So first id like to respectfully that we here, San Francisco, are based in the alamo, which is the traditional unceded lands of the colonial people. And we pay respect to elders both past and, present. I want to thank robin as a veto Robin Mccloskey has a veto for hosting us tonight. Her grandfather, edward built this building in 1925. And weve been have had wonderful events up here that will continue this summer with a great party for the silent Film Festival which. Robin is a benefactor. Lets say that so Christina Gerhardt is with us who did this amazing book which i think some of you have already is associate professor, founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the university of hawaii at, manoa, former bear and professor in environment and the at the high meadows Environment Institute at Princeton University and a permanent senior at the university of california, berkeley, and where she previously professor gerhart has been awarded fellowships by the fulbright commissio
So first id like to respectfully that we here, San Francisco, are based in the alamo, which is the traditional unceded lands of the colonial people. And we pay respect to elders both past and, present. I want to thank robin as a veto Robin Mccloskey has a veto for hosting us tonight. Her grandfather, edward built this building in 1925. And weve been have had wonderful events up here that will continue this summer with a great party for the silent Film Festival which. Robin is a benefactor. Lets say that so Christina Gerhardt is with us who did this amazing book which i think some of you have already is associate professor, founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the university of hawaii at, manoa, former bear and professor in environment and the at the high meadows Environment Institute at Princeton University and a permanent senior at the university of california, berkeley, and where she previously professor gerhart has been awarded fellowships by the fulbright commissio
So first id like to respectfully that we here, San Francisco, are based in the alamo, which is the traditional unceded lands of the colonial people. And we pay respect to elders both past and, present. I want to thank robin as a veto Robin Mccloskey has a veto for hosting us tonight. Her grandfather, edward built this building in 1925. And weve been have had wonderful events up here that will continue this summer with a great party for the silent Film Festival which. Robin is a benefactor. Lets say that so Christina Gerhardt is with us who did this amazing book which i think some of you have already is associate professor, founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the university of hawaii at, manoa, former bear and professor in environment and the at the high meadows Environment Institute at Princeton University and a permanent senior at the university of california, berkeley, and where she previously professor gerhart has been awarded fellowships by the fulbright commissio
So first id like to respectfully that we here, San Francisco, are based in the alamo, which is the traditional unceded lands of the colonial people. And we pay respect to elders both past and, present. I want to thank robin as a veto Robin Mccloskey has a veto for hosting us tonight. Her grandfather, edward built this building in 1925. And weve been have had wonderful events up here that will continue this summer with a great party for the silent Film Festival which. Robin is a benefactor. Lets say that so Christina Gerhardt is with us who did this amazing book which i think some of you have already is associate professor, founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the university of hawaii at, manoa, former bear and professor in environment and the at the high meadows Environment Institute at Princeton University and a permanent senior at the university of california, berkeley, and where she previously professor gerhart has been awarded fellowships by the fulbright commissio
Host welcome to the oah 2016 , and welcome to the plenary panel, worst president ever. I am claire potter, professor of history and director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at the new school and i want to let those in the audience, who are tweeting know that the tag for oah badpres and you might want to add the tag oah2016. The theme of the conference, as chosen by john butler is on leadership. As 2016 is a president ial election year, the Program Committee assembled a roundtable of scholars willing to talk about president ial leadership, what about its failures gather rather than about its excesses. This seems particularly timely juggernaut rolls forward. Just yesterday the clinton and Sanders Campaign engaged in a verbal sparring match about who is the most unqualified to be president. So things are 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. [laughter] did occur to me on the train