The lives and careers of several family members including Grover Cleveland Vice President Adlai Stevenson and twotime democratic democratic illinois governor Adlai Stevenson second. This originally aired in 1996 and its about an hour. Cspan jean h. Baker, author of the stevensons a biography of an american family, whats the scope of this book . Guest well, its pretty broad and its a long book but it covers a lot of stevenson generations. And it also focuses on the most important, in some ways, of all the stevensons. And thats Adlai Ewing Stevenson ii, who lived from 1900 to 1965 and, of course, was the losing democratic president ial candidate in 1952 and 1956. It took me a long time to do and i really was trying hard to look at layers of stevensons and different views of family life, etc. , and not only do just a political biography of some of the best known stevensons. Cspan did you ever meet any of them . Guest yes, i did. The most prominent stevensons that i met were Adlai Stevenso
One of the books that brings us he here, Warren Harding, the harding affair, love and espionage during the great war, published in 2009. Right. We also have dr. Karen femia whos an archivist who prepared the papers, the harding papers. For reader use. On july 29. Karen has a ph. D. From brown in musicology. But shes an excellent, excellent historian and really, really a firstrate person. We have dr. Richard harding, the grandnephew of president harding. He was he is a psychiatrist on the staff of the university of South Carolina and was the president of the american psycho Analytical Association in 1981 82. American psychiatric association. Psychiatric. Sorry. Okay. The i shouldnt make that mistake since we have Sigmund Freuds papers here. I need to apologize for that. A very brief description of the harding papers here which is probably unnecessary given the publicity theyve received. But there are about 1,000 the collection, not the papers the major collection, the papers are in the
Gary Allen Meyer, age 76, long-time Ponca City resident went home to be with his Lord & Savior on December 16, 2023. He was born on July 15, 1947, and was raised on a farm in Red Rock, OK. He graduated Red Rock High School in 1965, and married his high school sweetheart, Sherrille Berry, on July 23, 1966. He worked several jobs before making their home in Newkirk, and they resided there for 28 years. He worked for Rodeo Meats in Ark City, KS, until it was closed down. He then began working for Smith Bits in Ponca City, OK, where he retired after 30 years of service. While working at Smith Bits, they moved to Ponca City in 1997, where he currently resided.
Secretary of State George Shultz couldn’t steer the administration off its hawkish path until the first lady hauled him through a snowstorm for dinner.