The university of chattanooga. We are here at the 28 annual symposium on the 19th century press, the civil war, Free Expression symposium. This afternoons program is titled president s and the press. Breslinrator is jack from iona college. Let me introduce jack breslin. Thank you, david. This afternoon we have three presentations on president s and the press, a topic that is getting quite a bit of attention these days. So i will start with my presentation. That will be followed by my colleagues bill hunsicker, in minneapolis, minnesota, and david beaulah, in augustine georgia augusta, georgia. My paper is focusing on civil war generals for president. This builds on a previous paper i had done a few years ago, the king at the elections of William Henry harrison and zachary chieftains,military as was referred to by when editorial. Harrison had a certain amount of political experience, and had served of governor of the ohio territories, and also served in congress for a short time, wherea
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Tweet oh, no, she brought up the dress. It all seemed like a good idea at the time, but so did having the word juicy spelled out on all of our butts. Right . Remember the early 2000s . And as twitter got bigger it became a place for serious conversations about our culture. Unfortunately, many of us put as much thought into our tweets about social justice issues as we did those quiznos toilet tweets. And those thoughts are now coming back to cancel us. What most of us didnt realize was that by posting every one of our thoughts on a whim, we were permanently linking our names to ideas that should have been taken as seriously as bathroom graffiti. And with everyone being so connected and compounded by the fact that were all stuck at home and angry, when something happens theres peer pressure to comment on it right away. Were expected to have these fully formed, omniscient, bulletproof, unassailable hot takes on every topic in real time at all times that will stand the test of time. Or jus