Live. And for those of us joining us in person, welcome to the historic Decatur House and the White House Historical association. And my name is dr. Colleen hogan, a Senior Vice President at the White House Historical association, and the director of the David Rubenstein center for white house history tonight, a special episode of white house history live as we launch the book mourning the president s loss and legacy in american culture. This book was published by the University Virginia press in partnership with the center for president ial history, Southern Methodist university, and the Miller Center at uva. Mourning the president s brings together and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of americans have eulogized and remembered. U. S. President s. This evening, were joined by several scholars that contributed the book on stage. And we have others in the audience, including chester and brandon robinson. Thank you for joining us this evening. Dr. Ma
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Within ten years, but i dont think we can count on that. So lets plan for the worst, right . Yep. Thank you. Thank you, senator graham. Senator blumenthal. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and thank you both for being here today. Thank you both for your extraordinary service. To our nation. I would agree with my good friend, senator graham, in his assessment that we are on a path to repeal the very unfortunate and unwise cola cuts in retiree pensions that were a flaw in the bum agreement. I would disagree with him only on his reference to glide path which implies an ease and unimpeded track that is rarely pound in found in the congre. And i think it will take some doing to have of that path achieved, but i think the debate and discussion here this morning, and your testimonys been very helpful to reaching that path which i think we have an obligation to do. I voted for the budget agreement like so many of my colleagues. I did so with the understanding that that flaw would be corrected. And tha
Did he have anything to do with that . Well, that was interesting because i mentioned thee dore who was worlds leading aerodynamics, and car men was to aerodynamics what einstein was to physics, and half recognized that, and brought people like that into his circle of advisers. Yes, sir . Could you characterize his relationship with curtis lamae, their working relationship . Well, that was interesting. I knew him, wish we would have talked more about hap, but he was somebody with a reputation, well, he had a lot there were a lot of elements to the complex reputation, but he had a reputation among other things as somebody who got things done, and thats how he ended up running the b29 operation out in the marianas, and an interesting thing about the air force that the operation of the b29 was while all the other numbered air force, each had a commander, a commander of the 20 th air force was hap. He maintained personal command of that but his field commander was curtis, and when it came
Learn from history. Whats your insight on barack obama because its four dinners with him . Hes a highly intelligent man. He is keenly interested in history and the way in which the president ial institution has evolved and what he could take away from past president ial performances to make his a more compelling and more successful administration. I wish we had, you know, some extraordinary answers to provide him but it costs the nature of history is that its an imper mect humanistic enterprise and he understood this. But we talked a Great Variety of things in those interviews or in those dinners as of course, there were roughly 12 historians. I wasnt the only one there. Principle aids including each time one of his principle speech writers. So to me it was a fascinating experience to be able to, at one point, sit right next to the president at dinner and have this kind of exchange with him. In many ways, it felt like an academic seminars because after all, you know, he is someone who