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he has previously written the admiral, which was the winner of the samuel eliot morrison award in naval literature. his commentaries appeared in the new york times, washington post and wall street journal and other places. so without continuing for too long we are all here to hear walter borneman. [applause] thank you so much. it s wonderful to be here in hyde park, and i indeed going to talk about macarthur, macarthur at war: world war ii in the pacific but a really thought i wanted to bring this because of our historic venue. a little bit more about the relationship between douglas macarthur and franklin roosevelt. and permit me if you will to actually start with someone else, admiral william leahy. now, you roosevelt scholars in the room know him as roosevelt chief of staff. his wartime counselor, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and really a de facto national security advisor long before that position was set up. and four years ago when it published ....
and 10 minutes. the timing of this symposium is intentional. 75 years ago next week, general macarthur was recalled from retirement to u.s. service, starting a road that defined him and asia are many years. world,rstand the modern you have to understand to understand much of the modern world, you have to understand the stories we are exploring today. in the memorial building next to us, the general is buried with his wife. we also have a temporary exhibit new the theater to your left on the liberation of the philippines, which i incurred you to explore. take times during the breaks. the museum and this building will be open until 5:00 today. this symposium is another great partnership between the city of norfolk and that general macarthur foundation to provide key support for the memorial and its programs. i would like to recognize them for their support. we have several board members here. i would like to recognize them for their support. also might staff who are h ....
walter: the timing of this symposium is intentional. 75 years ago next week general recalledr at war s from retirement to u.s. service starting him on a road to find both him and asia for many years to come. in asia as in much of the world 1945 is yesterday. the modernrstand world, you have to understand or understand much of the modern to understande the stories that we will be exploring today. in the memorial building next us the general is buried with his wife jean, and we have two floors of exhibits on his life times. we also have a temporary exhibit on the liberation of the philippines which i encourage you to explore, take time during our breaks and the museum. both will be open until 5:00 today. this sim foes yum is another great partnership providing key support to the mac arthur programs.nd its i d like to recognize them for their support. we have several board members here. i d like to recognize them for support. i also would like to recognize my crack staf ....
we know how much you love to that. like a good walk maybe with your girls or something around their. we are usually running toward the doughnuts wherever they are. bear in thehnu newsroom. i ve managed to keep my child sequestered in the weather center. great news for the weather here for the foxtrot.re nothing going on on foxtrot doppler radar.ng we have had quite a few thunderstorms. a neat time lapse coming up for you in just a littlese bit. dry and humid partly sunny skies with temperatures in the low to mid seventieswith t and as we go the noon hour at a really starts to it really starts to warm up.e the way.t wa we did in 83 high today. that makes 25. could today be number 26? pop-up thunderstorms possible. they were little more pop- than pop-ups yesterday especially on the west side. it really rained on a lot of folks but it will be it was fairly confined. w cedar point looking good there in northeast ohio sun - clouds out there but another hot one as w ....
of exhibits on his life and times and we have an exhibit to your left on the liberation of the philippines. i encourage you to explore and take time during the breaks. it will be opened until 5:00 today. this symposium is great partnership between the city of norfolk who provides key support to the macarthur memorial and their programs. i know we have several board members here and i d like to recognize them for their support. i would like to recognize my staff who are here today and, quite frankly, helped make this happen. i may be the guy up here giving the welcoming remarks but without their hard work and dedication, we wouldn t be here today and we wouldn t be having the program we re going to have, amanda, robert, please give them a round of applause. [ applause ] at this time, i m going to bring jim forward who will emcee us for the rest of the day. again, welcome and let s have a great day. all right. welcome, y all. glad you all could make it. this is our 15th ....