Eleanor roosevelt wings that were built in 1972. But even after the Library First opened, fdr started catching with ended up being the structure here to incorporate eleanors papers because he was telling her that we really need to have your papers that the library. When the archivist said, do you think theyll give it to you . The fdr said you can never tell what my mrs. Is going to do. Which i think is a true statement about Eleanor Roosevelt. How many of you are members here today . Look at that. Thank you so much. Your support makes programs like this possible. We really do appreciate everything you do for us. The library is a federally funded institution, but obviously we rely on private donations to allow us to do many of the non federal funded programs and exhibits like that. Today, we have with us a very special friend and guest. She spent many many days a year when she was working on the Eleanor Roosevelt papers with George Washington university which is really a tremendous reso
The demonology, slave owner from a Southern State who had some retrograde views on race. Elsewhere, the historical awareness seems a little fuzzier. It was goodbye to poor old Hans Christian egg, who actually fought and died for the union in the civil war. In washington, d. C. , the protesters declared it was time to get rid of the emancipation memorial, Abraham Lincoln lifting up a former slave to freedom, dedicated by frederick douglass. You may remember President Trump predicted this might come to pass three years ago. Of course, at the time he was mocked by liberals by comedians, such as john oliver. The president s concern this week its robert e. Lee. I notice that stonewall jacksons coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week and Thomas Jefferson is week after . Where does it stop . Ultimately where it stops, somewhere. Anytime someone asks where does it stop, the answer is always somewhere. [laughter] you might let your kid have twizzlers, but not inject black tar h
The demonology, slave owner from a Southern State who had some retrograde views on race. Elsewhere, the historical awareness seems a little fuzzier. It was goodbye to poor old Hans Christian egg, who actually fought and died for the union in the civil war. In washington, d. C. , the protesters declared it was time to get rid of the emancipation memorial, Abraham Lincoln lifting up a former slave to freedom, dedicated by frederick douglass. You may remember President Trump predicted this might come to pass three years ago. Of course, at the time he was mocked by liberals by comedians, such as john oliver. The president s concern this week its robert e. Lee. I notice that stonewall jacksons coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week and Thomas Jefferson is week after . Where does it stop . Ultimately where it stops, somewhere. Anytime someone asks where does it stop, the answer is always somewhere. [laughter] you might let your kid have twizzlers, but not inject black tar h
The demonology, slave owner from a Southern State who had some retrograde views on race. Elsewhere, the historical awareness seems a little fuzzier. It was goodbye to poor old Hans Christian egg, who actually fought and died for the union in the civil war. In washington, d. C. , the protesters declared it was time to get rid of the emancipation memorial, Abraham Lincoln lifting up a former slave to freedom, dedicated by frederick douglass. You may remember President Trump predicted this might come to pass three years ago. Of course, at the time he was mocked by liberals by comedians, such as john oliver. The president s concern this week its robert e. Lee. I notice that stonewall jacksons coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week and Thomas Jefferson is week after . Where does it stop . Ultimately where it stops, somewhere. Anytime someone asks where does it stop, the answer is always somewhere. [laughter] you might let your kid have twizzlers, but not inject black tar h
For their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and political history. And i will reserve the last half hour at least for questions and comments from you and for us to continue talking. As you can tell todays session is being filmed by cspan so do with that information as you will. All right. Frank is going to go first and introduce yourself. Yeah, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning rather than history, although increasingly i take a historical approach to city planning. I do that at rutgers and at princeton. The reason im here is that nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th century fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them and a couple of months ago