A tootsie pop can last a good 20 minutes. Its wonderful to seeth even though i havent been to one of these in a while to see so many familiar faces and some new faces and to see a full house you really lift our spirits when people are in the building giving up your free time it tells us we are having an impact so thank you for being here. Its wonderful to see. If you are not very familiar with the Heartland Institute, we are a nonpartisan organization. We believe in free markets and we are here as lobbyists for freedoms. Advocates for freedom. We fight for freedom wherever we can. To develop, discover and promote freemarket solutions to the problems in society. We are mostly known for our work in Global Warming fighting against alarmism and sound science and realism but we address a large number of issues. The core issues over the years have been education, financial budget issues, School Choice in wparticular. Then of late weve been active fighting big tech censorship, the great reset
Crosss visit to the president ial libraries. Good morning, everyone. My name is bob clark and 9 executive director of the president ial library and museum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the Eleventh Annual roosevelt reading festival. Fdr established the first president ial library in hyde park. He envisioned it becoming the premier Research Center for the study of the roosevelt era, very consistently one of the busiest Research Rooms in the president ial library system. One of the reasons we love this day so much is we get to see the fruit of the labors of all the people who use our Research Room throughout the year. It is our pleasure to have you here. Let me go over those formats of the day and a couple housekeeping matters. The first is would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so the presentation isnt interrupted today . Thank you. The housekeeping matter, the staff here today will be happy to give you one of these library buttons and that wi
President ial library here at his home in hyde park he envisioned it becomeing the people Year Research study for the roosevelt era and is one of the busiest Research Rooms in the president ial library system. We get to see the fruit of the labor of all the people who use our Research Room through the years. So its our pleasure to have how here. Would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so that our presentation is not interrupted today. Thank you. Second housekeeping matter, if youll find somebody on the staff here today, theyll be have to givedown of this Roosevelt Library buttons and that will get you into free admission to the new permanent exhibit we opened just a year ago after our three and a half year renovation. So i encourage you to check out the new exhibit. Finally, i want to thank our friends from cspan who are film hearing today. Theyre always great at showing support for Public Programs at the Roosevelt Library. The format of the session is
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