Like the office they commemorate president ial libraries are living institutions. Certainly it is my hope that the Reagan Library will become a dynamic intellectual forum that scholars interpret the past and policymakers debate the future. Welcome to the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation institutes Virtual Event series. To fulfill the mission of making the Reagan Library dynamic intellectual forum are sent for Public Affairs Program Offers lectures presenting perspectives on important Public Policy issues of the day. Each you would bring to 2030p from politicians, office, embers of the needy, this is a military meters and more. Since the march 2020 closure of many businesses across our great country the Reagan Foundation is bringing events online to ensure were still delivering worldclass content even if you cant get to our hilltop to watch it in person. In this weeks Virtual Event we bring you Chris Wallace, anchor of fox news sunday. 2014 mark his 50th year in the broadcasting i
Anniversary of the potsdam conference. Big numbers like the 75th anniversary or 100th anniversary are always occasions for looking back and drawing attention. I think there is another reason to look back at potsdam, as we are reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. I am glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person again in kansas city. I wish that we were able to do this facetoface, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here that i want to reiterate throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, harry truman, and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisors around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds o
News Chris Wallace who provides a history of the lead up to the bombing of hiroshima in august of 19 a 45. 1945. Like the authors they commemorate, president ial libraries are living institutions. Finish certainly, it is my hope that the Reagan Library will become a dynamic intellectual forum where scholars interpret the past and policymakers debate the future. Welcome to the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute Virtual Event series. To fulfill president reagans mission of making the library dynamic intellectual forum, our central of Foreign Affairs program presents perspectives on important Public Policy issues of the day. Each year we bring you 2030 events from politicians, authors, members of the media and more. Since the march 2020 closure of in the businesses across our country, the Reagan Foundation is now bringing events online to insure we are till delivering world class content even if you cant watch it in person. In this weeks event, we bring you Chris Wallace
Book the accidental president , now we have him here virtually to talk about his new book about the 1948 elections going 78 years to another Election Year and you will be amazed how similar it sounds in some ways and in others what is different is politicians were all younger than they are today. That is one big difference. Take it away and tell us about the overview of the book. I want to say a couple things. Thank you for having me lose the Commonwealth Club is a wonderful place to be. I know books, i fell in love with reading when i was 6 years old because books can transport you to another time or place and that has been a blessing. I started this book in 2017 talking about the accidental president and i planned this book to come out in the 2020 cycle. This was a book about the election and it will be relevant and give me an opportunity to talk about things that matter. Secondly, elements in our life conspired in such a way, everything i was writing about was no longer taking place
Already well aware. Im ed langle, im senior director of programs at the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans and im joined today by two gentleman, the first is paul sparrow, who is director of the Franklin D Roosevelt president ial museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmakers and the seni Senior Executive and paul has been directing the Roosevelt Library and museum since 2015 and hell be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. And our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel, who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. Hes spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather and he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. So today will give a great opportunity for question and answers. Please weigh in with lots of questions. Weve already been talking quite a bit o