Ms. Ortega thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] ms. Ortega 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 national 1984 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. [applause] ms. Ortega i believe in president reagan and what he stands for. I believe in our precedent not because i am a woman, not because i am of hi
She did a lot of great things, and she also gave a lot of nutty advice and did some questionable things, and she was a complicated, you know, complex person. To the the result is, hope any, the complicated, complex portrait of her. And i think anyone who reads something about themselves has very mixed feelings about it. I would hate to read manager this long about myself something this long about myself. [laughter] [inaudible] and she never did like puff pieces [inaudible] and she liked a zippy read. [laughter] thanks, barbara. Anyway thats all we have time for. Thank you for coming, everybody. Lets give another round of applause for our authors. [applause] again, weve got plenty of books up at the register as well as wine. And hardboiled eggs. Just kidding. Laugh [laughter] [inaudible conversations] watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best its for serious readers. On cspan they can have a long or conversation and delve into their subjects. Booktv weekends, they bring you
Nonstop since last sundays endorsement. Bookitle of our guests is, of course, the welldressed hobo. Himman those who knew new Stewart Brian was a welldressed man. He was a devoted supporter of the vigilant Virginia Historical society. He was a colleague and my publisher i will hit my 40th year paper in the first week of december, and stewart was publisher and chairman of media general for most of that period. He would be delighted by the book. He appears in the book, and i would just like to say, rush and i agree that stewart is not with us in body he passed away a few months ago, but he is here in spirit, and he will always be here in spirit at the Virginia Historical society, and we member him fondly. My personal relations with russia began a few years ago. I was at one of my neighborhood watering holes, and i was talking to the bartender, and the weekend before i had gone to new york on the train. I had a catastrophic experience coming back. The engine decoupled from the car somewhe
Psychics and numbers runners, i was looking at black women and crime and 20th century new york, want to get my hands on that. And another one about black women ons chain gangs by sarah haley in georgia. There are a couple neat books coming out that i cant wait to read. You are just a little bit obsessed. A tiny bit. I have been buying guilt books, completely forgot the name of a guy who wrote a book about poverty and housing that got rave reviews, these are guilt books about journalists doing significant, important social changing things instead of writing trashy true crime mysteries and they will pile up on my bedside table and i wont read them. Trashy true crime histories and throttle us all and there are two wonderful books and i want to thank Skip Hollandsworth and Kali Nicole Gross for joining us, i wish you well on your books, i have them both on hardcover and tablet and wish you many sales, you are supposed to be out and im telling everyone to go out there and buy a book and get
Cherryh you remember her blossoms, that is not what she focused on. She wanted to build a band show near washington so that people could, and listen to find music. She has a young woman had attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary Party to the white house of rutherford and lucy hayes. She decided she would like to come back one day and spend more time. [laughter] , we talke tragedies about the string of tragedies of helen taft, who really wanted to be first lady. Today she would be president. About three months after taft became president , she suffered a stroke. With characteristic determination, she had to relearn speech. And she did. But it contributed to the general melancholy of the single taft term, over which hung this cloud called theodore roosevelt. Susan dempsey, although she had lobbied to support her husband for the presidency, she had a much better political mind. As far astrusted tr she could throw him. She kept telling her husband not to trust theodore. In the end, in 1912,