[inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome to the main event, the last program of the evening here in the ballroom. My name is ronald elving. I am an editor, correspondent podcast at npr and also a fulltime, thank you, and also a fulltime faculty member at American University school of public affairs. It is my very great pleasure to. Be here this evening with John Aloysius farrell, jack farrellja to his friends, and he has written his third book. His first book was called clarence darrow, attorney for the damned. I think you should buy that book just for the title. Second book was called tip oneill and the democratic century. And then he turned to Richard D Nixon the life. Because such a popular character. Because of that trajectory i have to ask, what major turn to dick nixon . I was drawn to his story. The original subtitle for the book was Richard Nixon, an american tragedy. And that was struck as it did the Research People like Henry Kissinger and Elliott Richardson would writ
Plus since its a threeday holiday weekend, book tv is onon for three days we will re air the entire festival, 8 30 a. M. On monday labor day. That is whats coming up. Now we have one more author speaking tonight and we will go back up into the history and biography room here at the Convention Center and this will be John Aloysius farrell talking about Richard Nixon. Book tv, live coverage. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome to the main event, the last program of the evening here in the ballroom. My name is ron, i am an editor corresponded at npr and also aha fulltime faculty member at American University of school of public affairs. It is my great pleasure to be here this evening with John Aloysius, jack farrell to his friends. He has written his third book. His first book was called clarence, attorney for the damned. I think you should buy that book just for the title. The second book was the democratic century and then he turned to Richard Nixon, the life. Is such just b
Items on Congress Todo list along with Harvey Relief fund and can program, things that threaten to divide republicans in d. C. Even further. Well look how it plays out. New reports that a defiant north korea is getting ready for more missile tests as they threaten to send quote, gift packages to the u. S. The latest on all of this, and a lot more. Melissa all the new threats from north korea helping to fuel a big selloff on wall street. Also the storm not helping. A lot of factors. The dow snapping a fourday winning streak. United technologies, Goldman Sachs, travelers leading blue chips lower. Gold and oil are rallying. Phil flynn watching all of it from the cme. Nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole, go to you first. What is the key thing driving this off . There are a lot of factors out there. The debt ceiling, everything that has to be done in washington, theres a lot . That is part of the noise. So many different elements the market had to digest today.
Be here this evening with johnai farrell. Jack farrell to his friends. And he has written his third book, his first book was calledl clarence dar darrow, attorney for the dammed and the second book was tip oneill, and then he turned to Richmond Nixon Richard Nixon, the life. He. Pause hi is such a popular character. Because of that that trajectory i have to ask what made you turn to dick nixon . N i was drawn to his story. The original subtitle for the book was Richard Nixon, an american tragedy, and i was struck as i did the research i that people like Henry Kissinger and Elliott Richardson and would wright in the diaries and as watergate was collapsing around him they would say, this is really like classic greek tragedy, shakespearean scene of someone who has so many gifts, and yet this amazing tragic flaw which brought him down in quite a shakespearean manner. He was always whispering in his own ear, youre not good enough. They hate you. Theyre against me. And in the end it destroye
Good evening. Im not sure the microphone is on, can you hear me . You can . Great. My name is Vanessa Beasley and im the dean of them at Vanderbilt University. Tonight its my Great Fortune to welcome you to this panel, the wonderful discussion that will have about the presidency of Richard Nixon. Im also happy to invite you to a conversation which will have on that same theme and question. Before we get started, in earnest though, it is fitting that we take a moment to remember the space that were in and who founded it. Tonight we are gathered in the First Amendment center in Vanderbilt University which was founded by. [inaudible] you may not remember him or be aware ofs legacy but he served as 43 years as an awardwinning journalist for the tennessean. As retirement he was editor, publisher and ceo. In 1982, he became the founding editorial director of usa today. He served in that position for a decade. He left journalism in the early 60s to serve in the Us Justice Department as Admini