speaker mark silverstone for taking the time out of his busy schedule to be here with us tonight marks an associate professor and presidential studies at the miller center at uva and chair of the center s presidential recordings program and hails from westport, connecticut and a graduate of staples high school there so there may be others from westport and staples graduates. so you re in good company tonight marks gonna provide us with overview of the recordings program established by the center in 1998 with highlights of secretly take meetings and phone conversations from various presidents. they ll tell us what he and his team are now working on as well. it is as his current project on president kennedy and vietnam as chair of the recordings program mark edits. hurt white house tapes of presidents john f kennedy lyndon b johnson and richard. i m nixon. he s the general editor of the presidential recordings digital edition the primary online portal for transcripts of the tap
I knew him in a different context. In the 111th congress, he directed a project for the senate libraries. It was in that context that i got to know him. I will never forget the feeling of relief i had when anthony brought the experiment of the subcommittee and decided the budget to come on a tour. As the librarian, i got to give the tour. Correct me if used some very colorful language, and i walked through the library and explained to him how we were going to turn what had been a private library into a nonprofit library. It was a joy in disbelief for them to see. It was a joy to know they were supportive of what we were doing. I will always be grateful to him for that. I am equally grateful, and thats why he is here today, that he took time to write a book. He was working on this before he started working for the government. Some people go into government and then write a book. But he wrote this before. There are not many people in our country who think deeply about the Library System.
Briefing from the u. S. Chamber of congress. This week on q a, author and former congressional staffer anthony clark. He discusses his book, the last how president s a run for prosperity and in trying their legacy. Anthony clark, i want you to see some video before we talk about your book from october 1996. You know, this is my last campaign and maybe i will run for school board sunday. [laughter] brian your book is called the last campaign. He said that moment got you the title. Why . Anthony i saw that moment in a Political Science budget class in 2003 and decided to write my thesis for that semester on that idea that a president ial library is the president last campaign, not the final electoral contest. And when i finished that paper, said this is a book, you should consider making this into a book. A week later, i got into an rv i had an troubled to all the essential libraries in six weeks, the once i had not been to yet. I came back convinced that maybe there was more than a book
You know, this is my last campaign and maybe i will run for school board sunday. [laughter] brian your book is called the last campaign. You say in the book that moment got you the title. Why . Anthony i saw that moment in a Political Science budget class in 2003 and decided to write my thesis for that semester on that idea that a president ial library is the president last campaign, not the final electoral contest. And when i finished that paper, my professor said this is a book, you should consider making this into a book. A week later, i got into an rv i had an troubled to all the essential libraries in six weeks, the once i had not been to yet. I came back convinced that maybe there was more than a book in it. For me, going to the president ial libraries was only the beginning of the journey. Because seeing the libraries as a tourist was different from researching in the records and going to the National Archives and seeing how the libraries developed. It was because of what i foun
About your book from october 31st, 1996. You know, this is my last campaign and maybe i will run for school board someday. [laughter] brian your book is called the last campaign. You say in the book that moment got you the title. Why . Anthony i saw that moment in a Political Science budget class in 2003 and decided to write my thesis for that semester on that idea that a president ial library is the president last campaign, not the final electoral contest. And when i finished that paper, my professor said this is a book, you should consider making this into a book. A week later, i got into an rv i had and traveled to all the president ial libraries in six weeks, the once i had not been to yet. I came back convinced that maybe there was more than a book in it. For me, going to the president ial libraries was only the beginning of the journey. Because seeing the libraries as a tourist was different from researching in the records and going to the National Archives and seeing how the lib