Setting of christening ceremony wanted tablecloths to make it seem fancy and it is so remote out there, they had to search four counties to look for tablecloths. The question about eminent domain. Not something i thought about. I think they have to go through the Public Utility Commission which made decisions about the transmission lines, those who have been contentious because if you are a whole country landowner you might not want a transmission line going through your view. So as a reporter that is an interesting thing to write on because you have what i call green on green violence. Environmentalists who are all in favor of Renewable Energy wind power and another kind of environmentalists who are for maintaining what they call view sheds which are your view, and so lawyers get hired, that is where i write about this kind of interesting contentious moments. One other thing. And it is were working on our texas pronunciations. I was just wondering if in your research, pat would. And l
And she says, is that right . How would you know what god looks like what he pulled out a time and he said its right here, in god we trust, and heres his picture. And she said, thats not god, jack, thats franklin d. Roosevelt. Ya polio. He was on the dime, right . He was on the time because of the march of dimes. Congress decided after roosevelts death in 1945 they wanted to put his face on a coin, on the appropriate going with the dime because of the march of dimes, the Great Campaign to fight polio, that was put on by the National Foundation for infantile paralysis which had been founded by franklin d. Roosevelt even before he was president. Polio was completely associated with roosevelt and. Every year when he was president on the president s birthday, there were dinners all over the country to raise money to fight polio with the president s picture on the poster. People knew he had polio. They may not have understood the full extent of his disability, but they knew. And yet what ha
Louisville Free Public Library in louisville, kentucky, is next on booktv. [applause] thanks a lot, greg. Thank you. Very grateful to be in this this beautiful library. Thanks to you all for coming out on a fashionty evening. I do hope that well mostly have a conversation, think about questions you might want to ask, because im speaking ill try to keep my prepared remarks short, read three short passages from the book, and then lets talk about fdr. My grandmother was a schoolteacher. She taught music in the detroit Public Schools for many years, all through the 30s, 40s and 50s. Dedicated new deal democrat. And she said, jim, i want to tell you about a great man, a heroic man who had polio. As an adult. Now, i knew about polio, because id had the sugar cube, right . The vaccine. I knew what that was about, and it was scary to think about a grown man who had polio. She told me how he had to struggle across a stage to get to a podium, walking with canes all by himself. And this was an ac
That had polio. She told me how he had to struggle across the stage to get to the podium for talking with canes all by himself and this was an act of great courage and that was Franklin Roosevelt when he became the president and that stuck in my mind. A friend of mine came and told me a similar story. He said some about the same age when he was six or 7yearsold, he can to his mother one day and said i know what god looks like and she said is that right . How do you know and he pulled out a dime and he said it says right here in god we trust and here is his picture. And she said thats Franklin Roosevelt. He had polio. He was on the diamond, right . Because the march of dimes. Congress decided after his death in 1945 they wanted to put his face on the korean and the appropriate claim was the diamond and because the Great Campaign to piatt fight polio it was put on by the National Foundation founded by Franklin Roosevelt even before he was president. Polio was completely associated with h
11 annual roosevelt reading festival. When fdr created the library and gave home to the American People his home was people would visit and learn from the past so they would be able to create a Better Future for themselves. That mission of discovery and learning is something we take serious here. By welcoming visitors from all over we try hard to make that vision. It is our way to show how roosevelts vision for the library as a Research Institution is being fulfilled boy a variety of authors who write books of all kinds. The work is evidence that there can be much learned and great inspiration drawn from the roosevelt area. I thank them all for being with us today. And through cspan we are able to share the roosevelt reading festival with a grand audience across the country. None of this would be possible without the dynamic staff of the Roosevelt Library and our volunteers that i thank for their help. The Museum Opened new exciting exhibits. A 6 Million Investment in the future. Our b