Thanks for being my guest today. It was a real pleasure to talk with you. Thank you on youre always a gentleman. You im bill harris. Im the acting director here at the fdr president ial library museum, and were so happy to see you here this morning. I cant tell you. Were always happy to see people but after two years it is so wonderful to have this event back and to have it in person and also to have cspan here with us as well again. Theyve always been very good and covering this event and were very thankful for that. I just in addition to welcoming you here. Its just like to note that fdr. I always love it when i get to to sort of channel the former president the late president and say that he i know would be happy to see everyone here today because he had hoped this institution would become a place that would welcome scholars and writers and to see good friends and former and current participants in the program is also really nice. So i want to very quickly go over the format some of
Back and to have it in person and also to have cspan here with us as well again. Theyve always been very good and covering this event and were very thankful for that. I just in addition to welcoming you here. Its just like to note that fdr. I always love it when i get to to sort of channel the former president the late president and say that he i know would be happy to see everyone here today because he had hoped this institution would become a place that would welcome scholars and writers and to see good friends and former and current participants in the program is also really nice. So i want to very quickly go over the format some of you may know it and you may hear this over and over again today, but therell be about a 30 minute talk from the author then well have a 10 minute or so period of question and answer and then afterwards well go up to the new deal store where there will be a book signing and youll be able to get a copy of the book with the signature from from the author an
Every fleischer. Thanks for being my guest today. It was a real pleasure to talk with you. Thank you on youre always a gentleman. You im bill harris. Im the acting director here at the fdr president ial library museum, and were so happy to see you here this morning. I cant tell you. Were always happy to see people but after two years it is so wonderful to have this event back and to have it in person and also to have cspan here with us as well again. Theyve always been very good and covering this event and were very thankful for that. I just in addition to welcoming you here. Its just like to note that fdr. I always love it when i get to to sort of channel the former president the late president and say that he i know would be happy to see everyone here today because he had hoped this institution would become a place that would welcome scholars and writers and to see good friends and former and current participants in the program is also really nice. So i want to very quickly go over t
Museum, and were so happy to see you here this morning. I cant tell you. Were always happy to see people but after two years it is so wonderful to have this event back and to have it in person and also to have cspan here with us as well again. Theyve always been very good and covering this event and were very thankful for that. I just in addition to welcoming you here. Its just like to note that fdr. I always love it when i get to to sort of channel the former president the late president and say that he i know would be happy to see everyone here today because he had hoped this institution would become a place that would welcome scholars and writers and to see good friends and former and current participants in the program is also really nice. So i want to very quickly go over the format some of you may know it and you may hear this over and over again today, but therell be about a 30 minute talk from the author then well have a 10 minute or so period of question and answer and then af
The country making a case for why he should be elected president of the United States. The American Economy was imploding, russia and georgia were on the verge of war, the United States was engaged in direct talks with north korea on the subject of nuclear disarmament. A busy time in america, a busy time in the world. A very busy time in the news business. And in the middle of all this, with all of this more swirling in the air, there was actually a moment in the middle of all this that it seemed that all anyone wanted to ask barack obama about was a cartoon. Cartoon that was on the cover of a magazine called the new yorker yorker. So the title of that new yorker cover was the politics of fear. And that came out shortly after a fox news commentator had wondered alloud on television i they had given each other a terrorist fist jab. That new yorkyorker cover capd that moment in political and media life, the conversation that was happening in our country right then, not just in politics b