roosevelt's call to industrial business magnates william knudsen and henry kaiser to leaf their private sector positions and lead the war production effort during world war ii. this is a little over an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening. i'm henry olson, vice president of the american enterprise institute and director of its national research initiative which is a foundation or an organization within aei, entity, that's what i was looking for, entity within aei that supports original domestic policy-relateed research and big think books of which our current speaker, arthur herman, is the author of the book that is the summit of today's -- subject of today's discussion, "freedoms forge," clearly is one of. the 2012 election is, in many ways, a debate over the 1932 election. should we continue or extend the legacy of franklin delano roosevelt in establishing the federal government as one of the preeminent directors if not the preeminent director of american economic life, or should we embrace the creative animal spirits of free enterprise capitalism and trust more to ourselve

henry kaiser, the man who was involved first in road construction, one of the builders of hoover dam, and he and his colleagues of the six companies -- people like stephen bechtel, bechtel corporation, harry morris of morris and knudsen. that's a different knudsen, it's not my knudsen, it's another guy. i think it's now still probably the largest construction firm in the world right now, morse and knudsen, and the other company, tennessee eastman, who became involved in wartime construction. all of these understanding the process of lae-scale enterprise which they used not just to construct docks to repair pearl harbor, for example, and to prepare military facilities, but also to build ships. kaiser's liberty ships being the classic example of that. as the time in which it took to build constantly shrank down to fewer and fewer days until finally by 1942 they could launch a liberty ship every five days if they had to. in fact, a great story about a lady who comes out to christen one of the ships at kaiser's yard up in portland, oregon, and she comes out with her champagne bottle, and

this was during the same protest in which occupiers tried to take over the henry j kaiser conventiond city hall. >>> the body of a former administrator of a city in los angeles county was found on angel island on the same day a critical report from the state's auditor's office was released. park rangers found the body of eric fresh on thursday. rangers say fresh was found floating in the water near his bicycle. now, fresh is the former administrator in the town of vernon, which is just 5 miles from los angeles. fresh's death came on the same day the state auditor issued a report criticizing the way fresh and others managed that small scandal-plagued city. >>> federal authorities cited two marijn county men on charges of flying a remote-controlled helicopter around alcatraz. the park service says the drone chopper flew close to the island, frightening birds and buzz tion right over the heads of tourists. authorities confiscated a video shot by the mini helicopter. one of the men told the newspaper no one was harmed and they were taking aerial pictures of alcatraz. >>> federal emergenc