Library. Before we start jean will give us a great presentation about george w. Bush. Well have a question and answer afterwards. Because he spent is feeling tonight please use the microphones. Will place one over there, another to the side there. That way your question doesnt get lost on cspan. I want to welcome you and tell you that we appreciate you being here tonight. Especially given that the Democratic Party has done alternative programming. We have the opportunity to get our fill of the 2020 president ial campaign. Were going to take a few moments to commemorate a man who won it in 2028. A man who became more appreciated with time. I was struck like many others i think by the national outpouring of respect and affection in the days leading up to and through the funeral of George Herbert bush in last november. And the funeral of his wife recently, he was the 44th president. Gore said that he served our nation with extraordinary integrity and grace. applause the country seemed anx
Youll variety allstar club party. Please join me in welcoming a lady that we love, formerly and actress in Motion Pictures who is now appearing in a very supporting role in a major production back east. This is the trick mrs. Dutch reagan. And now, will you kindly join me in welcoming a man who would be tonight as friend, a very special friend close to our hearts, mr. Dutch reagan. hail to the chief hello. How do you do . Should we sit down . Your host for the evening, 1983 variety club henry, truly his brothers keeper, Francis Albert sinatra. You may be seated. laughs im delighted to be here with dutch and his bride, the first lady of the united states, and might i add, the first lady of geneva too. applause and now, here are some wonderful people who will be entertaining you for the next hour. Youve already met monte. And here are charles and heston, edie gorme, and steve lawrence, of course, and Emmanuel Lewis, the mightiest little fellow ive ever known in my life, and my buddy, mr.
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
Two historians talk about world war ii in a program titled supremacy of the skies. Donald miller discusses the Strategic Bombing of germany, followed by conrad crane who focuses on air power during the dday invasion of normandy. This is part of the world war ii annual conference. Our final panel, for what has been a great day and is only going to get better, is supremacy in the skies, allied air domination in europe. Panel, i have to say i feel a certain sigh of relief i am no longer the only world war i guy here, but a gentleman for whom i have tremendous respect, personally and for his scholarship, dr. John mauro. Has really become a pillar in the faculty at the university of georgia, and in the field of military history more widely although of course he and i share a great interest in the First World War and have both done work in that era. Not limited to world war i as you can see today but world war ii and to other conflicts in American Military history. Month, ther this Pritzker