and ethan's new book on olmstead in yosemite. i'm sure many of you are familiar with parts of this story. olmstead design of central park and his ideas about yosemite. his work for the movement and for the union army and is helping to shape the concept of the urban and national park in the united states. what's remarkable to consider and what the authors reveal so beautifully is that he was working on all these various projects the same time during the 1860s, both park and yosemite embody the new of freedom that inspired the union during its greatest crisis, epitomized seeing the duty of the republic to enhance the lives and well-being of all of its citizens. marking the bison of olmsted's birth. the birth book sets the historical record straight offers a fresh interpretation of how the american park, urban and national came to figure so prominently our cultural identity. so to keep along, i will hand this off to lauren and thank you very much. thanks. you can see me over the podium. my name? lauren meyer. i'm president of the fr

the ever modest olmstead was immensely pleased. surely such close association with one of his chief passions and concert vision could not have been a more perfect manner in which to honor his work and his legacy. thank you. hi, everybody. how you all doing? all good. ready for some more, olmstead and redwoods. all right. we're going to keep that theme going. let me get to the next presentation. all right. all right. perfect. hi, everybody. my name's sam hodder. i'm president and ceo of save the redwoods league. i'm going to follow up on some of the themes today of the connection between olmstead, the redwoods and the broader conservation movement. but i want to start by saying thank you so much for being here. thank you. thank you. now, p, what a great opportunity to honor such a critical voice in the american landscape and in the conservation landscape. i'm really pleased to be here and celebration of the olmstead legacy. and today i'm going to share a bit about how that legacy is rooted in the mighty redwood forests, as we just s

i hope you don't mind, but so did asked me because we have some olmstead and some olmstead inspired parks in denver to participate in this the celebration the anniversary celebration. and right at the at at the same time we had some community gatherings about one of our parks in denver where one of the the word that was getting around the community was that olmstead wasn't as great as they said they were and that they were, in fact, involved in these very, very racist endeavors. and we should you know, we shouldn't be celebrating them. i raised that issue with deedee because it disturbs me. i mean, i came to the to understanding parks in the olmstead tradition, like everyone else with a sense of honor and admiration. and i was horrified if if these rumors were true. and as with all rumors, there's always a kernel of truth. but we, the great response and i thank you didn't and the organization for me in engaging in this conversation was let's explore i don't want to give you the answers. let's talk about what it means to individuals from multicultural backgrounds today as we move forward.

welcome catherine olmstead here to the library. she is no stranger to the fdr library, and then we're so glad to have her just a little by way of background. she's a professor of history at the university of california davis. she specializes in political and cultural history of the 20 20th and 21st century with a particular interest in the influence of anti-communism. it's very interesting and conspiracy theories on national politics. it was just saying to her that seems like an absurd field to me, but what do i know? i'm just you know here up at the fdr library. she's the author of five books including the book. she's going to speak of today the newspaper access express barons who enabled hitler i strongly encourage you to read this book if you haven't already it's excellent, and she's also written i'll you a couple examples, right? fornia, the 1930s and the big business roots of modern conservatism. a real enemies conspiracy theories in american democracy world war one to 911 you've got an update for that one. i'm sure that'll ge

fourth amendment jurisprudence known as olmstead united states that deems wiretapping constitutional, according the fourth and fifth amendments. this gives the prohibition bureau and law enforcement more generally the green light to wiretap out in the open. although they've been performing wiretaps, conducting electronic surveillance operations for decades under the radar as a result of the gray areas in the law. so it's really the. experiment that brings wiretapping into the mainstream domain of law enforcement even then. but even then, it takes another four decades from 1928 to 1968 for the government to finally establish wiretap authority and finally establish the system of wiretap oversight that is still very much in place today. a history of wiretapping in united states. that's the subtitle of the book, the listener's brian hochman professor of georgetown university is the author joining us and let me pause here and bring in some callers on this topic. anthony miller, new york. good morning. you're on with professor hocking. thank you, professor, for joining us and thank you to t