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juxtaposition to my grandmother who was a big character in the story it was very and xenophobic so how she shaped my life as well and part of the reason i became an engineer was because of that and in pursuit of a career in the arts early on. in this book you sort of see you are reading i would hope you are reading with the context of this little kid who i am showing you eventually grows up and has this amazing moment in history. wide view open the story with a wave of? host: in some ways she is the cause of a lot of trauma and she was very verbally abusive and very homophobic as i said and xenophobic. but on the flip side of that ironically in some way she made me a writer because she made me were withdrawn and maybe an observer of the world versus a participant. also that led me to become, to learn how to read people. i had to know how to read people to know how to respond and not get called a you know what by her by others. all that power of observation and readi ....
dallas and there s a ranch there and she gets invited to go shooting. so her daughter dresses up in like western gear and apparel has the first kind of teenage romance with a texas guy. and her reception that madame nhu gets from her mother, was very worried about madame nhu s visit to the united states so she posts a state department has had an estimate as has madame nhu really shouldn t come you. i have aren t all that the in these to throw tomatoes after and if they see her to run her over with the car. this is her mother. she does get tomatoes for better. she also gets standing ovations from fordham, from georgetown, from a lot of catholic education speed is good to say, she really mapped out the catholic college and universities, i can or as part of her tour was she presented at that point as her catholicism commune, very important part of her political ideology, if you want to call it that. was she seen in that light, in 1963 in the united states? i assume to th ....
peace with her on her deathbed, so to speak, but at that age she was already in her early 80s, and, you know, again, ilt s als a generational thing, so i didn t officially come out to her like i came out to my mother and the rest of the family. but she always insisted i was a confirmed bachelor but i would have children. at one point she offered me $10,000 to marry someone. this was my grandmother. you didn t know whether to laugh or cry. i wanted to take the money, but then when i said yes, sort of half fooling around, she said, okay, i ll give you 5,000 when you get married, then 2,000 for every time you have a kid. so as i already said, my grandmother was the smartest and dumbest person i ever met in the world. when did you hfirst start what was it about poetry that attracted you? i ve always had a left brain-right brain i ve always delved in both worlds since i was a little kid. some of that is in the book as well, sort of the engineer mind as well as the ar ....
also had had a daughter at 14. so all of those questions led me to pursue them. a very aristocratic family. we need to step back and say exactly who madam nhu was. he brother-in-law, the brother of her husband became president of south vietnam in 1956 or 55. 54 he becomes premier. so madam nhu was the de facto first lady, because the president of south vietnam and there s a few titles before that, but for simplicity we ll calm him the president. he was a bachelor. that makes him sound like he was going to vegas on the weekends, but he was really very moral, he slept on a hardwooden cots. he signpersonally signed entry visas. there s this kind of very catholic austere man who needs a first lady, someone to host the parties and go to the orphanages, host the flower shows. so madam nhu, his younger brother s wife becomes this woman and she s perfect for it. she looks great for the cameras, likes to be out there, and this sort of gives her a voice. all of her life i ....
the appearance of integrity. but coolidge also prized respect for harding. those people weren t condemned yet, innocent until proven guilty and continuity for the people in market. so he kept the cabinet for a while. eventually some people left. the secretary of the interior left. coolidge did have an investigation. he named a bipartisan team to look into corruption in the harding administration. but he thought first of continuity when he became president in august of 1923. who was the secretary of the treasury? that would be andrew mellon who was his and harding s before hoover s after. he is like bernanke though he was treasury secretary, it was said that three presidents served under him. how did that relate to the mellon name that we know now, the mellon bank? mellon was a very wealthy man and he made much of his money which he created an empire in pittsburgh in steel aluminum. he was also what we might call a venture capitalist. he would give a man money ....