you for being willing to moderate. And nancy, who ive known for years since shes been a child she reminded me she started interviewing me when my daughter ashley, who is now 35 years old, was four years old. She said she was peeking out from behind the desk at the time. Nancy has done a great job here. An outfit that frank began, this school. I just wanted you t