[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. I am the Deputy Director at the franklin d. Roosevelt president ial museum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the Eleventh Annual roosevelt reading festival. When fdr established the first president ial library at his home in hyde park he imagined it being the premier Research Center for the study of the roosevelt era and we are consistently one of the busiest Research Rooms in the president ial Library System and one of the reasons we love this so much is we get to see the fruit of the labors of all the people who use our Research Rooms throughout the year so it is our pleasure to have you here. Let me quickly go over the format of the day as well as a couple housekeeping matters. The first thing is will everyone take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so there presentation isnt interrupted today . Thank you. The other housekeeping matters if you find somebody on staff here today, that would give you one of the Roosevel
Good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. My name is bob clark, and im the Deputy Director here at the franklin d. Roosevelt president ial library and museum, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. You know, when fdr established the first president ial library here at his home in hyde park, he envisioned it becoming the premier Research Center for the study of the roosevelt era. And were consistently one of the busiest Research Rooms in the entire president ial library system. And one of the reasons why we love this base so much is we get to see the fruit of the labors of all the people who use our Research Room throughout the year. So its our pleasure to have you here. Let me quickly go over the format of the day as well as a couple of housekeeping matters. The first thing is would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so that our presentation isnt interrupted today. Thank you. The second housekeeping matt
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