So, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Robert merry, this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the kansas city public library. Five star library this week from the public journal. Thank you. Hes a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor, executive editor and editor in chief of congressional quart ley and more recently, the american conservative. The american conservative, he says its collaborative, but it sounds like robert merry. This is a description of their philosophy. We believe in constitutional government, fiscal prudence, sound monetary policy, clearly delineated borders, authentically free markets and Foreign Policy mixed with diplomatic acuity. We adhere closely to institutional max um, principles over party. One could wish there were more of that kind of true
[ applause ] so, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Well m coto the kansas city public library. Robert merry, this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the library, five star library this week from library journal. Thank you. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter from the observe, the walt walt journal, managing editor and editor in chief of Congressional Quarterly and more recently the american conservative. He says its collab la tif but it sounds like robert merry. We believe in constitutional government, fiscal prudence, sound monetary patrol si, delineated borders, authentically free markets, and restraint in Foreign Policy mixed with diplomatic acuity. We adhere to ideas over eidology, principles over party. One could wish there were more of that kind of true conservatism wandering around the beltway than some who profess to be conservatives. Hes also the author of books on those ultimate journalistic in
This week on q and a, mary talks about his book president mckinley, architect of the american century. What was life like back in 1897 through 1901 in the u. S. . While i think the most important thing was that the country was burgeoning. It was expanding and poised to move to radically into the world. America is an expansionist country. We talked about james k. Polk and how he expanded the country on the north american continent. But, what mckinley did was push out into the pacific and atlantic and caribbean the way another president had it. It happened because america was building and industrial base, was building Economic Growth and economic wherewithal, was building a navy. Mckinley had a lot to do with it, but it began before him. It was gaining more and more interest in building the panama canal across central america. When we have ended up with conflict, serious conflict in the caribbean with the spanish empire, which controlled and owned cuba, it was inevitable that we would no
[applause] so good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Robert merry is this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the kansas city public library, fivestar library this week from library journal. Thank you. [applause] hes a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor, executive editor and editorinchief of congressional quarterly, and more recently the editor of the National Interest and the american conservative. The american conservative has, he says its collaborative, but it sounds a lot like robert merry. This is a description of their philosophy. We believe in constitutional government, fiscal prudence, sound Monetary Policy to, clearly delineated borders, protection of civil liberties, authentically free markets and restraint in Foreign Policy mixed with diplomatic acuity. We
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