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Frequent morning joe contributor and our fearless leader, president of the nonpartisan council on Foreign Relations in 2003 but today we are here to listen to Richard Haass the prolific author and academic who had come out with another book entitled not very ambitiously, slightly ambitiously the world a brief introduction, in about 300 pages. He calls it a departure from his previous books. I want to start because it was only after you turned in the manuscript that the world was confronted by the covid19 pandemic and in the two months since that happened this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts you tackle in the book so i want to ask outright what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now . Guest thank you for doing this and thanks to everyone on this call. I hope everybody is well and safe as we all get through this one day at a time, one gr ....
Good evening. I am lauren, with smithsonian associates. Im very glad youre here tonight. To our ongoing members thank you for your support. You are making this possible. We welcome you to use the programs we offer here at smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to silence your cellphones or anything else that might make noise during the program. Were thrilled tonight to offer historian and tour guide garrett peck back to the smithsonian. In addition to the tour as he leads, he has presented a library to congress in the national car archives. His work has been published on the history channel, cspan. He was featured in a two hour documentary but prohibition by this mouth sonia channel. He was featured in a book called how dry we werent. Alcohol in america, the great world wars of america, published in 2018. Before we get started i want you to join us in the lobby after the presentation to enjoy a sample of the prohibition cocktail think to founding spirits jim. Now i want you to ....
For the past year at the library of congress, you may sit down, because i have a few more namesv for the past year at the library of congress we have been celebrating changemakers and i can think of a few people who more than aptly fit that discretion then the United States up in Court JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburg. [cheering and applause] okay, im going to hurry up. [laughter] she is a hero and an inspiration to so many of us. In fact, at 4 00 a. M. This morning students from American University who are right over there champion camped out in front of this facility and they are here. She says and i [inaudible] i will talk about your graduation from Columbia Law School and taught at rutgers and spent ....
I have a few more things. [laughter] for the past year at the library of congress, we have been celebrating changemakers, and i can think of a few people that fit the description and the United StatesSupreme Court justice liquidator ginsberg. [applause] [cheering] okay. Im going to hurry up. She is a hero and inspiration to so many of us. In fact, at 4 a. M. This morning, students from American University [cheering] camped out in front of this facility and they are here. Justice, are you going to talk about the graduation from Columbia Law School, spend mostt of the career advocating human rights and all these things and then recently was called the beyonce of jurisprudence. And she said i would rather use a jlo. [cheering] [laughter] without further ado, s ....