My name is Gavin Kleespies and i am the director of programs exhibitions and Community Partnerships for the massachusetts historical society, and im happy to welcome you to this evenings program. This is our second inperson Program Since march of 2020. Tonight well hear about one of the most consequential battles in american diplomatic history the struggle between president Woodrow Wilson and Senate Majority leader Henry Cabot Lodge over the league of nations our speaker this evening is patricia otoole. Im inso tool is a former professor in the school of arts at columbia university. She is a fellow of the society of american historians and a member of the president ial historial Historical Commission at the New York Historical society. She has published five books including biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and henry adams the second of which was a final for the Pulitzer Prize the National Book critic circle award in the Los Angeles Times book tonight. Shell be speaking on her most rec
Member of the wilson house Advisory Council. He was appointed on february 21st in in 2018 to be ambassador. Extraordinary. And plenipotentiary of the United States to the gabonese republic and to the democratic republic of and principe. He retired from the Foreign Service in january 2020, having served since 1987, and he joined, our Woodrow Wilson house executive or Advisory Council and it has been really a pleasure to have him on with us doing our diplomatic chats and of course tonight being a moderator for the discussion with mr. David frum. He is the author of ten books, most tropical trap trump apocalypse restoring american democracy. That was published in 2020. His first book, dead right, won praise from William F Buckley as the most intellectual experience in a generation and from rich in the New York Times as the smartest book written from the inside about American Conservative Movement in the national review. He was hailed for his history of the 1970s. How we got here as an aud
Speakers this evening. Ambassador joel davis is a member of the wilson house Advisory Council. He was appointed on february 21st in in 2018 to be ambassador. Extraordinary. And plenipotentiary of the United States to the gabonese republic and to the democratic republic of and principe. He retired from the Foreign Service in january 2020, having served since 1987, and he joined, our Woodrow Wilson house executive or Advisory Council and it has been really a pleasure to have him on with us doing our diplomatic chats and of course tonight being a moderator for the discussion with mr. David frum. He is the author of ten books, most tropical trap trump apocalypse restoring american democracy. That was published in 2020. His first book, dead right, won praise from William F Buckley as the most intellectual experience in a generation and from rich in the New York Times as the smartest book written from the inside about American Conservative Movement in the national review. He was hailed for h
The title of this session is the progressive challenge of the early 1900s. Moderating this panel would be christopher timmis. Mr. Smith is a distinguished fellow at the hudson institute, but many know him from the American Enterprise institute, which he led as president from 1986 to 2008. Mr. Smiths career in washington began as a staff assistant to president richard nixon, working for Daniel P Moynihan during the reagan administration. Mr. Thomas was executive director of the president ial task force on regulatory relief. His he is a trustee of the Calvin Coolidge president ial fund. Please join me in welcoming mr. Dismukes and our panelists to the stage. He ideas and ideals. That guided coolidge. The president. The products not only of his no nonsense vermont upbringing studies at amherst and training in the law. They were also a result of his on the job experience as mayor of northampton. President of the Massachusetts Senate. And massachusetts Lieutenant Governor. And governor. Dur
1986 to 2008. Mr. Smiths career in washington began as a staff assistant to president richard nixon, working for Daniel P Moynihan during the reagan administration. Mr. Thomas was executive director of the president ial task force on regulatory relief. His he is a trustee of the Calvin Coolidge president ial fund. Please join me in welcoming mr. Dismukes and our panelists to the stage. He ideas and ideals. That guided coolidge. The president. The products not only of his no nonsense vermont upbringing studies at amherst and training in the law. They were also a result of his on the job experience as mayor of northampton. President of the Massachusetts Senate. And massachusetts Lieutenant Governor. And governor. During coolidges coming of age as a practicing politician. American politics, including his own Republican Party, were seized by a new impulse that called itself progressivism. The Progressive Movement championed many great causes and achieved some of them, including womens suff