Thank you. [applause] mr. Holbrook howdy. J. F. K. Emphasized the importance of the space race during a time of fear in the u. S. Incredible men and women took this challenge head on. Nasa became a beacon of hope for the nation. I am honored to introduce one of those legends. The man who pioneered apollo 11 and apollo 13. If you have ever heard the phrase, houston, Tranquility Base is here, the eagle has landed. With great honor i am here to introduce houston. Mr. Gene kranz. [applause] mr. Kranz thank you. It is a real privilege. I have a couple aggies in the family. To be introduced by an aggie. They told me i had three hours to speak, so we will have to be speaking through lunch here. But jared said no, he will give me a heads up when i have five minutes. So he is going to stand up and give me sort of a heads up. When i finished. I have a threeminute video of the actual Lunar Landing. And i think that will put this year, this decade of the 50th anniversary in context of what is happ
Museum and memorial symposium. Good morning. Am not and it is my pleasure to welcome you, thank you for coming out to what i think is going to be an extraordinary couple of days as we came together and learning at this of speaking together and learning at this symposium. We are delighted to work with so many partners to create another exceptional opportunity for us. I hope it will take the time to spend time in the galleries. The special exhibition piece with 19 from 1919 fits with this piece. Preparing for the opening of a new exhibition, the vietnam war, 19451975. That opens next weekend, so this is a teaser. We invite those of you who are able to come back to memorial day weekend of year to come back and take in an exceptional exhibition that also provides the link sent helps people understand the enduring impact of the war and world war i. And how it contributed to the vietnam war. There iskes us is that a continuum and growing interest in world war i and its enduring impact. I am
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is matt miller. I service the president and ceo here at the national War One Museum immemorial it is my pleasure to welcome you here to what i think its going to be an extraordinary couple of days to thing together and learn at the symposium. We are delighted to be house need networking with so many partners to create yet another, i think, exceptional opportunity for us. Whilst you are here, i hope that you take time to spend some time in the galleries. The special exhibition, piece 1919, certainly fits with this theme and he will enjoy that as well as our main galleries where we are preparing for the opening of a new exhibition this week on the vietnam war, 1945, 1975. That is not open until next weekend so its a teaser for you. But we invite those of you who are able to come back through the next several months 30 memorial day weekend of next year to come back and take in really quite exceptional exhibition that also provides the links and
With his joke because it is not really a joke, but one of my polish students told me this. You know, i am a historian. I am aware of the difficulties that poland has had being between these great powers, the habsburgs and the romanovs. More often than not, we think about the czars and the prussian kings and the problems that lie in there. I had asked my polish student, i said, who would you fight first, the germans or the russians . And he thought about it and he said, it is not hard. We fight the germans first. Business before pleasure. [laughter] john kuehn ok, i dont know if that was supported by the last three. This is one of those kind of things where you go, is this the year of decisions, sort of a restorable question rhetorical question . I will say yes, but because all of the years and years of decisions, certainly 1914 is a year of decisions, because we do not have a year of decisions if we dont have 1914. We will talk about why none of those years of decisions really achieved
River. Of next week will take you to a wake church where the party held its First National convention in 1839 where the hig party held its First National convention in 1839. The election of 1840 was very election. Inal the springch of talking about how contested elections work and how critical it was to be there setting the rules. That happened here first. We are at the church, which is to say the 1830 nine convention here in harrisburg. The whig party was basically a loose conglomeration of divergent political views that agreed on one thing that under the administration of president Andrew Jackson, executive power had just not in way out of control gotten way out of control. In fact, that is where the name came from. The whigs named themselves after a group that was opposed to king during the revolution. They were opposed to king andrew of his minions. Otherwise, they did not agree on much. The whigs were made up of the conservative faction in the country. Of ais a little bit misnomer