Anyone could see be a confidante to president roosevelt. He was married in the white house in summer of 1942. During the depression he put everybody back to work on infrastructure projects. During the war, he was Franklin Roosevelts legs. Roosevelt sent hopkins to england to russia, casablanca, he was involved in all wartime conflict. He was the president s post at pfizer. A very sick man, he was a social worker but preferred the company of a rich and the wellborn. Hung out at a harem, he and his wife lived in the white house. Didnt like it particular lead. They moved out and took a house in georgetown in 1943 but harry went after the president died in april of 1942, carry on his last mission with president truman, after that, got the best present of his life after that. He lived in new york and died at the age of 55 living in new york. What made you choose him . The most telling adviser there ever was. Full contact, terribly funny, sarcastic. I ran into him writing an earlier book and
Of course president kennedy himself unfortunately was to be assassinated three weeks later. So therefore you have, you know, i think historically an opportunity that early to maybe prevent the tremendous loss of, not only American Life but of vietnamese life that followed the administration of president johnson and then of president nixon. Bearing in mind that as Many Americans died under the administration of president nixon as did under president johnson. So, you know, early on, david had per stamp, my colleague, wrote in the best and the brightest, this was the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time and i didnt necessarily agree with him then but i agree with him now and i doubt that even an extended, continued american effort could have forestalled an ultimate nationalist victory and a nationalist victory in vietnam would have met supremacy of major force in vietnam and today which is the communist party. Best i can do in the allotted time. Peter, not bad. Thank you, peter.
Going to bring gandy out to close up the program but please mine me and my thanking erik prince. [applause] thank you, erik and tracie. Ladies and gentlemen if you would like your book sign your personalized i would ask that you give us a minute to step up the stage. In an orderly fashion if he would line up in decile here and then we will get the book signed and exit out that door. Thank you very much. Triet [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we are here at the National Press club talking with obrien about his book we shall not be moved. Tell us a little bit about how you got into this project. This was a project when i saw this photograph at the Martin Luther king center in atlanta in 1992 and realized that this photograph was iconic representation of the sick and and i knew the woman in the center of the photograph. I had met her through her children 20 years before in Arlington Virginia when i was a playground director and i knew at that moment in the context of al
Also send us your tweet if you go to twitter. Com we will begin with the sunday review section of the the New York Times yesterday. We want to get your take on this. It does religion influence your politics . With more people saying they are unaffiliated. We want to get your take. Here are some comments from facebook this morning. What are your thoughts on this december 24, 2012. It does religion influence your politics . Let me show you this from the New York Times this morning. A new poll out worldwide religion shows up that one out of six follows no religion. That is worldwide. All religions outside the United States as well. The upi story. Religious identity affect voter choice. And then on the 2012 election, here is the pew forum on religion and Public Policy dorothy and baltimore, maryland. Independent caller. What do you think . Does religion influence your politics . Caller it does influence me somewhat but not so much now this time with obama. The reason why i say it does a li
The largest election the world has ever seen, you spend the hour with indian novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy. She is just out the new book called, capitalism a ghost story. After the opening up of the economy, we are in a situation where 100 of indias wealthiest people, their combined wealth is 25 of the gdp, whereas war that 80 of its population is less than less than one dollar a day. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A standoff continues in ukraine where prorussian separatist have seized government buildings in eastern areas. Demonstrators have barricaded themselves and and readied fuel bombs. The government in kiev has warned of sending in troops to restore order. Testifying before senate panel in washington, secretary of state john kerry accused russia of direct involvement. Everything we have seen in the last 48 hours, russian provocateurs and agents operating in eastern ukraine, tells us they