Washington d. C. It is professional and that green bedford of Howard University. Thank you and for joining us this morning. Doug brinkley to start with you this morning, the discussion by explaining the criteria that we use here. How do we compare the men, they are all men at this point who held the office of the presidency over 230 years more than two or 30 years. How do you decide to make that comparison . Cspan is put together a group of all of us on the air today, our advisors to it. How we rank in the President S. We want to people to realize its not a scientific ranking. It is to be fun and enlightening to stoke a conversation around the nation about various President S, and what what briley did or do its not just one ranking your breaking them up into categories. President will be judged on foreign policymaking or on race relations. Or on the environment for public persuasion, on media relations, you get the idea. Its broken up into numerous categories. The newborn one ten scale
Washington d. C. It is professional and that green bedford of Howard University. Thank you and for joining us this morning. Doug brinkley to start with you this morning, the discussion by explaining the criteria that we use here. How do we compare the men, they are all men at this point who held the office of the presidency over 230 years more than two or 30 years. How do you decide to make that comparison . Cspan is put together a group of all of us on the air today, our advisors to it. How we rank in the President S. We want to people to realize its not a scientific ranking. It is to be fun and enlightening to stoke a conversation around the nation about various President S, and what what briley did or do its not just one ranking your breaking them up into categories. President will be judged on foreign policymaking or on race relations. Or on the environment for public persuasion, on media relations, you get the idea. Its broken up into numerous categories. The newborn one ten scale
University. Thank you for joining us this morning. Doug brinkley, start the conversation by explaining the criteria we use here. How do we compare all the men who have held the office of presidency over more than 230 years . Caller Cspan Guest Cspan has put together a group on how to actually rank these President S. This is not a scientific ranking, the purpose of it in many ways is to be fun, enlightening, may be to stoke conversation around the nation. What we really did do it is not just one ranking. You are breaking them up into categories. I will be judged on his foreign Policy Ranking or race relations or the environment or public persuasion, on media relations, you get the idea. It is broken up into numerous categories. You go on a 1 to 10 scale in each of those categories. In the end we add them up. Really, the top biographers, academic historians, journalists, they are all part of this survey. We tried to get around 150 to 140 people answering the surveys. We are proud of the
Bipartisan agreement with respect to the need to modernize the grid. The how and why is the challenge. I would like to associate myself with respect to the cost. I always like to see my friend mr. Crenshaw. He centers us in reality. I want to start with something. I am here to open alluding to a terrible storm in the southeast. The heart of that everybody affected. I went to Noaas Website and found the global Warming And Hurricane results here. We are getting to a point where every time a bad storm happens we blame climate change. Neither models nor analyses support the notion that Greenhouse Gas induced warming leads to large increases in either tropical storms or overall hurricanes in the attic. One of our studies projects an increase in hurricanes over the 21st century. We estimate that such an increase would not be detectable until the latter half of the century. It is also true that deaths from natural disasters globally are down 92 of the which is great. Are down 92 , which is gr
Historical society. I am louise mirrer, New Yorks historical president and ceo. And im happy to see all of you this morning. Todays program Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and emancipation is the President Bill Clinton Lecture in american history at New York historical. And id like to thank our great Trustee And Benefactor Bernard Schwartz for his generosity in making this event, along with so many of our public programs possible. [ applause ] id also like to recognize and thank one of our trustees who has joined us today. And that is one of our panelists david blight. Ill take this opportunity to say how proud we are to count david among our trustees at New York historical. I also want to recognize Laura Washington and Mercedes Franklin who are cochairs of our Frederick Douglass council, and of Course Welcome all the members of our Frederick Douglass council who have joined us today. [ applause ] and i want to recognize a longstanding and very special friend of New York historica