How have you been. We call ourselves partners in crime. That we are not going to talk about the crime part of it, just to the partner part. What has been interesting since ive been in the position of library of congress is the fact that people ask me what does the National Archives do. What does the archivist do a and then theres a confusion around the history and the role of each of the institutions, and ive learned a lot about that even in coming up to reclaim the declaration of independence, the bill of rights. We call it the constitution. And that was held by the library of congress and the type of thing. It wasnt until the 1930s the United States got serious about its records. Iwas Franklin Roosevelt was passionate about records and that we actually created and he signed the legislation that created the archives. The charters had been in the custody of the state department independent of library of congress when the archives building was built, a beautiful tabernacle was created f
To submit your questions and ill try to get to them as many of them as time allows. Medicares is retired physician geneticist. The other madisons is a first book and a follows a newly 30 your quest. Its been called roots for a new generation. Thank you for being with us. Very happy to be part of this program. Most of us grew up thinking of James Madison as the fourth president , one of the founders of our country, wrote the first draft of the u. S. Constitution and bill of rights. What did you think or what we you told about him growing up . I was told mostly what everyone else was. As you said, this important figure of American History. But i was also told that he was my great, great, great great grandfather through his relationship with one of his enslaved cooks. So he was one of my ancestors. And remind us of this. You are a madison. You come from african slaves and a president. What did that mean to you as a child . To me it set some clear expectations of it was intended to be forc
A lot of people stick their careers on the exactopposite, that we are all part of the universal human family and if youve written three books like that , so what sets these causes is of course the anxiety of antagonism and this is the last point ill before i close on the question because the anxiety of antagonism is something that its interesting to me as i travel the world. I have had to deal with the anxiety of antagonism in teaching young people in the United States in germany or in south africa and that is the anxiety of being presented with a problem for which theres no imaginable solution even though if there is a solution it cannot be theorized at this moment so the anxiety of antagonism produces responses which are redundant and unread and emotional rather than analytic. That has a lot to do with the work in 1869, he changed the British Public School System and one of the things he did, he said we cant be teaching but people in the Public Schools columns that dont have solution
Loves to drink, the other is a 63 teetotaler and one famously napped in his pajamas almost every afternoon and the other would appear barely sleeps. One began their career by each reducing tariffs and the other by opposing them. One was this great soaring compelling orator and the other a rather crude but very effective tweet writer. On the service they prefer to be different but as soon as you start to drill deeper as i did in my book trump and churchill you find that the men had remarkable similarities, both intensely disliked and even hated [inaudible] but both love the country and playing speakers and clear thinkers. Both alpha males, both haddon acrimonious relationship with the media and both were in massive battles with the establishment in their own Political Party. Both had pre disasters that were considered very weak. Of course, Winston Churchill had Neville Chamberlain and donald trump had barack obama. There are actually incredible parallels between the times and the men an
Schultz, he talks about his book, issues on my mind. In the measures onio mind you talk when it comes to terrorism, we must think of moral involved if we must think of way of life, we must be willing to defend them. Means of more active defense and deterrence must be considered given the political support. If you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say, okay, let a terrorist act happen, then we find out who did it and we try them in the u. S. Courts and end lease appeal they go to jail. Well, what does that accomplish . A certain deterrence but in the meantime terrorist act is taking place and terrorist act like 9 11 can kill a lot of people. If you know something is coming at you, stop it from happening. In other words, prevention. I think when i first said that in 1984 it was controversial but after 9 11 people said, of course, we should be trying to stop that from happening and so trying to prevent things is very important and we do it a great deal in the country. I think theres be