i think you have heard of roosevelt. one or two pieces of information to get our minds going in that direction. yeah, go ahead. [inaudible] the pant in a eyeglasses. it didn't look weird to his friends, but yes. [inaudible] yet, we will talk about that. he really believed in conserving american wildlife. he is there a contradiction there? we can talk about that. anything else? yeah. [inaudible] same time we've been talking about. the carnegies, the rockefellers, the first decade of the 20th century as the time of tiara's presidency. we know a little bit about him. he is not his fifth cousin, franklin roosevelt and the new deal. that will come in a few weeks. this is the first, and the greater, maybe, roosevelt. we will talk about him. a little bit of background here on where and when he was born. his bringing up years. roosevelt was born october of 1858 in new york city. he's a kind of symbolic -- the hardened center of american life, born into a very wealthy family, we will talk about that in a bit. he is very much the

the roosevelt would have liked. truth be told roosevelt's own policies had begun to drift leftward in these years as well. during the course of his presidency and especially by the early 19 teens. he had gotten more radical and more progressive in his views. he decided in 1912 to take just about the unprecedented step of challenging taft for the republican nomination. this happens once in a while in american politics, but not very often okay, so this is you know, this would be in 2024 if another democrat would challenge president biden for the nomination. this is usually seen as disloyal to the party. it's usually seen as unwise as giving a hand to the other party but roosevelt believed or at least told himself. he believed the taft was doing such a poor job that it was time for roosevelt to return to the white house. he challenges roosevelt. he challenges taft for the nomination. 1912 loses doesn't get it. he alleges fraud at the convention the convention and not treated his delegates fairly. that's a very arcane i

that's what roosevelt did. he did not there were those that hated him and believed he was the devil incarnate. everything he did was for his own advantage. and he didn't just say that's the way things are. he went out there and fought them. >> what language did he use the right-wing media saying he's not really the president, he lost the election and to totally delegitimize him. >> you can listenn to the daily newsle editorials from 1942b and 44 and see that they are trying to delegitimize him because he was won by such a big margin that they didn't succeed and by close elections they would have said that they were stolen so i think there are a lot of parallels. i thinku justin is a policymake, you have to get out there and fight for your beliefs andnd bea strong advocate for what you believe because who else is going to fight for you if you are not going to? >> acknowledging first this is not the area of your book so you may not know anything about it, butha i'm curious the other majr way people at that time w

he didn't like roosevelt's protections for unions, and he didn't like roosevelt's taxes on the rich. in his editorials which were often on the front pages of his newspapers hurst blame the new deal for bringing communism. secretly to the country. so here's one typical editorial in 1935 again all caps lock key. since we have moved left, we can see the monstrous russian doctrine being actually applied of grading down the whole population to the level of the lease prosperous. is this the new deal or the new death? so her said that roosevelt's tax plan, which would have raised taxes on the 50 wealthiest people in the united states including him was essentially communism and could have been devised by a composite personality labeled stalin delano roosevelt. now hurst opposition to roosevelt's policies was not confined to the editorial pages despite his rhetorical commitment to objective journalism. so in june of 1935 he directed his editors to not call the tax bill to soak the rich bill, which is roosevelt's title for it. but instead soak the thrifty soak the saving or soak the prosperous

roosevelt. so even though it was not a popular thing to, you know, change the third branch of government, it could have been done, it seems to me, the it had been handled differently. >> and it's not just self-sabotage. there are external events. there are a couple of things that sort of happened in that first 30, 40 days. announcement of the plan in february. by early march the senate hearings are starting. the supreme court justices send a letter to the chairman of the committee that basically says we're current on our work. so they blow up the cover story. but then the supreme court in mid march starts to hand down decisions upholding new deal laws. all of a sudden this supreme court problem is receding. a state minimum wage is upheld, the national labor relations act is upheld. social security is argued that spring by robert jackson and charles la zahn sky, and its constitution toally is upheld. so that kind of confluence of events, i think, really made it much less necessary to do something

roosevelt. so even though it was not a popular thing to, you know, change the third branch of government, it could have been done, it seems to me, the it had been handled differently. >> and it's not just self-sabotage. there are external events. there are a couple of things that sort of happened in that first 30, 40 days. announcement of the plan in february. by early march the senate hearings are starting. the supreme court justices send a letter to the chairman of the committee that basically says we're current on our work. so they blow up the cover story. but then the supreme court in mid march starts to hand down decisions upholding new deal laws. all of a sudden this supreme court problem is receding. a state minimum wage is upheld, the national labor relations act is upheld. social security is argued that spring by robert jackson and charles la zahn sky, and its constitution toally is upheld. so that kind of confluence of events, i think, really made it much less necessary to do something

roosevelt turned on him. he was afraid as a southerner he wouldn't carry through his liberal agenda. he left robinson hanging. really a very sad episode in history. robinson, i found out, his best friend was bernard baroque, i didn't know that. -- >> there is a college named after him isn't there? >> well, that's where i work. baruch college, but rookie of course being a famous financial adviser to fdr. it is strange just the way things turned that whole thing could've been settled long before it went down to defeat. if the plan had been carried through rose about would've appointed robinson to compromise and maybe a 0. 2 justices not go for the full six. as i keep coming back to this he was adamant that he was going to have his way or the highway. >> all i have two more quick comments about the appointees. i want to flag felix frankfurter he was of course brilliant and his career i think most closely to the judicial restraint model that actually the court packing model is about that our country should be mad

and roosevelt is well aware of it. there was no doubt in anyone's mind that there was a great catastrophe unfolding and been gall. churchill. the decision was so be it. ah, the 1st meeting radically changes roosevelt's attitude to style it. it's a pleasure working with him. there's nothing devious. the outlines the subject, he wants disgust, and he sticks to it. roosevelt warms up the salad and he starts talking to us dollar and making fun of the british, making a fight of churchill says winston got out of bed on the wrong side today. and by the end of that, he was to call him uncle joe. and in some ways, as the u. s. and the soviets were more on the same page in certain respects than the u. s. and the british were at the time, during the same period, the germans offered stalin a trade for his son, yackel who was being held in a concentration camp and exchanged but general field marshal feed. rick palace captured near stalingrad. the kremlin musta answered. i don't trade soldiers promotionals the allies knew about it.

roosevelt w was engaged in a conspiracy. hehe gave an independent speech where he used conspiritters or conspiracy in one sentence. this was to scrap the constitution and cocommunism of russia. paterson and mckarmic press. they would presumably come with war. if it passed, we might be in our last hours of piece. we might be in the last hour of democracy and freedom. in the own personal column they warnedcr readers democracy would die. what would happen then would die inr, the disaster in the flamesf the holocaust. they will rise the scholar woman of communism of >> the daily news for example pretty regularly that roosevelt would cancel the elections are rig the elections in 1942 election, 1944 election, roosevt better for a fourth term, really make them crazy, and if roosevelt one fourth term the daily news speculated that it is essentially that he will win a fifth term and then he's extremely love of power the presidency determined never to give it up if he could help it they predicted that he would try to have a son is a s

mm. roosevelt had a strong interest in the u. s. hassan, moving against japan and stuff and needed to secure the ussr, the eastern borders. get back south. jacqueline under cal real islands. the territories lost during the rousseau, japanese war, poland his fate was also being decided. churchill wanted the exile, the london pro western government to return to warsaw. stanley needed frenzy, poland. and he insisted on a free election. roosevelt, bank, stalin, and churchill had to concede, but bar girlish door shut. i looked up sure. measured victoria. good man, you could show more as to from, from a pressure you should the ball but underscore him. tusky popped out a glare and able to ship his leeway in the portia, my boyfriend laughed as de la with some mcculla dog scuttle and that shamal wish. oh hello. no. why not? roosevelt proposed a new internet tional coalition, the united nations organization. the victorious countries were given the right to veto the u. n's key decisions or reborn after a more premier. mr. to pretend you sur

so the roosevelt school, the newly created roosevelt school here, which is a degree granting operation, just getting into going, which will be on public policy and international affairs. we are focused both the society of presidential descendants and the roosevelt school on training. first of all, on training the next elite group of leaders of our country in various ways, and in providing a forum for all kinds of thought leaders in the country to come here and wrestle with the issues. of course, this country has issues now, right? there's nothing to worry about. and two of the major sort of initiatives of the society of presidential descendants, other than just meeting every other year, one is civics education. one of the real problems face in this country is we've completely forgotten to educate our citizenry. you hear all the time about my rights. my rights, who has not told them that you don't get rights without responsibilities? and, you know, that seems to have completely disappeared. so we want to be part of a national effort to recruit. eight civics education at all levels, at a

they minimized it as a sort of low point for roosevelt but not that big a deal and yet for teddy roosevelt it was a very big deal in his who's who in america that used to be a big thing peoplele remember where yu would a sort of right in and add things to your bio. roosevelt added this as one of the great accomplishments. did this case have any legs when it came to libel in the u.s.? >> it was a tough case but this is beforee a "new york times" versus sullivan so this is before the legal standard was that something wasn't true so the question came down to was the allegation true. they got very much into the weeds of the state politics and who he was working with and at t sort of deals that were involvee talking about the other work and was he corrupt in that work and should that be considered relevant to the trial. it certainly wasn't a case that set significant precedent but it is a case that put libel wall on the map and it was a reminder that yes you can get angry about something but you better be prove it because this ended up i think in the end backfiring. >> and it varnished the repu

theodore roosevelt. i'm you know the what do i call the chairman of the school and a professor at nyu and? just delighted about it. elihu i won't go on about it's just a fabulous school it is being turned from an almost dead private small private here on long island and they had the good fortune. i don't want to sound like i'm sort really groveling here too much, but anyway, we had the good fortune of having kim kline. dr. klein appointed president. and what she's done is i mean, the thing i'm most impressed about, of course, is that roosevelt school, there are only 31 veterinarian schools in the country and she got the 32nd and they're places like north dakota, a big animal state that has no and an excellent university, has no school who really a fabulous achievement and that's just one of many things they've been doing here. all right. enough of that. i'm going to start i'm just going to go round the room here. so why don't we start with? you okay? sounds good. thank you. tweed. what if i'd known that

>> franklin roosevelt, unlike truman's nominees to the court, franklin roosevelt's nominees are well known by many americans. certainly by anyone who has suffered their way through law school. there were these profound jurists. they were giant pillars of the law. they did not like each other. perhaps that goes hand in hand. they did not get along. it was not just a matter of ideology, which it was. they agreed on new deal policy, but i did not agree on too much of it. there was a fact that they personally came to dislike each other in this insular environment. they had to work closely together without the phalanx of clerks that justices have now. they had clerks, but it was not what we have today. they had to work more closely together. they had come to actively dislike each other. they suspected each other's ambitions. you end up with a situation which franklin roosevelt ended up with. i should say the supreme court ended up with. a few justices think that justices appointed by the same president. they think that the same president but appointed them, that justice wants to be presid

the roosevelt family. the delano family were old money that had built their fortunes in merchant ah, ship building other trades. roosevelt was a pragmatist. and when it suited american interests was prepared to cooperate with the soviet union, it was under his rule that you, a soviet diplomatic relations were established in 1933. franklin delano roosevelt is recognized by many in the american historical and academic and political ranks as one of the greatest for term presidents in history. the only president to ever serve 4 terms. in fact, for his work in resuscitating the united states after an economic depression that occurred after the fall of the stock market in the 19 twenty's. the big 3 is how the allied 2nd world war leaders were known. they had for him personalities were from very different backgrounds and had opposing views, each defended their own peoples and ruling classes, interests their best, di him in the shifter. the men tried krista thank up as non east in his books and on lot. so who has