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 well 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, well 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 threeyear 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 the great gentleman i
What does he tell the president . He says, ill do whatever you say, whatever you think good for the country. At that point the president indicates that their meeting is over. Marshall rises and heads toward the door, and just at that moment roosevelt says to him, i wouldnt be at ease without you in washington. George marshall knows that he is not to get the supreme command, and it goes to eisenhower. Eisenhower after the war is viewed as the liberator of europe. Hes elected president once, hes elected president again. George marshall, a truly great man, his image in the public consciousness has dimmed seriously since that period. Lets talk a little bit about, perhaps, the most flamboyant pirg in the u. S. Army figure in the u. S. Army and maybe all the armies engaged in world war ii, general george s. Patton. George pattons a brilliant battlefield commander, but he can be a terrible, terrible human being. Nevertheless, fdr holds him in very high esteem because hes impressed by the bold
Hundred more questions for you, but unfortunately, itstime is up. Our guest has been joseph persico. His book is called roosevelts secret war. Thank you very much for joining us. Guest thank you for having me, brian. We have some different accidents from my life, i almost didnt make it. Thats another story. As you know, my book is about horrible crime, thats one of the ways to describe it, on november 8, 2008 in a patch of long island when a group of teenagers attacked and killed an immigrant from ecuador. He was not alone that night, walking with his best friend, and he survived the the attack, but the other did not. There were many reasons why i was attracted to the story. One of themfuls the nature of the crime. I found out early on that this young people, and they were very young, they were 17 and 18 at the time, juniors and seniors in high school, made it a practice, sport if you will, or entertainment to go around hunting for beaners, which is what they call immigrants. For someb
Hours to go this afternoon, and now joining us here on our set in miami is Jeremy Scahill. Here he is, his most recent book, dirty wars the world is a battlefield. Mr. Scahill, earlier you were on a panel with dan balz and george packer, and one of the questioners asked you what do you see as the difference between how the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration approach the war on terror. Right. , i mean, i think first of all its great to be with you here on cspan and booktv. The bush with administration, i dont want to understate how atrocious i think that period was in American Foreign policy. It really was like murder incorporated. The destruction of iraq, the creation of the cia black sites, the idea that the Geneva Convention was [inaudible] the abu ghraib torture, using guantanamo, you could go on and on in characterizing it. So i dont want to get into a thing about is obama worse than bush. I covered those wars, i know what happened. Under president obama i think what
Our presentation isnt interrupted today . Ng the second thing is i want to thank our colleagues at cspan who are filming live at hyde park today, so thank you to them for being here and l supporting the Public Library and our programs. The format of 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 well 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, well 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 threeyear renovation and installed all new permanent exhibits, so if you will find one of the Library Staff people and get