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.
Jane todays event is sponsored by our tpwhrobal Europe Program under the direction of our newly minted director, dan hamilton, who will take overing moring this program for me in a little while. Its also sponsored by our kennon institute in partnership with the u. S. Helsinki ommission. Dan jones the Wilson Center after holding positions in the u. S. Department of state, including notably, assistant secretary for european affair responseable for nato, the osce and transatlantic security issue os they have in ordericbaltic and balkan affairs. He also retains an affiliation and taught for a while at johns hopkins. Our conversation today marks an important milestone. 30 years ago today, the charter of paris for the new europe was signed by 34 european and north american country, symbolizing an end to the 40year division of europe into two possible camps. It formally signaled the end of the cold war and set the osce, or the csce, the conference on security and cooperation in europe, on the
United states. Its stoned to each and every vote its the race to the white house is heading for a full 2 finish with the gap not donald trump until biden in the battleground states. Democratic and republican supporters trade calls to count every ballot dollar trump a game that makes on the proven claims of folks are frauds. And after deploying troops and ethiopias north the president to clear is the region a no fly zone to stamp out a separatist struggle. And im far as well have all the days sport including a miserable night for ac milan as they suffered their worst ever european defeat at the san siro. But its been 3 days since election day but americans are still waiting to find out who will be their next president. The race to the white house is headed for a 4 to finish with every hour narrow in the gap between donald trump and joe biden well heres the overall picture there are just 4 battleground states left to catch any one of them could give joe biden the win now hes just pulled
President declares the region a no fly zone to stamp out a separatist struggle. And denmark plans to cope all minks in the country to contain any tainted form of coronavirus. And far as small have all the days sport including and miserable night for ac milan as they suffered their worst ever european defeat at the san siro. 1300. 00 g. M. T. Thats 8 am in the eastern United States and we still can see the next president of the United States will be things are heating up though every hour or the gap narrows we see donald trump and joe biden heres what you need to know there are just 4 battleground states so being counted and any single win for joe biden could effectively end. The race now hes pulled ahead in georgia and is in the leads in nevada where trump is ahead in the other 2 states but the margins are reserved thin the states being cancers are the ones that you see here in yellow in the vada pennsylvania North Carolina and of course georgia as it stands joe biden has 264 Electoral