Influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of pat nixon, although her time in the white house was really eclipsed by her husbands resignation from office in the wake of watergate. So were going to tell more about her record and learn more about her life before the white house, what she did while she was there, and her legacy. Here are our two guests to tell her story. Tim naftali is a president ial historian and the former head of the Nixon Library. And meet mary brennan, who is a pat nixon biographer and also history professor at texas state university. Well, welcome to both of you. Lets start with this perception of pat nixon. She is described in your book, actually, as an enigma. So what should people know . What are a couple of things about pat nixon that theyd be surprised to learn . Ms. Brennan pat was fun and funny. People who knew her talked about her sense of humor. And she was adventurous. As a young woman, she worked for a hospital in new york city, and she would
Her book, slow dancing with a stranger. Before i start my full introduction, meryl comer has asked me to play a short video and im going to turn that on just as an introduction to the talk. Before i do that, if you dont mind turning off your cell phones, that will just help us stay focused on the topic at hand with less disruption during the talk. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] it is time for a generation to say unacceptable. This is not the way for us to analyze okay. As i said, i am in german i am one of the managers here at politics and prose and i welcome all of you today. As you know, we have many events youre at the store and then we had things going on nearly everyday, sometimes multiple times a day. If you are not all connected through our email list or checking our calendar online, or if you would like to be in our emails, is stay involved and we consider ourselves much more than just a bookstore. We are a Co
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Politics and prose and i welcome all of you today. As you know, we have many events youre at the store and then we had things going on nearly everyday, sometimes multiple times a day. If you are not all connected through our email list or checking our calendar online, or if you would like to be in our emails, is stay involved and we consider ourselves much more than just a bookstore. We are a Community Space that welcomes conversation and we have classes and both groups and author talks such as this one. So welcome and thank you for coming. [applause] meryl comer is an Emmy Awardwinning veteran reporter and talk show host and she was among the first tv news women in the 1980s to specialize in Business News as it relates to Public Policy with a nationally syndicated debate show, it is your business. She also coanchored nations as this today on espn. She is now the ceo of the Geoffrey Beene foundation alzheimers initiative, which is prominently providing 100 of the net profit of the Geof