good afternoon. my name is william pelfrey, and my book is billy welford and and generalfred motors: the story of two unique man at a legendary company and remarkable time of american history. before we start this afternoon, i want to emphasize that i especially honored to be talking about my book care of the renaissance center general motors headquarters especially in light of the headlines that everyone is reading across the country today. when i started this book more than two years ago, i had no idea that the timing would be such that it is. before i begin my but also like to thank a few people that made this event possible. c-span and book tv, of course, at borders pruett bookstore here in the renaissance center, adrienne hecky, i dream coming into the rest of the team at amicom books. christine durham, the manager here of the renaissance center, and finally come ed snider and john mcdonald of general motors corporate communications who facilitate of all of the audio
bookstore here in the renaissance center, adrienne hecky, i dream coming into the rest of the team at amicom books. christine durham, the manager here of the renaissance center, and finally come ed snider and john mcdonald of general motors corporate communications who facilitate of all of the audio and visual set up. as background i but also like to give just a brief summary of my own riding writing credentials. i started writing as a soldier infantryman with a rifle company and a heavy order platoon in vietnam. when i came back to the world i wrote the first vietnam lawful posted by a and infantrymen which was nominated for the national book award and the national endowment for the arts fellowship. from there, i began writing about vietnam and south asia for the new york times, the atlantic monthly and the new republic. from there somehow ended up in the foreign service and was at the embassy is in pakistan and venezuela come and then did another vietnam novel called hamb
i m david carroll from chicago. hi, david. hi. in the last year published in the journal of the abraham lincoln association there has been great speculation on mary lincoln purchasing penny royal at dill lard s drugstore in springfield when she was pregnant with tad who was born with a cleft palate. penny royal is used to rid dogs of fleas or induce abortion. do you have insight on this recent scholarship? i m sorry. i can t comment on that. my recent move and dislocation of many of my books and pieces meant that i don t have the 41 of oh mary lincoln but moving from ireland was difficult. i would say from my reading i have no evidence from her letters or otherwise that there would be any way i could comment or believe she was trying to not have a fourth child. the lincolns were besoted by their children. they were very proud and devoted that when she suffered family tragedies and the death of oh little eddie she was pregnant within a month. indeed the idea of having
damian shields is an engaging young scholar. he s an archaeologist by trade. he s an historian by emotion and2-y he gets the way you have to do those things. let s not decide objects and places don t matter, only the words someone wrote on a piece of oh paper. it all matters. it s all evidence of how history unfolded and its impact on us today. yesterday was a great pleasure of mean. i picked pupup mr. clay and we went over to stone s river national battlefield and i managed not to lose him totally in that battlefield. we kbolt over to franklin just in time it was sort of dusk. the perfect time to study a man. all of this together means we dm have a unique opportunity to have a perspective and learn from a perspective that sometimes we don t take in here in tennessee. we do have civil war historians aplenty. sometimes you can shake a tree and a bunch fall down the. we don t get that international perspective so often. i think we are all just blessed l&!< and honored to have
to america. mark, what we can expect from the big event. good afternoon, the coronavirus is not stopping president trump from celebrating the fourth of july. the festivities won t get started for a few hours. the president was at mt. rushmore. he praised miss predecessors like george washington and abraham lincoln. he criticized those trying to tear down monuments and statues from the past. angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders to deface our most sacred memorials. the american people are strong and proud and they will not allow our country and all of its values, history and culture, to be taken from them. that was last night. let s talk about tonight. the president and first lady will be hosting friends, family and as well as first responders, including doctors and nurses out to the south lawn this evening. we re told among the guests will be be the people trying to get through the coronavirus. and the flayovers on the national mall and we should