Working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources, letters of the time, where people wrote to one another about science, food, culture, and the back and forth that made early days in washington. We invite you to stay with us for questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation and i will work through the questions. We have a couple of questions we may be able to do during the presentation. The majority of the questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. Please put your questions in and i will try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much for the work you have done to put this together and welcome to the platform. Chuck welcome, everyone. I am really happy to pull this off. Imaginative tell an story. So let your minds go. This is not a straightforward narrative. We will touch a lot of points. The point of departure for me came with the publication of my book. It is my b
Congress and that early period in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have chuck as part of the uscs society team for five years, prior to that he was 27 years working on the First Congress program. And so he has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources, letters of the times, where people wrote to one another about the science, the food, the culture, and the back and forth that made early days in washington. That being said, we invite you to stay with us for your questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation, and i will work through the questions and we have a couple of questions, we may be able to do a couple of questions during the presentation but the majority of our questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. So please put your questions in and ill try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much, chuck, for the work youve done to put this together and welcome to the platform. W
Brian david mccullough, your from 1989,peeches when did you get the idea to do this. Last summer. The summer of 2016. I was not discouraged, but distressed by the tone of the Political Campaign and the animosity and nastiness of some of it. I thought, ive got to do something to help bring some balance back and remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are, and what we stand for. I thought, ive been speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more. Maybe some of those speeches, if we dusted them off and put them together, not as an anthology, but speeches where id addressed ideas or subjects that pertain to reminding us about who we are and what our values have been down the years. And my daughter, who has been arranging all my speaking dates all these years, wanted very much to help with it. She had whatever records we had. Many of those speeches, there was no record of what i said. But we had enough that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commence
Host this week on q a, historian david mccullough, discussing his book, who we are and what we stand for. Host when did you get the idea to do this . Mr. Mcculloch i was upset by the tone of the political andaign and the animosity the nastiness of some of it. And i thought, i have got to do to bring someelp balance back to remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are and what we stand thought speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more, maybe there are some of those speeches, if we tested them off and put them together, speeches where i subjects thator pertain to reminding us about who we are, and what our values have been down the years. , who has beenr arranging all of my speaking dates all of these years, wanted very much to help with it, and she had whatever records we had. Nomany speeches, there was record of what i said, but we that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commencement speech or speech celebrating some Important National even
Host this week on q a, historian david mccullough, discussing his book, who we are and what we stand for. Host when did you get the idea to do this . Mr. Mcculloch i was upset by the tone of the political andaign and the animosity the nastiness of some of it. And i thought, i have got to do to bring someelp balance back to remind people of who we are and how we got to be where we are and what we stand thought speaking up and down the land for 40 years or more, maybe there are some of those speeches, if we tested them off and put them together, speeches where i subjects thator pertain to reminding us about who we are, and what our values have been down the years. , who has beenr arranging all of my speaking dates all of these years, wanted very much to help with it, and she had whatever records we had. Nomany speeches, there was record of what i said, but we that there were manuscripts of it. I never wanted to give a commencement speech or speech celebrating some Important National even