Brand new book. I had some conversation and now im speaking to you directly and i hope you enjoy it because were the children and grandchildren of immigrants and im the grandchildren of immigrants, and its a story that Many Americans share. Even if we approach it now from from different points of view. And if we were speaking at our old headquarters of fort lesley mcnair, i would have a perfect hyper local introduction to this topic. Thats because, i mean, your former meeting site, as you all know, is the site of the execution of the lincoln conspirators. But remember, one of them was a german immigrant, george axelrod. All of them were hanged under the supervision of the son of german immigrants. And the grisly result was photographed by an immigrant from scotland, alexander gardener, spare it by fate it might be added, was the leader of the gang John Wilkes Booth who was killed by a trigger happy british immigrant boston corbett, under the command of an irish born captain. So this is
David fisher. David has been studying u. S. President s for most of his adult life. He has lined the walls of his home. He tells me with his extensive collection of more than 1100 First Edition president ial biographies dating the founding of the republic. After graduating with distinction from stanford university, david has held a has career positions as radio sportscaster. A consultant, an executive in the federal government and as Risk Management expert. His leadership positions in government spanned the department of defense, the Government Accountability office and the Internal Revenue service. He currently resides with helene, his wife, in bethesda maryland. So please join me in welcoming david fisher. And thank you so much, pat, and great to be here, folks. Pleasant good evening to you i will be back here at wheatland. My wife and i actually had made the drive up a couple of years ago to see the home at the time we we brought our dog chester who is think three months old at the
David fisher. David has been studying u. S. President s for most of his adult life. He has lined the walls of his home. He tells me with his extensive collection of more than 1100 First Edition president ial biographies dating the founding of the republic. After graduating with distinction from stanford university, david has held a has career positions as radio sportscaster. A consultant, an executive in the federal government and as Risk Management expert. His leadership positions in government spanned the department of defense, the Government Accountability office and the Internal Revenue service. He currently resides with helene, his wife, in bethesda maryland. So please join me in welcoming david fisher. And thank you so much, pat, and great to be here, folks. Pleasant good evening to you i will be back here at wheatland. My wife and i actually had made the drive up a couple of years ago to see the home at the time we we brought our dog chester who is think three months old at the
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Nicole strong talks about President Trumps decision to shrink the size host good morning. It is washington journal. The Supreme Court and folks today as it hears arguments concerning that colorado bigger that refused to bake a cake for a gay couples wedding. Many are lined up outside of the court hopeful to become spectators of the argument. You can hear the arguments on cspan. Org. A new survey which looks at the media. Take a look at how republicans and democrats and Media Coverage of President Trump. We will present some of those results. We are interested in hearing from you. Heres how you can let us know. You can post thoughts on Media Coverage of President Trump and you can go to our facebook page. That isfind the survey done for republicans and democrats just to present you a little bit of the survey. It says this he is a coauthor of the study. Another author join us on the phone to talk about the results and the findings is from princeton university. Good morning. Guest good to