first in war, first in peace, that was light horse harry. the other thing that people would have known robert e lee for would have been his service in the mexican war and especially on the staff of general scott during scott s fabulous invasion. moving in land to mexico city in 1847. lee served in many respects as scott s eyes and ears performing over and over again feats for scott so much so that scott made the confession that for all the honors he had won in that great campaign to mexico city almost all the credit really belonged to robert e lee, so lee s two thing would have been robert e lee would have been noted before the civil war which taken together don t really do a whole lot to explain to us what we know about robert e lee once the civil war begins. host: we will get into that in just a minute. light horse lee wasn t necessarily a good father, is that correct? guest: he was splendid cavalry commander, carrying out raids during during all kinds of small jobs.
Ellen karel has written a book called force. Whats on the front of starbucks . It is a motorcycle deleted or not and it is in the middle of nowhere in the southern south america actually. It is a bmw because i took that motorcycle for three years alone and with it all over the world. We have passions and dreams. I always wanted to travel around the world. My passions have been certainly writing and motorcycle riding and i find myself at a fork in the road, unemployed and recently divorced. So, i decided that instead of just scrambling to try to find the next job i sold everything that i had, and i hopped on a motorcycle to visit and experience different cultures and different people all over the world. We come to forks in our lives and they are the things on the motorcycle that keep us going in the right direction and what we share and eat food with and finally, you know if you are a musician and you know what a tuning fork is in that brings harmony and resonance to that so there is a
Disagreements with the view ultimately to thinking for ourselves about what are the or the most reasonable ans to the fundamental questions and it seems to me that strauss does explicitly actually indicate that this is exactly what he is doing. That its a new kind of philosophical dialogue he is constructing, and i just want to read you a passage from his liberalism and ancient and modern, what is liberal education. He says the greatest minds utter monologues. We must transform their monologues into a dialogue. Theyre sid by side into it together. The greatest minds utter monologues even when they write dialogues. When we look at the platonic dialogues we observe that there is never a dialogue among minds of the highest order. All platonic dialogues are dialogues between a superior man and men inferior to him. Plato apparently felt one could not write a dialogue between two men of the highest order. We must then do something which the greatest minds were unable to do. Since the greates
Richard brookhiser come Senior Editor of National Review, recounts Abraham Lincolns affinity for the Founding Fathers. This program from the New York Historical Society Newark city is about one hour. Save we are i absolutely thrilled to welcome back Richard Brookhiserpr to the New York Historical society. Il as you know he is renowned e historian author, Senior Editor of National Review aris well as a columnist for americannationa history. Review bledsoe is a columnist for american history. Before he served as a historian and curator for our spectacular institution for Alexander Hamilton also us receiver of the George Washington Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. His most recent book which was released last week as founders son a life of Abraham Lincoln and already getting wonderful reviews. Id like to ask before i invite him to the stage anything that makes noise like a cell phone is switched off now pleased when meet to welcome Richard Brookhiser to the stage. [applause] thanks. I
Good evening. Im tom putnam director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum, and on behalf of the kenibrar and my of the ceo of the Kennedy Library thank foundation and all of my all library and foundation collects and i thank you for coming. Welcome all those watching on cspan. And acknowledge the generous underwriters of the kennedyth Library Forum lead sponsor bank of america, raytheon, bostonion, an our capital, the Boston Foundation and our mediart partners the boston globe, viacom. X you are for me with the story. Its th the late 1950s idential candidate scion to fortune, oneman force field of celebrity good look and charms, fresh all victory in his home state in the middle east and impatient under president eisenhower itching to get the country moving again and encountering his main impediment to the white house in the form of richard m. Nixon. The description applies to john f. Kennedy also fits nelson a. Rockefeller. The resemblance is more uncanny when compar