The heritage. Org as well as cspan networks. For those inhouse, we would ask that courtesy to know that mobile devices have been turned off. For those watching online, you are welcome to ask questions or comments anytime by simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Leading our discussion and welcoming our special guest is david croitzer our legal fellow. Our Senior Research fellow for labor markets and trade. Prior to joining us here at heritage, he taught economics at James Madison university from 1984 to 2007. He also served as director at their International Business program. In 1994, he was a visiting economist at the food and drug administration, and in the early 1980s he was also a visiting economics instructor at ohio university. Please join me in welcoming david coritzer. [applause] i want to welcome all of you here online and watching on television to our event, protecting Public Employees First Amendment rights major cases challenging abood. The way we will work it is i am going
Institute. Our first speaker this afternoon, to kick off our conference, is martin johnson. He is an associate professor of history at the university of miami, in ohio, where he teaches courses on Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. He earned his phd in 1993 from brown university. He has devoted much of his career to discussing the 16th resident of the United States. He is also the author of a number of books. His first two books were on european history. One is on the paris commune. And the other is on the dreyfus affair. And unlike most of us, he can only write between 18611865, martin is able to go into other fields and be successful in doing so. Martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize. He received that prize for writing the gettysburg address. Writing the gettysburg address is a superb book. It takes readers on lincolns journey to gettysburg. I dont want to get going too much of martins talk, but i will simply say this, that it reveals how lincolns intellectual
Thats five times or so the size of the bombs were dropped on japan at the end of the Second World War in hiroshima and nagasaki. They were bad enough, they were legitimately called city busters. This, among other things, means that the North Koreans dont have to have a terribly accurate missile if attacking a city when you have that kind of a yield. Its a very large weapon. Its not as big as weapons can be, if they are true thermoNuclear Weapons, a lot of the yield comes from fusion as opposed to fission, but its a very large weapon. Host let me share with you reporting this morning from the Washington Post, the bomb was a twostage weapon with the yield that analysts say could make a city buster. The quake was felt in northern china with emergency sirens , blaring along the north korean border, according to local media. South korean Authorities Say sundays earthquake appeared to be artificial, consistent with a nuclear test. It was north koreas the sixth sixth nuclear test, the first s
Gentlemen. We had a small group, National Security meeting today with the president and the Vice President about the latest provocation on the korean peninsula. We have many military options and the president wanted to be briefed on each one of them. We made clear that we have the ability to defend ourselves and our allies, south korea and japan. From any attacks and our commitments among the allies are iron clad. Any threat to the United States or its territories, including guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both go effective and overwhelming. Kim jong un should take heed of the nufmente unified voice. All members geed on the threat that north korea poses and denuke mmitted to the larrizzation. And we are not looking to the total destruction of north korea. But as i said, we have many options to do so. Thank you very much. Do you believe they have a Nuclear Warhead that can go on a missile . Was it a is the president going to war, secretary mat
You know, this is my last campaign and maybe i will run for school board sunday. [laughter] brian your book is called the last campaign. You say in the book that moment got you the title. Why . Anthony i saw that moment in a Political Science budget class in 2003 and decided to write my thesis for that semester on that idea that a president ial library is the president last campaign, not the final electoral contest. And when i finished that paper, my professor said this is a book, you should consider making this into a book. A week later, i got into an rv i had an troubled to all the essential libraries in six weeks, the once i had not been to yet. I came back convinced that maybe there was more than a book in it. For me, going to the president ial libraries was only the beginning of the journey. Because seeing the libraries as a tourist was different from researching in the records and going to the National Archives and seeing how the libraries developed. It was because of what i foun