Hollywood images of the american cowboy. Good evening. It is great to have everybody here tonight. It is a great crowd and it feels like just kind of a festive, light atmosphere. Im glad. We have a great presentation for you tonight. My name is Steve Wieberg and i work here at the museum. It will be my honor to introduce i have gotten to know and i admire during the last few months working with him. Some of you may have been through our new exhibit that opened under two weeks ago on the second floor in the mountain gallery, titled cowboys and culture. If you havent, i would strongly urge you to. It is just a fascinating collection, and im talking about a large collection of artifacts, art and other objects that illuminate the connection i wasnt aware of down through history, going back to the cattle days between the city of kansas city and amarillo, texas. It is so big, in fact, part of it spilled out into kirk hall down on the first hall. You may have seen the big saddle there and the
Good evening. Its great to have everybody here tonight. Its a great crowd and feels like a festive, light atmosphere and im glad. Weve got a great presentation for you tonight. My name is steve weberg. I work in the Public Affairs department of the library. Its my honor to introduce a guy ive gotten to know and really come to admire a lot here in the past few months working with him. Some of you may have already been through our new exhibit opened just under two months ago on the second floor in the mountain gallery, cattle cowboys and culture. If you havent, i would strongly urge you to. Its just a fascinating collection and im talking a large collection of artifacts. Art and other objects that illuminate it connection that i wasnt aware of down through history back through the cattle days in amarillo, texas. Its so big part of it spilled out if had to kirk hall on it first floor. You may see seen the big saddle and hall tree. I would be remisprobably at this point before getting to m
At 10 00 p. M. , Michael Tanner on the national debt. And at 11 00, the life of president at assassin john wilkes booth. All next on booktv. Glenn beck in your most recent back, it is about islam what do you open with Thomas Jefferson and the library of congress . Guest because jefferson changed my life. He wrote a letter to his nephew, peter carr, and peter was i dont remember 13, 15, somewhere in there and he was his mother had tied. His father was about to die. And the father within to thomas and said, will you oversee the education of my son when i pass on. Youre he smartest man i know. He said sure. So when peter comes of age he writes him this beautiful letter and he says, in mathematics you have to learn these things. When it comes to literature, never read a birth out of its native tongue because you lose to much. Then he gets to last one is religion and he said, when it comes to religion, above all things fix reason firmly in her seat and question with boldness even the very e
Guest never read a book out of its native tongue, because youll lose too much. And then he gets to the last one is religion. And he said when it comes to religion above all things, fix reason firmly in her seat and question with boldness even the very existence of god for if there be a god he must surely rather honest questioning over blindfolded fear. That changed my life. That coupled with the fact that Thomas Jefferson was the man who fought the first war against islam when he was in office. We had the first, you know, the barbary pirates, and he didnt really understand it. He was trying to understand, you know what do these people want . He owned one of the first copies in english of the quran in the United States. So he was a scholar, he Read Everything in its native tongue when he could he tried to be as fair as he could and he also read the entire quran. So i think he gives us a good example that this is a good place to start but we should all read the quran. We should all know