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Take An Inside Look At The Oval Office
Noted Author Presents at Dowling College on Secret Tapes of Presidents From FDR to Clinton
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The Dowling College Department of History presents an insightful talk by William Doyle, author of Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton on Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 4:00 p.m. in the Fortunoff Hall Hunt Room on Dowling's historic Rudolph Campus in Oakdale. The award-winning author and expert on U.S. presidential history, political conventions, and American politics will present excerpts of secret White House recordings and his book.
The presentation will include information about FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, and Nixon. The author will also reveal the "Top 10 clips", a description of the details and background of each recording system, and a discussion of why and how each President used the recording system. Doyle has interviewed Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld and White House aides to every president from FDR to Bush, and history-makers ranging from civil rights hero James Meredith to Robert Shelton, the former Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America. He has appeared on CNN International and CNN FN as a guest commentator during the funeral of former President Ronald Reagan. Doyle has made over 300 TV and radio appearances since 1999, including ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, C-Span Book TV, Fox & Friends and National Public Radio.
His presidential history Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton was named a Notable Book of the Year in 1999 by The New York Times. Publishers Weekly hailed the book as "an impressive, illuminating account." In 2002 his book An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 (Doubleday), won book awards from the American Bar Association and the American Library Association, was finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post. In 1998 Doyle won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary, one of Hollywood*s highest writing honors, for the A&E Investigative Reports Special, The Secret White House Tapes. He has also served as executive producer and director of original programming for HBO in New York.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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