All right. Better late than never, the meeting will come to order. Sorry. The constitutional obligation of the job. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give myself an opening statement. I will not take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Those of you whd past hearings no as committee sometimes likes to shake things up, and today, were looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our committees mandate. We figured what better way to showcase the next generation of leaders would be to future this committee of to feature this. Ommittees freshmen members we have benefited from their unique perspective as freshmen members. Resentative tendons representative tendons representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. They are running the meeting today. Vice chairman graves, i know you will a
And then were each going to say a few words about our quite different roles well, nathan and i have the same role. Hes trying to steal the 20th century from me and doing a pretty good job of it, but we all have relatively different roles and backstory. We are going to talk about that a little bit. And then we are going to open it up to your questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes at backstory. In fact, were rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like, for instance, even though i talk to him every week. So introducing myself, im a professor at the university of virginia, i cohost backstory and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost nathan connelly, of course, is known to most of you as an outstanding scholar. He is the Herbert Herbert baxter adams chair of history at the Johns Hopkins university. He is the author of a world more concrete, real estate
Tv, back story host brian tran brian balogh and Nathan Connolly give a behindthe scenes look at their weekly podcast. They were joined by a former staff member and a regular guest. This is part of a twoday Purdue University Conference Call remaking american political history. Welcome to the 10 45 panel called Something Like behind the scenes, back story maybe. Just so you know, youre not in the wrong place. I am brian balogh. I have been a cohost for back story for over 10 years now. I am going to introduce the panel and then we are each going to say a few words about our quite different roles. Nathan and i have the same role. He is trying to steal the 20th century for me and is doing a pretty good job of it. Will have relatively different roles in back story. We are going to talk about that a little bit. And then we wanted to open it up to your questions. This is not what it looks like behind the scenes at back story. In fact, we are rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to
Panelists. Theyll introduce themselves before their presentations. Theyre each going to speak for about 10 to 12 minutes at the most about their Current Research on president ial commissions. And then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and political history. And ill reserve the last half hour at least for questions and comments from you and for us to continue talking. As you can tell, todays session is being filmed by cspan. Do with that information what you will. I am frank popper. I teach city planning rather than history, although increasely, i take a historical approach to city planning. I do that at rutgers and princeton. The reason im here is that nearly half a century ago, i wrote a small book for the 20th century fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city on president ial commissions, and its one of the very few sources i think on them, and a couple of months ago my 49yearold book was dug up and i was asked to participat
Next on American History tv, the discussion on policymaking commissions inl American History. This talk from Purdue University was part of the conference called making American History. I am the associate professor of instructions, a legal historian who has written about president ial commissions and Administrative Law from law reform. We look forward to you can tell, todays session is being filmed by cspan, so do with that information as you will. Frank will be first. Yes, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning. Increasingly i take an historical approach to city planning. I do that with rutgers. The reason i am here, nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th entry fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city, on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them, and a they dug my ago, 49 yearold book they dug my 49yearold book. They asked if i would participate. President ial commissions have a long history in the United Sta