longest-serving white house aide in history. so i had done books and begin them to charity, so this is two books in one for the same price. so it s a great bargain, and thest the best charity you could ever ask for. host: here s one recipe you have for clove cake. theodore roosevelt. guest: that s right. and it s a healthy cake, let me tell you. it s heavy and it s great. delicious. host: what other recipes do you have in here that people might be interested in? guest: i think the pest recipe in the whole book is probably mamie eisenhower s fudge. when she married ike, she told my husband she didn t know how to cook, even boil water. she ran across this million dollar fudge recipe, and it s so good, even kids can make it. fantastic. and my second favorite is probably ronald reagan s pumpkin pecan pie becauses it it s just like pumpkin pie, but all the nuts are on top, and it s typically political. host: you also have a recipe from harry reid. guest: yes, i do, and
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next yale university lecture charles euchner presents a history of the march on washington for jobs and freedom in 1963. marked by martin luther kings i have a dream speech at the lincoln memorial before a quarter million people. mr. euchner discusses his book at the new haven public library in new haven, connecticut. it s an hour and 15 minutes. seems a little outdated these days. we live in a cynical age and we have seen our leaders, all their warts, we have seen them fail. we ve seen the kind of cynical maneuvering behind the scenes, not for the better good for political advantage and for monetary advantage and so forth. but heroism i believe is one of the most important elements of any kind of social progress. by journalism i don t mean just a few great men or a few great women leading the masses behind them. but i mean a much more everyday version of your wisdom. and there is no better movement, no better moment in american history to find real heroes than in 1963
the author from the white house. congress and all of the past presidents. coming up, thomas allen presents a history of torrey americans during the american revolution. the author recounts the torrey strongholds of new york and philadelphia, the civil war that took place among the american populace and the migration of 80,000 tories most of whom left for canada. thomas allen presents his book at the library of congress this in washington d.c. it s 40 minutes. i m not supposed to have to plug the library of congress, but it s inevitable. a few years ago i got a call from an historian at the cia whom i had met when i d been working on the george washington book about intelligence in the revolutionary war. and he says the library of congress is something you might be interested in, call this number. and i thought, wow. maybe the cia really does that [laughter] people who, you know, just like in the seven cays of the con days of the condor, there s people reading books al
either brilliant and you ve thought of soething that nobody else could think of or you re a fool and wasting your time because there s no story. in the end, when did you start to see a story that had never been told? well, i started going down, brian, to hyde park, tothe roosevelt archives. i stared virtually from ground zero. as i srted through papers of george marshall d bill donovan and f.d.r. s paper, i realizized there was a lot of untold stories. let s pick one of those names, bill donovan. who was he? bill donovan was an authentic hero of world war i, a congressional medal of honor winner, subsequently a vastly successful wall street lawyer. now, he becomes, in effect, the first head of a central intelligence agency in the united states. franklin roosevelt appoints him in the summer of 1941 as what eventually becomes the office of strategic services. kind of a strange choice because donovan was a staunch republican, had run for governor of new york on an anti-r
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