Including the second sino japanese war that started in 1937 and the u. S. Embargo of Oil Shipments to japan. This hourlong event took place at National Defense university in washington and was organized by the friends of the National World war ii memorial. I am with the world war ii memorial. With our board. Thank you very much for hosting us today. We are favored with an extraordinarily interesting and wonderful lecturer. Dr. Craig symonds, an old friend of mine, who has devoted his life to College Teaching and writing. To be more specific, a professor in the u. S. Naval academy for 30 years, during which time he , is currentlyooks finishing a book about the history of the United States navy in world war ii. The whole thing. And has also written wonderful books, including a biography of general joe johnston. What brought you to dry land for that, sir. Ateral johnston was present the funeral of his great antagonist general sherman. And my right in saying he caught cold and died himself
I am with the world war ii memorial, and i want to thank you for joining us today. We are favored with an extraordinarily interesting, and i think you will agree, wonderful lecturer. Craig simons is a friend of mine , and he has devoted his life to College Teaching and writing. To be more specific, a professor at the u. S. Naval academy or 30 years. During which time, it is a book he has published about 38 books. He is currently finishing a book about the history of the United States navy in world war ii. The whole thing. He has also written some wonderful books including a biography on joe johnston. What brought you onto dry land for that one, sir . [laughter] he was present at the funeral of general sherman. In any case, these kinds of facts attract all kind of historians and antiquarians. We are blessed to have dr. Simons with us and, speaking figuratively, the proudest ribbon on his breast would be his service during the turner revolution. If there are people between the mightf 65
Based on clandestine collection from a variety of sources. Pulling all that information together to give the president what they assess the president needs to know that day about something going on in the world. It might be a crisis, it might be a pending coup. It might be a longerterm issue. Mr. President , you need to be aware of this dynamic. And each day this book is compiled. Its format and delivery style have changed over the decades. Thats where a lot of rich stories in the book come from. Its trying to get objective, timely and, hopefully, accurate analysis of world events to the president of the United States and to whomever the president also designates can receive it, usually just a handful of people. One of the things i was very impressed with was the amount of reasonable care that you did research that you did. I think i itd be interesting to share that with the audience. My stories are boring compared to the wider sweep of history. The book is not a memoir. I interviewed
Psr just Diplomatic Correspondent and jerusalem correspondent. From 1995 to 2001 he served as Moscow Bureau chief and later as Foreign Editor and assisting manager editor for the foreign news. Please join me in welcoming david e. Hoffman to the Louisville Free public library. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you all for coming here tonight. Its a weeknight and i know a lot of you probably have other things to do and its really exciting for an author to come to louisville and see so many people interested. A book takes years and years to write and im going to give you the best of it in 35 minutes and answer your questions. I would like to thank the Louisville Free public library. I would like to thank lisa. I would like to thank Library Foundation for making this talk possible and i hope that after i had spoken for a little while that youll have some questions because i can possibly get everything i wrote in this book into 35 minutes. The book is about spying. A cia man wrote a gener
The president encouraged all of us to spend time with the press because even on an offtherecord, if we couldnt answer their questions, we better go back and do more homework. The last thing ill say, one of my fondest vignettes of the press and reagan was Sam Donaldson, lou cannon of the Washington Post, Andrea Mitchell of nbc news were all fighting about who was going to do the last pool report on air force one or 26,000 as we headed back to california at the end of the reagan presidency. And my lasting memory on a portable typewriter was Sam Donaldson on the floor of air force one typing the final pool report and reagan came back to say thank you. Thats the kind of relationship, even though it gets tough, iran contra, my job in the aftermath of iran contra was to remind reagan before he went within shouting distance of sam or andrea or anybody else, remember if you answer the question on iran contra, you might as well not give the speech youre giving today because nobody is going to c