Alright. David i dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . David you actually started out, you wanted to be an actor, and after a number of years you abandoned that. Have you ever thought that, you know, the country and the world has now missed having another de niro or pacino by your not being in the acting world . Leslie no, i think it was a great benefit to america that i decided to give that up and go to the other side. I think fairly early on and i was smart enough to realize that probably three or four or five years into my acting career, that i was sort of a mediocre actor. I was also tending bar more than i was acting during those years. And i looked around, and i said, you know what, there are people who do this a lot better than i do. Theres probably Som
Leave it this way. All right. David i dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You actually started out, you wanted to be an actor, and after a number of years you abandoned that. Have you ever thought that, you know, the country and the world has now missed having another de niro or with a between a by your not being in the acting world . Leslie no, i think it was a great benefit to america that i decided to give that up and go to the other side. I think fairly early on and i was smart enough to realize that probably three or four or five years into my acting career, that i was sort of a mediocre actor. I was also tending bar more than i was acting during those years. And i looked around, and i said, you know what, there are people who do this a lot better than
If my tie was fixed. Leave it this way. All right. David i dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You actually started out, you wanted to be an actor, and after a number of years you abandoned that. Have you ever thought that, you know, the country and the world has now missed having another de niro or with a between a by your not being in the acting world . Leslie no, i think it was a great benefit to america that i decided to give that up and go to the other side. I think fairly early on and i was smart enough to realize that probably three or four or five years into my acting career, that i was sort of a mediocre actor. I was also tending bar more than i was acting during those years. And i looked around, and i said, you know what, there are people who do th
General grants staff, there was a young captain named Robert Lincoln on his staff, and he, of course, was the son of president Abraham Lincoln, and he was here in the room. Another interesting participant in this ceremony was at least, maybe not participant, but a witness to this ceremony was this rag doll of lula mclean, youngest daughter of wilmer mclean. It was sitting on the couch when the officers came in, and they moved it to the mantel during the meeting. After the meeting, some of the officers took the doll off the mantel and began tossing it around. Captain thomas moore of general phillip sheridans staff took the doll home with him as a war souvenir. In the 1990s, the family wanted the doll to come back to Appomattox Court house, and it is now on display in the Park Visitors Center. The meeting lasted about an hour and a half. It was said to be a gentlemans agreement. General grant was very generous with the terms. In the end when general lee said he had nothing to feed his me
Of the union army, and he blocked general lees line of retreat, thus general lee had to continue further west, searching for rations and hoping to get around grants army. The next place general lee could gather supplies was about three miles from us here at appomattox station. Supplies had been brought over from lynchburg to feed general lees army. Its everything the army really needed. Hundreds of thousands of rations, new uniforms, equipment, and thats where theyre heading for on april 8 after leaving Cumberland Church on the night of april 7. General lees advance is led by confederate reserve artillery under general Reuben Lindsey walker. They go to camp about a mile from appomattox station about two miles from here on the afternoon of april 8th. And general custers cavalry advances on that station and captures the supplies, then encounters general Reuben Lindsey walkerss general artillery and fight for about four hours the ballofp at mattox station. A very unique battle in the civi