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Where is he . What are you doing in the back . For anyone who has not heard of john milton hooper, shame on you. He wrote an awardwinning biography of Woodrow Wilson, and he has been enormously hopeful to us over the years, appearing many times, but also helping us unpack some of the difficult issues around Woodrow Wilson. The subject of todays conversation. So, in 1978, when the Wilson Center was 10 years old, we were charged by congress with creating a Hubert Humphrey fellowship in social and political thought. Good idea. The idea was that a quote, distinguished scholar, statesman, or cultural figure would deliver a lecture honoring humphreys legacy, which makes sense since he was a founding father of this place, as well as Vice President , senator, and dedicated public servant. And at times like this, when the mood in washington is so grim, he was always optimistic. Something i remember and cherish. Its taken us a few years, but we are very proud today to host the Hubert H Humphrey
And thank you for taking an hour to talk to us about this. And coming to mount vernon and doing our closure. We were excited to bring you back for a conversation about this book so that we can reach out to people in their homes. As everyone stays safe and hunkered down. Thank you so much. Im so grateful. No one watching, thank you for spending time with us. I hope you have learned something. I hope you continue to stay engaged with what mount vernon is putting out to you predict i would care about what we do. I know that now, through the end of the year in the indenture, will continue to bring you things. Sunday will be able to again meet between now and then, continues for mount vernon. And please continue to donate if you havent already. And join us on monday for broadcast. And if you havent already, go by this book. Thank you so much colin. Book tv on cspan2, stopped nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Coming up this weekend, sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and afterwards. Aut
We are grateful to all of you for being here and for valuing the past, present and future of thoughtful reading and writing. The story that history can teach us a lot about how to live in the present and plan for the future. And perhaps no error in our history is more instructive to us right now than 1981 contagion ravage the world shuttering schools, closing businesses, and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became as known as 102 years ago is the spanish flu is Kathryn Arnold who poured over years of eyewitness accounts from eyewitnesses in the early beginning at places like a military base in kansas to its number of prominent american writers like John Steinbeck and kathryn and portauprince she read english at the university of cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology shes the author of several books about the history of london and she was published by Simon Schuster in 2015 shes joining us today from the uk, welcome. Welcome thank you for being