Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Henry Wallace center here at the Franklin Roosevelt president ial library and museum. I would like to welcome you to todays program. As you know it today is pearl harbor day and i would like to take just a moment to recognize those who have served, if theres any veterans are activeduty servicemen, please rise so we can acknowledge your service. Thank you very much. [applause] today is the day that marked the transition of america from an isolationist nation to a global superpower and there are few days in World History like december 7, because of what that meant for the world we live in today, in so many ways. Were very fortunate to be able to honor today with a Wonderful Program on a new book that is just come out. How many of you are members . If you are a member raise your hand. Look at that, thats great. They given much, your support makes these programs possible because of members and atrocities like you that we can do these programs. And l
Click on the after words tab near the top of the page. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Henry Wallace center here at the Franklin Roosevelt president ial library and museum. I would like to welcome you to todays program. As you know it today is pearl harbor day and i would like to take just a moment to recognize those who have served, if theres any veterans are activeduty servicemen, please rise so we can acknowledge your service. Thank you very much. [applause] today is the day that marked the transition of america from an isolationist nation to a global superpower and there are few days in World History like december 7, because of what that meant for the world we live in today, in so many ways. Were very fortunate to be able to honor today with a Wonderful Program on a new book that is just come out. How many of you are members . If you are a member raise your hand. Look at that, thats great. They given much, your support makes these programs possible because of members and a
There a few days in the World History we are very fortunate to be able to honor today with a Wonderful Program and new book that just came out. Look at that. Thats great. Your support makes these programs possible. Last year cliff lobby who is our Program Manager we put on 58 programs here at the library which was very impressive because of your support we can have these programs for free. We feel so strongly that fdr loved this area. We are honoring his wishes. Our speaker today lew paper is a journalist and he taught at harvard and was involved in george georgetown. As written a number of very numerous books. He wrote a book called promise in performance about john f. Kennedy and interestingly he then wrote a novel about john f. Kennedy. About his assassination. Both the nonfiction in the fiction book. I bet they are good combination. His rise to power parallels the time of relevant vince with radio to television. Another book on louis brandeis. He has a deep grounding and 27th histo
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