Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. [ applause ] i am Jeffrey Rosen, the president of this wonderful institution. And its such a great day to celebrate the relationship between National Constitution center and cspan. Cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission, which i all want you to recite along with me to inspire our guests and our cspan viewers. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [ applause ] i was so thrilled when my friend and colleague, susan swain, the head of cspan, came a few months ago or weeks ago, about three weeks ago, that said we have this great new book on the president s. Lets launch it at the National Constitution center. Were here to
Best and worst chief executives. We hear from author rosen, Michael Gearhart and from Robert Strauss. His book is worst president ever about james buchanan. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. I am Jeffrey Rosen, the president of this wonderful institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the great collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. Cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens, and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission which i now want all of you to recite along with me to inspire our guests and our cspan viewers. The National Constitution center is the National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [ applause ] i was so thrilled when my friend and coll
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Constitution Center. I am the president of this institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] cspan has a mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission which i want you to reside along with me to inspire our guests and viewers. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [applause] i was so thrilled when my friend and colleague susan swain, the head of cspan, came just a few months ago, or rather weeks ago, and said, we have this great new book on the president s. Let us launch it at the National Constitution center. It is such an honor to welcome back to the Constitution Center the great founder of cspan, b
Butterfield, director of the fred w Swift National library. It is my pleasure to welcome you back here. And the Ford Motor Company each month sponsors a free book talk like this one. An opportunity for the community to come and learn from the greatest historians in the field. Thank you for being here tonight. We are thrilled to have to begin the program, im you. We will hear a brief hesitation from susan swain, copresident and chief executive officer of cspan. She will be joined by brian lam, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating an esteemed group of historians discussing the american presidency. The american presidency is, as you know, a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. [laughter] in the constitution, there is not much said about it. As you might imagine. Article one is quite long. Article two is quite shorter. As you can imagine, the executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of america. Full stop. That is the first s
Celebrate the great cooperation between the National Constitution center and cspan. Cspan, has inspiring non partisan mission, to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens, and that coincides with our mission, which i want all of you to recite along with me, to inspire our guests and our cspan viewers. The National Constitution center, is the only institution in america, chartered by congress, to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution, on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful that was so well done. I was so thrilled when my friend and colleague, the head of cspan, susan came a few weeks ago, about three weeks ago and she said, weve got this great new book on the president s, lets just launch it at the National Constitution center. And its an honor to welcome back, the founder of cspan, brian lamb. He is americas, greatest interviewer, i was honored to be interviewed by him, for my peace on the book, as well as my colleagues, and welcome back to