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Timothy Naftali, Director of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and a renowned scholar on the Cold War and espionage, spoke at Cornell on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. His talk was titled "Why Are We Scared?: Real and Imagined Dangers in the Cold War and Today." Following his lecture in King Chapel, Naftali sign ed copies of his latest work, Khrushchev’s Cold War, at a reception in Cole Library.
Previously, Naftali was associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and director of the Presidential Recordings Program at the university’s Miller Center for Public Affairs, which is responsible for transcribing telephone conversations and meetings secretly recorded by Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon during their tenures in the White House.
Naftali has served as a historical consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice on the Nazi War Crimes and Imperial Japanese Government Records Interagency Working Group, helping to facilitate the declassification of all official records pertaining to U.S. knowledge of Nazi war crimes and war criminals. He also assisted in declassifying official records for the 9/11 Commission.
His other publications include Blindspot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism (2005), U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis (2004; 2005), The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy, Volumes 1 & 2" (2001) and One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964 (1997).
Kollman Memorial Lecture Series speakers list
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