A conversation between the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Director Emeritus Paul Sparrow and the Harry S. Truman Library Director Kurt Graham on the April 12, 1945 presidential transition between the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. (Originally broadcast April 2020 – video, 10:52 minutes)

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