Worth two large books written by you . I dont know that it is about worthiness. It is more about interest. She was such a multifaceted person, had so many are compliments, too many for her own good really. Because of a lack of what you would call she never got a university degree, she was always afraid at every job that she was going to be found out that she was unqualified. That is why she changed professions so often. I am writing about a woman who had nine lives, not just one. I just got so intrigued by how she got to where she got, which was to congress. You were here 17 years ago. You said that you had done most of the research for the second book. Why did it take 17 years . She kept every scrap from the day she was born practically. Never threw anything away. All her diaries, letters, analysis of herself which she frequently wrote. I had seen them and they were to be shipped to the library of congress for me to work on them there. I didnt have time to xerox everything. I waited a
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That. Please stand adjourned to. [applause] we now have secular norman said of theological board that governs our acceptance or rejection the way our god can speak to people and what impact. We have the Davidians David Koresh says he has special insight to the bible a and this helps other members of the community understand the bible better and allows them to understand they live in the times. That by itself does got saved to be a problem but when it is indeed to other elements, if that trigger of the Law Enforcement concern and the popular press then the idea somebody listening to god is dangerous from the norms and that needs to be policed a and controlled. Stanley weintraub an Award Winning author ruth more than 50 highly acclaimed books including pearl harbor christmas 11 days in december and final victory and i actually remember when i was young undergraduate student reading a young folks on Queen Victoria so a man of many talents. The National Book Award Finalist and a guggenheim
Maybe 10 or 20, chose not to go. They thought the war is over, we lost and they went home back to their farms. How they fared no one knows. Host whether was your reaction in Great Britain to dunkirk . Guest churchill and churchill did this he made a defeat sound as if it was the ost heroic and he saeid evacuations, retreats are not victories, he was clear on this. But the way he said it made dunkirk sound like a heroic victory. And the british people came away saying, well, if we can do that, we can bloody well whip the hun. Well, they had it backwards. They were running, swimming literally, home without their weapons, without their tanks and jeeps they didnt have generals then but trucks and rifles. They came back soaking wet with no weapons and church ill is telling the paoeeople that wer now building up what will be the finest army in europe and we will go back. Host in 1940, mid 1940, he is Prime Minister of Great Britain. How big at that stage is the British Empire . Guest well, i
I found that fascinating. He was a victorian man. He made himself into a classical man. He lived his life in accordance with a precursor to the christian ethic that you find in plato and greek philosophers. This godless ethic. I found that fascinating. I would enjoy talking with him about that. And then lets see. The second front. I would like to have a final word, because we americans have set him up with at one point, almost cowardly in his aversion to the second front. What does that mean second front . The push from general marshall to go to normandy. 1942, the sooner the better. Franklin roosevelt, general marshall. We have to fight somewhere. It is an election year. Churchill pushed back in 1942 and 1943. The normandy invasion came in 1944. For that, he put it forward for roosevelt and stalin most definitively. I would like to hear him tell me in his own words. In his memoirs, 10 years later writing these, he avoids writing about the squabbles. He does not even mention them. But