The Department of Communications Studies at Southeast Missouri State University will hold a Speaker Showcase on Wednesday at noon in the University Center Ballroom. The speaker will be Angela Spinzig, a freshman at Southeast, who will discuss grade inflation. On today’s program, we’ll talk with Spinzig and Speech Communication professor Glen Williams discuss the speaker showcase and Spinzig’s topic.

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The New York Times’ Adam Cohen joins us to talk about his new book, Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America. There has been no shortage of comparisons between the fledgling Presidency of Barack Obama and the 1933 inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Both followed unpopular lame-duck Presidents and both faced a disastrous financial crisis. Obama and his staff have famously been reading up on Roosevelt’s first One Hundred Days in office.

Cohen discusses Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “team of rivals” and the impact the “hundred days” had on incoming Presidents ever since.

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