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Welcome, everyone. Welcome to the Space Gallery here at the museum of flight. My name is jeff nod, adjunct curator here at the museum. Our president and ceo of doug king sends his regards and his regrets. Hes unfortunately unable to be here tonight as he has taken ill. I would like to begin by thanking our special featured speaker this evening. Our special guest Eric Lindberg and dave maurer. [applause] the team from cspan books will be recording this evenings event and conversation for later viewing. We have fabulous even in store as part of the museums orbit around october. Its a series of s...

Without but the murderer of medgar evers, bobby frank cherry, involved in the Birmingham Church bombing, they were all ultimately brought to justice in a series of striking and horrifying trials in in cases 30 and 40 years after the crimes and not nearly everyone who was responsible for these outrages was brought to justice but there were many people who were brought to justice, and when you say the question about enforcement, one of the striking things that president johnson said on the weekend he signed the bill, he called his old friend, governor John Connellly of texas. He said you dont wa...

Really knew what he wanted to use the irs for. and he was willing to be very explicit about what he was looking for from the person he wanted to put in that job. and his staff, therefore, told him yeah, we know that nolan's the front-runner for the job, we know he's been recommended by the treasury secretary and everything, he's probably not the right guy for this job. he's probably not going to want it. he's probably not going to do what you want over there if you put him in this job. and we know that conversation happened in the white house between president nixon and his top aides because o...

Call from john alecman, the president's top domestic affairs adviser. mr. ehrlichman told commissioner thrower that he was fired. so yeah, that pressure that the honorable irs commissioner was under to go audit and investigate people who the white house didn't like, turns out that was not exactly a shock and a surprise to president nixon. but once nixon realized that randolph thrower was going to be a problem on this front over at the irs, nixon realized he needed to find somebody to replace this guy. somebody more suited to the way nixon expected to be able to use the government for his own p...