About your book from october 31st, 1996. You know, this is my last campaign and maybe i will run for school board someday. [laughter] brian your book is called the last campaign. You say in the book that moment got you the title. Why . Anthony i saw that moment in a Political Science budget class in 2003 and decided to write my thesis for that semester on that idea that a president ial library is the president last campaign, not the final electoral contest. And when i finished that paper, my professor said this is a book, you should consider making this into a book. A week later, i got into an rv i had and traveled to all the president ial libraries in six weeks, the once i had not been to yet. I came back convinced that maybe there was more than a book in it. For me, going to the president ial libraries was only the beginning of the journey. Because seeing the libraries as a tourist was different from researching in the records and going to the National Archives and seeing how the lib
Legacy in living part of our history . A great chicken of the Roosevelt Legacy and of one of my favorite actors, Frances Perkins. Small family, committed family of roosevelts. I am a newbie in this world. I have been welcomed warmly. I appreciate that. But there are a few who have been more dedicated and more thoughtful in their writings about it. Please welcome chris bryson. [applause] thank you. We have all come to count on the new deal safety net to remain secure. Much that hadwhen seemed secure is coming unstuck, we need to remind yourselves of what that new deal legacy is, and how it came about in the first place. Understanding is history is crucial to preserving it. The impact of disregarding our history, the disease we are painfully aware has afflicted us at the highest levels, can seriously undermine the foundations of the new deal , as of other institutions that were created after circumstances that now threatened. We are fortunate to have the grandchildren of the leaders and
Museum. What was the four freedoms speech . Paul it was an opportunity for him to try to explain why america should care about the war that was raging in europe and that was raging in the east, in asia. It was a way to look to the future and say what are we going . O be fighting for the four freedoms, freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear, are the divide democracy from the dictatorships running rampant at that time in the world. The American Public at that point was still fairly isolationist. They did not win to get involved in the european war. They were still angry about the fact they had not been repaid the loans of world war i. Roosevelt was trying to help them understand that it was a global world, global village. And he was addressing what would enjoy their ability to these freedoms that are so vital to democracy. It is called the four freedoms speech. Reaction by congress and the rest of the American Public to that speech
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