Going to talk with. Homas schwartz he directed as an author and editor. Professional awards. Today we are going to take a to the time ofme Herbert Hoover. Tom, i want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . The staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Great. We have lots of questions. I will sign off. I will let you get into your program and i will pop back in when we are ready for q a. Have at it. Enjoy. Thank you, patrick. So, you see the exterior of the hoover president ial library museum. We are the smallest facility. We were founded as a quaker community. Hoover was our first quaker president. How did hoover get in . He predates roosevelt. This is the hoover tower at Stanford University. Herbert hoover was with president wilson in versailles
Patrick lets get to it. Today i am going to talk with thomas schwartz, the director of the Herbert Hoover president ial library. He has been with the Hoover Library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois , state historian and went on to lincoln collection at the Abraham Lincoln president ial library as an author and editor, his work recognized with a number of professional awards. He will take a step back in time, not all the way back to lincoln, but to the time of Herbert Hoover. Tom, are you there . I want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . Thomas the staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Patrick great. I know you have a great set of images and stories and tales. I have a feeling we have lots of questions. I will sign off.
Tourist germany issues a new travel warning for most of spine Holiday Plans in downtown. And designs are on the viol for the new museum of the exiles in berlin it will on others who fled the nazi regime and those still being forced from their homelands today. Im rebecca has welcome to the Program Thousands of people have gathered in minsk for another day of protests against the batteries in government to find a Police Crackdown following disputed elections huge crowds have now gathered to commemorate the death of a demonstrator earlier this week so i thought Security Forces appear to be holding back from intervening here opinion says it will sanction officials who. Repressed dissent and battle president Alexander Lukashenko has to die cool in russia to support him and his claim to have won last weeks elections. Well were now joined by kate schmidt so you know shes an analyst with better is an institute for strategic studies cant thanks very much for coming on the program we are again s
On ten occasions disney sea and has the honor of hosting restitution ceremonies where painting or other artifacts stolen by the nazis and their collaborators have been returned to the rightful owner. [applause] thank you. Some of you were with us last year. With the u. S. Attorneys office for the Southern District of new york here and we presented with a red one of stolen from a grandfather by the nazis. It was very moving event and we are proud to build on that with this series. We hope youll join us for the next event in this series. That will be recovering nazis looted art. They will discuss several cases and provide an overview of the ethical and legal issues involved in recovering Nazi Looted Art. We hope youll join us for the programmer that will be october 17 at 7 p. M. Tonight we welcome mary lane from the author of hitlers last hostages a fascinating new study of art the trace the roots of hitlers obsession with art and how its your decision of the perfect nazis did the author
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