Forum. Tonight is the first of two debates among the libertarian president ial candidates. Given that the president ial frontrunners, Hillary Clinton and donald trump have huge unfavorability ratings worse than any candidate in 30 years, its time to hear from with us tonight are the three leading libertarian candidates and i say bleeding because they place first, second and third in polling conducted by the Libertarian Party. First former new mexico governor gary johnson and then tech entrepreneur, john mcafee, third libertarian republic founder Austin Petersen. Candidates tonights rules are simple. I or someone else will ask you a question and you get one minute to respond, 30 seconds for a followup Response Rate if you go over your time you will hear this. Please dont go past your time. Before we start the questions each candidate has an Opening Statement to governor johnson since you were first in the early polls you start. Well i am gary johnson and i would like everyone to know th
John welcome to our libertarian forum. Tonight is the first of two debates among the libertarian president ial candidates. Given that the president ial frontrunners, Hillary Clinton and donald trump have huge unfavorability ratings worse than any candidate in 30 years, its time to hear from with us tonight are the three leading libertarian candidates and i say bleeding because they place first, second and third in polling conducted by the Libertarian Party. First former new mexico governor gary johnson and then tech entrepreneur, john mcafee, third libertarian republic founder Austin Petersen. Candidates tonights rules are simple. I or someone else will ask you a question and you get one minute to respond, 30 seconds for a followup Response Rate if you go over your time you will hear this. Please dont go past your time. Before we start the questions each candidate has an Opening Statement to governor johnson since you were first in the early polls you start. Well i am gary johnson and
Society hosted this event. Its about half an hour. Now i have the pleasure of introducing Joann Freeman. She is a long history with the museum and long we are Alexander Hamilton. Now 25 years ago, john herzog approached a young Woman Working at the library of congress where the hamilton papers are lodged, and this woman not even a grad student had already cure rated an exhibit on hamilton. It became one of the earliest exhibits and of course, that was Joann Freeman. Her history with hamilton from early age, it was very extensive. We have many hamilton residents in the audience, but how many have rather them and several times . Joann has. Her research took her to the grange in scotland as well as the others. And while she was at st. Croix, she emersed herself in the culture by living there for several weeks. She is so much experience that she went and fired a black powder dualing pistol, and she did this at a gun range mind you, calling this quote unquote oddly satisfying, not much of a
Introduction that my wife and i are coming out with a book called founders advice. I know this has been done before. Secretary bennett did a number of years ago. The way he did it was considerably different than what were trying to do. I have a background was a historian but im married to a woman who was in business. She was in washington d. C. Working for a defense contractor and had the opportunity to go to seattle to work for a small start up company that had not yet gone public, microsoft. When she started with mike cros, when she started it was such a Small Company they could have employee meetings that small auditorium. A lunch time. She had an opportunity to listen to this man time and time again named bill gates who didnt talk about making good products or capturing market share but he talked about changing the world. I think for her that was such a heady experience and the experience of being in a company like that at that point in time was so remarkable that she began to real
Documentaries on the history channel, a number of radio programs including the bbc and npr, lectures at the Smithsonian Library of congress, the Treasury Department and colonial williamsburg. So its no wonder that joanne was ranked as one of the top young historians. In conclusion, i quote words from 212 years ago. Its my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be. Thats very good advice for a historian and Joanne Freeman explains history not as it ought to be, but as it was. And who said those words . Of course, Alexander Hamilton. Its my pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker, Joanne Freeman. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much for that very gracious introduction. I have to say im really pleased and honored to be here speaking to you today particularly at the end of what was an eventfilled weekend celebrating and commemorating Alexander Hamiltons life and accomplishments and to be speaking here at the church where hamilton was raid to rest 210 years ago to