Name, city and state, or you can orto twitter, cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan. I want to begin with governor governoromo, them of new york yesterday, he talked about working with other states to help find and confine those with the virus. [video clip] 25 , 30 of the workforce that comes into new york city comes from outside new york city to work. Who is supposed to trace me, westchester or new york . If i turn up positive, yeah, my residence in his is in Westchester County but i worked in new york city and i would have contacted many more people in new york city than i did in westchester. City,ork in new york thats when contacting people. I workedn suffolk, but in new york city. Im a Police Officer who has a work in rockland, but i new york city. Im a firefighter that lives in rockland but i work in new york city. I live in new jersey but i work new york city. I live in the city, but i work in connecticut. Right . These interconnections, if you are going to do these tracing operations, y
John seigenthaler, author of james k. Polk, howd they talk you into doing a biography on this president . John seigenthaler sr. Arthur schlesinger called me on the phone and said, youre a tennessean. Polk was a tennessean. Why dont you write a biography for this series that times books is doing on the president s . And i said, arthur, i dont have time. Im retired. He said, i want you to do one thing. He said, alan nevins ph has done a paperback that excerpts his diary, his president ial diary. Just take the weekend and read it and tell me no. And i read the excerpts from the diary, and i couldnt say no. I was fascinated by the man. Did you know much about him before you started on this . You know, i knew he was a tennessean. Im a tennessean. I knew that his grave is behind the capitol. There is no marker in nashville, except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. His old home place in columbia is preserved, and id been there many times and have been there since. But i knew virtual
Doris kearns goodwin, author of no ordinary time, if you could ask either Franklin Delano roosevelt or Eleanor Roosevelt a couple of questions, after all the work you did on this book, what would they be . I think with eleanor id like to understand why she was unable, at a certain moment in the middle of the war, when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, to say yes to him. I mean, i know that he loved her, i know she still loved him, and id want to say, why didnt you do it . Hes going to die soon. I wish you had done it. And i think for him id want to understand why he couldnt share himself more fully with anyone. He was the most ebullient, the most charming, most sparkling personality on the surface. Everybody thought how warm he was. But underneath, there was such reserve in him, and id want to try and understand why that was so, and why he wouldnt give himself more to the people who loved him. What makes this book different than al
Here at the National Archives, the archivist of the united states, please you could join us in the theater. A special welcome to the cspan audience, two other programs coming up here in this theater. On tuesday november 12th at noon, historian Richard Broke kaiser will tell us about his new book give me liberty, history of americas exceptional idea, americas history to 12 documents. On tuesday november 14th at 7 30 we will host a veterans day tribute, world war ii soldier, photographers on the signal corps, photo collection at the National Archives. The authors of the new book entitled aftershock, the human toll of war, join historians for a these less wellknown images of the wars end. Keep informed about these events and others to check our website, archives. Gov and sign up outside the theater, and other National Archives and activities. Become a member of the National Archives foundation, supports education and outreach activities and other members of the board of the National Archi
I am director of outreach at the american antiquarian society. I want to welcome you to this talk, the first in our series of spring programs. You can find out more by picking up a brochure at the front desk. You can join our mailing list to stay informed of upcoming programs i filling out information on your evaluation sheet jade you can pick one up if you do not have one of those, you can pick one up at the front desk. As many of you know, we are a National Research library of American History and culture Whose Mission is to share the printed record of what is now the United States, portions of canada and the british west indies. We collect anything and everything within these parameters. From graphic prints to newspapers and periodicals, to pamphlets and books. We use these as the basis for all of our programs which bring scholars, artists, the general public, and teachers and students together to participate in workshops and a variety of other programs about pre20thcentury america.