Years. Three years is absolutely nothing. It is absolutely remarkable. The truth is from here on in, the germans and italians have no answer to this. It is not a spoiler alert, i dont think, to tell you that the allies did prevail. The path was long and rocky and bloody and bitter, and that is for me to write about in the final volume. I leave you here on the cusp of operation husky in the summer of 1943. Thank you very much. [applause] im afraid weve run out of time. James im sorry about the questions. Its a big subject. Im happy to stay around afterwards. If anyone has anything, i am happy to answer. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] interested in American History tv . Visit our website, www. Cspan. Org history. Atrican history tv www. Cspan. Org history. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Pub
Gilding so many objects obviously gave the great opulence but it is not gold. Gold. Is not pure as you look at the furnishings on the house, you see a lot of gilding. Gilding so many objects and architectural elements in your house gave you great opulence, but its not pure gold. It is on the surface. So, that sort of translates to the period where you have all this amazing wealth and power. But you dont have the european heritage behind it. So, these folks are creating an image of what they wished to be. We live in a democracy. You cannot be an aristocrat in america but you can live like one and live in a house that looks like you are one and dress like one. For balls and dinner parties and to ba person of leisure like someone from europe, from the aristocracy. The story of this house is a lot of that the gilded age story of people accumulating fabulous wealth and choosing to live, to model their lives on the people they are sort of fascinated by. Were at staatsburg state Historic Site
Gilding so many objects obviously gave the great opulence but it is not gold. Gold. Is not pure as you look at the furnishings on the house, you see a lot of gilding. Gilding so many objects and architectural elements in your house gave you great opulence, but its not pure gold. It is on the surface. So, that sort of translates to the period where you have all this amazing wealth and power. But you dont have the european heritage behind it. So, these folks are creating an image of what they wished to be. We live in a democracy. You cannot be an aristocrat in america but you can live like one and live in a house that looks like you are one and dress like one. For balls and dinner parties and to ba person of leisure like someone from europe, from the aristocracy. The story of this house is a lot of that the gilded age story of people accumulating fabulous wealth and choosing to live, to model their lives on the people they are sort of fascinated by. Were at staatsburg state Historic Site
Gilding so many objects obviously gave the great opulence but it is not gold. Gold. Is not pure as you look at the furnishings on the house, you see a lot of gilding. Gilding so many objects and architectural elements in your house gave you great opulence, but its not pure gold. It is on the surface. So, that sort of translates to the period where you have all this amazing wealth and power. But you dont have the european heritage behind it. So, these folks are creating an image of what they wished to be. We live in a democracy. You cannot be an aristocrat in america but you can live like one and live in a house that looks like you are one and dress like one. For balls and dinner parties and to ba person of leisure like someone from europe, from the aristocracy. The story of this house is a lot of that the gilded age story of people accumulating fabulous wealth and choosing to live, to model their lives on the people they are sort of fascinated by. Were at staatsburg state Historic Site
Im glad you are here on a very important day for the foundation and library. Joining me is michael elzie, National Archives director of the president ial library, and all of those present today. [applause] before he introduced larry hickey larry higby, id like to recognize three of joe and bobs children sue bobs children. Thank you. [applause] two of our Foundation Friends who knew bob alderman well are also here. Now a board member of the next foundation, cindy quinn. [applause] and a truly remarkable and very special woman who was a use it at ucla with bob alterman in the postworld war ii years, she took a train to washington dc after graduating. In july of 1951, rosemary woods hired her to join the staff of the newly elected california senator, Richard Nixon. Since then, shes been a mainstay of every next in office and campaign, friend of the next family. Net and family, and for many years the assistant secretarytreasurer of our foundation board. Her loyalty and dedication, intellig