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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 ...

[applause] welcome, michael. How many people here have been here all day . [applause] very impressive. How many people came just to hear michael . Okay. My wife is here. Im sure she did. [laughter] one of the countrys most distinguished most respected and most admired president ial historians and let me tell you a little bit about the background before we talk about presidency and latest book president s of war, highly recommend and we will go through that, michael is native of chicago area, he went to williams where he came under the influence of a famous historian and subsequently went to Ha...

[applause] if you are not yet on the email list, signup. We just added senator amy so now for tonight, were it was unforgetting. Bobs story about the genius of the political like his subject, caro has no peer. Over the years bob has spoiled us with his portraits of robert moses and Lyndon Johnson and treated us to slight left turns in the narrative, his diversions into fascinating bystanders, they might form the basis of future studies in and of themself. So consider his new book, working, as a companion piece to his great moses and johnson books, and today in 2019 is more resonant than ever a...

Im glad to see you. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming to tonights program. So i am the founder of Writers Block now launching a 23rd year. If not yet on the email list signup now looking back robert caro the last time he visited was 2002 it was unforgettable. With the johnson political machine with a powerbroker extraordinaire and over the years has spoiled us to treat us to slight left turns those that are so rich in detail they could form the basis of future studies in and of themselves. So consider the new book working as a companion piece and today in 2019 is more resonant than ever ...

Welcome this morning to the Miller Center here at the university of virginia. Were delighted that mark and i were just saying its just great to see everybody gathered together in our beautiful williamsburg style forum room. We want to thank cspan for being with us today. And so if you enjoy this sort of like a holiday movie that you never tire seen over and over again, feel free to watch numerous times. We want to welcome everyone in person as well as those who are watching online live and those who will be watching our archive version as well as those who will watch on cspan. We are here toda...