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To direct it in a certain direction that he felt was beneficial for the union. Was he misguided . Very possibly . Was he successful . Absolutely not. But what is important was who this person was and why, unfortunately, he disappeared from everything. The library came up for a title of this program, David Rice Atchison, the president no one knows. And i realized that long ago in another lifetime as a journalist, i actually wrote a curriculum for the newspaper i worked for entitled the exact same thing. However, in learning more about him, maybe the title should be David Rice Atchison, the man, the senator and the president that no one knows. [ laughter ] what i find most interesting about David Rice Atchison and what stirred the creation of our president ial library is besides his 24 hours of infamous stat ....
Related to the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb. Each ill present additionally and then will have questions in the chat box. I hope you enjoy the presentation, and look at our first artifact, but from april shortly after truman became president. Then were going to look at some documents from july. You can see my timeline here, the first five documents were going to show you, and then well have another five to finish off as we get into august. Even some from later that context to this topic. So the first information that truman has about the Manhattan Projects comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on april 12th. This very famous letter some of you are probably familiar with, when the secretary of war writes to truman to tell him about this highly secret matter, as it mentions in that first paragraph. Now stinson it mentioned this after hug inauguration, just in passing, and tell him they need to talk about it ....
Have them here virtually from his home and we are going to talk about his new book about the 1948 election. Were going back 72 years another Election Year. You will be amazed at how it sounds the same in some ways but in some ways very different. The difference is the politicians were all younger than they are today so thats one big difference but a. J. Take it away and tell us about the overview of the book and which is a very good. By the way. Thank you. I like to say couple things first rate thank you so much for having me pay the Commonwealth Club is a wonderful place to be at here we are with a lot of people going through a lot of pain and suffering. Im just reminded why he fell in love with reading when i was six years old. Books can really transport you to another time and place and during all of this is really been a blessing. Regarding my last time with you id star ....
Cloudy start to the day. You can see a little bit of patchy fog out there as we take a view towards San Francisco. High clouds overhead as well, and as we get into the afternoon, a low clouds will return to the coastline as well as an uptick in the onshore breeze. Right now, the winds are light, even calm across the bay area. A pretty start to the day, with temperatures ranging from upper 40s to upper 50s. 46 right now at Half Moon Bay, 54 in livermore and in the north bay 51 in napa. We are going to go above average once again for today, but we are going to be a little bit cooler than yesterday, especially closer to the coast and just inside the bay, where again, we begin to see a transition to that cooler pattern. 78 seven santa rosa for the afternoon, 71 in oakland, 79 for san jose. A better look at the afternoon highs for today and the cooling trend that kicks off coming up ....
Library foundation colleagues, i thank you for coming this evening. And i would like to extend a warm welcome to those who are joining us online as well. I would also like to acknowledge the support of our underwriters for the Kennedy Library forums, the lead sponsor bank of america, the institute, boston globe, infinity, our bookstore has copies of his books available for purchase. This year marks the centennial of John F Kennedys birth as we honor life and legacy during ken ential centennial year and we could not be pleased to honor tonight. Im honored to introduce todays participants in tonights program. Professor of history at bart college and author and editor of 11 books including mcmilan, eisenhower and the cold war and reagan and thatcher, the difficult relationship. I am also deliberated to introduce moderator, Pu ....