Courthouse civil park. And Liz Ben Varon talks about the ending of the appomattox civil war. This is about 50 minutes. Thank you. Thank you very much. It is a pleasure and honor to be here and share the stage with these wonderful scholars. Im grateful to Patrick Schroeder to having included me. So you have the surrender scene and i would like to turn to the surrender aftermath and the political debates spawned by appomattox and ill argue that lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. But i will try to take us beyond lee and grant as the appomattox drama unfolded the countrymen and women would crowd the scene and vest the surrender with their oesh as pir own aspirations and agendas and dreams and the dream in the eyes of africanamericans and so
Funding. Was that your experience too and if so is that something thats on going or petered out by now . Senator shut off funding i dont know. I mean, hes a more prolific fundraiser than i am, so he may have felt more of a difference than i did. Youd have to ask him. Im not aware of any conspiracy to shut us out of anything and im not aware of any one person or one group of people who has the ability to do that. Senator paul has this legislation that lets states implement their own medical marijuana laws and make these states no longer breaking law. Is that something you support on the Judiciary Committee . What is your stance on that . Senator is this the one that hes running with senator and had a long conversation with senator the other day. As i recall it would move marijuana from a schedule one to a schedule two; is that right . Right. It has some medical benefit and allows states that legalize it to regulate it. Senator one of the reasons for doing that that senator told me about
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