Wed like to welcome you. Were lucky enough to have cspan with us and its bk recobk being recorded. And if you have questions later, please use the microphone on your left so the people at home can hear your question. President roosevelt planned for this library to be the primary Research Room from the roosevelt era. Its one of the busiest of the president ial libraries and this years group of authors reflect the wide variety of Research Done here on these grounds. If you love the roosevelt reading festival and im sure you do, and want to support this and other programs we do here, i doen courage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today by seeing lauren at the membership table in this building just at the end of the hallway. And if you havent had a chance yet, please go next door to see our new special museum exhibition, images of internment, the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. With that said, let me go over some of the format protocols for t
Member and would he truly appreciate it. If youre not a member, get one of the pins, and it gives you free admission to the library and museum. We have an exhibit on the japanese internment and very powerful. I hope youll see this. This program is very special because we are pea not going to be hear from an author, we are going to be hearing from a principal. Recently a fantastic book was written called the gatekeeper by a woman named kathryn smith, did research in one of the most least understood players in the roosevelt players. Missy lehand and it defined the presidency, its a remarkable book. I want you to take a deep breath and close your eyes, june 17th, 1933. And im going to introduce you to a woman who was probably the most powerful woman other than Eleanor Roosevelt in washington during this period. She had known president she knew Franklin Roosevelt when he ran for vicepresident , was with him throughout his polio recovery, and then in washington d. C. She was technically a s
Museum. Wed like to welcome you. Were lucky enough to have cspan with us and its bk recobk being recorded. And if you have questions later, please use the microphone on your left so the people at home can hear your question. President roosevelt planned for this library to be the primary Research Room from the roosevelt era. Its one of the busiest of the president ial libraries and this years group of authors reflect the wide variety of Research Done here on these grounds. If you love the roosevelt reading festival and im sure you do, and want to support this and other programs we do here, i doen courage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today by seeing lauren at the membership table in this building just at the end of the hallway. And if you havent had a chance yet, please go next door to see our new special museum exhibition, images of internment, the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. With that said, let me go over some of the format protoco
Good afternoon and welcome. I am patrick fahy a member of the archive staff and on behalf of the Library Museum i would like to welcome you to the annual roosevelts reading festival. We are fortunate enough to have cspan with us and our session is being recorded. Therefore if you would like to ask a question in the session, please use the microphone over here to the left so that people at home will be able to hear the question as well. President roosevelt envisioned the land of the library to become the premier Research Institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. The room is consistently one of the busiest of all of the president ial libraries into this years group of authors reflects a wide variety of Research Done on the grounds. If you love the reading festival, and im sure you do, and want to support this and other programs i do encourage you to become a per Roosevelt Library member. You can join today by seeing warren at the leadership table at the end of the hallway. And i