Alexander last week. Lamar is the perfect example of what a United States senator should be. Before i was wet behind wet behs in the senate, my first week here, lamar invited me and my wife jill to dinner. There it began, jill and lamars wife honey became fast friends and lamar and i built the kind of friendship that is essential in the senate. We worked together to get things done for our states, bolstering our National Laboratories and conserving our great outdoors. Something else we shared was mario, our barber in the barber shop and to be honest, that is the best place to learn about the senate, sitting in marios chair. Friendships like i have with lamar and mario is what i will miss most about the senate, the friendships. And because as any good senator will tell you, friendships are what gets you over the finish line. I will cherish the friendships i forged over the last 12 years, i will miss serving the people of new mexico and congress, the greatest honor of my life has been do
My name is Cameron Blevins. Thank you for cosponsoring this event might particularly Jeffrey Engel england john phipps. Its my pleasure to introduce Cameron Blevins who braved last night whether to fly in from denver where he teaches u. S. History and humanities at the university of colorado campus in the mile high city. Before moving to the Current Ratio is assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in boston and the core faculty member at the school lab for networks. Cameron is in of the nutmeg state to does anybody know what the nutmeg state is . A number of you. I was hoping id be able to enlighten you. Although he posted palm streets and sunny skies of Southern California when he studied as an undergraduate he loved the west so much that he moved up interstate five to stand for where he his ph. D. In history in 2015. He argued boasts an impressive publication record and tonight he is here to to discuss with this his most significant accomplishment today, paper trail
Were very pleased to have you with us this afternoon. Im bob carter. Have the privilege of serving as director of the Wallace Stegner center for Land Resources and the here at the college of law. I should note that were very pleased to be joined this afternoon only with our esteemed speaker, but cspan will be filming todays event. And were very to have them with us us. The customary way that we start these events at the college of law is with the native lands acknowledgment. We acknowledge that this land is named for the ute tribe is the traditional and ancestral homeland of the shoshone. Paiute go shoot and ute tribes the university of utah recognize jesus and respects the enduring that exists between. Many Indigenous Peoples and their traditional homelands. We respect the sovereign between tribes, states and the federal government, and we affirm the university of utahs commitment to a partnership native nations and urban indian communities through research, education and Community Ou
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