The night of the assassins remember it seems a lot longer than a year ago but i wont digress. Last year when i was working on a night of the assassins, i spent a lot of time reading about world war ii and tried to put myself into the shoes of the people i was reading about. I wondered if i had made the choices they made to protect the families and protect myself. But i have found the fortitude, courage. Its where i am now where i wrote my book with a few annoyances in the background and frogs croaking in the pond college hilltop in connecticut. Hopefully there wont be a thunderstorm and it will stay nice. But when i visit here i think i would spend a good deal of my time wishing i could understand what it was like to live through world war ii and find an understanding to convey on the page what its like to live with a constant sense of uncertainty and not knowing whats going to have been mac, what its like to live through a great unknown. But now it is a previously unimagined and all i
Welcome those who are new to the fdr president ial library and museum, our 14th annual roosevelt reading festival. We have already had 14 authors speak today. I dont want to disparage them. We kept the best for last, we will end on a high note. I appreciate you all coming. Those who are members raise your hand. Look at that. That is fantastic. I appreciate you being here and your support, two trustees today, jack goodman says supporting the library for 35 years. [applause] one of the most interesting parts of working here at the library is even though it has been 80 years, new material comes up all the time and new researchers find new things to talk about and expose new aspects of this story, this incredible story. Our incredible speaker has focused in on the final era, 12 days of the era and has written a book that will go down as one of the finest descriptions of this period. He is a pulitzer prizewinning author and one of our great journalists, serve four years as reporter, editor
Good afternoon, everyone. We had a great day so far, welcome those who are new to the fdr president ial library and museum, our 14th annual roosevelt reading festival. We have already had 14 authors speak today. I dont want to disparage them. We kept the best for last, we will end on a high note. I appreciate you all coming. Those who are members raise your hand. Look at that. That is fantastic. I appreciate you being here and your support, two trustees today, jack goodman says supporting the library for 35 years. [applause] one of the most interesting parts of working here at the library is even though it has been 80 years, new material comes up all the time and new researchers find new things to talk about and expose new aspects of this story, this incredible story. Our incredible speaker has focused in on the final era, 12 days of the era and has written a book that will go down as one of the finest descriptions of this period. He is a pulitzer prizewinning author and one of our gre
Museum in kansas city, missouri. Ms. Vogt lee pollock is the executive director and trustee of the International Churchill society. As a Winston Churchill expert, he has spoken about the extraordinary life and times of the late Prime Minister to audiences throughout the United States, canada, and britain. His presentation this evening, we are looking forward to his presentation with our young Friends Group over whiskey and cigars. So, truly, if you are not a member of our young Friends Group, you should consider that, too. This morning, this is about churchills political transformation and how it shaped the kind of leader he would become during world war ii. Please welcome lee pollock. [applause] mr. Pollock laura, as one cubs fan to another, thank you for that very nice introduction. Hold on just one second. I think someone picked up my notes from here. [laughter] mr. Pollock hold on a second. [inaudible] mr. Pollock if anyone there we go. Like Winston Churchill, i have spent the best
To be married and we had three children. Of course, theres one. Another question for the panel . This question is for mrs. Olson and mrs. Snyder. I heard the toughest job is an army wife. How do you feel about that . Do you feel that . Or a marine wife. When he got home, we were married in three weeks after he got home. The war was still going on, he got to come home because of what he had been through, so thats why we were sent to camp leje e lejeune. We lived there on base for almost a year almost two years i think, we lived on base and it was one of the most fun times of my life. I could walk to the ocean, the grocery store, even though we lived in a what today they call a travel trailer. Thats what all the married marines lived in. I had to learn to cook on a camp stove, i had to pump up a little tank on the front of it. I had some wonderful times. I had marine friends and families, the whole base was family mostly and we had some lifelong friends we made there. Actually, it was a