Be watching cspan for what its surissure to be an exceptional discussion. This is a special gathering, where we will learn about and if you will rightly celebrate the publishing of a unique book as a colossal event from a fresh perspective, an opportunity to learn something new and profound about the Second World War or the bestselling history the Second World War how it was fought and won. Im the Vice President of the National Review and the trustee [applause] i didnt know they were serving alcohol this early. [laughter] i do this welcoming on behalf of my fellow trustees we have some of the board here and the president of the institute. [applause] the National Review institute was founded in 91 by william f. Buckley junior. It is a journalistic think tank established to advance the conservative principles though championed and to complement the National Review magazine by promoting and supporting its best talent. At the last National Review Board Meeting in 2006, bill buckley ordered
Guest he did. He wrote a moment moyer called my several lives. The only problem was, he was great man it and was a dull bach because he was a button down yankee and didnt reveal too many secrets. I. My graph had an extraordinary career because he served the country in three wars essentially, two hot and one cold. He helped make the first weapon of mass destruction poison gas, for the chemical war service during world war 1. He then became president of harvard, and was a leading educatear, but then because of his wartime experience, and because he was a brilliant chemist by training, he ended up being recruited by roosevelt to be a scientific general of world war ii and was in charge, again, of all chemical weapons, but that included a new weapon, the bomb, and he ended up overseeing the Manhattan Project laboratory at los alamos where they built the first atomic bomb. And then he became one of the key architects of our Cold War Nuclear policy. He advised roosevelt during the war and th
Seeing the president , two exr president s, all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people, very important people, that really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important. We never thought of her in that way. We never viewed my grandmother. She was only a grandmother to us, and that is all she ever wanted to be to us. 3, 1942. N in january my father was elliott, and elliott was the second oldest of the sons and third oldest of the children, so my dad kind of fell right in the middle. I think he always felt that he was the middle child, but you claimmy uncles used to that he was my grandmothers favorite. I am not sure that was true, but that is what they claimed anyway. My mother and father were divorced when i was only two, and my time with my father was really quite limited and as a consequence, you know the rememberg that i can was howim talking about he almost felt somewhat estranged from my grandmother because i mean, he loved her she was so busy that it was almost he fel
Good afternoon everyone. Of thee director roosevelt house Public Policy institute. I see get used to saying good afternoon because we have been increasingly hosting afternoon programs. Nextore special than the than the previous. It is a special privilege and honor to be introducing the program today. We had to say what guest would we want to have at roosevelt house, the home of eleanor and franklin roosevelt, with the words of the four freedoms on the wall. Natan sharansky, we are so pleased to have him. I am not going tos not going to spend time rita striving a biography that is so wellknown and all of our minds and hearts for all he endured in the name of freedom. It is one of the moving stories of the 20th century. I can just say we are honored to have him. Friend, ateful to our ,reat journalist, publisher member of the Roosevelt Roosevelt house board of advisors and most recently, a teacher in our human rights program. Peter osnos, for inviting his halls andour persuading him to co
So this is a historic book talk it is the last one we will have at these offices some of you are aware the institute is moving to new digs so that next session will be there at january 22 i hope to see many of you at that time also to our guest watching live stream and especially our many guests watching this on cspan. We are delighted to have 25 students here Washington Latin High School and i was discussing this how appropriate is to have a group like this because with this absolutely Remarkable Book despite those fine biographies to give clear and explicit credit there is a concern the Younger Generation is increasingly unaware of what Franklin Roosevelt did for the nation and for the world. So what great president ial leadership is like. That the believe such leadership is possible. Our guest is very little introduction especially here in washington. And with the foreign policy. With a dozen biographies including kennedy, truman, johnson and nixon and reagan. You have probably read