Todd boyer and the rest of the Kansas City Public Library staff for inviting me here and setting up this wonderful venue. Appropriates very its an appropriate time and place to talk about George Kennan and his diaries. First of all, George Kennan was a midwesterner, very proud of being a midwesterner. He grew up in milwaukee and was conscious of the fact milwaukee was not california. Its also appropriate, this place is appropriate to talk about kennan because kennans most productive years in the government was as a member of the truman administration, and of course, harry truman grew up about 40 miles from here in independence, missouri. Missouri to try to win over the audience here. [laughter] place,ngs in terms of its appropriate for me to talk about kennan because adam starr who is the sponsor of this event has himself written and published a piece on George Kennan, and i had lunch with adam today and learned quite a bit. That is very much appropriate. In terms of place, i think its
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Little bit of time to prepare for this interview, i want to start because you wrote a piece in 2017 the unloaded pretty strong on President Trump for various overreach in the exercise of executive power and now youre presenting him as a defender of the Constitutional Order regarding president ial powers, i want to ask you what changed your vehicle, how did you move from where you were before to what you have presented in your new book . Thank you for inviting me too come along with you and we are looking forward to this conversation and as you know ive been a meyer on your work with executive privilege, that should be a lot of fun, i started out weary and President Trump, was not a supporter in the 2016 election and the thing that worried me is he was a populist and constitution seems designed to stop populace. It is fairly antidemocratic in nature in a lot of ways like the senate and judicial review in the Electoral College, the presence of the states as important parts of the constit
The bulk of the lecture is going to be presenting new evidence drawn from my research and others on the antebellum political culture. I have three major areas as evidence to talk about today. Tobacco culture, political friendships, and affairs of honor. Like we often do in the class, we are going to start with the image on the screen. Im going to ask you to tell me what you see. This is Lady Washingtons reception from 1861. Take it in. Who can point out something you see right away that strikes you . Lady washington is on a platform. Prof. Balcerski how high do you think she is . Off the ground . Like a foot. Prof. Balcerski thats a good piece there. What else . Everyone is dressed up fancy. Prof. Balcerski like you are today. Exactly. Very fancy. The ladies are wearing gowns. How about a third thing . Go ahead, jimmy. It looks like they are fairly close together. They may be dancing. They are all close together. Prof. Balcerski very good. I should say about Lady Washingtons reception,
Leading up to the civil war, these friendship and alliances disintegrated. Prof. Balcerski welcome everybody. It is me, your professor. Im excited to offer you a lecture of the antebellum congress. The outline, we start with a review of the first and Second Party Systems. I will introduce a concept to you of a lyrical culture and compare that to something we have encountered before, Political Parties. Finally, the bulk of the lecture is going to be presenting new evidence on the antebellum political culture. As you will see i have three , major areas as evidence to talk about today. One,acone, Tobacco Culture. Number two, political friendships, and number three, affairs of honor. Like we often do in the class, i will start with an image on the screen. Im going to ask you to tell me what you see. This is Lady Washingtons reception from 1861. Take it in. Who can point out something you see right away that strikes you . Lady washington is on a platform. Prof. Balcerski how high do you thi