fdr's new -- fdr new stalin wanted it and stalin was informed of fdr's involvement. in 1939, increasingly concerned with the menace of hitler, roosevelt tried to strengthen stalin stand against hitler. fdr pushed a reluctant british foreign office into responding to a russian request for a military alliance with britain and france. it was only after the british foreign office or alternated between rudeness and procrastination that russia opened up talks with nazi germany that ended up with the signing of the nazi soviet pact. fdr meddled further has realized that english russian negotiations had failed. he said the stalin a letter by devious route warning them not to sign on with hitler. it was of course too little and too late. fdr had no delusions about stalin. in 1940 speaking to a group of students gathered at the white house, he famously said that stalin's dictatorship was quote as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world, ma and that quote, is guilty of the indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent victims. from the start fdr was thinking of how to

>> i think it's basically an fdr sentiment which is -- an anti-fdr sentiment. i would characterize it as irrational. thank you. >> does it have any force? >> i think there are people who believe all kinds of things to in the world without any -- the world is full of strange ideas. i would hope that more and more people would appreciate what fdr did, and how he began to bring stalin on a road to being civilized. >> good evening. thank you for joining us today. >> hi. >> you touched on it a little bit. i've been curious how you would feel if roosevelt had lived, had events unfolded as to posed to what did happen with the start of the cold war. >> i don't know. it's conjecture. thank you for bringing up the question. i think that if hey had lived there there's a chance there wouldn't have been a cold war. it was the atom bomb that changed everything as far as the soviet union was concerned. we withheld knowledge of the greatest weapon that had ever been devised and after all we were supposed to have been their best friends and we were supposed to have been equal a

fdr had no delusion about stalin. in 1940, at the whitehouse he said stalin's dictatorship was as absolute as any in the world and he was guilty of the killing of thousands of innocent victims. fdr was thinking of how to curb russia's might after the war was won. one night fdr conifieded in the canadian prime minister. i am quoting from his diary, the president would like to talk about freeing armorment and bringing stalin in the picture. he said that was necessary. he asked if i remember the saying if you cannot beat the devil, join them. he said russia was going to be powerful and the thing was to get the plans made for disarmorment. later in the evening, king wrote, fdr repeated watson's if you cannot beat him join him. and went on to say the united states britain and china could not defeat russia. the thing to do was get them all working on the same lines. he came to what he said was con fp confident confidential and added don't give me away. the secretary of state was in moscow two two weeks after the churches we

with the magic power of fdr shatter all presidents?the results are now conclusive, roosevelt wins. >> the nation was jubilant -- fdr had done it again and at hyde park, roosevelt and his family received the well wishes of their neighbors. again, the president addressed the nation. in the presence of nations, fdr ask for broader powers and had ever before it been given to any american president. president roosevelt: the first and fundamental effect is what started as a european war has developed as the nazis always intended it should develop a war for world domination. therefore, with a found consciousness of my responsibility to my countrymen and to my country's cause, i have tonight issued a proclamation that an unlimited national emergency exists and requires the strengthening of our defense to the extreme limit of our national power and authority. >> with the world racing the greatest conflict of all-time with the rights of all free people in danger, roosevelt met winston churchill on the high seas, gave a pledge to the world -- and

fdr knew this and dovetailed with his mindset. he kept emphasizing the powerful nations who would later take form but the addition of the members of the security council on the rest of the nations. at the conference, roosevelt was passed in the russian embassy. he assumed by the way that it was bugged. stalin developed a habit of dropping by soon to make sure he was being well taken care of. therapy now who spoke english remembered that she happened to see stalin one morning when she was somewhere near fdr sneaked an obviously she translated may i comment? roosevelt than welcome. the conversation began the stalin simple question to roosevelt. how are you? did you have a good sleep. the president replied yes, i had a good sleep. i like it here. however, the frogs cap croaking at the pond and i cannot fall asleep. i turned around and looked at stalin and an agitation i forgot and i said yes to this aroma those flagella animals croaking in the pond but the president of the u.s.a. according to all the frogs being killed. before the fi

fdr at the age of 38 was the youngest vice president joel candidate in history. eleanor

but fdr's plan, social security, would pay for itself.loyers and employees would contribute to a pension fund. social security would be a national insurance policy for future generations of senior citizens payable upon retirement. even fdr's relatively modest social security -- monthly benefits started at just $10 -- met powerful opposition. senator huey long thought the benefits were too low. he didn't think the employees should have to pay anything in. republican presidential candidate alf landon blasted social security as the biggest tax increase in history. fdr put all his prestige and popularity behind the social security bill. seems to me that if the senate and the house of representatives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this security bill social security act, the session would be regarded as historic for all time. schoumacher: fdr was riding a crest of desperation and hope. social security rolled through congress and on to the white house. this social security measure gives at least some protection

fdr is the first modern president. he not only gained a lot of power and took a lot of power is the president in the modern sense because we are fighting for depression and world war ii but also he understood the importance of the mass media as few other presidents ever has. palladio and newspapers for the media and franklin roosevelt understood particularly the power of radio. millions of americans have radios in their homes. i understood he could enter their homes as their leader in him in him and i got there i met him think we could fashion a 19 media superstar and that is part of the celebrity in chief notion to post code that americans care what herbert hoover was doing her part was doing a authentic was doing i thought that you have was doing i thought that you have a quiet thing that that is the ability to bring americans into the world of the president and to be interested in the president as a person him and left him and him him and that is to try to please people him and him and him him him him him him him hi

stalin sought from fdr and alliance that would stop working with the next tech the fdr natives and it dovetails with this mindset. he kept emphasizing that the four powerful nations come where the four policemen would later take form with the addition of france as the permanent members of the security council would ride herd on the rest of the nation's. at the tehran conference rosa was housed in the russian embassy. he assumed by the way that is rooms would be bugged. stalin developed a habit of dropping by his room to make sure he was being well taken care of. a woman who spoke english remembered that she happened to see stalin one morning when he was somewhere fdr's suite come and, obviously, intent on visiting the president. she translated stalin asked, may i come in? roosevelt said well. the conversation began with stalin's simple questions to roosevelt or how are you? did you have a good sleep? the president replied yes i had a good sleep. i like it here. however, the frogs kept croaking in the pot and i could not fall asleep. i turned around and said to her and look at stalin a

so what was alice's relationship with fdr?i know there was a bit of tension between the two sides of the family. do you know anything about that relationship? >> yes, alice really to put it mildly did not like fdr. alice was a republican. fdr was the other side of the family. but strangely eleanor was alice's cousin. and franklin was a second cousin. and alice through most of eleanor's life was not very kind to her either. quite vicious. but in that i ever later years, they convened of mended ways and became friends but she never supported fdr. it was very outspoken about it. >> hi. i know that you spoke about some members of congress that came and frequented dupont circle. but i know that some supreme court justices also frequented the circle. >> yes. >> did your research turn anything up about that? >> yes reggie there were self supreme court justices who did live in due pop the circle, basically along massachusetts avenue between 17th and circle and with so many people staring at me, i can't tell you which ones. but yes. >>

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we will get to reagan later on fdr, however dubious that may be.a dubious that idea of capitalism and democracy, just because i think rogan is being a little more similar to sellers in that there is something climactic about this triumph of capitalism. something irreversible about this process that andrew jackson unleashes on america. i do not think rogan lives or dies on that. professor feller: let's tackle this issue of capitalism, a word which now, like some virus, has so infected the historiography and we will see in some of things we are reading later. i'm not saying capitalism is something we should avoid. or an ocular their selves against. it just can be used in so many different ways to so many different ends and along with that being market revolution. i was startled when i came back to reading rogan as few years -- a few years ago. i read it way back when. i read it. i had forgotten it. he is using this term. he is not using the term "market revolution." he has one third of the book titled market revolution. he was way ahead of his time.

. >> action item review and approval of 2014 fdr s annual report. >> we've accept it as submitted it is a long document we've all reviewed that i'll entertain a motion to adoption. >> second. >> open up for public comment seeing none mop have comments. >> beautiful pictures where's the first picture is that still or. >> cover. >> the cover page. >> the federal reserve. >> oh the federal reserve. >> all in favor, say i. passes unanimously thank you item number 19 please. >> item 19 an action item receive for the government consulting services. >> the current consulting was the that's the consultant for as long as i've worked here expires and in accordance with our selection policy we recommend that the retirement board approve issuing the attached rfp for the services and i'll be happy to answer any questions you might note that is a tight schedule but the last time around we had very of you folks that met the qualifications so we believe that this is a reasonable schedule for those types of services. >> chair mr. entertain the motion. >> i'll make that motion. >> open up for public c

transport workers local 258 percent keep fund and sf moderates san francisco young democrat accuracy fdr democratic club of san francisco political action committee residential buildings association of san francisco pack san francisco personality political action committee, district 11 democratic club i have no more slips. >> will you select two from this batch. >> tag team back and forth. >> okay. >> i'm bob i was commissioner in the 6 of 2000 district 11 democratic club san francisco young democrat accuracy thank you. >> so that's it for the campaign committees now move on to the lobbyists. >> similarly the lobbyists are divided two 3 levels of activities we've select committees from those 3 levels two from the highest level and one each from the next level again, we need volunteers. >> san francisco chamber of commerce reuben, junius & rose llp appoint associates glad advisors peterson hayward and associates, sf aa b m w l l and partners inc. and ss associates. >> okay. so we need a volunteer to select two from this group. >> la point and associates, san francisco chamber of commerce.

i also serve on the boardf fdr democratic club representing political needs orphseniors and beepal with disabilities. one point that i share from both of my constituents is the need of expanded expenses or funding for pedestrian and vision zero safety for seniors. there is in the planning point now a senior center being cruthed at the intersection of 3 supervisor districts. 5, 6 and 8. we have gay seniors who will be living at 55 and 95 laguna at the intersection of human, market, gurarey, [inaudible] where is effective planning being carried out there in the walk first campaign, which i strongly love? how will it be addressed in the 200 thousand dollars? the coming residence in the complex of 55 and 95 laguna. we need to insure the pu edestrians moving in the facility [inaudible] safety as they travel in car, foot and bicycle. please, consider that in your budget review. >> thank you mr. [inaudible] thank you for also attending our state meeting ing 2 weeks ago to advocase for a resident in the san francisco bay area. is there any other public comment at this time? seeing none public c

the people's republic of vermont went 0 for 4 when it came to voting for fdr.he single most republican state in the union was vermont of all places. they did bring themselves to vote democrat for lbj in 1964. that year it was hard not to.

the people's republic of vermont went 0 for 4 when it came to voting for fdr. the single most republican state in the union was vermont of all places. they did bring themselves to vote democrat for lbj in 1964. that year it was hard not to. after that, vermont went back to its old solid republican ways it was the most solid republican place in the union for the next election, they voted republican again and again and again and again. it was not until 1992 when vermont tipped and tipped for good. vermont had been the most republican state in the country, when they started to vote democratic in 1992 they never went back and by the time george w. bush was running for president in 2000, he won the country that year, but he lost vermont by 10 points, and when george w. bush ran again he lost vermont by 20 points, fewer votes were cast for george w bush in vermont than any other state that created a little bit of a dilemma for president george w. bush, he made a point to travel to 49 other states in the country. he went to alaska four times. even though george w. bus

there's nothing more depressing than a depression-era-fdr economic policy. the government can't take anything from people unless they compensate them. and they aren't compensating these families. i hope they win. >> can i just point out, the fifth amendment, you know the one, preserve my right to remain soilant, also toward the end of the fifth amendment says the government shall not take private property for public use without just compensation. >> there's no public use in manipulating prices. there's only collectivist use. look at -- reference what juan just said. if it wasn't for government intervention we'd all starve. i mean that is patently false, completely -- that is the methodology. that's the ideas that people all this intervention into what should be a free market. >> i was going to say, there's something more fundamental to this. you think back how the security made supreme court made this decision. we have the same thing about obamacare. chief justice roberts who did not listen to the arguments that came before the court on obamacare. he had to

the people's republic of vermont went 0 for 4 when it came to voting for fdr. for all of the 19th

but from the point of view of american policy you know and what fdr was secretly agreeing to do, let the french back in, and harry truman did do, and eisenhower did do, all of these had to be very much obscured from the american people because sustaining the french empire was not part of american ideals. or to me -- so it was illegitimate from the beginning. to me that meant in '69, when i read these documents, that it was unjustified homicide, which i saw as murder. not just an error. not just bad, incompetent policy. it was mass murder. to be killing people who wanted to be independent in order to sustain an imperial control of them. whether it was the french or ours. i didn't think we had any more legitimate right to run vietnam than the japanese or the chinese for 1,000 years before them or the french. and we had no more prospect of doing it. >> dan you men when you went to vietnam in the '60s -- >> '69. i had a different perception in '64, '65. >> everyone knew that indochina was a french colony. i mean, that wasn't a secret. >> you know, as a historian -- how old are you? >> 46

quoting fdr who said the same thing though fdr didn't do so on twitter. >> you like a little crazy. >> a little crazy. >> glance into the camera. that was borderline creepy. >> i like him. >> there you go. >> all right. >> thank you, scott. >>> keeping our eyes on what's going on on 880. we just got word all lanes have been reopened after a really bad crash but we'll check in with mike in just a moment. >>> first, temperatures coming down. >> which is going to make the day a little bit easier for you. i know when it's hot out there just driving home from work can be a little bit more frustrating as we get into this afternoon, we're going to drop by a good ten, even 15 degrees. san francisco at lunchtime. 62 degrees. rounding out the day in the city by the bay and 55 degrees. much cooler. pleasant conditions to finish off. 75 degrees for us here in the south bay. so temperatures are going to be really nice. we also have this good to moderate air quality. this will continue. and this is really in part because of that beautiful, beautiful shower activity that we had over the weekend. we'

now, i started working with sue over a decade ago when she was working on her first fdr and stalin bookas chatting at dinner with her i reminded her that we really bonded over trying to figure out the map room time coding system because when she was doing her book of fdr and stalin correspondence, she was committed and dedicated to making sure she knew the order of when messages left the map room when they were received, and did stalin and roosevelt see them or did they cross before they responded to each other. so that's how sue and i bonded many, many years ago in the archives. ..

fdr and jfk. and they stoo up for thed up for the mid class and it's because of their values. all the republican opponents that we'll be laying it on her have kind of lost sight of the fact that what her policies are. >> brad, i'll give you the last word. >> the danger are of putting all your eggs in one basket is there are probably more than would be person trying out for the job of the cvs manager than the president on the democratic side. a very dangerous proposition when you prevent other democrats take the field. and americans don't want core-- >> we'll leave it there. thanks to both of you. >>> speaking of the republican opponents, on the other side of the presidential baltlot, marco rubio expected to throw his hat into the ring tomorrow with his own presidential announcement. that oweccurring in miami. hi karl. >> reporter: should not there will be three. marco rubio of florida will announce his presidential candidacy tomorrow and in so doing, take himself out of the running for running for senate re-election here in the sunshine state. that immediately sets up a quick

. >> it would not be without the vision of fdr. more specifically, our personal lives. our community has benefited greatly. the tennessee valley authority has been one of the greatest federal projects. >> to watch all of the winning videos and to learn more, go to c-span.org and click on steenkamp. -- click on student cam. tells what you think on facebook and twitter. >> next a look at issues. from washington journal, this is 50 minutes. paul: we will talk politics and specifically progressives and the election. thank you for joining us, cenk uygur. what is a young turk? cenk: the largest new show in the world, 32 channels, largest network on you, about 120 million views on youtube on facebook. to your actual question of what a young turk is, it is a young progressive looking to overthrow the established system. that is what we are looking to do here. washington is enormously corrupt. we looking to change the system. paul: once you overthrow the system, talk about 2016 for us. cenk: as things stand today, the number one issue is getting money out of politics. and to get

fdr acted quickly.again would farmers see such a torrent of legislation passed for their benefit. for the first time there was a national program to raise farm income by guaranteeing minimum prices for farm goods. president roosevelt could not have envisioned that over the years, the formulas determining who receives farm subsidies would evolve in such a manner that it's corporate agri-businesses who are receiving the farm subsidies not the small, struggling family farmers that president roosevelt envisioned in the 1930s. at that point in time, we had a significant percentage of the population that was directly engaged in agriculture so the subsidies were focused on sustaining a very large percentage of the population. over time, we have seen that population in agriculture dwindle down but the notion that you need to protect that food supply has always been there. schoumacher: by the mid-1990s, with a booming economy and high agricultural prices congress decided it was time to wean farmers from depressi

to be like anybody, let alone fdr. he was free to take charge. to be himself. and show what he could do if he had to do it. and he said to bess in a memorable sentence a private letter to bess i'm doing as i damn please for the next two years. to hell with all of them." and that's when he really started to roll. that is when all of these greedy competence come in. therefore, it seems to me, that is an example of what, o ne brilliant example of what we can all learn from that career. when he did take office in 1945 at the death of franken roosevelt, it was one of the worst points in the history of the world. and certainly no president ever came into office with anything like the burden he would have to assume. the war had taken 196 and 999,000 american lives. which as he knew was more than three times the american , in which he fought in combat. at the current rate the war was costing more than 900 casualties a day. just for us. he was commander-in-chief of an armed forces exceeding 16 million men and women. let's not f

was playing for its fifth national title while wisconsin was playing in its first title game since fdrsident. the crowd of over 71,000 at indy saw 16 lead changes. 2nd half badgers up seven. off the inbound pass player of the year frank kaminsky with 21. they led 48-39, but duke goes on a 15-6 run to tie the game. allen had 16 off the bench. wisconsin back up two. tyus jones with 2. 90 seconds left, duke up 63-58, jones again for three put the nail in the coffin. duke would win it 68-63 capturing the program and coach k's fifth national title. >> i've been in this 40 years and i'm the coach of that group that did this. how good is that? so when you're already happy and you get happier, it's pretty damn good. it's pretty good. >> mike krzyzewski is still five behind john wooten, but five is not bad. speaking of happy you believe this folks at home? liz cook, i am humiliated, liz cook winds the kpix5 bracket challenge with 270 points. ken bastida in eighth and i finish 14th. is that accurate? where does brian hackney finish? he's not even saying anything. >> i do get a little cred in the

robert frost, not a prophetic poet like abraham lincoln walt whitman, not even a popular poet blake fdr or ronald reagan, madison's poetry reagan, madison's poetry speaks to us of the structural harmony of the 45 words of the first amendment and the 462 words of the bill of rights meticulously organized to tell an enduring story of freedom and democratic water without a cause, not a word not an idea how to place. when you go home tonight after you buy my book take the time to read the full text of the first amendment can ask yourself why it is ordered as it is marked listen to the democratic story it tells you cannot to begin the process of reinserting the music of democracy into a currently ruthless first amendment has lost its way. trevor norman and i expect to see you all here next year for the 2nd annual lecture, this time on hearing madison's music and the rest of the bill of rights. for now let me say good night. thank you for coming, stay warm,, stay warm, and have a safe trip home. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> interested in american history? watch american history televis