eleanor clift. >> i don't accept the metaphor, but i'll expand on one that pat suggested to me. it's a game changer. this is an important milestone that the law has net. i think the president needs to avoid any mission accomplished banners. there are plenty of land mines ahead. the story will now retreat more to the back pages and the republicans may find that they made a wrong bet by placing all of their confidence in hatred of obama care for the fall election. the polls show 49% approval now. 3/4 of democrats approve. only 1 in 5 republicans. it's very partisan. democrats like it. >> obama returned to kickoff for 98 yards. he put some points on the board. he was elated with it and he aught to be. as eleanor said, it's 49 all in the polls and clearly the momentum was all against obama for months and months and months and he has a touchdown and a big one and his folks in the stands are up on their feet cheering for the first time. >> thank you for being fair. thank you. >> we're not back to the football analogy. we aren't near through the first half. there are so many things to

and fred, we have eleanor back with us today. >> fred: yeah, eleanor friedberger.e. >> seth: that's great. welcome back, eleanor. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: so fun that you could join us. [ cheers and applause ] also real quick, i want to say happy birthday to seth jabour, our guitarist. [ cheers and applause ] people ask, "is it tricky to have two seths on the show?" my writers have solved the problem, they call him cool seth. [ laughter ] also, kim, i know it was you're birthday last week, but it was not on a show night. so therefore i cannot technically wish you a happy birthday because it would be meaningless because if it doesn't happen on television, i don't care. [ laughter ] just don't care about it. but also i hope you had a happy birthday, as well. and next year hopefully you'll be lucky and it will land on a a show night. [ cheers and applause ] so there's obviously a lot going on with the band, which is so exciting. there's no need to talk anymore, but i feel like i have to say one thing. here's what i feel like is the problem, fred.

we're at book passage bookstore in california as stephen pressman recalls the efforts of gilbert and eleanor krause to rescue 50 jewish children from nazi-controlled vienna in 1939. then on wednesday ralph nader speaks at politics & prose book store in washington d.c. he argues an alliance is emerging between progressives, conservatives and libertarians to fight against the power of corporations. that's a look at some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more go to our web site, booktv.org and visit upcoming programs. >> these pictures now survive to verify lynchings' theatrical qualities and the variety of stages that mobs claimed for their victims dangled not just from trees, but also light posts, telephone poles and privileges. bridges. when we elevate the photograph above other artifacts of the same time period, our focus on strange fruit amounts to an acceptance of a very specific representation of this violence. after all, these gruesome images were created and preserved because they fell in line with the forces that supported racial violence. the blac

and eleanor in alabama says what is the deal with journalists when such nonsense on the show two you see walter cronkite pulling mess. and have you ever seen him in drag at? just asking. and what is the deal with people always asking these personal questions? morbid curiosity, i suppose. and do you like chocolate? well, yes, where are we going with this. and another viewer says we find her show a joy to watch. and if i ever see these digitized pictures again, it could be . kennedy: the news about donald sterling's racist heart rippled through the nba and countless dinner table discussions and words universally condemn. how bad is the guy compared to people who have beaten up fellow players, their wives? even spam. outrage builds and finds that sweet spot, that inflection point that tips the whole thing on its head. it's almost a competition for the outrage police who with prove they're most offended and how quickly can angry, hungry mob be intashiated in pains. it shouldn't give any

and eleanor in alabama says what is the deal with journalists when such nonsense on the show two youer cronkite pulling mess. and have you ever seen him in drag at? just asking. and what is the deal with people always asking these personal questions? morbid curiosity, i suppose. and do you like chocolate? well, yes, where are we going with this. and another viewer says we find her show a joy to watch. and if i ever see these digitized pictures again, it could be risky. the loco. ♪ lou: good evening, everyone. nba mission or adam silver banning donald sterling from the nba for life. a swift and harsh ruling handed down to 72 hours after audio recording and racist rants became public. danny him from attending nba games or entering the clipper facilities or having any contact with players or employees and finding this longtime owner $2.5 million as well. the maximum fine under

we're at book passage book store in california as steven pressman recalls the efforts of gilbert and eleanor krause to rescue 50 jewish children from nazi-controlled vienna in 1939. then on wednesday ralph nader speaks at politics & prose bookstore in washington d.c. he argues an alliance is emerging between progressives, conservatives and libertarians to fight against the power of corporations. that's a look at some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more go to our web site, booktv.org, and visit "upcoming programs." >> historian simon shah ma presents a 3,000-year history of the jewish people next on booktv. this is a little under an hour. [applause] >> thank you. settle down. [laughter] there will, as usual, be an exam later on, so pay attention. don't want to hear any snoring. thank you so much, free library. i should say thank you to pbs as well for allowing us to make a wonderful co-production with the bbc. it's always really wonderful to come back to philadelphia. it reminds me that, actually, i think this is right, goodness, historians ought to get

want it to bring in eleanor holmes norton, a member of the oversight committee, and women's caucus foren issues and equity issues. good morning. >> good morning. >> and now, tomorrow, these will be coming tomorrow on the equal payday, which is when a woman's pay catch up to what a man makes in the same job in the previous year, and you know that a woman earns 77 cents for every dollar that a man make, and so what is the message that you want to get out there? >> well, as he has done in other areas, the president is using the executive power to do what to do-nothing congress will not do. i am the sponsor of two equal pay bills in congress, and they have been pending for more than ten years. what the president has done with these executive orders should not be underestimated. the most important is the part that for the first time would make only federal contractors, but it is an auspicious start report on their compensation. i enforced the equal pay act and the 1964 civil rights act. both of the bills require employers across the board to report on the race and the gender of those they h

anisse murillo, a junior at eleanor roosevelt high school in greenbelt, maryland, told us why she'd wantedke part. >> this event today could show all these young people today to go home and find out who marian anderson is and the word will then spread. it taught me actions speak louder than words and you don't have to get all angry. you just have to keep going and kill people with kindness. >> the light in her beautiful voice overcame discrimination. and her voice was much larger than the hall that prevented her from singing. >> brown: following words from u.s. interior secretary sally jewell about anderson's legacy. washington, d.c. fourth-grader sky jabali-rainey took on the role of marian anderson. >> i am marian anderson. i was refused the opportunity to sing at the daughters of the american revolution hall. you see when i sing, i don't want them to see my face is black or white. i want them to see my soul. >> she had the courage to sing in front of thousands of people. you have got to get up and fight the fear. made the message quite clear. concerts by white artists only. an alternati

. >> first lady eleanor roosevelt's reaction to the racism was first to resign her d.a.r.tment of the interior secretary harold to put marian anderson in the spotlight, with a performance on the steps of the lincoln memorial. easter sunday, april 9th, 1939. >> the second left no doubt about his determination to break barriers. >> genius, like justice, is blind. genius draws no color lines. >> in what may have been the nation's first outdoor concert, anderson sang for 75,000 fans. becoming a symbol of racial reconciliation. >> happy marian anderson day. >> skye rainy turns 10 years old tomorrow, she was chosen by the southeast 10 son learning center to portray marian anderson. >> when they said she couldn't sing at the daughters of the american revolution constitution hall she didn't get mad or angry she just kept ongoing. >> after the lincoln memorial concert her fame grew. she was the first black performer at the metropolitan opera, she sang for john f. kennedy's inauguration in 1961 and she sang again in 1963 at the december knowledge civil rights march on washington for

that's your next project, from the birth of teddy roosevelt to the are dead of eleanor, who was a niece to franklin roosevelt who was a fifth cousin. >> has more affect than any other family, i'll defend that to the end. this is a very complicated family drama, an american downton 18. abbey. about 3 extraordinary people, whose stories are timeless. what are we debating? what is the role of government, what can a citizen expect from government? how does character form leadership, how does adversity form character later in life and how does that form to leadership skills? these are the central questions of the roosevelts and the interplay of, after franklin was stricken with polio is one of the great american stories. i think we focus too much on the outer stuff. it's all there, the two world wars, the depression, everything that's going on but from an intimate point of view. >> having spent time with franklin delano roosevelt i know you said lincoln is our greatest president -- >> pop music and baseball and the presidency, besides george washington, besides babe ruth besides the beatles

. >> fred: yes, this is my friend eleanor friedberger. >> seth: oh, great.eanor. [ cheers ] that's great. >> fred: yeah, i'm a huge fan of hers. >> seth: that's exciting. and that's something you told me, and then you could prove to me with visual evidence. you're like "this person is here, here she is," i saw it, i believe you. >> fred: yeah. >> seth: that's nice. that -- for me, that's refreshing. >> fred: okay. >> seth: fred, did you start a low cost airline? >> fred: i did. >> seth: you did not. >> fred: i did. i absolutely did. it's called halloween airlines. [ laughter ] and the way you pay is you dress up in a really good halloween costume and depending on how good it is, the flight attendant or the agent will let you on to the plane. >> seth: and it flies 365 days a year? it's not just on halloween? >> fred: all the time. it's like a regular airline. you know, all year round, yeah. >> seth: and it flies to -- does it fly to all the cities? >> fred: all the halloween themed cities. you know what i mean, like massachusetts, sort of northern poles. >> s

. >> i have 30 seconds and i want to say that i'm old enough to remember -- eleanor, a black mother killed by the new york police department. no one, no cop went to jail for killing that black grandmother. can you tell me, even 5 cops who have gone to jail for killing civilians? tell me, i would like to know because i cannot -- get information on the web. give me the list of our dead killed by cops. >> your time is up. >> there is other speakers. >> my name is gloria riva in stop now raising coalition answer. a 33-year resident of the mission. i have seen plenty personally of police brutality and the result of murders by the cops. it's an epidemic in this country. it's an epidemic where the police become the jury, judge and executioner. it's growing, mental illness is not a crime, but it's one of the main factors for police murders. i'm not saying that's what took place in the murder of alex nieto. we see too many mentally ill people who have crisis who simply the solution by the cops is to just gun them down. we in san francisco in the bay area who have seen murder after murder by police

i think eleanor is right. seem to be in our reporting some sliver archchance that something could pass out of the congress, very much scaled down from what the senate originally passed -- >> this year? >> you know, there's a tiny little hope and i think there's some sense they don't want to thwart that. it's a huge political problem now for the president because he needs, as eleanor said, to invigorate the base. the base consist of a number of hispanics and others who have come to this country and want to see some fairness around these issues. meanwhile, the president has presided over an awful lot of deportations. that "new york times" piece you referenced makes a point about that. why is he so intent on deporting so many people while at the same time being so gingerly handling the issue of trying to pass comprehensive reform? >> this is a conversation certainly to be continued. ladies, thank you so much. >> all you "west wing" wing fans remember the character danny, right? >> this bill really created modern

welcome back eleanor thanks for joining us.with us because fred is not with us this week. i'm not quite sure what he's doing. he sent me a very sparsely worded e-mail yesterday saying -- he's on a path to enlightenment. [ light laughter ] i got a voicemail from him. it was very crackly. i think he is somewhere with terrible service but he says he's transitioning from fred to something better. so i don't know. it was like i said, it was terrible service. he's probably in the mountains or the desert but i think i heard him say he can see colors. [ laughter ] anyway, when he gets back, i can't wait to talk to him about it. yesterday on the show we had billy eichner, the very funny billy eichner. it was such a delight to have him and i gave him one of the pencils from my pencil stack here. and somebody, i gave him the st. louis cardinals. these are football pencils. these football pencils i have and i gave him a st. louis cardinal football pencil. and a few people on twitter were like, hey, man, hate to rain on your parade. there i

when my predecessors and heroines was eleanor roosevelt. she said that if a woman wants to be involved in the public, and in her case she was talking politics and it is true in many and it is true in many arenas, skin as thickrow as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros. too many young women are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant. they are too often selling themselves short. they take criticism personally and that it seriously. you should take criticism seriously, because you might learn something, but you cannot let it crush you. you have to be resilient enough to keep moving forward no matter what the personal setback or insults that come your way might be. that takes a sense of humor about yourself and others. believe me, this is hard-won advice that i'm putting forward. [laughter] [applause] it is not like you wake up and understand that. it is a process. you need other women. you need your friends to some -- to support you. you need male friends as well as female ones. you need good role models. all of that is true. but at the

. >> eleanor, quickly. five seconds. >> it's the fact they are bought off by business interests. >> precisely stated. i'm not saying well stated, are you? >> i'm not saying well stated, no. >> globalization is dead, putin killed it in crimea. the rules of order are disorder. >> too much. >> wrong, way too simplistic. >> anyway toe is still there. >> that's way off the mark. >> more right than wrong. bye bye. the mclaughlin group is brought to you by seaman's. every day, seamans answers are helping build a future of america. seeman's, answers. >>> i wanted to check and make sure we were on schedule. >>> the first technology of its kind. >> mom and dad, i have great news. >> is now providing answers. seaman's. answers. >>> next on kqed "newsroom": should police be able to examen the contents of cell phones without a warrant? a look at the changing face of san francisco with mayor ed lee. plus, comedian brian copeland brings back his hit one-man show "not a genuine black man." >> i don't talk ghetto. when i he

i think at some point she quoted eleanor roosevelt there in saying grow a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hillary meter runs up and down. one week she's not running, the next week she is. >> people close to her say that same thing, too. >> i think the meter's running "yes." >> what she said there, there are lessons there for both male candidates in the primary who want to run against her and male candidates obviously on the republican side who will face her in a general election. remember what happened de blasio. that's something for the republicans to think of in the primary, who is the right candidate to run against a candidate such as hillary. >> but how formidable will she be next time around because she's run once before. we haven't talk about the lessons that she learned from a 50-state campaign in 2008 in terms of timing, in terms of press, in terms of policy. engaging your opponent. learn the rules of the election process. >> south dakota. >> david plouffe's took over. >> sometimes little states have a little more impact than you might think. >>> tomorrow's news today is next as o

cardiac an average capacity of just twenty percent to the seventh was the hotel's authority placed to eleanor could join them. i hope school of reducing our expected expenses. we are to be either we are to sink in and in medicaid expenses time to. and in the thing and station and in expenses we caught her doing. the all of this new tool to keep four dollars coffee with them the sometimes isn't it. we need to we need to use dvd abt stuff. due to recent industry seen a difficult three years since the revolution. the present is the new product into the mix into the contest is the success of inhabitants in the room towards embrace been fluctuating around the levels price before exhausting thus a slight risk reduction snow was so excited in the yukon premiering on london's leicester square authorizing the top of the us box office could afford to pull me in on the night last weekend jennifer connelly and emma watson grice to break off to the penny along saw the oscar award winning thomas who cried he plays the role of not wanting the label by smith the crime is out of the storm of controversy stud

eleanor cliff at the daily beast. salinda lake. and in los angeles at this very early hour out there, i want to bring in sandra fluke, a democratic candidate for the state senate in the golden state. we'll start with you since you got up the earliest for this. at least i think you did. >> thank you. >> so, you know, we run those numbers there -- and i should maybe put this up on the screen. hannah rosen at slate had a widely circulated article this week called the gender wage gap lie. she's basically saying the 77 cents on the dollar line that democrats keep using, you know, it really comes closer to 91 cents that those cornell university economists are talk about and it really involves a lot of factors that maybe are beyond the control of government. i just wonder what your response to that is. from the standpoint of the government, what is it that the government can be doing to get true pay equity? is this something that the government should be doing? their interpretation is that the paycheck fairness act doesn't get you there.

. >> first eleanor roosevelt's reaction to the discrimination was first to why resign her are relationshipharold ickes put marion anderson on the spotlight. in the credit can steps of the memorial april 2nd, 1939. ♪ for thee we sing >> secretary ickes left no doubt about his determination to break barriers. >> genius like justice is blind. genius draws no color lines. >> in what might have been the nation's first outdoor concert anderson sang for 75,000 fans becoming a symbol of racial inclusion. >> happy mairhappy marion ander! >> when she couldn't sing at the daughters of american revolution hall she kept going. >> she was the first black performer at the metropolitan opera. she sang at john f. kennedy's inauguration in 1961 and she sang again in 1963 at the seminal civil rights march on washington for jobs and freedom and then she sang several times at constitution hall, this time invited by the dar. anderson's dress as seen in the old black and white news real did not stand out but on display currently at the smithsonian, her dress is as vibrant as her voice. and the messages. >> as re

like first lady eleanor roosevelt did. >> do you see when i sing, i don't want them to see my face is black, i don't want them to see my face is white. i want them to see my soul, and that is colorless. [ singing ] >> a voice we should all have. please remember if you would like to comment on the stories, log on to the website aljazeera.com/americatonight. join in the conversation on twitter or facebook at any time. we'll have more of "america tonight" tomorrow. >> 100 million indians go to the polls on one of the biggest days of the world's biggest election. >> hello, you're watching al jazeera, live from doha. also coming up, the united nations prepares to vote on a peacekeeping mission to the central african republic as violence leaves 30 dead. >> back in court - the trial resumes of three al jazeera journalists held in prison in egypt now for 103 days. an

forward to 1959 and 1960 in chester eleanor. sitting on the back porch reminiscing about our time in london, paris, so forth. quiet activity for a lutheran preacher and his son, believe me, talking about visiting the city's. and i said to dad, did you ever wonder why i was so tired? and he says, yes, knew what your doing. i figured a file the long and hard enough you would stop the nonsense. he did not succeed, by the way. i adored my father. my father did not have a lot to do it in our window the door and out of. when i was leaving the army asked me how much money you got. i said a quarter. he reached his wallet and pulled out of full the $5 bill, 1939. money is tight. he said, year, take this. i can't take that. this is his runaway money if you want to put the white. he said, no, i want you to have it. this is my father. he would give you the shirt off his back. he had sympathy for the downtrodden and poor, and he was not a pushover. he got along successfully. when he died the word and call me and said, can we have your dad's

we're at book passage bookstore in california as steven pressman recalls the efforts of gilbert and eleanor krause to rescue 50 jewish children from nazi-controlled vienna in 1939. then on wednesday ralph nader speaks at politics & prose bookstore in washington d.c. he argues an alliance is emerging between progressives, conservatives and libertarians to fight against the power of corporations. that's a look at some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more, go to our web site, booktv.org and visit "upcoming programs." >> you're watching booktv. up next, caroline glick argue that is the u.s. pursuit of a two-state solution to the israel/palestine conflict has failed miserably and is based on palestinian claims to land that are unfounded. this is just over an hour. [applause] be. >> we live in surreal times. it's my privilege and pleasure today to introwith deuce a remarkable woman who has written an extraordinary -- to introduce a remarkable woman who has written an extraordinary book. i'm going to let caroline explain why this should be so. but in order to

eleanor friedberger, you've been with us all week. thank you so much for being here. great having you. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] i've had a lot of fun. thank you. >> seth: fred has been on the road this week, and i've sort of been pointing out that through some, like, pretty bad cell phone connections and some very sparsely worded e-mails, i have taken the assumption that fred had joined a cult. [ light laughter ] he contacted me last night. he wanted to clarify and by all means, i want to get this right because fred, more than anyone, believes in truth. fred explained to me that he has started a cult. [ laughter ] so i apol -- all apologies for ever having implied that he had done something as silly as join one. i went and saw a show on broadway last night because daniel radcliffe is going to be here on monday. i love daniel radcliffe. he is -- [ applause ] such a lovely guy. and he's in this incredible play called "the cripple of inishmaan." and it is -- i just highly recommend anybody in new york who wants to see a great play, it was wonderful. it's bot

. >> eleanor goodwin visits her son as often as possible. >> you know these chairs hurt my backside. they're so hard. >> she's joined by her family's minister, loretta freeman. >> i kept telling your mom, she will not bury you in penitentiary. that's what the lord told me. >> doesn't he answer my prayers? >> yes, he does. he was little, don't pray for me. >> i used to always say that. i'm going to pray for you. don't -- please, mom, pray for me. >> i look at her and i see how much hurt she's got in her face, how much pain she's going through. sometimes it's hard just to look at her. >> in your precious holy name i pray. amen. >> if i get convicted, she feels she will lose another child. >> my god, i love you so much. >> i love you too, mom. >>> coming up, tony goodwin is called back to court. this time, to hear from the jury. >>> and -- >> he says don't make me put my hands on you and show you how bisexual my hands can be. >> lorraine green accused an officer of misconduct. ok maxwell, just need to ah contact your insurance company with the vin number. oh, i just did it. with my geic

country 'tis of thee sweet land of liberty ♪ >> anderson was invited to perform by then first lady eleanorvelt after the daughters of the american revolution, which roosevelt was a member of, refused to let the african-american perform in their hall. this moment became a milestone in civil rights history and you can join us as we remember another important historical milestone this week, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the civil rights act of 1964. tweet us with the #advancingthe dream or join the conversation with fellow readers on facebook, instagram and msnbc.com and tell us what's important to you. >>> and next, we go in depth on the civil rights era and the relationship between lbj and mlk. and we're getting new details on today's school stabbing outside pittsburgh. the latest next on "the reid report." [ hypnotist ] you are feeling satisfied without standard leather. you are feeling exhilarated with front-wheel drive. you are feeling powerful with a 4-cylinder engine. [ male announcer ] open your eyes... to the 6-cylinder, 8-speed lexus gs. with more standard horsepower than a

eleanor roosevelt, save the day. the first presidents wife ever address the convention, she told disgruntled... that we face now a grave situation. >> [indiscernible] buckled and bosses put wallace on the ticket. it would come back with a vengeance. i just heard the news of my nomination and there's just one thing i want to say, i am confident that under the leadership of president roosevelt, we shall have a united democratic party, victory in november, and security for the american people. ofand that was the voice henry wallace, nominated as vice president. oliver stone, your inspiration for this whole series was about henry wallace. why? talk about his significance. >> i was the inspiration is the atomic bomb. i grew up in that period. the bomb shaped all of our lives. .e lived in fear of it we had air raids in school. we have the cuban missile crisis. it haunts our policy. we were in a cold war up until 1989 for 1991, with the soviets. he continues on if you notice it. i'm wondering what happened in the 1989, 1991

>> that leads to a great follow-up to anybody who's read the book the bes best and brigh, there's eleanorto the of the vietnam war about the united states kind of destroying its area o knowledge. a lot of time has passed since then. how well do you think the united states inside the government understands the region you're talking about the? >> after 9/11, of course, there was a lot of emphasis on building up arab speakers, persian speakers and others. the united states has an advantage in the asia-pacific. we fought half of world war ii there, one theater of world war ii. we fought two great wars there, korea and vietnam. we have been essentially a colonial power in the philippines from 1899 right up to the early decades of the 20th century with a strong relationship with the philippines ever since. so there's a tremendous institutional basis for area expertise and friendships with the asia-pacific that we don't have quite with other parts of the world. >> okay. a few more questions. right here in the second row. and begin placing a name and where you're from. go ahead and stand up. >> t

welcome back, eleanor. thanks for joining us.sen not with us tonight, but we are -- you know, we miss him, but we're doing great without him. we miss him. uh -- he has not been communicating very well with me this week, less and less every day. i think -- i'm like 90% sure he joined a cult. [ laughter ] i just think that's what happened. i look forward to hearing him explain it when he gets back. but, uh -- as of right now, i think he's probably in a cult. last night, we had a really fun show. author and sportswriter jonah carrie was here. he wrote a great book about the montreal expos, and we had him on. it was really fun. he told a lot of great stories. and before the show, i went back and said hello and he brought me this. he brought me a montreal expos yarmulke. and he did that because he thought i was jewish. i'm not jewish. a lot of people -- not everybody thinks i'm jewish, but every single jewish person thinks that i'm jewish. [ laughter ] and it's not their fault because they think that -- they come to that conclusion be

first lady eleanor roosevelt was outraged when she found out about it and arranged for anderson to performl, on this day 75 years ago, april 9th, 1939, 75,000 people turned out for a public concert that forever changed the landscape of african-americans in music. ♪ >> a quarter of a century later, anderson returned to lincoln memorial, this time singing at dr. martin luther king's march on washington. we see as she sings there, dr. king talked about a dream that day. no one thought the years before that she was barred that we'd ever see dr. king talking about a dream. many things today we'd not achieved, but gives us the faith to know if we have the same commitment and persistence they did, we can make that dream a full reality. and that's why some of us continue to sing and continue to work. freedom song. thanks for watching, i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> jimmy carter says never bomb iran. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in new york. let me start tonight with major headlines from my interview this afternoon with president carter. he made som

between jacqueline kennedy onassis and arthur schlesinger and theodore sorensen and teddy wait for eleanor roosevelt relationships with the number of people who helped to define franklin roosevelt's legacy. my hope for this book will help us to remember as we remember him today and a very real efforts that went into that and a price. thank you. i would love to take some questions if there are any. [applause] >> what is your opinion of daniel epstein's book the lankans man which covers some of the same material that you have talked about? secondly, what do you think about the recent biography? >> i like them both very much. epstein is really a literary man , a poet, scholar of literature. i think he was trying to do a different project. it draws and other characters. we're looking at different questions using the same people, but it's a beautiful read. the biography is magnificent. if you are interested in how comprehensive -- i should not say this. if you're interested in a comprehensive biography don't buy my book, but you want to read both. john did a number of other things that i don't

the first draft, though, was actually, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself and eleanor first thingg. [ laughter ] i'm also not crazy about stairs." [ applause ] next, we have will rogers. will rogers famously said, "i never met a man i didn't like." and will rogers was certainly loved as well. let's see his first draft. "i never met a man i didn't like, but if you want me to be completely honest, jeff could take it down a notch." [ laughter ] no fan of jeff. will rogers was no fan of jeff. next we have yoda. yoda, of course, who said, "do or do not, there is no try." we could all learn a lot from yoda. let's see the first draft. "do or do not, or give it to helen in accounting, doing nothing always she is." [ cheers and applause ] helen -- we all know helen is never doing anything. never anything. next, we have one from jesus. that guy was a quote machine. "blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." classic jesus, loves the underdog. however, the first draft was, "blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit my dumbbells and get swole." does not seem very jesus. i thi

eleanor roosevelt had lunch. look, you know, roosevelt, i don't think -- he needs the votes of racing -- segregationists. can you please post bonior challenged segregation. in the meantime, the new deal will offer a technocratic solution to the material poverty of black people in the united states. thinking of that parallel helps us think about this debate. in the end fdr went along because they saw the parallel between colonialism and their own treatment of blacks, material solutions, but not rights, not the right to end segregation, not the right to vote. what happened after the end of colonialism, one thing now was in a story, the end of colonialism was not anticipated by anyone during world war ii. it was really a surprise collapse. there were statements that i could show you. the british expected their empire in africa to endure for generations, if not centuries. this was indefinite justification. but what happened after colonialism did collapse, a new set of parties found technocratic justification's for au

and joining us again, eleanor friedberger. welcome back. >> thanks, seth. seth: and you're here all week. >> all week. >> seth: it's so great to have you here all week. fred is not with us this week. [ audience boos ] i know, i think via e-mail, a very sparsley worded e-mail, he's on some sort of path to enlightenment. so i don't know. [ light laughter ] he'll fill us in on the details when he gets back. but again, it was like i said, very sparsely worded. it was only like three words but he said he's on a path to enlightenment in less than three words. so i drove to new england. today is patriot's day. yeah. [ cheers and applause ] which is a massachusetts holiday, and i grew up in new england and growing up there, i sort of knew, i was slightly aware that patriot's day was commemorating the battles of lexington and concord. but what i really knew from patriot's day was a few things happened. one, the boston red sox would play an 11:00 a.m. home game. so it was like morning baseball, which is really exciting. and that the boston marathon would be run. well

eleanor roosevelt later said mr.can turn it around the widest which led to me exactly like a sheraton hotel. and jacqueline kennedy later said famously, that the true enter design of the white house was early statler. so a handful of able pieces on the state court were restored and put back, leaving the state for looking at least respected. they had some chippendale's and they did their best. but overall the interior decoration was a bit of disappointment the there was not -- until mrs. kennedy redecorated. i also mentioned a shortage of time, and that kind of leads us to the last portion here. harry truman wanted to come back and live in the restored white house for a least a year, but by the summer of 1951 he was realizing that wasn't terribly likely. he said to jb west, assistant usher quote, i've been using a trick him on the contractors to try to speed up reconstruction. he leaned on them, hurry it up. you would expect a president to say that the unfortunately, that pressure and other forces that would exact a v

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our don kondo lenses go out to ann's two exceptional daughters, eleanor and grace, and to her entire family of whom she loved deeply. our thoughts and trares -- prayers are with them in these difficult days. y her spirit continue to inspire us and her memory stay close to our hearts. she touched many lives. we know her soul is resting in peace. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ord. >> i rise today to honor kristen fulford, a member of my staff for the last nine years. chris tan has been an in-- trysten has been an a value yeeble member of team, shemened constituentse sure receive social security payments and helped students prepare for college. mr. barrow: she's taken pride for nearly a decade in helping those in our communities. all of us in congress know how hard our staffs work and we know woe wnt -- we wouldn't be here if it weren't for people like kristen who are our eyes, ears, and helping

when my predecessors and heroines was eleanor roosevelt. that if a woman wants to be involved in the public, and her case she was talking about politics, and it is true in many arenas, she has to grace can as thick as the high -- grow a skin as big as the high they were not service. rhinocerous. to many young women are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant. they are too often selling themselves short. they take criticism personally and that it seriously. you should take criticism seriously. you cannot let it crash you. offhave to be resilient and -- enough to keep moving forward no matter what the personal setback or insults that come your way might be. that takes a sense of humor about yourself and others. it hard-won advice that i'm putting forward. [laughter] [applause] it is not like you wake up and understand that. is a process. you need other women. you need your friends to some argue. you need male friends as well as female ones. you need good role models. all of that is true. but at the end of the day, you have to be good.