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Have steve coll with us to talk about his new book directorate s which is just out this week. In fact this is the first time steve has had an opportunity to do his kind of standup talk about the book. Steve is a legend in journalism for this prodigiousness, the clarity and incisesiveness of this process. His ability to perceive the big picture and his skill at presenting grand narrative of something. He spent 20 years at the washington post, including stints as a financial reporter, foreign correspondent, a head of the sunday magazine, and for six years, he was managing editor of the paper. Af...

His new book spring forward the annual madness of Daylight Savings time gives us a detailed look at something we all participate in although we have little understanding about why we spring forward and fall back each year. Almost 100 years ago congress and lawmakers in every state first debated, ridiculed and the passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight. No one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. The first to post this scheme . The most authoritative sources suggest that it was a pittsburgh industrialist, woodrow wilson. A m...

Giving his Rnc Convention acceptance speech, and its sort of thought of as a law and order speech. The most tumultuous year in american political history, riots, protests, assassinations and he is calling for a return to order. He said its time from frank talk about the problem of order in the country and theres a sort of kind of throwaway line where he talked africanamericans and the civil rights struggle and say they want the same as White Americans and just dent want to be a colony in a nation, and that term stuck with me, and it seemed to capture something deep about a lot of the reporting...

It is an honor for me to participate in this program at this place. Committed to protecting and sharing the rich legacy of the units its maybe and its a particular pleasure for me to be with you. Last year, my wife susan and i, attended a performance of hamilton in new york. Many lines from the play struck me and stayed with me but one of them kept running through my head. Eliza hamilton, the widow of alexander hamilton, saying with the chorus of the Founding Fathers who lives, guys, tells your story. This is relevant to my remarks and its relevant to my book because in any war, any war and in...

We have mr. Right here today. During vietnam, an excellent book. Instead of giving it a quick note come will have the upper talk about it. Without further ado, mr. [applause] thank you, fellas. I like without further ado. It is an honor for me to participate in this program that displays, an institution committed to protect team and sharing the rich legacy of the United States navy. It is a particular pleasure for me to be here with you today. Im delighted to see veterans and friends and those of you who are curious to learn more about the vietnam war. I am honored to contribute, to try to con...