A think as therapy, but oddly enough ive been writing in a way if i need to explain it to somebody and recently ive had a friend read it and she said you should really think about sharing this with somebody else. Maybe should turn it into some sort of boat. I was like that kind of ridiculous, but i started thinking about it in reworking everything. I thought if i did share with someone i would feel so guilty about sharing everything that i would want to do it under a pen name. I am curious if you ever felt any guilt for the things he wrote and if so, how you decided to be there right under your own name or not to the pen name because in my head im thinking i feel really killed the about right in the same general matter how many people read it i would want to pen name it. Im sorry, did you say you feel guilty . Wow. I dont think ive ever felt guilty about anything ive written. If anything, it has been very cathartic and empowering to go back and revisit my past and make peace with it. S
Resignation. This is about an hour. A testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books books that we all share. Richard nixon is a hard man to let go of. By first i remember as a child in black and white fuzzy television seeing this odd man, he was on a good ticket with general eisenhower and there was some problem taking money from a secret fund. And i thought this is interesting. He never stopped being interesting. Richard nixon was never boring. David mentioned he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. I chronicle in the book beginning with spiro agnew. Remember spiro agnew being in some trouble and i said to my editor at the new yorker, thought lamented and just the legendary William Shawn saying what are you thinking of writing next . I dont know. I have a feeling we are going to change Vice President s and president s within a year. This is labor day of 73. A way out there kind of wild thought at the time. We agreed i would wr
Its the coolest place and i wa reminded these guys are so fortunate to work at the National Conservation training center. Its a really terrific facility. Nice to be back here. Nice to see all of you. I guess and the warmup act for the president ial did a tonight. I promise no spin on a promise to finish intensivists if you cant get enough of politics will deal to go see it, although i dont know who that would be at this point. Im sure we dont want to see the debate comes so we will finish on time for that. Im here to talk about Rachel Carson and bismarck indicated that some of the 27th of december the 50th anniversary of silent spring. She was a famous author before she wrote silent spring. Im going to talk more about that tonight. This is rachel and i love this photograph. This is the frontispiece of the book. I spent seven months trying to find this photograph and arrange to reproduce it in the book. It was made by irving penn, the great 20th century portrait photographer verboten m
The warning about the al qaeda build up one was the photograph of an al qaeda rally. 300 activists waving their guns in the air and calling for the death of the u. S. Ambassador. At the very same time the state department is denying the security for that environment. They also knew that the private life of the ms or stevens was known and used as a targeting device by al qaeda through some of his friends and associates. His schedule was posted on the Al Qaeda Facebook page before the attacks utterly ignored and then we had the account of the attacks and the value that they had been saving for Diplomatic Security personnel. So i dont think that they did. Its in the first half hour of the attack it was separated in a small building which was they were suffocated in the insurgency attackers in the diesel fuel was hit on the grounds of the diplomatic outpost ground and basic the the building on fire when they decided. But the other two die diabetes s later and this was the rolling attack. H
There have been some interesting cases in the history of our armed forces and id like to explore them in further detail. Cspan have you started it yet . Guest just barely scratched the services. Cspan heres the cover of the book are touched by fire about general George Armstrong custer. Our guest is louise barnett. We thank you for joining us. Guest thank you area match. Now, William Souder recounts the life of dick darman. She offered an indictment of insecticides including ddt in her book, silent spring published in 1962. Following the publication, ddt was banned and the Environmental Protection agency created. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of silent spring. This is a little over an hour. [applause] thank you. Thank you overcoming tonight to this wonderful facility. I love coming here. i always remind these guys are so fortunate to work at the National Conservation training center. Its a really terrific facility. Nice to be back here. Nice to see all of y