our first speaker is lynn olson. lynn olson has a distinguished resume. her work includes being a reporter around the world. she covered jimmy carter's presidential campaign. she later joined the "baltimore sun's" washington bureau and eventually left journalism to work as a freelance writer in nor fork. her latest book "citizens of london, the americans who stood with britain in its darkest and finest hour" was published in 2010 by random house. will you join me in welcoming lynn olson? >> thank you very much. i am delighted and honored to be here. i have told many people that this really is my favorite place to do research. the staff here is absolutely spectacular, and every time i come back here, i feel like i'm coming home. the three men that i'm going to talk about this afternoon were not members of fdr's circle foreign policy advisers in washington. nonetheless, they played critical roles in one of the most important allied achievements of world war ii, the formation of the wartime partnership between the united states and great britain. that allian

before we end our program today, i would like to thank our panelists, lynne olson, thomas parrish, david woolner, and i thank them not only for their scholarship and knowledge, but because they're dear friends of the roosevelt library. they frequent our research room and they never say no to our requests to share their whork with the audience. i'd like to thank the roosevelt institute and for all they do to support the library. nothing is achieved at the roosevelt library without the amazing assistance of the staff. i want to thank cliff lobby, sarah malcolm and the volunteers bob sullivan and pat bream and the wonderful books that our panelists have written on the fascinating people and subjects are available at our museum store. i strongly suggest you purchase a few for some fascinating reading. thanks again for joining us and if you have time, please walk over and visit the museum as our guests. thank you. >>> now a film produced by the us army on world war ii general george s. patton. it originally aired as part of the big picture series on abc television from 1951 through 1975. this