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Our way through like every other News Organization. We have done something truly impressive and made a real commitment to hardhitting and investigative groundbreaking journalism and im grateful for that and i thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen chairman and editorinchief of kiplinger publications. [applause] good evening. I am from the kiplinger letter and i will be referred. I am not related in any way to the other nights, including john and james. I wish that i were but i am not our honorary this evening is the first kipping letter award who has never worked as a professional journali...

Didnt much care for my old occupation. In fact robert e lee was so offended when he heard George Washington might have used a ghostwriter to paint his famous farewell address that he refused to believe it and said that anyone who said George Washington used a ghostwriter was a injudicious. If i learned nothing else from writing this biography is that i should care less about my own. I am so pleased to be at this beautiful house, and i am so grateful to the Historical Society for for inviting me today. I had a chance to to go over and see this society earlier today and it is such a wonderful fa...

Next Jonathan Horn recounts robert e. Lees decision to join the Confederate Army after being sought by the north and the south. From louisville kentucky, its about an hour. Its my pleasure to introduce dr. Horn. He is an author and former white house president ial speechmaker who spent years researching and writing his robert e. Lee biography the man who would not be washington published in january of this year. Jonathan has appeared as a commentator on msnbc and nbc radio. His writing has appeared in the New York Times the Weekly Standard and other outlets. During his time the white house jon...

Thought lee was the very best soldier hit ever seen in the field. And robert e. Lee certainly looked like a fine soldier. He stood just under six feet tall, powerful, broad shoulders a barrel chest. He had perfect posture. Everybody who saw him said some version of the same thing, batman looks every inch the soldier. And so in april 1861 an emissary for Abraham Lincoln asked robert e. Lee to come to the city of washington. That mss name was Francis Blair and he makes an extraordinary offered to robert e. Lee. He says will you leave the main union army to crush secession . And as lee remembered...

Lee help says, will you lead the main union army to crush secession . And as lee remembers the story blair tried in every way to convince robert e. Lee to say yes. He said blair said to lee, the country looks to you quote as the representative of the washington family to save the Union George Washington forged, and that was hardly an exaggeration, because here after all, was the son of George Washingtons most famous eulogist and the soninlaw of George Washingtons adopted child. And so now only one word separated robert e. Lee from the pinnacle of his profession, from command of what would be t...