Geoffrey Roberts

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243 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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We had lunch.

We had a long afternoon conversation in which, you know, I talked to her about the letters and also about her wartime experiences.

So I met Kathy through her letters.

Then I met her, much to my surprise, in person.

Now, there isn't...

I traveled to do it.

The reason I've talked to her, my kind of goal here, I wanted to get her permission to publish the letters in a book, right?

The problem was she refused to give that permission because she didn't want to take any undue credit.

She was very critical of...

people who after the war wrote various memoirs claiming that they'd been present at great events with great people.

The person she had in mind in particular was Kaye Summersbee.

Kaye Summersbee was Eisenhower's assistant driver during the war.

And Kaye wrote a memoir just after the war in which there were hints she had an affair with Eisenhower.

Well, Eisenhower was Kathleen Harriman's hero for sure.

So she, she, she said to me, she said, she wrote to me, she swore that she would never, never do the same thing.

So, so basically she vetoed, um, publication of her letters by me.

Right.

And that veto held until she died in 2011.

Right.

2011, she died.

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