f.d.r. stand at the all-time top. is kennedy near them? hi, i'm chris matthews. with this very special program we depart from our usually practice. two distinguished students of the american presidency. michael beschloss, author of "the crisis years." and michael duffy, executive editor of "time." with just over five months to live, john f. kennedy shaped his legacy. june 1963 saw him score an historic triple play. three landmark speeches, three enormous events for our country. june 10, he made history at a speech at the american university here in washington startling the sovelts and the war with a declaration of you know lat alnuclear restraint, then a day later, the president made history facing off with alabama george wallace, enforcing the at mission of two black students at the university of alabama. and at the end of june, that famous eastern ien berliner speech in east berlin. he sent a bugal call that america was on the side of freedom. we're going to look at the speech of the ameri

creates another yet another does a division between the two kinds of states that make up today's america f.d.r. blue states and ronald reagan red states like the northern and southern states in the decade leading up to the civil war the roosevelt blue states in the reagan red states are fundamentally different societies most obvious difference of course is the attitude toward gay marriage if you compare a map of states that allow some porsche some sort of protections for gay couples with a map of last fall's presidential primary results or election results they line up pretty closely excluding a few outliers but the differences don't stop with gay marriage while blue states like oregon in vermont are pushing forward progressive experiments in health care texas and other reagan red states have rejected the obamacare medicaid expansion and refused to cooperate with a law that based on initial estimates in california looks like it's going to be a big success red states have higher rates of obesity higher rates of teen pregnancy score lower on almost every important indicator of social development

ensure social safety and economic justice for all americans and it's time for obama to take a page from f.d.r.'s book and tell the american people the truth about the republican party i will tell you why in tonight's daily take.

. >> barack obama's favorite world leader the one you love -- people like to talk about f.d.r. and churchill. the closest thing for obama as far as his view is obama and merkel. now like the gray hairs of the world western powers. they're getting together this week. at the g-8. obama's favorite world leader. angela merkel. chris: katty. >> i want to say thank you. i've been on your show more than 100 times now and we've done women's rights, and we've done the beatles. that was fun. and we've done the 2008 campaign and the iraq war. and we've been in new hampshire and iowa. and every single time it's been great. chris: and we're going out. and maybe that chair to take with you. kelly o'donnell. >> i don't know how i'm going to live without being on your show in the future. we're going to miss that. on capitol hill, a fear among staffers about what happens when the health care law goes into effect. because many of them may see an enormous jump in their own price for health care. and there's a concern there will be a brain drain and people will leave public service. chris: like a

the reagan revolution was a genuine revolution and it's going to take another revolution like the f.d.r.'s new deal revolution to reverse it stephen latham new york a steve what's up. com how a great. attorney. long time is a big fan of your show. you do such a great job with the pro unions and how they are being attacked in michigan and ohio and here in new york. union member and covers almost frightening already take away our binding arbitration rights and h.r. twenty one and i was wondering if you could. possibly look into it because there is a local media does nothing for us. and i think that one. ok i will look into that i don't know the details of that particular piece of legislation but i can say i can tell you that it is a manual as demonstrated in chicago just because somebody is a democrat doesn't mean that they're progressive and just because they're democrat doesn't necessarily mean that they're fully in support of labor and labor rights i don't know the situation here with governor cuomo though so the program to really comment ron in analyst bill virginia iran with. iran is

when f.d.r.ed congress to declare war on japan, 15-year- old john dingell was on the house floor with his dad, congressman john dingell sr. of michigan. when the father died the son was elected to fill his seat, and today john dingell jr. became the longest serving member of congress ever, 57 years, five months, 26 days. steve hartman takes us to the u.s. open, the very wide open "on the road" is next. alec, for this missionp i upgraded your smart phone. ♪ right. but the most important feature of all is... the capital one purchase eraser. i can redeem the double miles i earned with my venture card to erase recent travel purchases. and with a few clicks, this mission never happened. uh, what's this button do? [ electricity zaps ] ♪ you requested backup? yes. yes i did. what's in your wallet? [ both laughing ] but our plants were starving. [ man ] we love to eat. we just didn't know that our plants did, too. then we started using miracle-gro liquafeed every two weeks. now our plants get the food th

creates another yet another does a division between the two kinds of states that make up today's america f.d.r. blue states and ronald reagan red states like the northern and southern states in the decade leading up to the civil war the roosevelt blue states in the reagan red states are fundamentally different societies most obvious difference of course is the attitude toward gay marriage if you compare a map of states that allow some porsche some sort of protections for gay couples with a map of last fall's presidential primary results or election results they line up pretty closely excluding a few outliers but the differences don't stop with gay marriage while blue states like oregon and vermont are pushing forward progressive experiments in health care texas and other reagan red states have rejected the obamacare medicaid expansion and refused to cooperate with a law that based on initial estimates in california looks like it's going to be a big success red states have higher rates of obesity higher rates of teen pregnancy score lower on almost every. important indicator of social developme

on the streets of manhattan that day they were toasted and burned as far as five blocks away at the f.d.r. please explain to me how a car can be toasted and burned five blocks away from where the buildings allegedly fail and they didn't fall they were disintegrated here's the well what was here's another point when you bring a building down with conventional demolition ok when they took down the king dome in seattle it when it was on the ground at the end it was twelve point five percent of its original height was in debris on the ground the twin towers less than two percent of their original height was on the ground where the big go where do they go if the audience is that siren there are they have been jesse wise because i get them remember when the government comes out with an official story you get paid put out you're not allowed to question it you're not allowed to expect any answers from them anymore even though that official story may be riddled with holes that ask us something did you do special ops did you guys all discuss anything i did larry because when i came back from my dep

on the streets of manhattan that day they were toasted and burned as far as five blocks away at the f.d.r. please explain to me how a car can be toasted and burned five blocks away from where the buildings allegedly fail and they didn't fall they were disintegrated here's the well what was here's another point when you bring a building down with conventional demolition ok when they took down the king dome in seattle it when it was on the ground at the end it was twelve point five percent of its original height was in debris on the ground the twin towers less than two percent of their original height was on the ground were the big o. where do they go if the audience is that siren there are they have been jesse wise because i get him remember when the government comes out with an official story that they put out you're not allowed to question it you're not allowed to expect any answers from them anymore even though that official story may be riddled with holes that ask us something that did you do special ops did you guys you guys don't discuss anything i did larry because when i came back

ensure social safety and economic justice for all americans and it's time for obama to take a page from f.d.r.'s book and tell the american people the truth about the republican party i will tell you why in tonight's daily take.

and for 20th-century buffs, there was the original reading copy of f.d.r.'937 inaugural address-- this one... >> president franklin roosevelt: one-third of a nation, ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished... >> rosenstein: it was a rainy day. in fact, the reading copy of the speech, the document the president read from that day was waterlogged. and you can see that on the document that we seized from mr. landau. >> simon: and landau didn't just steal from historical libraries. he had taken his campaign of kindness all the way to the white house, befriending president clinton's former secretary, betty currie, who made the mistake of inviting landau to her house. landau was pretty good at making friends with people who could help him, wasn't he? he spent nights at her place. >> brachfeld: bad, bad offer to invite him into your house. >> simon: he robbed her of more than 250 items, including copies of presidential speeches from her personal collection. naturally, we wanted to ask barry landau about all of this, so last summer, we tried to talk to him in new york c

to invest in our best and brightest right now where the youth unemployment rate climbs even higher f.d.r. would have done it so should. the bad but ralph peters on today's broadcast of fox and friends the strategic analyst blasted n.s.a. leaker edward edward snowden as the you guessed it him car dash of national security and called for is you guessed it execution. said brian we've made treason cool betray your country's kind of a fashion state that wants me the national security kim carr dashon he cites bradley manning as a hero i mean we need to get very very serious about treason and old by the way for treason as in the case of bradley manning the or edward snowden you bring back the death penalty now maria her first on fox news although they have kids were out of it tried under the espionage act and the very very ugly michael said during a recent discussion of the military sexual assault crisis on his radio show savage nation a conservative pundit rudely mocked new york senator kirsten gillibrand and warned that she and other senators were plotting a camaro rouge style coup to destroy

ass coming out of the democratic party we need to maybe resurrect some of the old harry truman and f.d.r. d.n.a. and inject them into the water our next video is a parody song on citizens united that was sent to us by libyan paul in seattle check it out. this is not it sounded pretty early but with the white. but you got all the we've all heard. of the word really. the only answer to both of these kinds relieve the full freedom thus. the goal of motivations that never answer. really and in for ali thank you ok now time for our first caller of the ny richard in bellflower california a richer and you want to talk about tax havens. yeah hi john thank you for taking my call tom i read not in the l.a. times that. the prime minister of england cameron. is going to try and expose all the tax havens and then they find out that most of them are under the british wing and we're talking about trillions of dollars and then he had all the major players there sign a paper saying they they were trying to do something about it but i mean is this just all b.s. because these people are powerful yes and th

f.d.r. had just cards and cards of letters, people wanted to get someone out of jail or kept from hanging or whatever. duncan.is a call from >> my last name is -- [inaudible] and there was a wealthy family in ohio at the rn of the century last named rhinehart. did the harrisons have any experience with that family, by chance? >> i have no idea. >> we wouldn't be able to know that kind of detail. hope you can find -- >> which wish i did, yeah. >> maybe someone in your own state could answer that. >> laura in michigan. >> hi, how are you? i'm so excited, i can't believe you're talking about the harrisons. i've lived here for about 30 years. i've had an inaugural invitation to the inaugural ball in 1889. of benjamin harrison. and i wonder if could you tell me anything about that inaugural ball. >> you don't need to write a regret anymore. but that's fascinating. the inaugural ball. it was a ferociously rainy time. >> and it was in the pension building, i believe. >> all decorated inside. >> yea

no l.b.j., no f.d.r. -- >> rose: oh, i just find that -- it's true.you can make an argument that you wish there was more l.b.j. in the president, that he was prepared to cajole and manage the senate. two things have to be set. it was a very different congress when l.b.j. was there. he'd come out of the senate as majority leader and the times were very, very different. in terms of the makeup of the congress. >> it's a more polarized system. exactly. >> rose: and how people get elected. >> but most people would accept that he does not have great rapport with congress and he as in not been effective. >> rose: or even democrats. >> his own party. leave the republicans aside. the second objection siff that there was no foreign policy. and i'm not the only person who thinks that. he's been criticize it think stra t.j. click the biggest problem that this president still has to sort out is his middle eastern policy which is all over the shop and has been since the arab spring. >> rose: what would you like for him to do in syria? >> well, i think it's too late

ensure social safety and economic justice for all americans and the same for obama to take a page from f.d.r.'s book and tell the american people the truth about the republican party i will tell you why in tonight's daily take. and we begin tonight with this group acorn you remember them the association of community organizations for reform now that's what acorn stands for it was founded in one nine hundred seventy and for the next forty years worked in more than one hundred cities with more than a half million members advocating for low income and working class americans they focused on registering people to vote finding affordable housing defending against predatory lending and providing health care so as you can imagine from the get go acorn was never well liked by conservatives so in two thousand and nine this guy conservative hack james o'keefe posed as a pimp and walked into several local acorn offices asking for advice on how to hide prostitution activities and avoid taxes. and the videos appeared to show acorn employees giving o'keefe what he wanted tips about how to keep his prostit

almost persons bill of rights or should we be looking at other rights for example should we go back to f.d.r. second bill of rights and say you know the right to have a job should be a right not a privilege and it went to war and capitalism fails the government will hire you oh yes good losers already hold this bill of rights it was called the bill of rights tax everybody it doesn't say there is a protected class here in a protected class here in a protected class here and i find a little troubling that all these little subsets of america needs their own set of rights that are guaranteed to them. first off the fact the matter is that we have laws that have to do with vagrancy and truancy and things in my estimation there are scenes like this obliterates all the ordering lots because how can you force those are you going to sue make you know your. not homeless but that person is homeless i mean you basically just you can't have loitering want anymore and the presence of the practicality of this i don't really know what that looks like i i completely understand the spirit of the law and you kn

and that says to al smith to say to his p.a., we must have f.d.r. on the ballot in 1928 because his wife is more well known among the party faithful and up state voters than anybody in the history of the state. so they understand, you know, what they have to do, but northeast understand why they want to do it, and they understand why it is important in a way that advances their husband's careers. >> the sense of being in the public? will rogers called mrs. coolidge public female number one. talk about that a little bit. >> she was always about helping. always about putting herself second at great cost. so that's a little different. nd i'm thinking about flicks mrs. roads svelte planning the next campaign. she wanted to make it clear, she didn't know what he was planning ahead when he was running in 1928. calvin coolidge was enormously popular, so he could have run or another term in 1928. we know she made a blanket in the white house. that was on the lincoln bed. she was trying not to show that she was calling the shots. when the president said "i d

he has never lost that determination that was sparked as f.d.r. called our nation to arms and to service. john dingell took up arms, he served in the united states army from 1944 to 1946. he was a second lieutenant who prepared to take part in the first wave of a planned invision -- invasion of japan. fortunately, that invasion did not occur. but john dingell, as always, was ready, willing, and able. john dingell, my colleagues, as all of you know, has served america and its people for most of his life. but it is in the the length of his service that we honor alone, it is even more importantly the quality of his service, the depth of his commitment, and the strength of his character that we honor tonight and john dingell that we honor always. we're all better representatives because of his example. i congratulate my friend on 5 years -- on 75 years in the house of representatives. 57 of them as a member. john dingell has, with diligence, faithfulness, extraordinary skill and judgment, courage and fidelity to god and country, lived up to president

. -- that take the f.d.r. said on the day of the d-day invasion.we are interested in moving it forward in the senate as well. last year senator leiberman and i made some progress but could not get it through the progress. we would love your help on that. the park service has worked with us to insure the bill is up to approval and process and your support on that would be terrific. i think i had to raise that. d finally on national parks, your comments were correct that we need to do better on the public-private partnership front and i am interested in your specific example of washington monument. is $11 billion backlog and the deferred maintenance backlog. i was at the national park over memorial day, a top 10 park in the country i am told in terms of attendance. they have some serious concerns on this very issue. my question to suthat in the process of centennial coming out, you don't have a plan to encourage more private-public partnership. we started an initiative that you know a lot about. and the notion was to sen tinial challenge to the priva

f.d.r. had just cards and cards of letters, people wanted to get someone out of jail or kept from hanging or whatever. >> next is a call from duncan. >> my last name is -- [inaudible] and there was a wealthy family in ohio at the turn of the century last named rhinehart. did the harrisons have any experience with that family, by chance? >> i have no idea. >> we wouldn't be able to know that kind of detail. hope you can find -- >> which wish i did, yeah. >> maybe someone in your own state could answer that. >> laura in michigan. >> hi, how are you? i'm so excited, i can't believe you're talking about the harrisons. i've lived here for about 30 years. i've had an inaugural invitation to the inaugural ball in 1889. of benjamin harrison. and i wonder if could you tell me anything about that inaugural ball. >> you don't need to write a regret anymore. but that's fascinating. the inaugural ball. it was a ferociously rainy time. >> and it was in the pension building, i believe. >> all decorated ins

so, let's take inspiration from those golden moments, the erie canal and f.d.r., compounding the workers corps and the building of an infrastructure -- a highway infrastructure and winning the global race on space. let's let that speak to us as a nation. let us move forward with the passion and the resolve and say, invest in the clean energy, science and tech, innovation economy, we know we can win this. but if we sit there complainsly -- complacently and deny the potential of this work nation, that is not leadership. that is not leadership. we will then be passed bibi other nations. we have the intellectual that can be harnessed here -- intellect that can be harnessed here to grow the sophisticated products, to deal with the position orientation of manufacturing today, to provide for advanced manufacturing, to come up with clever batteries as a lynch pin to the energy revolution and the list goes on and on and on. leadership from this -- from this chamber can make a difference and a sound budget, an honest budget, one that invests in america is what we require right now. mr. garamendi:

f.d.r. had just cards and cards of letters, people wanted to get someone out of jail or kept from hanging or whatever. >> next is a call from duncan. >> my last name is -- [inaudible] and there was a wealthy family in ohio at the turn of the century last named rhinehart. did the harrisons have any experience with that family, by chance? >> i have no idea. >> we wouldn't be able to know that kind of detail. hope you can find -- >> which wish i did, yeah. >> maybe someone in your own state could answer that. >> laura in michigan. >> hi, how are you? i'm so excited, i can't believe you're talking about the harrisons. i've lived here for about 30 years. i've had an inaugural invitation to the inaugural ball in 1889. of benjamin harrison. and i wonder if could you tell me anything about that inaugural ball. >> you don't need to write a regret anymore. but that's fascinating. the inaugural ball. it was a ferociously rainy time. >> and it was in the pension building, i believe. >> all decorated ins