Had to do the fighting and we need the moses generation this weekend working with the joshua generation and dont let them divide us, old versus young. Some of this language clarence that we have heard before. The tea party is nothing but dixiecrat tenet was lee atwater who made that point. Lee atwater the southern strategy architect he said and ive got it on tape. You cant say it like you did in 1950 and 64. You have got to save us sing. You have got to use terms in the abstract and that is how he was able to capture the southern folk and they became republicans from dixiecrat to republicans. Its the same thing. Its just that they speak in abstract. America is getting smart. Everybody up here is absolutely right. It is no longer them saying its them, them, them. Its now us and these folks who are against medicare and social security, they are kicking their grandma under the bus. They are kicking their own people under the bus and i think mr. Turner is absolutely right. We are going to win this because folks are going to sit back and stand for it. Its just a small minority. They just have a lot. They are starting to kickback. We have ted cruz out there on the antiobamacare to her. Folks are starting to speak up now and say wait a minute. And they dont have an answer. They dont have an answer. I think we need to really Pay Attention to something that mr. Turner said talking about the history of the strike. It took years. Thats right. And once we started boycotts, once we get that information is not only a question of getting together. Its a question of staying together even if we are losing. You cant mistake just because you can get information in a nanosecond doesnt mean you can win the battle in a nanosecond. What are you going to do with the information and im afraid and i will tell you this has been conscious that but somehow or other the system has put out there these techniques of instant gratification and we need to fight that. Right. I would like to bring up mary lou white. She works at the Mcdonald Smithsonian air and space museum and she is someone that directly benefits from the executive order we have been talking about. [applause] hello. I work at the Mcdonald International airspace. On the half of good jobs thank you for joining us tonight. In 1967 dr. King gave a speech entitled where do we go from here . He said the Civil Rights Movement must address restructuring sorry. Restructuring a whole society. There are 40 million people, poor people and we must ask the question why are we putting the poor people in america and when we begin to ask that the question we are raising a question about the Economic System and the distribution im sorry. [applause] a border of distribution as well. Dr. King common in justice of my unfulfilled dream. At the high school i tried to be a medical assistant but couldnt find a job so i ended up working at mcdonalds starting it 8. 25. Like so many others i am stuck so where do we go from here. I hope and pray that president obama fulfills dr. Kings dream for economic justice. He can start by signing the executive order to lift 2 million federal no wage contract workers like me out of poverty. You can help as well. There are going to be organizer standing around the room with petitions. Please sign our petitions and for those of you watching you can go to jobs nation. Com. Org and sign the petition as well. The work of the job nations the workers of jobs nation are inspired by civil rights veterans bill Lucy Leary Rubin and a lot of other men and women who arent here today. Thank you for leading by example. We also think joe madison and Clarence Page for being a part of this great event trade together we shall overcome. Thank you. [applause] thank you. [inaudible conversations] the only thing i want to say is this. I would like everybody and that is one of the things i have a concern about. We pay taxes like other places in the United States and i think that is something we should actually be talking about. We want our right in this state to vote. [applause] actually that will be part of the commission to make sure that that is part of the agenda at saturdays march and demonstration. Yeah. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] james a. Garfield went to chicago to nominate someone else for president. He was expecting it so Lucretia Garfield had no expectation that over the next five months somewhere between 17 and 20,000 people at show up at her home and her property in ohio. When these people started show up on the property that many people obviously unexpected and uninvited started to cause a lot of damage to the outside of the property. We no Lucretia Garfield was a very gracious host to people but she very often would come in the front hallway and offer them during the campaign what she called standing refreshment which basically meant she was very gracious. She talked to them for a few moments and offer them a cold less water lemonade. Of course she didnt want them to overstayed their welcome. Now jeff shaara talks about his book a chain of thunder a novel of the siege of vicksburg which examines the civil war battle in the summer of 1863. The author of several historical novels he spoke for a little more than an hour in jackson, mississippi. The reason for me to be in jackson maybe more so than any other is what took place 40 miles west of here and that is what i want to talk about tonight. At vicksburg, so this is quite a story and even some people around here dont know it. That is great fun for me but i need to start out talking about something that i always mention whenever im doing any event like this. I am quite sure that at least some of you have some interest in the civil war for one reason, because at of some time many years ago perhaps you read a book called the killer angels. Every time i say that i see people nod their heads. You have no idea what the killer angels is thats okay. Its not required. Ill explain it to you quickly. The killer angels was written by my father and came out in 1974. It is the story of the battle of gettysburg. Now with the killer angels is not is the history of the battle of gettysburg. Its not a history book. Its the story as told to you from the characters themselves and not just any characters that the real people. The decisions that made history. The peoples whose decisions determined they would even be a battle of gettysburg. We are talking about people like robert e. Lee or Joshua Lawrence chamberlain. These are the people whose decisions made that history and its the reason we know about gettysburg today. My father took you there to that battlefield combat put you in their heads and told me the story the way they would tell it nobody had ever done that before. My father was not an academic historian and in fact he caught a lot of grief for that book. Every university every Major UniversityHistory Department has the civil war guide. There is the british diet and the roman guide. Florida State University have the civil war guy and this guy said to my father, to who are you to tell us that robert e. Lee was fake. Killer angels is the book that should never have been written. They were not friends. A year after that a marvelous thing happened to my father. A telegram comes to his house congratulations. Killer angels has been awarded the 1975 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Now i dont know if he took that telegram over to the History Department at Florida State and whacked the guy in the face. They still werent friends but if you think about that any author who wins a Pulitzer Prize has the right to believe his ship has come in. Anything he wants to do from now on is going to be sought after. They are going to be publishers fighting over his work. This book will become a bestseller. None of that happened to think about 1975. The end of the vietnam war. No one in this country wanted to read a book about generals. It was about as unpopular subject as you can imagine and my father was a master of bad timing. A crushing blow to him was that the killer angels sort of faded away. Unless you were in the military and i have talked to people today who are commanding staff at leavenworth and if you were at west point or any other military academy it was required reading. Or if you are a civil war buff you mightve picked up the killer angels. Otherwise you have never heard of it. The book just sort of faded away until 1993 and in 1993 the movie gettysburg came out which is based on killer angels. Ted turners great risk. He raised millions of dollars to put that book on the screen and for the first time killer angels became a New York Times bestseller 19 years after was published in for four weeks it was number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Again 19 years later and five years after my fathers death. He did not live to see that. Turners people came to me and said ted wants to make more movies. Wouldnt it be great specs take your fathers book and before and after. Follow on the same characters and tell the story the same way. It was always about being a movie. I had never written anything before. I was a businessman in tampa and i thought about it and thought okay maybe this is something i would like to try to do and i started working on the prequel before gettysburg back at the beginning of the war and the characters. Some of the same characters my father used but different people like stonewall jackson. A fabulous character and really had fun with that and started putting this together. Someone else would adapt for a screenplay. It was always about being a movie. People asked me come to how did you know how to write a book thats werent you scared . Oh no because there were no expectations and the idea was that will put the stories together using my fathers kind of research the original material. Go back and hear the voices and irisin collections and letters. All the stuff from people who were there. That is the key and i remember that from my fathers writing. If im going to do this i need to do that kind of research. We talked about the fact that whatever i come up with is lousy it goes in the trash. Nobody will ever know so there was no risk. There is no expectations. Im representing my fathers estate in new york city or random house who now has his number one bestseller in the killer angels. They take phonecalls and talking to them about saying yes im riding the prequel to the killer injures killer angels and is called gods in a i sent them the manuscript. The phonecall i got was we dont care if its a movie. We liked the book. We think you are a writer. Here is a contract. That changed my whole life. Thats not an exaggeration. That changed my whole life. 13 books later it definitely has changed my whole life. The point of those stories and the magic of the killer angels, to what my father did was he was able to take you with him back to a time where you could see the story and away you have have never seen it before. You dont get that from a modern biography or history book. That is not what the historians do. Historians tell you the facts and figures. You get the story straight hopefully. My father did a very different land when i began to hear when i was talking about the spokes and then i began to go to different sources back to the mexican war. Its amazing, and a people didnt know there was a mexican war in 1846. We fought mexico. Who took part. [inaudible. [inaudible question] these general sino from the 1860s, they were all young lieutenant right out of west point some of them clueless about being a soldier. Thats a good story. Go back to the American Revolution. You know the American Revolution john and Abigail Adams and Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and you learned all that in school but are you really know the story . That is when i hit the ground running with this and getting into the heads of these characters. You know who they are but did you know what it was like for Benjamin Franklin when he literally seduces king louis the 16th into coming into the war on our side and saving us. The british were winning. The finest army and navy in the world. There were defeating us until the french came in and joined us in the french bailed us out and enabled us to win the revolution. Thats a story most people really dont know. Of course we returned the favor from time to the french after that which is a story most of us do know. The point is when i began to hear from audiences and people saying to me i didnt know that, thats fun. Im thinking what story dont you know . How about world war i and . Most americans get their history from hollywood which is a sad statement to make that if you think about world war ii versus world war i they are making them today. How many movies have been made about world war ii . Hundreds and hundreds and i can count on one hand the good movies made about world war i. All quiet on the western front the original gallipoli and thats about it. Most people just dont know about the lafayette or the red baron. The red baron by the way is not just a cartoon character as someone may wonder. He is a marvelous character and he is the german voice in that story. The marines at al lowoods. Ill bet you dont know the story of what the marines accomplished. They saved paris. They were responsible for the germans not winning the war by capturing paris. That is how close it was. I think you get the point. If i can find these characters, but if i can find the story you dont know i get excited about that and hopefully gets you excited as well and makes you want to read the book or at least learn about these people. World war ii, what can i tell you about world war ii that you dont know and going back to what i said about hollywood. You know all those stories. You know what dday and pearl harbor and all that stuff and i began to find things and began to find the story of north africa. When the americans go to war against hitler we dont go to europe. We go to north africa and the first thing we do is we get our buts kicked in a place called how serene pass in tunisia. That is not a hollywood a movie that hollywoods going to make a lot. That was interesting and i cant tell you how many people wrote to me and said you know i didnt want to like rommel. I couldnt help it. Hes a good character. I was going to do korea and ive been getting a lot of letters and talking about korea for years now. A lot of korean war vets have been writing me sort of getting on my case. I hear from guys saying we are getting older too. People talk about the world war ii vets but the korean vets were right there with them. I understand that and most americans know about korea mash. Mashers and about korea at all. Its about vietnam. They tell you its korea but hawkeye try saying that to a general in 1951 and watch what happens to you. Its a 1970s story. What about incheon . What about the oulu river . What about the choosing reservoir. These are stories that are important to a great Many Americans particularly if you were there. What about the story of truman and that relationship. Talk about people who are not friends. History making stuff and a story most americans dont know. Im all excited about doing many of them and then this thing comes along in 2011 called the sesquicentennial of the civil war, 150th anniversary. Im talking to my publisher and they are saying you know we should probably take another look at the sobel wharf. I a. M. Sort of done doing stuff in the east. I cant tell you how many letters from mississippi and tennessee who said you know we are kind of tired of hearing about robert e. Lee in virginia. Theres a whole lot of stuff going on the west of the Appalachian Mountains that nobody ever talks about. They are absolutely right here that began looking into that a little bit and again its not just the offense but as the characters. One character jumped out at me and i realized i was in jackson mississimississi ppi and i can throw this out to you with some hesitation. The name is William Tecumseh sherman. I was in atlanta last night and they booed. Okay, thats enough but what ive always heard from people the story of sherman and what he did was one thing here at who he was its an interesting man. Love him or hate him hes an interesting character and he makes for good story. Hes not the nicest guy in the world and i dont try to gloss that over, not at all. He understands what total war is. A lot of people in the 1860s still thought of for as this gentleman that you stood up and honored and faced your foe and all of that stuff and its gone on for hundreds of years. Sherman understood no, it has changed. The idea of using sherman as a pivotal character got very interesting to me because he is in a lot of places that are very important during the civil war and the first one of those was shiloh. The book blaze of glory which came out last year deals with the battle of shiloh. Each of these books comes out in the 150th year of the event more or less. Last year was shiloh 1862. When i got into the research i was surprised and i wanted sherman as a character and of course grant is there and then there was the other character that pivotal confederate boys there. Its a character that i was not all that from there with and a lot of you im quite sure im not all that familiar with. His death changes the course of history. That is not an exaggeration. Im talking about Albert Sidney johnston. If you dont know anything about Albert Sidney johnston and thats fine. Johnson was the commander at shiloh, that the confederate commander who does not survive the battle. The reason thats important is in the inveterate hierarchy albertson and johnston outrank property lee and what i posit to you and i will debate this with any historian is that in the summer of 18