So anybody watching doesnt ever end up at the water fountain the next day and sail my gosh, i dont know they thought that or somebody had that perspective or that point. That would change. So so to me that his role. T but what it does for me as it makes me bring my a game every time. I have to be prepared. If youre going up against bill riley, you want, you want to avoid be in the pinhead, big time. You will make sure you know what youre talking about have confidence in it before you engage in that conversation. So how does that affect the writing of the book . Pe it opens my eyes to the idea that i want to be sure that im considering, you heard craig a moment ago saint what it you include some of this on the womens issue. Again in my my mind, it does not match up with someone like a betty betty for dan in terms of prompting the way in which we have seen in america. Have yes bill oreilly to promote your book . Thats hard. But but bill wrote a blurb for the book and not only that, he has told people that it is a Great Fathers day gift. Im trying to get him to save go to politics and prose and go by the book. What is your next book . You keep asking me that. You are on me. I tell you i dont know. I have ideas but to me they are still at the point of, its like i need to put a little fertilizer on there. That its a permanent. I always think there people who do books and they can be vented ebooks, especially in in the tv business will do a lot of that are. Their very predictive are they. I think. They see pictures of themselves. And i just, so so i dont do those books, do the first book i redid we were talking earlier was eyes on the prize, American Civil Rights and it was in conjunction with the tv series, but i think one of the great pleasures of my life as a writer is that on the 25th anniversary of that book, the publisher said to me, the center guild a copy because the book has been in prayer for 25 years. The book i wrote about Thurgood Marshall by a fee, still in boint. So people still use these books. I wrote a book about issues in the black community andle struggles based on bill cosby and bill cosbys speech prior to all the scandal said no surrounn bill cosby. That book continues to sell. E, l so for me im really interested in doing books that have lasting value and when you read a book, i think it is such a gift to an author. I know probably know probably thinks its when you buy the book. But its when you take the timet and when you save in his book intriguing, relaxing, especiall i can easily see where you would say that with a fiction book that is engaging, takes me wave my daily activity. Activity. But for me is a nonfiction author, im so grateful when you take a moment to read a book and then stick with it. I want to know that i have given you Something Worthy of your time. When i wrote one of my reagan books i got a letter from a woman in the midwest and she said, dear mr. Shirley, go to bed every night. [laughter] , she explained how her routine was to take a bath and get bed and read one chapter of my book every night. I framed that letter. So my version of that as people say, you know youre in my home every night on fox news. [laughter] and i say well, its ibelievable this new technology that allows us to see into your house now. [laughter] put on some clothes. Im looking for to reading the book and a lot of talk about the Founding Fathers and i guess what they would see her. I view that as a parent and a child relationship and as a child grows up its way beyond what the parents have imagined that they have created the foundation and things like the technology for example i just think its fascinating how you can have very opposite viewpoints expressed in a matter of seconds run the world. A politician can Say Something and people hearing it in realtime pleading and hearing and communicating very opposite polarizing views of what the exact words that they heard. So my question to you is reallye more personal on Merrick Garland and we have an extremely polarized political system today and should a vote, should we we have a vote on garland proceeding or do we think the delay tactics are part of government working as our Founding Fathers instead of thet separation of traditional legislative and executive branch of government. Visioned, obviously the design was that the President Shall nominate ins the senate should advise on the nomination. So to me its obvious, do your job. I think thats a hash take the Obama White House had. So you can say will thats political because obviously the democrat obama wants it in the republican majority in the senate does not. I think if you go back, the government operating as it should usa that is the president whether you like them or not and thats the Senate Whether you like it or not. So consider. So i think theres a strong argument for garland to be considered. I was taken when trump got with his nominees this past week. I dont think theres anybody there that you would put in the centrist moderate bracket and Merrick Garland is definitely a centrist. His barking concern among people like sanders sun on the left is seen as too much of a moderate in in the middle. Right now i think your question is take it to heart because its issues like abortion, gun rights and people say will if youre not with us on that, we dont care how experienced are centers you might be, you are not acceptable. That to me leads to dysfunction. That would lead to breakdown in terms of our constitutional apparatus. We are exactly where the founders of primus did not want us to be. They werent against nationalism, they warned of a deliberative congress would ultimately decide what was best for the country and thats not what we have today. We have two Political Parties that which is what they werent against. Especially George Washington. We have a minute, time for one more question. [inaudible]son on mount would you have for changing gay rights. I be sorry to asses . A a rights because i think one oful the more intriguing in the book is about a man named harry hay and by the way, also in their a senator goldwater, who late might life became such an advocate of gay rights on the right. But harry haze began to organize in the 60s run the idea that gay people should not be harassed and intimidated by the police and politicians should not issue the issue as a wedge issue and condemn them for their behaviors. So initially it is all anonymous political organizing. Then it breaks through peopleins start to put their names and money to it, particularly the hollywood acting community on the west coast. That leads of course to stonewall. And we just other theyre going to nine the Stonewall BarNew York National monument. This tells you how tremendous the rate of change has been in the society around this issue. Now we have the Supreme Court affirming the right to gay marriage. Unbelievable. Harry hay is with Barry Goldwater in this book. Okay. Lets have a round of applause here [applause]. Remember one will be signing right after the signing area in his book, we the people is available. Coming up this week in American History to be on cspan three, saturday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on lectures in history, virginia commonwealth professor im student and professional films made on the cold war out of fear the population and was filling behind the soviet Union Science education. On road to to the white house. Host , the 1952 and 1948 national convention, in 195252 dwight ison has accepted the republican nomination and Adlai Stevenson received the democratic nomination on their ballot. In 1948 the first televised convention where president harry truman accepted his partys nomination. The president to know anything about High Pressure in the president into anything about housing. My duty as president requires that i use every means within my power to get the laws of people leave in such importance of will take a new look at this sony and see him with its director money. The museum open stores to the public in september of this year. We were able to get amazing collection of movie posters such as the one behind you. That is of the movie poster from the 1920 and then this is part of our job to help people relearn what they think they might know. That movie movie posters from spencer williams. He is known by most people is use one of the most important black film directors in the late 30s and 40. Sunday night apm on the presidency. Historians annette gordonreed and others talk about the process of writing a president ial biography. For complete to to be schedule go to cspan. Org. The former daily intelligence briefer at the cia is the author of the president s book of secrets. About the president s daily intelligence briefing. He talked about the book in the history of u. S. Intelligence agencies at this years roosevelt reading festival. This is 45 minutes. Hello everyone. For those of you hear this money, welcome back. For those who are new, welcome to the 2016 reading festival. Were so glad to have you here today thinking of the format. Will talk for about half an hour and then have ten minutes of question and answer and then he will set up and hell get signed copies of the book which are pretty wonderful. We are very excited about the issue here at the library. This will be of 75th inverse at the end of june. We are celebrating in many ways in this reading festivals one of the things we think Franklin Eleanor Roosevelt would be happy about. As the center for people to talk about the presidency of the roosevelt era and to bring people together. We have a membership table would strongly encourage that and greatly appreciated. The challenge we face here was someone like david is that he is highly accomplished and im sure you would rather hear him speak. He served during during both the clinton and the george w. Bush administration. And then an intelligence prefer from the cia. He was a desk officer of the state department as well. He offers advice to Government Agencies and preparations and has received his phd in Political Science from duke university. Thus we were basketball fans, we can talk about that later. We discovered a ride range of articles, security studies, skeptic mixing, he appears a National Media regularly specially on the fox news channel, fox and friends. This book is really a fascinating book and it goes to a key moments but you have to looking from kennedy from obama. As you go to the museum youll see that you dont have a photograph of it but he doesnt want it roosevelt wanted one of those as well i want to welcome our speaker and hope you have a great session. Thank you it was a great event and thank you all for coming in learning about a shared history. Im here to talk about the president s book of secrets, coquille term for the daily intelligence at the president of the United States has received for decades in various forms. The presidency in the modern era is so different than what it was 200 years ago. Theres a a few key points along the way. I will talk about some of those points. Focusing on both president roosevelt, what roosevelt, what came before him, but came after him. It takes into consideration that to allow him to and hopefully to identify foreignpolicy opportunities. The president s daily brief is the daily document including reporters, assessments, from classified and unclassified assessments like, the National Security agencys listening post , the satellite all gather information for and then experts take that information and paint the picture about what is going on a Certain International environment based on that limited information in their own knowledge and expertise of the foreign culture of the foreign leaders that they are studying. For this book i had the chance to get input from all the living expresident the Vice President s. For most of the living cia directors, cia directors, national National Security adviser, chief of staff, secretary of state, so the stories really their story. I found in doing the research that what we take for granted today about the president getting this kind of intelligence simply wasnt true a long time ago. Let me walk you through some of that because it relates to the man were talking about most here today, Franklin Roosevelt and how he planted the seed for what we know today is the modern delivery of intelligence to the president of the United States. First ill go back a little bit to give you a sense of what fdr face when his coming coming into office relating to this topsecret intelligence. Then ill talk about what happened during his administration and then walk you briefly through what his successors did with the foundation that he laid. Back to George Washington, George Washington came into office as president , there was no Intelligence Community. It was no stranger to intelligence he had been his own spymaster as commanderinchief of the army. Once in office he did not have anyone assessing International Developed for him. His successors in either, they face the same hurdles. Seems strange to think about today but if you think about the five successors to George Washington, people who lead the nation for the 40 years after his death, they had Extensive International experience during that time. All five of them had been investors and in some cases to more than one country, or secretary of state, more often than not both of those things and occasionally acting secretary of war, or offer of declaration of independence, theres, theres a lot of expertise there. If they didnt have anyone to help interpret what was going on around the world. They had to do that themselves. Over the next several decades Going Forward over 100 years, that did not change. During the civil war lincoln did walk across to walk a cross to get a telegraph during the spanishamerican war, mckinley did have a small war room set up in the white house and during the First World War they got some intelligent assessment from the british. He was getting them from the british in washington, not from a United States states Intelligence Service which did not exist as such. So when fdr enters office that is what he is facing. He had a dual challenging face, he had nazi aggression in europe, he had the rise of the japanese empire across the pacific. He need more information and no more assessment of that information than what he was getting through other means. So he started creating various institutions that were lacking. He tapped wild bill donovan to become the head of what became the osf, richly the office of the coordinator of information, Great Washington bureaucratic title if ever there was one. The court nadir of information becoming the director of the office of strategic services. Most stories about the oss talks oss talks about cool stuff a day, the collection collection of human intelligence, the propaganda around the world, the sabotage that osf operatives did and aided throughout world war ii. There is another unprecedented effort in world war ii with the osf, that was an office call the office of research and analysis. Or as it became known, are rna. Rna was the analytic efforts. Rna was the group that donovan called his professors. These were the people that the osf recruited from top universities, harvard, yale, princetons anothers to come in and start assessing what was going on around the world to serve the president and top military leaders. They ended up at the peak of osf pulling in almost 1000 political scientist, economists, historians, photographers, geographers, and others to write thousands of memos, handbooks, and other and other information for the political and military leaders of the time. Their job was to collate information from various sources. At the time the sources they had included diplomatic cables from the state permit overseas, they had interNational Media available to them, they also had military reporting available but one thing they did not have was direct access to intercepted communications. The kind of stuff that the National Security agency collects now. It was there that but they did not have access to it. So the information theyre providing for the president used many means but not all means that the United States had at the time. The leaders of the research and analysis division, they really struggled with how to make this relevant to the president. They had no trouble getting information to military leaders in the field to needed. There is a very good tactical Intelligence Reports being produced. They did not have a good sense of what was well needed. They did not get a lot of feedback. This was essentially a oneway street. Reports are being sent up but not a lot of feedback was coming back. Its hard to tailor the products to the person who needs at the most in environment. What the army leaders to was try to make these academically interesting reports that the professors were producing and turning into something that could be actionable intelligence but they struggled with that. Donovan innovated some things to get around it. He was would send some of the rna reports to the pr