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i am the curator of education and it is my absolute pleasure and honor to welcome you all here this evening for a fantastic conversation that we get to enjoy with c-span and with chrome radio. for those of you who are new to our museum, this museum is not, in fact, new. two weeks after the armistice was signed, kansas city and can together and wanted to create a memorial for those who lived through and those who died in the world war. raised $2.5y million to build the structure that we are in this evening. would like to raise $2.5 million in 10 days for us, we would be happy to discuss this. or, at the $37 million that it translates to in today s dollar. in a 1926, this beautiful art nouveau place opened. it was dedicated to those who have a courage, honor, patriotism and sacrifice to defend the nation and also in the hopes of a just and lasting peace. which is, in part, and in whole our conversation this evening. this evening we are going to be discussing that u.s. ent ....
what i have about been asking you to do the last couple of months. not that again, please. i would like to spend some time with you. why not? can t we just drop it? drop it at that? let me put it this way, if you select me this weekend, i will select you for the course. it is up to you. announcer: you can watch this and other american history programs on our website, where all of our video is archived. that is c-span.org/history. next, on the presidency, timothy reese explains how dwight d. eisenhower s upbringing and influence influenced his personal code of behavior. in 34th president was born 1890, the year that the u.s. government declared the american frontier closed. he is the deputy director and supervisory archivist at the dwight d. eisenhower presidential library at the museum. this is 40 minutes. we are pleased to have our own tim reeves here. he is my go to guy for all andrmation on archives records administration related questions. i rely on him grea ....
q&a, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on cspan. our focus on the american cowboy continues next with timothy reeves, the deputy director of the dwight eisenhower presidential library. he ll talk about how the 34th president s western upbringing influenced his code of behavior and his actions as a military and political leader. we are pleased to have our own tim reeves here. he is our deputy director and our supervisory achivist. he is my go-to guy for national archives and records administration related questions. i rely on him greatly. but he is here to speak to you today about the western influences on our beloved presidentiz president izeisenhower. tim is the author of many articles. i hope that you enjoy our program today. please welcome with me tim reeves. [ applause ] thanks, everybody. great to see such a nice turnout during the middle of the week. really appreciate it. again, we know that the food is a large part in the attraction of these events, not just t ....
we are pleased to have our own tim reeves here. he is our deputy director and our supervisory archivist. he is my go to guy on administration related questions. i rely on him greatly. but he is here to speak to you today and the western influences on our beloved president ike eisenhower. tim came to the eisenhower library in 2008 from the national archives in kansas city. he s a graduate of wichita state and impore area state and served in the yunited states army for five years. thank you for your service. tim is the author of many articles on a variety of subjects. these include eisenhower, of course, d day, the presidency of grant, and prison baseball. of course. so i hope that you enjoy our program today. please welcome with me, tim reeves. [applause. okay. well, thanks, everybody. and great to see such a nice turnout during the middle of the week and really appreciate it again. we know that the food has a large part in the attraction of these events. not just th ....
loss of land which limited opportunities for the unemployed. the kansas city library hosted this hour-long event. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i m the director of the library. it is a pleasure to welcome you here on the 125th anniversary of the birth of eisenhower. this program is part of an ongoing series about president eisenhower, and we look forward to doing more. the associate director you ll hear from in a moment. this series is sponsored by the wt kemper foundation at commerce bank. and was the idea of my cousin. julie, you can tell from her last name, married a frenchman. as a german family, this was difficult to take. but she is here tonight. we have welcomed her back into the family after that. tonight, you will hear from tim reeves, the director of the eisenhower library about dwight eisenhower and the frontier. as he will point out, dwight eisenhower was born in 1891. when frederick jackson turner said in his famous thesis, essay. he said the fronti ....