roosevelt. >> yes. >> eleanor roosevelt is a well-known public figure, woman of enormous importance in the 20th century american history, what did you about her that you did not know before? i know you probably knew a hole at more about roosevelt going into this and you did about murray. >> i had always heard that she was a compassionate person and the depth of her compassion and the depth of her acceptance of polly really struck me. i asked polly's friends who saw them, one in particular who saw polly and eleanor together more than anyone other than malvina thompson, how did eleanor and with polly? as i said she was impatient, she said she said what she thought, and maida said to me you know polly could be embarrassingly direct. but i credit eleanor roosevelt's with hanging in there with her and being unwilling to allow this young woman lie out alone crying in the wilderness, and that was one of the first interviews i did, so that gave me a window into eleanor roosevelt's patients with young people, polly in particular, and her willingness to listen. that's the other thing, she app

polly, first of all eleanor roosevelt met her in the fall of 1934. was a very traumatic experience for polly because eleanor showed up behind the wheel of her can verbal coop she is the driver, the passengers are mouthing it tommy thompson her private secretary, a man polly took toto be a secret service agent, though my research suggested this man was probably tommy's husband. eleanor did not like having secret service around.et servi and so she showed up at this camp which was the first camp for unemployed women. it was the female version of the ccc camp. however eleanor was determined that unlike the ccc camp for men, this particular can would not be segregated. that was really important to her. since it was a pet project of her and it was not located very far from her home was in the bear mountain area of new york, she would go periodically unannounced to inspect the camp to see how things were going. so she would drive up in this convertible coupe, gets out of the car and immediately startset going to the premises. the residents are really excite

widely admired, like eleanor roosevelt. these women are suggesting, as is some of the public opinion response to kinsey's books and the popular interest in christine jorgensen that, in fact, people, while maybe living under the rubrics of conventional values are quite interested in some of, if not all, the alternatives. and, finally, there is the interesting and unpredictable or unintended, perhaps, consequences of this growing desire for consumer goods within married families themselves. and the point here is this. we know that after world war ii there was this wave of marriages, pregnancies, births, home buying, suburbanization and this consumerism. remember, i said this earlier. during the war, americans were only producing war goods, planes, tanks and guns. they weren't producing cars, tv sets, new housing, all that consumer stuff. and during world war ii, people were working but they didn't have a lot of opportunities to spend the money they made. savings were increasing. that pent-up savings helps to fuel this consume

widely admired, like eleanor roosevelt. these women are suggesting, as is some of the public opinion response to kinsey's books and the popular interest in christine jorgensen that, in fact, people, while maybe living under the rubrics of conventional values are thinking very strongly and quite interested in some of, if not all, the alternatives. and, finally, there is the interesting and unpredictable or unintended, perhaps, unintended, perhaps, consequence of this growing desire for consumer goods within married families themselves. and the point here is this. we know that after world war ii there was this wave of marriages, pregnancies, births, home buying, suburbanization and this consumerism. remember, i said this earlier. during the war, americans were only producing war goods, planes, tanks and guns. they weren't producing cars, tv sets, new housing, all that consumer stuff. and during world war ii, people were working but they didn't have a lot of opportunities to spend the money they made. savings were increasing.

eleanor roosevelt's grandchildren called her grandme are r ee, french. i never talked to any of them that weren't fond of her but it was an event to go see her. but it was an event to go see her. she was mrs. roosevelt. >> even to her own grandchildren. wow. wow. we're going to get to fdr as a grandfather in one minute. but first, geoff, when you and i spoke on the phone the other day mapping out the areas of subjects here, you said, i want to talk about your book and i said, why? >> it's, well -- >> no, you said it's because i'm a grandfather. >> yeah. i'm a grandfather. right. >> i write about grandfathers. >> yeah. and i'm not sure i'm supposed to say this, but this is a fascinating book. it's a treekly, could be a treacly subject, and it's not. it's really smart. i liked reading it a lot. i'm a grand father, of course. it's a unique role. what it does do is make you think about your own grandparents. mine, this is a diversion from the roosevelts, but my great-grandfather was the bernie madoff of the 1880s. he was a big-time swindler. >> really? >> he

. >> i think eleanor roosevelt should be on the $10 bill. >> i know -- i'd nominate my mom. i feel like she's a figugoreod., strong >> [ laughs ] every mother should have such a loving son. and while many of us may want to nominate our own moms, the treasury is looking for women who've had more of a, let's say, historical impact, particularly on democracy. and one more thing -- they currently on the $10 bill is alexander hamilton. whether he'll be replaced by or joined by a woman is still up in the air. by the way, women haven't always been given short shrift on our paper money. more than 100 years ago, the treasury printed bills sporting pictures of pocahontas and martha washington. since then, the only women celebrated on our currency were on coins. but as bob dylan wrote, "the with "speak of the week," i'm eric. >> global warming is melting the sea ice in the arctic, and that's putting animals like the walrus in danger. sea ice is critical for all parts of a walrus's life. females give birth and raise their pups on the frozen expanse. adults use the ice as a diving platfo

>> i think it should be eleanor roosevelt or harriet tubman. >> well, like -- i don't know. i'm sure they'll pick anyone good. >> i think eleanor roosevelt should be on the $10 bill. >> i know -- i'd nominate my mom. i feel like she's a good, strong figure. >> [ laughs ] every mother should have such a loving son. and while many of us may want to nominate our own moms, the treasury is looking for women who've had more of a, let's say, historical impact, particularly on democracy. and one more thing -- they can't still be living. currently on the $10 bill is alexander hamilton. whether he'll be replaced by or joined by a woman is still up in the air. by the way, women haven't always been given short shrift on our paper money. more than 100 years ago, the treasury printed bills sporting pictures of pocahontas and martha washington. since then, the only women celebrated on our currency were on coins. but as bob dylan wrote, "the and frankly, it's about time. with "speak of the week," i'm eric. >> global warming is melting the sea ice in the arctic, and that's putting animals li

. >> i think eleanor roosevelt should be on the $10 bill. >> i know -- i'd nominate my mom. i feel like she's a good, strong figure. >> [ laughs ] every mother should have such a loving son. and while many of us may want to nominate our own moms, the treasury is looking for women who've had more of a, let's say, historical impact, particularly on democracy. and one more thing -- they can't still be living. currently on the $10 bill is alexander hamilton. whether he'll be replaced by or joined by a woman is still up in the air. by the way, women haven't always been given short shrift on our paper money. more than 100 years ago, the treasury printed bills sporting pictures of pocahontas and martha washington. since then, the only women celebrated on our currency were on coins. but as bob dylan wrote, "the times, they are a-changin'." eric. >> global warming is melting the sea ice in the arctic, and that's putting animals like the walrus in danger. sea ice is critical for all parts of a walrus's life. females give birth and raise their pups on the frozen expanse. adults use the

>> i think it should be eleanor roosevelt or harriet tubman. >> well, like -- i don't know. i'm sure they'll pick anyone good. >> i think eleanor roosevelt should be on the $10 bill. >> i know -- i'd nominate my mom. i feel like she's a good, strong figure. >> [ laughs ] every mother should have such a loving son. and while many of us may want to nominate our own moms, the treasury is looking for women who've had more of a, let's say, historical impact, particularly on democracy. and one more thing -- they can't still be living. currently on the $10 bill is alexander hamilton. whether he'll be replaced by or joinby a woman is still up in the air. by the way, women haven't always been given short shrift on our paper money. more than 100 years ago, the treasury printed bills sporting pictures of pocahontas and martha washington. since then, the only women celebrated on our currency were on coins. but as bob dylan wrote, "the times, they are a-changin'." and frankly, it's about time. with "speak of the week," i'm eric. >> global warming is melting the sea ice in the arctic, and

that's a photograph actually of eleanor roosevelt visiting with herman wells, the president of indiana university, and that's here in bloomington in 1950. right between the publication of kinsey's first book and a second book. while kinsey is working on a second book, and i don't know if kinsey came out to any reception or celebration for eleanor rooseve roosevelt, she was here and embl emblematic wherever she went, of women finding active careers outside traditional marriage. another woman who often appeared on these lists in the 1950s was claire booth luce. we get the impression that women, even though the dmsic arrangements predominated the way most men and women are living their adult lives, domestic marital relations, claire booth luce, while she's married, married to a man -- married to the owner of time magazine, henry luce, but she also is widely admired because she has a public career. serveed in congress. she was a writer. she advocated careers for women. she was a journalist in world war ii. she wrote from the war zones. widely admired. like eleanor roosevelt, these women ar

martha had a connection that hemmingway hoped would be valuable which was that, eleanor roosevelt was a close friend of her mother, and the roosevelts who this habit of asking all sorts of interesting people to live with them at the white house had, a couple years invited martha to come and live with them while she worked on her writing. but, she found out that eleanor wanted her help answering these correspondences. >> so, she didn't last there very long. but she retained, this very close relationship with eleanor roosevelt and wrote her letters from spain while they were there and after they returned. and, they actually went, and showed the film for the first time to the roosevelts in the white house, in the 1937. it's the most exclusive audience for a film premiere that one can think of. they hope that, this would stir at least the president and if not the american people out of the stance of neutrality. but they didn't succeed. >> we as a country add embargo against selling arms to the republicans over there. but, people that were in power at the time, and, was that ever close to

i'm going to call eleanor roosevelt mrs. roosevelt because you get confused in these things. our version of sara roosevelt is mrs. roosevelt's version. it's a version she came to very late in life. she -- her upbringing was so awful, so emotionally aired, so devoid of real parenting, she had not only a drunken father but a demented father who was there and not there and seeing visions and telling her he loved her and sweep her off and live in europe and be happy ever after and disappearing and finally dying and her mother was distracted and disappointed in her so she had no model parent so when she became first a wife and then a parent, she relied enormously on franklin's mother. >> wait. she relied on her or sara took over? go ahead. >> many people who write about the roosevelts have different views. this is my view. sara roosevelt was happy to fill the vacuum. a most devoted mother there ever was. but eleanor was terribly grateful at the time that she took over hiring nannies, that she gave her child raising advice. later in her life some of that stuff became distorted and

eleanor roosevelt was there. and jim mccarthy gave a brilliant nominating address for stevenson and this caused a little anxiety in the kennedy camp and it probably caused a little interest or thought on my father's part, maybe if things were deadlocked he could still win the nomination. he had felt that if the leader of the party and out of royalty to eleanor roosevelt and other supporters that he should be neutral and he was neutral. if he had a chance neutrality was the best way to get there. one statesman told me, he was in father's suite on the eve of the balloting and my father said, when bobby kennedy calls tell him i have gone to bed and left introductions not to be woken. sure enough bobby kennedy called. he said, tell him this is his last chance and he better talk to me or he won't be secretary of state. and he responded, i'm sorry he's instructed me to tell me that he has gone to bed. so, that was the end of any chances for secretary of state. but it signifies something about the relationship not with

his niece was the most famous roosevelt woman of them all, eleanor roosevelt. they decide it would be nice to rebuild his birth place. so this so this is how the site looked. the uncle's house next-door and this two-story building when this idea of memorializing roosevelt came about. so they purchased both properties, they commissioned a female architect, this is pretty amazing because in 1981 this is a progressive idea. interestingly was a survivor of the lusitania, she using the uncle's house, which is i den tlity cal, as a model for the museum in terms of architectural details that really bring the house to live. then they tear down uncle robert's as well as the two-story building and combine both from the ground floor. so we opened up as a public building on what would have been officially on what would have been theodore roosevelt 65th birthday. the house was administered by the women until 1962 when it was dedicated the same day as the home in sagamore hill as part of the national park service. we're going to walk through five historic period rooms that r

some of the names in this address book include eleanor roosevelt, walter and jean kerr, jackie kennedy, john steinbeck, archibald mccleash. >> it hints at stevenson's appeal. he was a very unusual -- he was a non-politician in many ways who was lionized by intellectuals, academics, by men and women of letters. and eventually by millions of americans who proudly declared themselves stevensonians. >> and standing between us is this old office chair. >> yeah, very historic piece. this, in fact, is governor stevenson's cabinet chair. during the kennedy administration -- no doubt we'll talk about this later on -- he had a historic stint as american ambassador to the united nations. and as such, he was made a member of the cabinet. this is the chair that commemorates that. somewhat difficult relationship that he had with the kennedy administration. >> now richard norton smith, you referred to the stevenson political dynasty a little earlier. here on the wall are some artifacts, very quickly. >> yeah. governor stevenson's wife said that the stevensons all suffered from a bad case of ancestor

roosevelt in, wait for $285,000. it actually lights up. >> also on the list, this stainless steel sculpture that cost taxpayers $365,000. >> all of the artwork that i have in the va committee room is art on loan from the department of defense. i don't have a problem with the art. >>reporter: but miller does have a problem with this $1.3 million rock sculpture and courtyard project. art work he says comes at the expense of wounded vets. >> the thing that both most is va keeps saying they need more and more money, yet, they're not willing to prioritize and use the money that they have for the appropriate thing. ie, healthcare for the veterans. >>reporter: so as the va recovers from a scandal involving dozens of veterans who died waiting for care, it's spending $300,000 on this arc. >> certainly those that control the purse swings, the congress flexibility is the last thing that we need to be giving to the va. >>reporter: the va says it has developed a new approval policy that should be finalized within the next 90 days

>> i guess my theory was that theodore roosevelt was terribly important in the lives of both eleanor, who was his niece, and franklin. and that was just strengthened. when i thought about it, the shear number of times you could see the connection. you could see fdr trying to be like t.r., rejecting t.r. he was a huge figure to both of them. she saw herself all her life as a member of that family. when she was very old, she said somebody told her to sit down and relax. she said i don't think i really can. i can't sit and knit in the corner. i'm too much of theodore roosevelt's niece. >> he did love her. he was one of the few, right? am i wrong about that? >> he loved her when he saw her, but he didn't see her very often. his wife actually didn't want her to come to the theodore roosevelt home because they believed that somehow elliott's problems would be visited on her. there's an awful letter in which she said i don't encourage -- >> elliott being her father. >> pretty grim. that's why she's a wonder. >> you called her a wounded person. >> yes. all right. please. >> good morning. firs

and i met eleanor roosevelt. this is what i want to do but did you have a moment? how to the successful guy in a crowded race. >> we were involved with those beaming rights. and then the nonpartisan race without the nonprofit boards so i thought about that went around the country in to in junior kerry make a difference? to put a toe in the water even then why? i never hung out with them. class president gore state council you don't have to grow over every detail. [laughter] with the embittered city councilwoman the latino as the auditor than the brilliance speaker but they did seem to have any experience and all my customers were all in it for themselves and deceives there ought to be more everyone told me of some of the yearly meeting this not to do any negative ads nor opposition research. then to say that you don't have a chance. but there was said appetite. but there was no heat tiffany then that general election happened with six kids and it's up 40% i don't know what the staff did. i said i don't know what does the chief of staff to? >> would agree strategies

some of the names in this address book include eleanor roosevelt, walter and gene cur, jackie kennedy, john steinbeck, archibald mcleash. it hints at the catholicity of stevenson's appeal. he was an unusual and non-politician in many ways who was lionized by intellectuals and academics and by men and women of letters and eventually by millions of americans who proudly declared themselves stevensonians. >> and standing between us is this old office chair. >> yea. very historic piece. this, in fact, is governor stevenson's cabinet chair. during the kennedy administration, no doubt we'll talk about this later on, he had a historic stint as american ambassador to the united nations and as such he was made a member of the cabinet. this is the chair that commemorates that somewhat difficult relationship that he had with the kennedy administration. >> now, richard norton smith, you referred to the dynasty, the stevenson political dynasty a little earlier. here on the wall are some artifacts, very quickly. >> governor stevenson's wife ellen said the stevensons suffered from ancestor worship.

and harry truman goes to the white house and says to eleanor roosevelt, can i pray for you? and she says, no, we need to pray for you because you are the fellow who is in trouble now. he starts off very popular. the war is won. the atomic bombs are dropped on japan. there is vj day. america's at peace, finally. and harry truman reaches a popularity level of 87%. sic transit gloria mundi, that goes downhill real fast. and people, some of that is beyond his control, but there are reasons why his popularity drops. he is not franklin roosevelt. right now, all the republicans are saying, who is the next reagan? boy, we miss reagan a lot. and back then, it was, by god, by god how we miss fdr among the democrats. and harry truman was no fdr. so, there is a longing for the lost leader there. and also, he's prone to certain gaffes. his appointments are not always the strongest. there was a talk of the gang, as there was an ohio gang, as people who are hangers-on, small-timers who are put into positions way above their abilities. you see the old new dealers being shoved out of the cab

. >> there were basically two with famous women, harriet tubman and eleanor roosevelt -- oh, and helen keller. you had to do something really big. but our characters think they should just be famous because. >> that's just instinct, people want to be known. >> trevor: but known for doing something most of the time. >> no, we want to be known for being famous for knotting. >> don't you find that weird, though? >> it's weird but we're pioneers. >> trevor: what are you famous for? i'm famous for being famous. it's like the chicken and the egg. how did you become famous? for being famous. >> it's a great job, to be honest. >> trevor: it is. i watch it and the profanity is beautiful, especially in the manner you placed it. it's very classy, tasteful profanity. many jokes about posterior ramming that is -- >> that was a song about -- >> trevor: anal. you can say anal. >> i was going to say getting (bleep) in the ass. >> trevor: oh, yeah, you can say that as well. yeah, you can say awful that. we're on -- you can say all of that. we're on the same network. >> that was scott joplin coming and

louis professor elizabeth elizabeth andwardt discusses franklin eleanor roosevelt. she focuses on the atlantic charter as part of the " grand strategy." it's about 40 minutes. welcome back to the room where it happened. this was after a very exciting day yesterday we are hoping to focus on build. to welcomeyone everyone. this has three parts. it left its title behind a little bit. it's on fdr and on human rights. i will do something else with eleanor, i'm not sure. but the first part is a different origin story for this grand strategy project because everyone seemed to be so taken with personal narrative just today. the second part is a discussion inour roosevelt document 1941 atlantic charter. although it was developed as aly with churchill grand strategy at a human rights instrument. think, very briefly i the link between that document, the atlantic charger which was inspirational, to a specific policy debate in our particular context, namely the demise of formorgenthaler plan defeated germany that was being in the early fall of 1944. paper, i discuss atlantic cha

[inaudible] >>> patricia bell scott's book explores the relationship between eleanor roosevelt and civil rights activist polly marry. the author discussed her book with nell irvin painter in new york. they are introduced by the director of the public policye

roosevelt it is better to utility one candle than occurs the darkness harvey starred a movement it changed a nation his legacy lives on in the great work by the harvey milk foundation and his nephew stuart milk and ann and others that accepted stuart accepted at the same time apparently metal of freedom he on harvey's on behalf of in 2009 the same year i humbly received the work building ed anyone kohlman i made a promise to my sister suzy in 1998 the year harvey died i'll i rad breast cancer not only in the u.s. but gloefshl while pave a way for a cure meeting stuart that day was a natural phenomena that changed any life gave me another cause to pursue achieving equal rights to the lgbtq community in our nation and across the world and an honor stuart to serve in an advisory roll in the incredible harvey milk foundation that is supported all corners of the globe doing so with grace and advocacy and i do so not as a former u.s. ambassador but as a proud american as a proud mother of my son eric who is here today with us and is himself a wonderful openly gay philanthropist and lgbtq recogni

this is mary mcleod bethune, a friend of eleanor roosevelt, and she was a great educator. for young african-american people in washington, but she was also the founder of the national associate for women. an amazing character. a beautiful statute here at lincoln park, that everybody in washington, it's an iconic piece of culture in lincoln park in the center of washington. where we are right now is this is a painting rack in which we can use to store paintings and framed objects, so this is a beautiful framed object of abraham lincoln reading. these are associated with ford's theater. again, things that are gifted to the national parks service that might necessarily go on exhibit all the time. here's a picture of sherman. sometimes you wonder why we have these things. this cabinet has material from antietam national battlefield. this is obviously a bayonet used in the battle. artifacts of this type were picked up in the field either as souvenirs or relics after the battles. ooh, fun stuff. this was a cartridge case. i'm not going to touch it, but you can see, this is gorge

that christmas it was eleanor roosevelt. she came down the aisle just like this. she was very tall. she was older. she had white hair. she was beautiful. she had a beautiful profile. all this talk about her not being so and i was a kid looking up at her saying what is this stuff they're saying? she's beautiful. she was marvelous on the stage. >> she didn't photograph well. >> in person she was beautiful. >> lovely. >> part of the problem was that she did have very prominent teeth, which the theodore roosevelt family wrote letters about but never did anything about. they could perfectly easily have fixed that. >> there was orthodontia back then? >> yes. other members of the family had. they would say she had unfortunate teeth and then do nothing about it. >> i'm a big fdr fan number one. read many books. i wasn't going to ask questions today but what came to me while you were speaking about the sons of fdr, they were really used by other people for business purposes. they were exploited for their name. i remember reading that some of his sons would go to him and they would basically

eleanor alert roosevelt and the struggle for social justice. then when the west and shrill. then simply bold, a mother's reckoning living in the aftermath of tragedy. at 11:00 p.m. grunt, the curious science of human at war. all of this tonight on tv, prime time on c-span2 this week on q&a, documentary filmmaker discusses her latest film about the late american businessman and pulliam therapist. >> aviva kempner, why did you do a document on a man named julius ? i was lucky enough 12 years ago to be at martha's vineyard to attend the lectured for religion at the state department. the title was blacks and jews. i thought i was going to a talk about the civil rights era but i was very surprised to learn about julius and as soon as he talked about him the light bulb went off in my head because i make films about unbeknownst euros and he is the most under known that in some ways he would be the most known. >> who was he? >> it was a combination of factors. he was a midwesterner who had from the son of an immigrant became a $20 in his pocket and he was born in springfield which i

and, of course, who wouldn't want to see franklin and eleanor roosevelt in, "f-d-r u up?" (laughter) which tells the romantic story of how they met at a family reunion. (laughter) look it up. look it (piano riff) look it up, then laugh at it. (laughter) all our jokes come with footnotes here. (laughter) of course the big news is last night, mtv held their annual video music awards, where they -- i believe they give an award to anyone who still makes music videos. last night featured many asses, from beyonce, to rihanna to nicki minaj to kanye. kanye unveiled his new video "fade" featuring singer and actor teyana taylor sweatily dancing around a gym. check that out. wow. i really hope she knows it's polite to wipe that equipment down before the next person uses it. (laughter) it's just polite. dancing, it ends with the image of a naked teyana in prosthetic cat face surrounded by sheep. to see the whole video, you have to have a tidal subscription or eat peyote and fall asleep watching "thundercats." (laughter) (applause) but there was one glaring absence at last night's v.m

some of the names in this address book include eleanor roosevelt, walter and gene cur, jackie kennedy, john steinbeck, archibald mcleash. it hints at the catholicity of stevenson's appeal. he was a very unusual -- he was a non-politician in many ways who was lionized by intellectuals and academics, by men and women of letters and eventually by millions of americans who proudly declared themselves stevenosonians. >> and standing between us is this old office chair. >> yeah, very historic piece. this, in fact, is governor stevenson's cabinet chair. during the kennedy administration, no doubt we'll talk about this later on, he had a historic stint as american ambassador to the united nations and as such he was made a member of the cabinet. this is the chair that commemorates that somewhat difficult relationship that he had with the kennedy administration. >> now, richard norton smith, you referred to the dynasty, the stevenson political dynasty a little earlier. here on the wall are some artifacts, very quickly. >> yeah. governor stevenson's wife, ellen, said the stevensons suffered from

i remember many, many, many years back when they pulled the same move with eleanor roosevelt. [ laughter ] bernie sanders has a copy of that hidden under his mattress. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: he's old is what i'm saying. difficult for donald trump. hillary clinton is now on top of him in most of the major polls. on friday in colorado springs, trump and his secret service team got trapped in an elevator for half an hour. they almost had to send beyonce's sister in to get them out. [ laughter ] he insulted the parents of a muslim-american soldier who was killed by a suicide bomber in iraq. in an interview with george stephanopoulos he either didn't know or forgot russia had invaded ukraine and in that sam distance himself from former new york city mayor michael bloomberg. >> now i see this guy up on stage saying negative things. he knows nothing about me. he's never been to my office. i don't know him well. >> you played golf together. >> maybe once. i hit the ball a lot longer, a lot better. >> jimmy: that's what really matters, you know? after that interview, many