Facebook. Com booktv. Booktv is live from savannah, ga. Home to the annual savannah book festival we will bring you several authors including mike redmond, lily cobble, scott bird, john rizzo and debra solomon. We kickoff live coverage of the savannah book festival with gabriel asherman, author of the loudest voice in the room. Good morning, everyone. My name is alex gold and i am happy to welcome you to the seventh annual savannah book festival presented by Georgia Power. Into our new venue of the Lutheran Church of ascension which is made possible by the generosity of fred and john kane. Many of you have already attended our terrific special events with our opening and keynote addresses. Today your work is cut out for you as you choose which authors to visit during this day that offers dozens of announce writers to established astounding books in the last year. We would like to extend special thanks to our presenting foster, Georgia Power, individual donors who make Saturdays Free ev
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How George Washington transformed the office of the president. All this and more on cspan2 this week and. The full schedule is by the way on booktv. Org. Sandra grimes talk about hunting down and capturing cia mole aldrich ames who compromise the secondlargest number of assets in cia history. Circle of treason the cia account of traitor aldrich ames and the men he betrayed of five c i a principles test with crowding out aldrich ames and build it case against him. This is about an hour. Host we are very fortunate with us to have Sandra Grimes this afternoon. She has quite a remarkable story to tell, a story from inside the cia where she worked for years, hired by the cia right out of college in 1967. Sandy spend two decades rising through the agencys ranks and assignments working against the soviet union and Eastern European countries. She was about to resign in 1991 when she was asked to stay for one more assignment. That assignment involves joining a five person team charged with figu
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These were monthly tea and coffee events. Fabulous scenes that are not reproduced in womens gathering today because times have changed, doubled as and over crowing overflowing ashtrays and martini hours and just sort of being there to support each other and going through something very few will ever experience. The way the wives dont with the pressure was very different. You have the pressure of your husband and the pressure of the media. And the most dreaded moment, even more than the possibility of something going wrong on the launch pad, was opposed flight press conference. This was the moment when all the wives would have to walk out on their suburban lawn, face the cameras and give a statement and receiving very little formal coaching from nasa besides what they heard back in their air force and navy days which was feed your husband a Good Breakfast of steak and eggs so he doesnt get white headed up in the air. These women were basically just told to act pictureperfect and so they