In 1849, it took the clipper ship flying cloud 89 days to reach San Franciscos golden gate harbor from new york. In the spring of 1945, no point on earth was more than 40 flying hours away from San Francisco. In those 100 years, San Francisco grew larger as the world grew smaller. It developed into a vigorous and Cosmopolitan Center of culture and of industry and shipping for the war in the pacific. And for nine weeks in the spring of 1945, San Francisco was the center of mans hopes for lasting peace. Delegates representing 46 nations came to San Francisco in on april 25, 1945, representing almost 2000 Million People, more than 80 of humanity. All at war when the conference was begun, they came with hope born of common struggle. They came to design together machinery to end war, a curse which in 30 years had killed 40. Illion human beings maimed countless millions more, both armed and unarmed. When the conference convened, Franklin Roosevelt was missing. The man who had helped weld to
Fdr started sketching what ended up being the structure here to incorporate elinors papers. When his archivist said, do you think she will give them to you, and fdr said, you can never tell what my missus is going to do. Which i think is a true statement about Eleanor Roosevelt. How many of you are members here today . Look at that. Thank you so much. Your support makes programs like this possible. We appreciate everything you do for us. The library is a federally funded institution, but we rely on private donations to allow us to do many nonfederal programs like exhibits and things like that. Today we have with us a very special friend and guest. She spent many days here when she was working on the Eleanor Roosevelt papers for George Washington university. Which is a tremendous resource. She is now with George Mason University down in virginia. She has put together a book that looks at the advice that Eleanor Roosevelt gave. I think it is amazing how relevant so many of the questions
Opened, fdr started sketching what would be the structure here to incorporate eleanors papers. When his archivist said do you think she will give them to you, and fdr said, you can never tell what my misses is going to do. How many of you are members here today . Look at that. Thank you so much. Your support makes programs like this possible. We appreciate everything you do for us. A library is a federally funded institution, but we rely on private donations to allow us to to do programs and exhibits and things like that. Today we have with us a very special friend and guest. She spent many days here when she was working on the Eleanor Roosevelt papers for George Washington university. Which is a tremendous resource. She is now with George Mason University down in virginia. She has put together a book that looks at the advice the Eleanor Roosevelt gave. I think it is amazing how relevant so many of the questions were, even though they are 50 years old. How relevant they are to our Soci
Roosevelts advice column, written for more than 20 years for ladies home journal and mccalls magazine. Held at the Franklin Roosevelt library and museum, this is one hour. Mr. Sparrow hello, good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the wallace center, here at the Franklin Roosevelt president ial library and museum, and happy birthday, Eleanor Roosevelt. [applause] it is one of the things we are so lucky to have eleanors papers here along with papers of Franklin Roosevelt and his administration. If you go over and look at the building, the two wings of the library are actually the Eleanor Roosevelt wings that were built in 1972. Even after the Library First opened, fdr started sketching what ended up being the structure here to incorporate eleanors papers. He was telling her, we need to have your papers at the library. When his archivist said, do you think she will give them to you, and fdr said, you can never tell what my missus is going to do. Which i think is a true statement about Elean
Test. Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test. Doug brinkley, if i could, what about criticism of Eleanor Roosevelt and throughout her 12 years as first lady . Were people critical of her . Weve kind of had a little bit of a love affair so far tonight. Of course, they were, because people didnt like fdr. A very polarizing president. He killed the opposition in 30 and 32 and i promise you eleanor was not an albatross. As i mentioned before, she was a huge asset. With that said, i think some thought her issue of pushing the labor unions and supporting the coal miners. If you were a coal owner, you would not have liked it. In the south, as i mentioned, the africanamerican issue was very controversial. In fact, theres one letter she wrote to an africanamerican person in chicago, the person wrote her because one of her columns, she called black people and this africanamerican rightly said how can you who is helping africanamericans use the word dark, and she sa