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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. Its 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 ....
Tonight in book tv in primetime, a focus on military history. Will hear from others and historians about famous military figures and battles from the civil war to world war ii. , a look at general macarthurs relationship with fdr during world war ii. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] good morning and welcome to the roosevelt president ial library. Were glad to have you today and were very happy about our annual reading festival and this wonderful turnout as well. Especially on her 75th anniversary which we are celebrating on june 30. I think president roosevelt would be quite pleased to see everyone and to see this turnout and to know that his library, as he intended would be used for research and scholarship to continue to explore the issues of his era and especially how they still have an impact today on our political and social life. Now im going to speak for just a moment about how this works. Many of you already know, there will there will ....
To the drive to get into the dutch east indies, cut the lines of communication between the Natural Resources and the flowe of oil up to japan and certainly he had a strong point about that. By the time he has gotten back to the philippines and really gone ahead and moves in to. [inaudible] in 1945, those operations as first Natural Resources and everything, the lines of supply to japan have already been cut by american submarines. The industries to which they run have been pounded by b29 a nuth bombers. So the only thing at the end that i would say the nutshell is that, there seems to be good evidence that despite the joint chiefs not able to decide one way or the other that that twin driver across the pacific to keep the japanese off balance him, there is absolutely no question that a both fronts fronts there were some horrific battles. Nd it of going into macarthur wi ....
Eat some food. Reporter this season has put temples Football Program in a National Spotlight and tomorrow phillies start, too. Even notre dames early arriving fans admit this will be a tough fight. They are a good team, they are coached really well and we cant take them lightly. For philadelphians, i think even if youre not a temple graduate or an alumni or student, you have to be proud. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise reporter coming back to the live pictures, the timing could not be better, Temple Owls Football Team passing through this rally right in the middle of campus right now, and you can see the reaction they are getting from the students here. This is an excited crowd, a crowd that is eager to show their support for a team that is 70 for the first time in school history. Live pictures rig ....