there and he would get stewart's eye and and the professionally off the ear figure of general george c. marshall. so this was the nature of the man. and such an important member of roosevelt's team and it is the most important relationship during the war. it will be most important and militarily, i think my title it was supposed to be military advisers in washington. they have a question point when we can talk about anybody else. it would be the most important partnership, i think and while it was marked by true admiration and mutually, he was marked on a neat disagreement and roles reversed on two important issues to the world. i'll mention them prime on central issues and one pre-war and one in war. first one had to do with that meeting i was talking about in the white house who were planes. marshall did not disagree with roosevelt's ultimate objectives, but he was fighting off attempts of people to want to do partial things and keep individual units being developed that would be capable of doing the missions carrying out whether they were ground error or what so that he felt that reverting al

inner circle of military intelligence and diplomatic advisers included well-known figures like george c. marshall, wild bill donovan, admiral harriman and first lady eleanor roosevelt. they were among the subjects of a panel discussion at the fdr presidential library, exploring their role and influence on the president fighting a global war. this program is two hours. >> good afternoon. and welcome to our second 2011 fall forum, fdr's inner circle. i'm the acting director of the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and it is my pleasure to welcome our distinguished panel of speakers and our audience. those of you who are joining us today here at the henry a. wallace center and those of you who will be participating via our simultaneous web cast. i'm also slighted that c-span is taping today's program for later broadcast. it is widely accepted that franklin roosevelt was one of the greatest leaders in american history, while much scholarship and attention has focused on the role fdr played as the leading actor in the drama of the great depression and world war ii, there is growing interest i