When the coach and four horses went home. They havent president kennedys speech writer and special council said what many president s said that a president s office is where he may be. Unlike congress or the supreme court, the presidency never adjou adjourns. What roll does politics play in president ial vacations, getaways . Im not sure what. I think the need to get away is probably predominant as we have seen in recent presidencies. If you have your own home, you tend to go to it. Otherwise, like president obama, you go to a place that interests you and you probably, because of security concerns, have to get a rented property. Do you think its just the president or the public does the public understand that the president needs to get away from the pressures of the job . Is it just the press that keeps focusing on what the president is doing on vacation and whats happening in washington and elsewhere around the world . I think both. I think the press reacts to what the public thinks a
One of the books that brings us he here, Warren Harding, the harding affair, love and espionage during the great war, published in 2009. Right. We also have dr. Karen femia whos an archivist who prepared the papers, the harding papers. For reader use. On july 29. Karen has a ph. D. From brown in musicology. But shes an excellent, excellent historian and really, really a firstrate person. We have dr. Richard harding, the grandnephew of president harding. He was he is a psychiatrist on the staff of the university of South Carolina and was the president of the american psycho Analytical Association in 1981 82. American psychiatric association. Psychiatric. Sorry. Okay. The i shouldnt make that mistake since we have Sigmund Freuds papers here. I need to apologize for that. A very brief description of the harding papers here which is probably unnecessary given the publicity theyve received. But there are about 1,000 the collection, not the papers the major collection, the papers are in the
And i should actually add that into a note that specifies it for the Dolley Madison digital edition, but we only know what we know. We are out of time. Okay. May i ask welcome if you have one of these little devices, if you can make sure it is turned off or in the silent mood, that would be fantastic. Were going to tackled James Madisons other half and some might say his better half, Dolly Madison. Catherine has written several very important books including a perfect union. Most recently she annotated and edited an important memoir written by Dolly Madisons niece. Annotated and edited and important memoir written by Dolly Madisons niece. Katherine is the director of education at Huntington Library art collections Botanical Gardens and professor of history at the university of california riverside. Today she will discuss the republican queens identity during the war. This time when Dolly Madison strong room and her events were known as squeezes, they were so popular. Ive also heard tha