Grandfather. Host looking at all those childhood pictures. Adorable children that were all well behaved. Guest exactly. Host im most interested because you have managed to do in a readable length what many other authors have tried to fit into many many pages and im curious about your interest in eisenhower. How familiar were you with his record when you developed an interest in the subject . Guest i covered the pentagon for six years and had a healthy appreciation of general eisenhower, but i didnt really have an appreciation of the eisenhower presidency. I may college golfer, still golfer and i got the holy grail of golf invites down to Augustine National and i was on cloud nine and went down there and was driving down magnolia lane. Such a spectacular place and for golfers, as you know, its the place to be, so i went and and they told me you are staying in the eisenhower cabin and they couldnt believe it. I couldnt go to sleep and i poured myself a glass of wine and walked around the
Know, kennedy was killed 20 days after the vietnamese president was killed. So Lyndon Johnson gets handed the totally collapsed government and army of south vietnam. And eventually, he made his own decisions about sending american combat troops. But johnson went to his grave arguing that kennedys assassination or overthrow and assassination of the vietnamese president , johnson was a big supporter of the president , was the reason he ended up committing combat troops. Patrick sloyan is the author of the new book, politics of deception jfks secret decisions on vietnam, civil rights and cuba. Thanks so much. Good evening. Good evening. Again, welcome to the library of virginia. Im happy to introduce tonights distinguished author, former governor wilder, who as you heard has a new memoir entitled son of virginia a life in americas political arena. As noted, im the states politic editor at the Richmond Times dispatch, and im proud to be in sort of whats become a select fraternity of Virgin
The door burst open and doug wilder bounds in with his son and chauffeur, larry, intel. This just goes to show you that he was and is a force of nature. But this grandson of slaves was a public figure in virginia years before first historic run for statewide office. The first black member of the Virginia Senate since reconstruction, he served in the state senate for 16 years before he was elected Lieutenant Governor, becoming the first africanamerican elected to statewide office in virginia. Four years later he followed that up in 1989 when he became the nations first elected africanamerican governor. As governor, doug wilder guided the state through a difficult recession. A democrat, he briefly saw his partys 1992 president ial nomination, then years later in 2004 he became the first popularly elected mayor of the city of richmond in more than 50 years. Governor wilders memoir is filled with rich details and revealing reflections on his historic journey. Raised in segregated churchill
Abuses of industrialization. But thats another story for another day. So im done. Enjoy the rest of your day. Ill see you next meme is the movie you know in just a couple of months i will be leaving my position. I hope youll forgive me if i take this opportunity to become a loaf list object nostalgic. I had the opportunity to talk to quite a few people on this stage and you can just imagine the quotient and when i had the job of interviewing with a professional interview, some do it for a living the man who routinely watch bret baier conduct an interview each evening on fox news you know exactly what i mean. He is among the very best in the business. [applause] and you may not take my word for it. His newscast is consistently. As the top Cable News Program and that has been the case for many years. But bret has a second career going on as is a bestselling author and we are not talking about the autobiography and how you too can be a rather this publication, his fifth nonfiction of work
Meme is the movie you know in just a couple of months i will be leaving my position. I hope youll forgive me if i take this opportunity to become a loaf list object nostalgic. I had the opportunity to talk to quite a few people on this stage and you can just imagine the quotient and when i had the job of interviewing with a professional interview, some do it for a living the man who routinely watch bret baier conduct an interview each evening on fox news you know exactly what i mean. He is among the very best in the business. [applause] and you may not take my word for it. His newscast is consistently. As the top Cable News Program and that has been the case for many years. But bret has a second career going on as is a bestselling author and we are not talking about the autobiography and how you too can be a rather this publication, his fifth nonfiction of work, its official bret baier is a talented president ial historian and writer with a knack for shining a light on pivotal readers