f. kennedy because i think he was a different and in the fall of 62 from the spring of 61. khrushchev did not know that. that was a grave mistake. he had become to understand it. great commentary timesman kennedy supported him come on everybody else ran kennedy would not support it. he told me he had a remarkable conversation, where he said this is what you should do. he said the, talk to the president. don t talk to me. so it was quite clear that kennedy was beginning to shift, but he was beginning to shift in the way that none of the people around him quite understood and then did not become obvious. i thank you very much for coming and for your attention. i m very honored really that you grow questions and thought to this meeting because this is a very personal memoir for me as well as a political book in research work. so it s a mix and scholarship and not a biography. and it s nice to see that people take it seriously. thank you very much. [applause] thank you very muc
tuskegee airmen work. the national park service dedicated a significant amount of money to interviewing the surviving tuskegee mn to work those in to programs to find information museum architects needed as they were rehabing structures at the national historic site and create this repository of tuskegee history for when there will not just the tuskegee airmen to talk about what this experience was about. we recorded 826 oral history interviews and those interviews formed the core of this book. it is a narrative history of the experience. i tried to explain who and what were responsible for the remarkable changes african-americans in particular but american society as a whole went through in world war ii period. using the tuskegee airmen as an example. to explain what was responsible for that change and using the words of the tuskegee airmen themselves what was like to ride that change and i hope i have been able to accomplish that in the book. i would like to begin by giving
franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum. wait a second. i would like to welcome you to the eighth annual roosevelt reading festival. i would like to welcome c-span s booktv which is broadcasting this program this morning. franklin roosevelt planned for the roosevelt library to become the premier research institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. the research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries and this year s group of others reflects a wide variety of research done here. we are delighted to highlight these others s works at botox for route the year, especially at this hour annual meeting festival. let me quickly go over the format for the festival s current sessions. at the top of each hour a session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a ten minute question and answer period and authors move on to the tables in the library where you can purchase your books and have the author s son them. of the top of the n
thank you so much for coming out. thank you c-span and the viewers at home. we love you. thank you for being here. [laughter] i cannot stop grinning because there is so much of here tonight it is unbelievable. we have a bunch of my students here. [applause] we have little the coaches coaches little league coaches. . . what i want to do tonight, i just want to set up a few of these passages and give you a brief introduction and i will read a couple of short things and then we will do a little q&a. a way you can think about the story is stories really kind of like bull durham and tel aviv. [laughter] that is one good way to think about it. irresolvable durum stories in there. there is the antics, and the parting and the knucklehead move that any minor league they spoke game, anything like that. it is in tel aviv. for me that was a really special part about it. it wasn t just a slow but baseball in the holy land a place that i was passionate about. i have been out of baseball
[laughter] she didn t want to make her debut, she was afraid she wouldn t be popular. her mother had been one of the great beauties of new york society, and apparently when eleanor was a little girl, her mother said something like, well, you better be good because you certainly aren t beautiful. and eleanor did not have good memories of her mother, the love she got as a child came from her father. but then, of course, he was a desolate individual who die inside a drunken stupor, a fire involved at the home of a mistress. and he was a disgrace to that side of the family. .. this book is part of the university press modern first lady series. visit kansaspress.edu. now booktv begins live coverage of the 2,011 roosevelt reading festival. thanks for joining is. for the next seven hours we will discover presentations from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. coming up in a couple minutes, todd moye on the tuskegee of world war 2. and