The people who stayed fell in love with the community and adopted it as their hometown. Many extremely wealthy people stayed at the hotter hotel. Potter hotel. We had this remarkable open beachfront. You will not find condominium apartments or hotels right on the beachfront. Its open public land because some of these people bought the land and gave it to the city so it would always the open for the public to enjoy. Over the years, tourism has changed dramatically. The original people who came her captive audiences. There were a lot of things created to keep them here and happy. Once the automobile came, people were free to stay and then take all. We had a more transient type of tourists coming. Now we have people coming just for the weekend. They can drive up and just spend a weekend. Other people came in for just a couple of days. Our biggest industry is tourism and rely on tourists to come here and tell their friends how great Santa Barbara was. Our city staff traveling to Santa Barb
As a tourist, as a former resident of washington, d. C. And a resident of other parts of the United States, and its just such an honor and a pleasure to be here as a speaker and to talk about my book pivotal tuesdays. Im also so pleased that you all exhibited this interest in a such an obscure subject that no one seems to pay any attention to, president ial elections. Why cant we get the papers to write about president ial candidates, i dont know. But more seriously, were more than a year away from election day. 2016. Or maybe less than a year now, arent we . But we have already seen some remarkable moments emerge in this election cycle. We have had a huge celebrity who put the political establishment on the run, a whole slew of outsider candidates on both the right and the left ends of the political spectrum. Were seeing how new media, social media is changing campaigning, changing the way candidates and the campaigns communicate to voters, the way in which voters interact with one an
War games that were waged, you know, between allied commanders, nato warsaw pact, the exchange of Nuclear Weapons was off the charts. The tactical Nuclear Weapons would be expanded to the point where in three or four days hundreds of them would be fired by both sides. So what were seeing in these kind of books i met hackett before he died, a great officer, captured at arnham, et cetera. But here hes writing a book about conventionally stopping the soviets. And i think there was sort of a fantasy about that, that we frankly still live with. We still have Nuclear Weapons in the world. We still are numb to this. And i wonder what you think about that. Because the reality is that when the war games occurred in classified settings, they would just shoot those damn things off and destroy humanity. Those god damn things off and destroy humanity. Thats not necessarily reflected in sort of techno porn books like clancy does, which are basically feel good things that sort of america wins. The ba
And had much stronger views about what should be done than and he thought that taft was just a little too much of a status quo guy. Yeah. Yes . Sometimes people think of the word pivotal as synonymous for the phrase turning point. Uhhuh. I was a little surprised you didnt mention that starting in 1932, democrats had a plurality or a majority in seven of the next nine president ial campaigns. Yeah. Starting in 1968, republicans had a plurality or a majority in five of the next six president ial campaigns. Uhhuh. And starting in 1992 democrats again had plurality or majority in five of the next six president ial campaigns. But thats not my question. My question really is, my question really is, is there something about substantial third Party Candidacies that exemplify pivotal election and should we expect this coming election will be pivotal only if there is a substantial thirdparty candidacy and probably not otherwise . Thats a thats a super question. I that is that is i hadnt thought
Who we have here with us. We are pleased to have Annie Jacobsen at the spy museum, investigative journalist and bestselling author who writes books about war, weapons and government secrecy, not to mention intelligence. Her 2011 nonfiction bestseller, area 51 an uncensored history of americas top military base, has been published in five languages as has her 2014 nonfiction bestseller, operation paper clip the secret Intelligence Program that brought nazi scientists to america. The boston globe and apple itunes told operation paper clip as one of the best books of 2014. Her newest book, the pentagons book an uncensored history of darpa, was published on tuesday. And of after reading it, im fairly sure it wont take long before it joins your other two books as a bestseller. Thank you, annie, for coming to the International Spy museum. Thank you for having me. Do you have on your book shelf at home copies of your books in all five languages . The volume okay . Yeah. Okay. Do you have copi