Impact on the way we live our lives. Just Walking Around the white house grounds, i cant totally reminded about all the people who have lived there before and particularly all of the women. First lady and fluid and image, a new series on cspan, produced in collaboration with the White House Historical association starting president s day, february 8 team. The president john f. Kennedy and senators robert f. Kennedy and edward kennedy. The author examines Joseph Kennedys careers in business and politics, which included ventures on wall street, hollywood and the founding chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission. This is a little under an hour. Thank you all. As i tell my history students [inaudible] as i tell my histories of it until i went to choke me, the past is a foreign country. We can visit there, try to learn the customs, translate the language, feel the air, the fragrance, but where foreigners in a strange way. This is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonia
The author examines Joseph Kennedys career in business and politics which included ventures in wall street, hollywood and founding chairman of the securities and exchange commission. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you all. Delighted to be here. As i tell my history students, i teach at the City University of new york in the ph. D. Program [applause] thank you. [laughter] as i tell my history students until they wallet to choke me, the they want to choke me, the past is a foreign country. We can visit there, try to learn the customs, translate the language, feel the air and the light, sniff the fragrances, recoil at the foul odors, but we are foreigners in a strange land. This is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. Writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned this time around. First, there are people you have to talk to. [laughter] and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having some fascinating people
As i tell my history students, i teach at the City University of new york. [applause] thank you. As i tell my history students until they want to choke me, the past as is a foreign country. We can visit their. Try to learn the customs, translate the language, or quail at the fowler, but we are foreigners in this strange land. This is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. Writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned at this time around. There are people that you must talk to. [laughter] while i was blessed from beginning to end fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy, including large numbers of kennedys, i much prefer working from written documents than listening to people talk and trying to figure out what is real or imagined and what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they dont know what all. The other difficulty about writing about the recent past is that its not always easy to establis
Rachel is the Deputy Managing Editor of political. She said that she be be overseeing coverage of major story like the killing of osama bin laden. Before that you may know her as the managing editor of journalist review. Next to rachel we have our next guest. She has gone over to the mainstream and she is eligible for the panel. So did jim agreed to step in and we really appreciate him being here. He is a White House Reporter for the Huffington Post. Also part of leadership on capitol hill. She has spent 40 years with the legislative and executive branches. Probably a walk in the park for her because she started out with the texas state legislator legislature. Again, we thank you for that. Next to her he is the bureau chief head in washington, he started as a reporters reporter. About how he likes we like to describe. He is a thirdgeneration newsman. Down at the under the table is alex mueller, who gives us a different perspective. He gives us a graphic perspective and he has backgroun
He includes beautiful facts about his life including growing up in the northwest. He worked in senator Eugene Mccarthys office right on the hill and it mustve been the catalyst is a love of investigative reporting. She began her lifelong career as a prolific writer of bestselling books in the uproar that came with them come including subjects like Jackie Kennedy onassis, the royals, elizabeth taylor, opera, and of course, my favorite an unauthorized biography called his weight, of Frank Sinatra. Her most recent book is focused on Iconic Images of the kennedys. Books mean a lot more to me when it is well researched. Never failing to raise a few eyebrows in doing such a wonderful job of reminding us that these characters are very human. Please welcome kitty kelley. [applause] i dont know that my writing is prolific, but thank you so much. [laughter] prolific as a turtle, it takes me four years usually on each book. But this book was a labor of love. Because stanley was were my very best