richard arena, former professor of whittier college. i'm the one who did the richard nixon oral history project which took -- which was a two-year assignment. i was put on leave to do that. it took me all over the country. it took me away from my family. i'm referring to the comments in particular of the last speaker but also the third speaker. nixon's life is very complex. and that i found out. i worked under such historians as thomas c. cochran. some of you may recognize the name. he was president of the american historical association. and i worked under him at the university of pennsylvania. he was a totally committed social historian. even though -- i'm going along with this comment, but it will come to an end -- we historians love to talk. i'm retired. i don't get enough practice. and thomas cochran was an american historian for the wharton school of business. and actually, he was very leftist but very socially oriented. and when i interviewed the some 400 persons who are located now at yorba linda museum and at whittier college u

richard arena, former professor of whittier college. i'm the one that did the richard nixon oral history project which was a two-year assignment. i was put on leave to do that. it took me all over the country. it took me away from my family. i'm referring to the comments in particularly of the last speaker, but also the third speaker nixon's life is very complex and that i found out. i worked under historians like thomas c. cochran who was president of the american historical association and i worked under him the -- i'm going along with this comment, but it will come to an end, we historians love to talk. i'm retired. i don't get enough practice, and thomas cochran was for the wharton school of business, and he was leftist and socially oriented and when i interviewed the some 400 persons who are located now in yorba linda museum and whittier college with the professor, let me say, one person who did publish some of the things i said, quote, you're too wordy. you're too wordy, and i was wordy because i remember one victim of the trainin

up first will be my colleague at whittier college. joe is an associate professor and field librarian with special expertise in nixon material at whittier college's wards and libraries. his most recent article "under the table, michael wilson and the screen play for the bridge on the river quai" which appeared in the spring 2009 issue focused on the politics of the hollywood blacklist. the second speaker earned his master's degree at the university of illinois, chicago, under the direction of richard freid. after completing his graduate work, the professor has taught at various universities and colleges in chicago. he's now at the college of due page and he has researched and written about the career of richard nixon, concentrating on his career in congress. his dissertation topic was nixon in the '50s. our next speaker will bement irv gelman, he's written on the presidency of franklin d. roosevelt, published in 1973 "good neighbor diplomacy" published in 1979 and "secret affairs," published in 1995. he's embarked on a multivolume biog

yorba lenda, whittier and fullerton, nixon's youth was idyllic and he writes in the memoirs about that on a clear day you could see the snows of mt. bald ty to the pacific and whittier was a remarkable enclave, a quaker enclave of theology and education in the 1880s and then to college. it was a diverse community and it was misinterpreted by some authors. he was not the psycho biography that was applied from the cradle although he didn't help us in the memoirs because the first

up first will be my colleague at whittier college. joe is an associate professor and librarian with expertise in nixon materials at whittier college's library. under the table, michael wilson in the screen play that appeared in the issue focused on the politics of the hollywood black list. the second speaker earned his masters at the university of illinois at chicago under the direction of richard freed. after completing his graduate work, the professor taught at various universities and now at the college of du page and he concentrated on his career in congress. his desertation in the 50s. our next speaker is irv gelman. she has written three monographs on roosevelt and published in 1973. good neighbor diplomacy published in 1979 and secret affairs franklin roosevelt and sumner wells published in 1995. since then he embarked on a biography on the life and times of richard nixon. the first is the contender, richard nixon, and the apprenticeship, richard nixon, the vice presidential years. the final will be perspective from someone wit

south pasadena, el monty and whittier. by 1938 nixon registered as a republican. up to that time, melvin small claims nixon was a nonideological centrist. in 1936 or in retrospect, one of his roommates from 1936 and on at the end of his law school career at duke, claimed nixon believed that the individual should push back against big government and big society and big business. an american can never be free if he or she abdicated his or her personal responsibilities to someone else. finally, nixon did pledge in a letter to herman pairry, his first political mentor, a letter dated 6 october, 1945 to practice "practical liberalism " as opposed to " that new brand of liberalism pushed by jerry in the 1946 campaign." this is some of the members of his committee of 100 who helped push his 1946 and 1948 campaigns, it's something that needs to be worked upon. thank you very much. [ applause ] . >> ladies and gentlemen, normally i'm a little irreverent and i'm standing here so she can't get the hook on me but i'm sure she'll grab me. she'll find a way. i'd like to be seri

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