He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program. Thank you. Paul thank you, ed. Thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. The background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. Some of the things that he understood about the spread of
Harry truman, and the Manhattan Project. Joining him are fdr president ial library and Museum Director paul sparrow and historian edward lengel. Edward i am edward lengel. I am senior director of programs in new orleans. Im joined today by two gentlemen. The first is paul sparrow, who is director of the Franklin D Roosevelt president ial museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum. Paul has been directing the roosevelt Library Museum since 2015. He will be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for q
A double topping will not be compensated. But second is a more effective and relevant job. He actually reduced spending as a share of gdp. Because reagan instituted 86 straight months of gdp growth, the fact that spending is a bad job and increased proportion proportionally. Its president advocating for general spending cuts. In todays status quo, general spending cuts are not enough. We need specific policy. The final argument is about Calvin Coolidges Foreign Policy. Instead, his lack of mechanism. What we would say on Team Opposition is that leaders or dictators could potentially sign the pact and then not follow through on it. We dont need that as an effective Foreign Policy. President reagan instituted the belief of this doctrine by ending. Finally, most importantly, Team Government needs to come up here in 2015 telling us with specific analysis. Suddenly changing their tune and begin working with the United States. We have already offered them the possibility of collaboration for
History of the Republican Party, but in the history of the country itself. And so, lets begin by applying these lessons to todays round. Now, we can look at three. Firstly, that a candidate ought to understand that his demeanor defines him. Secondly, that Economic Policy is the priority. And thirdly, that a good Foreign Policy is a friendly Foreign Policy. Lets begin by engaging with sides opposition on their highest ground. The idea of president reagans demeanor and we agree a lot with what matthew had to say. He is the great communicator. He is the man able to unite the American People together. But just as he was told in the last speech, there are not very many men and women like reagan. Hes ra rarity, had to replicate and oftentimes many of what reagan has to say is lost in translation. Great things like mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall turn into, mr. Trump saying, lets build a wall. As it turns out, thats rather important. But the same messages is whats trying to be said. The on
Annual meeting at the Carter Center weekend in annapolis next year, and you said i could invite everybody here to attend, right . You and the Vice President going to be there . It will be a great event. We were going to have some questions. But we dont have any microphones. So [ laughter ] just a little issue there. So i think what we should probably do is to wrap this up, but, mr. President , i would like to ask you, invite you to say any final words about the Vice President or about anything you would like at this point. Well, i think what we did together was historic. Its changed the basic structure of the executive branch of government to bring the Vice President in as a full partner with the president. That had never within dobeen do. I think the reason it was successful was that every expectation that i had for that partnership was never betrayed by mr. Mondale. I dont think we ever had an argument during the years, which was better than the relationship between me and my wife. [