<p>Seven audio recordings from the 1950s, found at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, opened a window into the memories of TR's relatives and contemporaries of his political and social world, showing there's always more to discover about even the most famed figures of history. </p>
moment of nervousness because it looked like i wasn t going to be able to find a parking place for a moment, and i got kind of nervous about whether i was going to be here on time. and it s an honor to be here, although i will have to say that i feel a little bit devalued to learn ha in a 365-day year, there s 475 such events at politics & prose. [laughter] let me say that my book really began with a phone call in early 2010 from a editor in the new york times op-ed page by the name of mark lotto who has since moved on. he wanted to know whether i wanted to do a piece for the op-ed page on a statement that obama made to diane sawyer shortly before that in which he was responding to being chided a little bit by her on the basis of some of the apparent unpopularity of some of his policies. and he said i would rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. and lotto wanted to know if i maybe wanted to write a piece about some of our really good
for another day. so thank you very, very much for coming. my name is marie arana, i am a writer-at-large for the washington post . i was the books editor for many, many years, and i am now a very happy member of the board of directors of this festival. and the washington post is very, very proud to be a charter sponsor of the festival for so many years. .. almost two decades as a washington journalist, doug waller has covered the pentagon, congress, state department, the white house, and the cia. from 1994-2007 he served as time magazine s washington bureau. first as a correspondent, then as a senior correspondent. he has also served as diplomatic correspondent traveling throughout europe, asia and the middle east as well as the persian gulf. in pursuit of stories. he has carried out extensive coverage of the middle east, peace negotiations, and the wars in iraq. before coming to time magazine, doug was a correspondent for newsweek, reporting a major military confl
and now, from the 20 2011 roosevelt reading festival philip terzian discusses his book architects of power roosevelt, eisenhower and the american century. it is about 50 minutes. [applause]honod thank you, and good morning and i am honored and delighted to be here.i at the roosevelt reading festival. i don t live around here so iusm don t get to visit the roosevelt library very often. of henry morgan thaw who was fdr s neighbor here in duchess county and probably knew him as much as anyone and said that roosevelt had a thickly-forested interior which meant that roosevelt was a very rather enigmatic, um, distant, almost secretive man in many ways. but i ve always felt that when you visit the house, especially, and walk around and look at it, you get as close as you ll ever get to appreciating franklin roosevelt as a human being and where he came from and what he was and how he became what he did become. and i m delighted to be here, too, at the roosevelt library which
cnn, msnbc, new york times, and even when that isn t true, outlets like yahoo! which is now by some measures the largest news site on the web or outlets like huffington post, most of what they re doing is aggregating and reposting content that was originally created for print. so yahoo!, for example, who prints an awful lot of wire service news. so in terms of, the total number of people who actually visited at least one of those, the online news category looks pretty healthy. hundreds of millions of americans visit online news at least a few times a month. again the issue is the overall traffic is quite small. we have to be careful about reading too much into the fact of online news when a lot of visitors to yahoo!, for example, are looking at that site. the drudge report. so the drudge report is an interesting, and interesting site. partly because it s very important in redistricting traffic. lots of people go to drudge, and it registers a lot of traffic, particul