I must apologize that an early i iteration was called away to a memorial this afternoon. But she will be here tomorrow talking about her new book. The new lincoln. I am very pleased today, im Catherine Clinton and teach at the university of texas incentive tokyo and im here to moderate the panel. And also, as all of you im sure are aware, but to interject whenever a enthusiastically have some ideas that we could share. Our two panelists are going to share some of their comments and views with you. Then im going to comment and opened it up to you for your questions. I want to begin today by saying that my friend canvas cooper, was born in guam to a u. S. Navy hospital and his wife, and she attended more than half a dozen schools before her high school graduation. And undergraduate degree in journalism and a logic ray from georgetown university. It was only after her career on capitol hill as an aide to the late congressman Charlie Wilson, some of you may have seen him portrayed by tom h
But will be with us tomorrow talking about her new book. Im very pleased today, im catherine clinton, i teach at the university of texas in san antonio, and im here to moderate the panel but as all of you are aware, interject whenever i enthusiastically have some ideas that maybe we could share. Our two panelists will share comments and views with you and im going to comment and we would like to open it up to you for your questions. So i want to begin today by saying that my friend candy, candice shy hooper was born in guam to usa Navy Hospital corpsman and his wife and she attended more than half a dozen schools before her high school graduation. With an undergraduate degree in journalism from the university jaju and a law degraaik÷2 from georgetown university. It was only after her career on capitol hill as an aide to the late congressman charlie wilson, some of you may have seen him portrayed in Charlie Wilsons war and as a lobbyist with her husband she discovered her passion, ret
Williams, chair of the Lincoln Forum, and welcome to this panel of forum 22, relating to lincolns enemies. And im so pleased to have it distinguished, every time someone says distinguished i want to run to the merlot bar. Its like saying with all due respect in my courtroom. But we do have some great scholars with us this morning. Stephen engle, the author of a great book about lincoln, and the nations governors. Jonathan white, author of midnight in america, and soon to be with us, the book our little monitor. And of course catherine clinton, no stranger to us, author of mrs. Lincoln, a life, and many other books. And walter stolzier, as well as lincolns secretary of war Edwin Stanton, called stanton, and he told me and i hope im not revealing any confidence, he has a glint in his eye for sammen chase. Good luck with that. Because im sure we will hear about secretary of the treasury sammen chase from professor clinton. So let me start with this. John barre, who is one of our Lincoln F
Thats already entering territory that we should have some moral concerns about. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for being here today. My name is candace. I work with some of the events here in the store, and on bea half of the owners and the rest of the staff, i want to welcome you to politics prose. If you wouldnt mind taking out your cell phones and making sure that they are on silent, we are recording this event this afternoon, and we also have cspan here with us today, so not having any interruptions would be great. Were going to have about an hourlong presentation here with half the time given to our authors presentation and the other half given to your questions. We have one microphone on the side here. If you wouldnt mind using that for your question, we can pick it up on the recording, and everyone will be able to hear you. And then finally, we typically ask that you fold up your