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Press, veteran journalists, political commentator, author. Before hill center, really even opened, bill had an idea that he wanted to sort of and host an indepth conversation that he would moderate with you know distinguished guests and over the years there have been so many very distinguished guests. But i have to say, i think no one more distinguished than our guest this evening. So call my wall street journal editor, Political Editor and reporter neil king. He has just published this extraordinary book, american ramble a walk of memory and renewal. He said he bookshop copies for sale and neil will be signing the book afterwards. Im you will have seen that its just the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive to say the least so without further ado please welcome neil king and bill press. Thank you, marianne. And good evening, everybody. Great to see you all. Thank you for coming this evening. I want to say a big welcome first to our friends here, the hill center. I dont know what n
Hi, everybody. Afternoon. Im john obrien from the department of english and im happy to kick things off. Todays lecture is part of English Department lecture series known as the peters rushton seminars, a series that goes back to 1950. Its a series that included speakers such as keith brookes, randall general auden and seamus heaney. Today, were happy to welcome fred kaplan to the west oval room of the rotunda to speak on his designer Thomas Jefferson. Fred kaplan is distinguished Professor Emeritus of english at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of new york. A scholar in century literature, kaplan has become best known as one of the most distinguished biographers of our era. He is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln gore vidal, and now Thomas Jefferson in his masterly pen. Kaplan offers us a biography of Thomas Jefferson by giving an english professors kind attention to jeffer
Opened, bill had an idea that he wanted to sort of and host an indepth conversation that he would moderate with you know distinguished guests and over the years there have been so many very distinguished guests. But i have to say, i think no one more distinguished than our guest this evening. So call my wall street journal editor, Political Editor and reporter neil king. He has just published this extraordinary book, american ramble a walk of memory and renewal. He said he bookshop copies for sale and neil will be signing the book afterwards. Im you will have seen that its just the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive to say the least so without further ado please welcome neil king and bill press. Thank you, marianne. And good evening, everybody. Great to see you all. Thank you for coming this evening. I want to say a big welcome first to our friends here, the hill center. I dont know what number of talk of the hills this is, but there are fun and exciting and none more, marianne
governor ron desantis is wrapping up events in the granite states. nikki haley will hold a rally there tonight. donald trump is also expected to head to new hampshire after spending the day in court in new york. let s bring in former arkansas governor asa hutchinson. he finished sixth in the iowa republican caucuses. governor, i want to start with the fact that the democratic national committee put out a snarky statement about you suspending your campaign, saying this news comes as a shock to those of us who thought he already dropped out. a number of democrats said you were telling the truth about donald trump and standing up for democracy. i understand that president biden s chief of staff called you to apologize. well, that s correct. of course, i didn t pay much attention to what the dnc said, but it s actually gratifying to see a bipartisan rebuffing of this snarky tweet, as you say, or comment. to me, it just doesn t reflect the best of america whenever you have ridic