and they are on may 15th, eisenhower, patton, omar bradley, winston churchill, king george the sixth and several dozen of the most senior commanders have gathered to review for it last time the plan called overlord, which is the invasion of france, which is to take place in three weeks. they met in an auditorium at st. paul's called the model room and the general said that girls were bundled up in their overcoats because even that was the middle of night, it was cold as a meat locker and they sat on hold with benches normally reserved for schoolboys. the poet john milton among other english luminaries had gone to st. paul. on the florida cop put it this auditorium was an enormous paris relief map of the normandy coast, where the rivers and teeth into the atlantic and a british brigadier and no skid stotts shuffled around on this hop is a discussed the individual locales and what would be coming in three weeks, the most famous battlefield in the world. the beaches, for example. utah, on a hot, gold, juno, sword and towns no one had heard of it soon would become infamous. towns like sa

commander in chief in world war ii, the great job they did of picking the right people, picking omar bradley and george patton and mark clark and admiral leahy. there's really no president liked fdr. the c-span poll put third behind lincoln and washington. when it comes to knowing how to get things done, fdr is one. host: from your point of view, was it a mistake for him to seek a fourth term? hy did he decide to do so? uest: i was reading evidence about how much he wanted to go back to hyde park on the hudson. his great love of his life was the river. anyone who spends time around the river knows why. it is absolutely beautiful. he thought he would go back and write mystery novels for fun and continue being a forrester and enjoy life in dutchess county. there was a great fear that if he did not, the republicans would come in. he had become so popular. to strip them out of that post would have been a political mistake. -- him out of that post would have been a political mistake. fdr was a cartographer. he had maps everywhere. he had really understood the world situation like nobody had. he h

commander in chief in world war ii, the great job they did of picking the right people, picking omar bradleynd george patton and .ark clark and admiral leahy there's really no president liked fdr. put third behind lincoln and washington. when it comes to knowing how to get things done, fdr is one. view,from your point of was it a mistake for him to seek a fourth term? why did he decide to do so? was reading evidence about how much he wanted to go back to hyde park on the hudson. his great love of his life was the river. anyone who spends time around the river knows why. beautiful.utely he thought he would go back and write mystery novels for fun and continue being a forrester and enjoy life in dutchess county. there was a great fear that if he did not, the republicans would come in. he had become so popular. to strip them out of that post would have been a political mistake. -- him out of that post would have been a political mistake. fdr was a cartographer. he had maps everywhere. he had really understood the world situation like nobody had. he had built those friendships with world leaders