Introduce catherine smith. Catherine smith is a journalist in history writer with a longtime interest in fdr and his times. She is the biographer of marguerite alice lahand who was fdrs private secretary counselor confidant from 1921 to 1941 and who served as his de facto white house chief of staff. In addition to her book the gatekeeper katherine coauthors a missile hand mystery series with kelly durham she also impersonates the hand for tell all talks about life with the roosevelts and is given more than 100 presentations at venues including the fdr library. A little white house in warm springs, georgia and the National World war two museum her most recent book is baptists in bootleggers a prohibition expedition through the south with cocktail recipes. She considers the repeal of the 18th amendment to be one of the greatest achievements of the early, new deal. Catherine lives in anderson, South Carolina with her husband leo please join me in welcoming catherine smith. Well, i was tel
For being here today. Well, thank you very much. And its quite an honor to be here at the fdr library and let me tell you a little bit about why i wrote the book and a little bit about myself. I actually as was mentioned have worked in the field of aging so obviously Social Security was something of great interest to me. And i was here in 1985 at the 50th anniversary of Social Security on august 14th. There were 7,000 people here there were people from Human Services groups and unions and so forth and i came back in 2005 when the 70th anniversary was held actually in 85 fdr junior was the mc and mario cuomo was the keynote speaker Claude Pepper in 2005. It was paul krugman was the speaker was the smaller occasion and then in 19 in 2010. I didnt come here but for the 75th anniversary, i was serving as the director of the state office for the aging and we had a program at the capitol and albany and also at roosevelt house down in new york city that i was at having worked in state governm
Know, the guys whonow, its my o introduce catherine smith. Catherine smith is a journalist in history writer with a longtime interest in fdr and his times. She is the biographer of marguerite alice lahand who was fdrs private secretary counselor confidant from 1921 to 1941 and who served as his de facto white house chief of staff. In addition to her book the gatekeeper katherine coauthors a missile hand mystery series with kelly durham she also impersonates the hand for tell all talks about life with the roosevelts and is given more than 100 presentations at venues including the fdr library. A little white house in warm springs, georgia and the National World war two museum her most recent book is baptists in bootleggers a prohibition expedition through the south with cocktail recipes. She considers the repeal of the 18th amendment to be one of the greatest achievements of the early, new deal. Catherine lives in anderson, South Carolina with her husband leo please join me in welcoming
With kelly durham she also impersonates the hand for tell all talks about life with the roosevelts and is given more than 100 presentations at venues including the fdr library. A little white house in warm springs, georgia and the National World war two museum her most recent book is baptists in bootleggers a prohibition expedition through the south with cocktail recipes. She considers the repeal of the 18th amendment to be one of the greatest achievements of the early, new deal. Catherine lives in anderson, South Carolina with her husband leo please join me in welcoming catherine smith. Well, i was telling patrick if i had a moonshine samples. It might have drawn a bigger crowd in today. Well still have a good time without it. Baptist and bootleggers, you may be wondering how i came up with that title and the answer is my father is an economist an academic economist. Hes taught it for many years at clemson university. And he had a theory he developed a theory of government regulation
She is the biographer of marguerite alice lahand who was fdrs private secretary counselor confidant from 1921 to 1941 and who served as his de facto white house chief of staff. In addition to her book the gatekeeper katherine coauthors a missile hand mystery series with kelly durham she also impersonates the hand for tell all talks about life with the roosevelts and is given more than 100 presentations at venues including the fdr library. A little white house in warm springs, georgia and the National World war two museum her most recent book is baptists in bootleggers a prohibition expedition through the south with cocktail recipes. She considers the repeal of the 18th amendment to be one of the greatest achievements of the early, new deal. Catherine lives in anderson, South Carolina with her husband leo please join me in welcoming catherine smith. Well, i was telling patrick if i had a moonshine samples. It might have drawn a bigger crowd in today. Well still have a good time without