president roosevelt: mr. speaker, members of the congress, i have taken the i hope you will pardon me for the unusual posture of sitting down during the presentation of what i want to say. i know you will realize it makes it a lot easier for me not having to carry about 10 pounds of steel around the bottom of my fact i justo the completed a 14,000-mile trip. herman eberhardt: this was an extraordinary moment at the end of his life and presidency. it was the one and only time in his presidency that he acknowledges his disability. histly after delivering speech to the joint session of lta all the conference -- ya conference, he travels down to warm springs, georgia where he had kept a retreat for many years. it was the site of the rehabilitation center he had set up in the 1920's for the treatment of polio patients. he was down there in warm springs on april 12, 1945, when he was stricken by a massive cerebral hemorrhage and died that afternoon. this was a profound shock to the country. people in his inner circ

kennedy never really liked roosevelt. roosevelt never really liked kennedy. however, politicians and politics make strange bedfellows. kennedy was very important in the election of roosevelt. he had lots of money to invest and lots of constituents which would support him. in sum, one has to say that his relationship with churchill was very strange, to the point of breaking at times. his relationship with fdr was strained to the breaking point as well. to read the story about how roosevelt got rid of kennedy shows how deft a politician roosevelt was. kennedy was out of the court of st. james by the beginning of 1941. roosevelt was happy to be rid of him. here is another book length question. what can our current leaders learn from the examples of fdr and churchill? in the case of fdr, certainly personal courage. his triumph over polio was astonishing. his more leadership in the major decisions is an example that you don't have to be full-time on the job to make important strategic decisions which work out. in the case of churchill, there is no more heroic exam

roosevelt and the roosevelt presidency. the exhibition began in 1932, the year franklin roosevelt was elected president of united states. 1932 was a year of tremendous crises for the nation and the world. the country was in the third year of the great depression. in 1929, when the depression began, unemployment in the united states was at 3.2%. by the time roosevelt was running for president in the fall of 1932, it is almost 25%. so, the context of the election in 1932 was of a nation really in a state of disarray. and a state of fear. this gallery really points that out and we have dramatic photography, which -- the state of affairs nationally. this photograph is poignant. it is a photograph of new york central park in 1932. in the foreground, you see a shanty town, one of many like this that had sprouted up across the nation. there were many of them and they were nicknamed hoovervilles. that was named after albert hoover. -- herbert hoover. this is a very poignant reminder of the skill of human suffering -- of this scale

roosevelt was. was out of the court of st. james by the beginning of 1941. roosevelt was happy to be rid of him. here is another book length question. what can our current leaders learn from the examples of fdr and churchill? the case of fdr, certainly personal courage. his triumph over polio was astonishing. in the majorership that you is an example don't have to be full-time on the job to make important strategic decisions which work out. churchill, there is no more heroic example of a war of national survival thing presided over by a prime minister who would never give in. one of his great speeches was never give in. together,d glory go churchill gets most of the glory because he had most of the guts. this question is a good one. , primes about trump minister may, and putin. there is enough controversy in world war ii -- [applause] i hope you will forgive me for passing it. this is a complicated question. do you think churchill and roosevelt should be held accountable for their knowledge of conce

s parents were james and sarah delano roosevelt. and mr. james roosevelt had a wife before sarah. her name was rebecca howland. she passed away in 1876. four years later, in 1880, mr. james married sarah delano. mr. james roosevelt when he married sarah was 52 years old. she was only 26. she was half his age. james and sarah only had the one child, franklin delano roosevelt. >> when mr. james roosevelt, f.d.r.'s father, bought this property in 1867, it was a 17-room farm house. it was about 110 acres of land, several out buildings, for which he paid the huge sum of $40,000, which today is the price of an expensive car but back in those days it was a nice amount of money. the house, however, was enlarged by f.d.r. in 1915, because by then he had a growing family and he had decided as early as 1907, 25 years before he achieved it, that he was going to become president of the united states one day. and so he wanted a grander home for a future president. once f.d.r. became active in politics, quite often events would be held here like when he announced his intention to run for vice pr

roosevelt. i'm irish catholic. i was born in pot stem in upstate new york. my grandparents came over on what has been known cause a copper ship during the irish potato famine. 70 people died along on these ships. my grandparents got here safely. they were quite young and were married as teenagers. they had a baby, daniel. my grandfather, daniel was working on a church building in pot stem and something fell on his head and killed him. my poor great-grandmother never remarried and that's why my father was that unusual creature and only child in an irish catholic family. [laughter] >> but, i'm the youngest of four children, born in pot stem-- i gave away my age. 1896. 80 well-- anyhow we moved to somerville which is it a city within the city of boston and that's where i grew up. i went to public schools there in my education was going along well until i was diagnosed with rheumatic fever when i was a young teenager and spent about two years in bed recovering, so i didn't finish high school until 1

did he out negotiate roosevelt? at that time, roosevelt had two objections. to form the united nations itself to fulfill woodrow , wilson's league of nations. the second was to get russia into the war against japan. remember, war in europe was over may 8-10. the war in japan was not over until we dropped the atomic bomb. i know that date because it is my birthday, august 15, 1945. so that roosevelt did not know that they were going to drop the atomic bomb. he might have if he lived, might have given the order. he did not know then. getting russia into the war was important to him in order to save as a many american lives as -- for the necessary japanese invasion as possible. with the benefit of hindsight, we can all say that stalin got the best deal at yalta, but it doesn't take into account all the considerations which president roosevelt had in mind at yalta at that time. i think dale gregory -- there are a couple of other wonderful questions here. you will forgive me for not answering. i thank you very much. [applause] >> this weekend on american history t

roosevelt wrote a letter on her behalf. there were newspaper reports getting the part, walter winchell leaked that without verifying sources. there was a story out there that she got the part. she would often accompany roosevelt to warm springs, georgia where he would stay for long times to get treatment for his polio. he started going to georgia when he was governor of new york. he met someone named daisy bonner, one of my favorite characters in this book. and she would go for long time to ingratiate themselves with the president, the apps family lend daisy bonner to her, she would stay in a cottage, a little white house in warm spring, introduced to all kinds of specialty. this is a dish that is very popular in georgia but as a chicken curry dish. she and president roosevelt would joke about it, there were 45 ingredients. that was there private joke. also cooked a lot of southern delicacies but the one the are loved was pigs feet. he loved pigs feet. the way daisy bonner would put these, she would boil them, and take them

studying the entire roosevelt era. the room is consistently one of the busiest of all of the presidential libraries into this year's group of authors reflects a wide variety of research done on the grounds. if you love the reading festival, and i'm sure you do, and want to support this and other programs i do encourage you to become a per roosevelt library member. you can join today by seeing warren at the leadership table at the end of the hallway. and if you haven't had a chance yet please, go next door to see the special exhibition images of internment the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. with that said let's go over some of the protocols for the session today carey at the top of each hour the session begins with a three-minute author talk. we can conclude the festival with the keynote address that will happen right here. it's now my pleasure to introduce our offer, geraldine hawkins. working here at the fdr national historical site at eleanor roosevelt vanderbilt mansion. at th david rooseve

and on the far right, eleanor roosevelt. this victory was so immense that fdr really felt confident going into his second term. that he would be able to expand the new deal. he had all kinds of ambitious plans on what he wanted to do on the domestic front during the second term. presidents find out as they go into the second term, events can sometimes take surprising turns. in fact, his second term turned out to be a much different than he thought it would be. very early in the second term, fdr is involved in a big conflict with congress. theecomes concerned that supreme court is striking down a of new deal legislation. he becomes concerned in particular that there is a court case involving the social security act and that it may end --h the court striking down striking it down as unconstitutional. he beat best he comes up with another plan. it was a plant to put additional members on to the supreme court. presumably, at one point, he would then get the majority that would support his legislation. this becomes a very content

roosevelt's great desire to cause crotche -- hee s roosevelt they went down to warm springs and i must say that it was a bit of a shock for us because we have not spent time in the rural south before. welcome to mr. roosevelt got right into the pool and he loved that he said he could feel his toes move for the first time in three years. and soon he could walk about in water up to his chest. after witnessing the execution she didn't enjoy her dinner very much. and then the next morning she said to me he wants steak for dinner tonight. whatever shall i do? okay, i made that part up. but you know what president roosevelt says never let the truth get in the way of a good story. they went back and had the five children to look after her and she's a very busy leedy even then with all of her calls of interest. word got out that such a famous man, such a famous polio survivor was going to swim to health and others were coming. they bought the place and turned it into a very fine rehabilitation facility which it is today still and in 1928 he was convinced to run for governor of new york and he

and roosevelt is much more accommodating as roosevelt is want to be and seems to be persuaded. but eventually he's not because churchill is absolutely adamantly against the idea of informing stalin at all. well, roosevelt dies on april 12th, 1945. and we come to the third period in this. the question of when the, you know, how the bomb will be presented to -- to the world. so the promotion, the promotion period. there were three points of view that emerge in the period between april '45 and august of 1945. the first point of view is do not introduce atomic energy to the world as a weapon used in war. and i'll explain why shortly. and the second point of view is use the weapon to warn the world of the danger the world faces now that an atomic bomb is possible. but after the war promote the idea for the international control of atomic energy. creating a condominium or some kind of arrangement that will prevent a nuclear arms race. and the third point of view is use the weapon to end the war and to make it clear to the soviets that the advantage in conventional forces was now, par

and roosevelt served 12 years. and he was the leader that transcended in some ways what a political leader. i changed the way the federal government sbrling acted with its citizens. when he became president, america was in its most dire state. unemployed. and people were dying in the streets. and roosevelt came in and said this is not right. this is a government by the people, for the people and find ways to help them keep their homes and provide for their farms and improve the environment and faced one of the great environmental disasters because of terrible land practices in the midwest. terrible dust bowl and he understood that you had to stop that for the farmers to be successful, you had to stop the erosion of soil. the conservation corps planted two billion trees from texas to canada. and those winds stop and prevented further erosion and transplanted the landscape. he created a safety net for americans losing their jobs and homes and changed everything that has happened since then. we could argue about the p

roosevelt was sorry. but he was being sketched by the artist he would never sit for her but she had to catch him but then just as he went in and he said what a terrific headache then slumped over in his chair and never ate the souffle but it didn't fall until the moment he died which was two hours later. is to not fall over two hours he had is repro have niche negative 1:12 p.m.. it was supposed to combat 1:15 p.m.. souffle making is a strong concern of the white house cut. jfk was chronically late. and then even hoping jfk would arrive on time. that is the peril to make a souffle. but daisy bonner was very moved by his death if you ever go to georgia and the kitchen area she wrote on the wall dc bonner cut to a first and last meal for the of president it was encased in plastic. she wanted to be known as the first lady of presidential cooking she wanted to open a museum but died before she could put that together. i also want touche to talk to about drinks but fdr embraced the drinking culture i talk abou

franklin roosevelt's second vice president. had an impact in a couple of different ways. first was that roosevelt for the first time for a presidential nominee insisted on henry wallace as his running mate for the third term in 1940, and he said he wouldn't run for a third term if he didn't get wallace as his running mate. that was significant to the institution of the vice presidency because it established presidential nominees choosing their vice presidential nominee. never before that that occurred until 1940 and the precedent was set. so, because of fdr, wallace can be included in terms of the institution as that was significant because it was because of him as an individual that roosevelt was so adamant about this and he wasn't going to take someone that the party gave to him as running mate. wallace also, in terms of significance -- he is known but not that well known. there are people that know of him. he ran for president after he was vice president on the -- as an independent. again, harry truman and he did herefully and known today more for that than anybody els

first was that roosevelt for the first time for presidential nominee insisted on henry wallace as his running mate when he was running on his third term in 1940, and he said he wouldn't run for a third term if he didn't get wallace as his running mate. that was significant to the institution of the vice presidency and the presidency because it established presidential nominees choosing a vice presidential nominee. never before had that occurred into 1940, and now that is, the precedent was set. so because of fdr, wallace can be included in terms of the institution as that was significant, because him as an individual or roosevelt was so adamant about this and he wasn't going to take someone that the party gave to him as a running mate. wallace also, in terms of significance, he's known but he is not that well known. there are people who know of you. he ran for president after he was vice president as an independent against harry truman, and he did horribly. he is kind of note today more for that than anything else, but wallace began several of what i say the vice president as chief ad

but he continued to be a democrat even after roosevelt died. he supported the democratic nominee against richard nixon in 1950, and he continued to support new deal democratic ideals in private conversation well into the 1950s going so far, according to barry goldwater's recollection, of calling him a fascist suspect o.b. when -- s.o.b. when he first met goldwater who were friends of his second wife's parents, loyal davis, in phoenix in the early 1950s. he moved over to the right as he became aware that the democratic party was leafing its ideals -- leaving its ideals as he understood them behind. and he had understood those ideals as using government to help the average person. but you instead began to see the democratic party was interested in power for its own sake, a centralizing vision that made government and socialization of america its animating goal rather than providing assistance to people who needed assistance to overcome obstacles or petty tyranny in their private or in their public lives. and reagan was a very smart man. and he wa

roosevelt dies and truman is now president. wallace begins to criticize truman's tough cold war policies and truman fires him and he runs for-- glad we are getting to this because here's the beginning of buckley watching this as he is in jail and wallace runs as a party candidate. now, buckley knows wallace will not be presidents, but he's terrified that may be wallace will get one or 2% of the vote. he's terrified probably 60 to 70% of that one or 2% of the vote will be artists, writers. ideas matter. ideas have consequences. wallace won't be important, but his followers will be around for a long time and i'm going to set up my movement to resist that can push the kind of politics i want, so even though he is technically support he do we had he's a member of big l republican club he's going around to various radio stations debating the faculty. the fact that the communist party was openly and now, we know he was the director of moscow openly running a presidential campaign and they got too many intellectuals and they figured t

had taken teddy roosevelt camping in yosemite where teddy roosevelt says this is a national park. the secretary of state, this is 100 yosemite, this is america. this is canada, do it again. this is america. we threaten war with canada and took it and didn't pay for it at all. most people remember -- they will be out of here. european partners. if any nation in our hemisphere misbehaves as we decide, we would send the marines and change it. if xi xinping or his successor should be inspired by teddy roosevelt, in a desperate path. >> by comparison, the more outraged i become, comparison with misbehavior, issues which appear in the us media south china sea, nothing to compare with the kind of aggressive assertion of primacy the united states engaged in -- >> the great british tradition, prime minister of britain to 1902. and as teddy roosevelt has done one outrageous thing after another. whatever if we intervened in the civil war, we could have had two americas and this wouldn't be happening to us. and a second chance. >> the message is an interesting one, if the united kingdom did n

roosevelt is frequently criticized for being too pro-jewish. they said that his name was enfeld orros rosenvelt and that he was trying to make his name sound is jewish. the fear that he has the jewish advisers. the secretary of labor goes out on a limb to advocate for increased immigration and she felt like she could advocate for this and she is accused immediately of being secretly jewish. that that is the only reason she might want to help people. so, we still have a lot of hotel and golf club and other things that were gentiles only. >> thank you. >> one more follow-up, the commission, we have been hearing concerns about anti-semitism and the rise of hate crimes in the community. i realize that this may not be in your bailiwick, but i was wondering if the museum has in addressing these concerns? >> we have a division that is working on contemporary anti-semitism, so we are very much aware of this. we follow this not only in the u.s., but also around the world. we know about anti-semitic propaganda, we know what type of speech it is, we take

but -- he had continued to be a democrat even after roosevelt died. he had hollywood for truman barkley and supported democratic nominee against richard nixon in 1950 and he continued to support new deal democratic ideals in private conversation well into the 1950s going so far according to bury gold water recollection of calling him a fascist s.o.b. friend of second life of parents loyal davis in phoenix in early 150s. he moved over to the right as he became aware that the democratic party was leaving its ideal as he understood them behind. and he had understood those ideals as using government to help the average pern. but instead began to see democratic party was interested in power for a centralizing vision that made government and socialization of america its animating goal rather than assistance to people who needed assistance to overcome obstacle or petty tyranny in private or in their public lives. reagan was a very smart man and he was somebody who read and he was somebody who read when he was child. he read when he was on movie sets. he read

was a franklin roosevelt spectacular example of that. he had 998 press conferences as president. schmoozing good at the press. he would tell them, i like you guys. there was more political diversity among newspapers. i like you guys, but it is your publishers and so on that don't like me. kennedy, when he was running for president, would take reporters into his confidence and say, what you think about this? what would you recommend i do? he paid not the slightest attention to their advice, but they were deeply flattered so they liked him as a consequence. host: we are talking with the weekly standard's philip terzian . by free democrats is (202) 748-8000. the line for republicans is (202) 748-8001. s independent, call (202) 748-8002. you can always reach us on twitter as well. when did the relationship between the press and the white house as it currently exists really start to take shape? televisedould say press conferences were introduced by eisenhower. juste old days they would heard them into the oval office. they would stand around the president's desk and it was all off the

and roosevelt decides that when james garner, by the way roosevelt vice president was james garner, former speaker of the house. so you have your own democrat coalition between eight northern liberal and a southern conservative, kennedy and johnson. now garner decides he's not only going to oppose roosevelt's nomination but he's going to run against him. roosevelt's great comment was i see the vice president has thrown his bottle into the rain. and he runs to henry wallace, they win their third term and everything is fine and now you talk about the change in partnerships, but franklin roosevelt, four-time candidate for president in the middle of a world war is saying, playing poker on the white house boat, the mayflower and sitting with him is a fellow named kelly, a labor leader, mayor of chicago. another union leader and the governor and they tell him you know, we can't tell your friend henry wallace in the world war what works, where real people live. and the ukrainians and many of the people, they think he's too close to the reds and you can't run with it. so he dumps henry wallace in

i think frank did well in the roosevelt book. i think he, to some extent, of the the valence analytical apparatus and put it in the service of his narrative. he does have a car on a logical -- he does have a chronological narrative, but the themes play out. roosevelt's small group of advisers and the emotional bonds .ween them -- between them i have not been able to get to that in a couple of things i have been working on, so what i have done most recently, to see if it is going to be successful, is to try to generate narrative momentum at the beginning, then admit that my chapters are going to be largely thematic. as much as possible, i will try to move the narrative along chronologically, but that's not always easy to do when you are dealing with categories like race, gender, religion, thinking about maturity, or the categories i am now using, which are the categories of the five senses. i want to give those senses a featured role in the book. how do you put distances -- the ?enses in motion you start by saying they are in moti

advice, i wouldn't say it falls on deaf ears because roosevelt is responsive that. but he's still fighting the depression. earnest j. king who at the time chief battle of midway is of naval operations and commander of the u.s. fleet, i suggest to you that admiral king is the overlooked world war ii. the man who really says to the we haveiefs, all right, come up with an allied plan and first.plan of germany but admiral king very much to focused on s also the pacific. he's also focused on winning a pouring war and resources into the pacific. and quite frankly, sitting in i would suggest to you that douglas mcarthur is of of the beneficiaries that. because if king had not joint chiefs and they convinced roosevelt to put into the pacific, well, again, we would not maybe japanese meeting the at midway as we ended up doing. ing has two things that he really develops over his career. annapolis in rom 1901. lake orn on the banks of erie in 1878 but through his focuses on , he submarines and aircraft. he's very much a brown shoe that l coming out of aviation wing of the amer

i think the south china sea is as much as teddy roosevelt thought about the caribbean. we can agree, whether i do, if this makes any sense for a big and strong power to say i am the overseer of it because i am bigger and stronger. that is not the way things have been. but the chinese are not happy to have the number of islands that used to be in the south china sea. they think this would be a few extra ones and book them and they are not happy to have the islands divided. they think the vietnamese and filipinos can claim island and they think all these islands look like my islands in the same way teddy roosevelt said i think this looks like my river. well, i don't agree with the proposition that there is nobody clapping on the other side. >> in fairness, i think on the north korean issue at this point you are right. and the chinese at this point seem keen to go along with the idea that the united states and china can work together to deal with the north korean problem. i say this with some authority having heard a very interesting conversation at a high level on this su

the library was established by president franklin roosevelt.

so what was roosevelt's solution? to pack the court and attack the independence of the judiciary. so he introduced a bill in the senate which his opponents referred to as the court packing bill and the reorganization bill where he said too many justices over the age of 70. congress can do this and has the right to appoint up to six justices and every justice over 70 so there could be a court off 15 justices. we started with the justices on the court not even an office number and it was increased to nine. certainly, the better view was it was a terrible attack on the judiciary and one justice who always voted with the conservatives in the important hotel case voted with the liberals and that was called the switch in time so it was no longer necessary to pack the court and a number of them retired because the age caught up with them and roosevelt got to appoint nine justices and the new deal legislation started to be approved in the supreme court. so, we come down to the next issue we saw play out very recently which is how do these judges get their, who are they and how do they get

so low that was with roosevelt and don't remember the llord doctrines but this is our hemisphere. but if another nation misbehaves as we find that we will send the marines to change the government and their after every year to change the government somewhere so should any successor be inspired by roosevelt for sure we will fighters on a very desperate map. >> but what was more outrageous so tight -- china is circumspect as we appear in the u.s. media but nothing with that aggressive assertion of what the united states participated in. >> this from the great british tradition as the prime minister to be in it in this situation >> >> actually united states could have taken canada and was interested but he looked at that more than once her go so did the british. but they noticed what was vital and what we could adjust to they tolerated behavior that otherwise was crude and of reasonable and not fair but nevertheless they help the americans to see that american and british interest were quite a wind with that cultural similarity so therefore the u.s. is the natural supply allied for b

this is lawncrest section right off of roosevelt boulevard, intersection of the oxford and magee a row house on the edge of mcgee's block right there. this is just a 20 minute, 13- mile relatively quick drive to dinardo's bensalem home. these guys essentially friends and neighbors. expect bucks detectives to go back to this northeast philly house armed with the search warrant to see what this guy has got in his place in terms of the any possible evidence for this case beside having just the word of a confessed killer saying this guy is involve. we have learned this second person has a criminal history themselves in philadelphia and history of being a victim of violence. philadelphia police source tells us he was just shot in another incident in march. now through confession if you weren't paying attention dinardo says this guy only helped in three of the four murders and heard jenny explaining two separate graves on the solebury property this guy helped kill three, set bodies on fire and then bury the three according to dinardo's confession and dinardo may be brought back there in hand

and theodore roosevelt. nd i feel often that lots of other biographers and historians have expressed the same thought that you get to know these people in many ways better than you know people in real life. charlie: you read their letters and diaries. david: and the letters are so reveal, so often touching and eloquent and -- and the relationship between bess and harry truman that is found in those letters, the relationship between abigail and john adams found in those loters -- letters, there are over 1,000 letters between abigail adams and john adams. and neither of them was capable of writing a boring letter. or a short one. and you're reminded that history is human. history is not about memorizing dates and statistics and quotations. it's about human beings. and that's why it's so important . jefferson said, any nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never can be. and of course he said, when in the course of human events, and the operative word there is human. none of the

and then of course franklin roosevelt was a reader of history.hower was a great reader of history. truman, as we have said. kennedy. barack obama, great reader of history. charlie: do you consider yourself a man of massachusetts? david: no, i'm a man of pennsylvania, connecticut. we live in massachusetts. i grew up in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. which had a great influence on me. charlie: how so? david: for one thing, it was a city full of history. there was a lot of history talked about. it was during the second world war when i was in grade school, we were very much involved in spirit and attitude in the reality of the war. we in pittsburgh were helping to win the war. we were the arsenal of democracy and so forth and so on. and the conversations at the dinner table were about so much that happened in pittsburgh. the fires and the floods and the strikes and all of -- things like that. and history of our own family. i think that what your parents and your grandparents talk about has great influence on one's interest in history. i think one of the

the library was established by president franklin roosevelt. he was looking for a way to preserve the papers of his administration and also his personal papers.

and he -- roosevelt thought it was so important to be there forever. when the white house had to be rebuilt during truman's presidency, truman made sure it went back into the mantelpiece. then when kennedy was president, he had it carved into the marble part of the mantelpiece rather than wood, which would have been prior to that. what adams wrote to abigail was, "none but honest and wise men rule under this roof." he put honest first. strength of character is what matters in that job, strength of character and confidence that the american spirit is enduring and that the american spirit -- >> rose: which is the title of the book. >> yes. and i have spent a lot of time with john i a dams and harry truman and theodore roosevelt, and i feel often, and lots of other biographers and historians have expressed the psalm thought, that you -- have expressed the same thought, that you get to know these people better than in real life. >> rose: because you read the letters. >> exactly. the letters are so revealing and often touching and eloquent. and the relation

and i had just finished several years with thedore roosevelt. and i said i've been with the roos velts for about four years now and i think i'd really like a change of scene. i said if i were going to write about a book about a 20th century president it wouldn't be franklin roosevelt was harry truman. and everyone around the table said yes, yes, what a great thing. and i thought why did i say that? i never gave three minutes thought about doing a book about harry truman. so ytsds, hold on, hold on, let me go to independence, go to the truman library see what there is to work with. let me talk to margaret, see if she'll cooperate and so on and so forth. and i did and came back very excited about it. so that's how i came to write -- and i remember him vividly because he was president when i was in high school and college. in fact one of my most vivid memories i was 15 and very interested in politics and i grew up in a very republican family. i tried to stay as long as i could to hear the outcome of the election. and the final tally didn't come in

today for our 14th annual roosevelt reading festival. the program format is the author we are talking about for 30 minutes, there will be a 10 minute question-and-answer period and then a book signing out by the store. we have season with us today, we are thrilled so if you are going to have a question please use the microphone on the side so that we can record your sound. these reading festivals and all the programs we do are supported by our members and trustees. we have any members today, raise your hand, there you go. love you guys, we couldn't do this without you and we appreciate your support. if you have one of these buttons for attending today, that will give you free admission to the museum. hope you will visit. we have a wonderful temporary exhibit called images of internment, it is an important exhibit for us, the library has never done an exhibit on a japanese internment before, it is a photography exhibit but very powerful and hope you will see it. this afternoon we have one of our most sensational books. it has sex and dram

it took 100 years to pass, starting with teddy roosevelt a , and then we go to a situation that they would place this in doubt. but remember, president trump, president trump wanted to repeal and delay. trumpcare, 32 million people kicked off the rolls. thank you. we have votes.

roosevelt. but half of them were. and roosevelt was a good politician. with half of the businesses in his pockeet,e knew he could count on the c.i.o.o., the socialists, and the communists to kind of work something out, and here was the deal. "i'm gonna get the money from tthe coorporations and d the rich. i'm gonna help u on a scale you've never seen before. and in return, you're gonna stop talking about getting rid of capitalismsm. you're gonna mute that part of your message. you're gonna celebrate me as the guy who gives the mass of people something they never got b before." so, what did roosevelt do? three interesting things that i'll mention. one--he created the social security system. we never had that before. in the midst of a depression worse than today, when there's no money in the hands of the government--none is comingng in; it's really hard; e can't do anything--the president goes on the radio and announces that every american over 65 years of age who's had a lifetime of worork is now g ga get money fromom the govovernmet for the rest of h his

roosevelt. again talking about a pressing issue of israel, the potential of an israeli state in the middle east is disconcerting to the king. but also nurturing a relationship that will allow this partnership in major oil to continue. eddy going forward will continue to act as a special envoy for the u.s. state department. this is the vision of luce, eddy, the rockefellers, and major oil. there is a parallel returning. there in the 1930's, just as saudi arabia is capturing the imagination of standard oil and others, back in the 4 poorest counties of east texas, another boom occurs. this one will transform oil in two very important ways. this happens on the farm of daisy bradford, a revered christian woman. oil is struck in november of 1930's by columbus merriam, a self-styled prophet similar to the oil hunters we saw in our readings earlier about the late 19th century. those who use charismatic means of hunting for oil. they are called poor boys. they are not able to drill to -- drill to pay --

palms was appointed by teddy roosevelt and brandeis was appointed by woodrow wilson and yet they voted together quite often. most often in dissent on issues involving basic political rights for example. maybe alexander hamilton is coming to get me. in the period of the new deal, the period of the new deal franklin roosevelt, a liberal didn't like what the supreme court was doing and he had a period which is an infamous perry in the history of the court called the lochner era because of the 1905 case where they struck down new york's social legislation that prohibited great thinkers from working a certain number of hours every day or every week. the supreme court said that interferes with freedom of contract and that interferes with this substantial process but you can't tell an employer and worker what kind of contract to make for themselves and later that was discredited by get a whole series of cases which were largely 5-4 franklin roosevelt said these were decisions not under the constitution that over the constitution where they struck down new deal legislation always roosevelt sol

and i had just finished several years with theodore roosevelt. excuse me. so i said, i've been with a roosevelts for about now years now and i think i'd like a little change of scene. and i said, if i were to going to write a book about 20th century president, it would be harry truman. everybody around the table right away, yes. yes, what a great thing. and i thought, why the hell did i say that? [ laughter ] and i to this day no idea why i said it. i never gave three minute's talk to doing a book about harry truman. so, i said, hold on. hold on. let me go out to independence, go to the truman library. see what there is there to work with. talk to margaret and interview him and so forth. i did all that. i came back very excited about it so that's how i came to write -- and, and i remembered him vividly because he was president when i was in high school and college. in fact, one of my most vivid memories is night of the 'viii election i was 15 and i was very interested in politics and e grew up in a very republican family and i tried to stay awake as long as

rock creek parkway, closed between virginia avenue and the roosevelt bridge due to floogd. be aware. northbound near massachusetts avenue, we heard of a tree down in the roadway. unclear if it's a big tree or limb. unsure. authorities are headed to scene. also toward the eastern shore, the focus this morning, anne arundel county and to queen anne's, frtly, dealing with potential closures, power outages, road closures because of trees down, debris, high standing water and lots of signals potentially without power. please, if you're headed from that stretch, no worries at this point on the bay bridge, but be careful on dark intersections. chopper 4 will be in the area throughout the morning. we'll keep you posted. aaron, eun, back to you. >> thank you, jack. one. best swimmers up against a great white shark. michael phelps latest rival getting -- we'll show you how the olympian did on the open sea. >>> if you need a few laughs, catch ellen [ intense music playing ] ] it's here, but it's going by fast. the opportunity of the year is back: the mer