Good morning. My name is Kirsten Carter and i am the supervisory archivist at the fdr president ial library, and on behalf of the library, id like to welcome you again to the 2017 roosevelt reading festival. Fdr plans for the library to become the premier Research Institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. The librarys Research Room is consistently one of the busiest of all of the president ial libraries. And this years group of authors reflects the wide variety of research down here. And if you love the roosevelt reading festival, and want to support this and other programs that we do here, i encourage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today at the membership table in the hall or online at fdr library. Org and if you havent already please do go see our new special, temporary museum exhibition, images of internment, the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. So let me quickly go over the format for the festivals sessions today. At the top
Program is a joint clementsetween our center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two canory centers here at smu come together. It is really wonderful for us. It is chronologically the younger partners. The center has been the leading center for software studies for at least a generation. , still in our toddler phase, look up to them. They also babysit us. It works out nicely. I am really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series of looking at president ial history. This one in particular has such a gallus flair to it. One might say it is fundamentally a gallus story. We all know, especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963, how much dallas is test rustling with this. I want to take a moment and point out one of our good friends who is here from the museum. I said this in front of her before so i am not embarrassed to say it again. She is this it is the single best Public History Museum in the country. [applause]
Hall. Also, a fun program is a joint program between our Clements Center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here at smu can come together. It is really wonderful for us. It is chronologically the younger partners. The center has been the leading center for software studies for at least a generation. We, still in our toddler phase, look up to them. They also babysit us. It works out nicely. I am really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series of looking at president ial history. This one in particular has such a dallas flair to it. One might say it is fundamentally a dallas story. We all know, especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963, how much dallas is continuing to wrestle with this. I want to take a moment and point out one of our good friends who is here from the museum. I said this in front of her before so i am not embarrassed to say it again. She is this it is the single best Public
Younger partners. The center has been the leading center for software studies for at least a generation. We, still in our toddler phase, look up to them. They also babysit us. It works out nicely. I am really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series of looking at president ial history. This one in particular has such a gallus flair to it. One might say it is fundamentally a gallus story. We all know, especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963, how much dallas is rustling this test rustling with this. I want to take a moment and point out one of our good friends who is here from the museum. I said this in front of her before so i am not embarrassed to say it again. She is this it is the single best Public History Museum in the country. [applause] precisely because it actually takes a hard look at as much as possible. That is what we will do tonight. Especially with this dallas story. I also want to point out that you may ha
Become the premiere Research Institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. The librarys Research Room is consistently one of the busiest of all the president ial libraries and this years group of authors reflects reflects ree variety oresearch down here. If you love the roosevelt reading festival and want to support this and other programs that we do here, i encourage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today at the membership table in the hall, or online at fdr library. Org and if you havent already, please do go see our new special temporary museum exhibition, images of interment, the incarceration of japaneseamericanss during world war 2. At the top of each hour a session begins with a 30minute author talk followed by a tenminute question and answer period. The author then moves to the lobby to sign books and talk with you more if you have more questions. So, during the question and answer period today, this session will be taped for cspan so wed appreciate i