[inaudible] book tv tapes hundreds of other programs or the country all year long. Heres a look at some of the events will be covering this week. On monday, well be at kramer brooks and afterwards in washington dc. Where do you make an contributing editor david frantz reports on hiv and aids prevention efforts in his book, how to survive a plague. On tuesday, we are at the library of congress with Elizabeth Dowling taylor. She will recall the rise and fall of the black elite three mans a the jim crow era. Well be in cambridge at massachusetts at Harvard Book Store with randall fuller. He will examine the book from the origin of species on americas religious and intellectual communities following its publication in 1860. On wednesday where George Washingtons mount vernon estate in mount vernon, virginia. The university of delaware professor Erica Armstrong dunbar will recount the life of a judge and escape slate who was once owned by george and martha washington. Book tv will be at Scri
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if everyone could be seated, for those of you have it taken away knowledge very thrilled to be here and we recognize that we have a large audience. We are thankful for your presence. There he can and very you being here. Let me just check, it is they see it available for someone to take . [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Im pam jackson, dirt at the library of congress are part of the National International outreach unit and we are very pleased to be with you today for this afternoons talk. A very exciting topic with a really great group of people. Should mention todays talk is part by the debut of ap africanamerican Cultural Association here at the library of congress and they will have a special part in our program that will be introduced shortly. I should mention that here for our extra audience for the most part to remind us internally the library of congress is their focus and should, desire to be recognized and provide t
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if everyone could be seated, for those of you have it taken away knowledge very thrilled to be here and we recognize that we have a large audience. We are thankful for your presence. There he can and very you being here. Let me just check, it is they see it available for someone to take . [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Im pam jackson, dirt at the library of congress are part of the National International outreach unit and we are very pleased to be with you today for this afternoons talk. A very exciting topic with a really great group of people. Should mention todays talk is part by the debut of ap africanamerican Cultural Association here at the library of congress and they will have a special part in our program that will be introduced shortly. I should mention that here for our extra audience for the most part to remind us internally the library of congress is their focus and should, desire to be recognized and provide t
The nixon and administration. Jeff had written a major book on nixon and the vietnam war, while i had written on kissinger and was trying to get documents on the alert declassified. More research and eventually had enough source material to write an article. Its published in cold war history in early 2003. We give the first full account of the alert and argued that the Readiness Test as it was officially known, was an exercise in the context of the stalled negotiations on the vietnam war. Warn wanted to end the quickly and was angry with the soviets and soviet leadership for not helping to arrange a settlement. By putting u. S. Nuclear forces and conventional forces on high readiness, nixon wanted to joel sovietsold jolk to end the war quickly. Those were some of the key elements of the argument we presented in the article. Later, with more sources become available, we decided there was enough material to justify a book on the october alert and the larger context of the next and white
Here, Dolley Madison would sit at the head of the table and direct the conversation. She got these people to the white house and entertained them; got them together; got them talking. This was very important for dolley to make everybody feel welcome, be they enemies or allies. Dolley popularized the style to American Fashion and that was considered her classic look. People noticed it. The octagon was the perfect setting for james and Dolley Madison as they try and resume government as quickly as possible. She sat side by side with madison for almost 20 years during his retirement, helping him compile and arrange his papers. She moved back to washington d. C. In her elder years and sort of became a grand damme very much behind the scenes in the political field again. As henry clay famously said, everybody loved mrs. Madison. And then, of course, her equally famous response, thats because mrs. Madison loves everybody. Court Dolley Madison came to her the Dolley Madison came to her servic