book republican populist spiro agnew and the analysts of america. they compare to president donald trump. the center for the study of democracy at st. mary s college of maryland hosted this event. good afternoon. good afternoon. thank you. i appreciate that. i m tuajuanda jordan, president of st. mary s college of maryland, the national public honor s college. it always makes me smile to say that. i m delighted to welcome you to this afternoon s discussion with authors of republican populists, spiro agnew and the origin s of donald trump s america. the centers are joint initiative of the college of st. mary s city, the site of the capital. the center s goal is to promote understanding of democratic values, traditions and institutions through the exploration of contemporary and historical issues. dr. antonio uges, junior, is the director of the center. he joins us this afternoon. thank you, tony, for being here. charlie musgrove, chair of the department of history her
of communities and the community will be defined to john thank you very much for just one accepting this honor. two celebrating you for what you ve meant to us not only the families but the people of the city and county of san francisco thank you, john (clapping.) so as anyone knows highway one and 35 they re all state how s highway and trying to deal with the state and the highways is not always easy i ve had high battles as filling knows but we re effort we have a former john burton staffer someone who works with john burton in the senate who now it the secretary of transportation bryan kelly who really helped to make that happen today bryan (clapping.) thank you i m not sure if i should say thank you e.r. apologize i m happy to be here i say before the took the appointed from josh and should that the executive branch i spent 17 years working that in the state senate in sacramento and worked with skwubd in the state senate most people that that when you become a veter
john oriented them to his greatness in terms of values and john would say request getting the job done getting the job done fiona sent out the word as anyone puts out the word that john is going to be honored when that the crowd turn out for john burton some which of us were to object in sacramento unbelievable to john a complete surprise was named for him here we are today that was a political home for him here we are right close to where we grew up he used to say the campaign has not begun unless the sign is on the house to when the sign is up the campaign begins christine reminder me i hope that is a source of great pride to his grandchildren that office space so many people hold john in such a high esteem he s brilliant and take full and strategic both we know that and is from time to time humerus (laughter) and intellectual or not (laughter) he is always right on point witnessly or unwitnessly sdriefz it right home i want to say a few weeks ago a reunion of the watergate
didn t like name any type highway or road or bridge after anyone that was alive so after he termed out i m glad he termed ousted bob and bob 82 me my staff said we need to name the freeway after john is caused could motion the senate didn t want to do it because of they re standing rule but decided to speed up the rule and name if after the senator john burton we re here he s been my mentor and my boss and for me has been the current modern day sfanls person the wonderful john burton i m happy you re here today so without further ado we have a fabulous speaker nancy pelosi the two of them are like partners in crime nothing happens at the state or federal level when if comes to the city and county of san francisco without our nancy and john so nancy pelosi. (clapping.) thank you, very much. 41 no may i talk to know bringing us together this history was shared by many people here as john oriented them to his greatness in terms of values and john would say request getting the
one and 35 they re all state how s highway and trying to deal with the state and the highways is not always easy i ve had high battles as filling knows but we re effort we have a former john burton staffer someone who works with john burton in the senate who now it the secretary of transportation bryan kelly who really helped to make that happen today bryan (clapping.) thank you i m not sure if i should say thank you e.r. apologize i m happy to be here i say before the took the appointed from josh and should that the executive branch i spent 17 years working that in the state senate in sacramento and worked with skwubd in the state senate most people that that when you become a veteran staffer you are to get cynical and birth but i found it was opposite the more i stuck around the more good, i wanted to do and all the staffers want they want to work for someone they re proud of and respect so much i can tell you john without expensed every person who worked with we re proud