Michelle obama. That was the theme of the annual warren g. Harding symposium at Ohio State University at mary marion. It is about four hours. To begin our first session, entitled paving the way, will you please join me in welcoming the moderator for the session, the director of education and special events lucinda. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you, and thank you, everyone, who is involved with the harding symposium. You have absolutely no idea how thrilled my colleagues and i are all to be here. Anytime we get a chance to present first the ladies, we always first ladies, we always present our mission, you can tell im really good today. [laughter] which is to to get the public about the lives and the activities of the first ladies of this country. And believe me, they were all wonderful. And as i was talking to somebody last night at the reception, we think all the president s were quite intelligent. Everyone of them. Because they were smart enough to marry the woman whod who
In this one volume with its overall size but to encapsulate the entire story with the articles of confederation that led to a the constitution that captures the Amazing Things during that period and the other speaker is a librarian at the American Philosophical Society and the editor of this terrific new volume on the American Revolution i also want to plug is book for a the politics of war please give a great welcome to michael and patrick. [applause]. So we will try to talk about in refashion americas founding in with that in mind i would like to start with you patrick so what do you take to beat the traditional narrative . What do we tell ourselves about . We know the story very well it begins with the stamp act the crisis of the colonys coming together for the first time to announce their opposition to the policy that leads to the twoparty in the boston massacre and independence the story is focused on the eastern seaports the end of boston itself and there is an emphasis and what
The soviet union led to the icy relations with the u. S. In the cold war. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a Nuclear Strike capability against the western hemisphere. Reporter while his allies agreed to remove their missiles, castros animosity towards the u. S. Survived. In 1999, the custody battle over Elian Gonzalez playing out as castro demanded the his mother had drowned while escaping with him to the u. S. Armed u. S. Agents forcibly removing the boy from his miami relatives, returning him to his father in cuba. And there is guantanamo bay, the naval base leased by the u. S. From the casino toe regime since 1959 after the controversial practice of housing terror suspects, castro repeatedly denounced the u. S. Being used to do americas dirty work. Ten american president s tried to isolate castro and hope for his demise. Then in 2013, this defining moment, president obama shaking hands with president raul castro at Nelson Mandelas funeral, paving the way
To release them in stages wikileaks being a campaign against wikileaks because theyre worried about publication. We have a perfect record or decade of never gotten wrong with what we published. They cant attack the substance, the evidence we produce what can we expect to be revealed . Lets brick in jesse burns, a staff writer for the hill. What does he have . Do we have any idea what has he on Hillary Clinton . We dont. We know that obviously, hes not a friend of clinton. Whatever he purports to have would presumably be damaging. Whether it reaching the level of 20,000 produce last month before the Democratic Convention remains to be seen for our viewers who dont know the back story, whats is beef between the Clinton Campaign and goes back several years, essentially, he has not liked a lot of the what theyve advocated. Going back to her being secretary of state over libia and recently the emails that wikileaks produced right before the dnc forced the resignation of top officials, kind
The cted and formed by Panel Discussion this morning. We believe this uniting theme on tions, hree presenta elements of Common Ground thinking will be apparent due to heir complex and deeply informed philosophies. En latford is a professor of english at ben valley state university, the past president of the t. S. Eliot society and the editor of the t. S. Eliot and christian tradition, ben will be discussing elliotts mid20th ions to the century tradition. The chair at is hills vail college and is the cofounder of the imaginative conservative. His scholarship and imagination ave allowed him to publish diverse topics such as Christopher Dawson, james tolkings middle earth. Today, his subject is russell kirk, in many ways, the barrier of postwar conservativeism. Lisa zeffil is associate professor of history at pacific university. Her scholarship focuses on the role of culture in the overnment and American Values as well as social and political morrays. Discussing thebe subject of her curre