Great modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great, he really mines the resources of president ial libraries. He has come here to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents other people had not seen before. Hes done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. In addition to that, on top of his Research Skills he is an excellent writer. I had the privilege of reading many of his books including the one thats just come out. I can tell you as much as i have followed the subjects and done my own research, there were many points i came across new information, i said, wow, that really explains whats going on. If you want to understand the difference in the United States between the 1970s and 1980s. In case you have forgotten, there were very significant differences and you wanted to know about the transition to
Reading well. Good afternoon, i Michelle Easton president of the center for conservative women. I want to thank you all for coming and welcome you to october, conservative Womans Network lunch, cwm, a special thank you as well to the heritage foundation, bridget was a collation for the relation they have been putting on this monthly luncheon with outstanding conservative women for almost 20 years and its a real pleasure to come here once a month. Today am pleased to introduce the october speaker, karen swallow prior. She will be discussing her new book, pull it appear, it is a little one but a good one, it is called on reading well, finding the good life through great literature. In her book she tweeted a number of great books of western literature and explores in each one a single virtue like justice, faith, love and the result, i tell you in a test personally, that you understand the virtues better and you want to practice them in a better way. She is professor of english at Liberty
Library and has gone through and found a very interesting documents that other people have not seen before and he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And in addition to that, on top of his research skills, he is an excellent writer. Ive had the privilege of reading many of his books, including the one thats just come out. And i can tell you that as much as i followed the subjects and have done my own research there were many points i came across new information and said wow, that really explains whats going on. So if you want to understand the difference in the United States in the 1970s, and 1980s, and in case you have forgotten, there were significant differences. And you want to know about the sort of transition to the time when jimmy carter was president to the time when Ronald Reagan was president. If you want to understand the
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Guess who was on that Defense Committee that i got to work with . Barry goldwater. John tower, one of the great minds. Gary hart, democrat, one of the smartest people i ever worked with. People who had been basically given their limbs in world war ii. So it was a great experience, learning about threats and systems and spending and reform and all that. And then six years in i was able to get on the Budget Committee, which is what i always wanted to be on because i learned i havent told the story when i ran for the state senate, i said there were two things we shouldnt do. We shouldnt raise our pay because i wanted the legislature to be parttime. The second thing is i wont vote for any tax increases. So republicans win the majority and they decide to raise taxes, and raise their pay. So i turned the pay down, which i came to learn later most people thought i was nuts. The other thing is they wanted to raise taxes, and i said i am not voting for it, and they said i was irresponsible. So