to the franklin d. roosevelt presidential museum. i appreciate you coming out on this rainy summer day. we have a great program in store for you.

to the franklin d. roosevelt presidential museum. i appreciate you coming out on this rainy summer day. we have a great program in store for you. i think the new exhibit that we have on d-day, if you get an opportunity, i hope you will go over and visit it while you are here. it looks at the relationship between franklin roosevelt and winston churchill as they prepared for d-day. the special exhibit will be up through the end of the year. how many people here are members of the library? raise your hand. that is fantastic. it is your support that allows us to do programs like this. we really appreciate it. i think it is important public programs allow us to bring authors and experts in from around the country. today we have a real remarkable historian and author with us. william casto has written a series of books. he is a paul whitfield one professor at texas tech. this -- his scope of historical books range from foreign affairs and the constitution of age of fighting sale. and the supreme court in the early repu

to the franklin d. roosevelt presidential museum. i appreciate you coming out on this rainy summer day. we have a great program in store for you. i think the new exhibit that we have on d-day, if you get an opportunity, i hope you will go over and visit it while you are here. it looks at the relationship between franklin roosevelt and winston churchill as they prepared for d-day. the special exhibit will be up through the end of the year. how many people here are members of the library? raise your hand. that is fantastic. it is your support that allows us to do programs like this.

casto is the author of, "advising the president: attorney general robert h jackson and franklin d. roosevelt." the franklin d roosevelt presidential library and museum hosted this program. we have a great program in store for you. i think the new exhibit that we have on d-day, if you get an opportunity, i hope you will go over and visit it while you are here. it looks at the relationship between franklin roosevelt and winston churchill as they prepared for d-day. the special exhibit will be up through the end of the year. how many people here are members of the library? raise your hand. that is fantastic. it is your support that allows us to do programs like this. we really appreciate it.

entered world war ii, our president, franklin d. roosevelt, put a call out. >> we must be the great arsenal of democracy. michigan and detroit in particular were quick to answer the call. they switched over to war manufacturing, including all of the automobile factories. one of the most successful factories that was built to make products for the war was ford motor company's will overrun the plant.- willow run this mural shows the innovation of making planes on an assembly line. the plant started construction in 1941. it was completed in 1942. 1940 3, 40 1000 people were working to build airplanes in this plant. by the end of the war, the factory had built just under 9000 b-24 bombers. at one point, they were rolling one off the line every 63 minutes. wartime work was very different. most of the able-bodied men who have worked in factories went off to serve in the war. , there was mass migration of people coming up from the south. detroit was so overcrowded that they had to live in tents in vacant lots. the war gave opportunity to color,nd pe

when in nineteen thirty two thirty three when it kind of went downhill the americans voted franklin d. roosevelt. and the germans were voted hitler and now i'm off to. from thirty three to eighty nine. east germany was and i'm down to fascist and communist rule they didn't know anything about democracy the never learned about democracy they weren't taught about democracy and now they're revolting against democracy and it's the old men who never bothered who never questioned themselves who knew who were. who were in fact agree with this system would rate that peace with the system now they found another outlet for their horrible anti democratic attitudes it's just a terrible terrible thing we will match to how lenient on them after reunification berlin you're actually that's exactly the point this is the thing that you sermons resent if you are a travel to saxony. am to them democracy didn't deliver on their expectations of what they want the real thing promised and the last thing they want right now from politicians is to be elected on how democratic they are and whether their opinion is valid o

smith at the time of his careeprime of hiscareer was a ge and clearly was a preamble to franklin d-delta roosevelt's new deal in the progressive tradition. great, great political history and well-done. and finally, a book i want to highlight a there's a lot of people who get the history wrong about franklin eleanor roosevelt during the nazi period in the 30s and during world war ii about what he could do and didn't give. this book is a more sympathetic portrait of franklin eleanor roosevelt was dealing with and what he tried to do. there are a lot of pressures in the united states at the time, not very many privy to these pressures and he had to face those headlines and he was constantly pressing the system when nativism into this huge movement could keep us out of the entanglements led by demagogues like a lindbergh and those were forces he had to contend with many of which were tinged with darrell and anti-feminism and he tried to resist that and to try to allow specialty jewish refugees into the united states and especially children. children. it didn'didn't always succeed ot as forcefully as may

in his 1941 state of the union address, president franklin d roosevelt outlined four freedoms. freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. this weekend on american artifacts, we tour the george washington university museum to learn about the four museums that norman rockwell created to represent these ideals. here is a preview. quest to rockwell's paint the four freedoms actually began in failure. he began a series of sketches and came to washington, d.c. and presented them at the up as of or information. -- the office of war information. the leader at the time rejected the idea and sent him away without a commission to paint roosevelt's four freedoms. on his trip home, he stopped in philadelphia and met with his editors at the saturday evening post who embraced the idea and ,nstructed rockwell to go home not to work on other features, but to focus on the four freedoms. he was given three months. it took him seven to conceive and paint the pictures once he began. the first painting he worked on, the one that gave him the inspiration for the

tonight we hear about president franklin d roosevelt and his relationship with robert jackson, who served during his administration as solicitor general, attorney general, and as a supreme court justice. that is what is coming up here on american history tv. >> this fall, american history tv's reel america is winding back the clock. next, from 1972, candidates journal paid for by the mcgovern for president committee. it follows the south dakota and senator and democratic nominee as he meets a variety of voters across the united states struggling with economic problems. he hears from a baltimore steelworker, senior citizen, wisconsin farmer, unemployed engineer and wheelchair-bound vietnam veteran. mcgovern lost to richard nixon in a landslide that year, winning only the district of columbia and massachusetts. [film begins] >> waves of planes and helicopters, both american and south vietnamese, have made thousands of sorties. senator mcgovern: during the years, i have found that campaigning can be a lonely business, a succession of airports, motels, not seeing my family for weeks at a time

. >> in his 1941 state of the union address, president franklin d roosevelt outlined four freedoms, freedomspeech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. this weekend we tour the george washington university museum to learn about the four paintings norman rockwell created to represent these ideals. here is a preview. painted in 1963 reflecting upon an incident in 1960 of ruby bridges, the first little girl who was brought to an all-white school as new orleans was segregated. wasoccasion of this meeting the 10th anniversary of brown v. board of education, the supreme court case that mandated integration in the schools and declared separate but equal was not sufficient in the united states. however, it was understood that in many communities the foot dragging, the delays, the lack of care of leadership of communities was delaying the integration of these schools and rockwell was troubled by that in ,he 10th anniversary look back reached back for this image of ruby bridges where he imagined it based on photographs, documents of the time and created his own image that was