Welcoming Chandra Manning. Thanks to all of you for coming today. Im surprised to see anybody. With the election just three days ago and the outcome we know will make history going forward, i was not sure if anybody would care about what happens 150 years ago but im glad you did. The story really matters. It is a story of refugees at the center of american history. A story of success and failure and how those things are often intertwined, a story about making and defining citizenship not once and for all but on an ongoing day in day out basis. It affects all of us bearing responsibility. What i want to do is talk about how this book came about. I will give you a glimpse into what it says. I want to ask if any of you have been to a psychorama . Do you know what it is . An enormous secular painting. One is the battle of gettysburg, it is 377 feet long and 42 feet high. Imagine a football field end to end including the end zone, 42 feet high, and every inch is painted in intricate, exquis
About the fragile and chaotic nature of the freedom and enduring dignity of the people who secured it. W join me in welcoming chandra manning. [applause] thank you. Thank you very minute to all of you for coming today. Im a tiny bit surprised to see anybody. With an election just three days ago and an outcome that we know is going to make history going y forward, im i wasnt quite sure if anybody would show up ay but im glad you did. He its a story of refugee see center of American History and skis do ash story about page asking defining citizenship as a day in and dayout basis. Want to talk about how thisf particular book came about, how i came to write it. Ill give you a glimpse into what it says and then id like to end with what i hope this book achieves. Wayne to start by being if any of you have ever been to a. Psychorama, an enormous painting, a sicker already th sicker you walk into thee middle of it and every inch is painted. Y inch in intricate, elaborate detail. Thats a sick l
All this occurred before i was henry kissinger. It is not a known fact. I visited salisbury several when i was in winchester. And so i have a great feeling for where ted heath lived. I thought what i could do here is to describe our interaction with ted heath when he was Prime Minister. What the issues were. That sometimes we agreed. And occasionally we did not agree. But we obviously respected him as one of the important figures of our time. And with a vision for europe that is historic. So when the tories won the 1970 election, Richard Nixon was so elated that he called me on the telephone nearly every hour to update me on the status of the returns. In terms of our hierarchy, of course, it should have been the other way. Part of nixons enthusiasm for heath was the comparability of their rises to office. Heath was the first tory Prime Minister to be selected by the vote of the conservative members of Parliament Rather than by consensus of party eminences. Both heath and nixon were adm
All this occurred before i was henry kissinger. It is not a known fact. I visited salisbury several when i was in winchester. And so i have a great feeling for where ted heath lived. I thought what i could do here is to describe our interaction with ted heath when he was Prime Minister. What the issues were. That sometimes we agreed. And occasionally we did not agree. But we obviously respected him as one of the important figures of our time. And with a vision for europe that is historic. So when the tories won the 1970 election, Richard Nixon was so elated that he called me on the telephone nearly every hour to update me on the status of the returns. In terms of our hierarchy, of course, it should have been the other way. Part of nixons enthusiasm for heath was the comparability of their rises to office. Heath was the first tory Prime Minister to be selected by the vote of the conservative members of Parliament Rather than by consensus of party eminences. Both heath and nixon were adm
All this occurred before i was henry kissinger. It is not a known fact. I visited salisbury several when i was in winchester. And so i have a great feeling for where ted heath lived. I thought what i could do here is to describe our interaction with ted heath when he was Prime Minister. What the issues were. That sometimes we agreed. And occasionally we did not agree. But we obviously respected him as one of the important figures of our time. And with a vision for europe that is historic. So when the tories won the 1970 election, Richard Nixon was so elated that he called me on the telephone nearly every hour to update me on the status of the returns. In terms of our hierarchy, of course, it should have been the other way. Part of nixons enthusiasm for heath was the comparability of their rises to office. Heath was the first tory Prime Minister to be selected by the vote of the conservative members of Parliament Rather than by consensus of party eminences. Both heath and nixon were adm