Enabled to give more and be in a position to say ill make that giving a more significant part of what i have. I would just like to thank you for this evening and i think we should all thank you because you are doing something that is done rarely and you are actually succeeding and that is even rarer. So thank you. [applause] and im sorry about the many questions i didnt ask. It was nothing personal. Thanks again to peter and michael for being here. That was wonderful. He will be signing at the table on the side of the stage. Form a line starting outside of the auditorium. If you dont want to stand in line clear sign copies at the table appeared please visit the effective ultrathin table out there. Thank you so much for coming out. Have a great evening. [applause] welcome to book tvs live coverage of the roosevelt reading festival. This annual event takes place at night or company or your other line would bring in several authors in the fdr library. We will kick off in just a moment wit
Friends and intimates and developed a level of selfreliance that increased over the course of a life time and career. Elenor said he had no real confidants. Not me either. A speech writer for fdr was a very asstute observer of rogues roosevelt and wrote the classic bioography of roosevelt and hopkins. That is a bible in fdr history. He got to know roosevelt well. He said he has a thickly forestly interior. He didnt want anyone to penetrate that force to see what was going on inside. We was probably the most solitary president we have ever had. This is the contradiction that is fdr and wife Frances Perkins was such a complicated man and theres no episode in his presidency or his life which underscore is this duality more than this type does. Four days before the Chicago Convention opened on july 11th, 1940, Franklin Roosevelt called Felix Frankfurter down from the Supreme Court. They had a two hour session in the oval study adjacent to the president s bedroom on the second floor of the
Started by washington and continued by jefferson became pa paramount to law. It was a deeply respected practice and very few considered challenging and no one had succeeded. He was going to retire because he said that he was tired and he was broke. And he was both. He had already designed and was then building the first president ial library in america in hyde park new york which has been restored. I urge you to go see that. It is a fabulous experience. He built a retreat called top cottage at hyde park where he could get away from visitors he knew would come. He signed a contract to write regular articles and was going to write his memoirs and two of the top aids were going to come do this. He was thinking about retirement and he was enjoying. There were third term rumbles about whether or not he might run. But nothing to it. He didnt give it any serious attention. Then as kevin mentioned at the beginning of the book he was woken in the middle of the night, september 1st, 1939 to be t
Moe definitely connects that decision to be out for with democracies from hitlers rampage. The book opens as a fellow writer i will say with a beautiful sentiment. Which is Franklin Delano roosevelt was an unusually found sleeper. [laughter] he then goes on to describe roosevelt being awaken on september 1st in 1939 by a call from the u. S. Ambassador of france who told an german troops across the border into poland were dancing rapidly. Richard moes experience served him well in writing this book. He was chief of staff to Vice President Walter Mondale and Senior Adviser to president jimmy carter and someone that many of us who cover politics over the years got to know. As my colleague, whom i regard is probably a preeminent Political Writer in this country said of dick, he has the perspective of a practitioner who understands the complexity of the decisionmaking and he is talent of the historian for the roosevelt residency in fresh ways. Richard was president of the National Trust for
This picture was photographed in combat zones by cameronmen of the mediterranean allied forces and by pilots of the 12th air force who joined missions against the enemy, operated automatic cameras in that plane. Behind the pilot, shooting forward and back. Under the wing. In the wing. Timed with the guns. In the wheel well. In the instrument panel. Photographing the pilot himself. The commander counter of the United States air force is general carl spots has asked me to tell you something about this picture. I dont think i can do any better than just to read from his telegram to me. Thunderbolt was made in 1944. Ancient history. It was made about one Fighter Bomber group in the Italian Campaign. It happens to be an american group. The same story could well be told of the Royal Air Force grouped which participated so gallantly in the same air offensive. As a matter of fact, the story belongs to all men who fought for freedom and did it a long way from home. Signed spots. Thank you. To t