An Evening with Richard Norton Smith

Richard Norton Smith shared his new biography, On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller, with LBJ Presidential Library Friends members on October 28, 2014 at the LBJ Auditorium. Mark Updegrove, director of the LBJ Presidential Library, moderated the event.

Richard Norton Smith is a nationally recognized biographer and presidential historian. From 1987-2001, Norton Smith served as director of the Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Ford presidential libraries. He then spent the next five years as founding director of both the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois. Norton Smith is also C-SPAN’s in-house historian and a frequent guest on The PBS News Hour.

On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller is available in The Store at LBJ online and onsite. Book proceeds benefit the LBJ Presidential Library. Purchase here: http://shop.lbjstore.com/on-his-own-t...

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