He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program. Thank you. Paul thank you, ed. Thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. The background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. Some of the things that he u
He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program. Thank you. Paul thank you, ed. Thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. The background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. Some of the things that he understood about the spread of
Harry truman, and the Manhattan Project. Joining him are fdr president ial library and Museum Director paul sparrow and historian edward lengel. Edward i am edward lengel. I am senior director of programs in new orleans. Im joined today by two gentlemen. The first is paul sparrow, who is director of the Franklin D Roosevelt president ial museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum. Paul has been directing the roosevelt Library Museum since 2015. He will be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for q
Watson. [applause] mr. Watson all right, good afternoon. How is everyone doing . Great couple of days. Just remarkable. Pete, i want to thank you for doing a wonderful job of introducing the sessions. Lets give heat a round of applause for doing a wonderful job. Around ofet pete applause. [applause] mr. Watson we always aim to finish on a strong note, and this year will be no different. Dr. Andrew will have roberts closing the discussion with his new Winston Churchill biography, but dr. Gerhard weinberg is affectionately referred to around these parts as the dean of world war ii historians, and i know his books are well known to all of you, and frankly, his books are well known to anyone who considers a serious world war ii scholar. This museum has been so fortunate, going back to almost the very beginning, to have part of ourn intel programs. In 2006, nick mueller, my predecessor to my left, had the group calledate a the president ial counselors. To have gerhard as an integral heart o
To introduce our final session of speakers for the day, it is my pleasure to introduce the National World War Ii Museums president and ceo, Stephen Watson. He started at the museum and 2002 and has been an integral figure in the growth of the institution into what it has become today. He took the helm of the museum in the summer of 2017 and has been guiding us ever since. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Stephen Watson. [applause] mr. Watson all right, good afternoon. How is everyone doing . Great couple of days. Just remarkable. Pete, i want to thank you for doing a wonderful job of introducing the sessions. Lets give heat a round of applause for doing a wonderful job. Around ofet pete applause. [applause] mr. Watson we always aim to finish on a strong note, and this year will be no different. Dr. Andrew will have roberts closing the discussion with his new Winston Churchill biography, but dr. Gerhard weinberg is affectionately referred to around these parts as the de