Bronoman recalls leadership during world war ii. Good morning and welcome to the roosevelt president ial library. Were glad to have you today and happy about our annual reading festival and this wonderful turnout as well. Especially on our 75th 75th anniversary which were celebrating june 30th. I think that president roosevelt would be quite pleased to see everyone and to see this turnout and to know that his library, as he intended, would be used torii search and scholarship to continue to explore the issues of his era, and especially how they still have an impact today on political and social life. Now im going to speak for just a moment about how this works. Many of you already know there will be 30 minutes during which mr. Bornamman will speak to you about his book, and then well follow with ten minutes worth of questions we ask you to good to the microphone because were fortunate to have cspan with us today, and its great if your questions can be heard so that everybody can benefi
He has previously written the admiral, which was the winner of the Samuel Eliot Morrison award in naval literature. His commentaries appeared in the new york times, Washington Post and wall street journal and other places. So without continuing for too long we are all here to hear walter borneman. [applause] thank you so much. Its wonderful to be here in hyde park, and i indeed going to talk about macarthur, macarthur at war world war ii in the pacific but a really thought i wanted to bring this because of our historic venue. A little bit more about the relationship between Douglas Macarthur and Franklin Roosevelt. And permit me if you will to actually start with someone else, admiral william leahy. Now, you roosevelt scholars in the room know him as roosevelt chief of staff. His wartime counselor, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and really a de facto National Security advisor long before that position was set up. And four years ago when it published admirals which you mentioned
Tonight in book tv in primetime, a focus on military history. Will hear from others and historians about famous military figures and battles from the civil war to world war ii. , a look at general macarthurs relationship with fdr during world war ii. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] good morning and welcome to the roosevelt president ial library. Were glad to have you today and were very happy about our annual reading festival and this wonderful turnout as well. Especially on her 75th anniversary which we are celebrating on june 30. I think president roosevelt would be quite pleased to see everyone and to see this turnout and to know that his library, as he intended would be used for research and scholarship to continue to explore the issues of his era and especially how they still have an impact today on our political and social life. Now im going to speak for just a moment about how this works. Many of you already know, there will there will
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