Welcome everybody. My name is Doug Bradburn, founding director of the library for the study of George Washington here at beautiful mount vernon and delighted to welcome you all again for a wonderful evening of conversation in history. And i would also like to welcome the cspan audience who was recording as the cd. Its great to have you back in the library. Will these evening book talks are special for friday of reasons because we get to bring exciting new historians to the eager community, but also because it sponsored by forbes which is been a great donor to mount vernon for many, many years. As you all know Mount Vernon Ladies Association does not take any government money. Its completely private institution based on philanthropy a base of people coming to the estate. So we depend on groups like the ford family and the Ford Motor Company has supported mount vernon, since henry ford gave the first fire engine to mount vernon to keep the Mansion House and burning to the ground. So as s
For better ratings, not for himself, but for the apprentice, the show that Arnold Schwarzenegger on all fronts. Arnold schwarzenegger to ta ke fronts. Arnold schwarzenegger to take my place and we know how that turned out. Why dont we switch jobs question would you take over tv, because you are an expert, i take over your job. Hello and welcome to one hundred days with Me Katty Kay In Washington and Christian Fraser in london. Its safe to say we learn a lot about the president s Foreign Policy from his twitter account. As youd imagine, since his tweets are so wide ranging, almost every government in the world is on tenterhooks to see what hes tweeting now. Today iran is the subject. He warned that iran has been put on notice forfiring a ballistic missile. He had this message too iran was on its last legs and ready to collapse until the us came along and gave it a life line in the form of the iran deal 150 billion. But it is notjust the old enemies that get trumps twitter treatment. It
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Pinches the wants to make you pinches cheeks. This man is as close to god as is humanly possible. [laughter] alford was awesome. I had him fall semester and failed his class. Not because he was bad, but because i did not come to class. Dont expect to fail. That was just me being stupid. Hes cool. [laughter] quotes alfred manages to be wetyourpants funny at 8 00 a. M. In the morning. It is as if you are watching a movie, but it is him just reading the tapestry of american history. And finally, my favorite stop reading these reviews and sign up for his class before all the seats are taken. Please welcome my friend and fellow board member, dr. Terry alford. [applause] professor alford thank you for this great invitation. It is great to see such a large audience. He got invited to read his poems at 7 00 friday night at the community center. He was delighted and showed up at 6 30. No one was there. 6 45 tone was there. 7 00, no one was there, not even the person who invited him. [laughter]
Through, as i interpreted, on a modern frame, early high school. He went to a very good school in though air, maryland. He went to a school in sparks, maryland, run by quickerquaker elder and a military middle and high school run by an episcopalian priest. These are good schools. It was difficult for him. His sister said his older brothers were more intuitive but for john, he had to really force himself to learn things. It was not easy. I see all sorts of clues that he was a good auditory learner. He would listen, especially to people he respected. We know this. You can pay attention. You can learn a lot with your ears. People have made a fortune with her ears. He was very good about picking up things just by listening other people. He became an actor in his late teens. He was in richmond for two years and was popular there. I was able to discover that the roles he played more than any other role was lord gundry in our american cousin. It was not known what role he had until recently a