>> guest: yes in 1940 very briefly wendell wilkie was running against roosevelt and he was afraid heould get his third term so he went to the justice charles hughes and asked him to resign from the court in the middle of the campaign against roosevelt. roosevelt had a big battle a few years ago that cost him a lot of political support and he had been an opponent. hoover came up with this idea that this gesture might turn the tide of the campaign. he thought he couldn't put them in jeopardy that way by using his position to leave it and then do this and i think he also felt that he would appoint a new dealer and he didn't stay on the court much longer but this is one of the documents i found that hoover doesn't talk about in the regular book but i felt it belongs in an appendix because it's a rather sensational it would have been had it happened. >> host: with his own sense of importance any sort of cassandra knowing something added how to conduct yourself which is different as a next president. i worked with president bush and one of the things with incredible graciousness at pulling

he started to write in 1840 after wendell wilkie got the nomination for president and hoover realizedthat was his last chance, so he set his life seeking a new turn and started putting his immense energy into returning to six volumes of memoirs. four of them published in his lifetime. ferry to last, one of which historians knew about because tarver had referred to it in other places, but had not yet seen. after hoover died in 1964, the magnum lopez that he and his staff used for the enormous book about world war ii and its aftermath and the great errors hit that roosevelt had made. magnum opus, which was good and i have ultimately the title freedom betrayed was put in storage by his heirs after he died in 1964. so far as i can determine, the people who made the decision or long deceased, derek. it would be possibly likely to cause an unseemly controversy and reopen old political values if the manuscript were published just after his state funeral. his elder statesman at that point in his life. he's 90 years old when he died. you turn around with a bunch of the past. so they put them i

. >> guest: it is part of a set of memoirs that he began to write after wendell wilkie got the nominationfor the republicans and he realized that was his last chance so he said he is taking a new turn of immense energy into writing what turned into six volumes of memoirs. there were two left but of which they referred to in other places but hadn't yet seen. after hoover died in 1964, this manuscript called the magnum opus that was used in world war ii and its aftermath and his critique of what you saw as roosevelt's foreign-policy id the great. that was put in storage by his heirs after he died in 1964 and as far as i can determine if the peoplthatthe people that made te decision are long deceased, they were concerned it would be lengthy to cause the controversy and open the political battles if manuscript published after the state funeral at that point in his life he's 90-years-old and that didn't seem like the right moment so they put it in storage and it was actually not until another generation to bring that into the publication. that cannot freedom betrayed. i give you all that prelu