Understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, sought a better relationship with the soviet union, and presented his doubts on the u. S. Involvement in the non. This is about one hour. Thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be back at politics and prose, one of my favorite bookstores anywhere, not just in washington, d. C. Id like to ask you, who here has seen the portrait of kennedy in the National Portrait gallery in the halls of kennedy . Thats great. You know its quite unlike any of the other portraits. It was painted by the estranged wife of the story behind how the portrait happened to be there i think is a kind of interesting one and, in fact, i opened my book with it. Id like to share it with you just briefly. She was supposed to paint one portrait for the Truman Library in independence, missouri, and she was chosen because everybody knew that john f. Kennedy was too restless to sit for portrait painter. So William Weldon thought lets get elaine it was not as the fastest brush in
Every day week brought the 100th anniversary of some great nefnt the civil war where lincolns presidency. In fact, when he commissioned them to write a first draft the inauguration address. He told him to study the gettieses berg address and learn the secret. He also invited karl sand berg, lincoln psychological leer to the white house for a private tutorial on lincolns greatness and must have been pleased and he said theres more a more favorable set of circumstance for a president to face since lincoln. More evidence how much he was thinking of lincoln after he successfully settled the cuban missile crisis. He turned to an aid and said tonight is the night we should got go to the theater. He also invited historian and lincoln expert, David Herbert donald to the white house and peppered him with question how does a president acquire greatness. Would lincoln have been ranked a great president if not assassinated. Donald wrote to a man this is a man determined to go down in the history b