Constitutional convention, he tried to lead by conciliation, by listening, by cooperation. At the Constitutional Convention, he listened to everyone, he met with people at night, he worked out compromises. Sure, some did not go along. There were people he broke with like george mason. He brought enough together to work across lines. It was always shifting alliances. But this was not the dream he had. Its what we got though. Brian how much time have you spent at mount vernon to do your books the last couple of years . Prof. Larson i have been fortunate to be the good Great Library fellow. If you do not think something is a treat, to live in the residence and get up before the tourist, and be there after the tourists leave. Bring out my notebook, work on pages, experience, see the view that washington saw when i was , when he was him talking about this thing, i could work on this thing, too. That sort of experience, you know, it does not get better than that. Brian if you are in residenc
Constitutional convention, he tried to lead by conciliation, by listening, by cooperation. At the Constitutional Convention, he listened to everyone, he met with people at night, he worked out compromises. Sure, some did not go along. There were people he broke with like george mason. He brought enough together to work across lines. It was always shifting alliances. But this was not the dream he had. Its what we got though. Brian how much time have you spent at mount vernon to do your books the last couple of years . Prof. Larson i have been fortunate to be the good Great Library fellow. If you do not think something is a treat, to live in the residence and get up before the tourist, and be there after the tourists leave. Bring out my notebook, work on pages, experience, see the view that washington saw when i was , when he was him talking about this thing, i could work on this thing, too. That sort of experience, you know, it does not get better than that. Brian if you are in residenc
Constitutional convention, he tried to lead by conciliation, by listening, by cooperation. At the Constitutional Convention, he listened to everyone, he met with people at night, he worked out compromises. Sure, some did not go along. There were people he broke with like george mason. He brought enough together to work across lines. It was always shifting alliances. But this was not the dream he had. Its what we got though. Brian how much time have you spent at mount vernon to do your books the last couple of years . Prof. Larson i have been fortunate to be the good Great Library fellow. If you do not think something is a treat, to live in the residence and get up before the tourist, and be there after the tourists leave. Bring out my notebook, work on pages, experience, see the view that washington saw when i was , when he was him talking about this thing, i could work on this thing, too. That sort of experience, you know, it does not get better than that. Brian if you are in residenc
Legislative advisor and lobbyist for kissinger really by default because there was no such thing on the National Security council at the time. And when dick, and i was assistant to dick, when he took over the overall, that was all full of congressional relations because the subcommittee, the Foreign Affairs committee was holding a series of hearings, a major series of hearings on foreign commitments and overseas commitments of which the bases were a central part. So i became by default when dick left, the base study was my portfolio. I spent half of my time on the hell on what became a hill on what became a major onslaught on the vietnam policy. This was theforum for the end the war group at the time. And gradually, since i was the only one doing that, anything that ended up coming ended up having to do with congress ended up on my desk. Dick kaegel big portfolio when he left and everybody else was so busy in the National Security council with their own portfolios that suddenly when he
Left, the base study was my portfolio. So i found myself spending half of my time on the hill on what became a major onslaught against the administrations the vietnam policy. This was sort of the forum for the end the war group at the time. And so gradually, since i was the only one doing that, anything that came up having to do with congress ended up on my desk. It was an opportunity for me because dick kaegel had a big portfolio when he left and everybody else was so busy in the National Security council with their own portfolios that suddenly when dick departed i was the only guy there with the inbox. So i ended up working on all of the classified issues, the war powers amendment and the european troop level reductions initiatives. It became a very busy time. It was a great experience for me. It was a great opportunity because by default i was the congressional relations person. And i stayed as henrys hill advisor for, until he left the white house, basically. You mentioned that you