Im richard mcculley. Todays talk is the last of 2014. A year when weve really been treated to some splendid presentations by some of the centers most significant researchers. That said, we end the year with a bang by hosting todays guest who will discuss his significant and timely book, making the modern american fiscal state law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation, 18771929. Published by Cambridge University press. We will resume this talk on january 15 when we host rebecca edwards, professor of history. Her talk is titled, sex on the frontier fertility in americas antebellum empire. Rebecca edwards is a very eminent historian who would you would expect to get quite but a presentation of that title, i think this is something they cannot be missed. Professor mehrotra is the associate dean for research, professor of law. A fellow at Indiana University. He received his j. D. At Georgetown University law center and his ph. D. At the university of chicago. He has served as the c
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National security advisers Henry Kissinger. In some ways, nixon is one of the most brilliant people to occupy the white house. He had incredible political gifts. But on the other hand hes one of the worst people to occupy the white house because he had a broad streak of para nnoia and course in the end ruined himself by bringing about his his own catastrophic downfall in the watergate scandal of 1972 to 1974. Were going to look at the good and bad side of the nixon presidency with National Security adviser kissinger. Im going to share the screen so we can look at powerpoint pictures as we go through the sequence. First of all, here is president nixon himself. He had been born back in 1913 in california and grew up in a lower middle class family. Went to the local college there with the college. He graduated and went to Duke University law school and this is in the worst years of great depression. The mid1930s. During the second world war, he joined the u. S. Navy. You can see the photo
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