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Good morning, friends. Welcome. Ladies and gentlemen i welcome all of you here today with us and in new york city and especially our supporters and all who will be watching the a cspan2 an exceptional discussion. This is a special gathering where we will learn about and, if you will, rightly celebrate the publishing of a unique book. I am jack fowler, the Vice President of National Review and a trustee of [applause] i didnt know they were serving alcohol this early. [laughter] but thank you. And a trustee of National Review institute. And i do this welcoming on behalf of my fellow trustees, so...

Fears, stop harassment take your power back. Wo a settlement against former fox news president n, roger ailes. Talking start out by about Harvey Weinstein, that is the story everyone is talking about right now. Every day, some new atrocity occurs, like yesterday or the day before. Three more people came forward beenthe idea this has going on for years and years and years. There were eight settlements against him. Obviously everybody in the company knew about it. I have to say, i wonder about his wife, who i gather last night announced she was leaving him, finally. Not haveould possibly heard a...

Jonathan director of roosevelt house who is in albany this evening. So were very excited to have ken whyte here to talk about his biography of hoover. And also to have amity shlaes to interview him. This is not a house in Herbert Hoover historically or in the present day talked about often or usually too kindly. So one thing that i want to say about ken whyte in the introduction to his book says that indictment and advocacy shape and often overwhelm the story of the man, Herbert Hoover. I think there has been more indictment of Herbert Hoover in these halls than anywhere else perhaps because f...

In the fields of flanders, because of the munitions, and one presumes because of death, those grounds then were disturbed, and those poppies began to grow. And so, the poppies then grew in amongst what is the killing fields. And so, then the poem in flanders field, was written. It began popularity in 1919 after the war in britain and then soon in the United States. Poppies began being sold as remembrance to raise funds for wounded veterans. When you come into the National World war i museum and memorial, as you mentioned, theres a bridge that takes you into the main galleries under which this ...

Germany entering into world war i. More than 100,000 americans died in the conflict. The influx of u. S. Resources changed the tides of the global war bringing it to a close 18 months later on november 11th, 1918. To mark the 100th anniversary of what was then known as the great war, American History tv is live from the museum in kansas city, missouri. Well be here for the next two and a half hours. Well take you on a tour of some of the exhibits and involve you in conversations with top world war i historians. As we open our program were joined in the museum by the president and ceo of museum...