Economy and onto the election 2020 will continue to be a process of change. Hes hit with us today to discuss his book and his thoughts on america. We invite you to join our Virtual Program coming to you from our air force one Leadership Academy oval office with Newt Gingrich and john heubusch. Speaker gingrich, just terrific to have you with us at the Reagan Library. As you know we originally had planned to have you live and in person as with so many times. I want you to know, this pandemic is behind us and you are able to travel and things can be said again, you still we would love to have you out at the Reagan Library again with your new book, or the next one you write. So thanks so much for joining us today. I want to say first of all i am a huge fan of the Reagan Library, and particularly the educational work you do and the way you create learning experiences for young people. I cannot remember a time when we visited that we do not just a wonderful experience, so i can assure you a
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And lincoln forium chair. Welcome back to cspan, sir. Guest thank you for having me. Host you had a recent op ed talking about the topic of confederate monments and statues and a position now youre taking that with a little bit different. Whats your position now . Guest well, if i could go back briefly. A few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg National Cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. I made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. Making sure that there were alternative monments. And frankly Nothing Happened in the three subsequent years. Its not an easy thing to make occur. Its expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didnt work. And since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by m
Whats your position now . Guest well, if i could go back briefly. A few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg National Cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. I made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. Making sure that there were alternative monments. And frankly Nothing Happened in the three subsequent years. Its not an easy thing to make occur. Its expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didnt work. And since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by many to be op pressive particularly confederate monments in the Public Square. And i did write an op ed recently during which i said that i think i was wrong. That weve had enough time, weve had a century for these statues of those who foug