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06215aam a2200577 i 4500 001 AB3A7F1A1E3F11EAA58222FC96128E48 003 SILO 005 20191214010106 008 180817t20182018dcua 001 0aeng c 010 $a 2018289460 020 $a 0815736991 020 $a 9780815736998 035 $a (OCoLC)1048945904 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d DBI $d OCLCF $d WVU $d XII $d SDB $d IGA $d BUF $d VKC $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OBE $d IUL $d PUL $d NJR $d OCLCO $d YOU $d ROB $d DLC $d VVB $d IaU $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us 050 4 $a E840.8.H48 $b A3 2018 082 14 $a 973.92092 $b H586YH 2018 100 1 $a Hess, Stephen, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50029529 245 10 $a Bit player : $b my life with presidents and ideas / $c Stephen Hess. 246 30 $a My life with presidents and ideas 264 1 $a Washington, D. C. : $b Brookings Institution Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xviii, 201 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a Foreword -- Preface -- Eisenhower -- First words - Getting there - First politics, 1952 - Enter Professor Moos - Drafted - The Eisenhower White House, 1958-61 - The staff -- The 1960 election - Speeches - Remembering Ike -- Nixon - Interregnum, 1961 - The Harlow miracle - Working for Richard Nixon - California, 1962 - November 22, 1963 - A bookmaker - Lincoln Week, 1966 - Harvard, 1967-68 - MIami Beach, 1968 - The 1968 campaign and Spiro T. Agnew - Deputy Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs - To HEW - The White House Conference on Children - A White House conference on youth - What next? - Leave-taking, 1972 -- Brookings - Settling in - Governmental Studies - Things to do - Watergate - Talk - The Presidency book - Newswork - Transitions -- Beth's list: a summing up - September 11, 2001 - Des Moines, Iowa, 1976 - Kansas City, 1976 - United Nations, 1974 and 1978 - Make-A-Wish Foundation - Campaign Etiquette - Political cartoons - The notorious RBG - Hyman Rickover, "Father of the Nuclear Navy",1954 -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1977 - Richard Avedon, 1990 - Oliver Stone, 1994 - Former British Prime Minister John Major, 2009 - Circles within circles -- Afterword -- Thanks. 520 $a "The title "Bit Player" perfectly reflects Stephen Hess's long and distinguished career as a Washington insider. As a 25-year-old, recently discharged Army private in 1958, he suddenly found himself as part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's speechwriting team that ultimately helped draft the famed "Farewell Address" warning of the influence of the "military industrial complex." Then over the next two decades, Hess played bit roles aiding Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan--along the way observing up-close those presidents and many other senior political leaders. During his subsequent four-and-a-half decades at the Brookings Institution, Hess was well-positioned to monitor and comment on the achievements and failures of successive administrations. This memoir by a certified member of Washington's old-guard establishment is rich with insight into contemporary American democracy, poignant in its reflections of avoidable missteps by even the best and most experienced leaders, and consistently good-humored in the author's self-awareness of his own role behind the scenes of political power. Now in his mid-eighties, still involved at Brookings as a "senior fellow emeritus," Hess uses this memoir to look back at what he describes as concentric circles of research, travel, advising, writing, and teaching. But more than just a memoir, Bit Player offers deeply informed commentary on the major political actors and seminal events in the nation's capital over the past six decades. One of the foremost authorities on media and government in the United States, Stephen Hess is a senior fellow emeritus in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He first joined Brookings in 1972 and was distinguished research professor of media and public affairs at the George Washington University (2004-2009). Hess served on White House staff during the Eisenhower and Nixon presidencies and as advisor to Presidents Ford and Carter."--Amazon.com 600 10 $a Hess, Stephen. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50029529 600 10 $a Eisenhower, Dwight D. $q (Dwight David), $d 1890-1969. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79066408 600 10 $a Nixon, Richard M. $q (Richard Milhous), $d 1913-1994. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018757 610 20 $a Brookings Institution. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81067841 600 17 $a Eisenhower, Dwight D. $q (Dwight David), $d 1890-1969. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00037714 600 17 $a Hess, Stephen. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01434099 600 17 $a Nixon, Richard M. $q (Richard Milhous), $d 1913-1994. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00031384 610 27 $a Brookings Institution. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00557808 650 7 $a Speechwriters. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01129431 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $x Staff. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85106491 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 20th century. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455 650 0 $a Political scientists $z United States $v Biography. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109708 650 0 $a Speechwriters $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a Political scientists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069858 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Presidents $x Staff. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01075812 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026047 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423686 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423686 710 2 $a Brookings Institution, $e issuer of publication. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81067841 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019012638.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AB3A7F1A1E3F11EAA58222FC96128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search