She will ship out to fort benning on friday. So, that is it. See her say goodbye to civilian life for little while. And then we have here a u of l alum also with a masters from the can school of social work. She came to google as a refugee as well with her family in 1994. Without further do, please welcome our two moderators. I am looking forward to an exciting evening. [applause] thank you, daniel, and the university of louisville for sponsoring tonights fantastic row graham. Can you guys hear me ok . Ok, good. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is dd and my college right here is cal. Like the professor said, we are not related, its a common last name. Moving voices, it is our mission to bring more attention to the South Vietnamese perspective. We want people to know that South Vietnam fought bravely and risked everything for freedom. Unfortunately, its often a perspective that is overlooked in our public discussion about vietnam war. We are so thrilled tonight to have the university but t
Immigrant to america, William Petersen, and he used the house as a boardinghouse. Up to 10 or 12 people lived here at a time. This is a relic of 19th century civil war boardinghouse culture. Once upon a time, everybody lived in boardinghouses, congressmen, senators, even Vice President s lived in group homes. This house is an important part of antebellum and the civil war washington d. C. History. , aside from this being the lincoln death house, this is a great museum of immigrant culture in washington and boardinghouse life in washington, d. C. I have been coming here for years, making pilgrimages. I started coming here in 1986 when i joined the Reagan Administration and i have been coming here for years. And i am very excited that there this year there is going to be a big commemoration for Abraham Lincoln because in past years i am usually here alone. No one comes to the house on the night of the assassination. No one comes to honor lincoln. I might find one or two people when i sit
President s lived in group homes. This house is an important part of and development antebellum and the civil war history. Aside from this being the lincoln death house, this is a great museum of immigrant culture in washington and boardinghouse life in washington. I have been coming here for years, making pilgrimages. I started coming here in 1986 when i joined to the Reagan Administration and i have been coming here for years. And i am very excited that there is going to be a big commemoration for Abraham Lincoln because in past years i am usually here alone. No one comes to the house on the night of the assassination. No one comes to honor lincoln. I might find one or two people when i sit on the steps of the Petersen House and contemplate what happened. Couple of years ago, the Parks Service almost arrested me sitting on the steps because the guard accused me of being a homeless loiterer, and i tried to convince them that i had written books and set on the the served on the council
From fords theater where Abraham Lincoln was shot 150 years ago. James this is an interesting house that has a great history even before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. This house was built in the early 1850s by a german immigrant to america, William Petersen, and he used the house as a boardinghouse. Up to 10 or 12 people lived here at a time. This is a relic of 19th century civil war boardinghouse culture. Once upon a time, everybody lived in boardinghouses, congressmen, senators, even Vice President s lived in group homes. This house, aside from the history of being where Abraham Lincoln died, is an important part of antebellum and the civil war washington, d. C. , history. Aside from this being the lincoln death house, this is a great museum of immigrant culture in washington and boardinghouse life in washington, d. C. I have been coming here for years, making pilgrimages. I started coming here in 1986 when i joined the reagan administration, and i have been coming here for years
Introduction. Thank you to all of you here tonight. As thinking about a friend of mine, rest in peace, and harold when he accepted the nobel prize he wrote a rather scathing indictment of the west. I thought back to the time i was making a movie with harold and we were shooting in a white truffle chapel in a jewish neighborhood and he started reminiscing about his life when growing up over his uncles radio shop he was reminiscing over growing up over his uncles radio shop in the jewish area chapel and his magnificent radio actor voice became skittish to 1938 and his face lit up remembering those days growing up in the warmth of the jewish ghetto of london and i thought how could Harold Pinter done a great the west ha when if it werent for the United States a free of virtue in london have been killed. I felt i was kind of odd coming in miles from rendering the intersection and the cultural upbringing and then i remembered thinking when harold first started writing about politics i was a