Pigs crisis. The failed military invasion of cuba in 1961 supported by the u. S. Government and resulted in the capture and death of over 1,000 men. The this was recorded at books and books in corals gable, florida in 2011. Its about an hour. This evening, books books is pleased to welcome Jim Rasenberger and his new book, brilliant diaster. Jfk, castro, and americas doomed invasion of cubas bay of pigs. Mr. Ras also a wrienberger has the New York Times among other mub publications. Heres the author of high steel, the men who built the worlds greatest skyline. In this book he examines the u. S. Backed military invasion of cuba in 1961, one of the most illfated blunders in American History. He draws on long hidden cia documents and delivers as never before the vivid truth and consequences of those five pivotal days in april of 61. Here to tell us more about it, please give a warm welcome to mr. Jim rasenberger. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you for that introduction. Thank you to books book
Field. Thank you for being here tonight. We are thrilled to have you. We will hear a brief hesitation from susan swain, copresident and chief executive officer of cspan, and coauthor of the president s. She will be joined by brian lam, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating an esteemed group of historians discussing the american presidency. The american presidency is, as you know, a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. [laughter] in the constitution, there is not as much said about it as you would imagine. Article one is quite long. Article two is quite shorter. As you can imagine, the executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of america, full stop. That is the first sentence in and the key phrase in the second article of the constitution which describes the presidency. Much of what we know today as the american presidency has come from experience, from precedent, from action. We are thrilled to have an opportunity to learn
Good evening. Welcome to mount vernon. My name is kevin butterfield, director of the fred w Swift National library. It is my pleasure to welcome you back here. And the Ford Motor Company each month sponsors a free book talk like this one. An opportunity for the community to come and learn from the greatest historians in the field. Thank you for being here tonight. We are thrilled to have you. We will hear a brief hesitation from susan swain, copresident and chief executive officer of cspan. She will be joined by brian lam, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating an esteemed group of historians discussing the american presidency. The american presidency is, as you know, a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. [laughter] in the constitution, there is not much said about it. Article one is quite long. Article two is quite shorter. As you can imagine, the executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of america. Full stop. That is th
Crisis itself in october, 1962. That will pick off a little bit where we left off in the last class. The last class we talked about july 26, 1953 launch of the revolution, the communist revolution in cuba. And that was when fidel and a force of 100 to 200 rebels launched an attack on the Army Barracks in santiago, cuba. 15 years in prison, so less than a year in prison, 11 months altogether. With that, he was on the run, he was in exile. He went to mexico. His brother, raul, as well. They would eventually come back and try to recommence the revolution, taking over in january, 1959. That is about where we left off. One thing i didnt mention the last class, but youre going to read the article on this, its the Herb Matthews piece in the New York Times. If you have not read it yet if you have, you have probably been shocked, right . By this article, you are thinking what is this . What is this piece . Herb matthews was a reporter for the New York Times. He wrote a february 24, 1957 front p
Effective at noon tomorrow. Timothy hi. Im tim naftali. Im director of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum in california its my honor and privilege to take you on a tour today of our now new watergate gallery. This was a challenge for us. I was asked to produce the gallery. It was one of my responsibilities when i joined the National Archives in 2006. Im a professional historian, but we professional historians write books. We generally dont do museum exhibits. So this is a challenge in public history. In other words, taking information and making it accessible to people who havent had a chance to prep for an exam before they walk into a new gallery. The other big challenge is we inherited the National Archives took over the private Nixon Library. It had been run from 1990 to 2007 by the private nixon foundation. We became responsible and one of the jobs was to make it a nonpartisan institution. We inherited a museum that was produced in the preweb period. So it lacked th