Good afternoon. My name is roy brownell, and im pleased to be the moderator of participant for the third and final panel. Title for this panel is real world scenarios illness catastrophe and governmental response. The idea is to give a sense of the practical realities of the 1947 statute. Now i have the great honor introducing our distinguished panelists. Dr. Joseph j fins he is the e William Davis jr. Md professor of medical ethics at wild cornell medical college. Hes also visiting professor of law and Solomon Center distinguished scholar in medicine bioethics and law at yale law school. Dr. Finz will be speaking about the experience of speaker carl albert who during the 1970s for several months was first in line to the presidency. Dr. Rose, mcdermott she is the david and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at brown university. Shes also author of the book president ial leadership illness and Decision Making dr. Mcdermott will be speaking about president ial
And august, the next is pay pourhouse arena power house arena. A little bit about this book and erica wagner. As you can tell just from the backdrop here, this is a great topic for this setting in Brooklyn Bridge park. Not most great monuments dont dont inspire great rating but this is a good exception to that. From hard crane to many otherpots and writers and notably to the nonfiction writer, david mccullough, there have been really inspired writing on this subject, and erica wagner is right up there with all of those other writers. What she has done here with this biography of Washington Roebling is remind everyone although he whats son of a designer he was the person long with his wife who got it through, those dozen or so youres to the end and it was so years to the end and 15 years ago his father died, just up here in the heights behind you, and the young 32yearold took over and brilliantly brought it to life. A little bit about erica. She has written on many different topics. We
And august, the next is pay pourhouse arena power house arena. A little bit about this book and erica wagner. As you can tell just from the backdrop here, this is a great topic for this setting in Brooklyn Bridge park. Not most great monuments dont dont inspire great rating but this is a good exception to that. From hard crane to many otherpots and writers and notably to the nonfiction writer, david mccullough, there have been really inspired writing on this subject, and erica wagner is right up there with all of those other writers. What she has done here with this biography of Washington Roebling is remind everyone although he whats son of a designer he was the person long with his wife who got it through, those dozen or so youres to the end and it was so years to the end and 15 years ago his father died, just up here in the heights behind you, and the young 32yearold took over and brilliantly brought it to life. A little bit about erica. She has written on many different topics. We
Engendering america, and most recently relentless reformer, Josephine Roche and progressivism in 20th Century America, published in 2015. That book is available for purchase in signing after the session. It is on that subject, Josephine Roche, we will hear from robyn muncy today. Robyn . Thank you so much to christian and eric and the Woodrow Wilson center for inviting me to speak and thank you to amanda and peter for taking care of the logistics. Im delighted by the opportunity to launch this biography of Josephine Roche at the Wilson Center because i spent an absolutely glorious year of fellowship here in 20072008. Came back in the summer of 2009, spent that summer is a Public Policy scholar. It feels really good to bring this finally completed work to an institution that did so much to nurture it. I thought i would begin by explaining how it happened that i spent a decade of my life researching and writing the biography of a woman nobody has ever heard of. [laughter] it all started
Reformer, Josephine Roche and progressivism in 20th Century America, published in 2015. That book is available for purchase and signing outside these doors after the session. It is on that subject, Josephine Roche, we will hear from robyn muncy today. Robyn . Thank you so much to christian and eric and the Woodrow Wilson center for inviting me to speak and thank you to amanda and peter for taking care of the logistics. Im delighted by the opportunity to launch this biography of Josephine Roche at the Wilson Center because i spent an absolutely glorious year of fellowship here in 20072008. Came back in the summer of 2009, because i could not get enough, spent that summer as a Public Policy scholar. It feels really good to bring this finally completed work to an institution that did so much to nurture it. I thought i would begin by explaining how it happened that i spent a decade of my life researching and writing the biography of a woman nobody has ever heard of. [laughter] it all start