Know, one last time as, you know, Adolf Eichmann faked his death and his wife reported him as dead . So he sits atop the most wanted list with an asterisk as presumed dead but not absolutely sure, and thats where the case remains from his perspective to this day. So thank you again for joining us. Thank you [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like us tonight with booktv guests and viewers. Watch abuse and get uptodate information on events. Facebook. Com booktv. You are watching booktv on cspan2. On cspan2. Heres our primetime lineup for tonight. Battle happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. And the on booktv robert klara becomes the physical improvements made to the white house in 1948. The author reports on the decampment of president harry truman and his family to blair house during the reconstruction which consisted of a gutting of the entire interior of the building and the addition of a steel frame and an underground shelter. Thank you very much, and thank you for inviti
She visited him, he visited her. Through his letter stir will largely have his recollections, but there was an exchange shortly after the reelection but before the inauguration in which most of her letters disappeared. We only have a onesided dialogue, but he was not very good at this relationship thing. A very clear. He spends three pages going into great detail about the election return and then says, by the way, what you mean when you said we were going apart. Theyre is a leather chair shortly before the inauguration which says, you know, i think not going to take that diplomatic post. And that he goes to sear. By the time he comes back his riding in telling him here is where the wedding will be. So very clearly the only way he could have got married was to get out of the white house because the secretaries were expected to live there and he couldnt. They went on to diplomatic posts nikolai stay there until 6869 and then came back. Hey did a turn in paris and then came home. He kind
Reenforced concrete tunnel. It would percent him to get from one wing to the other. It was accessible from the house above. This is what it looks like to stand inside of it. That concrete is two feet thick. Before i move on here, i want to make one point very clear. The bomb shelter was obsolete almost from the time it was built. As soon as the soviets tested a Hydrogen Bomb in 1953 moving from the kiloton to the megaton range, the idea of a president shelters in place became completely to postrows. The bombs too powerful. The other thing is truman never had intention of using his shelter, and he said so. He had told one of security men, and im quoting here, go ahead with all this planning and arrangements, but one thing, if a situation ever develops, i dont intend to leave the white house. Im going to be right here. As it turns out, in my book, i relate this story, there, indeed, was a false alarm, and truman stayed upstairs and did not go to the shelter. He believed if americans didn
He claimed that lincoln had never loved mary todd lincoln. The love of his life had been a young woman named ann rutledge to die when lincoln was off in springfield or actually the old state capital for his first term in the legislature and that he never got over the loss. He claimed that lincoln had syphilis. It was not clear why this was helpful or helping to set, you know he tried to make him a very earthy figure. The family was absolutely furious. They elected these interviews and thought, there is no possible way that people could remember with any precision somebody whom they had no expectation whatever rise that far. One of his informants said something really telling. Look, you know, im sorry. I wish i could remember more. When i knew him it was just for a year in her early 20s, and i had no idea you would be president , so i did not think term member. So they relied instead on a vast body of lincolns papers and any kind of primary sources they could get there hands on. They sc
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