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churchill s rapport with american presidents, including teddy roosevelt, calvin coolidge, and franklin roosevelt. this program is about to 90 minutes. professor maurer: i want to thank dale and al and alan and alex and hannah for supporting me. jenna. yeah. of the new york historical society again for inviting me back to give a talk. this morning, i m going to be speaking about the relationship of churchill to american presidents. churchill knew a great number of them, had opinions about these american presidents, and they had opinions about him, as you are going to see. so, what i m going to be talkin ....
other leaders and think about leaders and also to look at anglo american relations, the aristocracy. here is a photo of her when she was married to lord randolph and churchill was born in 1874. she was born in 1854. there you see young winston with his loving mother. look at how he is dressed. what an embarrassing portrait for a statesman, right? [laughter] well, churchill wrote in his autobiography that he was a troubled boy in the sense that he caused trouble for others. he said, i was called a troublesome boy. there he is, about 14. you see that scowl. wow. does he look like that? [laughter] look at those two. [laughter] 50 years difference, but boy they look alike, don t they? you can see the resemblance between the two, the young teenager and the statesman that stood up to hitler. ok, that pugnacious, troublesome boy, who grew up to be a statesman who gave trouble to people like hitler. well, churchill s mom, the letters she would write to winston churchill. this i ....
of marchers and reenactors and descendents to washington, d.c. to talk about the close of the american civil war. at the end of the war, the government celebrated by bringing 200,000 soldiers to washington d.c. to acknowledge the fact that after four years of a bloody war, it was finally over, the nation had been saved as one nation under god, and the legacy of slavery had ended forever because the union now includes african-american soldiers who helped win this war and change the direction of this nation. this afternoon at the museum we are going to have a panel discussion including three knowledgeable, informed persons who will talk about one of the legacies of the african-american civil war. that is the voting rights legacy of the african-american civil war. the 14th amendment makes african-americans citizens of the united states and also hand some a provision about voting rights. the 15th amendment takes it a little bit further. we may get into the 15th amendment. i ....
the second time addressing the members of the press club was in support of the documentary film brothers at war. and a third time as john said four years ago, when we first launched the foundation. so i guess i haven t burned any bridges at the press club yet. you keep asking me back. i would like to speak today about how far the foundation has come in those four years with the work the foundation is doing and what the future looks like as we continue to grow and i would like to emphasize how important it is to have nonprofits in the military support space as the military men and women continue to confront the dark forces of this world on many fun with long and many fronts with long and very tough deployment. at first i would like to acknowledge a few people here today, one of our board members. thank you for coming. i appreciate you being here . [applause] i have a very distinguished guest that john introduced, a friend of mine that is here today, general livingsto ....
it is out there. i will not discuss that today. i would like to but i will not. the point is, it is hard now, it is much more fun and i am a big the lever although we have sean and so many people who have done so well and have built really and industries in brilliant businesses doing network radio. my has always been live in local and immediate. i have always liked this small city here as my home turf. i think of it as my home. my point is that it has changed. it is not going to change back. we know that it is going to be owned most of the time, most stations will be owned by people who have a lot of stations managers who have more than one station to run. salespeople involved in more than one type of programming all that stuff. it does not change the dynamic of the business. live in local, it has to go back to that no matter what part of the business you are running because eventually, it is about a guy who has a show room to sell cars or a storefront he wants people t ....