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Tonight, dker henriques lectures widely on subjects related to George Washington and has recorded at least five other lectures for cspan and we greatly appreciate they are being here this evening. He is the author of realistic visionary a portrait of George Washington. Please join me in welcoming professor peter henriques. [applause] peter i do not think i can top that, thank you very much. There is a touch of sadness coming to this presentation because we have been going through the different stages of washingtons life, i have enjoyed the opportunity to speak to you at this particular chapter...

I kid, of course. I love it. But its true. I think as we learn from the key note last night, we live in the world that reconstruction made. And so the very important that we sort of grapple with and try to understand this period in our history. And we havent really had that kind of reckoning yet. Maybe this is our opportunity to do so. You can say what you want about the centennial of the civil war, but it happened. We didnt have a centennial of reconstruction. We werent here in 1966 sort of talking about this. Maybe it was too soon then. But hopefully not now. Today im excited to introduce ou...

Thank you for joining us. Yesterday there were taxicab issues, subway issues, who knows what well have. I am a visiting professor at the university of saskatchewan where it was about 25 degrees warmer when i left than it is in washington, d. C. Saskatoon is 300 miles north of the montana border. It is way up there and on the great plains of canada, spectacularly beautiful place, of course since it is 25 degrees warmer than washington, and which we know has always been in the south part of the United States, it just shows there is absolutely no Global Climate change going on whatsoever, that is...

And we have blown up a lot of hotels, casinos on the strip and build new ones. The mayor at the time had been an attorney who represented a lot of figures connected to or allegedly connected to the mob. He said, no, this is where i first practiced law at my first case. Its an important building historically. Lets save it. It was a threestory building built in 1933. Today, it houses one of the nations leading museums certainly in our opinion of organized crime and Law Enforcement. The role that they played throughout United States history, but especially the 20th and early 21st centuries and in...

Hes been our fearless leader for the past several years and helping to direct the symposium. No introduction is needed. It is really too. I will say that she comes to us from the university of saskatchewan to give you a sense of how far yes come today. He is under a visiting professorship on human rights on ae will be speaking nation of immigrants. The keynote is and what opportunity to look, to see the theme in a broader sense. You will be laying the groundwork or everything we will be discussing. He will be laying the groundwork for everything will be talking about. We have a special Lunch P...