This panel. Im catherine clinton. Im the denman professor of American History at the university of texas in san antonio and is my tag says im on the Advisory Board and im an author and so it is wonderful. Im also a veteran. I was colonel for a year when i taught at the citadel, but today i went to say that im so pleased that were witnessing a great reunion a great kind of reckoning coming up against we have been meeting virtually for the past few months, but isnt it great to be back in person and have an afternoon where we explore such wonderful topics as race and lincoln and leadership in lincoln. Im pleased to report that my intuition is that we will have many more of these wonderful gatherings. And so we have to think historically and in thinking back i wanted to say Jonathan White gave us a wonderful bulletin, so look at what the topics were and in doing it. I see that the chief borrowed my punching lincoln for his collection, and maybe its down in starkville because i gave my firs
Important communication. Thank you very much, and its a great for be here moderating this panel. Im catherine clinton. Im the denman professor of American History at the university of texas in san antonio and is my tag says im on the Advisory Board and im an author and so it is wonderful. Im also a veteran. I was colonel for a year when i taught at the citadel, but today i went to say that im so pleased that were witnessing a great reunion a great kind of reckoning coming up against we have been meeting virtually for the past few months, but isnt it great to be back in person and have an afternoon where we explore such wonderful topics as race and lincoln and leadership in lincoln. Im pleased to report that my intuition is that we will have many more of these wonderful gatherings. And so we have to think historically and in thinking back i wanted to say Jonathan White gave us a wonderful bulletin, so look at what the topics were and in doing it. I see that the chief borrowed my punchin
I was colonel for a year when i taught at the citadel, but today i went to say that im so pleased that were witnessing a great reunion a great kind of reckoning coming up against we have been meeting virtually for the past few months, but isnt it great to be back in person and have an afternoon where we explore such wonderful topics as race and lincoln and leadership in lincoln. Im pleased to report that my intuition is that we will have many more of these wonderful gatherings. And so we have to think historically and in thinking back i wanted to say Jonathan White gave us a wonderful bulletin, so look at what the topics were and in doing it. I see that the chief borrowed my punching lincoln for his collection, and maybe its down in starkville because i gave my first talk here in 2003 lincoln our mortal president , but more seriously it was the scholars who were so supportive of the idea of bringing lincoln and his world alive. They got me started on my lincoln journey and we discussed
Great for be here moderating this panel. Im catherine clinton. Im the denman professor of American History at the university of texas in san antonio and is my tag says im on the Advisory Board and im an author and so it is wonderful. Im also a veteran. I was colonel for a year when i taught at the citadel, but today i went to say that im so pleased that were witnessing a great reunion a great kind of reckoning coming up against we have been meeting virtually for the past few months, but isnt it great to be back in person and have an afternoon where we explore such wonderful topics as race and lincoln and leadership in lincoln. Im pleased to report that my intuition is that we will have many more of these wonderful gatherings. And so we have to think historically and in thinking back i wanted to say Jonathan White gave us a wonderful bulletin, so look at what the topics were and in doing it. I see that the chief borrowed my punching lincoln for his collection, and maybe its down in star
Possibilities. My own office at the state department has had a pretty consistent budget thanks to the congress to support Civil Society actors in a variety of countries and, of course, the National Endowment for democracy remains the pree moore institution in the world premier institution in the world for targeting assistance to democrats usually many tough places. So they know they have support from the outside community, from the International Community. So let me mention a couple of things just to wind up this opening scene setter. One is that i think we in the United States need to appreciate the Important Role that congress plays. While we disparage its occasional polarization and inability to resolve certain major things, the congress has been a major contributor to american democracy programming in a lot of ways. Not least in the creation of my part of the state department. You know, the bureau for democracy, human rights and labor was created 30 years ago over the objections of