Jean Edward Smith
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Would you be able to join us as a symposium speaker at the FDR library in June 2010?

There will be five panel members, discussing and analyzing the first 100-200 days of the FDR admistration compared to the first 100-200 days of the Obama Administration.

We offer you an honorium for your participation, plus expenses.

The outline is as follows:

FDR LECTURE SERIES
“A Rendezvous with Destiny”
June 8-9, 2010
FDR Library; Hyde Park, New York

FDR’s First One Hundred to First Two Hundred Days in Office and President Barrack Obama’s First One Hundred to Two Hundred Days in Office

I. 1933-1934: The FDR Administration / what was accomplished—what wasn’t?
Professor Jean Smith, Department of History and Political Science, Marshall University [Proposed Speaker]

II. 1933 and 2009
Professor Melvin Small, Department of History, Wayne State University

II. A New Agenda for an Old problem
Professor Thomas Thompson, Center for Urban Studies, Wayne State University

III. The Republican Party as the Loyal Opposition
Dick Stoken, author, The Great Game of Politics

IV. Key Legislation adopted in 1932/1933 – Professor Melvin Small, Wayne State Department of History

V. Key Legislation adopted in 2008/2009
Dr. Vernon Lucas Albright-
Citizens’ Symposiums for Presidential Preferences and National Issues

HOOVER/FDR/BUSH/ OBAMA
1932-1933 and 2008-2009
A. TVA and the Economic Stimulus Package
B. Glass/Steagall Act /1932 and TARP/2008
C. 1933 Banking Act and 2009/2010 Banking Act
D. CCC and The Greening of America/ Cap & Trade
E. A.A.A. and Credit Card Reform Act
F. Social Security and Comprehensive Health Care

VI. What worked and what didn’t? (Panel Discussion)

A. Job Creation versus hyper-inflation
B. The Greening of America versus the Civilian
Conservation Corp (CCC)
C. Securities regulations versus deregulation
D. The manufacturing sector versus the agriculture sector
E. Alternative energy sources versus the TVA
F. Volunteerism versus government centralism

VII. The Obama Years (circa 2009)
Dr. Vernon Lucas Albright, Co-director,
Citizens’ Symposiums for Presidential
Preferences and Nation Issues (web site:
www.primaryvoices.com)

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