Martha washington and other women of the eighteenth century. One of them is Mary Ball Washington. The month of march is womens History Month but part of the closure, here we are tonight. Mention a couple steps, one important thing the audience probably knows by now. To come to mount vernon, you have an opportunity to stroll the ground and see the museum quite soon. Those particular challenges, please come to the mount vernon support mount vernon in that way. July 8th coming around the corner, will feature justice ginsburg, the host and creator of the recent pbs miniseries on the constitution interviewed by someone no less notable, david rubenstein, join us for that conversation so we can learn more about the constitution. Three panelists i wont describe to you, doctor karen wolf, historian of early america, and the director of the omaha professor of history at william and mary and working on a project when i came, bond lineage in the history of genealogy. Welcome. Thank you. It is cool
Good evening everyone. We have an event were finally getting around to will have in walmart the washington lecture and Mary Ball Washington. And some time ago and the time and experience and with womens History Month and here we are tonight i went to mention one important thing everyone in the audience probably knows by now we have opened a few audiences to visitors. And in the Education Center and with those particular challenges but please come visit mount vernon so on july 8 right around the corner our book talk will feature the host and creator of the pbs miniseries on the constitution and interviewed from David Rubenstein and please join us for that conversation so we can learn more about our constitution. Terminates events but in fact i do want to interview our guest and moderator doctor karen wolf. And also from the institute of American History to institute of volume and mary and working on a project so welcome. Thank you so much. Im joining you from my dining room. Where is th
The cia came back to him and his publisher and said theres 339 passages here you have to delete because they are revealing National Security information. They went to court, they fought over, cia cut that number from 339 down to 168. In that the end of the day, 30. The publisher put out the book with white spaces for the 30, bold face for the 160 they caved on, and italic for the other. So theres an object lesson how subjective this can be. Thats the formal start of a review board process inside the intelligence community. But he did go through the review process . He did submit it before publishing the book . Guest rights. The case and went all way to the Supreme Court was a man named frank who did not submit his book. Thats what the judge is referring to the bolton case when he said hes risking losing his royalties. In 1980 the Supreme Court upheld the seizure of all of his royalties. His book advance, all of his royalty income. Because he did not give the book to the cia for review.
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And watch for of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Good evening everyone. The study of George Washington at mount vernon, and the washington leverage we have an annual event that were finally getting around to this year. We are going to have our annual lecture fostered by the foundation here. Were thrilled to have this opportunity to bring together some of this most important scholarships on the mother of George Washington. Mary ball washington. This popular event was set up some time ago. And understand the world, the times and the experiences the Martha Washington and other women of the 18th century. One of those of course Mary Ball Washington. They state womens History Month from the month of march. And because of the closure here we are tonight. One important thing i think everyone in the audience pretty much knows right nobody can say too many times, mount vernon, we have open to her to audiences to visitors i should say if you come to mount vernon and have an o