eleanor roosevelt to roosevelt house when i was a student at hunter. i was president at student council. i invited her to speak to us in 1961. and she said wonderful things are happening, go south for freedom. so we took two buses and went to north carolina. eleanor roosevelt was supporting siddons, the civil rights movement, from the 1940's until the end of her life. she was delighted. -- and there is a wonderful new book. booksare a few wonderful about eleanor roosevelt and polly murray. she called eleanor roosevelt the mother of the women's movement and the conscience of us all. and that is really eleanor roosevelt with civil rights. >> what a perfect place to end. [applause] blanche: thank you. thank you. paul: thank you. [applause] tofrom george washington george w. bush, every sunday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern, presidency," a weekly series exploring the presidents, their politics, policies, and legacies. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. journal live every day with news and policy issues that impac

i invited eleanor roosevelt to roosevelt house when i was a student at hunter. i was president at student council. i invited her to speak to us in 1961. and she said wonderful things are happening, go south for freedom. so we took two buses and went to north carolina. eleanor roosevelt was supporting the sit in's the civil rights , movement, from the 1940's until the end of her life. she was delighted. polly murray -- and there is a wonderful new book. there are a few wonderful books about eleanor roosevelt and polly murray. she called eleanor roosevelt the mother of the women's movement and the conscience of us all. and that is really eleanor roosevelt with civil rights. >> what a perfect place to end. [applause] blanche: thank you. thank you. paul: thank you. [applause] are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter at c-span history for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. >> tonight on lectures in history, the university of north florida professo

eleanor roosevelt was horrified. and she said, i will personally welcome the people who come as refugees on the next ship. and at next ship was the kwanzaa. and eleanor roosevelt said, let the ship stay in virginia beach. everyone will be here as my guest. and they were. they were allowed to stay. paul: it was a violation of immigration quota. blanche: yes. well, actually, it was not a violation because less than 10% of the immigration quotas were being filled. but they did not have these is. and it was a violation -- they did not have a visas. and it was a violation of the power structure of the state department, which is dominated by breckenridge. one of the great mysteries i bring up again and again is why fdr fire this absolute t,git -- big -- bigo who says he is going to make it impossible for people to become refugees and be admitted? paul: actively anti-semitic. blanche: actively anti-semitic. franklin, youys, know he is a fascist! and he is. fdr says to eleanor roosevelt, may be, but don't use that word. he g

no ego roosevelt and to have that administrative apparatus that makes it possible for roosevelt to achieve and then he has questions about it and then he tells the journalist friend he will do it but he's weak and then of course, the relationship is tattered one of the biggest breaches of all american histor history. >> so particularly declining twice the offer to go on to the supreme court what he wanted most in life comes to him at a young age and he declines twice he was enjoying the popularity being governor the philippines and says repeatedly i would never want to play a popular part unlike tr who catered to the public to rally the troops and did not aspire to be good at that but yet twice declining the appointment quick. >> you are right to press on that point i will not play a part for popularity to faithfully serve and in the memoirs have the sympathetic account of taft in the idea that the president should never seek popularity deriving from the constitution so why didn't he? with his desire to do something with it he may have been torn he had normal ambitions and just a seed deci

i invited eleanor roosevelt to the roosevelt house when i was a student at hunter. i was president of the student council and i invited her to come speak to us in 1961. she said wonderful things are happening. go south for freedom. we took two buses and went to north carolina. eleanor roosevelt was supporting students, sit-ins, the civil rights movement from the 40's to the end of her life. she was delighted. a wonderfulay -- new book, three new books about eleanor roosevelt and pauline m urray. eleanor roosevelt called her the firebrand, but she called eleanor roosevelt the mother of the women's movement and the conscience of us all. >> you can watch the entire program sunday night on the presidency at 8:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight eastern on american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. first fence along the u.s.-mexico border intended for cattle was built in the early 1900s. penn state professor mary mendoza talks about how immigration and border barriers changed over the course of the 20th century. american history tv recorded this 15 minute intervi

happy birthday, eleanor roosevelt. [applause] one of the things we are so lucky as to have eleanor's papers here along with franklin roosevelt and his administration. if you go over and look at the building, the two wings of the library are the eleanor roosevelt wings that were built in 1972. after the library first open, fdr started sketching what would be the structure here to incorporate eleanor's papers. when his archivist said do you think she will give them to you, he said he was never sure what she could do. how many of you are members here today? thank you so much. your support makes programs like as possible. we appreciate everything you do for us. we are a federally funded institution but we rely on private donations to allow us to do these programs and exhibits. today we have with us a very special friend and guest. she has spent many days here when she was working on the eleanor roosevelt papers for george washington university. she is now with george mason university. she has put together a book that looks

tweed roosevelt is vice president of the theodore roosevelt association which he's been associated with for a quarter century. clifton truman daniel is the grandson of the 33rd president harry truman and the honorary chairman of the truman library institute. linda johnson robb is the first child of our 36th president, lyndon johnson. she lived in the white house during the last years of had her father's tenure in office from 1966 to 1969. and for over two decades has served as a trustee of the lbj foundation. and susan ford bales is the fourth child and only daughter of our 38th president, gerald ford. she lived in the white house during the -- a bulk of her father's presidency and since 1981 served as a trustee of the gerald ford presidential foundation. moderating our panel is david rubenstein, the co-founder and co-executive chairman of the carlyle group and our country's leading patriotic philanthropist. generously contributing to the preservation of our nation's history and culture. he is also the host of bloomberg the david rubenstein show. peer to peer conversations. ladies and g

as well from franklin roosevelt? >> i don't get that much, but when i do get is that you do know tia tr since he died in 1920. but these younger kids they never know.? so let's talk about teddy roosevelt, after he was president he took a trip to africa and then later he took a trip down the amazon to discover what was going on down there and he almost died. in fact he was thinking of committing suicide because it was so unsafe or heresy dangerous for him and he got ill. now you later did the same trip and you wrote a book about it why did you decide to do that and wasn't as dangerous when you went as when he went? >> first of all let me correct the suicide thing. he told somebody years later that whenever he went on an adventure like this and he went on many that he always took enough morphine with him to kill himself and the reason he did that was that if he felt he was so sick that it threatened the other people on the trip, that he would take it and so other people can get out. so the only time he thought about th

was recorded that the 2016 roosevelt reading festival, hosted by the franklin d roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park in new york. it's about 40 minutes. >> welcome to the roosevelt library's annual reading festival, glad to have you here today. president roosevelt would also be pleased,i am assuming he would be. especially pleased because it's our 75th anniversary year all to be partou of the festivities on june 30, if you enjoy these types of programs and others, please become a member. really like that. website at o our www.fdrlibrary.org. you've been here today you know the format. dr. wortman will speak for about an hour and then we'll have 10 minutes of questions, and go to thewards, he'll lobby where you can obtain a book from the new deal store and then he'll be happy to sign them speak with you about the book. i'll tell you a little bit about dr. wortman. an end meant historian and an award-winning freelance "reconstruction: a concise history" is -- he's "the the author of millionaire's unit," who fought invented war and american air power as well as the siege

roosevelt definitely was a progressive band was and delete. as he starts outcom out, he's an accidental president, takes office but of course teddy roosevelt being the cockiest person that has ever lived to this mckinley conservatism, rips it up and throws it into his and he has ideas about everything. he has a plan for how the naval midshipman should do their anesthetics and every part of the government that is a technocratic progressive that is not a populist yet. what happens for him, he leaves william howard taft very explicit instructions about what they are supposed to b do when e goes and tries to kill every rhinoceros in africa so this is what you're supposed to do and please do this. as he travels he finds out the republicans are becoming conservative again and he's taking them back to their old way and they are not being progressive enough. when he comes back and launches his run for another full term in the republican primary key digs in his heels and the republican primaries of 1912 are amazing to study and to see if you think ther

teddy roosevelt wanted it, eleanor roosevelt wanted it. there are several generals arguing for it right now. when kiska metaphysical they can work on it mission with a host family in another part so they could see each other as other people working together. we need to restore that sense of not just stability but -- stability but understanding -- civility but understanding of different people. feeling we are americans again without a military crisis to do it. we have to create a situation that will make it possible. david: final question, yes. >> i want to first pay my respects. i knew richard goodwin, your husband. doris: he was the best. >> a great man. what i wonder, if i could read richard goodwin's prose, i have always wanted to write a play about the pope and galileo in which the pope emerges as the hero. what difference does it make that we know the earth moves around the sun if it destroys our faith? i guess this question from this lovely soliloquy was whether there is a kind of cynicism now from donald trump seeming so irrational

comedian in this capacity, a of different celebrities come out for franco roosevelt to roosevelt toanklin do this. radio personalities, all are selling the president for him. kind ofn, a different production team in terms of selling a particular policy. excellent. adam? soundkind of creates the bite. >> yes. >> so if you can take different snippets of what the guy was saying, it's like give back to the president, give the man a job. those are easy-to-remember jingles. could put those in some sort of radio advertisement or that more generalto a audience. they're gonna remember that message, whether or not they heard the whole song or not or or not they heard all about the different ways they can help. they're gonna remember "give a job." >> absolutely. the slogan. so, again, bringing some of features, advertising at this time and hollywood, tonging them into politics, sell particular policies. and the only reason you will not man a job""give a later this day is because you're like ike"um the "i one because it's a lot catchier. interesting it was about holding the president up but also usin

teddy roosevelt wanted it, eleanor roosevelt wanted it. there are people arguing right now that after they come out of high school they can work on it mission with a host family in another part so they could see each other as other people working together. we need to restore that sense of not just stability but understanding of different people. sweet and feeling we are americans again without a military crisis to do it. we have to create a situation that will make it possible. david: final question, yes. >> i want to first pay my respects. i knew richard goodwin, your husband, back in the day. doris: he was the best. >> a great man. what i wonder if i could read richard goodwin's prose, i have always wanted to write a play about the pope and galileo in which the pope emerges as the hero. what difference does it make that we know the earth moves around the sun if it destroys our faith? i guess this question from this lovely soliloquy was whether this cynicism is from donald trump seeming so irrational in certain circumstances? or whether i

franklin d roosevelt library and museum. ms. cook has written a thee-part biography of former first lady. the third part is titled "eleanor roosevelt: the war years and after." book festival in lewes delaware hosted this hour-long conversation. year my colleague's honor board go to great lengths to find the ideal keynote speaker. it is not an easy job. first of all, it is finding the right person at the right time. honorary totend an our keynote speaker or other offers. they come here on their own with modest accommodations. we greatly appreciate that we

franklin roosevelt takes this a step further. he capitalizes on radio and uses that to create an intimate connection with the american public. i'm going to play you a quick clip just to give you a sense of what this sounded like, again, thinking about if you were a listener. you were tuning into your radio, during the 1930's, to listen to your president. this would have been what you heard. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. president roosevelt: my friends, i want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the united states about banking. the comparatively few who understand the mechanics of banking, but more particularly with the overwhelming majority of you who use banks for the making of deposits and the drawing of change. professor brownell: what did he do, just in that very simple opening? >> he definitely personalizes the chat. he uses "i," "you," "we." he creates this personal link between the presidency and the people so that they feel like he's on their side and that they also have a place in

i invited eleanor roosevelt to the roosevelt house when i was president of the student council. she said wonderful things are happening. go south for freedom. we took two buses and one to north carolina. students supporting the siddons, supported the civil right movement. she was delighted. there a wonderful new book. there are three new books. eleanor roosevelt called her the firebrand. she called eleanor roosevelt the mother of the women's movement. >> you can watch the entire program sunday night on the presidency at 8 p.m. and 12 midnight eastern. weekend on, every c-span3. tonight, we visit the washington library at mount vernon for the 2018 program, discussingistorians what it means to be american. >> one nation indivisible was in a sense we are all together. somehow -- is somehow elemental to it means to be an american. when you look at george forge, theat valley ability to improvise and be almost a guerrilla fighter, to live off the land, to do what we need to do to get the job done. >> certainly minority groups were not. religious groups were not.

paul sparrow, director of the franklin d roosevelt library and museum. ms. cook has written a thee-part biography of former first lady. the third part is titled "eleanor roosevelt: the war years and after." book festival in lewes delaware hosted this hour-long conversation. year my colleague's honor board go to great lengths to find the ideal keynote speaker. it is not an easy job. first of all, it is finding the right person at the right time. honorary totend an our keynote speaker or other offers. they come here on their own with modest accommodations.

in the 17th street between roosevelt and clayton, it cut through rock. it is unreasonable not to see the economic conditions that now favor the development of this difficult site. we preferred that it would be done by this careful and considerate developer. we are fully aware that it will be a disruptive event, affecting much of the neighborhood. mitigation in the area his traffic, parking, particulate matter, et cetera has been promised. and we have to trust the city department which will be involved later to do the right thing by our neighborhoods. thank you very much. >> next speaker paley's -- next speaker, please. >> speak into the microphone right there. >> i live on upper terrace just halfway around the corner. all of us in the neighborhood realize that open space act is hard to come by. not many open spots exist. we certainly have concern when we've lost neighbors through age , essentially into houses on upper terrace. we knew dan and we still know that the area will be developed, but i can't imagine another developer taking over and taking the a

teddy roosevelt wanted it, eleanor roosevelt wanted it. there are people arguing right now that after they come out of high school they can work on it mission with a host family in another part so they could see each other as other people working together. we need to restore that sense of not just stability but understanding of different people. sweet and feeling we are americans again without a military crisis to do it. we have to create a situation that will make it possible. david: final question, yes. >> i want to first pay my respects. he was the best. >> a great man. what i wonder if i could read richard goodwin's prose, i have always wanted to write a play about the pope and galileo in which the pope emerges as the hero. what difference does it make that we know the earth moves around the sun if it destroys our faith? from thisis question lovely soliloquy was whether this cynicism is from donald trump seeming so irrational in certain circumstances? or whether it is deeper cultural self-doubt that pushing hard other than making money

are these leaders, and doors you are writing about lincoln and roosevelt and fdr and teddy roosevelt and lbj. are they visionary leaders? i use the example of steve jobs in the area of business. he was able to see that we wanted and needed that we couldn't see. do you think these are men that have that? >> lincoln was asked at one point did you think that we might lose the war? and he said i didn't think that. he envisioned somehow, i don't think he knew how it was going to happen but i think about lbj. the first night he comes in the presidency, his line on this big bed of his in the vice president's residence with three aids and they are watching the assassination covered afterward and he says that night i know what i'm going to do when i get out tomorrow. first i'm going to get the tax cut past kennedy's tax cut that is been going to the congress and then we will get the economies expanding and then i'm going to get the civil rights bill to desegregate the south, and then i'm going to get the voting rights. and people that recorded that at the time. and then he said i'm going to t

it started december 15, 1941, and franklin and eleanor roosevelt were to go to new york for a large tickertape parade, but the attack on pearl harbor occurred on december 7, and it was a small ceremony at the mayor's office eleanor roosevelt only, but it has carried on as a national holiday and we have an affection for it in the building. more to the point, we are here today to talk about independent counsels, special counsel's, or to use more combative terms, special prosecutors. depending on your point of view. since 1875 special counsel's and special offices have been used for a channel to examine the conduct of government officials, from postal clerks presidents. -- postal clerks to presidents. roughly 30 individuals, i believe, have held that title, outcomeiations on the from zero convictions to 220 plus, and a range of impact from negligible to impeachment.

franklin roosevelt takes this a step further. he capitalizes on radio and uses that to create an intimate connection with the american public. i'm going to play you a quick clip just to give you a sense of what this sounded like, thinking about if you were a listener. you were tuning into your radio, during the 1930's, to listen to your president. this would have been what you heard. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> my friends, i want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the united states about banking. the comparatively few who understand the mechanics of banking, but more particularly with the overwhelming majority of you who use banks for the making of deposits and the drawing of change. >> what did he do, just in that very simple opening? >> he definitely personalizes the chat. he uses i, you, we. he creates this personal link between the presidency and the people so that they feel like he's on their side and that they also have a place in this huge bureaucratic thing that he has begun t

one thing roosevelt did learn is it is important to have a sense of history. [applause] >> harry truman says not every reader will be a leader but every leader has to be a reader. [applause] and that was true of fdr and great presidents in american history because sometimes i talk to college students, if you are not interested in history that is up to you. if that is true your life experience will be limited to what you experienced personally and what friends of people tell you. if you tap into history in some way, look at movies or read books, don't care how you do it, you are tapping into the collective wisdom of billions of people who walk the earth before you. it is your choice. at is the same choice for presidents. harry truman said i don't know how i could have been president without being such a reader of history. he knew more than anyone else. and thick glasses, and can't afford to replace them. i read every book of the independent missouri library which i thought was an exaggeration. truman's favorite book was, i apologize, horrible title, called grea

eleanor roosevelt called her "the firebrand," that she called eleanor roosevelt -- but she called eleanor roosevelt "the mother of the women's movement and the conscience of us all." >> you can watch the entire program, sunday night on the presidency at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern, here on american history tv, all >> next on reel america from 1952, the high wall, produced for public service groups including the anti-defamation league of b'nai b'rith, it follows the story of a chicago teenager. a school psychologist who narrates the film argues that if children are raised in loving homes, they will be immunized against racial hatred. this half hour film from the library of congress is featured on the national film preservation foundation's website. ? ♪ [police siren] ♪ ♪ >> good morning, doctor. >> good morning. >> two kids, over on the south side. police took a full report. we seen a lot of these cases lately. ♪ doctor: another gang fight. two kids hurt, peter, 18, stab wound lower, abdomen, fractured right radius, condition satisfactory. thomas gregory, 18, fractured ribs lowe

i invited eleanor roosevelt to roosevelt house, when i was a student at hunter, president of the student council. i invited her to speak to us,. in 1961 ul things arenderf happening. go south for freedom." so we took two classes and went to north carolina. and eleanor roosevelt was supporting the students, supporting the sit ins, supporting the civil rights movement, from the 1940's to the end of her life. she was delighted. ally murray, and it's wonderful new book, actually three new books about eleanor roosevelt and polly murray. eleanor roosevelt called her "the firebrand," that she called eleanor roosevelt -- but she called eleanor roosevelt "the mother of the women's movement and the conscience of us all." >> you can watch the entire program, sunday night on the presidency at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern, here on american history tv, all >> next on reel america from 1952, the high wall, produced for public service groups including the anti-defamation league of b'nai b'rith, it follows the story of a chicago teenager. a school psychologist who narrates the film argues that if child

so roosevelt sent his investigators to chicago and they come back. it was the head of the department of labor and it was a social activist. and they came back and said, it is so much worse than in the book. i don't really think any of them had seen workers slipping into the you know, the sausage process. but they did see dead rats and the bread that was used to poison them going into potted hands.and a description from the investigators of roosevelt said meat that had gotten moldy so they scraped off the mold, they gave it a borax bath and ground it and put it back in the system. roosevelt used this. he had come on late, he was not really interested in crusades of food. but he was interested in reform and he took that report and he said to the members of congress, if you don't give me a meat inspection act, i'm going to release this report. and they didn't do anything. so he released a three page summary of the report. and that cause such an enormous scandal that countries across europe canceled their contract with the american meat industry. and so,

another reason that roosevelt was so concerned as were the military, was because latin america had all of the wartime materiale needed for a war machine. they were going to germany. there was tungsten which is used for tanks and platinum, platinum which is 30 times more valuable than gold. rubber, oil. oil is just as now, something that people will go to war over. mexico had the biggest reserves at the time. the president of mexico, probably the best president the country has ever had, cardenas, wanted to sell to at the democratic countries. her was a democrat. why couldn't he? because big oil, standard, shell, texas co, were boycotting his oil which had recently been nationalized in order to have the kind of programs that he wanted to bring people up from where they were, he needed obviously the best natural resource they had which was oil. but the big companies would not -- they wouldn't stand for it. one reason was because they didn't want to -- didn't want publics to have possession of its own oil but the other reason was, they didn't want the president having be livan oil be boliv

eleanor roosevelt biographer withhe wiesen cook talks paul sparrow, director of the franklin d roosevelt library and museum. ms. cook has written a thee-part biography of former first lady. the third part is titled "eleanor roosevelt: the war years and after." book festival in lewes delaware hosted this hour-long conversation. year my colleague's honor board go to great lengths to find the ideal keynote speaker. it is not an easy job. first of all, it is finding the right person at the right time. honorary totend an our keynote speaker or other offers. they come here on their own with modest accommodations.

i invited eleanor roosevelt to the roosevelt house when i was a student at hunter. i invited her to come speak to us in 1961. aresaid wonderful things happening, go south for freedom. we took two buses and went to north carolina and eleanor roosevelt was supporting the citizens. students were supporting it and so are the -- and the civil rights movements from the 1940's until the end of her life. she was delighted. there is a wonderful new book, actually, three new books about eleanor roosevelt. she called eleanor roosevelt the mother of the women's movement in the conscience of us all. watch the entire program on eleanor roosevelt sunday night on the presidency at 8:00 p.m. and 12 midnight eastern. that is here on american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> next on lectures in history. kent state university professor elaine frantz teaches a class about the experience of being arrested from the 1850s to the present day. she examines which groups were most likely to be arrested and how the process changed over time. with the introduction of police

roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. ms. cook has written a three-volume biography of the former first lady. the last volume, published in 2016, is titled, "eleanor roosevelt: the war years and after, 1939-1962." the history book festival in lewes, delaware hosted this hour-long conversation. ronald: each year my colleague's honor board and all of us go to great lengths to find the ideal keynote speaker. it is not an easy job. first of all, it is finding the right person at the right time.

the publishers hated roosevelt because they were the guys with money. they were paying the taxes that fdr was imposing. the reporters were benefitting from the taxes. so there was this inherent tension. and fdr understood it, he loved it. and he understood the power of imagery. he was watching a newsreel of himself and said, that was the garbo in me. orson wells came to see him once and he said, orson, we're two of the best actors in america. he understood this. which is why he was elected four times. >> i hear you talking about this and i reflect on how when the country started, for decades, the press was all about opinion. the press was ginning up opinion, it was the driving force of the media -- we didn't call it the media then. then we went through this period of where we tried to be fair, objective, that was -- >> and balanced. >> that was -- that was the time i came into the press -- >> yeah. >> -- and it was what i was told, nobody cares what you think. you're supposed to go out and gather the facts and report them. so we now -- if we're going ba

one of the reasons i believe that roosevelt was roosevelt was that he had to teach himself how to re-enter the world and, therefore, he was able to help us engage the world. >> you know, your mary churchill quote reminds me of david lloyd george of responding to the disaster of versailles after world war i and he was chided for doing a terrible job. he said it was hard to do, much of anything, when you were surrounded -- he had clements on one side and wilson on the other. when you havana possible le hav? napoleon to the left of you and jesus christ on the other side -- let's take it from 1919 to 2019, almost 2019, charlie we're conservative, we believe in free trade, natural jobs reagan's distrust of robinsussi and we believe that america is that city is change brightly on the while for all the world to see. i wondered if you've been heartened some over the past few days by seeing some of our former brothers and sisters in the conservative cause starting to see flight and understanding that maybe donald trump is not the best vehicle to push conservatism forward? >> i have been heartened,

she was a great friend of eleanor roosevelt and a great fan of eleanor roosevelt. how did she thread that needle? a speech shea gave -- the same theme, basically she would say, when he gave speeches to groups of black voters, she would say, eleanor roosevelt is one of the great women of our time, a towering, moral intellectual present and how wonderful she was but this election is not but eleanor root, it's about her husband and she would tell the stories, and fdr has a lot of virtues but refused to allow black reporters at his press conference until being pressed to do so. that's a matter of record. but he wouldn't desegregate the armed forces but lied to the public saying that the naacp went along with his policy, which was not true. everyone has things they did that historically we wish we could get back in a sense, and he was very bad on a lot of race issues which is why there's that famous poem by langston hues, waiting of roosevelt. he writes owl all the black voters have got into roosevelt and gotten in his judgment, nothing in return. maybe that's true or n

roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. ms. cook has written a three-volume biography of the former first lady. the last volume, published in 2016, is titled, "eleanor roosevelt: the war years and after, 1939-1962." the history book festival in lewes, delaware, hosted this hour-long conversation.

then president roosevelt, winston churchhill, president reagan. and the incumbent understands the vernacular of reality tv and social media. we know that the presidency has not changed the incumbent, right? we don't know whether the incumbent has changed the presidency. i think one thing he has changed is it's hard for me to imagine a successor not having an authentic ongoing social media communication with the country. >> you think that's permanent? >> i do. >> twitter, the whole thing. >> i think that if you start -- if you look at -- i think going forward, if you look at something that comes out from a candidate or an incumbent and it looks as though it went through four layers of people, i think that's going to have an affect. i could be wrong, but we are all the media now. >> so if you're thinking -- i don't want to get -- i was trying to focus on the past but let's bring it -- >> sorry. >> let's bring it up to now. are you saying jon meacham, that in order to be successful in electoral politics in this country, you've got to be able to maste

leo rosten who was writing about washington correspondents during the roosevelt administration talked about the nature of the relationship and the way in which it's a contest over information. the newspaperman motivated by the ancient values of journalism is interested in precisely that type of news which the official, the president, is least eager to reveal. in the final analysis press conferences reduced itself to a contest between reporters, skilled at ferreting, and officials adept at straddling. so the ferreting and the straddling is something that you will always see in the relationship between the white house and the press. writing in the early 20th century in 1902 william price who was one of the first white house correspondents, talked about news and how newspapermen at the white house get their news. there's some ways in which things have not changed. as a matter of fact, the news secured at the white house is nearly always the result of the efforts of the newspapermen themselves. theres no giving out of prepared news. your acquaintances with public men all over the country,

leah rothstein who was writing about washington correspondents during the roosevelt administration talked about the nature of the relationship and the way in which it's a content over information. the newspaperman motivated by the ancient values of journalism is interested in precisely that type of news, which the official, the president, is least eager to reveal. in the final analysis, press conferences reduced itself to a contest between reporters, skilled at ferreting, and officials adept at straddling. so, the ferreting and the straddling is something that you will always see in the relationship between the white house and the press. writing in the early 20th century in 1902 william price who was one of the first white house correspondents, talked about news and how newspapermen at the white house get their news. there's some ways in which things have not changed. as a matter of fact, the news secured at the white house is nearly always the result of the efforts of the newspapermen themselves. there is no giving out of prepared news. their acquaintances with public men all over the co

then in your book, too roosevelt saying that democracy o was so important. on teach about democracy, that is so important. i like the fact that you give attention to that in your book. >> 10 point for griffin dorf she read it. origin adoriginal idea for charr schools is for teachers and parents to try new things, that was a laudable goal, that ideas that been hijacked, i think sadly most certainly most charter cmo's are di deliberate antiunion, and antidemocratic. i think that antiunion impetus propels this movement. when debbie meyer founded small school progres of move nmg new yormovement innew york city, sht wanting minority kids to see messiness of democracy at work in the schoolhouse, that a profound idea. perhaps for middle class people, note as -- not as important but for those people who you know don't feel like they have any inflew eence in their world to e teachers, and administrators working together and hashing out ideas, this is a powerful idea. i think we have to keep in mind you know, who is democracy for. it for all of us. but, you know what

but the roosevelts to get around. [laughter] >> can you comment on any of the other polish commanders? prof. richie: i would say the name that takes the most incredible journey is general anders. poland is invaded by the soviets and he gets caught up in the -- part oft of that that. 100,000 or so poles are taken off to the gulags. those that survive are sent to various camps. when the nazis invaded the soviet union, stalin thinks it might be worth using some of these poles who end up in the gulags and general anders approaches him and they get hadission to get poles who been incarcerated out of the soviet union, and they walk out, they get into persia and then into palestine and they create an army, the anders army, which goes up by north africa into italy and fights. there is no time to go into detail, but three of the most amazing epic journeys of these people, not just the soldiers, but trying to get their families out. women and children, a lot of them end up staying in persia. it's a fascinating epic and really w

but the roosevelts to get around. [laughter] >> can you comment on any of the other polish commanders? prof. richie: i would say the name that takes the most incredible journey is general anders. poland is invaded by the soviets and he gets caught up in the -- part oft of that that. 100,000 or so poles are taken off to the gulags. those that survive are sent to various camps. when the nazis invaded the soviet union, stalin thinks it might be worth using some of these poles who end up in the gulags and general anders approaches him and they get hadission to get poles who been incarcerated out of the soviet union, and they walk out, they get into persia and then into palestine and they create an army, the anders army, which goes up by north africa into italy and fights. there is no time to go into detail, but three of the most amazing epic journeys of these people, not just the soldiers, but trying to get their families out. women and children, a lot of them end up staying in persia. it's a fascinating epic and really w

one more thing about roosevelt. his press conference in which he said there was nothing sacred about a date of thanksgiving set off a firestorm. onf of the states celebrated the democratic thanksgiving which was roosevelt's thanksgiving, and the other states celebrated on the traditional thanksgiving or the republican thanksgiving. although there were a couple of states that just said, who cares? and texas celebrated on both thanksgivings. [laughter] i don't know if anybody here is old enough to remember that, but my late mother who was living in buffalo was going to college in boston at the time. for three years, she could not, for thanksgiving. the holidays were on different dates. >> i hope it won't surprise the audience that south carolina declined to change the date. [laughter] >> thank you. >> i am curious. haleentioned that mrs. wanted a nationwide thanksgiving in 1862. to what extent did she get her way, to what extent was thanksgiving celebrated in the southern states that year? well, there were 28 states 2

roosevelt haver returned to private life. she had firmly established herself as a trusted source and confidant for many americans. here is a typical question from this. questiontart with a from a marriage minded reader. do you consider the three most important qualifications of a good husband/" be honest, not only in material things, but in intellectual things. that he shall be capable of real love. and that he should find the world and increasingly interesting place in which to live." on birth control, which in the 1950's, was still a controversial topic. "do you believe in planned parenthood?" "yes, i do, if it is not used as an excuse to shirk having a family. i believe every married couple should have children if they are able to do so. but i believe they should use

like amazon or apple. >> but in the brandeis and roosevelt time. but some countries and with those global monopolies. with those antitrust laws should be more powerful than they have been. concentrated power and to have a weaker and to go the opposite direction. and for that economist and then to subsidize with one of those classic challenges during the monopoly process in other areas and then on a country by country basis they will be a merger to stop in one country and not others. and then 75 percent. and that last remaining decades and mergers and with budweise budweiser, they proposed a merge to the final company they did merge outside of the united states but you have to imagine that same company may find it easier to agree on things. >> i don't want to make it sound like it's worse than it is but it is but our history is just filled with exploiting weaker people. the territory that we took it all of that is one problem. second, robert mueller basically is the - - who wrote the constitution and put it together he was interested in his own inte

roosevelt was blindsided by this action by the san francisco school board. he saw it as a sheer act of racism. he thought as an affront to his own diplomacy. he wanted japan as an ally. he did not want to literally or figuratively go to war with japan over the pacific. he did call the san francisco school board races. that term does not come out of a presidents mouth all that often. he went to congress to try to work out a compromise. fast-forward, in 1906, the houses of congress passed an immigration bill, but they had a literally tet -- literacy test in it that they could not agree on. they could not make any progress. they did a thing that the constitution says you are not supposed to do, they had folks go over and say, look, you are going to pass this law, and you're going to -- you're going to put this message in there. are going to put this commission, that will study immigration into your bill. you are going to pass it this week, thank you and goodbye. henry cabot lodge had enough arm-twisting power to achieve that goal. he was on that committee. they

quinton roosevelt, son of teddy roosevelt of course, he wrote about how he was, "i'm quite anxious to see combat." he goes over to be a pilot and he becomes a very typical firefighter thing he has very bad eyesight he can't see a thing. so he is not going to pass the eye exam and they were not going let them fly. so what is a fighter pilot do? he sneaks into the doctor office ahead of time, goes in aces the test. he can't see anything. but he gets in a dogfight fairly early here so excited by it he loves the adrenaline and the feel of being in combat. he's in his aircraft he writes back to his mother and he says, "you get so excited that you forget everything except getting the other fellow, trying to dodge tracers when they are streaking past you." this exciting letter and it's only a few moments after he writes that in 1918 that he is shot down, killed at age 20. aggressiveness took the form also of competition, of course. the hill counts was the measure of success for fighter pilot. how do you know you're better than that guy? you shut down more planes. of course that leads to infl

it was of sarah delano roosevelt to her son and daughter-in-law in 1908. it was conceived of two separate houses with one street entrance so sarah lifted number 47. she declared that they were much too small for people in the station and broke through the wall. and at the least expected moments for the next 25 years. speaking of which when sarah eleanor roosevelt died to put the house on the market and it was acquired at a discount by hunter college and she spent a lot of time for all of $50,000, that is how much this double townhouse so far is not on the market and 75 years ago next month we are going to celebrate the anniversary soon as eleanor's birthday on october 11 and the anniversary of the declaration of human rights, for it's a very historical place and time of recollection and appreciation. back to tonight's program. david kaplan worked at "newsweek" for 20 years. his cover storie stories include profiles of the justices william brennan and clarence thomas, not to mention george who did get a cover story. george lucas, mayor giuliani and he inter

was recorded that the 2016 roosevelt reading festival, hosted by the franklin d roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park in new york. it's about 40 minutes. >>