kordell hall was the longest serving secretary of state in u.s. haddestry and he's a largely forgotten figure in u.s. history, particularly among the public, of course, but hall was actually a very important part of the roosevelt administration and we won't have time today and we'll keep an eye on the clock to get into all of the details, but let me just say this, he was absolutely obsessed is probably the best word i can come up with, with the idea of reordering the world's trading system. he really felt that it was critical to develop a freer training system around the world and he did so because both he and roosevelt believed this, it was a means to raise the living standard of working people around the world. this was not about a kind of globalization that we sometimes see criticized today as being driven with corporate interest and hall was very much in favor of the working man and he also was extremely upset at the tariff that had been passed in 1930 which has set them at their highest level in american history. and just really quick little