Fantastic day. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] tvthis is America History where every weekend we spent 48 hours exploring our nations past. Isthe cspan cities tour exploring the american story as we take book tv in American History tv on the road with the support of our Comcast Cable partners. Coming up in the next hour and 15 minutes, the story of how this Central Michigan town became a state capital. Minutes we will have a job or of the state capital, which is been in continuous use since 1879. Learn aboutll lansings rich history. We begin at the turner dodge home. James turner was a pioneer. It was not until the state legislature designated this area that he came with other folks into the capital. You might have expected a more sensible approach. We did not do that. We had 10 months to build the capital city and that was a very uniqueting, exciting, story. The legislature established a in about 1836. They designated detroit as the capital. They were fearful that detroit could the easily attacked. So, they put in the constitution the first session of the legislature should be held in a new capital. They had 10 years to decide and they waited until they had 10 left. So, they kept voting and voting and nobody could decide. Puttinge thinking about mill, and they decided they would try to attract the legislature to this area. It was James Seymour who made a map. You know, this is michigan. They put a dot here and said, look. If they put it here they it a number of miles passed the legislature. So, that is how they decided on lane singh. A land agent. Theyed working for said over 1000 people came to. He spot, which was nothing they had to figure out where they were going to sleep, what they were going to eat. The first thing they did was chopped down all the trees. They had to get rid of all the wood. , andleft a bunch of stumps so, there were people who lived in the county, they were extremely excited about having the capital, and be here. They would, on their courses and. Atch the capital come in they had a huge, huge tree and they pulled it all the way up to the capital. They started cheering and yelling and having a party. They build a hotel, which is where the legislature where the legislators could live. Were 66 representatives and there the senate was a white frame capital there which became the library and Everything Else for this community that does not have anything. Years laterber of before the capital we see. They developed charters which were given out to groups within the department of his rotation. So, they were issuing charters to build link roads and after a lansing city of the roads were amazing. You could never build them now because it took so much wood, you know . They had everybody working on it. The Business People came out and work on it. It was a major enterprise. They had a party out on the plank road. The people who lived here, they had invested. They were afraid that the legislature would get fed up with the inconveniences of the capital in the middle of the forest. Really not until the 1860s that they decided to have thatermanent state capital they realize there are not going to move away. We are in lansing, michigan where cspan is learning about the city history. We will take you inside for a tour. Our state capital we are celebrating our 140th birthday. The goal of the project was to make this look as it did when it first opened. Is in the city of detroit. They stipulated that 10 years down the row the road the legislature would have to approve the capital city. Ironically was the capital city. Theas offered up, so legislature built a small wooden in 1879. With ohioor is faced in the upper dome area. Space our tourst group came into. Is an inspiring area. We are 160 feeds away from where we are feet away from where the dome is 267 feet from the ground to the very top of the capitol which is comparable to the height of the capitol in washington. We are in the governors parlor, second floor of the east wing of the capital. Parlor was used originally as a receiving space for legislators, constituents, maybe the occasional foreign dignitary coming to michigan. For the same function nowadays. This is probably the most accurately restored space in the capitol because we have really wonderful photographs and line what the parlor looked like when it first opened we have included which portraits were on the walls and which specific locations the portraits ring. The portraits in the parlor here are former governors. All governors who served in our ther two capitals, with the seal of the in that it isue original. It took four people over two months to clean the ceiling using qtips and con balls, literally inch by square inch so they do not damage the original artwork. We have gone down to the floor of the Michigan State senate. Is at 38gan senate 200,000 peopleh in the district. The legislature has been here since 1979. Of the capital is over nine acres of handpainted desired. Design. They would quite often take people through and so many people expect of building built in the late 1800s to basically be black and white, but people do not realize how colorful the victorians were in this is a prime example. What you see is as close as we can calm to what the building looked like when it opened in the 1870s. This includes restoring the original chandeliers. Each of those chandeliers, by the way our 260 pieces of glass. Coats ofng includes arms for each of the 50 state. Of entry. N order in the senate, we have wonderful arerait, individuals that important to our Nation History and hours eight history. On the left, the rostrum, a portrait of the marquee to lafayette. Lafayette was a frenchman, a general during the american revolution. His portrait is actually in three of our state capitals. Volumes about the respect americans had for lafayette. To the rights there is a portrait of austin blair, who is michigans governor during the civil war. Father. Founding he was the suffragist. Worked very hard for womens rights. Off to the farther rights there is a portraits of hamilton a portrait of hamilton. Ms. Hamilton was michigans first female legislator. That, women were given the right to vote. One of the most important weons to the capital have the first africanamerican legislator. We chose to hang representative fergusons portrait outside was very intentional. Two years before he was elected to the Michigan House he had a court case heard by the Supreme Court. He offered to take him out to dinner and he was refused service because he was black and mr. Ferguson did to did a very brave thing. He sued. His case made his way through the courts. On the Supremes Court rolled in his favor. Two years later, ferguson does, i think, another very brave ring and runs for the house of representatives. He was the first person of color elected to serve in this building. We looked into the Michigan House of representatives, historically known as representative paul. This is the largest room. Representing approximately 190,000 old. Above the rostrum, the speakers chair, we have the laws, the Michigan State coat of arms. Our quote of arms is unique. It was designed by the territorial governor. Is theeresting feature elk or moose on the right. There are very few elk or moose in michigan. The reason that they are featured so prominently is it copied. Latin and it means i goes into thethis fact that michigan shared such a large border with the british. Great fortune of being born and raised here. Honestly, one of my earliest childhood memories is standing in the capital with my family and having this incredible sense of humility, all, and inspiration. They look up at the dome. This is what we are proud of as a state in what we are capable of and what we hope to achieve in the future. Really lovely mission statement. This is what the capital stands for. Continuing our look at lansing, we visit the Michigan History Museum to learn more about the state from his early Indigenous People to becoming the car manufacturing capital of the world area of the world. We are at the Michigan History Museum in downtown lansing. Of the government. We House Stories of all of michigan, including lansing. Our museum. Through its literally a walk through time. Ice is at the end of the age and we Start Talking about the first Indigenous Peoples that live here. And itin this exhibit talks about the Indigenous Peoples who lived in michigan for thousands of years before the arrival of europeans and this is one we recently renovated. The story of these people for four seasons. We want to convey what an advanced civilization they had before the european arrival. They had very sick is dictated social structures and it was a little different than the western civilized nation. Land. Hose to live off the they engage a lot of their time really working in harmony with the lands. Thegs to point out structures. Theres a lot of misconceptions that native americans all lived in teepees. In michigan, they lived in structures called wigwams. We have happened one mocked out here. They would use saplings from birchbark or maple, and they with graphicsit and they would live in these yearround. The nice thing is they are pretty compact and pretty mobile. So, now we moved into the gallery that talks about how michigan became a states. The opening of the. Canal really canal really helped. The territory of michigan felt it had reached congresss requirement for becoming a state. We have the right population numbers, we had written constitution a written constitution in 1935 and our to become aealed states and it was rejected because there was unsettled business. Both states saw this as their he it took about two years. They call this the toledo war. Michigan finally agreed they would let toledo become part of and michigan got the upper half of the western peninsula. Thatnk everyone agrees michigan got the better deal because that is where they found the iron ore and copper or deposits that have helped what it is. Ome there were large native forest. They discovered natural iron ore and copper deposits. Consideredgely be the extraction of natural resources. The peninsula was cut down. See when you are thetructing, its not carper or that has impurities in it. Buildingssitated the of some of michigans first factories. Removee to purify them, the impurities to make the pure copper that is used in pots and candlesticks and other things. This is one of the things that set michigan up to become a manufacturing center. There are Real Car Company real cars company real Car Companies out of detroit. One of the biggest early manufacturing methods was the fact that michigan, by 1900, had become the stove cap capital of the world. Two brothers founded three of four of the most successful stove companies in detroit history and here are examples of the factory. At the turn of the 20th century, about 1900, michigan really became known for the industry it is still known for today. The successes from the , lumber andry mining. The manufacturing, the stoves could be really repurposed. It is the last piece that really helped michigan become the motor city state, the ingenuity of the early founders of the Automobile Industry from henry ford, Whose Assembly line is famous. And this is every creation of his Highland Park us and we e, to all you under rants to william to rants. We have this boom in manufacturing. Advances in technology are part of the motorized tractor. To usher in a new era of manufacturing. Early in the 20thcentury almost 25 of Michigan Farmers were dairy farmers. We have now moved into the part of the museum that talks about michigan and world war ii. M world war ii. Our president , frank lindy roosevelt put a call out. President roosevelt we must be the great arsenal of democracy. To create the asset that would help the allies win world war ii. Michigan and detroit in particular were very quick to answer the call. Making the companies those products switched over to war manufacturing, including all of the automobile factories. One of probably the most companies was ford theres aanys plant. Gigantic numeral behind us that shows the innovation in making an Assembly Line, which had never been done before. It was completed in 1942 and by 1943, 40 1000 people will were working to build airplanes in this plant. By the end of the war, the just under 9000 be 24 bombers and at one point, they were rolling off the line every 63 minutes. So, wartime work was very different. Most of the young men, ablebodied men who worked in the factories had gone off to serve in the war. There was mass migrations of people coming up to work. Detroit was so overcrowded, people were living in tents in vacant lots. But it was also known that the war gave opportunity to women and people of color to get these factory jobs. For the most part, for the first time in history. On the top working of that airplane, there are a couple women. Women worked as riveters. Women worked assembling things in other factories that were not making the big products like the vehicles or a lot of ordinance or artillery shells. So, the impact of war production on michigan really change the workforce in the state. We will end our tour today with the detroit auto show. I think its really fitting because it shows over the last century and a half how manufacturing landed michigan as duringprosperous state the era of the classic muscle car. From lumber to manufacturers to ito industry giants, individuals have lived with, worked with, used michigan resources to benefit themselves and help our state row. Join us the first and third weekend of each month as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. Cspan. Org citiestour. Exploring the american story. We took a driving tour of the city. We are touring around lansing, michigan, today. Where is lansing . I will hold up my right hand and i am going to point right here. Michigan is in the shape of a mitten. We will be seeing the bottom of our palm today. What we will do today is hit the downtown area, the state capital and then we will head up to old ton lansing and out east Michigan State university. Perfect. Should we get going . On the left, you will see a tall tower. Oldss originally the tower. Oldsmobile. Find his name in lot of and the car industry in lot of things you talk about in lansing. A lot of people associate the car industry with detroit. It began here. Friend ofind of a henry ford. First Assembly Line and henry ford perfected it. He sold the Oldsmobile Company and founded a Company Called rio car company. Does lansing still have an auto presence . Gm and we haveof two stateoftheart facilities right here in lansing. Straight ahead, the beautiful state capital of michigan. This building has been here since the mid1800s. The state capital welcomes thousands of School Groups and visitors each year. We like to think that lansing is not only the state capital and a place for government but also a great tourist destination. By a number of government buildings. Downtown. R it is dedicated to sandwich shops and things they can go and grab something to eat or buy something quickly. This is washington square. Washington square, five blocks of both businesses and restaurants and some shopping. This building here is pretty spectacular. This was a Department Store at one time. The 1930s,y, in that was the most modern fabulous building of the midwest. Deco. It is a form of art they have rehabbed it a little bit and our lansing journal has offices and there are apartments upstairs. Died for little bit and those Department Stores went away and now they have come back with some wonderful options, housing options. We are coming into old town. Old town was the original settlement of lansing. It was back in the mid1800s, 1840, the first white settler here in midmichigan. Up on theam intersection of the grand river and an indian trail, native american trail. Houses and businesses started to pop up and then it became quite an industry. It has its own train station and post office and businesses were thriving. The state capital came and things changed a little bit and probably in the 1960s, old town thendered a little bit and the 1980s, 1990s, artists were interested and it has turned into this wonderful boutique, art galleryfilled area. We will head down Michigan Avenue and we are heading toward Michigan State university. We are going into east lansing. East lansing was built around Michigan State university. It was an answer to the when they because university started, it was the first landgrant college in the was hereates and it and it was the First University to study agriculture. It was out here in the middle of nowhere and they had to have housing for faculty and students and all of that so east lansing has built up around Michigan State. Side,s on the righthand we are coming into campus, it is a huge campus. The acreage is phenomenal. You will see a lot of green space. It is really beautiful. Aroundave been all lansing and east lansing. We have seen the state capital and university. If somebody lives in reno, nevada, or far away from the midwest and they do not know anything about lansing and michigan, what would you want them to know about your city . It is not just a government city. It is not just a car city. It is not just it is a fun place. Honest and gritty and genuine. I think that is the biggest word, genuine. Thank you much so much for showing us around today. Lansing that they started the oldsmobile corporation. We take you inside the museum to learn more. Car manufacturing is very important to us. That industry is one of the backbones of lansing. Michigan State University, the state capital, and we have automobile manufacturing. Those three components have kept lansing very successful. It all started with r. E. Olds is one of the founders of the Automobile Industry in the united states. He moved here with his family when he was 16 years old and is other had a Machine Company and they repaired machines and built small steam engines. That is where he became familiar with the manufacturing process. We are talking about the late 1800s and frankly, he hated horses. He said there has to be a better way to get around. He was tinkering in his fathers shop trying to build something that would be selfpropelled. Behind me, there is a three wheeled car that he built. It was a Steam Powered car. Engine threethe or four times and finally, they scrapped the whole project. Fourwheeled car. There were no selfpropelled vehicles. Engine, train, or a ship. There were no selfpropelled cars or automobiles. They did not even have a name at the time. They had bicycles. That is a selfpropelled vehicle. He took these ideas and went guy them and to have this in his late 20s and he is going around lansing driving this contraption that scared the horses, but it worked. He could go 20 or 30 miles at a time in this thing. Of a couple ofye investors and they said, we want you to make a car. They ended up Building Three and they sold them. In 1950, that car was given to the smithsonian. When we open this museum, we receive the car from the smithsonian. Roome standing in the 1897 and this is one of the three vehicles that were made in 19 1897. This is the rarest car we have in the museum. They call it a trap because once you got in the backseat and people got in the front seat, you were trapped in the backseat. What makes this car so unique and so valuable, there were no cars on the road. You could find horses, maybe a bicycle, but you would never find a powered vehicle. This was the first of its kind. That run of three cars were done and the same investors said, lets build a car company. Gasoline engine works, and he took that Profitable Company and put that into the old motorworks. Smith was a bigger backer. He lived in detroit and he was a mining guy. In. Ut most of the money they started he said, if im am going to invest in your company, we will build it in detroit. In detroit and they built several prototype models in 1899 and by 1901, they were going to production. And then the building burned down. A group of lansing businessmen got together and said, we have 53 acres in lansing we will give you if you rebuilt your factory in lansing. They rebuilt the factory in detroit and built a factory in lansing. By the end of 1901, they had built 525 cars on an Assembly Line. Car that came to putuction was what oldsmobile on the map. He was a pioneer in the Automobile Industry. This has a gasoline engine, one cylinder gasoline engine. Steering, veryer easy to operate. Crank the motor up. Speed,two gears, a slow a top speed, and a reverse gear. They built 525 the first year and more the second and more the third. That is what propelled the olds motorworks into business. He also built a progressive Assembly Line. This car moved from station to station and this was 1901. Henry did not sell his first car until 1907 and he watched this and said, i can do it better. I can put a belt and make this Assembly Line a better thing, and he did. The smiths, their family wanted to build big cars. Said, we are building the small car. It is easy for the masses, easy to maintain. They got into a dispute. In 1903, he said, i am out of here. He lost control of his gasoline engine works because he used it as collateral. Making a profit and the smiths sold off the old gasoline engine works. After their dispute, he was quite wealthy. A group of lansing businessmen, same group that got the factory going, said, we want you to build another car. We will give you 51 because you are the brains behind this. We need the things you know to start another company. Olds anymoret use because they lost that. He used his initials. In 1904. D it started it is 1904, and we have two Car Companies in lansing, michigan. We were the motor city back then. Built this car, r. E. Car in 1905 to take the 1905 new york auto show. It was for dealers only and it was to show the dealers, or perspective dealers, what the 1906 touring car was going to look like. This was way ahead of its time. They built a half scale model all by hand. O carted the re company. Althoughnot for sale, people wanted this car. He said, we are not going to build that. It was a very popular car, upscale car. This was the heart and soul of motor company. Fullfledged Motor Car Company. All production of oldsmobile came to lansing in 1905. New factories coming up, stamping facilities, it was great. It was great for the city. This man brought in thousands of jobs and thousands of workers and now we can build churches and hospitals. This whole thing is all because of r. E. Olds, development of a car. Motor until 1936. The depression had a lot to do with that. A 1911 reoexample of truck. They were one of the First Companies that built trucks. This is more of a utility vehicle. You could put something in the back and carried around. Ry it around. Reo speed wagon, they were faster than any other utility type vehicle. Follows in 1923 and this became their stock and trade of the trucks. Wagon, i reo speed think they were going to college and the drummer in the band like the name and they said, lets call ourselves reo speed wagon. That Truck Division stayed on after 1936 and they built trucks until 1975. Eventually, the Truck Company would be bought out. Eo was such a big name that the trucks recalled diamond reo. Trucks were called diamond reo. And hea philanthropist did a lot of things for the community. One of the big impacts he had on lansing, talking about going from horses to building cars and all the ancillary things that go shops,t the mills, oldsmobile had 21,000 workers. Many. Aybe half that that is how many people he got to work. It was major. If you take lansing and you take r. E. Out of the equation, we would not have the manufacturing we have today. Lansings Motor Car Company plant closed in 1975. Also built became a subsidiary oldsmobile became a subsidiary of General Motors. Twoy, General Motors have Assembly Plants in town. We built three models of the cadillac and the camaro here. It is called the grand river assembly. One of the two or three most automated plants in america. E build suvs that is probably the plant of General Motors, their highest automated plant. Workers at both plants joint and nationwide uaw strike on monday. When negotiations broke down over employee pay, job security, and health care coverage. Coming up, we sit down with congresswoman, a democrat who represents Michigan State congressional district. Michigansesents eighth congressional district. Our biggest economic driver is both rgm plants in the State Government is both our gm plants and the State Government. Michigan,mber that in 43 of the state budget is federal dollars. Every single day, we should be working together. She can State University takes in a ton of federal grant Michigan StateUniversity Takes in a ton of federal grants. We have block grants. We have an incredible amount of federal dollars. We have a lot of interaction between the State Government and the federal government and it is wonderful to have the State Government here in the district. It means you do not have to work hard to find the right people in State Government who can tag with you on important issues. With youn tagteam on important issues. It makes it really effective. The most important thing i carry ofh me from 15 Years National security is the focus on the mission. When you are at the cia or doing a tour in iraq, none of the policy matters. The mission matters. What are you trying to get done . I bring that same spirit to congress. On homeland security, there is no way to get around the fact we have a great need at the border. Have a responsibility to deal with that in a humanitarian and decent way. That is a big issue. Election security, we need to protect our election system. It is the heart of our democracy. To understand the role of the social media platforms. What are their responsibilities when it comes to spreading things like fake news or hate speech . Antisemitic, racist, negative messaging, terrorist messages. What are their responsibilities . I think we will be involved in that we will be evolving with that. They launched a brandnew exhibit where they are asking visitors to take another look at some everyday objects. We are in the Michigan History Museum and we are looking at our new exhibit, secret lives of michigan objects. It is a playful, behind the scenes exhibit about Museum Collections and the way the objects add up to michigan history. It is a way to involve people who live in michigan to think selvesheir safe their as part of history. An object is not just an object. It tells the story about the time it was made, the people who used it. We are saying, what are other ways to look at objects . What are other kinds of stories . The first thing that people see is this very dramatic presentation of one object. It is in a dark room, lit very dramatically and what is in the case . Werners. Ttle of it is very well known to people in michigan. The wayd to change people think about everyday objects. Things they are familiar with, what if we thought of this as an art object . How does it change the way we think about it . In lot of museums, you may see period rooms. A whole room decorated to be like it was in a certain place. In this exhibit, we did a period room of a 1970s basement. This is part of history. Maybe it is your childhood but it is still part of history and it means that the things you use and the Life Experiences you have are part of history, a vital part of history. Atari, shed carpet, the some of the other games. Another fun thing about this is we are exposing what it is like to build a period room and what choices you make. We decided to make this room unfinished. It is showing the process of making a period room. You see a cart from our staff. We are going to start putting up vital wallpaper that looks like wood paneling. There are tags on objects from being in storage. Giving you a sense of what it is like to build a period room and the kind of questions we ask ourselves when we build. What would make this look real . You might not be able to put your finger on the exact thing but if something is wrong, you know it. We want people to think about what it means to be part of history. Peoplesot of kneejerk reaction might be, i am so old. You want to get a little further than that and say, what does that mean . Does that mean the stuff you live through is part of michigan history . Is green things from michigan. All green. They have no other connection beside being from michigan and being green. We thought that was a fun way to think about our collection and say, ok, usually we put things in context. We arrange them by time period. What do we learn from putting all green things together . Here are some of the stories. This pair of rollerskates belong to a michigan governor. This set of post office boxes was at the state capital. It was used by the legislature. Wallpaper in the back, that has a michigan connection. In the late 19th century, it was very popular to make green pigments with arsenic. Physician published a book called shadows from the walls of death, very scary title, that was a book of pieces of arsenic wallpaper to raise the alarm that there is a lot of arsenic wallpaper. It is not really a book you want to keep around. All of these wallpapers have arsenic in them. We do have a copy in our collection. We digitized it with lots of safety precautions. This is a reproduction of one of those arsenic wallpapers. Aboutis no information any of the objects. None. Part of our experimental process in building this exhibit is to ask people what do you recognize . What do you want to know more about . As the show goes on, we will put out more information based on that. We are really excited for the input of visitors. On the early ancestors of museums that were curious,r all kinds of unusual and strange things. Some of a selection of the most unusual things from our collection and ask visitors which ones they want to see. Once that i really one that i really like, this is a vibrating chair that was used for health reasons. Interesting object, it is a chair that has a motor attached to it. Another semimedical object we are interested in seeing, if visitors want to see, a foot xray machine that was used at shoe stores. You would put your feet into the machine and there are two viewing boards. The shoe sales person and a parent could look and see how well the shoe fit you. You got a dose of radiation as well. This is a very familiar object for people of a certain generation because they were in lots of shoe stores and it was a treat to go to a shoe store and see the bones of your feet. Another unusual object from our collection is this umbrella that has a compass in the handle. Carrie byen to nancy president lincoln. She was a nurse in the civil war and got turned around in the dark and ended up in a confederate camp and was imprisoned as a spy. She was released and ended up meeting president lincoln who so that this umbrella she would not get lost again. We have opened the exhibit with pictures of these objects and little voting boxes. Eventually, we will put objects that have been voted on in this exhibit. This is the kind of exhibit that will grow and change. People who come in to see the exhibit will be able to make those changes. Lots of opportunities for people to come to the show to say what they want to say what they want to see, what stories, what we are missing, and to feel like they are part of the exhibit. I hope people who visit this exhibit get a sense that the things in their house, the things they use every day are part of history and that they are part of michigan history. Are cities tour staff our cities tour staff recently traveled to lansing. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. This weekend on the presidency, herbert hoovers biographer recalls his world war i, which saved the lives of millions. Here is a preview. And 1923, hoover directed, facilitated, financed a multitude of International Humanitarian relief efforts without parallel in history. During this nearly 10year period, the u. S. Food , andistration, the ara various other governments and private organizations delivered nearly 34 Million Metric Tons of food to the people in peril by world war i and its aftermath. In todays currency, the value of this exceeded 16 billion. For most of this incredible undertaking, the man with supreme responsibility was hoover. Tens of millions of people owe their lives to his exertions. It was later set of him that he was responsible for saving more lives than any other person in history. He earned his epithets, the great humanitarian and master of emergencies. Learn more about herbert hoovers world war i relief work sunday at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern on the presidency. You are watching american tory tv only and cspan3 only on cspan3. If i tell Bernie Sanders voters all the time, i defy you to say you care more about poor people than i do because you dont. I defy you to say you care more about educating poor kids than i do because you dont. We have very Different Solutions about how to get there. Her life, career, and government and politics in her work as president of the Heritage Foundation think tank tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Next on the presidency. William casto talks about fdrs relationship with robert jackson, who served during his administration as solicitor general, attorney general and as a Supreme Court justice. Mr. Casto is the author of, advising the president attorney general Robert H Jackson and franklin d. Roosevelt. The Franklin D Roosevelt president ial library and museum hosted this program. We have a Great Program in store for you. I think the new exhibit that we have on dday, if you get an opportunity, i hope you will go over and visit it while you are here. It looks at the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as they prepared for dday. The special exhibit will be up through the end of the year. How many people here are members of the library . Raise your hand. That is fantastic. It is your support that allows us to do programs like this. We really appreciate it