Of todays lecture, to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in , if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture sponsored or cosponsored by the center of president ial history, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. Thanks again for coming. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the Clement Center for southwest studies. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Starting with our friends for whom we are cosponsoring tonights event. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially bono spitz, who along for those people who ha
, ranger at Petersburg National battlefield, where we first met as park rangers many, many years ago. He is worked in manassas, vicksburg, and gettysburg. He will tackle the elephant in the room about gettysburg versus vicksburg, which one of these two battles he considers being a native mississippian and having worked at both parks, which he considers to be the biggest turning point. Gettysburg or vicksburg . I will let matt get up here and explain. Matt atkinson. [applause] matt thats what it is. I understand you all had a row last night about something. Right there, right . The most important battle, a top the top 10 battles in the american civil war, and gettysburg was left off. Can you believe that . I want to tell you a quick story. I was invited down to a richmond roundtable. We were at the willow oaks country club. We had virginia ham. That is the only time they go out there. Anyway, i was having a great time. I was in richmond and the man who did the top 10 last night lives th
Vicksburg, which battle he considers being a native mississippian and having worked at both parks, which he considers to be the biggest turning point. Gettysburg or vicksburg . I will let matt get up here and explain. Matt atkinson. [applause] matt that is what it is. I understand you all had a role last night about something. Right there, right . The most important battle, a top 10 battles in the american civil war, gettysburg was left off. Can you believe that . I want to tell you a quick story. I was invited down to a roundtable in richmond. We were at the willow oaks country club. We had virginia ham. The only time they go out there. Anyway i was having a great , time, i was in richmond and the man who did the top 10 last night lives there and he did not show. So here is what you call poetic justice. [laughter] a slight i have not forgotten right there. [laughter] the top 10 battles in the american civil war. Im sure he knows more about the civil war than i do, im sure he did not l
Tuesday, with it. Doubledigit. 13 san jose, also 30 degrees cooler livermore was the most at 15. Palo alto was down 12. Still pretty good fog hanging around sfo. Santa rosa is 48. Livermore was 51. 35 to 43 Miles Per Hour gusts at mt. Diablo. Northwest at 36 Miles Per Hour. Not warming up anytime soon, at least not until early next week. Until then, a mix of sun and clouds. Temperatures are below average are getting near average for this time of year. Okay. We got an issue earlier. Eastbound 580, that is since cleared. Anything new . All right, we dont have anything brandnew. We do have traffic that is mostly good morning to you and good morning to you at home if youre just about to leave the house. The drive somewhere right now, the good for you on 80 was but. Realize that a lot of essential workers have to go. But we have not had any big crowds. We have had a couple of different incidents that have not caused all that much slow traffic. You can brief delays here and there. At some of
Thanks so much for coming. It seems particularly appropriate given the subject of todays lecture to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the clement center. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially for those people who have coordinated all of the logistics. During my first semester at the clement center, we received an anonymous 500,000 gift in ho