History and destiny. And we all know history, its what happens, but destiny is what must happen, this is true, i cannot believe this is happening by father was struck by lightning, his father, my grandfather, im not joking was struck by lightning, that means dont stand next to me in a rainstorm. Last week i was totally my son the story and telling him, my dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning and hes like oh my gosh, we can be struck by lightning and as he said that i make you wont be but sure, yeah you might be, this is true, my son and my family, my wife or my kids were taking the amtrak train from new york city to here to washington, d. C. To this event and the train was struck by lightning, my son texted me and he said youre not going to believe what happened tonight. Destiny, thats what were witnessing, you will see them coming in late but this is destiny, a couple of things i will say that we cant do any rows in the country, first of all where is jim, jim s
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[applause]. Getting a fun, one because youre in the front row and you are chaos people. Two, weve got cspan here lets hear it for cspan. [applause]. We live cspan. Washington dc metro area. All the viewers of cspan, i think are in this room right now. We love you. And the regular viewers as well. We welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple of other things. First i am going to tell you about the different between history and destiny. And we all know what history is of what happened. But destiny is what must happen. And this is true pretty cant believe this is happening. My father, he rested piece he was start by finding predict my father, was struck by lightning. The main still stand next to me in a rainstorm. It must become selling my son the story. And telling him, listen. My dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning pretty so my gosh, we could be struck by lightning. As the senate, we wont but sure you might be. Tonight, and this is true. My son, and my wife
Under the Circle Mission with the Community Working for social justice and encouraging diverse and marginalized, all through the virtual formats, we feel very fortunate that we have the privilege of talking to authors who live around the country during this time and we feel it is really significant that we continue to do the programming that we are to have scheduled because folks need history as we move through this historic time. There is really no, i cannot give a better book to help us focus on what the movement on right now and what we can do right now, and the books of 1962 and 2015. We have the editor here, michael and pam who is a lifelong collaborator for justice in his widow we hope will be on soon, shes having technical difficulties. Im going to invite you to settling and make yourself at home and we will get to some questions in the chat, please keep your cell phone and you can turn your camera on, you do not have to turn it on but were just going to enjoy some time with mic
First is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin d. Roosevelt president ial museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum and paul has been directioning the Roosevelt Library museum since 2015 and heel ll be talk about fdr and the Manhattan Project and our second guest is Clifton Daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar where he spent quite a bit of time study being the life and career of his grandfather and currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. So today will give a great opportunity for question and answer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. Weve already been talking quite a bit offcamera, about our topic today, and i guarantee you theres going to be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin, and introduce all to join us on the p