Whitney, executive director of the gerald dar ford president ial foundation, to the podium to introduce tonights speaker, gleaves. Thanks for. As joel, i would like to ask the executive director to the podium to introduce tonight speaker, please. As joel just said, we are back. Look at this. Its great to have all of the people in the auditorium after all the months of covid. I applied you being here you came for a Great Program this evening and as you all know, we have been bringing them back to grand rapids, west michigan, for two years. First, i want to welcome our duty and audience. I want to welcome all of you who are here in person. I think that we have some trustees from the president ial foundation to recognize. I think that i see bob hooker and jc haydn is here and we have one of the forts family members. Welcome. Always glad you are here. Yes, go ahead and applied. Absolutely. Now, those of you who have been to this gig before no that i have tried every which way possible, hum
Karl rove, your moderator. [applause] good morning. What a pleasure to be here to talk about some of the most important subjects that are on everybodys mind. Today we are going to have a wonderful opportunity to talk to three outstanding experts about the election that changed our history. Somebody who once worked on many campaigns, i will be fascinated to hear the assessment of my colleagues here. Lets start with you, hw. How these we should be looking at transformation as an overarching theme for discussion, president ial leadership . When i think about a. Elections i talk about two categories, those elections whose importance is not known until after the election because the election sets up certain conditions, brings in a certain officeholder and things happen. The election of 1942 where Franklin Roosevelt becomes president and launches the new deal, the moment he won no one knew how big a deal it was. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected and immediately things start to fall apart.
Thank you. [applause] the writers festival continues now with a discussion on us president ial elections with Arthenia Joyner and historians mark and morley. Karl rove, your moderator. [applause] good morning. What a pleasure to be here to talk about some of the most important subjects that are on everybodys mind. Today we are going to have a wonderful opportunity to talk to three outstanding experts about the election that changed our history. Somebody who once worked on many campaigns, i will be fascinated to hear the assessment of my colleagues here. Lets start with you, hw. How these we should be looking at transformation as an overarching theme for discussion, president ial leadership . When i think about a. Elections i talk about two categories, those elections whose importance is not known until after the election because the election sets up certain conditions, brings in a certain officeholder and things happen. The election of 1942 where Franklin Roosevelt becomes president an
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Dr. James perry, one of our eminent strategist, codirector of the institute, and will discourse, opening setting the stage for the remarks that most of us will be making for the rest the day. Jim, the stage is yours. [applause] thisy i realize morning that i probably made too many slides, but we will get through as many as we can. What i want to do is discuss the endgame that almost was, because as we will see, by the end of differentre was a august 1945 and vision by roosevelt and truman. I am going to describe the strategy that roosevelt wanted to achieve, and leave it at that, and at the end of the day, we will discuss what truman wanted to achieve. I will discuss geography and logistics, roosevelts global strategy, the balance between the european and Pacific Theaters, and the opportunity theatermitments and one imposed on the other, discuss specific planning from 1942 to 1945, thinking about the warking, invasion as the developed. Logistics. Nd in the pacific, its tough. The Pacif