Our next panel explore one of the most Critical Issues facing, president ial and Historic Sites today, the state of civics ihistory, education. Now it is my privilege to introduce our moderator and Julie Silverbrook senior director of partnerships and i civics. Joining her on stage is joni albrecht, director of the John Marshall center for Virginia Museum history and culture jay barth, director of the william j. Clinton president ial library and ohn bridgeland cochaired ceo move perfect and former director white house domestic policy l kaufman associate Department Director and Senior Researcher for rand. Please join me in welcoming our. Matt, thank you so much for wonderful introduction. Were going to dig right in to this ask this first question, which civics and history are two sides of the same relationship between the two . Well i think you put it well. They are the two sides of the same coin. I think they really Work Together. Maybe like gears one drives the other. I think one way
Please put your phones on silent. Back in the day we used to tell them to turn them off but we want them on silent because would like you if you would be so inclined to live tweet this event. Is pound and pc life. We can follow that online. We would also like to take a moment while you are silencing your phone in turning off other potentially distracting devices to introduce our head table. Would like you to hold your applause until after the full head table is introduced and then you can erupt in a rapturous applause. We have starting from my left and youre right, mark heller. Hes an agricultural reporter. Paul marion, senior white house correspondent. Tamara harlingen at the atlanta journalconstitution. Sean rich, deputy commuter for secretary pretty. Philip, senior editor. Steven, deputy secretary of agriculture. Thats the number two for sonny perdue. We have betsy martin, executive and American University cochair. Skipping over our speaker for a moment, we have abby livingston, Was
Good afternoon. And welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. Im the 2014 National Press Club President and a former Foreign Correspondent in and bureau cheap for the Associated Press in india, england, and japan. And i now teach journalism and the importance of accuracy at George Washington University School of media and public affairs. Before we get started, i want to remind our inhouse audience to please silence your phones, and for our viewing and listening audience, please feel free to knoll program on twitter, at hash tag npc live. Accomplish for our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public so any applause or reaction you hear is not necessarily from the working press. Before i introduce the head table, i want to recognize two very special tables on my right, your left. In the audience. Which are prized of the members of the channel press clubs American Legion post 20, which was founded
Set in stone our actions today based on how things went in the past. Just because things were done a particular way in the past, and we say its been done that way, even though it is not law, but we have to continue doing things and justify our behaviors based on the way things were done. I think that is dangerous. We have every opportunity this year to confirm the Supreme Court justice were not only moderate in the opinions but those that seem to gravitate a bit. But we have a Republicancontrolled Congress that basically says because it president obama has nominated the Supreme Court justice, the same way they have done consistently for the last eight years. I dont want to make this about president obama because hes not running for this office. But the reality is congress is a charged with the task of doing its job, not based on the way things have been but the way things are right now. So lets get the job done, that is what we need to do. [applause] and the nominee is someone that cou
Yourself and mashed in my world, and then you discover, there is a hook in their. There. [laughter] been s. i have always interested in your little biographical tom toles in the righthand corner. What are you thinking about it when you write it . The thought, initially, was the thought derived from pat all oliphant, who to me is the watershed of political cartooning, and he hates me to this day for coining that, and heme that is perfect because invested in it and it was so personal, and it seemed like it was offlimits. Library, i wasa looking through early 20th century american cartooning, and i found out this marginal commentary was part of the andand and i thought i thought, i would give it a try. I put myself in a personally. It is a drawing board. David s. do you have any way of putting yourself in the cartoon and giving a Second Opinion . Tom yes, it is just another dimension. When i draw cartoons and sketches, i always draw them without that in mind. Take that away, the cartoon i