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Booktv recently attended a book party for ken walsh, chief White House Correspondent for u. S. News and world report. Or his most recent book ultimate insiders white house photographers and how they shape history. This is about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] howre you . Good. This is great. A lot of familiar faces. Well have some white house photographers and white house folks and people who have covered all the stuff like you have. Great. Im glad youre here. Are you going to have a little talk . A couple of surprise moments. Thanks for coming. Thank you. Hey. Nice to see you. Thank you...

Purchased in 1911 to do forestry experiments on. He offered to build his wife eleanor a Little Cottage here because the early 1920s, she was getting very active in political life, and she really needed her own space to bring friends and associates, to have a place for she could talk politics and plan political strategy. Fdr realized the big house really didnt serve Eleanor Roosevelts purposes well, because that was her motherinlaws house and choose she used to say that for years, she was just a visitor 40 there. It was important for her to have her own space where she could really do things th...

Features his springwood estate, his president ial library next door and also the final resting places of fdr and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. We visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. Roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. It really was not until my grandmothers funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. And something of a celebrity. And seeing, you know, the president , two expresident s, one future president and all sorts...

His president ial library next door and also the final resting places of fdr and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. We visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. Roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. It really was not until my grandmothers funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. And something of a celebrity. And seeing, you know, the president , two expresident s, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplom...

Very First National Historic Site to be dedicated to a first lady. And the only Historic Site dedicated to one first lady. Well, valkill encompasses two major buildings. The first building, the stone cottage, was built in 1925 to initially serve as a retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt and her two political mentors nancy dook and marianne dickerman. It was build on the eastern most part of the roosevelt property at the time. It was land fdr purchased in 1911 to do forestry experiments on. He offered to build eleanor a Little Cottage here because by the early 1920s she was getting very active in poli...