Moon landing. This was part of an event hosted by Space Center Houston to mark the missions 50th anniversary. Good morning and happy Lunar Landing day. [ cheers and applause ] its great to have you here. Tracy lamm we are the Visitor Center for the nasa Johnson Space center. As a nonprofit entity and smithsonian affiliate and the worlds First Certified Autism Center as a science center. We believe in equity, inclusion, accessibility. And we take that on as a great badge of honor that our staff has had expert training to ensure that our staff is able to work with people who have any type of learning disabilities or any type of challenges or anything like that. If you see a need we are not meeting please let us know because we always want to improve. Welcome today for our first panel discussion. [ cheers and applause ] you know, i aspen over 20 years of my life with nasa and industry. And i tell you, ive been around a lot of folks, been around the Flight Controllers and directors over th
Prof. Selverstone good afternoon, everyone. I am marc selverstone. Associate professor in president ial studies at the university of virginias Miller Center, and as chair of the centers president ial recordings program, id like to welcome you to a special panel, echoes of the past, featuring my colleagues on the recordings program. Its quite wonderful to be here with everybody. Its something of a reunion, in fact. Kent was with us for years and years, now spending time at the university of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well look to explore the dynamics therein, but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program, we were established in 1998, and our goal, we are the only institution of this
Number of promises, so this should give context for where the Womens Movement is coming into play as we work through these overview issues. 1960s, as much promise as there was, we also know there were a lot of issues, particularly racial issues, but it was a period of great change. For those who did find promise in the 1960s, there were those who did not get access can individuals and groups fighting for that access. Riots,e the 1967 detroit a series of political assassinations. They have kate in 1963. , the assassination of Martin Luther king jr. And bobby kennedy, so there is fear about with this change means and people are reacting to that. Jfk, because we will be talking mostly about women in the Civil Rights Movement today, focusing on other womens experiences on wednesday, but to give you an idea, jfk was initially hesitant. We have a legacy now of him as a major shaker in the Civil Rights Movement come up but he was hesitant and cautious about the Civil Rights Movement in the in
State and the beginning of the iraq war. I want to begin with one of the rules one of your 13 rules published in parade magazine, this is the 13th and last. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I find you the most optimistic person i have read in a long time. It is very important that rule had to be the summary of the 13 rules and it links to the first one that says things will get better in the morning. I start that description by saying that is not necessarily the case, but the attitude you should have. Things will get better and you should make them better. It is within your life to make them better. Force multiplier is a military term always looking for ways to enhance the power of our force, whether it is communications or supply lines or whatever it is, but we look for things that shout make the force more effective. I have found in working with human beings, and this book is about working with human beings. I have found if you convey an attitude of perpetual optimism, we ca
A few Health Issues and not able to travel right now. One of the great collectors, folks connected with the Shenandoah Valley battlefields. Two people who are very important to me, sarah has made all of this work behind the scenes. She is constantly making sure that something needs to be done and it gets done. You need someone like that. Last but not least, my wife elizabeth. Elizabeth has come down from virginia to join us. What i will do is move into my part of the presentation. We are going to talk about the leadership. We focused in the past about various aspects of leadership that included areas outside the late unpleasantness, as we like to say so we do not step on any toes. One of the issues we wanted to deal with was the civil war leadership we first talked to coach about setting this up, he said i do not mind you talking about anything else but i want something on the civil war. Today, we will pretty much focus on that. We have done different figures and we will do different f