This is an I-Heart podcast.

What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

What difference at this point does it make?

Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

...or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

If you ask most Americans to name the three most important documents in our country,

the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address would likely top

their lists.

It certainly topped Franklin Roosevelt's and Secret Service Agent Harry Neals and Archibald

McLeish, the Librarian of Congress. All three of these men

played a critical role in moving America's most important documents out of Washington, D.C., as the

world geared up for war. Here to share the story is Steve Puglio, author of American Treasures. Let's get into the story.

These documents, they're artifacts, these documents, their symbols, these documents are day-to-day

blueprints by which we operate. There are all of those gathered into one. And guess what?

Roosevelt and McLeish and Harry Neal were thinking about that during the Second World War.

I want you to think about this. After Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7th of 1941.

Washington goes into lockdown.

Gunn placements on the roofs, centuries at the War Department, the White House goes dark.

There's debate on whether to paint the White House black.

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