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With whom olyphant was able to. Estow his gift on a country who is able to combat his gift visually with president s. I am mike nelson. I am the guy you put up with during the first panel. We have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars who are on the first panel. Once again, we have Miller Center people here. The Miller Center, one of its main emphasis is studying the presidency indepth, historical depth, with objectivity. We are in the business of doing stuff that editorial cartoonists are not in the business of doing , reacting to events on a as a newspapers cartoonist. We all strive to be as objective as we can. Provide comment, to provide opinion and something to provoke discussion, rather than aspire to settle discussion. The panel this afternoon will cover the president s from george bush i do not use the h w. He was george bush when he was president. When John Quincy Adams became president , john adams did not have to change
Having, and i feel like this is one of those so im excited for him to speak about it. Im going to give you a little kind of overview. If a cell phone, please take photos, but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you probably can see. Its a little distracting. We will have the books for sale. We have them for sale currently and if you would like to, i really implore you to look through it and have alan sign it. Hell be signing afterwards as well. We have a wonderful server in the room. She will be here all night. So please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle. Thanks. [ applause ] thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I also want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the two institutions who made this book happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington which is, you know, literally the scene of this crime. The
I want to mention, there have been pundits that were professors actually there was a professor here a couple of months ago who led a group of us to egypt. There has been a famous writer by the name of samuel clemens, mark twain. A father remembers as 12yearold boy he used to sit with other kids of dublin at the feet of the great writer and mark twain would read some of his latest work. Of course, most special of all, the white house connection was the 300 pound president. William howard taft secretary of the treasury built the house in 1902. William taft visited twice. One of the times he visited, they invited the whole town. The good president shook hands with 600 people for the supper and my grandfather was one of the guests. He brought along his 12yearold son, my father. 40 years later, daddy bought the place. It had been empty for 15 years and he bought it for literally a song. This evening is sponsored by the dublin area gop. We have a wonderful chairman who is full of energy and
Live on the cspan networks online, cspan. Org, or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Next, an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. Remarks from several former white house officials who served during that time, including former secretary of state james baker. They also examine the state in fallhat led to the of the wall. Hosted by the Atlantic Council, this is just two hours. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome former abc news anchor stan donaldson. Stan well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this mornings program. There are dates all of us have that are very personal, and dates that we have is a country that we all share. In my lifetime, december 7, 1941. November 22, 1963. 9 11. All terrible dates for the country. And november 8, 1989, good news, the fall of the berlin wall presaging the end of the soviet union. A subject we will discuss today, how did it happen . What were the consequences . Who did this . Who knew . For a look at what is