Out for that. You can purchase copies of of bears and ballots from our link in the chat and we provided a link on our website and jessica and heather are talking, please your questions to jessica or heather. We had a q a feature in the bottom of your screen. You will get to as many of those as time allows. Heather lende as contributed as a and pr and National Geographic outlets among other newspapers andmagazines. Shes the author of the bestselling book find the good, take good care of the garden and the dog and if you lived here i know your name you and i shall be discussing herlatest book , of bears and ballots an alaskan adventure into smalltown politics. Heather will be interviewed by jessica hammer, jessica is the author of the novel magnetic girl, author of the southern book, also a nominee for the crisis section, from invisible sisters was named one of the all georgians should read and her craft guide breathing fire, a guide to writing about it was praised by vanity fair and oth
I am so glad you are here tonight. I am going to say a few words about before i welcome to knights guests. For a moment of history the strand was founded 93 years ago by my grandfather, benjamin bass. [applause] he founded this story in an area that was known as book row come along fourth avenue, just along the corner from here. It was the storm of the depression come and he defied the odds by surviving while all the other fortier bookstores them book row shuddered. The store was then passed on to my late father, fred who grew the story to his scale and popularity he never thought possible. Now, i am the owner and some critics said as a woman its going to be hard to run the store and i get wiped out in this digital age. So, i want to thank you, and the book Living Community on this audience of for helping not only survive, but thrive through the ages. [applause] it is impossible to read to knights book, watergate girl without drawing parallel to todays headlines. At the crossroads of t
Although now, we look back and say it is so obvious, at the time there was nothing obvious about it. It could have ended up being nothing, but as it worked out and turned out to be a very significant event. Im very happy i did have the opportunity. Host whod you know among the earliest recruits . Were some of your friends recruited . Ms. Winebanks yes. Wasirst boss, charles ross, one of my colleagues. He was on the Campaign Contribution team. In terms of the coverup up, i did not know anyone when i first started. After the number of years of 24 hour days, seven days a week, i know them all very, very well. Host tell us about the state of the case. It was a long time ago. The you started your job, assistant attorney, assistant u. S. Attorneys were working what was the state of the case . Do you remember . Ms. Winebanks there really was not much when we took over, but the hearings had started and john dean was soon to testify, shortly after we were formed, he testified. And his testimony
Welcome to the National Press club. I covered as a very young reporter, a baby good evening. Welcome to the National Press club. I covered watergate as a very young reporter, a baby reporter, they just let me come in diapers. I covered from the hearings to the trials. I am especially elated to be here this evening i went like to welcome cspan and the cspan audience. This is being filmed for cspans American History tv. Our program tonight marks the 50th anniversary of the saturday night massacre that ultimately led to president nixons resignation in the scandal. It was a significant event in the nations political history to say the least. The National Press club played an Important Role on it, special prosecutor cox, who i would later be lucky enough to become friends with held his News Conference here on the afternoon of october 20th, right in the clubs ballroom. It was at that Historic Press conference that he insisted that president nixon turn over the tapes. We will see a clip later
Im glad you are here on a very important day for the foundation and library. Joining me is michael elzie, National Archives director of the president ial library, and all of those present today. [applause] before he introduced larry hickey larry higby, id like to recognize three of joe and bobs children sue bobs children. Thank you. [applause] two of our Foundation Friends who knew bob alderman well are also here. Now a board member of the next foundation, cindy quinn. [applause] and a truly remarkable and very special woman who was a use it at ucla with bob alterman in the postworld war ii years, she took a train to washington dc after graduating. In july of 1951, rosemary woods hired her to join the staff of the newly elected california senator, Richard Nixon. Since then, shes been a mainstay of every next in office and campaign, friend of the next family. Net and family, and for many years the assistant secretarytreasurer of our foundation board. Her loyalty and dedication, intellig