welcome to thewe keynote session of the eighth video rose about reading festival held at thepres henry wallace visitor in education center. i america this year at the library and it is my pleasure to introduce our concluding session today james macgregor burns with susan dunn and michael beschloss. there are not be a question and answer period at the end i am certain divided ranging discussion will provide more than enough food for thought. alike $2 a presence of our friends from c-span who were here and we appreciate their support of terrorists about reading festival and a good work they do bring it into the homes of those who cannot come to hyde park in person. franklin roosevelt, a greatseve collector book and amateur historian once wrote books are always faithful friends and every cheerful companions. the same could be said of the three gaston sage today.jame james macgregor burns couldle be called the dean of roosevelt biographers. pulitzer prize-winning scientist and historian bit -- historian was aand pioneer in leadership studies devoted to the entire professional life to the study of

the convention is about to rebel because it doesn't want franklin's choice of henry wallace as the vice president. and eleanor was called in to make a speech, and she made such a stirring speech, intimating that the country was about to go to war and that the person in charge, the commander in chief, needed the people he could believe in to help him. that the delegates went along with roosevelt's wish and nominated wallace. here she's accompanying fdr and guess who? sarah. and her oldest son jimmy roosevelt and his wife betsy, on a tour of a battleship pre-world war i. on a more substantial note, here she is addressing the national conference on the problems of negro youth in 1939 with aubrey williams who was head of the national youth administration and mary mccloud bassoon who was the highest ranking african-american woman in the roosevelt administration, an official of the national youth administration. did any of you by any chance participate in programs of the national youth administration? sometimes to talk to people who say, oh, yeah, this is how i got through high school 'cause