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Back this morning. We now have University Virginia Miller Center president ial Recordings Program chair Mark Silverstone thank you for joining us on the 60th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis to be here to you. So lets start today about, you know, october 16th, 1962 is when president John F Kennedy was shown the photographs taken by u2 plane over what exactly did these pictures show . They revealed the existence of soviet Ballistic Missiles that were capable of carrying Nuclear Warheads. A...

Lunchtime lectures know that this is normally where id hand off to the president s ceo of the Us Capitol Historical Society jane campbell. She sends her best well wishes to mr. Bostock and the team shes out of the country this week. So you guys are stuck with me for the afternoon. And so with that im now going to read this fantastic biography. Im going to share with you why we are so thrilled to have bob bostock here with the Us Capitol Historical Society this afternoon. Bob is a curator for exh...

Book called mercury rising, which is the story of John Glenn John kennedy and the space race in the context of the cold war. Jeff comes to us from the west wing riders group, which he founded as a speech writing business along with a strategic operation and this comes from his experience as a speechwriter for president clinton, and he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. He also has a background in history from Brown University and was a Rhodes Scholar and so has a masters d...

The president ial Oral History Program. Its great to have you with us today to join us for what i know will be a fascinating conversation with our guest jeffsell, and this is about his book called mercury rising, which is the story of John Glenn John kennedy and the space race in the context of the cold war. Jeff comes to us from the west wing riders group, which he founded as a speech writing business along with a strategic operation and this comes from his experience as a speechwriter for pres...

Operation and this comes from his experience as a speechwriter for president clinton, and he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. He also has a background in history from Brown University and was a Rhodes Scholar and so has a masters degree in history from oxford. His previous books are on fascinating. X in and of themselves one on Franklin Roosevelt and his tussle with the us supreme court. The other is speaking of tussles on the conflict between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon J...

Book called mercury rising, which is the story of John Glenn John kennedy and the space race in the context of the cold war. Jeff comes to us from the west wing riders group, which he founded as a speech writing business along with a strategic operation and this comes from his experience as a speechwriter for president clinton, and he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. He also has a background in history from Brown University and was a Rhodes Scholar and so has a masters d...

Lunchtime lectures know that this is normally where id hand off to the president s ceo of the Us Capitol Historical Society jane campbell. She sends her best well wishes to mr. Bostock and the team shes out of the country this week. So you guys are stuck with me for the afternoon. And so with that im now going to read this fantastic biography. Im going to share with you why we are so thrilled to have bob bostock here with the Us Capitol Historical Society this afternoon. Bob is a curator for exh...

The tail end of his life in the office of former president nixon during his more than three decades of public service. He spent considerable time working on environmental policy really making him a perfect fit for this sort of program. He worked for governor Christine Todd whitman both when she was governor of new jersey and when she became epa administrator during we First Administration of president george w bush. He also served as director of Strategic Communications for the new Jersey Depart...

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