Member of the Roosevelt Library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. At this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank cspan for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. We will start with our speaker in just a moment. Then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. 2012 is an adjunct member of the Arizona State university and his fields of study include Public Policy, political history, latin america, u. S. mexico border land and sanford, arizona, i want to introduce patrick lukens. [applause] thank you. I want to thank bob clark and the rest of the staff and the president ial library to be one of todays presenters. And preparing this presentation and Headline News over the pas
Constitutional convention. It does not contain a bill of rights. Why . Madison says that a bill of rights would be unnecessary or dangerous. Unnecessary because the constitution itself is the bill of rights and by constraining Congress Power and the president s power, it gives the federal government no authority to infringe the retained inalienable natural rights of conscience and speech and other basic liberties. And dangerous because madison that is the right answer rights in the bill of rights, people might wrongly assumed it is separate down, it is not protected. Because the framers believed with certain unalienable rights are god or nature, not government can do is dangerous to confine them to a definitely a spirit because of the heroic protest that the antifederalist that neither three gentleman you can see just as site here and signers hall, george mason, ill are at the virginia declaration of rights, admin and kerry of massachusetts, they refuse to sign the constitution because
I thank lisa and judy and all their hospitality. And i thank the Truman Library because its one of the first places i went to do research on this project. So this is a wonderful thing to be able to do at the end of it. This is my fifth or sixth time coming to kansas city. I have yet to be here when the weather was tolerable. Ive been here for a blizzard, thunder show, a tornado, now this. But every single time i have come here i have left with barbecue in my stomach, wonderful people that ive met, and more admiration for this great city that you have. So thank you for your hospitality here. [ applause ]. And im a baseball fan. So to be in a world series city is fine, even if its not pittsburgh. And i want to the write a book, and truman said to stalin. Those have been done before. And i dont find them very interesting. And i dont want to presume as the two others of potsdam that a cold war was about to come. They didnt know there was a cold war coming. Not to set up as a conflict thems
Be i talked about the revolutionary war. He waited a few minutes and said, did we win it . I realized i had a lot of work to do with this kid. [inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the Franklin Roosevelt president ial library and museum and the roosevelt reading festival for 2016. I want to welcome those joining us now for what should be a wonderful lecture. This is exactly the sort of program that franklin expel nor roosevelt wanted to have happen here. They wanted this to be a center for the discussion of the roosevelt every rah and for people era and for people to visit this particular location because to understand Franklin Roosevelt, you really have to come here to hyde park. It influenced him in so many ways. The roosevelt reading festivals been going on for many years, and it really is an opportunity for us to bring in authors from all over the country and create an opportunity for people to hear these stories and for the researchers who have come here and spent time ma
Ms. Swain this is the Woodrow Wilson house in washington d. C. , the home of our 28th president and former first Lady Edith Wilson after they left the white house in 1921. Youll be seeing more of it over the next two hours as we tell the story of the two Wilson Administration first ladies, ellen and edith. Ellen and woodrow met in their 20s and their love for each other was reflected in passionate letters. An accomplished artist as well as his intellectual companion, she helped guide his career from academia to politics. In adopting causes, she set an example for future first ladies. Ellen wilson died in the white house just a year and a half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains one of the most controversial eff