Book in the lobby. They will be able to take your credit card. Lynn will be ready to sign it. It is not true early to be making a christmas gift. [laughter] so that all the shopping done well before. Dumenil is the professor of American History at occidental college. She has taught a number of distinguished institutions, including berkeley, whitman college, and she specializes in u. S. Womens history and cultural and social history since the civil war. She is a distinguished professor, having received many honors, including being a senior fulbright lecture, and many other recognitions, which is also to say we are in for a treat. She brings to this topic a richness which i think is going to make this experience one of real memory frost. So, once again, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here and for participating in the activities of the national war or one museum and memorial. I invite you back. Please join me in welcoming dr. Lynn dumenil. [applause] dr. Dumenil thank you. I am
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So tonight we have slow joe will speak at the democrat convention, and im sure that hell just knock em dead, and hell remind us that he was born in scranton. But, you know, he left. Like 70 years ago, right in but he spent the last half century in washington selling out our country and ripping off our jobs and letting other countries steal our jobs, mexico, china, all of em. Pennsylvania lost more than one in three manufacturing jobs after nafta, and chinas enter into the wto entry into the wto. And that was a vote and courtesy of sleepy joe. Biden looked American Labor into the eyes and took their dues, their Union Endorsements and their votes, then he sold out and he passed the cadillac tax. You know what that is on Union Health Care plans . Attacked their energy jobs and sent their factories to china. And now hes back begging for their votes. Lou for months now democratrun i cities across america have been overrun by radical leftwing mobs including groups like the anarchists antifa