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Professor Smith:

Would you join us at the FDR Library in June to be a four panel member symposium to discuss the first 200 days of
FDR compared to the first 200 days of President Barack Obama.

Your topic, of course, would be "An Overviewof FDR first 100
days what was accomplish, what wasn't and how he got the job done.

We will pay an honorium.

Enclosed is the outline for the Symposium for your review.

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

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

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 2008-2009
A. TVA A. Economic Stimulus Package
B. Glass/Steagall Act /1932 B. TARP/2008
C. 1933 Banking Act C. 2009/2010 Banking Act
D. CCC D. The Greening of America/ Cap & Trade
E. A.A.A. E. Credit Card Reform Act
F. Social Security F. 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)
Vernon Lucas Albright, Co-director, Citizens’ Symposiums for Presidential
Preferences and Nation Issues (web site: www.primaryvoices.com )

VIII. Summary and Conclusions (Panel Discussion)
“A Fork in the Road: 2010 and Beyond”

Sincerely,

Vernon Lucas Albright, Ed.D.
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