the classroom in that little tiny museum and some of them might have been using my grandfather's classroom. i was able to go to paradise bungalow. i visited the town where my grandfather and his family were banished after he spoke up one too many times and, so i think that was important. also, going back to berlin which if any of you spent time in berlin in the cold war you would know what it looked like then and if you haven't been back yet, you should go because it resembles nothing of what it looked like once upon a time.

>> there were several people that were there including his son had been a general and talked about the early days and 45 and 46. very interesting. they said they were way up in the east german government and one other question. could you remind me what it was when they had diplomatic relations and was it when you were there? spinnaker that was there in the 70s and the 80s. >> one story that was told by a woman named joan clark as they negotiate building for the american embassy and east berlin showed her building and set it up to your embassy. underneath is one of tour tunnels because it is right across the street.

so she had shown that and they were amazed. >> interesting. thanks for sharing that. >> this is a tough question. so i sympathize with everything that you said. but when we were supporting iran and latin america and other places, we were using similar tools. how do you see quite the cold war? >> that is a tough question. that requires a lengthy discussion that i don't think there is a simple answer to that one. maybe that is something we can talk about if you stick around

after i signed a few books i would be happy to go into that a little bit more. but that is a loaded question. >> i'm curious to know when you started thinking. did your family to th the storys growing up so it is always something that you knew when did this become a story that you knew he wanted to tell? >> i open the book has a 5-year-old girl into the truth of the matter then my mother didn't have her family and i wondered why.

we didn't have much information coming from the east. any letter that came from the east if it was able to come out was very sparse information that showed up in a good light. but of course we poured over them and tried to get as much as we could but we didn't have much information so it wasn't until

if so that i was able to meet these people first ten or 15 years after. you have to learn to adapt and get on with their lives so it wasn't until ten or 15 years after that we got to know each other and i was able to ask more questions and then little by little in the next years we heard more of a story from all l of the different relatives and pieced them together. there were some amazing discoveries for example when my cousin and i realized when she told me she was training for the olympics in berlin in the years that i was there i grabbed the

map and say where exactly were you and so yes, we only learned of these after the wall so if i pieced them together like a jigsaw puzzle and that is essentially how it was written. any other questions? >> i just want to say that when i knew you back in college i thought you were both pure bliss and now i know why, and this is just fantastic. >> an old friend from college. if there are no additional questions, thank you all for coming. [applause]

[inaudible conversations] i'm here with the author of kennedy's latest love, hitler's perfect beauty in the j. edgar hoover. who was inga? the >> ms. denmark, but much more than that. that. an actress, ballerin ballerina,

anthropologist, explorer, explo, columnist, gossip columnist, screenwriter and editor at harper's bazaar but the love of a kennedy's life. but there were two problems. she was a spy and still married to her second husband. >> based on your research do you believe that is an accurate accusation? has beespinnakers a 1200 page fd i would say that ultimately for several months lik but the entie espionage of new york all based on circumstantial evidence but interestingly when j. edgar hoover himself was convinced that the inga wasn't a spy, president roosevelt intervened to continue the observation. it was a remarkable thing.

firstly you are the author of two other books and why the legacies endure. the man tha amendment lost the o change the nation what do you think it will be of the administration and how the thing this past cycle has affected the united states? the most important thing is that he did following the great financial crisis. it's building upon medicare and moving on to single-payer health system or is it going to get repealed if it's going to get repealed may be the legacy will be less than it is right now but only time will tell.

remember harry truman left office as one of those in america and then 20 years later he was considered one of our great presidents, so time will tell what the legacy is that obviously has a historically significant figure and we will see how that goes. >> host: date for >> how do you think it has affected american? >> mr. trump is unlike anybody we've had in the white house, every president is either held office before or they have been a general in our army and he has been neither so he is a different kind of background it is hard to say what is good to have been. i wrote about the candidates and their impact impact so the quess what will the legacy be. because she i she's the first wo be the nominee and already historically significant the question is what did the

campaign do. if she needs to the era that is either good or bad people will say that is not important or the campaign was not successful but did she change the democratic party that would have been the last. they love to move to the last. but again these things can be told. they need time to give some perspective. barry goldwater, george governed coming ou now from the respectie ec to transform so it'll take a few decades before we know the legacy is.

>> host: this is an unbelievable story. straight out of an alfred hitchcock story with agents, spies, espionage and all sorts of things. it is the history of the presidency i don't think most people are familiar with. if they argue that it was john kennedy becoming president, we think of someone destined to be president but this was the young officer of naval intelligence, the shoveled and most importantly compared to his older brother she did a number of things first of all she bolstered his confidence. she knew adolf hitler, the king and queen of denmark and convinced john kennedy that he had everything it took and was superior. she encouraged jack kennedy to go to his father and tell them

what he wanted to be in life. they didn't know that at the time he had any political aspirations and that he had any political talent. she helped him stand up to his father and get the support he would later need to become president. then because the affair was so scandalous, he was nearly court-martialed out of the navy as an officer of naval intelligence so he eventually ended up in the combat where he became a war hero and at that time jack kennedy thought his career was over because he thought it would be a disaster for his career. when he came back he sat down with a reporter and realized in fact she broke the stor wrote ta template for all about kennedy that portrayed him as a war hero and of course that was the basis for the biography for all the

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