Good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. My name is bob clark, and im the Deputy Director here at the franklin d. Roosevelt president ial library and museum, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. You know, when fdr established the first president ial library here at his home in hyde park, he envisioned it becoming the premier Research Center for the study of the roosevelt era. And were consistently one of the busiest Research Rooms in the entire president ial library system. And one of the reasons why we love this base so much is we get to see the fruit of the labors of all the people who use our Research Room throughout the year. So its our pleasure to have you here. Let me quickly go over the format of the day as well as a couple of housekeeping matters. The first thing is would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so that our presentation isnt interrupted today. Thank you. The second housekeeping matt
Author could ever have. I was able let me kind of wrap up my session on a couple of stories about the tapes. I am able to hear things. I couldnt listen because of the volume to every single conversation. I could immediately tell from my transcribers work if he or she was having any trouble. If it was a difficult conversation. If it was a good one i trusted it and thats something that was particularly important i would tend to look at that just to make sure i heard what they heard. But i often heard things that they could not hear not because of my great hearing but because i knew the players. A wonderful example is an incident that occurs with mark felt too as we later now as deep throat, Bob Woodwards principle source. In october of 1972 i had gone over to the Criminal Division of the department of justice to talk to Henry Peterson the head of the department. And the person responsible day by day for watergate. He said john i havent told the attorney general this. I havent told the ac
Senator brand called rand paul even the great conservatives Ronald Reagan felt compelled to respond. But i believe that is a job. With that little push for activist government into other programs that is predicated on the notion governed by the people. Though unfortunately not to care whether programs like head start actually work only that these programs by their existence demonstrate better medicare and they play along with this narrative of government priorities to improve the efficiency but people are missing the point does conservatives have framed it as they have believed with the argument with his provocative new book with his Senate History of publishing a meanspirited diatribe against meanspirited passion. [applause] and then a Senior Editor and a visiting scholar and holds from Loyola University in chicago and has written for numerous publications and is penetrating into californias future riches when of the most traffic pieces of all time. His previous book never eat enough
The one that ended his presidency when it did surface because they did do a cover up. How to that 18. 5 minute gap happened. It is pretty clear from the expert panel that there was an intentional situation. And i decided to put an appendix who had access, the fact that there were five to nine who intentionally erase the content. It occurs on a tape on june 20, 1972 which is his first day back in the office. It is his first conversation after the arrest. And i think it is very flexible. Its something because of the timing of when this comes up that again shows his defense that he knew nothing about until march 21 is alive. But it is ironic that more conversations that same week occurred, this happened to be one and he had to flush it out and that is when they decided to erase it. I also included everyone who had access to that tape at that time and it runs with some people that are wellknown, some that are still alive. When was the taping system and play in the white house . No, it wasn
So i have pretty much done post watergate what i set out to do and had a lot of fun. I returned to writing after a successful career in business working in mergers and acquisitions. I had a lot of fun and went back to school and studied accounting. I almost went after the cpa but decided i dont want to do that but i needed the skills and knowledge. I found this something really important where you are lucky if you find the right wife or the right business partner. And i was blessed by both. I had great Business Partners and we had a lot of fun and did very well at what we did. I was able to retire at 60 and return to something i wanted to do. I am now on my eighth book in retirement so i have done pretty much what i want. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Dean on behalf of this wonderful audience and the book fair thank you so much for a great conversation. [applause]audience thank you for a great we have moved inside the bus where we are joined by john dean whose most recent book is called th