from the left, andrew young, then ralph abernathy, and on the far right bernard lee. they had taken eastern airlines flight 381 from atlanta. at the atlanta airport, there had been a bomb threat that was directed specifically at king. the passengers on the plane were evacuated, dogs brought in. turned out to be a false alarm. but the plane arrived late in memphis, over an hour late, and those were not king's only two worries on that wednesday morning. the bomb threat, as unsettling as that might have been, the delayed arrival. this was his third visit to memphis in 1968. on his first visit on march the 18th, he addressed the city's garbage workers who were then in the throes of a bitter strike. he was back ten days later to speak and to lead a march through downtown memphis. finish also in -- also in support of the garbage workers. barely had the march begun before it turned into a riot. a small number of youth had broken away from the march. they had broken windows, looted stores. the police responded with tear gas and clubs and guns. and in the aftermath, it was kin

please join me in welcoming secretary lee berman and jeremy bernard. [applause] >> thank you. >> we are going to get settled in and before we get to the book, i'm not the only one in the room whose very interested in your background. can you tell us how do you get to be the secretary of the united states? >> very different for every person who has the job. traditionally they were daughters of governors or senators or their families were in politics in some form and aristocratic way. it has not been that way for some time. jeremy and i serve as examples of that. i grew up in a small farm on ohio, went to washington after college, worked at the center for strategic and international studies at georgetown university's think tank and went to graduate school and was a full-time mother for ten years which was the best possible experience as social secretary and a friend of mine, you should talk with her. and going to the car pool line, the white house email system into the vice president's home working with the secret service, they are pushed back into the w

lee was almost unassailable. the picture i have up for you here is a good example of the point i am trying to make. that picture shows eisenhower and general bernard montgomery, the famous montgomery of alamein who came to visit eisenhower to visit the battlefield, of course, in 1957, and caused quite a ruckus, as some of you know. it was inevitable that when he came to gettysburg, monti was going to ask eisenhower to take him out on the battlefield, which he does. i complied. trailed by a flock of reporters, the two generals traversed the battlefield over two days, stopping at the major locations where the fighting occurred. theye course of two days, have a lot of observations back and forth about the generals and those engagements. eisenhower expresses admiration for the iron brigade. he criticizes jan ewell sickles for the movement out of his position on the second day. nobody seems to have taken any toense whatsoever eisenhower's criticism of siles, but on day two, something different happened. they went out before they went to church, because they wanted to see cox hill, they wanted to go to the virginia monument, confederate avenue and on to