deployed 117 lawyers to ensure open, fair and honest elections in ten targeted states and an additional 35 for recount. in addition, are in a leaders have trained over 800 lawyers and pull watchers. members participated at some level, either paid or volunteering to ensure honest elections throughout the country. i want to take the opportunity to recognize all those who volunteered and helped elect donald trump and other republicans. we hope to see you in michigan august 4 and fifth. we don t know if it s detroit or grand rapids yet. and offer your assistance in the virginia elections this year. i will turn it over to john to kick off our next panel. thank you elliott. i am john ryder. i m cochairman of the rn l.a. i m in private practice in memphis and i reject him stealing all my blue suede shoe lines. that s my role to say thank you, thank you very much, but i do thank you very much elliott, and i want to thank kimberly reed our chairman and thank you to david who is the
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i ham co-chair of the rnla. i m in private practice in memphis and i deeply resent kurtis hill stealing all of my blue suede shoes lines. that s my role to say, thank you, thank you very much. and but i do thank you very much, elliott, and i want to thank kimberly reed, our chairman, and thanks to david bauscher, who this chairman of this event and has put on a fantastic program, and thanks to our staff who have made all of this possible. but i also want to thank once again our sponsors because money may be the mother s milk of politics but its also what makes conferences run, and so we thank our sponsors, manny iglesiass, cooper and barns and thorneburg, election cfo, la claire ryan, michael kaan, mcgwire woods, and scott political.law. ackerman, bill mcandrews. burk farrah, clark fill, eagle bank, king and spalding, kirsten and young, beverly, wise and man, and let s give them all a round of applause. [applause] we didn t know how prowishes this topic or how appropria
miami in ohio. where he teaches courses on abraham lincoln, the civil war and modern europe. he earned his hpd in 1983 from brown university. he s devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. he s also the author of a number of books, his first two books are on european history. one is on the paris commune. and the other is on the trifus affairs. a very diverse intellectual. he can only write between 1861 and 1865. martin is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. in 2014 martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, the lincoln prize as many of you know, as sponsored by the guildner learnman institute. he received that for writing the gettysburg address. writing the gettysburg address is a superb book, a book that takes readers on lincoln s journey, to gettysburg and again, i don t want to give away too much of martin s talk. but i ll say it reveals how lincoln s intellectual process, that it kept going. he was revising, r
was given at the dedication of a national cemetery for soldiers killed during the civil war battle. this hour-long talk was part of a conference hosted by the gettysburg college civil war institute. our first speaker to kick off our conference is martin johnson. he is an associate professor of history at university of miami in ohio, where he teaches courses on abraham lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. he earned his ph.d in 1993 from brown university. he has devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. he is also the author of a number of books. in fact his first two books are on european history. one is on the paris commune. and the other is on the triefis affairs. very diverse intellectual interest. unlike most of us, can only right between 1861 and 1865. martin certainly is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. in 2014, martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, lincoln prize as many of you know, is sponso