Opportunities for the unemployed. The Kansas City Library hosted this hourlong event. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Im the director of the library. It is a pleasure to welcome you anniversary ofth the birth of eisenhower. Is part of an ongoing series about president eisenhower, and we look more forward to doing more. The director youll hear from in a moment. By theries is sponsored wt temper foundation at commerce bank. Cousin. The idea of my julie you can tell from her last name, married a frenchman. As a german family, this was difficult to take. But she is here tonight. We have welcomed her back into the family after that. Timght you will hear from reeves, the director of the Eisenhower Library about Dwight Eisenhower and the frontier. Will point out, Dwight Eisenhower was born in 1891. Frederick Jackson Turner said in his famous thesis, essay. He said the frontier closed. Therefore america changed because the frontier had made america. He talked about the west. The west of co
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