The team from barnes noble have the books for sale. Please do consider purchasing the book and help us bring more great authors in st. Louis. So tonights presented by the author series, the program was started in 2004 and presents authors of politics, history and sports. You can visit the program for the list of businesses and organizations that sponsor the westfall series. Our next west fall event will be next tuesday, may 23. We will host our first fiction writer when jeff shara will be here. Hes a writer who writes sort of military history, history base , but they are novelizations of historical events. Its about the korean war. Onto tonights program, Leigh Montville former columnist, former Senior Writer and ,as written biographies including babe ruth. Tonight he will share his new biography of one of the most celebrated athletes, muhammad ali, appropriately titled sting like a bee. He takes a look at the subsequent legal battle that took him all the way to the Supreme Court. Suspe
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Thank you. For. Ladies and gentlemen will you please be seated . And in a moment, you will stand again again. As all of you know, is the largest dinner ever held at the white. And that in itself make an important i think you should also know that in this great house the most distinguished men and women of the world have been entertained. Emperors and kings and president s and leaders from virtually every nation of the world have been honored here. And of course, they have honored this house by being here. But i know that i speak for all of the american people, when i that never has the white house been more proud than it is tonight, because of the guests we have that i. Ladies and gentlemen good evening. My name is jim byron im the president and ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation. And its my honor to welcome you. Thank you. To welcome you all back. The Nixon Library, on behalf of the board of directors and the nixon, its a special privilege for us. Honor you this evening, 50 years to
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Richard Nixon president ial. My name is jim byron and im the and ceo of the Richard Nixon. I want to start this evening because i know that there are a number of veterans in the audience and maybe even some who are actively serving. So if you are a veteran tonight, i would ask that you stand and be recognized. Thank you. But thank you for your. I also want to thank the members of the Richard Nixon Foundation Associates club members and our president s members. Because your membership is what makes Educational Programs like possible. And these are programs that teach American History and american. So thank you. Thanks. Thanks for what you have done. Now on to speaker this evening. Dr. Mark moyar. Is the William P Harris chair of military history at hillsdale college. From 2018 to 2019. He served as of the office of civilian military cooperation at usaid and previously served as director of the project on military and diplomatic histo
And welcome to todays session of the washington history seminar. Historical perspectives on and national affairs. This afternoon, we focus on a new book by carolyn wood isenberg entitled fire and rain nixon and the wars in Southeast Asia, published by Oxford University press just ten days ago. Our discussants afternoon are Pierre Asselin of San Diego State university and frederick log of all of harvard. Im eric arneson from George Washington university, cochair of the washington seminar. Along with my colleague of the Woodrow Wilson center, the washington history seminars, a collaborative and nonpartisan venture of the Woodrow Wilson Centers History and Public Policy program, and the american historical association. And for over the past decade, the seminar has been meeting weekly in precovid, in person at the Wilson Center and since the pandemic and postpandemic era here in the virtual realm, a few phrases before we get started. First, todays session is sponsored by the Wilson Center,