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Roger Morris is the author of several critically acclaimed books on American politics, including Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician, 1913-1952, winner of the National Book Award Silver Medal, finalist for the National Critics Circle Award in Biography, and a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year," and Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America, a highly-praised and instant best-seller on the New York Times and other lists as well as another Times “Notable Book.” He is completing Between the Graves—based on thousands of previously secret documents, a history of US-Afghan relations and American policy and covert intervention in South Asia and the Middle East over the past half century. He is also at work for Knopf on Kindred Rivals: America, Russia and Their Failed Ideals, a comparative history of the inner politics of the United States and Soviet Russia, and a major reinterpretation of their competition and its impact on the 21st-century. Roger Morris entered government service as an aide to former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Morris became a National Security Council senior staff member during the Johnson and was initially asked to continue his service by Richard Nixon, focusing on peace negotiations for Vietnam. Richard Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had his phones tapped during this period. Morris resigned his position in protest in 1970 following the secret invasion of Cambodia. Morris' books include biographies of Kissinger and: • Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician, Henry Holt • Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America, Henry Holt • The Money and the Power: the Making of Las Vegas (with Sally Denton), Vintage • Shadow of the Eagle, Alfred Knopf

Steven Schmidt first became involved in security issues and politics as a young man who was asked to assist George E. Brown in his campaign for Congress as a representative from East Los Angeles. Their relationship was to last for over 35 years as the Congressman mentored and Steve joined and assisted in many environmental and science-based initiatives that comprised the beginning of the modern environmental movement. The Congressman went on to chair the US House of Representatives Science Committee and his achievements included becoming a key to the establishment of the EPA and writing the legislation that set up the first federal program to study global climate change, establishing the Landsat earth imaging/science program (and making its results available open access to the public, in many way the beginning of earth science research from space.) Steve attended the University of Southern California on full scholarship, won the Justin Dart Award and accompanying full-fellowship, and graduated with honors. During this period he came to know Congressman Allard Lowenstein and in DC was involved with the establishment of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. He went on to become a director of California Vietnam peace efforts as part of the largest anti-group. He traveled widely speaking and writing and among his work to reset American policy in this period he helped two notable figures: Dan Ellsberg, who he came to know well and work with as the results of Robert McNamara's commissioned history of the war (later to be called the "Pentagon Papers") was being completed by Ellsberg at the Rand Institute, and in Washington DC assisting Dispatch News Service in the release of Seymour Hersh's war-changing series of investigative news reports (that came to be called the "My Lai" story.) Schmidt attended graduate school in New York where he entered the publishing industry. He has written and worked widely on environmental and political issues over several decades, including with Governor Jerry Brown, acting as an advisor in the drafting of the 1992 presidential campaign platform and later becoming the key drafter of the founding platform (2000) of the Green Party of the US. Schmidt is, as described by Wikipedia, a "media entrepreneur" and his creative work spans from the Writers Guild (WGAw) to multiple websites, including recently Strategic Demands.com.