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This event is 40 minutes. Im going to introduce the ceo of the New York Historical society. You know the wonderful work she does. Please welcome her. Thank you. It is a delight to be here and see so many of our friends. I want to remind you that at the New York Historical society we are continuing to have great exhibitions all summer long on jfk and world war i. In october, i hope you will join us for the opening of our new firstever major exhibition on the vietnam war within the walls of a major museum. You will not want to miss it. It is my pleasure to introduce tonights speaker, eric byrnes...

Member of the Roosevelt Library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. At this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank cspan for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. We will start with our speaker in just a moment. Then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. 2012 is an adjunct m...

We have had a couple of great talks already. Allould not fit the mm in. We have some of the best and brightest joining us tonight. Ames ogden [indiscernible] sitting next to him is christopher kolakowski. Chris is the director of the macarthur memorial. If you have a chance to visit norfolk, it is a firstclass on the scale of a president ial library. [indiscernible] to his left is the editor of the emerging civil war blog. [indiscernible] dan also has a huge man crush [indiscernible] next to dan, Stuart Henderson. He is now one of the leading experts on United States he had the opportunity to ...

Host ted koppels book. Caller right. Host frank, thank you for watching booktv, thank you for calling in. Sounds terrific. Ed the koppel appeared on booktv earlier, couple months ago, talking about his book lights out i you can go to book of. Org, type in ted koppel book and you can watch that online. To his point, henry ford ill know henry ford was kind of an aside in your writing. Guest it may sound strange but well you said it. He has always been somewhat of an aside. Never concentrated on him. I have written at some helping about the affect of the automobile but not the personality of henr...

Receptor. Marijuana works we tested it at the cancer society. It was a fun time to walk down the halls. [laughter] it worked in making people eat and having less nausea and vomiting. Now theres other ways of doing it then using marijuana. Two questions. Why does all the research all have to happen within the confines of the u. S. System . And how fast, wheres it going and the other part of my question which is, we all look at things in technology is such a massive part of this and we think literally timewise and we have been pushing for 40 years since the one cancer began. Now here we are, wha...