Good morning everybody i am jeff urban the education director. On behalf of the library i would like to welcome you to the 16th annual reading festival fdr planned for the library to become the premier Research Institution for setting the entire era. In this years groups. I would encourage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. And if you have not already please make time to see the fdr mighty endeavor. It is dedicated to the special relationship between fdr and churchill leading up. Let me quickly go over the format. You will have as hes been here with us today. In order for us to capture the questions so they can be seen and heard we asked that if you have a question for the author that you please make your way to the microphone and begin the question there. You can purchase your books and have the authors assign them. At the top of the hour the processors pizza itself. It is my pleasure to introduce this sessions author. The author of the girls next door. An officer common nurse
Ago. How many others are left . Patrick im sure there are some of the young men around nixon, what we would call back in those days like Dwight Chapin and others who havent written memoirs yet, but im not sure they are going to. But i do think in terms of a written memoir, this is brian, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and knew it from the beginning. Brian what did you put in this book that you had never talked about before . Patrick well, i put in the origins of the agnew speech my memos on that. There is a number of memos in there then i went to my files and got out that i have never published before a great number of them and theres a description of how i almost defected on the china trip. I was so unhappy with it, and theres also the end of it, you know where you put in that quote by john osborne and it looks so he said, he saw i had seen shelly and me when first day, the Inauguration Day in 1969 looking up at the portico and then he had seen how it all end
Thee is also the end of where you put in the quote about john osborne. Day, the inauguration he was an 1969 june old liberal current margin. He said it almost breaks your heart. All of this is fresh and new. Most of the memorandum had never been published. Reallyat is about is what it was like as a young conservative in the white house trying to do battle for your belief. The transition the party was undergoing. Operated, held the whole thing together until watergate collapsed it. I said this is the time to take on the networks directly, openly, at a high level the way to do it is with a speech by the Vice President of the United States which i will write and it came back, a memo, a photograph of it is in that book, where haldeman wrote back, he has seen, go ahead. That means the president of the United States has seen your memo, go ahead and start writing that speech. I wrote it for about three or four days. I was in touch with the Vice President. I went through three drafts, which is
Pat buchanan and the knowledge of your new look acknowledges of your new book, you wrote this is surely among the last to be written by a confidant who served in the white house from its first to its final days over four decades ago. How many others are left . Im sure there are some of the young man around nickel nixon. Who havent written memoirs yet, but im not sure theyre going to. I do think in terms of a written memoir, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and knew it from the beginning. What you put in this book youve never talked about before . The origins of the agnew speech, my memos on that, theres a number of memos in their i got out that ive never published before and there is a description of how i almost defected on the china trip i was so unhappy with it. End of itlso the where you put in that quote, he said he saw shelley and me on the first day of the Inauguration Day looking at the book looking up the portico and saw how it all ended, he said it alm
Sure. I. Made good evening. Thank you for joining us for tonights program. We are so thrilled to have you here with us tonight. My name is Stephanie Barnett and im the associate director of Public Programs and Community Outreach here at the Greenwich Historical society. And we are so thrilled to have you with us and pleased to present tonights program on gilded age architecture, which is going to precede the highly anticipated series coming to your screen in october, which im sure you may already know. Before we dive into tonights program, ill just review a few housekeeping details. First of all, we like to welcome American History television from cspan, who will be recording tonights program, which is very exciting and we are also are going to finish with the wine and cheese reception back down in the lobby where you came in. So that will be around 7 00. Youll also have the opportunity to buy mr. Dodds book and have it signed by him. While youre enjoying your beverages. And finally, a