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Jonathan has appeared as a commentator on msnbc and bbc radio. Is writing has appeared in the new york times, the Weekly Standard and other outlets. During his time at the white house johnson served as a speechwriter and special assistant to president george bush, a graduate of yale university, and we welcome him to Filson Historical Society. [applause] thank you so much for the lovely introduction, judy. As was mentioned used to work as a president ial speechwriter before start writing this book, so you can imagine my shock when i learned that the subject of my new book didnt much care for my...

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...

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...

Movie was the subject of peace negotiations between the north and the south at the very end of the civil war, which is the subject of the book. Its a shorthand way for me to introduce it to people because most people who have the fainted faintest interest in the subject will have seen the movie. The cover of the book is on the projector, which redepicts a meeting between lincoln and grant and sherman and admiral porter, who was the senior Union Admiral at the time. On the steamship river queen which was the air force one of its time, as i like to think of it. And it was the chamber, or the com...

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...