As we continue our celebration of our 2015 celebration of the 125th anniversary of dwight david eisenhower. We are grateful for the cosponsorship of this series made possible by the wt temper foundation and the eisenhower president ial Library Museum and boyhood home. The associate director is here with us tonight. He will be speaking in the library october 13, tuesday at the central library. About the significance of the front tier. President e day before eisenhowers birthday october 14 where he will be giving his talk at the Eisenhower Library in abilene. There is a party. You are invited to the party on the 14th as well. We are extremely happy to have professor yanek mieczkowsk here tonight to talk about ike and. Net. One of my first memories is of 1956rents watching the Republican Convention on tv and my mother arguing with my father that since he was point to vote for eisenhower you should register as republican. Which he was not at that point. Not everybody liked ike at that time
The associate director is here with us tonight. He will be speaking in the library october 13, tuesday at the central library. About the significance of the frontier. That is one day before president eisenhowers birthday october 14 where he will be giving his talk at the Eisenhower Library in abilene. There is a party. You are invited to the party on the 14th as well. We are extremely happy to have professor yanek mieczkowsk here tonight to talk about ike and. Net. One of my first memories is of my parents watching the 1956 Republican Convention on tv and my mother arguing with my father that since he was point to vote for eisenhower you should register as republican. Which he was not at that point. Not everybody liked ike at that time. Joe mccarthy. The John Birch Society said he was a communist. Russell kirk said ike is not a communist. He is the golfer. That image of ike on the golf course, not accomplishing very much. Then things likes but the missile gap have affected our view of
Josh koerner, he helped write to a morris. Bookhen bill wrote his own on eisenhowers presence is a classic, including on the eisenhower presidency. Was lucky to i know him. He lived in connecticut. I would go visit him. He was my goto guy on eisenhower. When i was going through documents or literature, i could see bill and have him answer my questions. He helped me to know and understand eisenhower. One of the most rewarding and challenging parts of writing any historical figure, especially one no longer around like eisenhower, is the chance to decipher that persons essence. Bill help me do that. He helped me know and understand eisenhower. Understanding four key eisenhower traits and their role in the space race. It characterizes presidency as a whole. Concentrate onld four. I am sort of violating a rule of good lecturers and human learning. Human brain is physiologically wellsuited to grouping things in threes. That is why there are three numbers in an area code, there are three para
Pluralism. Look for these titles in bookstores this coming we can watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv. Org. You are watching booktv. Next George Morgan tells the story of his mother, Mary Sherman Morgan, the first female Rocket Scientist in the United States and inventor of hydyne, the propellant that boosted americas first satellite into orbit. The program Mary Sherman Morgan worked on was highly secret so her family had little idea of her accomplishments until after her death. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you very much. I would like to thank the bookstore for inviting me this evening. I have a few prepared remarks which will include reading a few passages from the book. These remarks will basically tell you a little bit about my mother and her story and the book came to be. I have a question for you. It is a rhetorical question so you dont have to answer. Question is this. How much do you really know about your parents . When i was growing u
Cosmosphere. Did not have a one bit of understanding of Space Exploration when i started here so early on Read Everything i could and today really enjoy early man Space Exploration. So for those of you who havent been to the cosmosphere. That mission was 60 years old yesterday. And so i had a big celebration but here today to talk about eisenhowers role in developing nasa. A lot of people dont really understand the role. The eisenhowers development of the creation of nasa. So i think its an incredibly important topic and the development of nasa something that obviously still resonates today as Space Exploration continues. To go forward but before nasa started the first entity that had oversight of aeronautics in this country was the naca the National Advisory council for aeronautics. It was developed in 1915 luminaries such as the Wright Brothers were part of that initial group, and it was developed to determine or look at how the United States could develop aeronautics coming out of w