Eastern and one person came and she said, you were chosen. She was from czechoslovakia. She was there for four years already in the concentration camp. She spoke hungarian also. And they ask her, whats happening to where are our parents . And our and she said, you see that smoke . There are your parents. Holocaust survivor anna gross recalls her familys experience in the ghettos in nazioccupied hungary, at auschwitz concentration camp in poland, and forced hard labor. This event was part of the United States Holocaust Memorial museums first person series. Then at 8 00 on elect yoouz in history an anarchist named Alexander Berkman broke into fricks office in nearby pittsburgh, shot him twice, and repeatedly stabbed him. Berkman, however, is one of the great failures in assassination history. Not only did he fail to kill frick, he also undermined the strikers for whom he was professing sympathy. Because in many ways Public Opinion saw this outburst of radical violence as a discredit to t
Things. When we get to the qanda part of the session. But we ask if you have a question first put it in the form of a question in the second, make your way to the microphone because we are videoing both for our own page and cspan tv is here this evening as well, and they would like to be able to hear your question. And at the end before you come up to get the book signed the stuff was appreciated. The presidency was profiled in a new book by tim weiner thats receiving a lot of attention. Hes quite familiar to many in washington and he lived and reported here for 15 years in the previous books. He got it into the newspaper business after earning a masters degree in journalism at columbia 30 sixes ago and by the early 1980s he had landed at the Philadelphia Inquirer where he worked for a decade. They were right up ready to put the budget to sponsor the Defense Research and that led to the first book. They joined the New York Times in the mid1990s covering National Security issues that he
Watergate scandal. [inaudible conversations] im going to put this down here for just now. Okay. Good ioning. Good evening. Im bradley graham, coowner of politics prose along with my wife, lissa muscatine. On behalf of the entire staff, thank you so much for coming. A few quick administrative notes. Now would be a good time to silence any cell phones or other things that might go beep. When we get to the q a art of the session part of the session, we invite anybody to ask a question, but we ask that if you have a question, first, you put it in the form of a question and, second, you make your way to this microphone up here, because we are videoing both for our own youtube page and cspan tv is here this evening as well. Theyd like to be able to hear your question. And at the end, before you come up to get your book signed, our staff would appreciate it very much if youd fold up the chairs that youre in and lean them against the bookcases or a pillar. The topic this evening is, of course,
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Stephen hess talks about the relationship between president nixon and his onetime adviser Daniel Patrick moynihan. This is a little under an hour. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Few name is Jonathan Movroydis im director of communications at the Richard Nixon foundation. Welcome to the president ial library on the occasion of the president s 10 2nd birthday. Before we start, i just wanted to say that todays a free admission day, so i encourage you to visit the white house right across the way. Take that in, also visit the memorial sites and visit the galleries to learn about the life of this extraordinary man. Who became president of the United States. Another extraordinary man is stephen heads hess who can our nixon legacy lecturer today. Mr. Hess began his career in the Eisenhower Administration as a speech writer, and he joined president nixon for his 1962 california gubernatorial bid. He returned to the white house in 1969 as the chief of staff of to Daniel Patrick moyni