The Honorable Henry Kissinger visits Grand Rapids, Michigan to deliver a lecture titled, "Where Do We Go From Here," for an event sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford Foundation, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum, and the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University. The lecture took place at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel on October 24, 2006.

May 7, 2009 - Hauenstein Center Director Gleaves Whitney interviews Robert Rosen, who is a lawyer, historian, and author of "Saving the Jews: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Holocaust."

Rosen offers extensive evidence of FDR's close ties to Jewish leaders, and his appointment of many Jews to high-level positions, including the Supreme Court. Rosen outlines the numerous attempts FDR made to allow Jewish refugees to enter the United States -- and explains why, at weaker periods of his presidency, FDR simply didn't have the political capital to wage these battles. He also offers a full picture of the overwhelming mood in the country -- the strong desire to remain neutral regarding European affairs and the distrust of anything that smacked of internationalism. And he points to divisions in the American Jewish community, which had not reached a consensus as to the best policy for freeing their European counterparts from Nazi persecution. Rosen takes on each of the chief accusations frequently leveled at Roosevelt with regard to his handling of the Holocaust, and demonstrates why these charges are unfair and unfounded.