We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Next, Elizabeth Varon recalls robert e. Lees surrender to the ulysses s. Grant led union forces said the mclean house on october 9th 101865. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you so much for that very, very kind introduction. Its a pleasure to be here. Property surrendered u. S. Grant in 1865 which is for most americans a familiar tableau. The two men met your mama Central Virginia at appomattox courthouse. Lee wore a fine dress uniform and vow gentility of the southeasterly. Create test crack early and represented the hardscrabble farmers and wage earners had molded in to so formidable a fighting machine. After awkwardly exchanging pleasantries about service in the mexican war, the two men agree to the surrender terms and ended the civil war. In essence, grants term salve for the army of north virginia on there arent. The promise that they would never again take up arms against the United States. Great magnanimity in this relates to the
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Staff members and Callous Campaign staff gathered here tonight. Most of us have worked as volunteers for the democrats before we became staff members. We did this because we believed in the senators vision. We admired his courage, and most will, we cared about the same kind of people he did. We shared a common interest in public issues in expressing them to the public and in helping promote the candidacy of the person we respected and loved. In november of 1963, i attended the convention of the National Association of Mental Health in washington, d. C. Our group met with the junior senator for south dakota, George Mcgovern. He hosted us for lunch in the Senate Dining room. Halfway through the mail, a signal was sent for all the senators to report to the floor. That date was november 22, 1963. The day that john kennedy was shot. Shortly thereafter, i received a letter from local democrats inviting me to talk about issues and how to address them. I remember bill tell me about my to promo