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i m a professor here at vanderbilt university. it s my great fortune to welcome you to this wonderful discussion that we re going to have about the presidency of richard nixon and the lessons therein. is and i m also happy to invite you to a conversation we ll be able to have on that same, that same theme and that same question. before we get started in earnest though,s it is fitting that we take a moment to remember the space that we re in and who founded it. tonight we are gathered in the first amendment center here at vanderbilt university which was founded by john seigenthaler. for those of you who may not remember mr. seigenthaler or be aware of his legacy, he served for 43 years as an award-winning journalist for the tennessean. at his retirement, he was editor, publisher and ceo. and in 1982, seigenthaler became the founding editorial director of usa today and served in that position for a decade. seigenthaler left journalism in the early 60s to serve in the u ....
good evening. i m not sure the microphone is on, can you hear me? you can? great. my name is vanessa beasley and i m the dean of them at vanderbilt university. tonight it s my great fortune to welcome you to this panel, the wonderful discussion that will have about the presidency of richard nixon. i m also happy to invite you to a conversation which will have on that same theme and question. before we get started, in earnest though, it is fitting that we take a moment to remember the space that were in and who founded it. tonight we are gathered in the first amendment center in vanderbilt university which was founded by. [inaudible] you may not remember him or be aware of s legacy but he served as 43 years as an award-winning journalist for the tennessean. as retirement he was editor, publisher and ceo. in 1982, he became the founding editorial director of usa today. he served in that position for a decade. he left journalism in the early 60s to serve in the us justic ....
one hour 15 minutes. one note of introduction. since we are here at a museum, which is a slightly different venue than a library or university, i want to put in your mind couple of objects that you can see when you go to the gallery s today. downstairs, in the gallery, on the west side of the museum, f you go down stairs and turn right, there is a room with a taxidermy bison in that room. if you look to the left of the bison, there are a couple cases. one of them is a case of artifacts related to the battle of the little bighorn. inside that case, there isa a firearm, a springfield, acquired lacada fighter named little moon. you can look at that object and contemplate how it changed hands, the travels that it took prior to that and the ways that might help us think differently about history in then the west. coincidentally, in the west, there is a small macabre basket. the washington olympic peninsula made of seaweed and one work of art. maybe after this talk, you wil ....
. . . . . . if you could talk a little bit about what s happening in our local communities as i mentioned outside of my time arab-american communities in the united states and in particular in michigan, i know your department is engaged with the community and secretary johnson has been engaged as well. can you tell us how important those are and what we should expect in the future. secretary johnson has visited and engaged with quite a number of communities across the country. i visited detroit in my prior capacity at u.s. citizenship and immigration services from a different perspective at the time and i also, visited in minneapolis, boston and new york, our efforts are absolutely vital. one of the things that we are focused as a department and quite frankly across the government is being in the community and identifying and empowering and equipping local trusted voices to be the critical marriages in the bat ....
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