On behalf of the entire staff, welcome it is the pleasure to have you here. Its a pleasure to talk about hustling hitler. If you have noisemaking devices a please turn them off. Walter will discuss his book for about 25 minutes on and take as many questions as we can fit into 20 minutes more. We encourage questions. Please use the microphone in the center by the pillar. After the q a please fold up your chair and place it against the bookshelf. Thank you. The signing line will be here at the table and books are for sale at upfront where you walked inches and hustling hitler, walter, Walter Shapiro tells a story about Freeman Bernstein, vaudeville manager, boxing promoter, car promoter, car chart, writer of worthless ious in one of the con on the nazi government. Of course he is his great uncle. Although walter does not have appeared to inherited his criminal tendencies, he did inherit a sense of hustling. He covered every president ial election since 1980 which makes 10. He has written
Devices please turn them off and walter will discuss his book for 25 minutes and then take as many questions as we can fit in. We encourage questions. After the q and a its a great help if you fold up your own chair and place it against the book shelf. Thank you. The signing line will be here and books are for sale upfront. He tells the story of Freeman Bernstein, boxing promoter, and card shark. And the man who pulled the conon the nazi government which resulted in one of many an effort. He is his great uncle. Walter did get hustle. He has covered every president ial election since 1980, and has written for roll call. Time, newsweek and the washington post. He has served as bureau chief, as a speechwriter in the carter white house. Is a lecturer. And were pleased that he is here tonight. [applause] i want to thank politics and pros, which is one of the great bookstores. I love it. And i love that politics and pros, is delivering. And looking around. I dont know how many are old enough
[applause] the Republican National Convention Begins tomorrow in cleveland. We continue our look at Republican National conventions on American History tv. Next, catherine ortega, the first hispanic woman to give a keynote speech went Republican National convention. This is just over 20 minutes. [applause] ms. Ortega thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. My fellow republicans here in dallas, my fellow americans republicans, democrats, and independents watching this convention across the country, my fellow americans serving our country overseas, i am honored to be here tonight to deliver the keynote to this 1984 National Convention of the Republican Party. [applause] ortega thank you. I am honored because i know there are many members of our party more eloquent than i, but what i have to say tonight, i say from the heart and with a deep conviction that our countrys future lies not in the empty r
Ms. Ortega thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. My fellow republicans here in las, my fellow americans republicans, democrats, and watching this convention across the country, my fellow americans serving our country overseas, i am honored to be here tonight to deliver the 1984te for National Convention of the republican party. Thank you. [cheers and applause] honored because i know there are many members of our party more eloquent than i, but what i have to say tonight, i say from the heart and with a iction that our countrys future lies not in the empty rhetoric we heard in San Francisco last month, but the courage and vision of a president who has restored americas faith in itself. I believe in president reagan and what he stands for. I believe in our president s, not because i am a woman, not heritage,am of panic that above all, of hispanic heritage, but above all because i am an american. I am an american who loves her country and all it stands for. America stands for freedom
[applause] ms. Ortega thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. My fellow republicans here in dallas, my fellow americans republicans, democrats, and independents watching this convention across the country, my fellow americans serving our country overseas, i am honored to be here tonight to deliver the keynote for the 1984 National Convention of the Republican Party. Thank you. [cheers and applause] ms. Ortega i am honored because i know there are many members of our party more eloquent than i, but what i have to say tonight, i say from the heart and with a deep conviction that our countrys future lies not in the empty rhetoric we heard in San Francisco last month, but the courage and vision of a president who has restored americas faith in itself. I believe in president reagan and what he stands for. As i believe in our president s, not because i am a woman, not because i am of panic heritage, that above all, of hispanic heritage, but above all because i am an american. I am an amer