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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. Grea...

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. ...

Welcome. The 64th secretary of state, we are here to talk about her new book, health and other destinations which is an interesting book. I just finished reading it. I look forward to this conversation about it. Welcome to our broadcast today. Great to be with you. I enjoy talking with you anyti anytime. I am at the Jefferson Building of the library congress, shes in her home, i should disclose weve had a longstanding relationship between us, we were young staffers under president carter and i h...

Week wherever books are sold and watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan2. History and biography is sponsored bywells fargo. [music] welcome everyone, everywhere here with Madeleine Albright, 64th secretary of state and here to talk about her new book Madeleine Albright hell and other destinationsand i just finished reading it and i look forward to having a conversation with Madeleine Albright about it. Welcome to our broadcast today. Great to be with you david, i en...

Jacqueline kennedy i think it is good in a world where theres quite enough to divide people, that we should cherish the language and emotion that unite us all. Jacqueline kennedy end video clip Jacqueline Kennedys 1,000 days as first lady were defined by images political spouse, young mother, fashion icon, advocate for the arts. As television came of age, it was ultimately the tragic images of president kennedys assassination and funeral that cemented Jacqueline Kennedy in the public consciousne...

We talk to her in 2013 about her life before being married. About her public and private life after marriage. Barbara bush, with all the posts you and your husband have held over the years, was there one that best prepared you for the white house, and when you became first lady, and you feel prepared . The answer is that i feel prepared . Yes. First of all, i was not elected. So it didnt make that much difference. I didnt notice the difference between being the Vice President s wife and the pres...

Her life before being married as well as her public and private life after marriage. Barbara bush, with all the posts that you and the president have held over the years, was there one that best prepared you for the white house, and when you became first lady, did you feel prepared . The answer is did i feel prepared . Yes, i really did. First of all, i wasnt elected so it didnt make that much difference. I did notice, though, the difference between being the Vice President s wife and the presid...

Her life before being married as well as her public and private life after marriage. Barbara bush, with all the posts that you and the president have held over the years, was there one that best prepared you for the white house . And when you became first lady, did you feel prepared . The answer, did i feel prepared . Yes, i really did. First of all, i wasnt elected, so it didnt make that much difference. I did notice, though, the difference between being the Vice President s wife and the presid...

Territorial politics of wyoming. I encountered gracious and wellinformed experts in the sources that i was seeking and their goals seemed to be to make my work and research as productive and rewarding as possible. The working atmosphere of the archives was congenial, stimulating, and fun. A friend of mine, the distinguished historian of the election of 1896, Hall Williams and i, would work at library in the library of congress until 5 00 in the afternoon when they closed, have a bite to eat and ...

The same sense of enjoyment, productivity, and professionalism as experts, professionals engage their citizen users to the best of their abilities, the cliches about lazy Government Employees repeated ad nauseam by unknowing politicians had no validity within these walls. Instead i became convinced as a ms. Sure most historians would share, that the National Archives is one of the true ornaments of American Culture for which this individual can only say, from the bottom of my professional heart,...