Its my pleasure to welcome you here this evening. We have a truly terrific evening in store for you and let me begin by welcoming some special guests starting with larry higby whos a member of the board of directors of the Richard Nixon foundation. In sandy quinn a member of the board former president of the Nixon Foundation colonel jack brennan. The Marine Military aid the president nixon and his chief of staff in the san clemente years judge, jim rogan. Thank you for being here, sir. Jean hernandez the mayor pro tem of the great city of yorba linda. Thank you for being here gene. I want to welcome dr. Lori cox hahn, who is the doybee henley chair of president ial studies at Chapman University and her colleague dr. Luke nichter, who is the james . Kavanaugh chair in president ial studies, which is a new program at Chapman University and were joined by the dean of students, dr. Jerry price as well at a new program at chapman that the foundation has helped to put together and were reall
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Tonights conversation will be about the knights teen 60s president ial election, which affects continues to reverberate across the landscape. We all think we know that history is well written and well spoken for. But now Erwin Gellman has become americas temporary leading authority on the 1960 election. Hes the first historian, to truly use mounds of materials from the archives to tell him complete account of the 1960 election, including a new sources such as, the fbi surveillance logs of then candidate, john f. Kennedy, and the papers of Leon Jaworski and everett junior. Who used to prior books have documented Richard Nixons life. His third, and titled the campaign of the century kennedy, nixon, and the election of 1960 does not disappoint. Gellman is joined in conversation this evening with another renowned 20th century historian who holds the chair and president ial studies at chapman university. He is a New York Times bestselling author whose credits include two volumes of the nixo
Welcome back to the west coast. I think for many years this was a second home or a home for you, how many years did you spend here and did you miss it . I spent with susan, seven years going through documents day by day, week by week, year by year. This volume as a mere two and a half million pages of research which is what i do. Since you asked that question, i have a little plug and i forgot to give. A year from now, luke nichter will be sitting in the say. He has been finishing a study of the election of 1968 and the incident had virtually nothing to do with the election of 1968. If you are here now, come back for a loop a year from now and find out what really did happen in 1968. We can just be an opposite sides, at that point. But, juxtapose that experience of studying residential records for seven years with what it came from. I once heard you talk about or describe yourself as a small pant from baltimore. So, how does someone in that situation go on to get a ph. D. In American H
Continues now with Erwin Gellman on the 1960 president ial campaign, candidates Richard Nixon and john kennedy and they close and come of the election. The Richard Nixon campaign is the host of this event with the president ial museum in belinda, california. Tonights conversation will be about the 1960 president ial election, the effects of which continue to reverberate across todays political landscape. We all think we know that that history was well written and well spoken for. But, now, Erwin Gellman has become americas contemporary looted authority on the 1960 election. It is they first historian to use mounds of material from the archive to tell a more complete account of the 1960 election, including unused sources such as the fbi surveillance logs of then candidate john f. Kennedy. And the papers of several others. He is a scholar of 20th century president ial history who used to prior books have documented Richard Nixons life. His third, and titled the campaign of the century ke