Considered president roosevelts personal and professional confidante. Hello, good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the Roosevelt Museum and to the reading festival. Were excited youre here for today. This program is a special one, ill tell, but it in just a moment. If youre familiar with the program at this point, about a 30 minute talk and ten minutes of questions and then a book signing. Were lucky enough to have cspan with us here today so if youre going to ask questions, use the microphone on the other side these sorts of programs are only made possible because of the trustees and our members. We have a trustee here today and thank you for your support. [applause] raise your hand if youre a member and would he truly appreciate it. If youre not a member, get one of the pins, and it gives you free admission to the library and museum. We have an exhibit on the japanese internment and very powerful. I hope youll see this. This program is very special because we are pea not going to be h
Member and would he truly appreciate it. If youre not a member, get one of the pins, and it gives you free admission to the library and museum. We have an exhibit on the japanese internment and very powerful. I hope youll see this. This program is very special because we are pea not going to be hear from an author, we are going to be hearing from a principal. Recently a fantastic book was written called the gatekeeper by a woman named kathryn smith, did research in one of the most least understood players in the roosevelt players. Missy lehand and it defined the presidency, its a remarkable book. I want you to take a deep breath and close your eyes, june 17th, 1933. And im going to introduce you to a woman who was probably the most powerful woman other than Eleanor Roosevelt in washington during this period. She had known president she knew Franklin Roosevelt when he ran for vicepresident , was with him throughout his polio recovery, and then in washington d. C. She was technically a s
The stuff we worked on, and all of a sudden, everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. On a personal level, raise your hands if you were on the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. We said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago, and when i got ready to do this, i called jim hamilton, who was my boss back then. I said, i mean it, ill have it in tomorrow. He said, gordon, you better have it in tomorrow. Its like no time has passed. When we broke up i dont know how many of you remember this sam dash had a final meeting. He said this has been the most important thing that has happened in my life and im sure will ever happen in my life and will ever happen in yours. Im thinking of 21, 22 years old. I hope something happens. Looking back, it becomes very real. Then, the truth was solid. Something you worked on. You found it. In the intervening years, it became more and more relative, and now, it is like water or air. I think its important to come back in this room toge
The stuff we worked on, and all of a sudden, everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. On a personal level, raise your hands if you were on the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. We said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago, and when i got ready to do this, i called jim hamilton, who was my boss back then. I said, i mean it, ill have it in tomorrow. He said, gordon, you better have it in tomorrow. Its like no time has passed. When we broke up i dont know how many of you remember this sam dash had a final meeting. He said this has been the most important thing that has happened in my life and im sure will ever happen in my life and will ever happen in yours. Im thinking of 21, 22 years old. I hope something happens. Looking back, it becomes very real. Then, the truth was solid. Something you worked on. You found it. In the intervening years, it became more and more relative, and now, it is like water or air. I think its important to come back in this room toge
Im gordon freedman. Elizabeth here and i [applause] mr. Freedman thank you. Three or four months ago, we said maybe we should get some people together, and i thought that was a good idea. Then i started trying to find people. It was a little difficult, and then some stuff started happening in d. C. That was vaguely reminiscent to some of the stuff we worked on, and all of a sudden, everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. Raise your hands if you were on the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. We said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago, and when i got ready to do this, i called jim hamilton, who was my boss back then. I said, i mean it, ill have it in tomorrow. He said, gordon, you better have it in tomorrow. Its like no time has passed. When we broke up i dont know how many of you remember this sam dash had a final meeting. He said this has been the most important thing that has happened in my life and im sure will ever happen in my life and will ever happe