president eisenhower s treasury and defense quarter is and how their personalities and styles influenced administration policies. both men one with no government experience and the other a former general motors presidents formed business perspective to the cabinet jobs. he is the author of george humphrey, charles wilson and eisenhower s war on spending. the dwight d. eisenhower presidential library hosted this event and provided the video. welcome to our monthly luncheon program with the eisenhower presidential library, i m so thankful that you are here with us today. i m so excited to welcome and james awards in to talk about it with us today. he s going to talk about a little bit of eisenhower s administration members that perhaps we haven t really talked about that much in the past. so james, went on to take it away and tell us a little bit about yourself. well thank you don, thank you samantha. i m really sorry i can t be there today, unfortunately we live in crazy tim
california speaking of where where people are from. which is about halfway between los angeles and san francisco. a nice place to be unless there s a fire going on behind you and which there was a few a few weeks ago. but i m fine and the weather is much better. um, name is jim worthen. i m a native, california. just to summarize i spent my career at the central intelligence agency after after school and that sort of thing and now i write american history with a focus on how personality affects political behavior. and since retiring i ve written three books on that subject. what i ll discuss today is, you know, is it looks at eisenhower s relationships? with two of his more important cabinet members. so one question is how did i get from the cia to eisenhower? well, it s quite a story. here s the short version. at the cia i had several jobs, but the one i think i enjoyed the most was chief of the soviet. or the russian leadership division and our job there was to write biogra
thank you samantha. i m really sorry. i can t be there today. unfortunately, we live in crazy times. so i m here in pismo beach, california speaking of where where people are from. which is about halfway between los angeles and san francisco. a nice place to be unless there s a fire going on behind you and which there was a few a few weeks ago. but i m fine and the weather is much better. um, name is jim worthen. i m a native, california. just to summarize i spent my career at the central intelligence agency after after school and that sort of thing and now i write american history with a focus on how personality affects political behavior. and since retiring i ve written three books on that subject. what i ll discuss today is, you know, is it looks at eisenhower s relationships? with two of his more important cabinet members. so one question is how did i get from the cia to eisenhower? well, it s quite a story. here s the short version. at the cia i had several jobs, but the
but dwight d eisenhower presidential library hosted this event and provided the video. welcome to our monthly lunch and learn program with the eisenhower presidential library. i am so thankful that you are here with us today. i m so excited to welcome james worthen to talk with us today. he s going to talk about a couple of eisenhower administration members that perhaps we haven t really talked about a lot in the past. so james, why don t you take it away and tell us a little bit about yourself. well, thank you dawn. thank you samantha. i m really sorry. i can t be there today. unfortunately, we live in crazy times. so i m here in pismo beach, california speaking of where where people are from. which is about halfway between los angeles and san francisco. a nice place to be unless there s a fire going on behind you and which there was a few a few weeks ago. but i m fine and the weather is much better. um, name is jim worthen. i m a native, california. just to summarize i spen
focuses on international, diplomatic and military history of the 20th century. in particular the era of the world wars and the cold war. and in addition to the age of eisenhower, dr. hitchcock is the author of the bitter road to freedom, a new history of the liberation of europe which was a pulitzer prize finalist and a winner of the george lewis spear prize and was also a financial times best seller in the united kingdom. following dr. hitchcock s remarks, ann compton who you all know will join dr. hitchcock for a conversation on this great biography and the 34th president of the united states. ann is a pioneer of journalism in america. she was the first woman to cover the white house for network television and was on the air for 41 years with abc news. her longevity and her impact are inparalleled. ann s career at abc news span seven presidents of the united states, ten presidential campaigns. she anchored from the white house, from capitol hill, and presidential travel t