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Good afternoon and welcome to the first monday, the first working monday in january. This is partnership of three organizations. My name is adam powell. I am the director of washington operations of the university of Southern California and president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in the monthly event. The third part any is the Public Policy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization here to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welco...

To the first monday, the first working monday in january. This is partnership of three organizations. My name is adam powell. I am the director of washington operations of the university of Southern California and president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in the monthly event. The third part any is the Public Policy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization here to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you and if i coul...

Mayors of louisville and anaheim and possibly one other mayor travel to india. Right now we only have one member in india. We hope to increase memberships and get cities more active. Major tate was so impressed with what he saw that he wants to launch a yearlong campaign. Its the Strong Cities network messaging campaign on kindness. One thing ill note about this, not all cities, violent extremism isnt an immediate major concern for all cities. Granted, there are attacks in places where its quite...

One that i find the most absolutely fascinating and interesting is the one were going to discuss tonight. James garfield. For quite a number of reasons. First of all, garfield is one of the most intelligent president s we have ever had. I mean he is up there in the top half dozen, and when we go through his life by the end of it or the middle of it, youre going to start laughing because youre just going to say no, that cant be. He cant be that good in that field. Its just not possible. And then ...

Theres something i loved more. Three Little People and a big person named doug. Doug and i are good. We see each other because hes a writer. He writes books for a living. So he is a Flexible Work schedule and we can see each other. I have been seeing too much of my childrens childhood. You know, when i first started this job, they were just barelyd four. Basically they were three, to a newborn. I had the whole day with them and then i would go to work at 3 30 or 4 00 and get home at midnight and...

Nomination, and Adlai Stevenson accepted the nomination. In 1948 the first televised conventions where president harry truman accepted his partys nomination. The failure to do anything about high prices and the failure to do anything about housing. My duty as president requires that i use every means within my power to get to laws the people need on matters of such importance and urgency. And at 6 00 on american artifacts, well take an early look at the new Smithsonian Museum of African American...

Were now in the billiard room which is one of the rooms that was built as part of the addition that the blaines made to the house in 1872. This is also a room which has been a place to hang photographs and in some cases the christmas cards of the previous first families. The first family was the millikens, and this is a large family, Carl Milliken and his wife are shown in the photograph along with their large family. There have been 21 families who have called the blaine house their home from t...

Ways about the war. And so its very hard to its very hard to pin that down. But i really think that the kinds of evidence that im looking at, it is not just data. These are the words that the participants used, and everyone says nothing but slavery. Now you mentioned in passing, reconstruction. Thats a whole nother book and whole nother field. But basically my take on reconstruction, very subjective. Just like Everything Else ive been saying. Reconstruction would not have been so bad if the sout...

He has won many awards for his work. Navy war won a medal from the 20 12th George Pendleton prize. It was selected for the navys reading list. The forging of the american 2008 Samuel Alito Marston award. In 2018 he received the Samuel Eliot Marston award from the Constitutional Museum for his body of work. For this evening, george will speak to us for about 30 minutes. Then we will invite numbers of the audience to ask questions. Please note that cspan is your taping our author event, so speak i...

Harriet blaine beal donated the house and grounds to the state of maine for the purpose of a governors home. Sadly Harriet Blaine beal had lost her son, Walker Blaine beal, in world war i and he had actually owned the house and then upon his death the house reverted back to her and she, recognizing it probably wasnt going to go on in the family and negotiation that recognizing the need that maine had and the close proximity of the blaine house to our statehouse across the street she donated the ...