Page 6 - Robert Mccormack News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> and now, from the 20 -- 2011 roosevelt reading festival philip terzian discusses his book "architects of power" roosevelt, eisenhower and the american century. it is about 50 minutes. [applause]honod >> thank you, and good morning and i am honored and delighted to be here.i at the roosevelt reading festival. i don't live around here so iusm don't get to visit the roosevelt library very often. of henry morgan thaw who was fdr's neighbor here in duchess county and probably knew him as much as anyone and said that roosevelt had a thickly-forested interior which meant that roosevelt w...

>> cnn, msnbc, "new york times," and even when that isn't true, outlets like yahoo! which is now by some measures the largest news site on the web or outlets like "huffington post," most of what they're doing is aggregating and reposting content that was originally created for print. so yahoo!, for example, who prints an awful lot of wire service news. so in terms of, the total number of people who actually visited at least one of those, the online news category looks pretty healthy. hundreds of millions of americans visit online news at least a few times a month. again the issue is ...

influence on his distant cousin, franklin, was a reality in his life up until his death even though we tend to ignore it. remember, too, that theodore roosevelt became prominent at strategic moments in fdr's life. franklin roosevelt was a schoolboy when theodore roosevelt became mckinley's assistant secretary of the navy. he was at school when theodore roosevelt charged up san juan hill. he had just become, just entered his sophomore year at harvard when theodore roosevelt became president. so roosevelt's vision of an american sentry, of a globally-assertive united states was somethi...

here on the grounds of his old family estate in 1940. and who i am a great fan of presidential libraries around the country and have made it my lifelong task to visit each one so i patiently await the george w. bush one in dallas which is supposed to open in the next year or two and a friend of mine is an official soy keep hinting theresi must be a panel discussion. [laughter] . . is that i think that they reflect in some ways what i call the civic protestantism of america. and by that i mean we don't as a culture, we don't revere religious relics so much anymore. we don't, we don't ...

>> the library's research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries, and this year's group of authors reflects the wide variety of research done here. we're delighted to highlight these authors' works at book talks throughout the year, and especially at this, our annual reading festival. let me quickly go over the format for the festivities in these sessions today. um, at the top of each hour a session begins with a 30-minute author talk followed by a ten-minute question and answer period. then the authors will move to the tables in the lobby located n...