Ladies and gentle men, welcome to the Nixon Library and welcome to this beautiful replica of the east room. I am Christopher Nixon cox, board member here at the Nixon Foundation as well as the grandson of the 37th president , Richard Nixon. [applause] it is really my honor and pleasure to have you here at the library today. I am so happy to welcome you to the library. I see a lot of new faces in the crowd today which makes me really excited and i see young faces and the crowd which means we have a lot of young conservatives. [cheering and applause] that is great to see and i really encourage all of you after the event today to walk around the library and it is one of my Favorite Places for obvious reasons but one of my Favorite Places in the world and i think the birth place is beautiful and we just have redone a lot of the exhibits in the library so a lot of new stuff to see and of course if you come back you can visit the archives and do research into my grandfathers presidency. Ther
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome president nixons grandson, Christopher Nixon cox. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the nixon library, and welcome to this beautiful replica of the east room. I am Christopher Nixon cox, a board member of the Nixon Foundation as was the grandson of the 37th president , Richard Nixon i am so happy to welcome you to the library. I see a lot of new faces makes me really excited and i see a lot of young faces so we have a lot of young conservatives. [applause] its great to see and i would encourage all of you after the event today to walk around the library. Of course it is one of my Favorite Places for obvious reasons but one of my favorite in the world i think it is the birthplace, its beautiful, we have redone a lot of the exhibits so theres a lot of new stuff to see and if you come back you can visit the archives and do a Little Research into my grandfathers presidency is so much to do so i am so happy to have you here today but of course
Tonight we welcome our two great the coauthors of wartime escapes and rescues. I have to say they had me in grade school. I was a fourthgrader when hollywood released the great escape starring James Mcqueen Steve Mcqueen and james garner and charles bronson, among others. All of the guys in my class fell in love with it. We would play at out at recess. Each one of us would take one of the roles. Of course all of us wanted to be mcqueen. He was the cooler one. I always was the one who got executed at the end of the movie. Of course the Queen Mcqueen survives. The movie was based on a true story. The film gave us a real life ending to this story. Only three of those men who escaped stayed escaped. And anothern pilots pilot from the netherlands, no americans. Escape was not often tried and when it was it did not succeed. When it did, it really was an inspiration. It was often hollywood stuff. This is the third time david has spoken here at the library. The last was a little less than a ye
Complete historical detail. I cant begin to tell you how much better looking that is than just a month ago. It would not be the same without his partner in the white house as he was father of the country, martha washington. To her left is William Mckinley. I will leave it to our guest speaker, bill allman, to tell us why William Mckinley is in the east room. On the far left, he needs no introduction, t. R. Teddy roosevelt. These are touches that anyone will see, the business groups that use it, the productions we do, the brides that are married here, but one other musthave was visual acuity. President nixon was a master communicator. He used television from the oval office on 37 occasions. He is known for his silent majority speech, for his resignation speech, for having moved history with words. For those of us who were here for the 50th anniversary will realize that when we showed the tape of the walking on the moon, we showed it on one of the most extraordinarily improvised set of s
The rhetoric of economics, and why liberalism works host Deirdre Mccloskey gun in your moscome in your most re, why liberalism works, you write that the west side of chicago should be a heigh high first commercial at diggity. Guest because then people would have jobs other than dope sellers and can because once it was before the highly segregated history of chicago extended to the west side there were lots of factories and jobs, and now because of regulations of various, its not. Its just a free zone. There are some by the sheer act of will kept th take to the strn good condition. Host use a regulations. Give an example. Guest business in chicago in most places in the united hates its worse than brazil or egypt. It takes months. Its hard to do. Youve got to get permits and a business license to braid hair, a famous case. To earn a living breathing hair you need a state license. Why should people have to jump rough these hoops to start a business . In the 50s and africanamerican and urb