This was recorded in clifton park, new york. It is about an hour and 10 minutes. Good morning everyone. Welcome to the clifton park has halfmoon public library. We are very pleased to have David Pietrusza to talk about his latest book 1948 Harry Trumans improbable victory and the year that transformed america. David is the author of a number of books and he is here to talk about his book about 1920 the year of six president s, 1960 lbj versus jfk versus nixon, and ted williams my life of pictures. He has also written and produced a wma hq documentary local heroes, baseball and Capital District diamonds. Reviewed for his hairy german book talk about how likely it is, eliminating portraits of portrait support candidates and the evenhanded appraisal of truman is especially compelling. The journey he takes is to election day is one he is definitively lead in his past his work has been compared to theodore whites classic them a king of the president series. After three stayed home runs by t
He utilized recently on classified tapes and documents to report on the interworkings of of the Nixon Administration during the watergate scandal. Im going to put this down here, okay, good evening. I am bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife. On behalf of of the entire staff, thank you so much for coming. A few quick administrative notes. Now would be a good time to silence any cell phones or other things that might go beep. When we get to the q and a part of the session, i invite anybody to ask questions, we ask if you have a question, first you put it in the form of a question, and second you make your way to this microphone up here. We are videoing both for our own youtube page and pursue span tv is here as well. They would like to be able to hear your question. At the end, before you come up to get your book sign. Our staff would appreciate it very much if you could fold up the chair that you are in and lean it against a bookcase or a pillar. The topic th
In those days it was methodical about how careful we were. We would check with each other. I had a rent who is a great reporter from the wall street journal, we had a buddy system. If i felt something is not entirely confident about i will go to him. In the white house itself we had a terrific staff at the lower level. The press secretary of staff and other people who had real concern about the fate of the country and they quietly shared that with people. It was a great testimony and a great system. In the and, justice prevail. But right to the end, a lot of people in america thought this was all a press of some kind or there is the Democratic Party of some kind. When they heard this up record they went the other way and said, you have got to go. Host marion ohio you are the last call. Caller thank you for sharing what i would have to call on bridled optimism with us. I know you have millions of people out there pulling for your full recovery. My question is really quite simple. What i
Very tender and moving from the early years. Both of them started drinking too much. They really stop talking to each other and a guy named frank gannon who wrote nixons memoirs and was around then set it down or they would not talk about the main thing. They would talk about anything but the main thing but at night they would pass a note to each other and leave notes like that of tolstoy. Always avoiding the main topic to try to be polite with each other as their world collapsed. When nixon decided to resign he didnt tell pat. He told rosemary woods the secretary to tell pat. Thats how distant he was at the end and of course he got the famous getting on his knees with kissinger and asking kissinger to pray with him on the last night. Thats a true story. Kissinger came back to his office. He was still kind of undone by this and started telling about this on the phone ring and it was Richard Nixon on the phone asking kissinger not to tell anybody because he was so embarrassed. Kissinger
Very tender and moving from the early years. Both of them started drinking too much. They really stop talking to each other and a guy named frank gannon who wrote nixons memoirs and was around then set it down or they would not talk about the main thing. They would talk about anything but the main thing but at night they would pass a note to each other and leave notes like that of tolstoy. Always avoiding the main topic to try to be polite with each other as their world collapsed. When nixon decided to resign he didnt tell pat. He told rosemary woods the secretary to tell pat. Thats how distant he was at the end and of course he got the famous getting on his knees with kissinger and asking kissinger to pray with him on the last night. Thats a true story. Kissinger came back to his office. He was still kind of undone by this and started telling about this on the phone ring and it was Richard Nixon on the phone asking kissinger not to tell anybody because he was so embarrassed. Kissinger