Questions. So keep your questions that you have in mind for the first and second speaker, or after the third speaker. I will introduce them briefly. All three of them. And then have an opportunity to say a few more words about each as they begin their talks. The first book is a biography of lincoln, subtitled the man who saved america. Say a few more words about each and it is for the general reader. The author, david, will show, has some astonishing illustrations. The second book, by Elizabeth Smith brownstein, an experienced washington journalist, talks about what is today called president lincolns cottage. It was the other white house for lincoln and mary lincoln during three of the summers that they were occupying the white house the rest of the year. A third is carl adams, who has just moved to the washington, d. C. Area from illinois, where he did Landmark Research on the case of a young slave named nance or nancy, who was freed as the result of a lawsuit filed by Abraham Lincoln
In new york. [inaudible] as most shes a good writer, articles appear regulate in the near times, the wall street journal, the newsweek and many other publications. Her book was published on the cnn website as a source of authoritative information on current Political Developments in russia. Fortunately, or rather unfortunate because [inaudible] the publication of this book is timely. Because of this conflict we are witnessing propaganda. How our government justifies its action in ukraine [inaudible] and how typical russian when people tend to believe, is being criticized. This book explains why all that happen. And guides to russian peoples minds which are still not free from any kind of invisible internal [inaudible] so please welcome to the stage with nina khrushcheva. [applause] thank you very much. The introduction is certainly very much better than much more than i deserve, but thank you. Thank you, all of you, for being here. Is an incredible honor. I was talking to somebody toda
Friends and intimates and developed a level of selfreliance that increased over the course of a life time and career. Elenor said he had no real confidants. Not me either. A speech writer for fdr was a very asstute observer of rogues roosevelt and wrote the classic bioography of roosevelt and hopkins. That is a bible in fdr history. He got to know roosevelt well. He said he has a thickly forestly interior. He didnt want anyone to penetrate that force to see what was going on inside. We was probably the most solitary president we have ever had. This is the contradiction that is fdr and wife Frances Perkins was such a complicated man and theres no episode in his presidency or his life which underscore is this duality more than this type does. Four days before the Chicago Convention opened on july 11th, 1940, Franklin Roosevelt called Felix Frankfurter down from the Supreme Court. They had a two hour session in the oval study adjacent to the president s bedroom on the second floor of the
And more dearly paid his father, my birth great grandfather, because suddenly in the story the redric of russia today and the reason Nikita Khrushchev, which i think the greatest thing he did was deannounce stallin during the secret speech and later on wi. It is no longer seen as an act of brave. Instead it is dismissed as a simple act of political revenge. And then the story goes because russians love literature and they are great at inventing stories. That is why they are so good at propaganda because all that is is inventing stories. As the story goes today, if it were not my grandfather or family i would say that is a great invention and reads like a good detective novel. And the story goes today that when stalin discovered that khrushchev was a trader and he already died and they are dockments he died an march 11, 1943. And stalin discovered instead of him dying he was actually defective to the nazis. He was a Fighter Pilot and flew soviet fighter jet. So the story goes, the new s
Started by washington and continued by jefferson became pa paramount to law. It was a deeply respected practice and very few considered challenging and no one had succeeded. He was going to retire because he said that he was tired and he was broke. And he was both. He had already designed and was then building the first president ial library in america in hyde park new york which has been restored. I urge you to go see that. It is a fabulous experience. He built a retreat called top cottage at hyde park where he could get away from visitors he knew would come. He signed a contract to write regular articles and was going to write his memoirs and two of the top aids were going to come do this. He was thinking about retirement and he was enjoying. There were third term rumbles about whether or not he might run. But nothing to it. He didnt give it any serious attention. Then as kevin mentioned at the beginning of the book he was woken in the middle of the night, september 1st, 1939 to be t