[applause] well i hope youre having as much fun as i am at this festival. You know, i always think of students in college a few of you were in college few years ago as best thing to do is to take the take the teacher not the course. And here i think is thing that is fun is to tack these incredible authors to be in a room with them whatever theyre talking about. The only problem with it this with this festival is theres somebody in every room and you want to be with but today we have terrific people who i think, youve heard from them all at one point or o another Douglas Brinkley written biography about more president s than most of us have ever heard of but also done so many other interesting things including among ga gazillion and great space race so be watching for that. And to give you gossip he has basement, basement studio basement studio envy of john who has got that msnbc, and margaret is trying to make the same deal with the cbc. [laughter] of course great history in 1919 that
[applause] and now from the 2018 Rancho Mirage writers festival in california authors and historians john and margaret mcmellon and douglas discuss is their favorite historical figures. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the stage Douglas Brinkley morgan and john with your moderator, jeff. [applause] well i hope youre having as much fun as i am at this festival. You know, i always think of students in college a few of you were in college few years ago as best thing to do is to take the take the teacher not the course. And here i think is thing that is fun is to tack these incredible authors to be in a room with them whatever theyre talking about. The only problem with it this with this festival is theres somebody in every room and you want to be with but today we have terrific people who i think, youve heard from them all at one point or o another Douglas Brinkley written biography about more president s than most of us have ever heard of but also done so many other in
You for coming and or suspended with us. Today we are we are pleased to welcome back to New Hampshire he was hear for several terms as governor and then went on to become George Hw Bushs chief of staff. Please join me in welcoming the indispensable presidency of George Hw Bush governor john hgovernor john h sununu. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Let me thank gibsons for there hospitality. I am an old book and bookstore addict. And i think the way you have been able to handle such breadth of scope and keep it as an intimate facility should satisfy any book addict. I recommend it to my anyone lookinganyone looking for a place to browse and find great stuff to read this is the place to come. I would like to thank you all for taking a bit of time to join us. I wrote the quiet manman because i feel that George Herbert walker bush had in his one term as extraordinary presidency as we have had in modern times. I wanted toi wanted to get between the two covers of the book all of th
Different word in an interview after the election, and its contained in the book. But the fact is that i could tell by looking at him he had really lost a lot of the fire because of what he saw was a campaign being misrun. He tried to get jimmy baker in to fix it up and baker came back too late, i think. Youre all great to come. I thank you very much. Ill hang around and sign some books. But if you like it, please tell your friends. Im just trying to get George Herbert walker bush, the 41st president of the united states, the credit i think he deserves and i think history will give him. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much everybody, for coming. We will be moving now to a signing table over by the door past the register. If youd like to chat with him a little bit more, he will be over there. Please bring your books, i see most of you have them already. If you do not and you want one we have them at the registers. Thank you for coming. [inaudible conversations] see i do as im told.
With, but also disingenuous. But there is a certain masking as well that goes with that. That was that. We brought down the flag end of conversation. The post conversation, we havent talked, for example, do they talk about this as a form of terrorism . I havent seen much discussion about it. My Facebook Page [inaudible] in general i dont think we have that. When abdulazeez, i forgot his first name was caught in tennessee, any time this happens with one of our muslim brothers would go immediately look into what website is elected not. Has he ever googled for a School Project muslim fundamentalism. This must be the root of all of it. I hope some group didnt send him in there. Lets be clear. On his Facebook Page is for aggregation flag on his jacket. Hes 21 years old. The real throwback is unique not just a Confederate Flag. Get the rhodesian flag. That is her white supremacy. He is the lone gunmen who showed up and that was that. Somewhere around there something deeper going on. One of y