Spent good evening everyone so glad to see you here in the auditorium tonights program give me liberty is a part of the shorts distinguished Speakers Series and thank you for your great generosity which enables us to bring so many fine speakers to the stage. I also want to think the Chairmans Council member who is in attendance and thank you for your support which enables us to do our work with that question and answer session as you enter the auditorium my colleagues are going up and down the aisles. Following the program there will be a book signing and they will be available for purchase. We are thrilled to welcome Richard Brooke kaiser at the National Review institute and the author of numerous books including Alexander Hamiltons americana. As our chief historian curator the blockbuster show Alexander Hamilton from 2004. We were way ahead of our time but it caught up with us. Richard Brooke Kaiser was is awarded the National Humanities metal in 2008 his newest book is the exception
To talk about how they maintain the relationships despite their political reviews. Every day it gets worse. My brother unfriended me on facebook over cavanaugh. My sisterinlaw broke her engagement over cavanaugh. One of the people that wrote me one of those letters was a guy. Lovely guy. Sounded really nice. Worked on the west coast. He was a trump supported he had to take that fact off of his profile because no woman would go out with him. Hed been in the military. Very intelligent. Auntie met an awesome woman. He really liked her. They had a lot in common. They went on one date. All her friends and we will kill him. How can you do this . She walked out. In one date. And he said, i read some of the things she wrote. I think we have a chance. Will you talk to her . Will you be my gobetween . So, why not . I said hes a great guy. She really had a blind spot for this. Why is it if someone votes for trunk, i consider them the antichrist. Surely there are guys that i agree with that didnt
With casey cep. She tells the story of author harper lees attempt to write a true crime book. [inaudible conversations] hello, everybody. Can you hear me okay . My name is r are ebek ah, tonight we are on excited to have casey cep [cheers and applause] furious hours, this is a book that katie sorry, casey. [laughter] this is not the first thing that casey has given us to write. Casey has been writing for the new yorker, the New York Times, many, many others for many years now, and many of you probably noticed because youre here, but in all of her work she has this superhuman ability to make everything she touches fascinating and crystal clear, and this could not be more true for this book. In this one, casey works to lay out two intertwining mysteries. One is the story of reverend Willie Maxwell and his trial, and the other is the unfinished work of a beloved literary character, and she recounts both stories with contagious dedication to seeing them through and doing them as much justi
[applause] thank you, john. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. There were two bills at National Review and in the conservative movement. Two bills. Bill buckley, a brilliant shooting star who lit up the sky and william rusher, and never wavering north star by which conservatives learned to chart their political course. Many have written about william f. Buckley jr. That irresistible renaissance man, but no one until david frisk has given us an indepth portrait of the other bill, william rusher. Who among his other solutes for contributions played a pivotal role in the life of the National Draft Goldwater Committee. That was critical because if there had been no Draft Goldwater Committee there would have been no president ial candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 and if there had been no candidate goldwater in 1964, there would have been no president elect Ronald Reagan in 1980. It was goldwater who approved reagans famous a time for choosing television address which made reagan politica
according to the publication transportation weekly they orderedmica to reintroduce the extension as a stand-alone bill which can then be considered by the rules committee. that bill is hr-7246. it was then noted that after still more discussion among themselves, republican leaders ordered mica to reintroduce this as a stand-alone bill. confused? anybody confused? that bill is now a chart-4281 troyer currently debating. bono knows what we will debate in the next hour and yet during the course of this week and last week, the republican leadership could have scheduled a bipartisan, non-controversial senate-passed bill for consideration by this body. it could have been brought up at any time. by the speaker, passed by this body in a bipartisan fashion and signed into law. i make these points to illustrate the fact the fast and loose means by which the republican leadership has been dealing with an extremely serious matter. instead of spinning their wheels in pursuit of the bil