I have lived in. How Americas National essences being ignored, trampled or distorted. What else are you saying here. To direct ourying fromtion away from moment the political mania that has surrounded us for 363 days so far this year and weve got two more to go. Oversday we start all again. I just want to take a break from that and have us look at 400 years of our engagement with the idea of liberty. My argument is that is the ourmate of america, of nationalism. Its the exceptional american idea. It is something that americans have been talking about, writing about, fighting for for for centuries. Four centuries. Some of them are famous. Some of them every one of you has read. Allrs are obscure but they laid down principles that affect us waiting to liberate us today. I want us to be proud of that. I must to think about it. I want us to be inspired. Host we will take your calls in just a couple of minutes. Republicans can call 2027488001. Democrats 2027488000. Ndependents 2027488002 yo
Originally over at sixth and g street. This is the third time the building has been moved. In 1969, the building was taken off of its foundation. They took off some of the first floor. They made it easier for us to move down to the museum site. They have lifted it up on some steel beams. They put wheels underneath the steel beams. They used a Remote Control system to roll it down the street very slowly. It will take it a few hours to get it one block down. Why is it being moved . The first time the building moved was for progress downtown. The metro headquarters was getting built. Metro displaced this little building and moved it to the new site here. The Jewish Historical Society has done a number of weddings thebar mitzvahs in synagogue, but it is not used as a traditional synagogue, it is more for special events. Until this last year, we were doing programming and small exhibitions out of this building. Progress in the city we are rebuilding this huge new neighborhood in this area c
Of what was going on during the Nixon Administration and that impeachment period, and a number of us about 15 people prepared a report, submitted it to the committee come to doubt members of the Committee Never saw the report because the president resigned before the report to be printed and distributed to them. Was a published . It was published in 1974 but because the president was been out of office, the interest in the book died without ever having in fact, been created and no historians kono come no eved of the book. Most historians have never heard of it. In regards to the president s conduct what you do find . Well, can answer the question by bringing it up to today . I think that was a great departure in president ial misconduct in 1974. When we talk about misconduct, we are talking about flagrant disregard of existing law, number one, and also corruption by which i mean the use of Public Office for private gain. That was pretty much the normal kinds of corruption one finds in
You should have copies of the constitution at each of your seats. So if theres anything that comes up during the course of the conversation where you need to refer to that legal document, feel free to do so. [laughter] think aboutp us these issues we have for distinguished experts. Senior fellows a at brookings, writes a column for the wall street journal and is the author of antipluralism, the populist threat to liberal democracy. Molly reynolds is a senior fellow at brookings and is the author of exceptions to the role, the politics of filibuster limitations in the u. S. Senate. Elaine kamarck is a senior author of a book about a Senior Process on nominating and the United States. Is a seniortes fellow at brookings and is a coauthor of a forthcoming book entitled on making the presidency, Donald Trumps war on the most powerful office. Host i want to start with bill. He has paid a lot of attention to the Public Opinion aspects of impeachment. There were three recent National Surveys t
Brian thank you for taking your seats and we will continue with our leadership seminar. The coach has been so generous to let us use his name, i know he wants to find ways to contribute to the learning and education as part of Kennesaw State university. We are very grateful not only to have one of the mentors of kennesaws tom scotto over here, but david parker is a good representative from my department. Thank you for coming. And thank you to all of you for being here, and thank you to our speaker for making it here. We had planned for him to come to a Different Event some time ago and the weather got in the way. This time, the weather did not prevent him from arriving and we are so excited to have Steve Woodworth. He taught for eight years at toccoa, so he has some good georgia roots in that area, and he went on to texas christian university, where he is the powerhouse. The people who say, who should i study with . He is one of the first names to come up for them and for me. One of my