Were celebrating the tenth anniversary of the henry a. Wallace center, so welcome, very glad to have you. A couple of housekeeping matters before i introduce our speaker. E one is will you, please, all out take out your cell phones,ep pagers, things that beep and the pone and turn them off moanda and turny. Them off. The second thing is i want to thank our colleagues at cspan who are filming live from hydeou park to the, so thank you to them for h being here andprog supporting our programs. Then and finally, let me just go over the format of the session. As those of you who have been here many times before know what our speaker will do is speak for about to 30 minutes, then well have 10 or 15 minutes for questions and answers, and i ask would ask that for the questions you would come up and line up and stand at the microphone, and then mr. Persico will call ontin you for questions. And then after the question and answer period, well escort mr. Persico out to the lobbye where he will be
Roosevelts tomorrow is now. Coverage of the 2013 president reaching festival starts now. Here is maureen beasley. Good morning. I am the Education Specialist at the roosevelt president ial library and museum and on behalf of the fdr president ial Library Museum welcome you in our audience, those of you at home watching on cspan to the tenth annual roosevelt reading festival. Franklin roosevelts plan for the library to become a premier Research Institution for the study of the roosevelt era, the librarys Research Room is one of the busiest of all the president ial libraries and this years group of authors reflect a wide variety of Research Done here. Let me go over the format for the festivals concurrent sessions. At the top of each hour session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a 10 minute question and answer period of. Than the authors go to the new deal store where you can purchase books and have them sign them. At the top of the next hour the process repeats itself aga
Playing. An excerpt from the log book of captain james cook. Wednesday september the sixty were in the utmost danger im sorry convinced that mr stevens charge is incorrect and not mine we turn to the northeast in the belief that this was the best direction in which to clear the codes the night was dark and sunda like me and rain as day dawned dangerous breakers could be seen on the coast and heavy seas swept over the full day. With the wind turning more and more in an easterly direction it was going to be able to maintain our slight distance from the leaps what made our situation even more alone was the loss of the main topsail which was torn off we have no visible contact with the discovery which was saving some distance away to the north going have mercy on us or. Greenwich lies on the river thames several kilometers downstream from london for centuries it has been the heart of brick you see family he was from here the great naval figures like Francis Drake james cook and lord nelson
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