Happy confluence of Kansas City Public Library programming. Its the latest in our series with the u. S. Army command and general staff in fort levin worth on the marking the 75 years since world war ii. But also it comes in the middle of the librarys partnership, and its from january through may with the eisenhower president ial library and foundation in abilene. And its on the Dwight Eisenhower exhibit thats up on the second floor art gallery here at the library, the mountain gallery. We have a series of programs running on Dwight Eisenhower through may. The next one of those, in fact, is next wednesday. Tonight we focus on eisenhower and George Marshall. The army chief of staff who targeted ike for advancement as a military officer, keen eye for talent. Among others with ike, he spied george patent and omar bradley. And he became one of ikes primary mentors as the army chief of staff from 1939 to 1945. Marshall, of course, went onto become the secretary of state and win a Nobel Peace
I want to thank the ewing and coughman foundation for supporting extra series tonight. Perhaps youre aware that the Eisenhower Foundation is raising money to conduct a comprehensive exhibit renovation and its the largest Fundraising Campaign in our foundations 73year history its the exhibit renovation in more than 45 years. The new exhibits will be unveiled this summer and we have been so encouraged by the response that weve received thus far and i am pleased to report that we raised 98 of our goals. [ applause ] we of the to finish the campaign and thank the veterans who join us at the Eisenhower Museum to commemorate the dday. Many of our friends have made a gift to the exhibit renovation and id like to thank you for your trust and participation in this project. Theres still time to participate and i hope everyone will consider a gift so we can reach our goal. It gives me great pleasure to introduce to nots program. Louis is Professor Emeritus in the department of history and editor
Its time to make our schools a much harder target for attackers we dont want on in our schools when we. Declare our schools to be gun free zones it just puts our students in far more danger these teachers love this. And these teachers are talented. With weaponry and with guns its concealed so this crazy man who walked in wouldnt even know who it is that has it thats good the bed thats good. The teacher would have shot the hell out of him before he knew what happened. We begin in the u. S. State of florida where teachers have started to go back to their classrooms at Stillman Douglas high school on friday more than a week after seventeen people were killed in a mass shooting the students themselves are scheduled to return next week as they mourn their classmates many of them have also given a new powerful and poignant voice to calls for gun control but on the other side of the debate the president s proposed solution is to get some well trained teachers weapons its a plan hatched by the