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
Then at 7 00 worl is live with your phone calls and todays headlines. Announcer this week on q a, Hudson Institute senior fellow michael durand, talking about his book ikes gamble. He discusses his book. Brian michael durand, what is ikes gamble . Michael first of all, it is the title of my book. The gamble was a decision by eisenhower in the 1950s in dealing with the middle east to tilt away from his traditional allies, britain and france and israel, and towards the rising nationalist in the region, particularly egypt. Israel, and towards the rising ationalist in the region, brian how old was he at this point . Michael nasser was only in his 40s at this point. He was very young. Brian you talk a lot about winston churchill. How was he at this time . Michael churchill was approaching 80, and britain was still the dominant power in the middle east. It was everywhere in decline. Nationalists were rising up. The big strategic question the u. S. Faced was, should it support britain against
Then at 7 00 worl is live with your phone calls and todays headlines. Announcer this week on q a, Hudson Institute senior fellow michael durand, talking about his book ikes gamble. He discusses his book. Brian michael durand, what is ikes gamble . Michael first of all, it is the title of my book. The gamble was a decision by eisenhower in the 1950s in dealing with the middle east to tilt away from his traditional allies, britain and france and israel, and towards the rising nationalist in the region, particularly egypt. Israel, and towards the rising ationalist in the region, brian how old was he at this point . Michael nasser was only in his 40s at this point. He was very young. Brian you talk a lot about winston churchill. How was he at this time . Michael churchill was approaching 80, and britain was still the dominant power in the middle east. It was everywhere in decline. Nationalists were rising up. The big strategic question the u. S. Faced was, should it support britain against
Then at 7 00 worl is live with your phone calls and todays headlines. Announcer this week on q a, Hudson Institute senior fellow michael durand, talking about his book ikes gamble. He discusses his book. Brian michael durand, what is ikes gamble . Michael first of all, it is the title of my book. The gamble was a decision by eisenhower in the 1950s in dealing with the middle east to tilt away from his traditional allies, britain and france and israel, and towards the rising nationalist in the region, particularly egypt. Israel, and towards the rising ationalist in the region, brian how old was he at this point . Michael nasser was only in his 40s at this point. He was very young. Brian you talk a lot about winston churchill. How was he at this time . Michael churchill was approaching 80, and britain was still the dominant power in the middle east. It was everywhere in decline. Nationalists were rising up. The big strategic question the u. S. Faced was, should it support britain against
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