As you all know [inaudible] with your support that we are able to bring wonderful authors like tony to the literary community. So we really appreciate, you know, your support. So several events and author of Overground Railroad will be joining us on the 13th, the roots of black travel america. Theyll feature author and journalist charles jecko. Be sure toe check online. A bunch of events coming up in february. Journalists, activist from st. Louis, missouri, a member to have communist party usa and serves for the party in kansas, missouri and senate seat. [inaudible] served as a member on political and labor organizations including [inaudible] unique and neglected aspects of the communist party usa. Places within the political and historical contest. Topical aspects of the partys ongoing work especially in post 1956 period. Hope is that each individual story helps build and adds to completer and more complex usa history. So tonight, tony will be discussing, answering your questions and
[inaudible] its only with your support we are able to bring to you wonderful authors to the literary community. We really appreciate your purchases and support. Thank you for showing up. We have several upcoming events, author of abjoining us on the 13th to discuss her book on the roots of black trouble in america. [inaudible] [inaudible] be sure to check out our calendar online. We have a bunch of events coming up to february. Without further ado, Tony Pecinovsky is a journalist, activist, politician from st. Louis missouri abthe member of the communist party usa answers of the district archive of the party in missouri. Hes contributed to peoples world comes a single Southern Illinois tribune, labor tribune, shoko report and a [inaudible] from 2010 to 2015 he served as a member of several political and labor organizations including the united media guild, greater st. Louis ab and served as delegate to the greater st. Louis central labor council. Trend nine[inaudible] [inaudible] [inau
Paris peace accords and the president s historic visit to china. This is just under two hours. Good morning. Im here to welcome you on behalf of the Richard Nixon foundation which cosponsors these legacy forums with the national archives. Its a wonderful partnership. David is responsible for 12 billion documents, some of which is placed at the library, which is his facility. And we, in turn, have the people who created those documents. If youre old enough to remember warren beaty and the movie shampoo, weve got the heads and he has the shampoo. Since my experience on nixons staff was on the domestic side we tend to favor topics that i knew. That didnt include Foreign Affairs but weve stumbled on to a brilliant and helpful counterpart of me that is my pleasure to introduce. Thats kt mcfarland. You know kt as fox news analyst. Everybody has to start somewhere and kathy troyas started as a clerk typist on the graveyard shift of National Security council when she was a sophomore at the Geo
Working on this war without trying to negotiate an end. I had come back from paris, we were trying to do the exact thing. But you couldnt mention it. Couldnt mention it. Whose decision was it to make these talks secret . So was it so you could advance more who had the courage to do it. We felt you cannot make progress, propaganda, with the whole world watching. Youve got to do it secretly. I think the North Vietnamese werent that interested in negotiations, except as a tactic to wear us out or to see whether we could make the kind of deal they could live with. They didnt want to accused by the vietcong and others of being overly soft. What do you think, joe . I think here winston and i may differ slightly. I think its important to have secret negotiations. They accompany almost any negotiation about a serious issue. But i think henry had a somewhat expansive view of that, which is keeping it secret. Thats a different issue. I meant the public. I understand. My point is, for him secret
All of us from the nixonkissinger community, the importance of doing this. The documents are one thing but to hear from the people who made history is a great addition not only to the nations knowledge , to the history, but the next generation of americans who will have to grapple. As geoff pointed out, this was the third in a series. We covered the was to cover the ones we covered so far have been the reorganization in structure and sudden diplomacy in china. The five years of the administration were very fruitful and many called it the golden age of diplomacy. This one is going to focus on the vietnam war, negotiations and the paris peace accords. It was one of the biggest problems that nixon faced when he walked in the door and took office. It is difficult today in 2014 to comprehend the vietnam war. The country was already on the edge because of the kennedy and Martin Luther king assassinations. The war exacerbated those tensions. And the draft meant every family was effected. We h