Going to talk with. Homas schwartz he directed as an author and editor. Professional awards. Today we are going to take a to the time ofme Herbert Hoover. Tom, i want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . The staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Great. We have lots of questions. I will sign off. I will let you get into your program and i will pop back in when we are ready for q a. Have at it. Enjoy. Thank you, patrick. So, you see the exterior of the hoover president ial library museum. We are the smallest facility. We were founded as a quaker community. Hoover was our first quaker president. How did hoover get in . He predates roosevelt. This is the hoover tower at Stanford University. Herbert hoover was with president wilson in versailles
Patrick lets get to it. Today i am going to talk with thomas schwartz, the director of the Herbert Hoover president ial library. He has been with the Hoover Library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois , state historian and went on to lincoln collection at the Abraham Lincoln president ial library as an author and editor, his work recognized with a number of professional awards. He will take a step back in time, not all the way back to lincoln, but to the time of Herbert Hoover. Tom, are you there . I want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . Thomas the staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Patrick great. I know you have a great set of images and stories and tales. I have a feeling we have lots of questions. I will sign off.
At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
Governor pete wilson served as one of the four eulogists at president nixons funeral. Wilson is a marine, u. S. Marine and a graduate of Yale University and Berkeley College of law. He first became acquainted with Richard Nixon while work object 1962 Gubernatorial Campaign as an advance man. Fwas nixon who urge and inspired the wilson to service. Before serve as senator as governor he was a california state assemblyman and then mayor of san diego. He was mayor of san diego for 12 years. 3 of those years overlap with the nixon presidency. He transformed the city in part by working with president nixon to bring millions of federal tax dollars back to state and local government, bricking decisionmaking power closer tote people. This is truly a testament to democracy in america. Governor wilson will be in conversation with dr. Frank gannon. In 1971, gannon served as i white house fellow in the Nixon Administration and went ton serve in the domestic counsel and in the White House Press offi
Governor he was a state assemblyman and mayor of san diego. He was mayor of san diego for three years. He transformed the city in part by working with president nixon to bring millions of federal tax dollars back to the state and government. This is truly a testament to democracy in america. Governor wilson will be in conversation with dr. Frank gannon. Dr. Gannon served as a fellow and served in the domestic counsel and the White House Press office. In 1974 dr. Gannon left for california and was the chief Editorial Assistant on nixons bestselling memoir. Some of these clips you will see in this interview today. From 2013, he was comanager of the Nixon Library renovation project. Ladies and gentlemen, governor wilson and dr. Frank gannon. [ applause ] governor. It is hard to believe the 25 years have passed. I wish you could figure out a way to unfolded. I am about to do that for at least five minutes. In 1983, over the period of eight sessions i interviewed president nixon in new york