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so our evenings program mary pat will moderate. chris will try to answer, maybe try to get run the questions we don't know yet and then we'll have some q&a with the mic right here in the center if you want to jump up and ask a question. and then please don't be bashful to ask questions. without further ado i present mary pat and chris christie. [applause] here thank you, peter. want to make sure i don't have any feedback on this but but this is really really great. this is a nice a nice cozy group and and i just wanted to say thank you to peter and the board the library's been an important part of our our life and our families life for the last 30 years, which is amazing. we've been here for 30 years. so we really we really appreciate all that the libraries do and i actually just paid a fine a $40 fine to the library to two weeks ago. i had to pick up a book and i guess i hadn't been in a couple years. um, so i my $40 fine. you don't even want to know. it was a book club book anyway, so, um well, thank you to everybody for coming o

i said this to trump in 2017 mary pat was there. we went for lunch with the president.valentine's day 2017 office three weeks and he called and invited us to come down and have lunch with him. he wasn't exactly my idea of valentine's day, you know meal but i got to bring mary i got to bring you so it was okay. and and he said to me. like look around. can you believe i'm here, you know, and he was showing me the oval officer and i was like, well, yeah sure you won and we sat down to talk about it at lunch and i said to him remember something. you didn't win this election. she lost it. i see that mr. president doesn't matter. because your hand was on the bible on january 20th, you're sleeping upstairs. you're sitting in this office. it doesn't matter. but now you need to make the next four years about you. so that you because you'll be the one being judged for years from now. and i said the same thing happened to me. and what i want to know nine. i didn't win. john corzine lost i mean, i'm not a big enough ego maniac to think that everybody went. oh my god. what i really

mary and linda. there is no such thing as plastic pat. that is purely a media construct. that's a false narrative that needs to be corrected. thank you so much. >> one thing i did want to say we were talking earlier is prior to pat nixon being unheralded is you have to realize she was the only first lady from misses johnson forward who did not do her own memoirs. later on, julie did a biography but she was very reticent about herself. that is another element. i also think that what the panelists were saying in terms of the west wing which is the president's staff and the east wing was true. she wasn't empowered in the way other first ladies were. we do have questions, i thought it was a fascinating panel. the questions one is asked -- talks about the east wing struggles it seems that the west wing staff overshadowed mrs. nixon's achievements and our efforts toward equality. how does history rectify that issue? i wonder why tricia and julie have not publicly written about their mother as a person driven by principles of equality? that is from our own. heavy disappeared? co