He opened up his president Ial Library while he was still in office. This is a feat that is not matched today by our current President S. Hes a director of the Franklin Roosevelt Library and museum. Before the library, he was the senior Vice President for broadcasting and new media at the museum. He was a Founding Partner at the university of Marylands Future of Information Alliance and a pioneer in interactive digital media. Prior to his work at the museum, sparrow is a television producer. He started his Television Career at kpix in San Francisco and we have some folks from california. Youll have to let us know if they know your work from that time. Are you with us, paul . I am, yes. Thank you for having me today. Im pleased to be part of this series. I watched them and theyre fantastic. Were delighted to have you. Before we let you jump in, how are you doing, how is the staff doing with the Pandemic And Everything . Well, as you know, the national archives has taken a very conservat
times. she is well known for her work knapsacks and to make weapons and all sorts of machinery for on abraham lincoln. in fact, her book team of rivals the war and obviously middlemen was the inspiration for steven made a way and produced spielberg s film lincoln in [inaudible] that fell apart in the rain and produced pistols that didn t 2012. dr. goodwin earned her ph.d. work. you could see some of the at harvard, so coming up we re worries that we might have going to reair her in depth evened today. but the interesting thing ias te secretary of war, was about to appearance where he discussed her entire body of work and took be censureed, and his whole viewer phone calls. we ll also be showing you career, he felt, would be destroyed forever. lincoln stood u fir of war and f excerpts from her books, but we ll tart with her january 1, ca are at fault, myself and my 1995, appearance on the c-span entire cin something totartponsd series book notes. she discussed frankli
of no ordinary time. if you could ask either track listen roosevelt or eleanor roosevelt a couple of questions after all the work you did on this book, what would they be? with eleanor i would like to ask her at a certain moment in the middle of the war when he asked her to be his wife again to say yes to him. i know he loved her, i wanted to say why didn t you do it? he is going to die soon. i wish she had done it. and also i would like to understand why he couldn t share himself more with everyone. he was the most ebullient permit on surface. everyone knew how warm he was but upped knead there was reserve. i want to try to understand why he was so and why he couldn t give himself more fully to the people around him. what makes this book different than the rest? i wanted to understand franklin and eleanor s relationship, and to understand the extended family that surrounded them until the white house. i came to the understanding that these two characters needed the o
doris kearns goodwin, author of no ordinary time, if you could ask either franklin delano roosevelt or eleanor roosevelt a couple of questions, after all the work you did on this book, what would they be? i think with eleanor i d like to understand why she was unable, at a certain moment in the middle of the war, when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, to say yes to him. i mean, i know that he loved her, i know she still loved him, and i d want to say, why didn t you do it? he s going to die soon. i wish you had done it. and i think for him i d want to understand why he couldn t share himself more fully with anyone. he was the most ebullient, the most charming, most sparkling personality on the surface. everybody thought how warm he was. but underneath, there was such reserve in him, and i d want to try and understand why that was so, and why he wouldn t give himself more to the people who loved him. what makes
doris kearns goodwin, author of no ordinary time, if you could ask either franklin delano roosevelt or eleanor roosevelt a couple of questions, after all the work you did on this book, what would they be? i think with eleanor i d like to understand why she was unable, at a certain moment in the middle of the war, when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, to say yes to him. i mean, i know that he loved her, i know she still loved him, and i d want to say, why didn t you do it? he s going to die soon. i wish you had done it. and i think for him i d want to understand why he couldn t share himself more fully with anyone. he was the most ebullient, the most charming, most sparkling personality on the surface. everybody thought how warm he was. but underneath, there was such reserve in him, and i d want to try and understand why that was so, and why he wouldn t give himself more to the people who loved him. what makes