We waited for them to do something but we didnt do anything. You have to do it yourselves. I think thats a good note to close on. Thank you everybody for coming tonight. [applause] bob will be signing his books in the lobby so please join us there. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im Michelle Easton present at the Clare Boothe Luce policy institute and i want to welcome you all to this special lunch featuring Wayne Thorburn and his great new book called red state and insider story of how the gop came to dominate texas. You may be wondering why is the president of the Clare Boothe Luce policy center introducing him . It was 42 years ago when i came to washington d. C. From new york after graduating from college and my first job was a Young Americans for freedom and my first boss there was Wayne Thorburn. Ron robinson who asked me to do this introduction, ron and i have known wayne and his wife judith for decades and waned by the way was a very good
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Im michelle easton, president of the Clare Boothe Luce policy institute, and i want to welcome you all to this special lunch featuring Wayne Thorburn and his great new book called red state an insiders story of how the gop came to dominate texas. Now, you may be wondering why is the president of the Clare Boothe Luce policy institute introducing a guest . Well, it was almost 42 years ago when i came to washington, d. C. From new york after graduating from college. My first job was at Young Americans for freedom, and my first boss there was Wayne Thorburn. [laughter] and ron robinson who asked me to do this introduction, ron and i have been friends with wayne and his good wife judith for decades. And wayne, by the way, was a very good first boss. Wayne joined Young Americans for freedom as a College Student in 1961 and eventually rose to become executive director when i worked for him. After running Young Americans for freedom for a number of year
That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Next on booktv, amy binder takes an in depth look at experiences and activism of conservative students on the campuses of americas colleges and universities. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Well, thank you very much for coming out on this rainy thursday. And thank you very much to christine and tulare for inviting me to the center. For more than half a century, conservative critics have been in think thanks, foundation and the media have championed the cause of conservative College Students who they say suffer on College Campuses. In books with such titles as freefall of the american university, and tenured radicals, critics charge the american Higher Education has become the place a liberal if not radical faculties, and that in the classrooms of the politicized university, middle of the road students complacently consume their professors misinformation. Moderate students are smug liberal students are smug and feeling that theyre on the
Nowhere she is a passionate articulate defender of conservative values and shes also been one of still lives policy institutes most popular speakers from many years and shes been speaking in the mentoring young women that we work with for decades and she has helped me out so many times at the institute, hall to the institute out so many times. The american conservative calendars with very different this year not only with beautiful women but beautiful seems of america and from march of 2013 and the quote on her page courage is the latter on which all other virtues mount. Other great ladies have spoken about courage as well with it. Cade is to be talking about how despite the claims of unity when the west is dividing america with the radical policies. Just earlier this week on cnbc she appears many times on radio shows and speaks of the country and and the clare booth policy loosens to do we are honored to have cade as a member of the board of directors when. She works for the conservat
During the election as this young preacher from georgia which is dr. Martin luther king jr. Who sort of leads the masses of africanamericans from racial to presentation. So in this notion that a rosa sat and, you know, martin could do this stuff and jesse could run and then barack could fly, all these things, they sound good, but they really simply few a much more complicated history. And that complicated history really involves so many africanamericans, women and men, who proactively dismantled racial segregation including rosa parks. Rosa parks was an activist. She didnt just refuse to give up her seat by accident, it was a concerted, strategic effort to try to transform democratic institutions. Tufts University History professor and author of dark days, bright nights, peniel joseph, specializes in the sub field of africana. His latest, stokely a life, will be in bookstores march 4th. Sunday hell take your questions in depth live for three hours starting at noon eastern on cspan2s bo