Event we havefic had so far and thank you for being with us. I know there is a lot of excitement, as there ought be about this evenings conversation, so thank you for taking time to be here. We are so delighted to have professor Margaret Mcmillan with us. Thank you so much for traveling to be with us. Who else but to help us with that is better equipped than Margaret Mcmillan, emmert as professor of history at the university of toronto. Many and varied roles. Trustee at the Central University and more recently at the Imperial War Museum. Might i offer that we are second only here at the National World war i museum to the Imperial War Museum in terms of history. They began collecting in 1917. We began collecting in 1920. We are further delighted they are having their world war ii galleries reinstalled by the gallery designers of the National World war i museum and memorial. They are very wise i might say. Research specializes in British Imperial history and the International History of
We are so delighted to have professor Margaret Mcmillan with us. Thank you so much for traveling to be with us. Who else but to help us with that is better equipped than Margaret Mcmillan, emmert as professor of history at the university of toronto. She serves in many and varied roles. Trustee at the Central University and more recently at the Imperial War Museum. Might i offer that we are second only here at the National World war i museum to the Imperial War Museum in terms of history. They began collecting in 1917. We began collecting in 1920. We are further delighted they are having their world war ii galleries reinstalled by the gallery designers of the National World war i museum and memorial. They are very wise i might say. Margarets research specializes in British Imperial history and the International History of the 19th and 20th centuries. She has written many publications and books. I do not want to list those. One of which is particularly pertinent to the topic tonight, par
There is no phone or telephone there. There is a nice view but i have my back to the view but i wont be tempted by it. It is far enough from the house. There you see general washington and some of his soldiers marching along. I hope they show it at the end of it. Always a little slow catching up. Thats my example. Thats the one. He is hes always a little behind. I work out there because when the children were young i did not want them to have to be Walking Around it is a call for me to really look in front of me. That is one of the earliest photographs of the capital i love that photograph. It is carved as it is indicated there into that mantelpiece at the state state dining room at the white house. That is the map of boston which figures very importantly in the book i am working on now and of course it figured very importantly at a contemporary map. I take everything and there is a wonderful korean drawing i think its one of the best and most representative of him ever done. I love dr
From our archives, with Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Mccullough. He has appeared on booktv more than 50 times. All of the programs youre about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org, using the search function at the top of the page. First, in 1992 on the book notes Program David mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The attempted assassination, a number of president s of been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . Guest just wasnt. Why would there be a pension . Pension for everybody else but opens and for president , he had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly, which dean addison cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown it doesnt mean he didnt have any money, he did have money but needed some ca
Why wouldnt the government have protections . It just wasnt done why wouldnt the government have a pension for officers and everybody else and not the president in fact he had very little money he had to borrow money quite secretly to pay for the move back home. This is not well known a doesnt mean he didnt have money but he needed cash to cover all of the expenses to move out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide income he undertook the writing of his by autobiography in memoirs which no other president had ever done except for Herbert Hoover but his time was much briefer than trumans and his covered far more tumultuous history. So to undertake the twovolume that more was a major and ambitious task. And then he built his library. Now it was a previous president ial library but it was established after he died in officer truman was the first one to officiate over the president ial library and again he was beginning something one of the things i try to emphasize in t