Thursday, 6 March Williamsburg Room Light Refreshments - 6:30 p.m. | Speaker - 7 p.m. $6 per person Click here to register! In America’s collective consciousness, Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted “Most Admired Woman in the World” in 1972 and made Gallup Poll’s top ten list of most admired women fourteen times. She survived the turmoil of the Watergate scandal with her popularity and dig- nity intact. The real Pat Nixon, however, bore little resemblance to the woman so often described as elusive, mysterious and “plastic” in the press. Pat married Richard Nixon in June of 1940. As the cou- ple rose to prominence, Pat became Second Lady from 1953-1961 and then First Lady from 1969- 1974, forging her own graceful path between the protocols of the strait-laced mid-century and the bra-burning Sixties and Seventies. Pat was a highly travelled First Lady, visiting eighty-three countries during her tenure. After a devastating earthquake in Peru in 1970, she personally flew in medical supplies and food to hard-hit areas, meeting one-on-one with victims of the tragedy. The First Lady’s 1972 trips with her husband to China and to Russia were critical to the detente that resulted. Back in the US, Pat greatly expanded upon previous preservation efforts in the White House, obtaining more art and antique objects than any other First Lady. In the domestic arena, she was progressive on women’s issues, favoring the Equal Rights Amendment and backing a targeted effort to get more women into high level government jobs. Pat strongly supported nominat- ing a woman for the Supreme Court. She was pro- choice, supporting women’s reproductive rights publicly even before the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973. When asked to define her “signature” First Lady agenda, she defied being put into a box, often say- ing: “People are my project.” The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon, Heath Hardage Lee presents readers with the essential nature of this First Lady, an empathet- ic, adventurous, self-made woman who wanted no power or influence, but who connected warmly with both ordinary Americans and people from different cultures she encountered world-wide. Author Series with Heath Lee
Wednesday, 19 March Williamsburg Room Light Refreshments - 6:30 p.m. | Speaker - 7 p.m. $6 per person Click here to register! Smarter Healthcare with AI by Dr. Hassan A. Tetteh offers a comprehensive look at the transformative power of artificial intelligence in healthcare, grounded in the author’s extensive military medicine experience. Dr. Tetteh introduces the VP4 Framework - Purpose, Personalization, Partnership, and Produc- tivity - as a model for integrating AI into medical practice effectively and ethically. This book explores how AI can revolutionize areas like medical imaging, health records analysis, and suicide prevention, presenting practical applications and real-world examples. The narrative is enriched with personal anecdotes, including Dr. Tetteh’s work at the Joint Artificial Intel- ligence Center (JAIC) leading the Warfighter Health Mission for the Department of Defense. He also shares insights from his time as Ship’s Surgeon on the USS Carl Vinson, and combat surgery experience in Author Series with Dr. Hassan Tetteh
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