About the holocaust and other subjects. His talk tonight will focus on his first book called, reagans 1968 dress rehearsal and it tells the littleknown story of friendship that developed and ultimately a member a mentorship between eisenhower and reagan. I will not steal the thunder, but dwight d. Eisenhower was really instrumental in Ronald Reagans early political career. We all know how that ended with reagans election as president to decades later. So, he will tell that story. He will talk for about 4550 minutes. There will be some audio and presentations. We will do our best to make sure that we are adjusting it in the back and he can hear it. After he is done, we will open it up to a q and a paid leave join me. Please join me in welcoming gene kopelson. [applause] gene thank you for coming on a beautiful sunny seattle day. The audience should know that it really was. Thank you to the other people here at the discovery center. Keith, who originally helped, tessa, and also cspan. I
Friendship that developed and ultimately a member a mentorship between eisenhower and reagan. I will not steal the thunder, but dwight d. Eisenhower was really instrumental in Ronald Reagans early political career. We all know how that ended with reagans election as president to decade later. So, he will tell that story. He will talk for about 4550 minutes. There will be some audio and presentations. We will do our best to make sure that we are adjusting it in the back and he can hear it. Open he is done, we will it up to a q and a paid leave join me. Please join me in welcoming gene kopelson. [applause] gene thank you for coming on a beautiful sunny seattle day. The audience should know that it really was. Thank you to the other people here at the discovery center. Keith, who originally helped, tessa, and also cspan. I would like to go back to give you the rationale for why i wrote this book. To me, the 1980s, the age of Ronald Reagan was really a golden age for america and for the wo
People of african descent mosthere, is one of the compelling and longstanding aspects of africanamerican culture and history. That is something that has disappeared or overlooked. I think there are moments in history when it is up and down. Need to reconfigure because the vast globalization of communications and travel that we are now living through. Travel, alld black i know from tate and there are people doing much broader , doing very important work on the role of travel in the lives of black people who are going as tourists, which becomes much more possible in this period and the way which travel themes really essential to way africanamericans think about themselves and their relationship to the world. A tremendous amount of work needed to be done on that. Greatk there has been a deal of attention to music and other forms that have traveled certainly down more on the electronic age. We also need to Pay Attention to the naacp and people doing work in International Studies and diplom
You leave a pistol on a drawer for me and that made him anxious that he wanted to kill himself. How much of these are cries for help in the reassurance or whether it indicates true suicidal ideation. The fact he didnt kill himself and yes this is one thing one thing about him he would get knocked down and come back again and again. He was finished off in 62 and he said he wont have nixon to kick around anymore. Even after he is with him from office, he moves back and he had this beautiful house. He moves back to new york and is a block away from Arthur Schlessinger in the belly of the beast. He needed to get back into the arena. Two months after hed be assigned committees outside implement the end its october, 1974 compounded by depressionr that flares up and he goes into a coronary crisis and its brushed to the hospital and his doctor writes a memoir tha the t he almost died that night. He came very close to. They were saying wake up, come back. While he did come and he spent the next
Wanted to meet ronald buried next to her you husband at the reagan president ial library in california. Teri okita is here with more. Reporter youre right. The condolences are pouring in, both from the famous and everyday citizens who are using reporter a steady stream of mourners stopped at the reagan president ial library to pay respects for the former first lady nancy reagan. I thought she brought a lot of classiness to the position of first lady. Reporter nancy reagan died of congestive Heart Failure at her home on sunday. She was an advocate for Stem Cell Research following former president reagans diagnosis of alzheimers disease in 1994. Where the two worshipped at the bellaire church, talked about the former first lady after the services. She was considerate of people around her and greeted everybody with a smile, as did her husband. Reporter Nancy Reagans bestknown project as first lady was the just say no campaign, aimed at keeping kids and teenagers away from drugs. Admirers