Official home. The passing of f. D. R. From the american scene came as a personal shock to the nation. People wept openly, unashamed of their grief. [music] drawn by six white horses, the flagdraped caisson was brought to the main entrance of the white house. Carried into the great east room where, 80 years before almost to the day, the body of Abraham Lincoln also had laid in state. At hyde park, his ancestral home, the guns of west point cadets, the final curtain on the man known round the world as f. D. R. [shots firing] to measure something of his greatness, we turn back the clock to Franklin Roosevelt as a young man making his First Political campaign torks the time when to the time when, only 28 years of age, he was elected new york state senator and brought the powerful republican machine that had rolled the county for over 28 years. [music] emerging as a national figure, he served president wilson as the secretary of assistant secretary of the navy. In 1920, as running mate of
In california. Many of you will have at your place setting an envelope, and if you open the envelope youll find a record or two that we were able to find about you when you served the president. And the staff that we have, a great staff inside the foundation, they had more fun and you would just imagine as they would uncover something in a document that links something, theyd say, wow, and youd end up with the conversation around these documents. So i can only share with you that it was a great discovery process for our people and i think we are reproducing them for you to have at your tables as a little bit different. So we thought that would be fun. So [ applause ] its a great honor for me to introduce our first panel of the afternoon, we have two very significant panels, one that will start shortly and one than begins as near to 2 00 as we can make that happen. Im delighted that youre here for the dedication today and especially the nixon alumni reunion. As members of the administra
In california. Many of you will have at your place setting an envelope, and if you open the envelope youll find a record or two that we were able to find about you when you served the president. And the staff that we have, a great staff inside the foundation, they had more fun and you would just imagine as they would uncover something in a document that links something, theyd say, wow, and youd end up with the conversation around these documents. So i can only share with you that it was a great discovery process for our people and i think we are reproducing them for you to have at your tables as a little bit different. So we thought that would be fun. So [ applause ] its a great honor for me to introduce our first panel of the afternoon, we have two very significant panels, one that will start shortly and one than begins as near to 2 00 as we can make that happen. Im delighted that youre here for the dedication today and especially the nixon alumni reunion. As members of the administra
In california. Many of you will have at your place setting an envelope, and if you open the envelope youll find a record or two that we were able to find about you when you served the president. And the staff that we have, a great staff inside the foundation, they had more fun and you would just imagine as they would uncover something in a document that links something, theyd say, wow, and youd end up with the conversation around these documents. So i can only share with you that it was a great discovery process for our people and i think we are reproducing them for you to have at your tables as a little bit different. So we thought that would be fun. So [ applause ] its a great honor for me to introduce our first panel of the afternoon, we have two very significant panels, one that will start shortly and one than begins as near to 2 00 as we can make that happen. Im delighted that youre here for the dedication today and especially the nixon alumni reunion. As members of the administra
In california. Many of you will have at your place setting an envelope, and if you open the envelope youll find a record or two that we were able to find about you when you served the president. And the staff that we have, a great staff inside the foundation, they had more fun and you would just imagine as they would uncover something in a document that links something, theyd say, wow, and youd end up with the conversation around these documents. So i can only share with you that it was a great discovery process for our people and i think we are reproducing them for you to have at your tables as a little bit different. So we thought that would be fun. So [ applause ] its a great honor for me to introduce our first panel of the afternoon, we have two very significant panels, one that will start shortly and one than begins as near to 2 00 as we can make that happen. Im delighted that youre here for the dedication today and especially the nixon alumni reunion. As members of the administra