Very tender and moving from the early years. Both of them started drinking too much. They really stop talking to each other and a guy named frank gannon who wrote nixons memoirs and was around then set it down or they would not talk about the main thing. They would talk about anything but the main thing but at night they would pass a note to each other and leave notes like that of tolstoy. Always avoiding the main topic to try to be polite with each other as their world collapsed. When nixon decided to resign he didnt tell pat. He told rosemary woods the secretary to tell pat. Thats how distant he was at the end and of course he got the famous getting on his knees with kissinger and asking kissinger to pray with him on the last night. Thats a true story. Kissinger came back to his office. He was still kind of undone by this and started telling about this on the phone ring and it was Richard Nixon on the phone asking kissinger not to tell anybody because he was so embarrassed. Kissinger
Allen, a author of our declarations reading of declaration of independence and defense of equality. Joseph ellis, revolutionary summer, appeared in chicago to talk about their books. This is about 40 minutes. Hi, good afternoon. Im jane dailey, i teach American History at university of chicago. Dont want to take up too much time introducing our panelists because each of them is so accomplished because it would take most of our time to speak about all the things they have done. I will say, professor danielle allen, member of institute of advancedll study at princeton. Formerly at the faculty of university of chicago and we miss her very much. Political theyre orist, who written broadly on questions of justice and democracy and equality. The book were discussing today is, in defense of equality. There it is, sorry. Our declaration. Reading of declaration of independence in defense of equality. That will be published at end of this month by norton. We also have with us, Professor Joseph e
Know a great deal more about this family than i do at least half of you do who work year. And if you like a cousins come to tell you about your family, uninvited. So we all have our opinions. My utmost since you arrived at even if you dont think im right at all. So i will begin right now. Thank you. The question i am asked most often about this book is simply this, why John Quincy Adams . And my answer is just this. I met it in the course of getting to know his parents, with whom he corresponded faithfully and lengthily combined with enormous affection and [inaudible] thank you. Unlikely as it may seem i came to abigail and john adams, s. Just been said by mademoiselle magazine, the New York Times and was [inaudible] sorry. Its not us. Its the in house system. All right. Maybe thats a sign from on high that i go home. [laughter] anyway vogue Magazine Editor and designer sara lee called to ask if i would be interested in doing a book on 50 historic characters. The author had been made t
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