Historians anymore meeting about the agencys origins and its current challenges. This is 1. 5 hours. Welcome to this session. We hope more and be coming in. I know you are giving up your cocktail hour. We are going to have a reception a black curtain. He were all cordially invited. I will make some introductions. We will proceed after the introductions i will talk a bit about the collaboration and about promised the report which was commissioned by the national by members ofone oah and issued a few years back. Right,nding here to my grew up in fort worth. He was recruited into a summer seasonal job while he was a college. T houston that began a long career now stretching out some 54 years. As a stalwart member of the National Park service. He started in grand teton National Park. He worked his way all the way to the top when bill clinton appointed in director of the National Park service from 19972001. Before that, he was superintendent of National Capital park in the washington dc are
Collaboration and about the report which was commissioned by the National Parks service done by four members of oeh and issued a few years back. So bob stanton here to my right. Grew up in ft. Worth. He was recruited into a summer seasonal job while he was a student at houston hiliton college. That began a long career stretching out some 54 years in the Nations Service as a stalwart member of the National Parks service. So he started at the bottom in Grand Teton National Park and worked his way all the way to the top when bill clinton, president bill clinton appointed him the director of the National Parks service from 1997 to 2001. Before that, he was superintendent of National Capital park in the d. C. Area as a virginia islands national park. He then served as regional director for the National Capital region. And then he made the mistake of retiring, which meant that he was even in greater demand. And so he has served as Senior Adviser to the secretary of the department of interior
The National Parks service done by four members of oeh and issued a few years back. So bob stanton here to my right. Grew up in ft. Worth. He was recruited into a summer seasonal job while he was a student at houston hiliton college. That began a long career stretching out some 54 years in the Nations Service as a stalwart member of the National Parks service. So he started at the bottom in Grand Teton National Park and worked his way all the way to the top when bill clinton, president bill clinton appointed him the director of the National Parks service from 1997 to 2001. Before that, he was superintendent of National Capital park in the d. C. Area as a virginia islands National Park. He then served as regional director for the National Capital region. And then he made the mistake of retiring, which meant that he was even in greater demand. And so he has served as Senior Adviser to the secretary of the department of interior, and then was appointed by president obama in 2014 for a fou
Matter. The agency is real. But there are these Larger Forces that impose these great constraints. And yet, when you get to the presidency, you actually start to see wow, this individuals one particular decision did matter. And thats not always true in other realms. And it does take you back to character. And its why i think that character, both for great president s and for the worst president s, reenters the picture where these discussions of which are very important discussions to have. What was nixons native american policy . Or what was such and such position on this . Important questions. But they dont speak to the president s and the hold that they have over our imagination. And in a way, thats what discussion is about. And with that, i want to thank the audience for your attention, your wonderful questions, your wonderful tweets, and i want to thank the panel and say what a great pleasure it has been to share the stage with three such wonderful thinkers, but also three of my fa
Digital Humanities Initiative at the new school. And i want to let those in the audience who are tweeting know that the tag for this session is oah underscore bad president and add the tag oah 2016. So the theme of the conference, as chosen by oah president john butler is on leadership. And as 2016 is a president ial election year, and boy, is it a president ial election year, the Program Committee assembled a round table of scholars willing to talk about president ial leadership. But about its failures rather than about its successes. This seems particularly timely as the trump juggernaut rolls forward. And just yesterday the clinton and sanders campaigns engaged in a verbal sparring match about who is the most unqualified candidate to be president. So things are just really getting interesting. The panel we have here today, all of these scholars have written about president s who were bad in their own special way. Although, it did occur to me on the train coming up, that bad to whom