Have to be here there. Will be no test. I said this sincerely. I m very flattered that you took the time and took your evening to come listen to me and i try to i mean, i think that my students by and large are interested in the subject but i know perfectly well that if they didn t have tests, if they didn t have papers, if they weren t held accountable, then most of the seats would be empty so none of you have to be here but you did come so i find that to be very flattering. I could suppose give you a test at the end [ laughter ]. The title of my talk which i had forgotten july jamie just mentioned it is the unknown aaron burr, and i m going to tell you about aaron burr and why i wrote a book about aaron burr. My book is the heartbreak of aaron burr. I will tell you a little bit about the heartbreak of aaron burr but i can t tell the whole story without giving await ending and i don t want to give await ending and i ll tell you. Why not just because i want you to buy the book and read
to speech or not it s the people you don t have to be here. there will be no tests. i say this sincerely. i m very flattered you took the time in your evening to come listen to me. i think that my students by and large are interested in the subject, but i know perfectly well that if they did not test, academic papers or rather,, the seats would be empty. none of you have to be here, but she did, and i find that very flattering. i could i supposed to be a test at the end. the title of my talk on the title of my book is called the heartbreak of aaron burr. i can t tell you the whole story without giving away the ending. i don t want to give away the ending because it s not just that i want you to buy the book and read the book and enjoy it and hang around till the end, but it has to do with the reason i wrote the book in the first place. this goes back to my experience of writing, my experience of reading and in particular, my experience of listening to a question that my m
remembered for killing treasury secretary alexander hamilton in a duel. recounting his political rise and downfall. this was recorded at the gallery of art in washington, d.c. in 201 2012. thank you for having me back. i m delighted to speak here. i always like to speak in washington, where the audiences are well informed and engaged, but having just finished teaching a semester and for the year at the university of texas, i m always delighted to speak to an audience of people who don t have to be here. there will be no test. i say this sincerely. i m very flattered that you took the time and took your evening to come listen to me. and i try to i think that my student, by and large, are interested in the subject but i know perfectly well that if they didn t have tests, if they didn t have papers, that they weren t held accountable, then most of the seats would be empty. so none of you have to be here, but you did come. i find that to be very flattering. i could, i suppose
flattered that you took the time, took your evening to come listen to me. i try to i think that my students by and large are interested in the subject but i know perfectly well that if they didn t have tests, didn t have papers, if they weren t held accountable then most of the seats would be empty. none of you had to be here but you did. come. i find that to be very flattering. i could, i suppose, give you a test at the end. the title of my talk, which i had forgotten until jamie just mentioned it is the unknown aaron burr. i am going to tell you about aaron burr and tell you why i wrote about a back about aaron burr. the title is the heartbreak of aaron burr. i will tell you about the heart break but i can t tell you the whole story without giving away the ending. i don t want to give away the ending because i will tell you why. it is not just that i want you to buy the book and read the book and enjoy it and hang around until the ends. but it has to do with the reason
the goal was not to level the place, but to minimize damage to property and most important of all, to minimize casualties. that was accomplished. [gunshot] my daughter did not belong to any group. she had nothing to do with this. she was innocent. she had nothing to do with all of this. they killed her. [gunshot] if i had to do it again, i would do it again because the cost was high. men, women, civilians, and military who gave their lives not for us. they gave their lives for democracy, for liberty, for freedom. i do not mind paying any price under the sun to be free. on december 19th, 1989, while panamanians were getting ready for the christmas holidays, the united states was secretly mobilizing 26,000 troops for a midnight attack. i saw helicopters approaching. they were close. the lights went out, the helicopters began to shoot. people were running left and right without direction, without knowing where they were going. it was not just machine-gun fire. t