the atomic heritage foundation hosted this talk and provided the video. good evening, i m cindy kelly, president of the atomic heritage foundation, and i m delighted to be here as part of the los alamos county and affiliated organizations celebration of the manhattan project national historical park. so i would like to share with you some stories that i ve never told anyone. or i ve told very few people. these are just sort of some deep, long paths, beginnings of how this park came to being. these are the ancient history, i would like to share with you so you get a sense of what was involved and to what extent it was a huge collaborative effort. so first slide. do we have the first slide? there we go. okay. so this lovely building was the inspiration for what we have today as the manhattan project national historical park. i wanted to give you a little bit of background. i guess we can go to the next because you ll see this picture again about my own eclectic career. i star
of the signing of the mayflower compact. this happened on november 11, 1620. part three of our series is titled the mayflower compact and the foundations of property rights, liberty, and prosperity. another fruit of liberty valued ideahe founders is the d and practice of america as a commercial republic. the united states is not a european social democracy, american capitalism is based on natural rights to life, liberty and property and nourished by the rule of law and economic principles fostered by the united states constitution. it has been built from bottom up on the practical wisdom and experience of generations. the result, our system of democratic capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty for over 200 years. people from around the planet still want to come to america for the economic opportunity which they are denied elsewhere. financial system our financial system remains the envy of the world. i would like to introduce our first speaker, the director of acton
that s my way of saying good afternoon. i m lucas morel, professor of politics at washington and lee university. don t worry, i teach some lincoln along with washington and lee. i first met michael burlingame about 20 years ago in the holy land, springfield, illinois. what struck me then has remained true through all these years, and that is michael is the most generous scholar i have ever met. even though he s been doing the legwork, crisscrossing this country and digging into all these archives and nooks and niches, he still loves to share these findings before he publishes them. he s not worried about being scooped. the grand culmination of this work, of course, was his monumental and mammoth two-volume biography, abraham lincoln: a life. what professor burlingame affectionately refers to as the green monster received the lincoln prize in 2010. along the way, he has published at least a dozen books at last count and earned many awards, including illinois s highest honor,
country and digging into archives and nooks, he still share the findings before publishing them. he is not worried about being scooped. the grand culmination of the work was his two-volume biography, abraham lincoln: a life. what he affectionately refers to as the green monster received a lincoln prize in 2010. he has published at least a dozen books at last count and earned many awards, including illinois s highest honor, the order of lincoln. after teaching at connecticut college for 30 years and working on his biography, he joined the history department at the university of illinois of illinois, springfield where he served as the chancellor, distinguished chair in lincoln study since 2000 nine. join me in welcoming the godfather of lincoln research to speak about the springfield dispatches between lincoln s election and his inauguration, my good friend, professor michael burlingame. [applause] for that kind you introduction, lucas. lucas is not only a distinguished profe
a jut-jawed, handsome arizona senator, and a conservative who spoke with clarity and decisiveness. a deeply principled man who would stand up to the eastern liberal establishment, and especially who would take a tough line in the cold war. goldwater: but appease an aggressor, and eventually you ll have to go to war with him. man: the thing about goldwater s rhetoric that scared people was that goldwater would kick off a nuclear war. you didn t want goldwater s finger next to that button. we have the guts to make our intentions clear so clear they don t need translation or interpretation. man: senator goldwater was not the extremist that he was painted. some of the people behind him were, but he wasn t. sabato: in 1964, it was the grassroots in the republican party that changed the g.o.p. forever. almost the entire republican establishment either publicly or privately abhorred goldwater, didn t want him to be the nominee and then didn t really support him when he