historical association. she is the director of the cooperstown graduate program of the state university of new york and the author of in the spirit of martin the living legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. and through the eyes of others african americans and identity in american art. in her new book driving while black just out today professor soren tells the story of the indispensable green book, which both reshape the african-american traveling experience throughout our segregated land and helped drive the nascent civil rights movement, please welcome gretchen soren to the free library of philadelphia. good evening. it s wonderful to be in this great city of philadelphia. and i m i apologize that that rick wasn t able to join us this evening. he had a little bit of an emergency and he s in italy, but i hope that you ll enjoy the preview of our film that he sent along. so i m going to talk. i m sure many of you have seen the green book movie. and i m going to talk this eveni
would like to welcome you again to the 2017 result festival. the premier institution for studying the interest of that era. the libraries research from his consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries. and this year s a groups of authors reflects the wide variety of research done here. and if you love the roosevelt reading festival, and want to support this and other programs that we do here, i encourage you to become a roosevelt liberal member. you can join today at the membership table in the hall or online at fdr library .org. and if you haven t already, please do go see our new special temporary museum exhibition. images of a tournament. the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. so let me quickly go over the format for the festivals sessions today. at the top of each hour accession begins with a 30 minute author taught followed by a ten minute question and answer period. the author than moves to the lobby to sign books, and talk w
jeremy bernard, talk about the book, treating people. well the extraordinary power of civility in life, their thoughts on public unprofessional civility. miss berman worked for the george hill to bush administration and jeremy bernard for the obama administration. the ronald reagan museum holed it this event in 2016. it s a treat for us to have not one but two former social secretaries with us today. i m sure that they are grateful that they don t have to plan and execute this white house luncheon. one of our guests today is a democrat. one a republican. they aren t afraid to be friends. they support one another. in the even show up in public together. imagine that. originally from a small town in ohio, lea berman service white house social secretary from 2004 to 2007 under president and mr. george w. bush. prior to that, she was chief of staff to second lady lint cheney, and before that service secretary to vice president cheney, when asked which a lot of those jobs i beli
...g certainly not all of the bad stuff. as you say there s so many wonderful days and moments at the white house, and to be there, to work there, to attend an event there is an extraordinary opportunity. well, i think that we just witnessed yesterday what happens more often than is usually reported, though it s not terribly common i don t want to say, but when you submit your information to come into the white house, the secret service check it. and if you have a warrant for your arrest, they re going to know it. now, how this idiot showed up at the white house after giving his information and didn t know he would be arrested is kind of shocking and goes to, you know, one of the dumbest, you know, possible felons. but we would sometimes i would get a call, and they would say it would be the secret service, and they would say, look, someone on your list is a do not admit, and we don t want you to be embarrassed by their
good morning. my name is kirsten carter and i am the supervisory archivist at the fdr presidential library, and on behalf of the library i d like to welcome you, again, to the 2017 roosevelt reading festival. fdr planned for the library to become the premier research institution for studying the entire roosevelt era, the library s research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries, and this year s group of authors reflects the wide variety of research done here. and if you love the roosevelt reading festival and want to support this and other programs that we do here, i encourage you to become a roosevelt library member. you can join today at the membership table in the hall or online at fdrlibrary.org. and if you haven t already, please do go see our new special temporary museum exhibition, the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. so let me quickly go over the format for the festival sessions today. at the top of each hour