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Good morning. Oh, i know you can do better than that. Lets start again. Good morning all right. Now i know it is a good morning. Thank you so much. He said retired . What is that . As my mother said, no, you breathe your last breath, then you retire. Our theme for the program is dare to act. The theme for today is dare to lead. But we have all of these dares and i just want to take a second to speak about them because i want you to own them, at least own one. So its dare to act for the conference, dare to lead for this morning, dare to impact, dare to include, dare to engage, dare to innovate....

Fall under the agencys jurisdiction. So often times requesters are making rather broad requests. Agencies are then faced with trying to figure out what it is and what in the world is it that the person actually wants. One way to deal with this we have talked about this for ages. It was ultimately codified in the foia amendments in 1996 was for the agency to come back to the requester and say, i dont understand what your request is asking for or this is really too complex and its too time consuming and if you are willing to narrow the request and here are some suggestions, we can handle the req...

It is my privilege to introduce professor Elizabeth Barron from the university of virginia who will speak on the election of 1864 in confederate eyes. I think this is a really important topic to address early on in this symposium so that we dont forget that there is a whole other conversation going on in other parts of the country. Professor baron got her bachelors degree from swathmore college. And then went on to teach at wellesley and temple before coming to university of virginia where shes the langborn williams professor of American History. And her first two books were from a womans poin...

To join the conversation, like us on facebook cspan history. Next on American History tv, we continue our look at the 1864 president ial election between Abraham Lincoln and general george mcclellan, lincolns former commander the battle of potomac. Elizabeth varon examines the point of view from the confederates. This is hosted by the Lincoln Group of d. C. My name is katherine lincoln. Im a loyal member of the Lincoln Group of d. C. And its my pleasure and privilege to introduce professor Elizabeth Varon from the university of virginia who will speak on the election of 1864 in confederate eye...

In richmond. Both were well received. And the biography won many awards. Then her next book was on disunion which was about the whole debate about the discussion of strategizing about possible breakup of the union dating from 1789 onwards. Most recently her book is on victory and defeat and freedom at the end of the civil war. That has already won a number of prizes, including the library of virginia eye ward. Professor baron also has been speaking widely, including the lincoln bicentennial in springfield and the Gettysburg Civil War Institute and also on cspan, book tv. So now it is my great ...