As we continue our celebration of our 2015 celebration of the 125th anniversary of dwight david eisenhower. We are grateful for the cosponsorship of this series made possible by the wt temper foundation and the eisenhower president ial Library Museum and boyhood home. The associate director is here with us tonight. He will be speaking in the library october 13, tuesday at the central library. About the significance of the front tier. President e day before eisenhowers birthday october 14 where he will be giving his talk at the Eisenhower Library in abilene. There is a party. You are invited to the party on the 14th as well. We are extremely happy to have professor yanek mieczkowsk here tonight to talk about ike and. Net. One of my first memories is of 1956rents watching the Republican Convention on tv and my mother arguing with my father that since he was point to vote for eisenhower you should register as republican. Which he was not at that point. Not everybody liked ike at that time
The associate director is here with us tonight. He will be speaking in the library october 13, tuesday at the central library. About the significance of the frontier. That is one day before president eisenhowers birthday october 14 where he will be giving his talk at the Eisenhower Library in abilene. There is a party. You are invited to the party on the 14th as well. We are extremely happy to have professor yanek mieczkowsk here tonight to talk about ike and. Net. One of my first memories is of my parents watching the 1956 Republican Convention on tv and my mother arguing with my father that since he was point to vote for eisenhower you should register as republican. Which he was not at that point. Not everybody liked ike at that time. Joe mccarthy. The John Birch Society said he was a communist. Russell kirk said ike is not a communist. He is the golfer. That image of ike on the golf course, not accomplishing very much. Then things likes but the missile gap have affected our view of
Pat buchanan, your new book about the 1968 campaign of Richard Nixon is that a beginning of a trilogy for you . I had intended by it. I got down into my files and brought back all the stories and memories, and thought the nixon comeback in his earliest years was a book in and of itself, a book in which i was very close to Richard Nixon, his staff is very small, and it was an extraordinary story, an extraordinary time. A time of assassinations and riots and campus anarchy and revolution, the tet offensive, americans coming home in caskets the convention at chicago it is an extraordinary story. I decided to put it all into one book. I will go through the chronological part of this book and talk about some of the things i have never seen before and begin with asking you about the first moment you met Richard Nixon. The first moment was at the Burning Tree Country Club in 1954. Pete cook and i were looking for a summer job. We were the only two white guys out there. After the black caddies
About the 1968 campaign of Richard Nixon is that a beginning of a trilogy for you . I had intended by it. Files and into my brought back all the stories and memories, and thought the nixon comeback in his earliest years was a book in and of itself, a book in which i was very close to Richard Nixon, his staff is very small, and it was an extraordinary story, an extraordinary time. Time of assassinations and riots and campus anarchy and revolution, the tet offensive, americans coming home in caskets the convention at chicago it is an extraordinary story. I will go through the chronological part of this book and talk about some of the things i have never seen before in to begin with asking you about the first moment you met Richard Nixon. The first moment was at the Burning Tree Country Club in 1954. Pete cook and i were looking for a summer job. We were the only two white guys out there. After the black caddies have gone after their afternoon bags, the Vice President was put out on the b
I got down into my files and brought back all the stories and memories, and thought the nixon comeback in his earliest years was a book in and of itself, a book in which i was very close to Richard Nixon, his staff is very small, and it was an extraordinary story, an extraordinary time. A time of assassinations and riots and campus anarchy and revolution, the tet offensive, americans coming home in caskets, the convention at chicago it is an extraordinary story. I decided to put it all into one book. I will go through the chronological part of this book and talk about some of the things i have never seen before and begin with asking you about the first moment you met Richard Nixon. The first moment was at the Burning Tree Country Club in 1954. Pete cook and i were looking for a summer job. We were the only two white guys out there. After the black caddies had gone after their afternoon bags, the Vice President s was put out on the bench. The assistant looked over at me and pete cook an