Good afternoon and welcome. I am patrick fahy a member of the archive staff and on behalf of the Library Museum i would like to welcome you to the annual roosevelts reading festival. We are fortunate enough to have cspan with us and our session is being recorded. Therefore if you would like to ask a question in the session, please use the microphone over here to the left so that people at home will be able to hear the question as well. President roosevelt envisioned the land of the library to become the premier Research Institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. The room is consistently one of the busiest of all of the president ial libraries into this years group of authors reflects a wide variety of Research Done on the grounds. If you love the reading festival, and im sure you do, and want to support this and other programs i do encourage you to become a per Roosevelt Library member. You can join today by seeing warren at the leadership table at the end of the hallway. And i
Out was roosevelt . [laughter] i realize with this crowd you probably were her neighbor. [laughter] so nonetheless i will try to set the context for the reading that my coauthor coauthor, marc peyser will do. I may be going over the familiar territory but for the sake of the crowd of one to take a minute to make sure i cover up the details. You will see behind me a family tree that appears in the book that is the expanded version and it is actually simplified. The actual line because we start with the american founder of the family neck and was quite literally has tens of thousands of descendants at this point so really we just highlight the story and provide you with the two branches of hyde park and Oyster Bay Branch and those to become symbolically very important in the story. This year roosevelt senior, the father of fear roosevelt was really the person who pioneered that civic minded his of the family and he was a remarkable man who founded hospitals in museums in charitable cause
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