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Good evening. Im from the Smithsonian Associates and welcome to into the presentation of Patrick Henry. If you did not get a chance to buy the book it will be for sale afterwards. He will sign them at the table up front. Remember were able to bring you this program and so many others which i hope you have seen in the august issue of the associate which is a double issue. In fact, if youre here because youre interested in colonial history let me point you to a program on october 30 about espionage in the revolution. Thats coming up on monday october 30. Before we begin please silence your cell ...

Taken the Trump Administration by surprise. We knew the storm was coming. We knew for days that a category 5 hurricane was on a collision course with puerto rico, just as communities across the island were picking up after the pieces of irma. And we have known for years about the islands aging infrastructure like the downed power line pictured here. In short, all of us knew that Hurricane Maria was a recipe for disaster that would leave 3. 5 million americans in peril, disconnected, and in the dark. It should not have taken the administration 12 days to issue a disaster declaration, something ...

I am glad that you are not stuck in traffic on i95. I am sure some of you have enjoyed that wonderful form of torture in the past. Glad to have you here with us. It is my distinct privilege to kick involved by introducing my ecw cofounder kristopher white. Christopher is currently the education manager at the civil war trust, of it as soon a position he has had since the beginning of the year. That has turned the civil war into his playground across the country. He has been going from one event to the next. We are glad he could land here in spotsylvania. As our chief historian, his job is to c...

Bear with me. Number one, please silence cell phones obviously unless you are looking for a haubted one haunted one and have no control. After this event, this is the last event. Finally, chance for questions and we really, really ask you to use the microphone we have right here because cspan is here recording and our videographer is recording. Its a whole new development, it looks amazing, really cool, so go down there and check us out. If you live in southwest and you can prove it in anyway, show your id to one of bookstores and youll get a sixmonth trial membership which is really, really c...

I have asked a variety of voices, some of those who are a emerging from a variety of perspectives some of whom we will hear from this weekend and some of those who are here exclusively tonight. Greatea is to talk about defense. Whof you who cant have come in previous years this conversation is apt to wobble in all sorts of interesting and fun ways. I am going to pitch a couple of softballs, lets talk a little bit and then we will open things up to the floor because we want this to be a conversation for you to have the opportunity to pick the brains of some of the finest historians we have here...