Admiral James Stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So from the nato perspective i was at the dental admiral who became the supreme a
Ten admirals and the voyage of character, which was published late last year. Admiral james stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So
[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen please give a warm welcome to the stage john meacham. [applause] i hope youre having as much fun as i am. And the best thing to do is a teacher and not the course in here to take these incredible authors to be in a room with them but the only problem with this is that there is somebody in every room. But today there are wonderful people weve all heard from at one point or another written by then most of us have ever heard of but this book is on the space program. American moonshot so be watching for that. And then to have some basement studio and vl john meacham. [laughter] and trying to make the same deal of course the great historian 1919 and john meacham was written so many wonderful biographies and no us from his basement. [laughter] good morning joe but with your favorite historical figure so one or two and why and then other elements. John, start us off with your favorite. The way the question is often phrased is that i used to say j
So we are playing with some technical difficulties. We are glad youre all here and i hope you all found a drink, and again, i appreciate your patience. Of course, welcome to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. My name is amanda leiden. Curator, i am delighted to see you all here to see jean baker, author of Margaret Sanger a life of passion. She will be in conversation this evening with cristina page. We often think of margaret brooklynbeginnings in in the opening of that Family Planning and Birth Control clinic in brownsville. She started that clinic after being a nurse here on the Lower East Side. Here with the cohort of, goldman, who we will be discussing in two weeks. Todays talk is not just fitting, it is surprisingly timely, it is also fitting because it was a good chance Margaret Sanger new one or more of the immigrant women who lived down the street, a few doors down at 97 orchard street. Tonights guest jean baker is goucherr of history at college in baltimore. She is the auth
In 1912. In 1921, she founded the Birth Control league, a predecessor to planned parenthood. Next, jean baker reads from her biography. She then is interviewed by an author, christina page, and responds to audience questions at this event from 2011, recorded at the tournament museum in new york city. New yorknt museum in city. [chatter] amanda good evening, everybody. Thank you for your patience. In case you didnt know, we moved into this space last week, so we are playing with some technical difficulties. We are glad youre all here and i hope you all found a drink, and again, i appreciate your patience. Of course, welcome to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. My name is amanda lydon. As curator, i am delighted to see you all here to see jean baker, author of Margaret Sanger a life of passion. She will be in conversation this evening with cristina page. While we often think of Margaret Sangers beginnings in brooklyn with the opening of that Family Planning and Birth Control clinic in