Know scott does, too, with the letters and diaries in private journals so when i found these letters, i realized they had become friends in the early 30s. An odd couple. Teddy marched around everywhere during wrestling and boxing. Weighing between 250 350. Not doing much wrestling or boxing at that time but they liked each other. Opposites almost attractive. So he brings him into his cabinet and becomes the most important person in his cabinet. They want him to run against taft in a Brutal Campaign and because there are two republicans running so then he runs on the bull moose thirdparty Campaign Opening the door for the democratic win so the heartbreak was much greater because of friendship was stronger i love writing about these emotional things it was more than a straight linear story. Woodrow wilson came into the picture and then went back to progressivism. Wilson went back to progressivism big time taking the foundation that was there and built upon it. And what wilson wanted to d
Good afternoon and welcome to the gators bergh book festival, a resident here and id represent districts 17. Welcome. Cases spurred is a city. Okay so please silence all your devices thank you, and if you are on social media today and we hope you are, please use the hashtag gps, gbf sorry. There will be service, and by submitting a survey youll be entered in a draw to win a 100 dollar visit gift card. So i encourage each one of you to enter into that survey and at the end of this presentation, mr. Surely will be signing books and copies are on sale in this tent and around the grounds here. Make sure you take advantage of having renowned author mr. Shirley here. So this is a free event and but it does help, the book festival if you buy a book. The more books we salute our event, the more publishers will want to send their authors here to speak with us. Pushing basically purchasing a book it basically helps our partners and calm the great independent bookstores that we have here. It supp
Covering over 85,000,000 acres of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited the site last year. Over the next 90 minutes we feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland at Cuyahoga Valley National park. Situated along the Cuyahoga River we will learn how the canal system plays a a major re in our nations westward expansion during the 1830s and 40s. [background sounds] [background sounds] the ohio and erie canal as part of a two canal system that was put in place in the early years of america built between 1825 18251832, and basically its a water transportation route the connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at the time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. Howeve
To protect our monuments arrest the rioters was prosecutors tend to use the word was to the fullest extent of the law was was the law was the owner i am pleased to report that yesterday federal agents arrested the suspected ringleader of the attack on the statue of the great Andrew Jackson in washington d. C. It was and in addition hundreds more have been arrested was under the executive order assigned last week pertaining to the Veterans Memorial preservation and recognition act. And other laws people who damage you had to face federal statues or monuments will get a minimum of 10 years in prison. The on an obviously that includes our beautiful mt rushmore the law where our people have a great memory. They will never forget the destruction of statues and monuments to George Washington Abraham Lincoln ulysses says scranton abolitionists and many others the violent mayhem we have seen in the streets and cities that are run by liberal democrats in every case is the predictable result of
Doris thank you for coming. How may people here have read team of rivals . Bully pulpit . Lyndon johnson . The kennedys and fitzgeralds . How many agree shes one of our foremost writers . [applause] for those who dont know her background very briefly grew up in new york, brooklyn, got her phd at harvard one Harvard White house fellow the Johnson Administration help johnson with his memoirs and then went back to teach at harvard and now has been riding extraordinarily well received and terrific biographies and histories in the wind and sir of a Pulitzer Prize as well. Youll be writing a new book coming out september 18 called leadership about on the leadership skills of the people you have written about lincoln, roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson we will talk about that today why did you decide to write about four different people why not . Each time i finish writing one of the books i have take all that persons books out of my study to make room for the next one i felt li