Stephen hess talks about the relationship between president nixon and his onetime adviser Daniel Patrick moynihan. This is a little under an hour. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Few name is Jonathan Movroydis im director of communications at the Richard Nixon foundation. Welcome to the president ial library on the occasion of the president s 10 2nd birthday. Before we start, i just wanted to say that todays a free admission day, so i encourage you to visit the white house right across the way. Take that in, also visit the memorial sites and visit the galleries to learn about the life of this extraordinary man. Who became president of the United States. Another extraordinary man is stephen heads hess who can our nixon legacy lecturer today. Mr. Hess began his career in the Eisenhower Administration as a speech writer, and he joined president nixon for his 1962 california gubernatorial bid. He returned to the white house in 1969 as the chief of staff of to Daniel Patrick moyni
Hijackers. The government to government relationship have been ok, but this is a decided for turn. I am told im going to go to represent the president in saudi arabia. I have never been. I called everybody. The state department, cia, everybody to get me ready. Their consistent and one thing, absolutely you cant go. The saudis will view it as an insult because you are a woman. How would i know . I dutifully screw up my courage and wait for the right moment to praise president bush privately and basically say to him, look, this is what i have been told. Myre not going to hurt feelings. Maybe this is really important. Maybe it is better if you send someone else. Im happy to bow out. The president , quite irritated, says to me, its not your choice, its mine. And two, what you dont understand about the saudis, they wont care if you kind of four a big purple dinosaur. The fact is, if you come because did he say big purple dinosaur . He did not care what you were. Man or woman. What they care
And really throughout the rest of today. Theres a live look at cape may with slick roads. Rain continuing to come down but our temperatures will head into the 40s for today. So it wont feel quite as bad. But our first alert goes into effect tonight lasting until thursday. The rain is expected to change over to snow messing up the thursday morning commute. We are tracking a change over as we have had a long day of snowfall totals going down. The models disagree but for the most part we are definitely going to see the rain changing over to sleet and snow. So either way its going to be messy. Right now conditions show the rain moving through philadelphia norristown and trenton. Allentown, reading, more moisture is on the way. So heading throughout the rest of today, keep the umbrella handy. You wont need them until after 10 00 to 11 00. Then we start to see the changeover from rain to sleet to snow. Ill let you know how much snow we expect to get coming up in my full forecast. But for now
Same with narratives. I think its right that, for example, Frederick Douglass and harry jacobs did they really do stand out intrinsically a little more than i read some of these narratives. Theres a lot of thickness and energy and subversive energy in those two spectrums in particular and certain other works, were some of the others are very interesting and important in their own way, that may be lacking density a richness that you do find in Frederick Douglass. So anyway. Some texts are better than others. I am not [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] and however and dirt outside. The thing is kind of throw it out there and hope for the best. When i published a conviction back back in 81, price books back in. Its about 300 or 350, Something Like that. They can barely sell it to libraries. The price of the book as well. And yet, you have to publish a book. Its harder and harder to get reviews for University Press books. Even in scholarly journals, the whole thing is shifting, but part o
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