Thank you, john. I am delighted to introduce paul , the director of the center for vision and values, which focuses on advancing freedom with christian scholarship. Paul is also a visiting fellow with the Hoover Institution on war, revolution and peace at stanford university. Hes a frequent contributor to msnbc, cspan and fox news. In addition hes written for the New York Times, wall street journal, Political Science quarterly and many other publications. Among the numerous books he has offered are the crusader, Ronald Reagan and the fall of god and of Ronald Reagan, god and george w. William p. Clark, Ronald Reagans top hand. Today i am excited paul will be focusing on his newly released book, dupes however service have been manipulated how progressives have been manipulated for centuries. We are looking forward to hearing your discussion on this aspect of history the prominent role of the duped. Please help me welcome dr. Paul kengor. [applause] thank you, heather. John and everybody
Among the numerous books he has offered are the crusader, Ronald Reagan and the fall of communism, god and of Ronald Reagan, god and george w. Bush, and william p. Clark, Ronald Reagans top hand. Today i am excited paul will be focusing on his newly released book, dupes however service have been manipulated how progressives have been manipulated for centuries. We are looking forward to hearing your discussion on this aspect of history the prominent role of the duped. Please help me welcome dr. Paul kengor. [applause] thank you, heather. John and everybody here heritage, everybody for coming. Lee edwards. I really struggled with how to organize this talk because i turned in the manuscript of two 250,000 words and about 1000 pages, and i think god and Ronald Reagan was around 100,000 words. It gives you an idea of how enormous the task was and how many dupes are out there. I am not joking when i say this could be volume one in a multi volume stat set. I did not know where to stop. There
Floor, where more than 600 guests were waiting. Why did you start it that way, and what were you talking about . Betty well, i wanted to draw the reader into the story, because that was a very important day for the johnsons. Remember, their older daughter was getting married, but it was also one of the worst periods in the presidency. You know, lady bird said that the first two years were wine and roses, and the last years were pure hell. And so, this was a happy family occasion, you could say, in the middle of what was really a devastating period for them. And i wanted to get the reader into the story before i began talking about her childhood, which was extremely troubled, as you know. Brian what else was there about the wedding, that you said in the prologue, that was important . Betty well, i guess for me, what stood out was, she says in her unpublished diary, that as lyndon walked down the aisle, because they are in the big east room for the actual ceremony, with linda on his arm,
At the marriage and Political Partnership between lady bird and Lyndon Johnson. Brian betty boyd caroli, your new book about lady bird and lyndon, you started in the prologue this way. At exactly 4 00 p. M. On december 9, 1964, Lady Bird Johnson started a slow, dignified descent down the wide stairway from the residential quarters of the white house to the state floor, where more than 600 guests were waiting. Why did you start it that way, and what were you talking about . Betty well, i wanted to draw the reader into the story, because that was a very important day for the johnsons. Remember, their older daughter was getting married, but it was also one of the worst periods in the presidency. You know, lady bird said that the first two years were wine and roses, and the last years were pure hell. And so, this was a happy family occasion, you could say, in the middle of what was really a devastating period for them. And i wanted to get the reader into the story before i began talking ab
From the residential quarters of the white house state or, where guests were0 waiting. Betty it was a very important day for the johns. Johnsons. Her daughter was getting married. The first two years were wine and roses, and the last were pure hell. This was the middle of what was a devastating. Devastating period. I want to get the reader into her story, before talking about her troubled childhood. Brian what else was there about the wedding, you said, that was important . Betty for me, what stood out was she said in her unpublished diaries that as lyndon walked birdthe aisle, lady was not looking at her daughter, but lyndon. She noticed his hair was grayer. Patent forenormous her to make, that her eyes were not on the daughter, but the husband. Brian what was the symbolism that is a johnson left the reception the flight to texas fly to texas . Betty i found that very hard to explain, how a father could leave her daughters reception at his daughters reception a few minutes after it fi