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Morris, Edmund - Author
WAS GOING TO START WITH NEW YEAR'S DAY OF 1907 BECAUSE I FOUND OUT QUITE BY ACCIDENT BROWSING THE GINES BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS THAT ON JANUARY 1, 1907,...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
BOOK OUT OF THREE, ONE MILLION WORDS, 25000 PAGES LATER. AS PART OF A CLASS EXERCISE, PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE LATE COLONEL, THOMAS MA HER, MAHER, WROTE,...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HEAD IN FACT MORE OR LESS WHEN I WROTE THE FIRST LINE OF THE FIRST BOOK BECAUSE I
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Morris, Edmund - Author
WAS DOING RESEARCH IN HIS BIRTH PLACE IN NEW YORK WHICH IN THOSE DAYS WAS A DISUSED LIBRARY FULL OF DUSTY OLD PAPERS AND RECORDS. AND I CAME ACROSS THIS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THIS YEAR, 2010. I CALLED MY WIFE UP
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Morris, Edmund - Author
FROM DOWNSTAIRS, I SAID, DARLING, COME AND LOOK AT THIS. AND AS I WROTE IT, SHE STOOD OVER ME AND I TAPPED IT UP, AND THAT WAS THE END OF 30 YEARS OF...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
BEEN ENRICHING, LIFE ENHANCING. EDUCATIONAL, BECAUSE I'M NOT AN AMERICAN -- I'M NOT AMERICAN BORN, AS YOU CAN
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Morris, Edmund - Author
TELL FROM MY ACCIDENT BUT I AM AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO CAME HERE IN 1968 WANTING TO LEARN ABOUT MY COUNTRY OF ADOPTION, AND I COULDN'T THINK OF A BETTER...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
SOME VIDEO OF THAT MOMENT. I ASKED YOU ABOUT THE EARLY INTRODUCTION TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT. LET'S WATCH. >> THERE WAS A PRELIMINARY APPREHENSION OF HIM...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
LOOKED IN THE CIVIC HISTORY OF NAIROBI THAT WAS PUBLISHED TO CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE CITY, AND IT HAD THIS HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
SEPTEMBER 14, 2001 BECAUSE THAT'S
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Morris, Edmund - Author
THE CENT TENRY OF HIS EMERGENCY INAUGURATION. AS MCKINLEY'S SUCCESSOR. >> ARE YOU ON TIME THIS TIME ALSO WITH THE THIRD BOOK? >> I WAS JUST THINKING,...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
SEPTEMBER 14, 2001 BECAUSE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THREE
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Morris, Edmund - Author
DAYS AFTER 9/11. AND I DON'T THINK ANYBODY IN THE COUNTRY READ A BOOK FOR THE NEXT TWO MONTHS. AS IT HAPPENED, IT WAS SLIGHTLY DELAYED AND IT CAME...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
I'VE BEEN INCREASINGLY IMPRESSED BY THE QUALITY OF HIS INLEBT. IT WAS ALWAYS OBVIOUS TO ME RIGHT FROM THE
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Morris, Edmund - Author
START HE WAS A SUPERBLY BRIGHT MAN BUT I THOUGHT HIS SMARTS WERE PRIMARILY POLITICAL. AND, INDEED, THEY WERE FOR MOST OF HIS MIDDLE YEARS. BUT AFTER...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
YOU, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE ABOUT WRITING ABOUT A MAN WHO HAS BEEN DEAD FOR YEARS VERSUS A MAN WHO WAS ALIVE? WHAT ARE THE TWO EXPERIENCES LIKE? >>...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
WRITE ABOUT A LIVE PERSON OR A DEAD PERSON? AND I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND I WAS STRUGGLING TO THINK WHAT I SAID AND MY WIFE SHOUTED OUT, DEAD...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
TO? >> I INTERVIEWED HIS YOUNGEST SON -- HIS SECOND YOUNGEST SON JUST SHORTLY BEFORE HE DIED AND
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Morris, Edmund - Author
ALSO ALICE ROOSEVELT WHEN SHE WAS PRETTY ANCIENT. AND DESCENDENTS, GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN WHO HAD TO A CERTAIN EXTENT BEEN HELPFUL. I GUESS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
FAMILY AND FRIENDS. AND YOU TALK ABOUT NANCY REAGAN. I WANT TO RUN THAT AND GET YOUR REACTION TO WHAT YOU SAID BACK THEN. >> ALWAYS BEEN THROUGHOUT...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
TOTALLY BESOTTED WITH HER HUSBAND. AND SHE HAD ANY INKLING OR ANY SUSPICIOUS SPIGS SHOULD I SAY THAT I WAS GOING TO WRITE A BOOK THAT WAS GOING TO...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THAT BOOK BROUGHT UP, THE RELATIONSHIPS YOU'VE HAD? HAVE YOU TALKED TO HER SINCE THEN? >> NO. I KNEW I WOULD NOT. I SENT HER THE FIRST COPY THE DAY...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
NOT GOING TO BE WHAT YOU WERE HOPING FOR, NANCY, BUT I HOPE THAT AS THE YEARS GO BY YOU'LL REALIZE, IF NOT FROM READING IT YOURSELF, BUT FROM WHAT OTHER...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WRITERS WANT. I THINK I PIONEERED A NEW FORM OF BIOGRAPHY.
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Morris, Edmund - Author
AND OVER THE YEARS SINCE, OTHER BOOKS HAVE COME OUT THAT USE SIMILAR TECHNIQUES. I THINK I WAS ON TO SOMETHING NEW. GREAT BRITAIN, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
AND WHAT I LIKE IS LITERARY CHALLENGES. TO WRITE ABOUT RONALD REAGAN
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Morris, Edmund - Author
WAS A LITERARY CHALLENGE BECAUSE HE WAS A VERY DIFFICULT MAN TO PENETRATE. T.R. IS A LITERARY CHALLENGE BECAUSE HE'S SO ENORMOUS AND SO MULTIFASTESTED....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
COMPOSERS. BALK, FOR EXAMPLE,
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Morris, Edmund - Author
IS A COMPOSER OF EQUAL STATURE BUT HIS CHARACTER IS AMORPHOUS AND DIFFICULT TO GET AT. BUT BEETHOVEN WAS SO HUMAN AND SO COMPLEX THAT IT WAS A DELIGHT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
YEAH. >> WHEN WE LAST TALKED YOU HAD A HOUSE OVER HERE ON CAPITOL HILL AND A PLACE TO LIVE UP IN NEW YORK. WHAT'S HAPPENED
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Lamb, Brian - Host
SINCE? >> WELL, I LEFT WASHINGTON IN -- SHORTLY AFTER THE PUBLICICATION OF THEODORE REX IN 2001 AND MOVED
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Morris, Edmund - Author
TO CONNECTICUT. I HAVE AN APARTMENT IN NEW YORK CITY WHICH IS ALWAYS BEEN THERE. SO I DIVIDE MY TIME BETWEEN CONNECTICUT AND NEW YORK. >> THREE BOOKS,...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HIS PRE-PRESIDENTIAL LIFE. IT ENDS WITH A CLIFF HANGER THE MOMENT HE HEARS ON THE SUMMIT
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Morris, Edmund - Author
OF MOUNT MARSI IN NEW YORK THAT PRESIDENT MCKINLEY'S BEEN ASSASSINATED AND THAT HE AS VICE PRESIDENT IS NOW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. >> WHERE...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
ABOUT. REX, WHAT'S
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THAT ERA? >> REX DESCRIBES HIS PRESIDENTIAL YEARS. 1901 TO
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Morris, Edmund - Author
18909. >> THE -- 1909. >> THE THIRD ONE, COLONEL ROOSEVELT, IS FOR WHAT PERIOD? >> THAT'S THE FINAL TEN YEARS
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Lamb, Brian - Host
OF T.R.'S LIFE. 1909 TO
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Morris, Edmund - Author
1919. >> GIVEN WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW, WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS FINAL BOOK
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Lamb, Brian - Host
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS IN A COUNTRY WHERE PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY OR, IN HIS CASE, HE WAS A THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATE? WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT THIRD-PARTIES AND WHEN...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
SHORTLY AFTER HED COME BACK TO THE COUNTRY AFTER HAVING BEEN A YEAR AWAY, T.R. BECAME THE SPOKESMAN, THE ORKLE OF THIS NEW FORCE ARISING IN AMERICA...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
BUT HE SORT OF KNEW IN HIS HEART OF HEARTS THAT IF HE HAD ANOTHER TERM, WHICH HE COULD HAVE HAD ON A SILVER PLATTER, IF HE SERVED ANOTHER FOUR YEARS,...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HE WAS PICKED AS VICE PRESIDENT BY WILLIAM MCKINLEY IN 1900. LARGELY TO KEEP HIM
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Morris, Edmund - Author
OUT OF THE WAY BECAUSE HE WAS ALREADY PRETTY UNIVERSAL CONSENT DESTINED TO BE PRESIDENT IN HIS OWN RIGHT. SO MCKINLEY TOOK HIM AS HIS VICE PRESIDENT....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
BY? >> IT WAS NOT REALLY A REELECTION. HE WAS ELECTED IN HIS OWN RIGHT BY A HUGE MARGIN. I THINK IT WAS THE
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Morris, Edmund - Author
BIGGEST PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY UP TO THAT TIME. AND HE WOULD HAVE HAD A SIMILAR MAJORITY IF HE HAD RUN AGAIN IN 1908 WHICH CONSTITUTIONALLY HE COULD HAVE....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
START THINKING ABOUT DOING IT AGAIN? >> HE WENT TO AFRICA ON A GIGANTIC SAFARI WHICH LASTED ALMOST A YEAR. AND IN
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Morris, Edmund - Author
ODD DRIBS AND DRABS, MAIL, WHICH WOULD REACH HIM BY THE ODD NAKED RUNNER, LETTERS FROM FRIENDS IN AMERICA, HE BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT PRESIDENT TAFT WAS...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
BUT T.R. RELUCTANTLY AGREED TO DO HIM A FAVOR AND HELP HIM CAMPAIGN FOR PRIMARY REFORM. AND BY MAKING THAT FATEFUL DECISION TO HELP OUT A STRUGGLING...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
SIGNALED THAT IN JANUARY OF 1912. BY THEN, THE PRESSURE
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Morris, Edmund - Author
FOR HIM TO RUN WAS SO ENORMOUS THAT HE REALLY COULDN'T RESIST IT. AND, TO BE HONEST, HE HAD IN HIS HEART AMBITION WHICH BEGAN TO DOMINATE HIM. LIKE ALL...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HE ONLY HAD TEN YEARS. HOW SICK WAS HE ALL THROUGH HIS LIFE? >> HIS HEALTH SEEMED TO BE EXCELLENT. HE WAS A STRONG, FLORD, ENORMOUSLY ENERGY
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Morris, Edmund - Author
GENETIC MAN. BUT PRIVATELY HE DID HAVE MEDICAL PROBLEMS. I THINK HE ALWAYS HAD A FLUTRY HEART AND HIS HEALTH PROBLEMS BEGAN TO BE MANIFEST AROUND ABOUT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
IN OTHER WORDS, YOUR FIRST BOOK WAS IN 79. BUT WHEN DID YOU START THE PROCESS? >> IT
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WAS ODDLY ENOUGH AFTER RICHARD NIXON RESIGNED THE WHITE
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Morris, Edmund - Author
HOUSE. NIXON, AS YOU MAY RECALL, IN HIS FAIR WELL SPEECH TO THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF, SUDDENLY STARTED TO QUOTE ROOSEVELT. >> HE QUOTED THIS LITTLE PASSAGE....
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Morris, Edmund - Author
SORROW AS A FAIR YOUNG FLOWER SHE LIVED AND AS A FAIR FLOWER SHE DIED. I THINK NIXON WAS TALKING ABOUT HIS MOTHER BUT I GOT CURIOUS AS TO WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WRI DID YOU START TO SEE WHAT HE WAS ALL ABOUT, PLACE THAT IS YOU RUMMAGED THROUGH? >> I BEGAN TO GET A PHYSICAL FEEL FOR HIM, WHICH IS PORPT FOR A BIOGRAPHER....
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Morris, Edmund - Author
THE ABILITY TO IMAGINE THIS PERSON IN THE ROOM , OR WITHIN VISIBLE DISTANCE. ONE MUST HAVE A PALPABLE FEELING OF THE SUBJECT OR IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO WRITE...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THE SAME DISEASE THAT TOOK OFF WOODROW WILSON'S WIFE SHORTLY AFTER WILSON
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Morris, Edmund - Author
BECAME PRESIDENT. >> WHAT IS BRIGHT'S DISEASE? >> ACUTE GLOMLAR NEVADA RIGHT TISS. >> KIDNEY DISEASE. THEY HAD ONE CHILD, ALICE
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Morris, Edmund - Author
ROOSEVELT LONG WORTH. >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> WHAT
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HAPPENED? I MEAN, SHE IS AROUND IN MY LIFETIME. I REMEMBER SEEING HER IN THIS TOWN. WHAT
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WAS SHE LIKE AND WHAT, SHE WAS MARRIED TO A FORMER SPOOK SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE FROM OHIO OR -- SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. IS THERE ANY CONNECTION THERE? >>...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
AWAY LIKE A SACK OF SALT AND WENT WEST TO RECOVER FROM THE DEATH OF ALICE. BUT WHEN HE CAME BACK TO MARRY HIS SECOND WHIFE, WHO HAPPENED TO BE HIS CHILDHOOD...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
MARRIED HIS SECOND WIFE IN 1886, WHICH WAS ONLY TWO YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF ALICE
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Morris, Edmund - Author
LEE. AND IT WAS AN EXTREMELY HAPPY MARRIAGE, AN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL ONE. AND SHE LASTED AS LONG AS THE ADMINISTRATION OF HARRY TRUMAN. AND THE CHILDREN...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
1980. TED TURNED OUT TO BE A MAGNIFICENT SOLDIER IN WORLD WAR ONE, CAME BACK IN WORLD WAR II TO BE A GENERAL WHO WENT ASHORE ON D DAY. WITH THE THIRD...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
TO VARIOUS PRODUCERS FOR 30 YEARS. BUT NOW VERY ENCOURAGINGLY,
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Morris, Edmund - Author
IT'S BEEN TAKEN OVER BY A PRODUCER WHO IS INTERESTED, TAYLOR, A VERY IMMINT HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR. AND I BELIEVE THEY'RE TALKING TO H.B.O. THAT'S THE LATEST....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HARD BACK COPY ABOUT YOUR FIRST BOOK. WHAT'S THE STATUS? ARE THEY REISSUING ALL YOUR BOOKS THIS YEAR? >>
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Lamb, Brian - Host
YES. THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT IS COMING OUT IN A NEW HARDBACK EDITION, WHICH I'M HAPPY
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Morris, Edmund - Author
TO SEE YOU'VE GOT THERE, EXACTLY UNIFORM WITH THE OTHER TWO BOOKS. SO THE THREE OF THEM, THE COMPLETE TRILOGY, IS GOING TO BE AVAILABLE THIS SEASON AS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
YOU HAVE AS MUCH DETAIL I'VE SEEN ON IT. AND THAT IS THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN OCTOBER OF 1912 IN MILWAUKEE. AND YOU SAY AT...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
UNEMPLOYED TAVERN KEEPER IN NEW YORK REACTED TO THE DEATH OF MCKINLEY AND THE ACSESSION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT BY HAVING A VISION IN WHICH THE DEAD...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
THERE. SO FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE HE WALKED AROUND WITH A SLUG IN HIS CHEST. >> I REMEMBER SEEING DOWN AT THE AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM HERE THE GLASS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THIS 51-PAGE SPEECH. AND THEN I REMEMBER SEEING A SHIRT IN NORTH DAKOTA NEAR HIS RANCH THAT HAD A HOLE IN IT. ROAR THAT'S RIGHT. AND THE BLOOD STAIN....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
SHIRT AND THE SPEECH, THE PER FOR YATED SPEECH WITH THE BULLET HOLE GOING THROUGH IT, I THINK THEY
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Morris, Edmund - Author
BOTH BELONG IN NEW YORK. AT LEAST THAT'S WHERE I LAST SAW THEM. AND IT'S PRETTY CREEPY TO GO THERE AND LOOK AT THEM. >> WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JOHN SHRANK?...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HE SPENT THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN JAIL.
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Morris, Edmund - Author
DYING, I THINK, IN THE 19 40'S. >> YOU ALSO TALKED ABOUT HOW ROOSEVELT WENT OVER TO HIM AND GRABBED HIM WITH HIS HANDS. WHAT WAS THAT ALL
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Lamb, Brian - Host
ABOUT? >> YES. THE SECURITY MEN AROUND TMPLE R. WERE WRESTLING THE GUY TO THE GROUND IN A FRENZY, JUST
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Morris, Edmund - Author
AS THEY WRESTLED JOHN HINKLEY. AND THE ONE SECURITY GUY WAS REALLY TRYING TO BREAK HIS NECK. SO T.R. CALLED OUT, DON'T KILL HIM. BRING HIM HERE. AND...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WERE THEY? AND HOW LONG WAS HE IN THE HOSPITAL? >> HE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL FOR I THINK TEN OR 12 DAYS. BUT IT TOOK SEVERAL WEEKS BEFORE HE BEGAN TO...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
BY WHICH TIME THE CAMPAIGN WAS PRACTICALLY OVER. HE MADE ONE FINAL SPEECH IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. A COUPLE NIGHTS BEFORE THE ELECTION OF NOVEMBER 1912....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
COME OUT WITH WOODROW WILSON WINNING BECAUSE THE
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Morris, Edmund - Author
THIRD PARTY CANDIDACY OF T. RRMT AND HIS PROGRESSIVES SPLIT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. AND ELECTED WOODROW WILSON. >> I WROTE DOWN SOMEWHERE THE ACTUAL...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
AND, AS YOU SAID IN THE BEGINNING HE GOT THE MOST VOTE OF ANY THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATE. WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN WRITING ABOUT THIS THIRD-PARTY CANDIDACY THAT...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
IN THE SENATE, WHICH WAS -- HAD A GOOD DEAL OF POWER AS A SWING UNIT. BUT WHAT I THINK IS MORRELL VANCE TO TODAY'S POLITICAL SITUATION IS THAT WHEN...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
IF T.R. HAD BEEN NOMINATED BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, IN THE SPRING OF 1912, HE WOULD
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Morris, Edmund - Author
HAVE BROUGHT ALL THE PROGRESSIVES WITH HIM. THEY WERE MOSTLY REPUBLICANS. AND HE WOULD HAVE HAD A HUNAL VOTE AND WITHOUT QUESTION HAVE BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THIRD EDITION, I HAVEN'T GOT THEODORE REX WITH ME BUT THE FIRST BOOK YOU DIDN'T DO IT THE SAME WAY IS YOU HAD THESE BIOGRAPHCAL NOTES, THE HISTORICAL...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
IS DOING DEEP RESEARCH INTO A CHARACTER ONE COMES UP WITH REALLY INTERESTING STUFF WHICH DOESN'T
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Morris, Edmund - Author
EASILY FIT INTO THE NARRATIVE. FOR EXAMPLE, I HAVE A VERY LONG BUY GRAPHICCAL FOOT NOTHE THERE ABOUT HIS MAMMARY WHICH GOES ON IN GREAT DETAIL, GIVES...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WRITE THEM, PUT THEM TO THE SIDE? >> THAT'S THE JOY OF THE
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Lamb, Brian - Host
COMPUTER. WHEN I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK ON ENORMOUS SHEETS OF MANU SCRIPT PAPER 11
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Morris, Edmund - Author
BY 22, I WOULD HAVE TO DO ALL THE FOOT NOTES IN MICROSCOPICALLY SMALL HAND WRITHING AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH PAGE. AND THEN IF A PARAGRAPH WAS MOVED TO...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
DUTCH. >> AND HAD
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Morris, Edmund - Author
YOU ALREADY DONE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF YOUR SECOND ROOSEVELT BOOK? >>
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Lamb, Brian - Host
YES. I HAD DONE ABOUT SEVEN CHAPTERS WHICH I COMPLETELY REWROTE 15 YEARS LATER WHEN
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Morris, Edmund - Author
I WENT BACK BECAUSE I HAD CHANGED AS A WRITER BY THEN. AND SO THEODORE REX, WHICH FOLLOWED DUSM, WAS MORE OR LESS A NEW BOOK. >> HOW HAD YOU CHANGED...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WISER. WHEN I STARTED THEODORE
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Morris, Edmund - Author
REX, I WAS NOT VERY HIP AS A STUDENT OF PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS. THEREFORE, I FOUND IT VERY DIFFICULT TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT HIS PRESIDENCY WHEN I DIDN'T...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THE WHITE HOUSE DURING THOSE, THAT LAST TERM OF HIS? >> NO, I DIDN'T. BUT I CAME AND WENT QUITE FREELY SO IT WAS THROUGH MOST OF 1985
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Morris, Edmund - Author
THROUGH 1989 PLUS ALL THE TIME I SPENT WITH HIM AFTER HE LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE. >> WHEN WE VISITED WITH YOU AT YOUR HOME ON CAPITOL HILL A LOT OF YEARS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
DID YOU DO THE SAME THING WITH THEODORE ROOSEVELT? >> YES. I'VE GOT YARDS AND YARDS OF CARDS. >> WHAT DO YOU DO WITH ALL THOSE OLD
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Morris, Edmund - Author
CARDS? >> IT'S A QUESTION. I SUPPOSE ONE DAY I'LL ARCHIVE THEM
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Lamb, Brian - Host
IN SOME FASHION. BUT AT THE MOMENT, I HAVE THEM ALL STASHED
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Morris, Edmund - Author
IN STEEL CABINETS IN MY HOUSE IN KENT. >> HERE'S A CRON LOGICAL NOTE IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK. AN IMPORTANT CHAPTER IN TR'S LIFE CAME TO AN END
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Lamb, Brian - Host
ON 14 NOVEMBER 1915 WHEN BOOKER T. WASHINGTON DIED. T.R. SPOKE AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICE. WHY WAS THAT AN IMPORTANT MOMENT IN HIS LIFE? >> WELL, HE HAD...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
AMERICA IN THOSE DAYS. IN FACT, WHEN T.R. BECAME PRESIDENT, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON WAS THE FIRST PERSON HE TELEGRAPHED TO COME TO WASHINGTON AND CONSULT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHOR, YOU, SPECULATED THAT T.R. PROBABLY HAD, WAS BORN WITH, BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE. PEOPLE WITH THAT PROBLEM OFTEN COMPENSATE...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
ADVISE YOU TO LIVE A SCHOLARLY AND SEDENTARY LIFE AND NOT DO ANYTHING TOO PHYSICAL. AND HIS REACTION WAS, I'M GOING TO DO EVERYTHING YOU TOLD ME NOT...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
COMPENDIUM OF HIS MEDICAL INFORMATION. AND I SHOWED IT TO THE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF SLOAN KETERING. AND THEY BOTH HAVE THE FEELING THAT IT WAS PRIMARILY...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
NOTE. T.R.'S MEMORY. AND YOU MENTIONED THIS. WAS AS COMPREHENSIVE AS IT WAS PHOTOGRAPHIC.
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Lamb, Brian - Host
IT WENT FAR BEYOND THE NORMAL POLITICIANS OF REMEMBERING NAMES AND FACES ALTHOUGH HIS ABILITY IN THAT REGARD WAS PHENOMENAL. WHAT HE SAW AND HEARD,...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
WAS I CAME ACROSS A LETTER THAT T.R. WROTE HIS SON KERMT IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION SAYING DAD, DO YOU REMEMBER A POEM BY I THINK HER NAME WAS EDITH WATERS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
CAVALIER EVEN WITH THE SCRIPTS OF HIS MAJOR ADDRESS' PRINTED IN T.R., WORKS . IT'S I ASSUME. >> HIS COLLECTED WORKS. >> THE HUMOR HE USED TO TEMPER...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THAT INFUSED THESE FRIKETLY DULL TEXTS WITH LIFE. HOW MUCH HUMOR DID HE USE? AND I ASSUME IT WASN'T IN THE TEXT SO HOW DID YOU FIND OUT? >> HE WAS ONE...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
OVER THE TIME. AND UNFORTUNATELY TRANSSCRIPTION SEEMS TO BE FROM THE ACTUAL TYPE SCRIPT THAT HE HAD HAND OUT TO REPORTERS. SO HIS IMPROVIZATION, THE...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
TO WRITE? >> THEODORE REX IS THE HARDEST BECAUSE IT WAS A POLITICAL STORY. I DO HAVE TO STRUGGLE WHEN I'M
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Morris, Edmund - Author
WRITING ABOUT POLITICS. BECAUSE MY NATURE IS TO WRITE ABOUT EVENTS AND ACTION AND CHARACTER. I'M NOT VERY HAPPY WITH ABSTRACT ISSUES OF POLICY AND STUFF....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
ROOSEVELT IN ALBANY AND SLUMPED IN HIS CHAIR PUFFING ON A CIGAR AND REFUSING TO GET UP WHEN WOMEN CAME IN THE ROOM. >> WINSTON CHURCHILL. T.R. USED...
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Morris, Edmund - Author
SAID HE'S THE GENTLEMAN. WINSTON CHURCHILL, THE ENGLISH POLITICIAN, IS SOMEONE DOY NOT CARE TO MEET. IN FACT, WHEN HE WAS IN ENGLAND FOR THE FUNERAL,...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WORKED WITH BOB ON THEODORE REX, ON DUTCH, AND CLORNL ROOSEVELT. >> IS HE STILL ACTIVE? >>
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Morris, Edmund - Author
YES. >> IN HIS MID 80S? >> YES. HE'S ALREADY ASKED ME WHAT I WANT TO DO NEXT. HE'S 85, IN. >> WHAT DO YOU WANT TO
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Morris, Edmund - Author
DO NEXT? >> I HAVEN'T DECIDED. I KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE SHORT. NO MORE PRESIDENTS. >> WHY NOT? >>
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Morris, Edmund - Author
THERE'S NO MORE PRESIDENT MORE INTERESTING TO ME THAN THEODORE ROOSEVELT. >>
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Morris, Edmund - Author
WHERE WOULD YOU PUT RONALD REAGAN NEXT TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN YOUR
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Lamb, Brian - Host
INTERESTS? >> PRETPI WELL ON THE -- PRETTY WELL ON THE SAME LEVEL. I FOUND HIM QUITE
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Morris, Edmund - Author
INTERESTING. I FOUND HIS FASCINATING BECAUSE OF HIS REMOTES IN AND BECAUSE OF HIS UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF WHO AND WHERE HE WAS. WHERE T.R. KNEW EXACTLY....
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Morris, Edmund - Author
SAID, ON THEODORE ROOSEVELT. THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
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Lamb, Brian - Host
ROOSEVELT REX, OR KNEES DOOR REX. AND THIS LATEST BOOK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU. >>
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