Governor christie thanks for joining us from your own jersey shore. Thank you. Happy to be with you. You are one of the few people the present listens to on the outside of political matters and of love cindy adams said you were at a come to jesus meeting at bedminster the the presidens golf club in jersey with President Trump. How did that go . To the present decide to make any changes with his campaign . As you know, ive always taken the position that the consultations i have with the present between the the presid. I think the president is focused on the next 95 days. With a focus on trying to make sure they have his visions the American People for what he wants the next four years to be and its always good for me threats to us in time to visit with them in bedminster and discuss things as like them as i see them and help them articulate the issues he wants to articulate over the course of the rest of his campaign and thats all i was attempting to do when we met last week. What is he
For their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and political history. And i will reserve the last half hour at least for questions and comments from you and for us to continue talking. As you can tell todays session is being filmed by cspan so do with that information as you will. All right. Frank is going to go first and introduce yourself. Yeah, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning rather than history, although increasingly i take a historical approach to city planning. I do that at rutgers and at princeton. The reason im here is that nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th century fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them and a couple of months ago
Next on American History tv, a decision on policymaking and president ial commissions in political history. This talk from Purdue University lasts about 90 minutes. 90 minut. Welcome to our panel on president ial commissions. At the intersection politics, policy making and forgotten history of president ial missions im joanna grisinger. Im a legal historian of the modern Administrative State who has written about president ial commissions and Administrative Law reform. Thanks to you all for coming, unfortunately Cynthia Spence is unable to be here today but we still look forward to great conversation. We will be informal today. There are two panelists, dov weinryb grohsgal and frank popper will introduce themselves for their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and polit
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By tim on the impact of economic recession in modern america he received the James Cameron prize he was awarded the prize for journalism for recording the version of events and told an unpalatable truth and hes the longtime staff writer in the paris review and the office of Standard Operating Procedure from 2008 and we wish to inform you including the National Book critics circle award. Facebook short fiction essays have been translated into a dozen languages. Hes at work on a new book. Please join me now in welcoming chris. [applause] this one works. [laughter] a long time ago at the border in 1996 or maybe earlier than that and in those days chris is doing some of the truly outstanding reporting from there as he has them everywhere that he has reported that ive ever had the pleasure to read. I guess i want to just start tonight, you have written about american overdose. It is just a terrific book, terrific reporting, writing, exceptional read and urgent story. How did you get into it