i will turn it over to my dearest friend, neville thompson, who histhompson, who his guest lecturing in the class today and we are very honored to have him sharing his research with us so thank you very much for being here and we will turn over to you shortly. we will look today at the histories and election of franklin roosevelt. we begin looking at his early life, political career, and some of the challenges that he was forced to confront as president. this is our theme, as always, it will be posted online so keep this in mind as you are doing your reading. we move into franklin roosevelt, and who was he? he was born january 13 1882. he was born in a country estate and raised in affluent surroundings. he was paradoxically absolutely loved by the common people. he graduated from harvard, attended columbia law school, and, before graduating from loss will, he took the bar exam and passed. that was not uncommon in those days. he married his distant cousin, eleanor roosevelt, who was one of his great heroes. theodore roosevelt's needs. that was in march of 1905. he was very influenced

found, and that was fdr's ultimate domestic legacy. " and i turned the lectern over to professor neville thompson, who now talk about roosevelts lectures. [applause] mr. thompson: i hope i can give up to my predecessors eloquence. if franklin delano roosevelt had served out the customary to terms, if he had served from 1933-1941, he would have been known above all as a domestic president, a president who tackled the very great problems of the great depression, which professor devine talked about. might nott president have paid much attention to the rest of the world. this was only 20 years after the end of what was called the great war, what we now call the first world war. what americans wanted to do was stay out of the affairs of the rest of the world. if there were problems in the rest of the world, these were four other countries to solve, and not for the united states. theevelt was different in sense that he had a great interest in the world as well as in his own country, but even roosevelt really only began to turn his attention to the problems of the rest of the world and how these problem