Through his private letters. The book received eventually every prize in the world, i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our Jefferson Davis award, the richard b. Harwell book award and the Richard Slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. I personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 symposium about robert e. Lee. As is often true, there is a story behind elizabeths emergence as a major civil war historian. She earned an m. A. In history from the university of pennsylvania studying withdrew gilpin faust, the now the president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard, people were saying isnt this an unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of harvard. And i commented to her, i thought it was more remarkable that she was the first friend of the museum of the confederacy to be the first presid
Pennsylvania studying with the now president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard, people were saying, isnt this unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of harvard. And i commented to her, i thought it was more remarkable that she was the first friend of the museum of the confederacy to be the first president of harvard. [laughter] elizabeth embarked on a career as a historian for the National Parks service, working at the Clara Barton House and arlington house. In 1988, she published clara barton, professional angel are comeanwhile, her career took off in a different direction when she entered the u. S. Foreign service and served 20 years, now this is typical back ground for a civil war historian, elizabeth served 20 years as a highly decorated senior diplomat and conventional arms negotiator for the state department. She has spoken all over the world on American History. And american diplomacy. And appe
Philadelphia. But if you look to the south and west, you can see a lot of 80s and that will be building in for the second half of your Holiday Weekend and the heat and humidity will really intensify early next week. So, ranking the days for your Holiday Weekend, i think its really a tie between tomorrow and sunday. Tomorrow will be cool, sunday warmer. Good amount of sunshine both days. And then on monday, not quite as nice because it will be on the muggy side. It will warm up as well. Ill talk about the weekend in detail including the holiday the shore and the poconos i should say and track a possible heat wave next week coming up in the full accuweather forecast, rick. Cecily well see you when you come in. Thank very much. Now lets switch live to reporter Nora Muchanic who had the tough assignment of being at the shore all day long. I guess someone had to do it, though nora, hm . Reporter oh, you stole my line, rick, somebody did have to do it but i feel lucky took to be here today.
Economies at risk. Are they right or wrong . Hi everybody, welcome to forbes on fox. I think its Pretty Simple when you pull back on policies that prevent crime, you get a lot more crime. The socalled broken windows. You go after small crimes. That prevents big crimes. In new york city you have the city Council Ready to turn these crimes into summons. If you urinate on the street cops cant do much about it. When people get that message, you see crime go up. The great progress of the last 20 years literally goes out the window because broken window theorys under attack for political reason. The cop bashing thats going on. Cops are worried about getting arrested or worse, if they go out and do their job. Well i think, as you know chicagos crime issues have been in the National Attention for several years now. I think what some of the police tell me is they need more police and they need better trained police. And also the mayor just gave his inaugural speech and he talked about how we ne
Economies at risk. Are they right or wrong . Hi everybody, welcome to forbes on fox. I think its Pretty Simple when you pull back on policies that prevent crime, you get a lot more crime. The socalled broken windows. You go after small crimes. That prevents big crimes. In new york city you have the city Council Ready to turn these crimes into summons. If you urinate on the street cops cant do much about it. When people get that message, you see crime go up. The great progress of the last 20 years literally goes out the window because broken window theorys under attack for political reason. The cop bashing thats going on. Cops are worried about getting arrested or worse, if they go out and do their job. Well i think, as you know chicagos crime issues have been in the National Attention for several years now. I think what some of the police tell me is they need more police and they need better trained police. And also the mayor just gave his inaugural speech and he talked about how we ne