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Event we havefic had so far and thank you for being with us. I know there is a lot of excitement, as there ought be about this evenings conversation, so thank you for taking time to be here. We are so delighted to have professor Margaret Mcmillan with us. Thank you so much for traveling to be with us. Who else but to help us with that is better equipped than Margaret Mcmillan, emmert as professor of history at the university of toronto. Many and varied roles. Trustee at the Central University and more recently at the Imperial War Museum. Might i offer that we are second only here at the National World war i museum to the Imperial War Museum ....
We are so delighted to have professor Margaret Mcmillan with us. Thank you so much for traveling to be with us. Who else but to help us with that is better equipped than Margaret Mcmillan, emmert as professor of history at the university of toronto. She serves in many and varied roles. Trustee at the Central University and more recently at the Imperial War Museum. Might i offer that we are second only here at the National World war i museum to the Imperial War Museum in terms of history. They began collecting in 1917. We began collecting in 1920. We are further delighted they are having their world war ii galleries reinstalled by the ga ....
Of microsoft and a philanthropist. To talk about his latest endeavor, which takes a lot of data and facts from all sorts of sources and puts them together. Steve, can you explain to us why you decided this is the moment to put together a project like this . Started fourfort with the aim to understand the government better are the governments own numbers owny the governments numbers. Where does the money come from and where is it spent. The security and Exchange Commission requires this very factual document required called the 10k report. Journey andn this we really learned a lot at the federal, state, and local level. What about the need for hard in the and real data middle of the situation the countries . Country is in. It is more essential than ever. Government data has a hard time staying current. If you look at the recent numbers on the Affordable Care act, they ar ....
Theres a National Conversation about Harriet Tubman going on right now but i think for folks who live in maryland, folks in baltimore who feel a connection to that history, i dont think they will stop talk but harry cubin. One my Favorite Places in the city ise a place called tubman house. Has anyone been to tubman house . You should really check it out on one of their volunteers they stick is a folks after the uprising, after the murder of freddie gray took over a house in west baltimore. They took over a house, turn it into a community center. The neighborhood where people and very little of anything and the Community Came together t to take Something Back for themselves. They said schooley, the house ....
The land of flickering light came out june 2019. Here is a portion of his discussion from san francisco. You cannot accept a solution on climate. You cannot accept the policies where you put in a set of policies for the Obama Administration the other guys come into rip it out then four years later or two years later you put it back in and they rip it out. I dont think thats any way to regulate a Banking System or support education but and then to deal with climate that way so thats why i think as a definitional matter you cannot accept the current Political Climate in america and we are asked to build a coalition of americans outside of washington to overcome a broken washington. That sounds really hard and it is really hard but there are no shortcuts in democracy not of particular interest to me but the real qu ....