Library and museum. On behalf of my library and foundation colleagues i am delighted to welcome all of you for watching tonight program online. Thank you for joining us this evening. I would also like to acknowledge the generous support of her underwriters of the Kennedy Library forms. Lead sponsors bank of america and the Lowell Institute and her media sponsors, the boston globe and wbur. We look for to a robust question and answers this evening turkey will see full instructions on the screen for submitting your questions via email or in the comments on our youtube page during the program. We are so grateful to have this opportunity to explore president kennedys earlier years in depth with a distinguished speakers this evening. This is the first major work about president kennedy in many years we have been anticipating this for some time. Much of the research took place in the Kennedy Library archives and we are very pleased to learn more about this, rancid new look of president kenne
Government and the opposition party. We are going to take questions in five minutes but i have one or 2 more things to ask. The only points in your book i stumbled at all were the same two that David Kennedy mentions in his glowing wonderful review in this weeks New York Times book review. Those are the mccarthy period, question of authorship of profiles encourage. Sy i might be wrong in thinking jfk is more of a harder, trying its hardest to make a difficult call on that. Why we shouldnt think he may have written some notes for profiles encourage, but he didnt like the book page for page. Reporter the first part of this is not something i should be admitting before a live audience. When you read this more than in draft, i said i need to tweak this and address this and the people at random house, i have such a wonderful publisher. We can do this. In response, i havent could only do a few words or change a few sentences. I do think before your intervention i suggested he was overly, had
Youtube page during the program. We are so grateful to have the opportunity to explore the earlier years with our distinguished speakers this evening. This is the first major work about president kennedy in the many years weve been anticipating this for some time. Much of the research took place in the Kennedy Library archives and we are pleased to learn more about this comprehensive new look at the formative years. Im now delighted to introduce tonights speakers. We are glad to welcome frederick back to the Kennedy Library virtually. He is the professor of International Affairs and professor of history at harvard university. A specialist on u. S. Foreign relations history hes the author or editor of nine books including embers of war that won the Pulitzer Prize for history. The books include our man Richard Holbrook and at the end of the American Century. To get out of the news for an hour and a half as we try to navigate one of the storm used years in our lives. I knew you as a vietn
We appreciate the candidates participation during the coronavirus pandemic this year for the first time to protect everyone as much as possible, we are holding debate virtually. The candidates are online from their own locations and we, here in the studio, have been following all precautions prescribed by Health Officials and the university. Because of the pandemic, there is no Live Audience and in the studio. As we all have learned in the pandemic, technology can be challenging so i ask you for your patience if we do experience some glitches. The debate we just candidates in the race for dolores governor. Joining me, Sophia Schmidt who covers the popular county court over public media and include questions recorded by students and delaware citizens. The democratic partys nominee for governor is john carney, incumbent republican candidate for governor is julian mary. Welcome to both of you. Both have rules for the debate, ill begin with the question for each of them and they have agree