Georgetown University Law center. He has served in all three branches of government and hes argued, remember, the mb cases before the United States Supreme Court. So he brings a really ni,diversa book. The court during this era. Cliff also has worked with the Washington Post company and. He has gosh, youve written extensively in t media about Court Related issues and and other issues sow id like to welcome cliff stone. Well thank you so much, bill thank you. And thâ– ank u all for here. And i just want to say it is an honor and a pleasure for me to here, d as bill was saying, the publication date is the first officialb special place to have it and its so ny days researching at the wonder library here with, the very helpful perso and so its just terrific to be here. And i really appreciate it. We, thatlets just launch righ. As i was saying before, i think e this roosevelttime aligned themselveo perfectly World War Two and the personalities involved here to give a perfect natural framew
They had very, very close personal relationships. And just to kind of briefly get the players on t table, they sort of into three justices were very well known, hugo black, felix frankfurter, William Douglas robert jackson. Those are the four very well known ones. O were not very well,murphy, james burns y from South Carolina and he was only on the court f fall of 1942, fdr to him come work with me in the white house. Youll be the assistant president overseeing the domestic economy and burns lef supreme to join fdr in the white and fourth justice in this category of lesser known justices in the fdr appointees was Wiley Rutledge replacement. And then the third group is the appointed by fdr and are only two in this category. One of them was harlan fiske stone, who hadn appointed in 1925 by calvin coolidge, his Amherst College buddy, and as i mentioned, fdr e justice in 1941. In the summer of 1941. And its very clear that fdr did single mindedly focused and preparing the country for war,
I am the Vice President of Public Programs here at the New York Public Library purposes of privilege for the library to host tonights program celebrating mike wallace new book. The longawaited sequel to his previous book goff of. Picks of the story at the turn of the last century with his son paralleled growth and expansion and consolidation when infrastructure was developed and many institutions were founded including the New York Public Library. Incidentally the we are were all seated it is part of the reservoir there is a great before and after illustration in the book and it is a special honor to host but only because of the importance of the book and subject matter but because mike wallace to is a fellow and a scholar in Residence Research to a good deal of the book right here in the archives the Archival Holdings are vast and include collections from the New York Times and the waldorf astoria even your city miscellaneous. [laughter] but it is the of painstaking work of scholars t
Us to host this program not only because of the importance of the book and the subject matter but also because the fellow in the library for scholars in residence at the allen Room Research a good deal of the book right here in the library archives, the Archival Holdings on the new york city history are of course that cant include such collections as the record of the history and the collection called new york city miscellaneous 1614 to 1975. [laughter] that is the painstaking work of historians and scholars that bringsch the content of those collections to light and into Public Discourse through meticulously researched books like greater gotham and so we are thrilled to welcome you back to the library to share your research with us and to moderate the conversation, we are honored to have another distinguished historian writer and scholar with the pieces of the new yorker where hes a staff writer he provides a steady stream of intellectual and emotional nourishment to many of us seekin
Visits museums and historic places. Next, a visit to the u. S. Armys archives in carlisle, pennsylvania, to learn about their soldier experience gallery, which traces army history from the 1898 spanish american war to the present. Welcome to the u. S. Army heritage and Education Center in carlisle, pennsylvania. My name is carl warren. Im going to show you around today. This is the part of the facility more like a museum rather than an artifact archives or Storage Facility. Its our way to show the American Public the sort of materials we have here, so you can understand army history, whether youre a soldier and a veteran or someone who has never had family or been in the army themselves. We start the timeline for this exhibit with the spanishamerican war because thats when our collections have the very first recorded audio oral histories of soldiers who actually experienced the war itself. Of course the spanish american war we have the title, the great adventure, because the army was n