Implementation of nonlugar. I turn this panel over to David Hoffman to moderate the biographies of these extraordinary individuals. They are in your program. I will not spend our time going over those, but i want to turn it to David Hoffman for his penetrating questions and authoritarian moderation. [laughter] david thank you all again for joining us for the second panel. You heard in the first panel some discussion about the hopes and also some of the disappointments, but where the rubber meets the road is where this panel is about. Is about implementation. And as all of us know from 25 years of experience, it is one thing to give a good speech on the senate floor, it is another thing to get a missile silo closed in ukraine. And i hope this panel will help us understand how some of those accomplishments were actually carried out. It is my experience in my reporting that there were hundreds, probably thousands of people involved in this implementation. They are not all here. But in my
He is also the winner of the that particular book won the Samuel Elliott morrison award. E is the author of lincoln and his admirals which won the lincoln prize in 2009. In recognition of his extraordinary contribution, the naval historicle foundation in 2014 awarded him the congressman duredudly w. Knox history award for lifetime achievement. Professor John Mars Lak is william s. Giles distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mississippi State university came out of retirement in 2008 and accepted the task of serving as executive director of the uelills sis s grant president ial library and managing editors. He is the tautsdzer of a dozen books. Incheweding sherman. And shermans other war. His honors include an excellence in writing award from the u. S. Army historicle oundation. As testament to the high regard in which he is held, several of his students contributed to an editted volume titled, of times and race. Ees says inspired. I was honored to have the opportunity to contribute the f
The world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. And the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. By 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. And the relations were fraught. Not for every group at every moment, but there was a profound sense of racism towards native peoples. The general epithet used was digger indians. In other words, they were regarded as sub human. Because they did not have the kind of technological accoutrements that European American settlers considered standard. Its not because they were not clever enough to figure it out. Because those things were irrelevant to their daily lives. They were able to go, on the coast, you know, when the tide went out here in this part of North Central valley, the m
The world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. And the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. By 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. And the relations were fraught. Not for every group at every moment, but there was a profound sense of racism towards native peoples. The general epithet used was digger indians. In other words, they were regarded as sub human. Because they did not have the kind of technological accoutrements that European American settlers considered standard. Its not because they were not clever enough to figure it out. Because those things were irrelevant to their daily lives. They were able to go, on the coast, you know, when the tide went out here in this part of North Central valley, the m
The world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. And the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. By 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. And the relations were fraught. Not for every group at every moment, but there was a profound sense of racism towards native peoples. The general epithet used was digger indians. In other words, they were regarded as sub human. Because they did not have the kind of technological accoutrements that European American settlers considered standard. Its not because they were not clever enough to figure it out. Because those things were irrelevant to their daily lives. They were able to go, on the coast, you know, when the tide went out here in this part of North Central valley, the m