Amplify those stories to policymakers and elected officials and were building a commitmmunity of patients and as that can be mobilized in support of policies to lower drug prices. I started patients for Affordable Drugs because im a cancer patient. I have an incurable blood cancer, its called multiple myeloma. Its incurable but treatable for some period of time, unknown. With very expensive drugs. In fact, im taking drugs right now. I took my first drugs today by mouth and when i leave here, ill go for about three hours of infusion, they plug me in and pump drugs in. My drugs carry a price tag of 650,000 a year. And my journey as a cancer patient taught me a very important fact and that is, drugs dont work if people cant afford them. I will die of my disease sooner than i want to if they dont invent some new drugs for me. Ill run out of options. Thats why it kills people. Drugs stop working. And so i care deeply about innovation and new drug development. But we have to make sure that w
Money to conduct a comprehensive exhibit renovation. Its the largest Fundraising Campaign in our foundations 73year history and its the First Comprehensive exhibit renovation in more than 45 years. The new exhibits will be unveiled this summer. We have been so encouraged by the response that weve received thus far and im pleased to report that we have raised 98 of our goal. Thank you. [ applause ] we want to finish the campaign before june 6th so that we can publicly announce this milestone to all the veterans who join us at the eisenhower president ial library and museum that day to commemorate the 75th anniversary of dday. Many of our friends have already made a gift to the exhibit renovation and id like to thank you for your trust and participation in this project. Theres still time to participate and i hope everyone will consider a gift so that we can reach our goal. Now, it gives me great pleasure to introduce tonights program. Louis galambos is a Professor Emeritus in the departm
Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied expeditionary force. You are about to cru embark upoe great u crusade toward which we have striven these many months. O the eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march r with you. Ring a in company with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other o fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the german war machine, the elimination of nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of europe and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy i, one. E. Batt your enemyle is well trained, wl equipped and battle hardened. T s he will fight savagely. But this is the year, 1944, much has happened since the nazi triumphs of 194041. The United Nations have le, ma inflicted upon the germans great defeats in open battle, of mantoman. Our airs offensivese hasri ser reduced their strength inn the r air and their capacity to wage h war on theel ground. Our homefronts have given us an
Who signed 25 year leases on their apartments. Then on the 14th, our police went on strike. The next day the gestapo left. That was the day, too, when a police car opened fire on a german detachment on the plaza and began the battle of the city. After that, it seemed the french flag was hanging from every window. All the flags were made from curtains or anything. It didnt matter. Four days later we heard shouting. We started hiding. Me, my husband, everyone in our house. As we ran, people were screaming. The french army had arrived. When we got to the plaza, we saw it was true. I kissed my husband because he was crying. We began to realize how unhappy we had been for four years and how lucky we were to be alive on this august evening. Mary Louise Roberts is a history professor at the university of wisconsin madison. Joining us this morning on American History tv and washington journal in our focus on dday to talk about her book, dday through french eyes. Professor roberts we just showe
Happy confluence of Kansas City Public Library programming. Its the latest in our series with the u. S. Army command and general staff in fort levin worth on the marking the 75 years since world war ii. But also it comes in the middle of the librarys partnership, and its from january through may with the eisenhower president ial library and foundation in abilene. And its on the Dwight Eisenhower exhibit thats up on the second floor art gallery here at the library, the mountain gallery. We have a series of programs running on Dwight Eisenhower through may. The next one of those, in fact, is next wednesday. Tonight we focus on eisenhower and George Marshall. The army chief of staff who targeted ike for advancement as a military officer, keen eye for talent. Among others with ike, he spied george patent and omar bradley. And he became one of ikes primary mentors as the army chief of staff from 1939 to 1945. Marshall, of course, went onto become the secretary of state and win a Nobel Peace