Book. Subscription to the printers row journal, the premium book section. You can also download that the trip books out for more information on that fast and for access to the digital bookstore. Lastly, we encourage everyone to take photographs and upload messages to facebook, twitter, and as to grant using the hashtag puerto rico ls 15. With that i will throws it over to mcmahon for the introduction, associate editor of the chicago tribune. [applause] thank you. Thanks to everyone for coming today. Thank you for braving the weather and coming to let fast. Happy to have this every year and happy that you came today it is my pleasure to introduce scott simon. Scott is one of those rare people that does not live in chicago does not spend all his time in chicago but feels like a chicago icon. I think it is partly because of the way that scott work chicago into the books he writes i think there is more about it like the chicago sensibility of us got. Think it is okay that we can claim them
Shortest month as if its some politically correct addendum but not as it turns out in the center of it. You just need to pick up todays paper and read whats on the front line. He owned a few people. And set it in motion. Its always struggling with the question of race. Im interested in how my country works. It is important that what were not trying to do is substitute one persons history for another. We are to try to expand. When they said at the end of that sentence that we should be in pursuit of happiness that meant we were a country in the process of becoming and always getting pretty free of debt. Women, he didnt mean africanamericans, he didnt mean a lot of things and he added that because he got bigger so what i think the opening of the africanamerican museum on the mall is not a narrowing of our history, its an expanding of our history. The south had 9 Million People when the civil war started, 4 million of them owned by other people. 45 percent of the staff so that means you c
Commissioner bush took care of the board of directors and alamo and the mayor. Is that correct . It is really complicated. And phil collins. He is phil collins. [laughter] you are too kind. In the program he is described as a musician and alamo in busiest. Most underwhelming description. Phil is one of the great musical icons of our age, former lead singer of genesis and solo artist sold 200 million records , probably more. [indiscernible] seven grammys. I know the reason you are probably here is because of him but the reason he is here is because he is the world leading private collector of alamo artifacts. I had the opportunity to hang out with him and see his collection. It was amazing. Just to give you an idea of the kind of stuff that is in it, you probably know the famous february 25 letter, victory or death, we will never surrender. There is a postscript in the letter that says ps, the lord is on our side. Phil has the receipt for those cattle that travis bought from a guy named
This is just under one hour. Mr. Shadel good evening. Im bill shadel of abc news. Its my privilege this evening to preside at this the third in the series of meetings on radio and television of the two major president ial candidates. Now like the last meeting the subjects to be discussed will be suggested by questions from a panel of correspondents. Unlike the first two programs, however, the two candidates will not be sharing the same platform. In new york the democratic president ial nominee, senator john f. Kennedy; separated by three thousand miles in a los angeles studio, the republican president ial nominee, Vice President richard m. Nixon; now joined for tonights discussion by a network of electronic facilities which permits each candidate to see and hear the other. Good evening, senator kennedy. Mr. Kennedy good evening, mr. Shadel. Mr. Shadel and good evening to you, Vice President nixon. Mr. Nixon good evening, mr. Shadel. Mr. Shadel and now to meet the panel of correspondent
Peter i am going to use the lectern for just a minute. Thank you very much. It has been my pleasure to know our speaker tonight for more years than probably either of us would like to admit. I first met les when he was one of the brightest young graduate students at the university of illinois, where we both were studying under harold heiman, one of the greats in the field of constitutional history and reconstruction. Although les received his ba and masters degree at the university of illinois, where he was able to root for his beloved chicago cubs, he later deserted that by going to Rice University when professor hyman moved, and received his phd at Rice University, where unlike many people, he published not just one book out of his dissertation, but two. Unfortunately one of his books that he published out of his dissertation arrived at perhaps an auspicious time, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1973. You may know what else happened in 1973. Les, as those of us who know him call