Let me acknowledge our partnership with the National History center and the american historical association. We are cosponsoring and coorganizing this seminar with. Let me acknowledgment our donors, the society of historians of American Foreign relations, the George Washington University History department as well as a number , of individuals giving support for this series. We want to acknowledge roger lewis, the cochairman of the seminar. Hes here all the way from texas. I want to welcome all of you and say thank you especially to pete and amanda perry who do the heavy lifting in terms of getting us here and organized. We are very grateful to you. [applause] thank you. Will turn i think i it over to eric to introduce our speaker. Thank you. One last technical announcement, if you have one of these devices, and i suspect everyone in the room does. If you could just turn it to vibrate or silence, that will prevent embarrassment and interruption in the next hour and a half. With that, it
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