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Gentlemen, the first is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin de roosevelt president ial museum and library in 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 questionandanswer. Pleas ....
Times, is the part of our Irene SchwartzSpeaker Series and is always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great generosity which is enabled us to bring so many fine speakers to this stage. [applause]. I would like to recognize the chair of our executive committee id like to thank you rick, for all of the very many things you do. On behalf of this great institution. Thank you. [applause]. And want to thank all of the chairman counselor to who are with us this evening as well for their great support of New York Historical. Tonight news program is about is lasting about an hour there will be a questionandanswer session. You should have received no card with a pencil on your way into the auditorium this evening and if not, my colleagues are going up and down the aisles with no cards and pencils. No cards with your ques ....
Seeing the president , two exr president s, all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people, very important people, that really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important. We never thought of her in that way. We never viewed my grandmother. She was only a grandmother to us, and that is all she ever wanted to be to us. 3, 1942. N in january my father was elliott, and elliott was the second oldest of the sons and third oldest of the children, so my dad kind of fell right in the middle. I think he always felt that he was the middle child, but you claimmy uncles used to that he was my grandmothers favorite. I am not sure that was true, but that is what they claimed anyway. My mother and father were divorced when i was only two, and my time with my father was really quite limited and as a consequence, you know the rememberg that i can was howim talking about he almost felt somewhat estranged from my grandmother because i mean, he loved her she was so busy that it was almost he fel ....
Certainly this became the very First NationalHistoric Site to be dedicated to a first lady. And the only Historic Site dedicated to one first lady. Well, valkill encompasses two major buildings. The first building, the stone cottage, was built in 1925 to initially serve as a retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt and her two political mentors nancy dook and marianne dickerman. It was build on the eastern most part of the roosevelt property at the time. It was land fdr purchased in 1911 to do forestry experiments on. He offered to build eleanor a Little Cottage here because by the early 1920s she was getting very active in political life and really needed her own space to bring friends and associates and kind of have a ....