Minds. Lets turn it over to you, tony, and get it started. [applause] abbott walter, thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen for being here. It is always good to be in washington and at the Heritage Foundation in particular. I have a speech which i am going to deliver. I have worked on it. I think it is important that i give you the speech i have written. Thate just begin by saying america is the indispensable country, the only country on earth with the strength and the consistently beat the free world. I like to think that australia is americas indispensable partner. The one country that america can always rely on for help when America Needs it. So with those introductory notes, it is straight to the Heritage Foundation. Back in november of 2014 when australia hosted the annual meeting of the g20, it was by far the most important gathering of leaders ever held in my country. It should have been a diplomatic triumph, but for president obama choosing at that time to give a speech at
And is a historian who has contributed a couple of great books but lincolns last trial if you wonder why im interested in having him. [laughter] but he has written a book that fdr called my fifth cousin by blood and set it at the very trial that dan abrams has written about in this extraordinary book of a littleknown episode in Theodore Roosevelts life and that is an extraordinary legal episode at the defense of a charge of liable argued here in new york state. Welcome. Its great to be here and always honored to be interviewed by you and always intimidating. Its better when we dont talk about lincoln. This is all new. I promise. It will be considered new to everybody else. So start with the obvious why this book and case . In the context of working on the lincoln book with his last trial we used this transcript arguing from nine months before he got the nomination and david fisher my coauthor brought me this and set a fascinating transcript only discovered 1989 know it has written abou
Good evening. Im Howard Walter and i have the honor of serving as director at roosevelt house and we are thrilled to have you here for what we think will be a special evening as we welcome our guest who as you know provides regular legal analysis to abc news and on the a e network constantly including this evening. And is a historian who has contributed a couple of great books but lincolns last trial if you wonder why im interested in having him. [laughter] but he has written a book that fdr called my fifth cousin by blood and set it at the very trial that dan abrams has written about in this extraordinary book of a littleknown episode in Theodore Roosevelts life and that is an extraordinary legal episode at the defense of a charge of liable argued here in new york state. Welcome. Its great to be here and always honored to be interviewed by you and always intimidating. Its better when we dont talk about lincoln. This is all new. I promise. It will be considered new to everybody else. S
Will be a book signing. Ellior ackerman, they have brought their new books for us and elliott is a marine war veteran, published many books. He is a National Book finalist award winner and also wrote for the new york times, the atlantic, the new yorker. Clay is a native nashville he and who has published many works as well. Mostly historical and also Deputy Editor in chief or up in chief for the new york times. We are going to let them talk about their books individually and after a few minutes you can you and a on points of the books that they enjoy. Great. Thank you very much and thank you for coming out. It is always a pleasure to be back here in nashville. When they told me we would be sitting together on a panel i was elated because im a great admirer of your work. One of my good friends at work is one of elliotts editors and over the years i have come to admire his work and maybe we could get into it at some point but despite the fact my book is about the spanishamerican war and
Rough ridered. Theodore roosevelt his cowboy regiment and the immortal charge up San Juan Hill. The authorrer is mark lee gardner. Mr. Gardner, how did Teddy Roosevelt get to San Juan Hill in 1898 . Guest well, it was a lot of hard trying, a lot of really putting well, Theodore Roosevelt said, i put myself in the way of things happening and they happen, and he tried his best to form a military regiment and to get his troops to cuba and it was just force of will to get him to that spot where he created that iconic moment in 1898. Host he was not regular army. Guest he was. No. A u. S. Volunteer. Host and dead hi operate independently . Guest yeah. I think to the chagrin of Commanding Officers, yes, he certainly had an independent expert his own way of doing things, but he did have a Commanding Officer and he was part of the fifth corps, so they did have their marching orders as to what their role was going to be, but he took on additional roles and that charge up San Juan Hill, a lot of