he considered himself, roosevelt, a progressive republican. >> so the 1920s presidential race, roosevelt was the vice parental candidate on the democrats side. the democrats lost, but then hoover became an important part of both the harding and the hoover administration's, while fdr, with his polio, disappeared for many years. the secretary of commerce, was actually quite big on government regulations. talk about his role as commerce secretary, and how influenced his later political thoughts. >> so, he transformed a sleepy government agency into a real powerhouse. standardization was one of his main achievements, where he got industries to set industrial standards, which he believed it would lower the cost of goods to consumers. many of the things we take for granted it today, the size of lumber, the thread count, nuts and bolts, the size brick that you use in construction -- >> the size of tires! >> that is right! probably the greatest example, 42 different sized containers. he got it down to point, court, half gallon, gallon. so, hoover was a very aggressive secretary of commerce. he t

roosevelt won with a large majority. roosevelt's first term starts march 4. he was the last president inaugurated on march 4 even though he was elected in november. he had this period where he is trying to convince roosevelt to give up on the new deal and stick with hoover's plan. a number of bank closures continue to increase in the crisis gets worse and worse. congress is sort of paralyzed. hoover has absolutely no respect for roosevelt during this period, and in their meetings, hoover treats him like an idiot. there was a lot of antipathy between the two of them. you may have a different take, but it was one of the most contentious transitions in american history. thomas: i think hoover had aspirations of it being a cooperative and joint position on dealing with the crisis. and, you know, roosevelt, from strictly a political standpoint, no reason to expose himself and tying himself to someone who just lost in a big way. talking a 10 page memo about the crisis and waits 11 days before he even responds. misspelled roosevelt's name on the envelope and it gets

the division between the way roosevelt responded -- the way roosevelt spotted, he thought the state should be involved in helping unemployed people and hoover was adamantly opposed to that. roosevelt strongly believed that you had to have a massive government investment in creating jobs and opportunities and hoover was pretty insistent the federal government not go down that path. the divergence that happened later on becomes very evident fairly quickly, certainly by 1930-1931, it is obvious they have radically different ideas about how to approach an economic crisis. at that point, they did not realize this would go on for a decade. when they started the campaign, hoover and his advisers hoped roosevelt would be the candidate they would run against because they thought he was a week candidate -- weak candidate. >> hoover was not interested in campaigning. it was only when he saw that there was not this groundswell of support for him that he reluctantly got out on the campaign trail. by the end, it almost did him in. the demands of the crises every day wore him physically, mentally. he did

smith is the democratic candidate who's of course a friend of roosevelt, and roosevelt runs for governor of new york. and of course we're still in the roaring 20s and the economy is doing great and everyone thinks the world is world so what was it like in 1929 eight months into the administration stock market collapsed. >> hoover was very much aware there were certain systemic problems with the economy even before the market crashed. agriculture increased too much which depressed prices. banking, 25% of the banks failed before the crash. it was a condition of too many banks with too few capital assets. when the market crashed people need to realize only 10% of americans actually owned stock. however, banks were heavily invested in the market. over 90% of the banks had stock, and so the crash really impacted already one of the main institutions for liquidity that made the loans, that kept the economy alive. and so hoover immediately calls industrial heads and leaders together in november 19th and gets them to agree to voluntarily continue to maintain full staff levels to keep pay at the s

two programs from the franklin roosevelt presidential library series at home with the roosevelts, designed to keep connected with the public during the coronavirus pandemic. first, the directors of the hoover and roosevelt presidential libraries talk about the 1932 campaign for the white house in the midst of the great depression and the transition that followed from a hoover to fdr administration. we will hear a conversation about relationships between the members of the roosevelt and kennedy's political dynasties. the franklin roosevelt presidential library provided this video. >> welcome to at home with the roosevelts. i am director of the roosevelt presidential library and museum and joined by the director of the herbert hoover presidential library museum. schwartz, i am the director of the herbert hoover presidential library and museum in iowa. paul: we are here today to talk about one of the most remarkable transitions in american history, the presidential election of 1932, and hoover and roosevelt, their long relationship before and after their presidencies. this was a period of inc

roosevelt won with a large majority. roosevelt's first term starts march 4. he was the last president inaugurated on march 4 even though he was elected in november. he had this period where he is trying to convince roosevelt to give up on the new deal and stick with hoover's plan. a number of bank closures continue to increase in the crisis gets worse and worse. congress is sort of paralyzed. hoover has absolutely no respect for roosevelt during this period, and in their meetings, hoover treats him like an idiot. there was a lot of antipathy between the two of them. you may have a different take, but it was one of the most contentious transitions in american history. >> i think hoover had aspirations of it being a cooperative and joint position on dealing with the crisis. and, you know, in the new yorker that sums it up perfectly. hoover has this scowl and roosevelt has his usual smile. roosevelt, when he becomes president, it's an incredible period of legislative accomplishment, the first 100 days. it was a unique time. he had this overwhelming majority in c

to the tape we just heard of roosevelt, roosevelt really did become worried. maybe we will hear tonight another tape where he worried about whether he could use willkie's mistress as a back to be him in the election. there is a lot of stuff going on and they are beginning to take him seriously. that was the future of the campaign. a very important girlfriend back willkie had. >> you write about are in your book. let's take a few phone calls. hville, indiana. wi our first caller is kurt from ohio. welcome to the conversation. >> process and good evening. this is a great program and i hope that a lot of people take advantage of this great service to you are giving to the american people. my question is -- i have a couple of comments -- the first one is being in the suburbs of akron, ohio, i wanted to know a little bit more about wendell willkie's role as an attorney for the goodyear tire and rubber co. where he, during that time, was heavily involved in akron city democratic politics. my second comment is with wendell willkie being the dark horse candidate at th

the story is they get in the car, roosevelt is trying to have small talk with hoover and roosevelt was famous for his charming personality and ability to engage and hoover is equally famous for his nature, also hoover does not respond at all and roosevelt turns to the crowd and waves to the crowd and who onsus their with that mug his face and it is the last time they see each other. thomas: there is a great cover of the new yorker that was never ran which kind of sums it up perfectly. hoover has this scowl and roosevelt has his usual smile. their personalities really were night and day. hoover felt he did not need to communicate what he was doing to the american public, that the results of what he was doing would speak volumes. he would either be successful or he would not be. whereas roosevelt really understood, you've got to communicate. he was a wonderful communicator, the fireside chats. he also had some great speechwriters, pulitzer prize-winning playwright robert sherwood and others to help him. he also had a natural ability. that is the difference. roosevelt grew up understandin

he is supporting the nazi regime and one of his criticisms of roosevelt was that roosevelt was so -- had antipathy towards them. why did he take that point of view? this was the least free, the most repressive society in the world.repressive society in the world. >> so hoover had been over in europe to visit poland. he was very important, and in feeding polls after's he won and asked by the american ambassador if he would come to germany to have that audience with hitler. hoover didn't seek it. in notes he made, in memorandum afterwards, he indicated that american media which made hoover, or hitler out to be a clown, couldn't be more wrong. that hitler meant what he said and what he said was sheer evil. he thought that the germans and the russians would be involved in this very prolonged and kind of bloodletting which would protect western interests. similar to what a long time happened in iraq and iran. it -- it's a rather cynical view, but hoover thought that america should become fortress america, and you know, let them, the nazis and the soviets fight it out. >> it really isn't u

roosevelt and john f. kennedy. we will start with the relationship between franklin roosevelt and joe kennedy. joe kennedy may most of his money in a night 20's in the market. he was appointed as the head of the security exchange commission. some said that was putting the oxen control of the henhouse. joe kennedy really became a very close confidant of fdr. you want to talk about how he managed that posting in london right before the war? >> it is an interesting time. i almost want to go back a tiny bit before that. when young people are in the age where they are graduating from high school, whoever is the president in that moment, has a profound impact on them. fdr is the president as jfk comes of age. much of his vision of what is the nation is informed by fdr. clearly through his father and the courting of st. james he has direct connection to what service might would fight. when the german u-boat sank the first u.k. ship, jfk is asked by his father to look after the surviving u.s. passengers and their

roosevelt's 74th birthday, we're running a special nine-page story entitled "eleanor roosevelt, her life in pictures." we thought you would enjoy hearing mrs. roosevelt's own comments about some of the photographs we're running in the current mccall's. she's become a pin-up girl at mccall's through this charming photograph that we use in the story. >> i'm pleased that you have taken this picture, which was taken a year or two after i came back from school in england, and had come out in the traditional way in new york. fashions seem so funny today with the high neck and the gold beads around my neck, and above all the hair. the pompadour. i had hair below my waist, so it was hard to get it scrolled up on top of my head, but it makes -- a great pompadour makes you look quite different. all i can say about the fashions today is that at least we've progressed and are more comfortable. >> in the next picture with your father, you seem to have a very nice relationship with him. he meant a great deal to you, didn't he? >> my father meant a tremendous amount. i adored him all the days of my chi

democrats like bernard kept pushing roosevelt to bring hoover in on certain policy issues and roosevelt exploded and said i am not jesus christ, i will not raise hoover from the dead. when he dies, harry truman reaches out to him and asks him for a meeting. a 71-year-old man on a global pathfinding mission, postwar food and humanitarian aid. it is used by george marshall in formulating the marshall plan. and so hoover, under truman, i think gets rehabilitated. he is brought back into service. and in fairness, the only person who had really dealt with feeding millions of people and dealing with that kind of relief effort was hoover. plus, he also still had a network within the leadership of europe that remembered him from world war i and especially in germany, really the only american they trusted after world war ii was hoover. because at a time when the allies did not want food to go into post world war i germany, hoover fought to get it in. >> i feel it is one of roosevelt's great feelings that he did not brief hoover on anything, not on the bomb, strategies, so truman had to take over

he made roosevelt be a better roosevelt. host: more from willkie as he talks about liberalism and the roosevelt new deal. another from the republican national committee come a series of films used in movie readers in 1940. >> the doctrinaires of the opposition have attempted to picture me as an opponent of liberalism. but i was a liberal before many of those men heard the word and i fought for the reforms of theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson before another roosevelt adopted and distorted the word liberal. american liberalism does not consist merely in reforming things. it consists primarily in making things. we must substitute for the philosophy of distributed scarcity, the philosophy of unlimited productivity. i stand for the restoration of full production and reemployment in american private enterprise. the present administration has spent $60 billion. the new deal stands for doing what has to be done by spending as much money as possible. i propose to do it by spending as little money as possible. this is one issue in

kennedy gave copy of the book to franklin roosevelt, and jfk signed it, and franklin roosevelt signed it. so we have an fdr collection of rare books and other things, and that's one of our most precious possessions is the, slapped with both jfk and roosevelt's signatures in it. may not know this story. one of my favorite anecdotes. in 1940 when kennedy came back from europe he came to visit the fdr library under construction. hadn't been open but under construction and he left a gift for fdr. >> really? >> and we have the note that, the thank you, copy of the thank you note fdr wrote to jfk, and it's sort of a skripaled note that's a little hard to read but it appears to say, thank you for the machine gun and goggles. >> oh, really? >> which everyone was sort of like, can you imagine? john f. kennedy dropping off a machine gun at the president's library with guards and -- actually what it says was marine gun, which was a speargun for fishing, because he knew fdr loved to go fishing and loved to be in water and the goggles were like swimming goggles. >> oh. >> we've never been able to

home with the roosevelts. the the director of franklin roosevelt library and museum. today, we will talk about the relationship between two of the most important political families in american history during the 20th century, the roosevelts and kennedys. to assist me i am joined by the , director of the jfk library. >> it is good to be with you. >> thank you for joining me. this is one of the most interesting and complicated relationships, two families that are really dynasties in the way they impacted american political life. there is a component of this that a lot of people do not understand. not only is there a relationship between franklin roosevelt and joseph kennedy, but a relationship between eleanor roosevelt and john f. kennedy. we will start with the beginning, which is the relationship between franklin roosevelt and joe kennedy. joe kennedy made most of his money in the 1920's in the stock markets. kennedy asppointed the head of the security exchange commission. some said that was putting the fox in

kennedy gave a copy of the book to franklin roosevelt, and jfk signed it and franklin roosevelt signed it. we have a few collected rare books and other things, and that's one of our most precious possessions. you may not know this story. it's one of my favorite antecdotes. it was under construction and he left a gift for fdr. >> really? >> and we have a copy of the thank you note fdr wrote to jfk. and it's sort of a scribbled note. it's a little hard to read, but it appears to say thank you for the machine gun and goggles. >> oh, really? >> which everyone was like can you imagine john f. kennedy dropping off a machine gun at the presidential library with some guards -- actually what it said was marine gun which was a spear gun for fishing because he knew fdr loved fishing and loved to be in the water, and the goggles were like swimming goggles. we never were able to find what happened to the spear gun or goggles, but it does sort of go to the relationship the two families had which is they were close. >> they were. there's a lot of intersections through the years, no question. and obvi

roosevelt realized a larger war was at hand. america's isolationist move limited his freedom to respond. the country's neutrality act limited the sales of nuclear weapons. there was little he could do. >> the funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war with aggressors. our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal for them as well as for ourselves. we shall send an ever increasing number of ships, planes, tanks, guns. that is our purpose and our pledge. >> on december 7, 1941, debate over american involvement in world war ii ended abruptly when japan staged a surprise attack on pearl harbor, hawaii. >> the attack also -- >> yesterday, december 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the united states of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the forces of the empire of japan. i ask that the congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by japan on sunday, december 7, 1941, a state of

the roosevelts, and the kennedys. and to assist me in this conversation, i am joined by the director of the jfk library. >> paul, it is good to be with you. allen price here. >> thank you for joining me today, alan. this is one of the most interesting and complicated relationships, multi generational relationships. two families that are really dynasties, in the way that they impacted american political life. there is a component to this that a lot of people do not understand. not only was the relationship between franklin roosevelt and joseph kennedy, but there was an incredible relationship between eleanor roosevelt, and john f. kennedy. we will start with the beginning, which is the relationship between franklin roosevelt, and joe kennedy. joseph kennedy made most of his money in the 20s in the stock market. when franklin was about became president, one of the things he did, he appointed joseph kennedy as the head of the secure exchange commission, which was sort of as he said, putting the fox in charge of the henho

happy birthday eleanor roosevelt. [applause] it is one of the things we are so lucky to have eleanor's papers here along with franklin roosevelt's. library ares of the the roosevelt wings built in 1972. ,ven after the library opened fdr started sketching what ended up being the structure here to incorporate elinor's papers. when his archivist said, do you think she will give them to you, and fdr said, you can never tell what my missus is going to do. which i think is a true statement about eleanor roosevelt. how many of you are members here today? look at that. thank you so much. your support makes programs like this possible. we appreciate everything you do for us. the library is a federally funded institution, but we rely on private donations to allow us to do many nonfederal programs like exhibits and things like that. today we have with us a very special friend and guest. she spent many days here when she was working on the eleanor roosevelt papers for george washington university. which is a tremendous resource.

roosevelt ran an incredible upbeat campaign. his campaign song was "happy days are here again" even though nobody was too happy at that point. > and of course, he won the presidency and took office in 1933. now, a number of scholars have looked at roosevelt and his character and feel that polio had an incredible impact on who he was as a person. what did you get out of oshinski in terms of what polio did for roosevelt as a man, as a person? did it have a positive impact, negative impact? >> i think so much that there was a stigma against polio, he realized if he could go in and be such a fundamental change in the government that other people who were down and out with the depression could do the same thing. the stigma didn't need to be there. i didn't agree with the fact he hid it from everyone, but it proved that just because you have a physical handicap doesn't wean you can't go on and do impressive things. >> and there were people who knew about it. and all the more that they would admire this man and see what he had been abl

but what roosevelt was thinking wa important. what did roosevelt think about this? there is a very important meeting of, september 18th, 1984, after the second quebec conference when roosevelt invites, they have many meetings over several days and a lot of alcohol is consumed, especially by churchill. roosevelt has to restock everything after churchill leaves. there is a memorandum of what the british call a minute of the discussion the had with respect to the atomic bomb, and it is called the high park minute, or the high park memorandum. it talks o different things. and it is only two, three numbered paragraphs long. in the middle of the first paragraph bomb which is in a petition box is finally available, it might perhaps after mature consideration, be used against the japanese who should be warned that this bombardment movement will be isolated. so i want to repeat that again. i have never in the 50 some odd years that i've been doing research on topics related to foreign policy and what not seen anything like this description of how people are thinking when a b

roosevelt. no one knew what the future would hold in store. ittle did anyone realize how soon harry truman was destined to shoulder the burden of state and carry on to completion the great work which franklin d. roosevelt had already come so close to fulfilling. harry s. truman takes the oath as vice president of the united tates. being vice president of the united states in the most difficult and fateful time in the nation's history established this native missourian as a ational statesman. to fill the place left vacant by the sudden death of franklin d. roosevelt, harry s. truman became the 32nd president of the united states on the evening of pril 12, 1945. president truman quickly and skillfully assumed all of franklin d. roosevelt's responsibilities. among the many important problems and duties was the united nations conference of international organization in san francisco, to which the president journeyed by plane. at san francisco's hamilton field, the president is welcomed by a host of

churchill and roosevelt particularly, they spent 100 nights together during world war ii and roosevelt had a relationship with stalin as well. truman knows he is a junior partner and that day they will test the out of bomb for the first time in alamogordo. potsdam, germany, was eight hours ahead so he knew it would be late in the day before he found out the results of the est. in alamogordo they have 81 -- a 100-foot tower and on the top is of little bomb as opposed to fat boy theu235 bombs. there's a terrible lightning strike and concern about whether the lightning would detonate the bomb before they were prepared for it and a lot of people would get killed, but no. there was also concern about the rain, and whether they might have to delay the test. groves, the general, did not want to delay the test because they he had told truman it would happen that day. and some of the scientists were concerned about the rain and lightning. the meter all just says the weather clears at exactly 530 local time, mount tiemann, gordo. -- exactly 5:30 p.m. local time in alamogordo. they detonate the b

roosevelt ran an incredible upbeat campaign. his campaign song was "happy days are here again" even though nobody was too happy at that point. and of course, he won the presidency and took office in 1933. now, a number of scholars have looked at roosevelt and his character and feel that polio had an incredible impact on who he was as a person. what did you get out of oshinski -- oshinsky in terms of what polio did for roosevelt as a man, as a person? did it have a positive impact, negative impact? >> i think so much that there was a stigma against polio, he realized if he could go in and be such a fundamental change in the government that other people who were down and out with the depression could do the same thing. the stigma didn't need to be there. i didn't agree with the fact he hid it from everyone, but it proved that just because you have a physical handicap doesn't wean you can't go on and do impressive things. prof. mcmillen: and there were people who knew about it. and all the more that they would admire this man and s

roosevelt, harry s. truman became the 32nd president of the united states on the evening of april 12, 1945. president truman quickly and skillfully assumed all of franklin d. roosevelt's responsibilities. among the many important problems and missions of duty was the united nations conference of international organization at san francisco, california, to which the president journeyed by plane. ♪ at san francisco's hamilton field, the president is welcomed by a host of high-ranking officers and world diplomats, ambassadors, ministers, secretaries of foreign affairs, the governor of california, united states senators, and many other equally important governmental representatives from all the continents of the earth. ♪ diplomatic greetings were followed by meeting the military. ♪ the president inspects the guard of honor, his first formal inspection of a military unit since he became president of the united states. when he came abreast of the bandleader, mr. truman stepped aside to thank him for his s

roosevelt ran an incredible upbeat campaign. his campaign song was "happy days are here again" even though nobody was too happy at that point. and of course, he won the presidency and took office in 1933. now, a number of scholars have looked at roosevelt and his character and feel that polio had an incredible impact on who he was as a person. what did you get out of oshinski in terms of what polio did for roosevelt as a man, as a person? did it have a positive impact, negative impact? >> i think so much that there was a stigma against polio, he realized if he could go in and be such a fundamental change in the government that other people who were down and out with the depression could do the same thing. the stigma didn't need to be there. i didn't agree with the fact he hid it from everyone, but it proved that just because you have a physical handicap doesn't wean you can't go on and do impressive things. >> and there were people who knew about it. and all the more that they would admire this man and see what he had been able

roosevelt had never shared it with him. host: so do we know of any senior members of congress, if they had been briefed on the project? guest: no. no members of congress have been briefed on the project. trumaninteresting thing, was as keyed into all of that is possible. he was the head of the crew truman committee -- the truman committee, which was specifically involved and authorized to look into defense spending. and at one point, he had been poking around about an installation in washington state, which in fact was part of the manhattan project. and when stimson, the fact secretary of war got word of he calls943 or 1944, truman attest, listen, senator, i know all about that project. i want you to know it is ok. truman completely backed off. and said, if you think, if that is what you say, mr. secretary, i take your word for it. that was one of the things truman was astonished by. because congress had appropriated $2 billion in the previous two years, but it had been all secret. and truman cannot understand how that kind

roosevelt realized a larger war was at hand. america's isolationist move limited his freedom to respond. the tcountry's neutrality act limited the sales of nuclear weapons. there was little he could do. >> the funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war with aggressors. our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal for them as well as for ourselves. we shall send an ever increasing number of ships, planes, tanks, guns. that is our purpose and our pledge. >> on december 7, 1941, debate over american involvement in world war ii ended abruptly when japan staged a surprise attack on pearl harbor, hawaii. >> the attack also -- >> yesterday, december 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the united states of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the forces of the empire of japan. i ask that the congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by japan on sunday, december 7, 1941, a obvious

roosevelt had never shared it with him. host: so do we know of any senior members of congress, if they had been briefed on the project? guest: no. no members of congress have been briefed on the project. and an interesting thing, truman was as keyed into all of that is possible. he was the head of the crew truman committee -- the truman committee, which was specifically involved and authorized to look into defense spending. and at one point, he had been poking around about an installation in washington state, which in fact was part of the manhattan project. and when stimson, the fact secretary of war got word of this in 1943 or 1944, he calls truman attest, listen, senator, i know all about that project. i want you to know it is ok. truman completely backed off. and said, if you think, if that is what you say, mr. secretary, i take your word for it. that was one of the things truman was astonished by. because congress had appropriated $2 billion in the previous two years, but it had been all secret. and truman cannot unders

what was roosevelt? of course i wasn't thinking in those terms then pick i mentioned this on on the dianew in washington and it happen hillary clinton senator whitehouse was listing. she. she probably caught up after me to station and invited me to sleep overnight in the white house. then we wandered the quarter to figure out where and when it slip. two weeks later to follow up with an invitation to a state internet with him, my husband and i went up there and figured yes, chelsea is looking for harry hopkins slip. the clintons are sleeping fdr was and the purpose was winston churchill that there was sleep. i was certain he was sitting in the corner drinking his brand in smoking his cigar. he and most of him sit and think i can still put the associate nations against the axis powers but no one like the word associate nations so that morning he awakens with a whole new idea collington united nations gets the axis powers. so excited he wasn't wheeled himself to churches bedroom, our bed and to tell them th

roosevelt, harry s. truman became the 32nd president of the united states on the evening of april 12, 1945. president truman quickly and skillfully assumed all of franklin d. roosevelt's responsibilities. among the many important problems and missions of duty was the united nations conference of international organization in san francisco, california, to which the president journeyed by plane. ♪ at san francisco's hamilton field, the president is welcomed by a host of high-ranking officers and world diplomats, ambassadors, ministers, secretaries of foreign affairs, the governor of california, united states senators, and many other equally important governmental representatives from all the continents of the earth. ♪ diplomatic greetings were followed by meeting the military. ♪ the president inspects the guard of honor, his first formal inspection of a military unit since he became president of the united states. ♪ when he came abreast of the bandleader, mr. truman stepped aside to thank him for h

roosevelt. truman had been one of president roosevelt's staunchest supporters. he had been elected as vice whomdent, the man upon history's grave responsibilities would fall in case anything should happen to president roosevelt. no one knew what the future held in store. little would anyone know how soon harry truman was destined to shoulder the burden of state and carried to completion what roosevelt had come so close to fulfilling. ♪ >> harry s. truman takes the oath as vice president of the united states. ♪ being vice president of the u.s. in the most difficult time in the nation's history established this native missourian as a national statesman. ♪ >> to fill the place left vacant by the sudden death of franklin roosevelt, harry s. truman came the next president of the united states on the evening of april 12, 1945. ♪ >> president truman quickly and skillfully assumed all franklin d. roosevelt's responsibilities. among his responsibilities was the united conference in san francisco,

presented this video. >> welcome to at home with the roosevelts. i am director of the roosevelt presidential library and museum and joined by the director of the herbert hoover presidential museums. >>

so this was roosevelt. the irony is if you look back on the new deal there were no constitutional amendments that were part of this new deal revolution. of course the constitution says this is how you're supposed to change it. you are supposed to change it by passing and adopting amendments. there were no of amendments in the new deal. the only amendment in that timeframe was to say the president can only have two terms after roosevelt had multiple terms. it was all done by reinterpretation or by workarounds and i will talk in a moment about how we do that today. hoover's speech is quite different. hoover starts with the first 10 amendments of the constitution and he says what this reminds us of is one of the main purposes of the constitution is to protect the people from their own government. it's the exact opposite of the roosevelt view. the rest of his speeches about federalism and he says we have this great system of federalism. checks and balances, balances of power making sure nobody can get behind th

so this was roosevelt. in the iron is if you look back on the new deal there were no constitutional amendments that were part of this new deal revolution. of course the constitution says this is how you're supposed to change it. you are supposed to change it by passing and adopting amendments. there were no of amendments in the rep to share new deal. the only amendment in that timeframe was to say the president can only have two terms after roosevelt had multiple terms. it was all done by reinterpretation or by workarounds and i will talk in a moment about how we do that today. hoover speech is quite. hoover starts with the first 10 amendments of the constitution and he says what this reminds us of is one of the main purposes of the constitution is to protect the people from their own government. it's the exact opposite of the roosevelt view. the rest of his speeches about federalism and he says we have this great system of federalism. checks and balances, balances of power making sure nobody can get behind

if you could ask either franklin roosevelt or eleanor roosevelt a couple of questions after all of the work that is done. what would you be. >> i think it would like to understand why she was unable a certain moment in the middle of the war when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, and is a yes to him. i know that he loved her. and i want to say, why did you do it pretty you will die soon . wish you would've done it braided i think brand would want to understand what he could not share himself more fully with anyone. he was the most brilliant and charming, most thoughtful personality. everybody thought how warm he was. but underneath. i want to try to understand why that was so and why he couldn't give him some more to the people who loved him. >> will base his book different than all of the rest braided. dorris: i think what i wanted to do is understand not only franklin and eleanor's relationship, but to understand the whole extended family this front of them in the white house . and he came understanding that these two characters r

>> i would not have one center roosevelt as the mother-in-law if i were eleanor roosevelt. she was important to franklin. she gave him whatever that confidence is that he had as a young boy and then as president an older man came from mothers undying love. her only child with husband was a much older man and she doted on. so much i think sometimes it was hard for him because when he was young she took him at the school. she didn't let them go to groton until he was older. nonetheless want to get married i don't think she was ready to let him go. as a result of that opener had a hard time finding a relationship with her husband. she moved into a house. she quit or two houses, one for one for them with a quarter the went right in between. one eleanor try to discipline her children somehow she would be the one who would say no, don't worry. if one of the kids do something that she then buy him a card to make you feel better. she was a very difficult force and eleanor's life and made their marriage much more complicated than it otherwise would've been even though she gave him t

the franklin d roosevelt presidential library provided this video. >> i am director of the roosevelt and herbert hoover presidential museums. >> are here to talk about one of the most remarkable transitions in american history, the presidential election of 1932, and hoover and roosevelt, their long relationship before and after their presidencies. this was a period of incredible trauma for the united states, the great depression.

the press liked roosevelt. one journalist gave a great description of what it was like to cover the white house from the roosevelt era to the wilson era, they said it was like going from a foundry full of activity to a convent, a cloistered atmosphere with everyone very quiet. wilson came from a long line of newspapermen. one of his grandfathers had paper,for a philadelphia which had been founded to criticize george washington. wilson had been the editor of the princeton college newspaper when he was a student. his own brother was the editor of a daily newspaper. so he understood journalism, he just did not like journalists, and he particularly did not like them when they wrote about or inquired about his family. tr had been the same way but he had been up -- he had given up. he couldn't stop them from writing about his cute little boys and his eldest daughter, who smoked and was independent and great copy. wilson did not like his daughters to be written about. when one photographer took a picture of them ridin

c-span: if you could ask either franklin delano roosevelt or eleanor roosevelt a couple of questions after all the work you did on this book, what would they be? >> guest: i think with eleanor, why he was unable to be stay home and take cower of him to say question to hum. i know he still loved him, and -- she still loved him. and i think for him why he couldn't share himself more fully with anyone. he was the most charming, most sparkling personality, everybody got how warm he was, but underneath there was such reserve in him, and i'd want to understand why he couldn't give himself more to the people who loved him. c-span: what makes this book different than all the rest? >> guest: i think what i wanted to do was to understand not only franklin and eleanor's relationship which has been looked at in many other cases, but to understand the whole extended family that surrounded them in the white house. and i came to an understanding that these two characters really both needed other people to meet the untended needs left over as a result of their troubled marriage. the second family qu

brother elliott roosevelt was the father of eleanor roosevelt. that's what the real connection is so eleanor's uncle is teddy and her father elliott, teddy's younger brother was an epilepsy as a child and became an alcoholic and died young so teddy roosevelt came like a father to eleanor and franklin loved teddy roosevelt so all three of them become this wonderful couple. >> fdr grows up in a wealthy setting and he's the only child of his father's marriage with his mother but it's a bucolic setting up in hyde park but was there anybody who thought this man is going to bepresident ? >> certainly not fdr but the thing about fdr and teddy roosevelt was they were the center of their parents love escape in acertain confidence . with teddy roosevelt not only was he the center of his fathers and mothers love of the other siblings made him the center of their life because he's to tell them stories and they would sit around and he would organize their games and so to fdr was the center of his parents like he wanted to be the center of everybody's life aft

leader iny, he was a the fight for franklin roosevelt . and then, after the war, he came forward and said things have to change. in effect, reversed his own decision and said isolation was no longer possible. that we had to take leadership on the world stage or really wish it to darker forces. shift, he pulled a lot of american opinion with him and really helped enable the changes in leadership. up and beingo grew interested in politics, i was always interested in vandenberg's life. vandenberg was nine years old. he was always doing odd jobs and things to support the family. but once he was in high school, he thrived -- he was editing the school newspaper and thrived on political news. he gave a speech that won him second place in an oratory contest when he was a senior in high school, on the piece conference -- peace conference. he was already thinking about foreign policy as a teenager. he claims reading the congressional record at 15. we have no record, but that was what he thought of himself. he was an editor of a medium-sized daily ne

theodore roosevelt jr. had a very laid back command persona and that wasn't up to snuff with somebody who was spit and polish as george patton was. and omar bradley thought he got a little too comfortable and perhaps too cozy and laid back with some of the soldiers and there wasn't that rigid discipline that makes a good soldier a good soldier. so he was removed from command in the first infantry division that he wasn't down and out and he landed a spot as the first assistant division commander in the fourth division in the months prior to the normandy invasion. and roosevelt pleaded with his commander general raymond tubby barton. that was his name. that was his nickname. and he was just unceasing, and, he wanted to go ashore with his men. and barton finally acquiesced, and barton realized at that moment this is probably going to be the end of this general. his health was failing. he was suffering from chest pains and he wasn't telling anybody about it. he had very bad arthritis. his mobility in some cases

only fitting we were in the roosevelt room to have this meeting. we talked about the importance of the great american outdoors act. how we need to support our national parks. the secretary just laid down the backlog we need to provide better access. in fact 70% of the fishing in montana are funded by the land and water conservation fund. this is going to be the greatest achievement in 50 years. he said to mr. president you get this bill on my desk and i will sign it. well five months later we are here. and thanks to so many in this room and outside this room we got this bill to your desk and you are going to sign it. this is a big win for conservation. it's a big win for jobs. it's a big win for the montana way of life. it's a big win for bipartisanship. and perhaps it's only fitting it took public lands to bring a divided government together. mr. president, montana thank yo you. america thank you. and i thank you for signing the most important peace of conservation legislation and over 50 years. thank you. [applause] >> thank you steve great job,

the press liked roosevelt. one journalist gave a great description of what it was like to cover the white house from the roosevelt era to the wilson era, they said it was like going from a foundry full of activity to a convent, a cloistered atmosphere where everyone was very quiet. wilson came from a long line of newspapermen. one of his grandfathers had worked for a philadelphia paper, which had been founded to criticize george washington. wilson had been the editor of the princeton college newspaper when he was a student. his own brother was the editor of a daily newspaper. so he understood journalism, he just did not like journalists, and he particularly did not like them when they wrote about or inquired about his family. tr had been the same way but he had given up. he couldn't get people to stop writing about his cute little boys and his eldest daughter, who smoked inroad in cars -- who and wasnd rode in cars independent and great copy. wilson did not like his daughters to be written about. when one photo

theodore roosevelt junior had a very laid back command persona. that was not up to snuff with somebody who is as polished as george paton was. omar bradley thought he got a little too comfortable and laid back with some of the soldiers. there wasn't that rigid discipline that makes a good soldier a good soldier. he was removed from command in the first infantry division. i he wasn't down and out. he got a spot as assistant commanding officer during the normandy invasion. roosevelt pleaded with his commander, general raymond barton. he was unceasing. he wanted to go ashore with his men. barton finally acquiesced and barton realized, at that moment, that this is probably going to be the end of this general. his health was failing. he was suffering from chest pains and not telling anyone about it. he had that arthritis. his mobility was very limited in some cases. nonetheless, he went ashore with the fourth division in one of the secondary waves on june 6th. he had a cane in one hand and a revolver, a pistol, in the other. he stayed with his men thro

and so on the way, he was a leader in the fight with franklin roosevelt as roosevelt was trying to engineer aid for great britain and for people would become our allies against hitler. and then, after the war in 1945, oregon the work vandenberg came forward and said things have to change. in effect, reversed his own position in said isolation was no longer possible to the u.s. as a global power. though we had to take leadership on the world stage or relinquish it to dark forces. and by making that shift in the last months of world war ii, he pulled a lot of american opinion with him and really hope to enable changes in america's right to leadership. as someone who grew up grand rapids with an interest in politics, i've always been curious about vandenberg's life. he was one of these ambitious kids, his father has a business nearly went broke in the panic of 1893. vandenberg was nine years old. and so he was always doing odd jobs and thanks to support the family. once he was in high school here, he thrived on he was editing the school newspaper and he thrived on political news. he gave a spe

he is sometimes supporting roosevelt and sometimes not. some republicans are not sure what to make of him. he is trying to weave a fine political line as michigan tilts more and more away from being a purely republican state. it also means he's not entirely reliable in the eyes of his fellow republicans. because he had been so visible before the war fighting american effectment, he became in the republican spokesman in foreign policy after the death of one of his mentors, who died in 1940. vandenberg was unquestionably the voice of the republican party in foreign affairs. in 1943, the 1944 election was coming up. the republicans had a big conference in northern michigan. vandenberg's challenge was to unify the party around the platform of the 1944 election. apart.0's had been torn whatifferent visions of republicans should stand for. vandenberg puts the group together at mackinac island and gets them to agree that the republicans will support what would become the united nations. was planningvelt the creation of the united nations, he was

and so, in that way, he was a leader in the fight with franklin roosevelt as roosevelt was trying to engineer aid for great britain and people who would become our allies against hitler. 1945,en after the war, in or after the war, vandenberg came forward and said things have to change. in effect, reversed his own position and said isolation was no longer possible to the u.s. as a global power. that we had to take leadership on the world stage or relinquish it to dark forces. and by making that shift in the last months of world war ii, he pulled a lot of american opinion with him and really helped enable changes in america's rise to leadership. as someone who grew up grand rapids with an interest in politics, i'd always been curious about vandenberg's life. vandenberg was one of these ambitious kids. his father has a business nearly went broke in the panic of 1893. vandenberg was nine years old. and so he was always doing odd jobs and things to support the family. but once he was in high school here, he thrived on -- he was editing the school newspaper and he thrived on political news

roosevelt pleaded with his commander, general barton. he was unceasing. he wanted to go ashore with his men. barton finally acquiesced and barton realized at that moment that this is probably going to be the end of his general his health was failing, he was suffering from chest pains, he had very bad arthritis. nonetheless he went ashore with the fourth division. he had a cane in one hand, a revolver and a pistol in another. he stayed with his men through thick and thin. his poor health did catch up with him. he also becomes one of the highest ranking americans to be killed in france as the invasion was ongoing as well. right next to the remains of his brother, who was killed in the first world war. we would like to walk you through the camp a little bit and offer perspective. often when americans think of the second world war, they think of helmets, think of weapons, think of sherman tanks. it is the subtle small stuff, the everyday stuff that soldiers use on an everyday basis. these units of food that would come for breakfast and dinner and supper were