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Relevant 100till years later and is featured in House Historical Association journals. We take a look at his cartoons. Was one of berryman the most widely renowned political cartoonists in the first part of the 20th century. 100 years ago in washington, people would have known his name or been familiar with his artwork. Inwas born in a small town was 17, hend when he moved to washington, d. C. , and took a job at the u. S. Patent office. Political cartooning continued to be his passion, and on a whim, he submitted to drawings to the washington post, and to his complete and utter astonishment, the post published those drawings. Years later about how he avoided the newspaper for several days because he was afraid they might charge him for advertising. Instead, they paid him what to him come at the time, was a handsome sum. That really inspired him. The washington, post hired him as a political cartoonist, and he eventu ....
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 ....
Thing is they hired a copy editor to go through and check the facts and spellings. They checked the names of these american soldiers and it was remarkable the kind of work they did. I taught english, not history. And as you might expect, i had some discussions with them. They wanted me to explain the unknown soldier was. And i said look if i ask you to people that are going to buy a history book that the soldiers and unknown soldier from france i said i would be laughed out of the whole. The general ever a justification for what he did, or did he protect him enough that he never had to deal with them . The one thing he did, this isnt the first thing he did Something Like this to another officer. It had happened before. But he knew the best defense was isa good offense. And after he passed by, he began to complain they are shooting at us from the hill. So that takes a lot to complain about but when you havent done what you should h ....