War museum, is relevant today. Many of you are regulars to the events, history buffs who love to study the lessons of history. I would like to add a special welcome to some of you who are new to the preservationists who have joined us today in the audience. As we have over the decades in our existence, as the museum of the confederacy and the American Civil War center which combined to form the American Civil War museum, we have always thought that it was our responsibility to engage constructively with public issues arising from the subject of the civil war. Whether that subject be monuments, the confederate battle flag, or the discussion of slavery as the cause of the war. Our purpose today is to promote a constructive and civil consideration of civil war monuments. We have organized a program that features scholars who come from diverse academic backgrounds and bring diverse viewpoints to the subject. Collectively they will provide background and perspective on monuments and give us
They were assisted by a number of agencies, but the work of one deserves special thanks and that is the work of the and National Security agency. 25thvent marks the cias major declassification event since 2007 and our second. Who we are fortunate once again to have people with us to know more about the president s daily brief than anybody else i can think of and thats john brennan and jim clapper. Both have been very supportive of intelligence transparency efforts. Director clapper has instituted a transparency counsel and the event today is the result of that counsel. An event would not happen without the support of director brennan. Have a document like this on your chair with an agenda. The introduction will be very brief because the agenda has all of the biographies in it. For those of you watching home, you can see that what on the cia. Gov website. Ant to thank the mexican Nixon Library for this space. Director ofrect the the museum. [applause] nixonlzey welcome to the library an
I want to tell you what my reaction to this book is because i have had the opportunity to read it already. It is one of three books in the last 20 years i read cover to cover in one sitting. I dont read quickly. The reason i read it cover to cover in one sitting is it is extremely well written. It is graceful prose of an oldfashioned sort. And second, it is wonderfully , when i was taught in graduate school to refer to as a revisionist work in history. All good works of history if they are good are revisionist in some way, but he is telling us a new story about the coming of the revolution in massachusetts. A story you might have thought was already told to death. Of twook is a reflection things. One, really good oldfashioned history writing of a kind we dont see as much as we used to. And the second thing is, it is indicative of the emergence of what i think is a new sort of history writing or a new kind of history research. In ways itossible was not possible 20 years ago to andarch t
9. We will start with the big picture. That is hurricane gaston moving away. Then, depression number 8 brushing the banks moving away. Tropical storm number 9 looks more formittable than number 8 during the day today. For most of the day stationary. This evening it is beginning to move to the northeast at 5 miles an hour. The westerlies are starting to pick it up. Top winds are still at 35 miles an hour. It might become a Tropical Storm tomorrow. Tropical storm afternoon, top winds maybe at 40 miles an hour if it gets its act together moving to the north and east. Thursday morning, top winds, 45, moving farther into the north atlantic. Really, not a big issue for North Carolina. But, the one that is in the gulf of mexico that is expected to be a Tropical Storm tomorrow, tropical depression number 9 may have a far greater impact of North Carolina. Locally as well. We will talk about this in greater detail. You will want to stick around for this coming up. Thank you, mike. People along t
Neither tweets, no, im not on instagram, im not on that does not now, im sure many of you but youve got other people who understand social media, that are part of that in the department of justice . Yes, no, absolutely. Though its not you. But also, they dont particularly recommend that im highly on social media when youre in this role because we do the terrorists and also spies under our mandate. And i think youve heard so, just to kind of do you i mean, ive read a little bit about your division. Do we need a domestic terror statute in the u. S. . I think its something that so or tell us what that is, kind of shortform. I think theres been a discussion. When you have a group, if theres an International Terrorist group, theres a clean statute that says that if its a designated International Terrorist group, then you can prosecute someone for providing support to that International Terrorist group. But by design, we do not have a statute that says you can designate some group inside the