fdr library. he was the deputy director and senior vice president for broadcasting and new media at the museum. he was a founding partner at the university of maryland s future of informational alliance and a pioneer in interactive digital media prior to his work at the museum. sparrow is a emmy award-winning television producer. he started his television career at kpix in san francisco and i saw we ve got some folks from california, so we ll have to let us know if they they know your work paul from california and that are you with this fall? i m here. yes. thank you patrick for having me here to them. i m really pleased to be part of this series. i them in their fantastic. terrific we re delighted to have you before we let you jump in. i have to ask. how are you doing? how s the staff doing with the with the pandemic and everything? well, as you know, the national archives has taken a very conservative approach and staff health and safety has been the number one priority. so
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Features his springwood estate, his president ial library next door and also the final resting places of fdr and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. We visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. Roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. It really was not until my grandmothers funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. And something of a celebrity. And seeing, you know, the president , two expresident s, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there, very important people, that it 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 thats all she ever wanted to be to us. I was born in january 3rd, 1942. My father was elliot. And elliot was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldes
His president ial library next door and also the final resting places of fdr and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. We visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. Roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. It really was not until my grandmothers funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. And something of a celebrity. And seeing, you know, the president , two expresident s, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there, very important people, that it 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 thats all she ever wanted to be to us. I was born in january 3rd, 1942. My father was elliot. And elliot was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldest of the children. So my dad kin
Places of fdr and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. We visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, a grandson of president and mrs. Roosevelt, to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. It really was not until my grandmothers funeral that i realized that it really kind of hit me that she was really a special person. And something of a celebrity. And seeing, you know, the president , two expresident s, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there, very important people, that it 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 thats all she ever wanted to be to us. I was born in january 3rd, 1942. My father was elliot. And elliot was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldest of the children. So my dad kind of fell right in the middle and i think he always felt that h