Due respect, in my courtroom. [laughter] but we do have some great scholars with us this morning. Stephen engle, the author of a great book about lincoln and the nations governors. Jonathan white, author of midnight in america. And soon to be with us, a book, our little monitor. And of course, catherine clinton, no stranger to us, author of many books. And walter, author of a great biography as well as on Edwin Stanton, called stanton. He told me, and i hope i am not revealing any confidence, he has a glint in his eye. Good luck with that. [laughter] i am sure we will hear about secretary of the treasury salmon chase from professor clinton. So let me start with this. John barr, one of our members, wrote a great book but it is a door stopper, it is huge. It is called loathing lincoln. He said in his introduction that william f. Buckley, jr. Once said americans shall not remember why lincoln was loved until we come to understand why he was hated. Both emotions were shown after his assass
Posted this 90 minute event. Good evening everyone. Can everyone carry while . Good. Im mary mclachlan. Id like to welcome all of you tonight to what promises to be a very stimulating program on the Union General william t sherman. For i begin and i introduce our speaker, id like to remind everyone to check their cell phones and make sure that they are turned off. And also remind everyone that photos are prohibited during Smithsonian Association programs. And lastly, we are delighted to have the cspan History Channel program filming tonight. Jeff shaara will be happy to stay questions at the end of the program. We have mike a mic so cspan can capture your questions. If you will raise your hands we will just wait, if you could, to hold off on asking your questions until you have that microphone in your hand. It is a pleasure to welcome our speaker jeff shaara to the smithsonian. Jeff was last year in 2013 when he presented an Outstanding Program on the battle of vicksburg. Prior to that
Have the cspan History Channel program filming tonight. Jeff shaara will be happy to take questions at the end of the program. We have microphones so cspan can capture your questions. If you will raise your hands we will just wait, if you could, to hold off on asking your questions until you have that microphone in your hand. It is a pleasure to welcome our speaker jeff shaara to the smithsonian. Jeff was last here with us in 2013 when he presented an Outstanding Program on the battle of vicksburg. Prior to that he was here in 2012 when he presented a program on the battle of shiloh. Jeff shaaras trajectory as one of the most acclaimed writers on it the civil war, the revolutionary war, and world war ii. He holds a degree in criminology from Florida State university. At age 15 he operated a rare coin business, first out of his home and then at a retail store. In 1974 he moved to tampa, florida, and eventually became one of the most widely known precious metal dealers in florida. But in
Good evening everyone. Can everyone hear me well . Good. Im mary mclachlan. Id like to welcome all of you tonight to what promises to be a very stimulating program on the Union General william t. Sherman. Before i begin and i introduce our speaker, id like to remind everyone to check their cell phones and make sure that they are turned off. And also remind everyone that photos are prohibited during Smithsonian Association programs. And lastly, we are delighted to have the cspan History Channel program filming tonight. Jeff shaara will be happy to take questions at the end of the program. We have a mic so cspan can capture your questions. If you will raise your hands we will just wait, if you could, to hold off on asking your questions until you have that microphone in your hand. It is a pleasure to welcome our speaker jeff shaara to the smithsonian. Jeff was last here in 2013 when he presented an Outstanding Program on the battle of vicksburg. Prior to that, he was here in 2012 when he
All right. I do not consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on a life of reading and interviewer even a day job of running a private equity firm. General, thank you very much for coming. Thank you. Good to be with you. You served our country for some time. Now you are in something you might consider a higher calling of mankind, private equity. [laughter] dir. Mulvaney david how do you compare being in the military to being in private equity. Am lucky to be in the private agribusiness and also in academia. I think it is pretty hard to top leading the country, especially if you are leading our soldiers into combat. You do an hour and a half year. We can talk. Righte living in new york now. When you are in new york, you run around central park . Six point two miles. Two people recognize you . Not if you are running. Unimpedednerally run and unrecognized if you are wearing a hat. If thei just ask though veterans in the audience woul