Member of the Roosevelt Library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. At this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank cspan for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. We will start with our speaker in just a moment. Then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. 2012 is an adjunct member of the Arizona State university and his fields of study include Public Policy, political history, latin america, u. S. mexico border land and sanford, arizona, i want to introduce patrick lukens. [applause] thank you. I want to thank bob clark and the rest of the staff and the president ial library to be one of todays presenters. And preparing this presentation and Headline News over the pas
Stay and answer additional questions or whatever you want to talk about. The life in the whit war of 18t for two and a half years. We dont call world war ii the war of 1941 to we dont call the civil war the world 1861 but we call it the war of 1812. Folks that support it and feel it was a positive thing called americas second war for independence. I think it was that. Its detractors call it an unnecessary war come and they think it was unnecessary. Thankfully we havent had an unnecessary war since then, right . [laughter] i call it the unknown war because no one does anything about it. My favorite president harry truman was characteristically blunt on the war of 1812 treaty, he called it the silliest damn war we ever fought. And they think it was that, too. It was a war that had we won, candidate would have been a state. And possibly we would have had a huge slave colony in mexico, maybe even cuba. Had we lost the war of 1812, we wouldve become once again a colony of britain. But after
Instead of to be living in this kind of hermeticallysealed distaupe ya which will be by 2020 surrounded by walls on all sides in which an adviser to netanyahu has proposed seawalls to keep out climate refugees in which the United States government has offered 200 million to provide an iron wall that coats the sky of israel with missiles. This is the reality that theyre in, and there should be a nonviolent means that all of you can participate in to get them out of it and also to get the people in the gaza strip, according to the u. N. The gaza strip will be uninhabitable by 2020, to get them out of their crisis. That should be the priority. And so, obviously, i favor the latter means which is, i think, humane and moral and also based in international law. [applause] well, on behalf of the committee, i want to to thank max, of course, and also a thank the public for coming. And we hope to continue this series of discussions on these and other topics. Yeah. And as max delicately suggeste
more attention from our comments. in fact we will often ask each other what are you reading and when told, we will ask staff pick? mabey word mali didn t hold up our yes. even though hugh howard and i are friends and have found more than a few years to get over the years and have written chair left side by side while skiing it doesn t follow however that i would staff pick his excellent new book. i did it because it is in fact an excellent. more on that in a moment. he got his book working in new york for various publishing houses for over ten years as an architectural historian he wrote articles for the new york times which became the basis for his first boat the preservation of progress. over the ensuing years he s written over a dozen books on american architecture, art and history. happily for us que and his wife betsy moved up to columbia county in 1981 where he remodeled an old colonial in his terrific book house dreams. since then among his other projects he s turned