Effective at noon tomorrow. Timothy hi. Im tim naftali. Im director of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum in california its my honor and privilege to take you on a tour today of our now new watergate gallery. This was a challenge for us. I was asked to produce the gallery. It was one of my responsibilities when i joined the National Archives in 2006. Im a professional historian, but we professional historians write books. We generally dont do museum exhibits. So this is a challenge in public history. In other words, taking information and making it accessible to people who havent had a chance to prep for an exam before they walk into a new gallery. The other big challenge is we inherited the National Archives took over the private Nixon Library. It had been run from 1990 to 2007 by the private nixon foundation. We became responsible and one of the jobs was to make it a nonpartisan institution. We inherited a museum that was produced in the preweb period. So it lacked th
I shall restein presidency effective at noon resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Hi. Im director of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum in california its my honor and privilege to take you on a tour today of our now watergate gallery. This was a challenge for us. I was asked to produce the gallery. It was one of my responsibilities when i joined the National Archives in 2006. Im a professional historian, but we write books. We generally dont do museum exhibits. So this is a challenge in public history. In other words, taking information and making it accessible to people who havent had a chance to prep for an exam before they walk into a new gallery. The other challenge is we inherited the National Archives took over the private Nixon Library. It was run from 1990 to 2007 by the private nixon foundations. We became responsible and one of the jobs was to make it a nonpartisan institution. We inherited a museum that was produced in the preweb period. So it la
You may have noticed this event originally called for our speaker bill fowler to be here. He is my predecessor at the Historical Society, which many of you already know. He is a distinguished repressor of history at northeastern professor of history at northeastern. We realized that such a fundamental story of the irish in boston would benefit from additional perspectives. He suggested, i will give him credit, this conversation would have more depth if we invited others, leading subject experts on the irish famine in the american response. We are pleased bill is joined tonight by catherine shannon, the guest historian of exhibition at westfield state university. We have christine can nearly, author and founding director of irelands Great Hunger Institute at quinnipiac university. Please welcome me in joining join me in welcoming, bill, christine, and kathleen. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you to all of your staff and trustees for hosting this exhibit. Louder. Louder, ok. Close
The book he was writing is finally here. We are pleased to give him this opportunity, the book came out on monday so we are honored to have him here for the real scandal, geoff shepard. Thank you bill. Its an honor to be here and an honor to have bill as the new head of the Richard Nixon foundation. As it turns out, the real watergate scandal is a trashing of our constitution and bill of rights in a successful effort to drive nixon from office and to realign political power without the inconvenience of an election. We will get to that in a couple minutes but i want to start by telling you why i think i am good shape to write this book or may conclude i may know what im talking about. Im a california native like many of you. I went to Long Beach Wilson high school and whittier college. I think of myself back then as normal. Then something changed for me. I got a scholarship to scholarship to Harvard Law School and i did well coming from the uncultured west coast. I graduated with honors
To Domestic Policy Group within the nixon administration. Later he had developed a number of legacy forums that were held across the United States that represent policies and achievements of the administration. Then i heard he was writing about. When i finally met jeff he became a good friend i now understand all the current efficiencies made to the foundation and in particular in the nixon legacy. In the book you striving is finally here so we are very pleased to give them this opportunity its his first stop. The book came out on monday we are honored to have him here for the real scandal, geoff shepard. [applause] thank you, bill. Thank you, bill but its an honor to be here, and honored to have bill have the new head of the Richard Nixon foundation. As it turns out, the real watergate scandal is the trashing of our constitution and bill of rights and the successful effort to drive president nixon from office, to imprison his senior aides, to realign political power without the inconv