Mccauleys macaulay honors college, the City University of new york dr. Widmer worked in the Clinton White house as a speechwriter, writer and senior advisor, and since then hes led organizations, including the c. V. Starr center, for the study of the american experience, the John Carter Brown library at Brown University, as well as a Research Center at the of congress. He helped the New York Times disunion series, which i know many of you enjoyed throughout the sesquicentennial. And his latest book is lincoln on the verge. I have my copy right here with me. 13 days to washington is the recipient of book from the lincoln forum, as well as the society of president ial. And its going to be the subject of our conversation today and. Its a wonderful book. Let me get that out of the way. I recommend it to you all. Its a captivating story. I really like how vividly it conveys the human drama lincolns journey from illinois to washington, d. C. February 1861. Hes going to take up the presidency
Lecture. Its honor to introduce to you all, dr. Ted widmer, whos distinguish lecturer at the mccauleys macaulay honors college, the City University of new york dr. Widmer worked in the Clinton White house as a speechwriter, writer and senior advisor, and since then hes led organizations, including the c. V. Starr center, for the study of the american experience, the John Carter Brown library at Brown University, as well as a Research Center at the of congress. He helped the New York Times disunion series, which i know many of you enjoyed throughout the sesquicentennial. And his latest book is lincoln on the verge. I have my copy right here with me. 13 days to washington is the recipient of book from the lincoln forum, as well as the society of president ial. And its going to be the subject of our conversation today and. Its a wonderful book. Let me get that out of the way. I recommend it to you all. Its a captivating story. I really like how vividly it conveys the human drama lincolns
At the very best level. Son, she was part of the habsburg monarchy or , more simply, austriahungary, then she was inhabited mainly by the east slavic people who called themselves rusyns and considered themselves russian, these rusyns, and they wrote to the emperor. We are russians. Galician belongs to the great russian people and whom it could suit the task such a task arose arose to divide this people were the brains on the air, supporters of great russian literary writing and populists , supporters of writing as close as possible to the folk language. And so the populists were given an idea from the russians in cultural terms , in historical terms, in linguistic terms. That is, see how subtly not to deny their nationality, but to instill in them a sense of a Certain National separation from russia, that is, even then the seeds of enmity were laid. Inside one nation they say that osip konchalovsky spoke to the governor in 1903 bright support of ukrainophilism from the side is proved b
Say that during our holidays. We have missed you. And its true, its true, and you had fewer opportunities to miss us, because during this time a was shown on channel russia 24, and our past releases of besogons from the socalled golden collection. They were shown once on weekdays and despite the fact that there were no repetitions of these programs. And watched by about 10 million people. You know the problem can be approached in two ways from details to generalization . How is the sky reflected in a drop of water or vice versa from general to detail . I personally love what i did in the cinema and in our bezogons, but on the first path, uh, details to generalize. And today i would like to aa change a little bit of this tradition and go. Eh, from the general. Look here. Its been 18 months now. Russian special military operation in ukraine in the donbass i want to start with the words of retired us colonel douglas mcgregor, he is a former pentagon adviser and participated in the gulf wa