For a twoday conference looking at the complicated history between u. S. And russian leaders over the last century. The focus of this next session is the relationship between john f. Kennedy and Nikita Chrushchev in the 1960s. This is about an hour and ten minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, back to our second panel accessing u. S. Soviet relations in the 1960s and 70s. Im not going to chair the panel, but i will turn the duties over to my colleague here at the Miller Center, professor barbara perry, who is going to anchor the panel. Barbara is herself a noted scholar of the 60s and of the kennedy era and the kennedy clan. Shes also director of president ial studies here at the Miller Center. She is a very seasoned expert oral historian as well as a written historian, and for many years she helped lead the Oral History Program here at the Miller Center, which was one of the signature undertakings that we do in interviewing the leading members of president ial administrations from the ford y
At the Miller Center, professor barbara perry, who is going to anchor the panel. Barbara is herself a noted scholar of the 60s and of the kennedy era and the kennedy clan. She is also the director of president ial studies here at the Miller Center. She is a very seasoned expert oral historian as well as a written historian, and for many years she helped lead the Oral History Program here at the Miller Center, which was one of the signature undertakings that we do in interviewing the leading members of president ial administrations from the four years on up until the present. Or at least i should say the recent past. We have completed oral histories under her leadership and russel rileys leadership of every administration through the george w. Bush administration and we are planning to lay siege to the Obama Administration and well find out what the Trump Administration what their attitude is towards being interviewed about oral history when we get to that place. In any case, barbaras g
During the vietnam war. This interview is from the west point center of oral history and is a little over an hour. Today is the first day of october 2016 and we are in the west point center for all history and im here with Catherine Stevens can you please spell your last name . Tell me about your childhood. I knew you grew up as the daughter of an army officer. As an like growing up army brat. I grew as a millionaire child without any money. Wonderful had the most wonderful childhood. Brothers and my father had been in the cavalry. He was a wonderful horseman. Both my older brother and i rode from the time that i was three years old, and my older brother was the same way. I was born in princeton. For six years and when he married my mother, my mother was so bear was a very beautiful lady. My older brother was born there. Where else did you grow up . Bragg. Washington. Oklahoma. Hawaii, back to oklahoma. If the cut new york. I got free tuition. One of the questions i always asked people
Im not going to chair the panel, but i will turn the duties over to my colleague here at the Miller Center, professor barbara perry, who is going to anchor the panel. Barbara is herself a noted scholar of the 60s and of the kennedy era and the kennedy clan. She is also the director of president ial studies here at the Miller Center. She is a very seasoned expert oral historian as well as a written historian, and for many years she helped lead the Oral History Program here at the Miller Center, which was one of the signature undertakings that we do in interviewing the leading members of president ial administrations from the four years on up until the present. Or at least i should say the recent past. We have completed oral histories under her leadership and russel rileys leadership of every administration through the george w. Bush administration and we are planning to lay siege to the Obama Administration and well find out what the Trump Administration what their attitude is towards b
Assessing u. S. Soviet relations in the 1960s and 70s. Im not going to chair the panel, but i will turn the duties over to my colleague here at the Miller Center, professor barbara perry, who is going to anchor the panel. Barbara is herself a noted scholar of the 60s and of the kennedy era and the kennedy clan. She is also the director of president ial studies here at the Miller Center. She is a very seasoned expert oral historian as well as a written historian, and for many years she helped lead the Oral History Program here at the Miller Center, which was one of the signature undertakings that we do in interviewing the leading members of president ial administrations from the four years on up until the present. Or at least i should say the recent past. We have completed oral histories under her leadership and russel rileys leadership of every administration through the george w. Bush administration and we are planning to lay siege to the Obama Administration and well find out what th