Captioning performed by vitac seeds that bear ill fruit. Because on january 11th, against the advice of his staff, he sends a message to his core commanders and basically says you advised me to retreat. Please publicly say so. Put it in writing. We had a conference about it. You told me about it. Put it in writing and let us stand together against the news coming from the press. But he also says something else. He says if i find that i have lost the good faith and confidence of my generals, i will retire without a murmur. And please talk to your division and brigade commanders as well and get their opinions as well. If you are a ceo and you put yourself in front of your subordinates for a referendum on your fitness for leadership, even if you win, that vote of confidence you can never command the same respect, okay . This is a capital error on the part of brag. The replies are very quickly coming. Polk is on leave. Hes got a couple of lawyers and they take a look at this and say is bra
Its spectacular. Its my real pleasure to introduce the next speaker. He is somebody you already know. You have heard him speak somewhere or on tv. He was born and raised in fredericksburg. He spent his career interpreting and preserving American Military history with the National Park service, the new york state government, Rensselaer County historical society, the Civil War Preservation trust, kentucky state parks and the u. S. Army. Do you think he is qualified to speak . He has written and spoken on various aspects of military history and leadership from 1775 to the present. He has published two books with the history press, the civil war at perryville and the Tullahoma Campaigns, and contributing to the emerging civil war bulldog and studied the 19411942 campaign released in late 2016. In september 2016, the u. S. Army published his volumes on the 1862 virginia campaigns as part of its series on the civil war. Last year at this event on friday night, i bought this book and by satur
The final panel for the day addresses issues having to do with liberal Arts Education and the search for truth. We have a distinguished group of panelists to address the question. I want to begin though with a bit of personal testimony of my own and then really an expression of gratitude. We will be discussing pathologies, undeniable pathologies that exist in american Higher Education these days. Compromising of Academic Freedom violations of Core Principles of freedom of speech, the lack of Viewpoint Diversity, the phenomenon of trying to win debates labeling other people as bigots or haters or what have you. Those pathologies as i say are undeniable. They exist. They are very widespread. Many people in the capital across the political spectrum not only recognize them but recognize that the present an urgent problem and truly a threat. A provost from Stanford University recently the public letter called that threat the threat from within the university saying that no threat to Higher
The final panel for the day addresses issues having to do with liberal Arts Education and the search for truth. We have a distinguished group of panelists to address the question. I want to begin though with a bit of personal testimony of my own and then really an expression of gratitude. We will be discussing pathologies, undeniable pathologies that exist in american Higher Education these days. Compromising of Academic Freedom violations of Core Principles of freedom of speech, the lack of Viewpoint Diversity, the phenomenon of trying to win debates labeling other people as bigots or haters or what have you. Those pathologies as i say are undeniable. They exist. They are very widespread. Many people in the capital across the political spectrum not only recognize them but recognize that the present an urgent problem and truly a threat. A provost from Stanford University recently the public letter called that threat the threat from within the university saying that no threat to Higher
Up byrth end is taken what is now the library. We are standing in the quad, as it is known today. Interestingly enough, the quad has been the central part of campus from its earliest how things. The rotunda was right behind me. You can imagine alongside either edge, east and west, where the university dormitories were. Directly behind it was the lyceum. That was another classically inspired building where all the classrooms took place. On either side of the lyceum were the faculty houses. This was like an educational village right and the middle of what, at the time was considered by outsiders as the wilderness, the western country. So land was granted for the university in 1827. The university opened its doors in 1831. The campus was designed by the state architect William Nichols, who also designed the State Capitol building in downtown tuscaloosa. It was designed as an academic village, speak, on the model of the university of virginia. Even going so far as to design a rotunda based