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Brian kurt deion, you have a website. Kurtshistoricsites . Kurt it is a website where i detail the accounts, i have the accounts of all my different trips to president ial and Vice President ial burial sites, president ial homes, libraries. Different gravesites. I have interesting facts about the different individuals whose gravesites i have been to because also, not just showing the different sites i have been to, but it is also supposed to be a learning tool. Brian how old are you . Kurt 20 years old. Brian where are you in school . Kurt Cranston High School west in cranston. Brian and where...

I have been so passionate about history for well over half my life. I first got into president s when i was seven years old. My mother brought me this book called so you want to be president . George andudith st. David small. I actually dont know why she bought me the book. I think she offered to tell me at one point that i declined because i like the mystique about it. Brian have you read the whole book . Kurt it was a very thin book. When i really liked was the illustrations. It was my first exposure to president s and i found the illustrations very funny. There is William Howard taft, who f...

But every president since then has come to the gridiron as an honored guest and has spoken. The president unlike a lot of organizations, we give the president the last word of the evening. So in a matter what is said before, how much lampooning going on, the president gets the last word which is a very important attraction. And it is viewed as important enough that theyve all come. Some of them havent come every year. President obama hasnt. Richard nixon didnt come every year. And so i say at the end especially at the end. Or carter. And Ronald Reagan was here every year and his wife performed...

Through formal invitation, prodding and cajoling, find people who know the president well and get to them and to put in a good word for you, et cetera. President s, since Grover Cleveland, who was in office when the club was founded, nobody could convince him to come. He didnt get along that well with the media. But does any president . But every president since then has come to the gridiron as an honored guest and has spoken. The president unlike a lot of organizations, we give the president the last word of the evening. So in a matter what is said before, how much lampooning going on, the pr...

Immediate post war era to today. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Here we are for the last class this semester. Were going to move into the aftermath of the war, as you know. We spent all semester looking at various aspects of this conflict. Right from the beginning i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between history and memory. We talked about it on the first day of class. Have reiterated as weve gone along. Here we are finally at the end where were going to focus on memory for our last class. Theres no better event in the United States history to t...