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the session. as those of you who have been here many times before know, what our speaker will do is speak for about 30 minutes, then we ll have 10 or 15 minutes for questions and answers, and i would ask that for the questions you would come up and line up and stand at the microphone, and then mr. persico will call on you for questions. and then after the question and answer period, we ll escort mr. persico out to the lobby where he will be happy to sign the books that you will all want to purchase at the new deal store. [laughter] and finally, as many of you if not all of you know, we just rededicated the library after a three-year renovation and installed all new permanent exhibits, so if you will find one of the library staff people and get one of these buttons from them, that will let you see the museum exhibits free of charge. so with that, let me introduce to you our speaker. it is always a pleasure to see joe persico here at the roosevelt library. he is one of th ....
please be seated. chaplain? today, the eyes of the world were upon the soldiers, sailors, and air man for battle. thehey did on that day, at vet has of their commander, we once again beseech the blessings of almighty god on this great and noble undertaking. let us pray. creator god, we pause this moment to recognize your presence here, and to seek your blessing on this gathering of theand women, who represent greatest of generations, a generation who showed us fidelity, knowing full well and firsthand the very high cost of freedom, and the true meaning of valor. it is in a spirit of love and community that we gather yet again on this day of days to remember the lives lost and the lives forever changed. so, may we also remember your great love for us. may we remember that there is no greater demonstration of love than choosing to lay down your life for another. thank you for all those who made that choice, and the many more who are willing to do so if called upon. ....
events of 70 years ago. this event, hosted by friends of the world war ii memorial, is just under one hour. [music: the national anthem, played by a brass band] please be seated. chaplain? 70 years ago today, the eyes of the world were upon the soldiers, sailors, and air man for battle. as they did on that day, at the vet has of their commander, we once again beseech the blessings of almighty god on this great and noble undertaking. let us pray. creator god, we pause this moment to recognize your presence here, and to seek your blessing on this gathering of men and women, who represent the greatest of generations, a generation who showed us fidelity, knowing full well and firsthand the very high cost of freedom, and the true meaning of valor. it is in a spirit of love and community that we gather yet again on this day of days to remember the lives lost and the lives forever changed. in doing so, may we also remember your great love for us. may we remember th ....
it was used by them from 1943 afterwards. about what, you can only speculate. they talked about the minutiae planning for d-day. they certainly talked about the planning for the end of the war, the surrender of germany and the recorded conversations we have about what was going to be told to stalin and how this was going to take place. referring to d-day, do documents indicate what was discussed in this room or this location preparing for that invasion? there is very little in the site itself that indicates much of a d-day connection. the site has been kept pretty much as it was and as it was used on the last day of the war. so, what you see is what tended to be in place in august 1945. it is easy in some ways to relate it physically to the end of the war. more than any other, but in practice, the site itself had quite a heavy involvement in d-day. the back of the building, parts that are no longer open to the public, there were adjuncts to the cabinet war rooms whe ....
roosevelt s tomorrow is now. coverage of the 2013 president reaching festival starts now. here is maureen beasley. good morning. i am the education specialist at the roosevelt presidential library and museum and on behalf of the fdr presidential library museum welcome you in our audience, those of you at home watching on c-span to the tenth annual roosevelt reading festival. franklin roosevelt s plan for the library to become a premier research institution for the study of the roosevelt era, the library s research room is one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries and this year s group of authors reflect a wide variety of research done here. let me go over the format for the festival s concurrent sessions. at the top of each hour session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a 10 minute question and answer period of. than the authors go to the new deal store where you can purchase books and have them sign them. at the top of the next hour the proce ....