germany. he received a great deal of the money that german ambassador had to spread, and tom tunney had to follow him around. ultimately, he gets the information on him and he discovers, he goes up to his apartment up by columbia university, and he has a secret diary where he s recorded in german and in english meticulous prussian fashion, how he superintends hspends his day, everyone he meets with, all the things he wants to do, that he s going to stop smoking, stop drinking, and by the way, i m also going to place a bomb on this ship on such and such a date. his key operative are he gives code names to d-1, d-2, d-3. part of the story that i tell in dark invasion is how tunney and his men track down these various operatives once they have this code book and how they, too, have to break this code and find these people. yeah, fdr was undersecretary of the navy. he had his own private force of enforcement and investigators. i know that he was basically tracking down the immo
follow him around. ultimately, he gets the information on him and he discovers, he goes up to his apartment up by columbia university, and he has a secret diary where he s recorded in german and in english meticulous prussian fashion, how he superintends hspends his day, everyone he meets with, all the things he wants to do, that he s going to stop smoking, stop drinking, and by the way, i m also going to place a bomb on this ship on such and such a date. his key operative are he gives code names to d-1, d-2, d-3. part of the story that i tell in dark invasion is how tunney and his men track down these various operatives once they have this code book and how they, too, have to break this code and find these people. yeah, fdr was undersecretary of the navy. he had his own private force of enforcement and investigators. i know that he was basically tracking down the immorality of the american naval people and he got censured by the congress for doing that, which wasn t though
well, there s been about five decades of votes have mostly repeat that most of us getting for a textbook until now. finally we have got a book. we been waiting five decades for this because all of the books this one goes back and looks at the cases. the author, no introduction can do it justice, but i have to say a couple things. he wrote a book in 1968 called the future of conservatives and were the fourth defending final chapter was the rise of reagan, two years into his first term as governor, 12 years away from being president. he s been ahead of the curve for a very long time and continues to be so. he interviewed one of maccarthy suspects indicating as a reporter in the 50s. i got to do a little piece of this. they manage to get one of the files on the part the suspect from fbi and was wheeled out in a shopping cart. these and gentlemen, it s hard to forget anybody wheeled in a shopping cart. that is a visual that stays with you. he is a college curriculum as it shoul
creates a literary and philosophical interview with whittaker chambers. in odyssey we see chambers again bear his soul. to young admirer, friend and colleague. i was struck, most of all by the deep emotional intensity and raw humanity that flows, of so many of these pages. amen is trying to account to himself and two world how he made his choices, where he fell and where he blundered, but also there is no going back, doing the right thing can still mean anything, not just for his own soul but his family, couny and generation. bill buckley as some of you know was a dramatic emotional man, very much so. it is not surprising to me chambers s odyssey moves bill profoundly. as my students know, bill buckley had many influences but the common in his life that was chambers certainly ranks as the most unexpected. the one to follow last year, at yale,. to help us get started today, who know much about the suspect. we had worked sitting in the middle, is distinguished fellow and conser
couple of weeks to build buckley s anti communism as a principal and philosophical position. bill buckley once told me late in his wife that his most important book may have been odyssey of a friend, a book in which buckley and characteristically barely says or write anything, but in which he creates a sort of literary and philosophical interview with whitaker chambers. in odyssey, we see chambers again bare his soul, this time directly to young admirers, friends and colleagues. revisiting parts of these books in preparation for this conference i was struck most of all by the deep emotional intensity and raw humanity that flows out of so many of these pages. a man is trying to account to himself and to the world how he made his choices, where he fell and where he blundered but also the very no going back, how doing the right thing can mean everything and not just for his own soul but for his family, country and generation. bill buckley as some of you know was a dramatic and e