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Friday 8:30–9:15 am

Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory When in Rome Preserving the People’s House
Adrian Goldsworthy Stewart McLaurin
Friday 8:30–9:15 am Friday 8:30–9:15 am
Reflected Glory Jack London Room Walt Disney Room
Sally Bedell Smith Historian and novelist Adrian Goldsworthy will The White House Historical Association (WHHA)
Friday 8:30–9:15 am discuss the creation of the Roman Empire, revealing was founded in 1961 through the efforts of First Lady
John Steinbeck Room how and why the Romans came to control so much Jacqueline Kennedy for the purpose of enhancing the
of the world and asking whether the favorable image understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the
Join biographer Sally Bedell Smith as she recounts
the explosive true story of the woman behind the of the Roman Peace is a true one. Goldsworthy’s “Executive Mansion.” Stewart McLaurin, President
public facade. From her early years as a British new book, Pax Romana, is a groundbreaking and of the WHHA, offers an insider’s view of the White
debutante to her last days as the U.S. Ambassador to comprehensive history of the Roman Peace. House, the official home and workplace of the
France, Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman President of the United States.
dealt with more powerful figures than anyone else in
the twentieth century. In the process, she achieved her
own fame in their reflected glory.

“Personal hatreds and rivalry

loomed larger in most senator’s
minds than the good of the
Republic. [A big problem then
and now].”

— Adrian Goldsworthy,
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
“I would rather have bad
things written about me than
be forgotten.”
— Pamela Harriman

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