Crosss visit to the president ial libraries. Good morning, everyone. My name is bob clark and 9 executive director of the president ial library and museum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the Eleventh Annual roosevelt reading festival. Fdr established the first president ial library in hyde park. He envisioned it becoming the premier Research Center for the study of the roosevelt era, very consistently one of the busiest Research Rooms in the president ial library system. One of the reasons we love this day so much is we get to see the fruit of the labors of all the people who use our Research Room throughout the year. It is our pleasure to have you here. Let me go over those formats of the day and a couple housekeeping matters. The first is would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so the presentation isnt interrupted today . Thank you. The housekeeping matter, the staff here today will be happy to give you one of these library buttons and that wi
The next is if you have not had an opportunity to see a new permanent exhibit we installed last year about this time come find one of us and the Library Staff and will be happy to give you one of the buttons which will be you into the Museum Galleries for free today. Finally, just a quick thanks to our friends and colleagues from cspan of our family this session today, great supporters of the programs that we do and it is nice to have them back with us today. Just a little talk about how this session will go ms. Amity shlaes is going to speak for roughly 30 minutes. She likes to do things very interactively. She will talk about the process and how it came about through and how it came to fruition. A very open to questions from the audience because she would love to take as many questions as possible. We will have you come up to mike so that cspan can catch your question on tape as well as your face because you will be so enthusiastic about her talk. And then once ms. Amity shlaes is do
Wonderful authors to show off the fruits of their labor. So were happy to have you and all of them participating today. Just a couple of housekeeping matters. Will everyone please take of their Electronic Devices and turn them also that our presentation is not interrupted . Thank you. For those of you have not had a chance yet to see the new permanent exhibit that opened here last year this time of year, please come and find one of the Library Staff and we would give you one of these initial buttons we will get you into our exhibit galleries for free. Thank you to our colleagues. There are great supporters of our programs. Happy to have them back. Let me tell you a little bit about how the program will go this afternoon. Our speaker will speak for 35 minutes or so, and then we want the opportunity for a few minutes of questions paid after words are always galway to the store where he will be happy to sign the books you want to buy. So david kaiser taught history from 96 until 2013 at c
President ial library here at his home in hyde park he envisioned it becomeing the people Year Research study for the roosevelt era and is one of the busiest Research Rooms in the president ial library system. We get to see the fruit of the labor of all the people who use our Research Room through the years. So its our pleasure to have how here. Would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so that our presentation is not interrupted today. Thank you. Second housekeeping matter, if youll find somebody on the staff here today, theyll be have to givedown of this Roosevelt Library buttons and that will get you into free admission to the new permanent exhibit we opened just a year ago after our three and a half year renovation. So i encourage you to check out the new exhibit. Finally, i want to thank our friends from cspan who are film hearing today. Theyre always great at showing support for Public Programs at the Roosevelt Library. The format of the session is
Our coverage from the 2014 roosevelt reading festival continues with amitiy shlase on the Great Depression. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is bob clark and im the deputy directyear her tee franklin d. Roosevelt president ial lie area and museum, and its my honor to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. Before i introduce our distinguished speaker, let in go over a couple of housekeeping things. Would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so we dont have any interruptions of our presentation today. The next is if you havent had an opportunity yet to see our new permanent exhibit we signaled last year, come find one of us on the Library Staff and well be happy to give you an fdr button and that will get you into the Museum Galleries for free today. And then finally, just a kick quick thanks to our friends frid colleagues from cspan who are recording this session. Just a little talk about how the session will go. The author is going to