Stewart. You can also follow the cspan city tour on twitter where behind the scene images and video. Cspan cities. [inaudible] good morning and welcome to the Franklin Roosevelt president ial museum. I am so glad you could join us today for the 17th annual reading festival. We have tried piped a tremendous lineup today. About a 30 minute talk there will be some question answering that a book signing, because we are joined today by her friends at cspan, if you are going to ask a question please use the microphones so your question can be heard. This is a important part of the leg us. When he built this library 1941, he assumed he would be leaving office and he wanted a place to come that would be a center for learning and Public Forum Discussions and we have tried to live up to the reputation and the legacy and this was one of our most successful components of that. You are about to hear from eric rolle who is a professor a graduate at stanford, he has written six books three on Frankli
Not only did he say that proposed program was impractical he said it would be destructive of american civilization. The new deal would bring destructive changes. Upon which this government is founded. It would break down the savings, the wages the equality of opportunity among the people i would break down our form of government. Free speech does not live many hours after free commerce dies. The new deal with the same fumes of apparition brush in the courtroom. Spread over the whole of europe. If roosevelt were elected. They would grow in the streets of a hundred cities. A thousand towns. Its always good for a few quotations. Indeed it leads to some of my favorite moments of amusement which i did put in the book the have of the Womens Division were marked during the inaugural parade the inaugural parade included a series of men with lawnmowers coming through the streets. Contrary to myth the 1932 election was happily contested. It was very clear which candidate was promising what with