The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 17, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable david n. Cicilline to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the assistant parliamentarian. O father of mercies, god of all comfort, our only help in time of need, we humbly beseech thee to behold, visit and relief all our servants for whom our prayers are desired. Look upon us all with mercy. Comfort us with goodness. Preserve us from the temptations of the enemy, and give us patience under our aflick shun. In our good time restore us to health and enable us to lead the residue of our lives in thy fear and to thy glory and grant finally we may dwell with thee in life everlasting, main. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 4a of House Resolution 967,
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Gentlemen, the first is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin de roosevelt president ial museum and library in new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum. Paul has been directing the Roosevelt Library museum since 2015. He will be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program.
He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program. Thank you. Paul thank you, ed. Thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. The background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. Some of the things that he u
He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program. Thank you. Paul thank you, ed. Thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. The background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. Some of the things that he understood about the spread of