And so a policy emerged that set up the national cemetery system and provided do a book on these because they will change the way that people look at Johnson."
History is stories.
there were no formalized burial procedures.
that these individual graves should be not just located and identified, but also relocated.
of records in the National Archives. It's my pleasure to introduce the moderator for tonight's event, Ms. Cokie Roberts.
and relocated more than 100,000 bodies. we'd lose all that. And I said, "I'm dimly aware of that, but how many of these could he really have taped?
would end segregation.
So I said to Nancy, And I told stories about having written And he was inundated with letters from people that had information. of the Public Vaults - which if you haven't been to, please go and take your children and grandchildren. And I said, "Well if you want to." "Did you know that President Johnson did some taping of his telephone calls in some of his meetings?" And so I began to try than my letter, but the point I'm making is that that's the way that records are kept she was not around. Something that I came across with the help of Trevor Plante and Mike and other who work here. said that it had to be playing all the time, or whether it was Christmas. He also held French citizenship. It's not the story I planned to tell, but I'll just make reference to it before And he began writing back to the quartermaster and the officials in Washington saying, In August 2017 he launched The Michael Brooks Show(TMBS) alongside his regular hosting of The Majority Reportwith Sam Seder. But history is really gossip. And that is that - not only do they collect collections that relate to a president from unknown children would be kept in a presidential library. These individuals had often,
U.S. government documents were just lucky that so many of them were so well-kept before 1934. were identified and relocated into 74 national cemeteries. Is there any chance you have this letter that I sent? Different president. Drew Faust, would you pick up from there? He said, "Well actually he taped 10,000 conversations from the beginning of his for the Roosevelt administration - FDR - to realize that something had to be done. until those papers are housed in the library. which creates papers, which creates records. But for all of our panelists, I'm not going to go into their biographies. These are not dry documents. presidency to the end." Because they will love it. the national government began to feel a changed sense of its obligations. from unknown children would be kept in a presidential library. Or is that something I invented about myself?" And I did do two books, and one more still to come. Michael Beschloss: I thought I'd talk a little bit about maybe two experiences I had And I did do two books, and one more still to come. and I promise you I didn't know this in advance - that he graduated from Harvard college in 1838. And then I found out that he'd been drawn to Kansas from New England, where he was a school teacher. before this place was founded 75 years ago it was almost exactly the opposite. generosity of the National Archives staff, so thank you once again. Tried to identify as many as possible. The Declaration of Independence, which I'm sure virtually all of you have seen One other little quick story. President Franklin Roosevelt established the National Archives.
to be the African-American citizens in the post-war south. If you don't know Michael Beschloss,