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 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 history at the center for strategic and International Studies in washington, d. C. Dr. Moyer is a member of the Hoover I
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, cosponsored by the Wilson Cen
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
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, cosponsored by the Wilson Centers asia program. And we ask you to take note that next session will be on monday,