The barriers which were put up are no longer effective. It is an experiment. A lot of political scientists it is not clear there is evidence it is going to have much of an effect, at least not yet. I think we need a couple of elections to find that out. Thank you. [applause] are watching american his pretv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan three. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Next, we will hear from a panel about the personal and political consequences of Warren Hardings love affair. Surviving love letters detailing the relationship were until very recently kept under seal by the library of congress, which hosted this event. The former president s grandnephew explains why they insisted to keep the letters seal and how the family continues to deal with the fallout of the love affair. This is about two hours. My name is jim hudson, chief of the librarys Manuscript Division. On the stage with me, we have james, a distinguished trial attorney, partner
And then the book on Warren Harding, published in 2009. We also have karen who is an archivist, who prepared the harding papers for reader use on july 29. She graduated from brown. Excellent historian and a firstrate person. We have dr. Richard harding, the grandnephew of president harding. He was the president of the American Psychiatric association. I shouldnt make that mistake. I dont need to apologize for that. Very brief description of the harding papers, which is probably unnecessary, given the publicity they have received. But there are about 1,000 the papers. They are approximately 1,000 pages of correspondence between Warren Harding and Carrie Phillips who was the wife of one of hardings good friends in marion, ohio. There was a love affair between the two from 1905 to 1920. The collection, however, only has letters between 1910 and 1920. Most of the vast majority of the letters all of them probably i dont know if there are any carrie letters in there. There are a few. The vas
Title and seems to have been a magician. A real magician. But he was the chairman of the Ohio Democratic party during the harding era. On warren e book harding, published in 2009. An so have karen who is archivist, who prepared the harding papers for reader use on july 29. He graduated from brown. Excellent historian and a firstrate person. We have dr. Richard harding, the grandnephew of president harding. E was the president of the Association American psychiatric association. I shouldnt make that mistake. I dont need to apologize for that. Very brief description of the harding papers, which is probably unnecessary, given the publicity they have received. But there are about 1,000 the papers. They are approximately 1,000 ages of correspondence between Warren Harding and Carrie Phillips who was the wife of one of hardings good friends in marion, ohio. There was a love affair between the two from 1905 to 1920. The collection, however, only has letters between 1910 and 1920. Most of the
One of the books that brings us he here, Warren Harding, the harding affair, love and espionage during the great war, published in 2009. Right. We also have dr. Karen femia whos an archivist who prepared the papers, the harding papers. For reader use. On july 29. Karen has a ph. D. From brown in musicology. But shes an excellent, excellent historian and really, really a firstrate person. We have dr. Richard harding, the grandnephew of president harding. He was he is a psychiatrist on the staff of the university of South Carolina and was the president of the american psycho Analytical Association in 1981 82. American psychiatric association. Psychiatric. Sorry. Okay. The i shouldnt make that mistake since we have Sigmund Freuds papers here. I need to apologize for that. A very brief description of the harding papers here which is probably unnecessary given the publicity theyve received. But there are about 1,000 the collection, not the papers the major collection, the papers are in the