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resignation. this is about an hour. .. a testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books books that we all share. richard nixon is a hard man to let go of. by first i remember as a child in black and white fuzzy television seeing this odd man, he was on a good ticket with general eisenhower and there was some problem taking money from a secret fund. and i thought this is interesting. he never stopped being interesting. richard nixon was never boring. david mentioned he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. i chronicle in the book beginning with spiro agnew. remember spiro agnew being in some trouble and i said to my editor at the new yorker, thought lamented and just the legendary william shawn saying what are you thinking of writing next? i don t know. i have a feeling we are going to change vice presidents and presidents within a year. this is labor day of 73. a way out there kind of wild thought at the time. w ....
[inaudible] and barbara were always very welcoming to me. they always said when s your next book? you re on. [laughter] and it was lovely. and as david said, brad and lissa have carried on the wondrous tradition, the ingenuity and made it keep going, and the fact that all of you have come tonight is a testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books that we all share. richard nixon s a hard man to let go of. [laughter] i first i remember as a child on black and white fuzzy television seeing this odd man. he was on the ticket with general eisenhower, and there was some problem of his taking money from a secret fund. he was talking about his daughter s dog, and i thought, hmm, he s interesting. well, he never stopped being interesting. richard nixon was never boring. and as david mentioned, he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. i chronicle in the book the beginning with spiro agnew, remember him being in some tro ....
they were always very welcoming to me. and i have to tell you that publishers and authors do all kinds of sorts of things to be able to speak at this marvelous place. and it was lovely and as david said, brad and melissa had carried on the wondrous tradition that began with the energy and ingenuity. and they are keeping going and tonight is a testimony to the job that they do and the reverend that they did for books that we all share. richard nixon is a hard man to let go of. [laughter] i first remember him as a child in a black-and-white fuzzy television, seeing this odd man. he was on the ticket with general eisenhower. there was some problem of taking money from this secret funds. he was blaming his daughter s dog. and i thought, isn t he interesting. well, he never stopped being interesting. richard nixon was never boring. and if david mentioned, he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. i chronicled in the book, begin ....
affiliated that is simply false. in that way get away from that question in the further we are. but carter s campaign is the reversal in the fact that we spoke about it so freely with his appeal. i ve loved your closing sentence. maybe he was the last one to no. what s was his feedback? steve is more likely to review the and i am. we just sent it to him last week. iodine to space make city is not the last one. [laughter] but to be clearer that carter is animated or of assessed at don t think that is the bad thing. the world is of better place i don t question that for a moment. but even approaching 90 years old has no indication to lets up. but i think of the most recent book he has not been an advocate for choice. carter s relationship with the southern baptist convention by rights is a dysfunctional marriage in the then occasional attempts at reconciliation. it began to go south and he saw that as the real wake-up call. one of the southern baptist leaders come ....
he was doing everything humanly possible working as hard as he could to solve these problems. after serving his defeat carter reaffirmed his commitment as a way to redeem his losses and the carter center would be an activist institution and habitat for humanity was not nothing if not an activist organization in the former president would not retire quietly into private life and there was work to be done eradicating disease monitoring elections elections, building houses and teaching sunday school with military confrontations and making peace. if carter could work hard enough he could accumulate enough merit to cut the balance of history in his favor. to a remarkable degree his commitment was success although they continued to criticize and ridicule his presidency the story is regarded more favorably. of his activities after leaving office earned him praise and grudging admiration with that ultimate delegation and at what point does he earned a reprieve? when can he rela ....