[applause] and now from the 2018 Rancho Mirage writers festival in california authors and historians john and margaret mcmellon and douglas discuss is their favorite historical figures. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the stage Douglas Brinkley morgan and john with your moderator, jeff. [applause] well i hope youre having as much fun as i am at this festival. You know, i always think of students in college a few of you were in college few years ago as best thing to do is to take the take the teacher not the course. And here i think is thing that is fun is to tack these incredible authors to be in a room with them whatever theyre talking about. The only problem with it this with this festival is theres somebody in every room and you want to be with but today we have terrific people who i think, youve heard from them all at one point or o another Douglas Brinkley written biography about more president s than most of us have ever heard of but also done so many other in
Faculty and students and its a real pleasure to be here today. At the finish line of what has been a terrific project for much of the last three years here at the Miller Center. Our first year of project. Were now one yore and one week into President Trumps administration. And we started planning this effort in the spring of 2015 shortly after i arrived at the center but it really came from the Miller Center itself. There was a real question when i came in as the new director here about how we think about the upcoming three years with president ial election looming almost two years out from when i had arrived. And how we thought about taking the extraordinary assetses that we built here over the years at the Miller Center. Our own scholars and practitioners and Current Administration people at the time and future Administration People thats what the Miller Center is. And after several weeks of planning, we came back with this idea got the support of our governing counsel and started to
Government personnel, everyone from policymakers to security officers, to Communications Technicians to the officer carrying the nuclear football. Advance teams are required to prep the site weeks ahead of the meeting took all the time those people are spending money come meals at resorts, parking at the resort, golf course to follow the present around at the resort. Maybe even rooms at the resort. And because the president s refusal to divest himself of his business interest, that money, taxpayer money, inns up in the pocket of the very person who directed the meeting to be held at his own property in the first place. You know, that sure sounds like a conflict of interest to me, and this isnt just a hypothetical. Summit with present abba, president xi of operative at maralago. Furthermore, the president xi summit include a contingent from the department of defense led by secretary mattis. Since february ive been trying to figure whether the department of defense dollars are finding th
Government personnel, everyone from policymakers to security officers, to Communications Technicians to the officer carrying the nuclear football. Advance teams are required to prep the site weeks ahead of the meeting took all the time those people are spending money come meals at resorts, parking at the resort, golf course to follow the present around at the resort. Maybe even rooms at the resort. And because the president s refusal to divest himself of his business interest, that money, taxpayer money, inns up in the pocket of the very person who directed the meeting to be held at his own property in the first place. You know, that sure sounds like a conflict of interest to me, and this isnt just a hypothetical. Summit with present abba, president xi of operative at maralago. Furthermore, the president xi summit include a contingent from the department of defense led by secretary mattis. Since february ive been trying to figure whether the department of defense dollars are finding th
Government personnel, everyone from policymakers to security officers, to Communications Technicians to the officer carrying the nuclear football. Advance teams are required to prep the site weeks ahead of the meeting took all the time those people are spending money come meals at resorts, parking at the resort, golf course to follow the present around at the resort. Maybe even rooms at the resort. And because the president s refusal to divest himself of his business interest, that money, taxpayer money, inns up in the pocket of the very person who directed the meeting to be held at his own property in the first place. You know, that sure sounds like a conflict of interest to me, and this isnt just a hypothetical. Summit with present abba, president xi of operative at maralago. Furthermore, the president xi summit include a contingent from the department of defense led by secretary mattis. Since february ive been trying to figure whether the department of defense dollars are finding th