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[indiscernible] think you all for being here welcome to the oldest independent bookstore in los angeles. we are pleased to be shared our facility with the los angeles review of books one of its board members john weiner is going to be an enter lock a tour i thought i would tell you this a little bit about who our guests are tonight john who i know is famous for many things he does a book on the 1960s to a publisher i think that s true. he is most famous if anybody needs to know anything about john lennon or the fbi he is your go to person. he spent a decade litigating to get access to this information he is a writer and commentator and a man about town. and a friend of mine. he is going to be talking to a friend of his who is a professor at usc i would say of the two of them that these are serious historians who are not serious about themselves. the work that stephen will be reading or talking about tonight. and perhaps reading from. is a really amazing captivating stor ....
and his family was facing serious financial problems. at this point in his life, he was a man trying the take care of his family. and we get to tell a story here that most people don t know about. welcome to saratoga springs on booktv. located about four hours north of new york city, it has a population of about 27,000. named for the numerous springs in the area, early settlers flocked here to experience the therapeutic effects of the natural mineral waters. today saratoga springs is a popular tourist destination with its spas, revolutionary war history and horse racing. with the help of our spectrum cable partners, for the next 90 minutes we ll learn about the city s history and feature its literary history including andrew mckenna on his battle with opioid addiction. growing up, i thought the person who was addicted to heroin was under a bridge somewhere with, right? and was pushing a shopping cart around or something like that. that s not the case. one of the mos ....
discovered in 1792. it was found to be beneficial for certain diseases. and i d like to say that congress park is a city park developed because of constipation. because that was a disease that itwas most likely used to treat . it was to spur a great development of hotels, boarding houses and businesses generally here in saratoga springs. there was nothing here until the first was discovered. in fact, we think that the mohawk and mohican indians came here only for the mineral springs.it was not a place where they can t particularly. perhaps they hunted here. so the first european americans came here in 1771. probably finding the spring in the course of surveying and providing land that had been very inappropriately taken from the mohawks. so what happened in the very beginning, 1772 was that the first people to come here built long cabins. and anyone who s heard about this medicinal qualities of water made their way here. paid a small sum of money to stay in one of these ....
you feel confident that donald trump did not cheat after 2006? in my book i delve into that. i try to explain to the reader why this happened. i believe that he accepted christ. i quote people that say that. i don t know personally if that s true. and i have no evidence. there s no evidence at all that he has cheated in recent years. certainly since he s been in the white house. i mean, obviously there are many women who have come forward, the 15 who have come forward to say there was all sorts of misconduct from groping, forcible kissing, sexual assault. do you believe those? i want to make clear i don t approve of that in any way, shape or form. i don t approve of stormy daniels in her chosen lifestyle and profession. i have not talked to have the 15 women. i know that i m donald trump s friend as much as i can be. even in my book god and donald trump he is not a perfect person. it is just grappling with the spiritual issues that brought us to this point and r ....
So when Donald Trump came down the escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy on June 16, 2015, and promptly talked about the problems with illegal ....