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f. kennedy because i think he was a different and in the fall of 62 from the spring of 61. khrushchev did not know that. that was a grave mistake. he had become to understand it. great commentary timesman kennedy supported him come on everybody else ran kennedy would not support it. he told me he had a remarkable conversation, where he said this is what you should do. he said the, talk to the president. dont talk to me. so it was quite clear that kennedy was beginning to shift, but he ...

roosevelt reading festival. [applause] >> thank you very much. great to be here. i need to look for more reasons to travel from texas to the hudson valley. this is a great place to be ended as always fun to come back to the fdr library. this book began as an oral history project. from 2000 to 2005 i was one of five historians who worked for the national park service developing a national historic site called the tuskegee site in tuskegee, alabama where the tuskegee airmen work. the n...

tuskegee airmen work. the national park service dedicated a significant amount of money to interviewing the surviving tuskegee mn to work those in to programs to find information museum architects needed as they were rehabing structures at the national historic site and create this repository of tuskegee history for when there will not just the tuskegee airmen to talk about what this experience was about. we recorded 826 oral history interviews and those interviews formed the core of t...

[laughter] she didnt want to make her debut, she was afraid she wouldnt be popular. her mother had been one of the great beauties of new york society, and apparently when eleanor was a little girl, her mother said something like, well, you better be good because you certainly arent beautiful. and eleanor did not have good memories of her mother, the love she got as a child came from her father. but then, of course, he was a desolate individual who die inside a drunken stupor, a fire in...