Full eight hours talking about it. [ laughter ] the last session is often one of our favorites, and that is a round table discussion where we get all of the speakers up together to talk about some themes, to ask each other questions or ask questions of themselves, and to give you all one last time to pepper one, some or all of the panelists with your own questions. I would ask that when you have a question, if it is for a specific panelist, please name that panelist or if you want to throw it open to some or all. We are going to ask dr. Gunter bishoff to chair this panel discussion. Again id like to thank gunter for coming in and filling in for dr. Stole on such short notice. [ applause ] but before i leave the podium, i would like to introduce for the last time today dr. Gunter pitchoff, dr. Rob satino, and mr. Michael bishop. Ladies and gentlemen, gunter will start it and ill run around with the microphone. Thank you very much. Jeremy. Let me just throw a few general questions out th
Watch afterwards tonight at 9 00 p. M. On cspan2s book tv. September marks the 50th anniversary of the 1957 Civil Rights Act, signed into law by president Dwight Eisenhower. Up next on American History tv, director of the eisenhower president ial library and offered David Nichols talk about president eisenhowers role in getting the legislation through congress. They also challenge myths around president eisenhowers civil rights legacy, the u. S. Commission on civil rights posted this event. It is 45 minutes. Presentation scheduled for today. President eisenhowers civil rights legacy and a creation of the u. S. Commission on civil rights. 1957,tember 9, president Dwight Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957, establishing the u. S. Commission on civil rights. This legislation was the first major civil rights legislation since the reconstruction era, creating but this commission and United States department of Justice Civil Rights Division. The law was a testament to the
At the end of the talk, we will have a question and answer session and after that he will sign the up here on the stage. Dwight eisenhowers reputation is on the rise. For a long time he was caught between the rising reputation of that man of the people and man of independence with three truman. The Eisenhower Administration and reputation was seen not as a failure but inevitably modest compared to the big decisions. Truman and the style of john f. Kennedy. Thereve been defenses by Fred Greenstein added the presidency and Stephen Ambrose and his biography. David has picked up the banner first in his and my yearbooks much admired book a matter of justice. In the Detailed Research look at the battle in 1953. The Republican Party certainly and many antidefamation certainly morally of the nation. It is a small area in a enjoys but thanks for contrasting the toll in the buck. Its the International Information agency and the books and american libraries are abroad. Eisenhower said when this w
The new York Military affairs symposium. Welcome, colonel daddis. Thank you for the kind of introduction and bob for the invitation, im not only happy to be here given new york traffic, im also lucky to be here, as i watch the clock tick away, not only in the palisades as we were driving down from west point, but also in the cab trying to get us from the hotel to here. It was a close return thing as some would say. What i would do this evening would be to really start with something that happened last week in the white house and there was an uproar as you might have recalled last week at the white house, it was not related to the president s tan suit, which got quite a number of remarks as we saw, but more significantly for my conversation this evening with you, was really revolved afternoon one word, and that word was strategy, and the president igniting criticism by saying that we dont yet have a strategy against isis targets in syria, causing uproars, certainly among the president s
York military affairs symposium. Welcome, colonel daddis. [ applause ] thank you, robert, for the kind introduction and bob for the invitation. Im not only happy to be here, given new york traffic, im also lucky to be here. [ laughter ] ize watch the clock tick away, not only only palisades driving down from west point but also in the cab trying to get us from the hotel to here, it was a it was a closerun thing, as some will say. So, what i thought i would do this evening would be to really start with something that happened last week in the white house. And there was an uproar, as you might have recalled last week, at the white house. It was not wry lated to the president s tan suit, which got quite a number of remarks, as we saw, but more significantly for my conversation this evening with you, was really revolved really revolved around one word, and that word was strategy. And the president igniting criticism by saying that we dont yet have a strategy against isis targets in syria c