examines the key events that marked his wartime reelection, in which he defeated republican house dewey. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> my book is called, as you heard, final victory. final victory suggests that there were nothing but victory is in his life. actually, that wasn't the case. he did have to terms as a state senator from new york state and he became assistant secretary of the navy in a little more one. he then was chosen to be the vice presidential candidate on the democratic ticket in 1920 and the democrats were sure to lose and they lost. he lost with them, but he thought that this would only energize his career. he had a national visibility. he was going to go on to do other things. but that was 1920. in 1921, he severed polio, he was paralyzed, and the period that we are dealing with now is 23 years until that period of mobility on his part. i don't think the president realized how paralyzed he was that he had no agility physically though he had a good deal of agility verbally. he was a brilliant speaker. she was a brilliant come banner of words and most of the

and dewey was nonplussed by this. he said, i really don't believe you, but i have no evidence otherwise. he spoke with his advisers, and they said it's too dangerous. you better stop it. and so there was never any effort to attack roosevelt for having caused pearl harbor or for having known the codes that were the result of pearl harbor's attack. so there are a lot of things in here that we learn perhaps for the -- not the first time, but we learn in the context of the election. there is one thing, though, that i find quite fascinating and almost unbelievable, but it exists in the dewey campaign scrapbooks which are at the university of rochester library. they kept all letters to the editor and clippings of all sorts, cartoons, everything that was very valuable to me to have those in their scrapbooks. and the most curious prediction about the election came in a letter to the editor from a newspaper in syracuse. bertrand was the name of the signer, bertrande. he wrote that his friend john predicted that the president w

he received 432 ev votes to dewey's 99. that is a big difference but it doesn't reflect the electoral which is a lot closer than that. nevertheless, roosevelt won and dewey took a long time until he conceded the election and roosevelt finally heard from him in the early hours of the morning not that he conceded roosevelt but he conceded he hadn't won and he was told that one of his secretaries and roosevelt said i still think he is a son of the bitch and that was his last statement about tom dooley. he was inaugurated again on january 30th. a small inaugurations ceremony. he was not in good shape. and 83 -- i'm sorry, 83 days later he died. april, 1945 and harry truman became president. let me stop there and if you have questions i will be glad to answer them and i've taken a lot of your time so think you for being here. [applause] questions krepp >> it's hard to see the bright lights but can you come closer? >> the concept about roosevelt for a sample in soldier field if you can drive up on platform then you can just to th

and the crusading attorney and rising republicans thomas dewey.so that members of the republican establishment taft in order vandenberg and wendell willkie had been this man with a magnetic personality favor of the of the literati and only very recently a republican. the three leading candidates campaigned as isolationists opposing america's entry into what they thought of europe's war against hitler. the democratic incumbent frank and bill are roosevelt. from across the country over the rising speeches the deals terrifying international news and most of all, the relentless chanting of we want wilkie he walked away with a nomination. the story of how this happened and how he central his nomination would prove annulling of the art saved britain and prepare the country into world war ii is all told in charles peters five days in philadelphia mr. peters himself as a veteran journalist and well known by many of you as one of our great commentators. he managed john f. kennedy's 1960 primary campaign in west virginia's largest counties. he then moved to

obamacare but the same time they represented organized labor who denounced this attack on do that dewey square was doing and so why are these groups stand existence and i think i think part of it deals with. you know that the type of e-mail i got reported with the story steve rules and very well known former political director of the a.f.l.-cio who very well known and influential in this town emailed me trying to dissuade me a bit taking on dewey square saying these are very pro-labor people are they even if somebody like steve rosenthal was very influential even aware of all the anti worker stuff i mean this group dewey square was also representing a private equity council that was founded by being capital so you know how to put on the tory this enemy of labor unions were at a time michaela thanks a lot they took a great reporting great story. now into a story about women here's a fact business businesses should know if you include women on your corporate boards your business will do better that's a good clue drawn from a new credit suisse research institute report that shows business

during the last break over winter break i read a book on fdr and thomas dewey the election of 1944 by david jordan. well there's another one that cannot by stanley weintraub called a final victory. it's about the same campaign. i'm obsessed with this for a number of reasons, but why it may be interesting to political junkies in today's time period when you read about thomas dewey, you see a lot of mitt romney: the good, that come all the issues that we are talking about that you see with mitt romney you see pop up when you read these books about thomas dewey particularly the campaign of 44. forget the campaign of 48. the campaign of 44 as well. so that we are working on and i am also getting to another nonfiction book that i have been meaning to read for some time it's about a friend of mine named don pact during if he wrote it called "penchant." it's about the great recession. and it is chronicling the sort of, it's culturally changing us. it's not just in the pocketbooks but sort of what long-term change is taking place in many places in the country talking about a white male underc

police department. >> dewey presley is soon joined by three other police employees.nd what happens next is caught on officer presley's dash cam. >> stand here for me, please. there's two things going on here. >> i'm sorry. >> number one, you were with involved in a minor crash. >> but if she wasn't in the car when it was hit, how was she involved in the crash? >> number two, in the course of me speaking with you, there's an odor of alcohol coming off your breath. you're a little lethargic and your speech is lethargic and you may or may not be driving impaired. >> before administering sobriety tests, presley reads alexandra her rights and questions her about the accident. >> you're accelerating from a stop. you got to about 30 miles an hour, then you all of a sudden -- this cat jumped out, and you slammed on the brakes. >> i do. >> so someone behind you who's also just starting to accelerate forward -- >> yeah. >> there would be no reason why -- >> they would think that -- >> that you're going to abruptly slam on the brakes. >> exactly. >> alexandra doesn't realize wh

people on the west coast don't know about dewey. the east coast has great beaches there. >> these are the top five if you want to see something here in the united states. >> those are the top five places. >> you would add sen pral park but that's obvious. >> it's easy to say place like new york or las vegas or los angeles. great places that's for sure. >> still a little time before the summer ends. >> 48 after the hour a. little close for comfort a whale making his presence known to fishermen. time to answer the question of the day. we go back to the big story all weekend paul ryan mitt romney's running mate. what do you think? we will have some of the e-mails next. peter doocy see what's coming up. >>> coming up fox and friends kicks off 10 minutes from right now. the lieutenant governor rebecca kleefisch is here. she has known paul ryan of wisconsin for a long time. claire mckaskill is in a top senate fight. she will be dropping by. peggy noonan, dana perino and the great donald rump all starts 10 minutes from now right here on th

what he really meant was, if i do this i am accepting the fact that dewey is right and i'm wrong and on never be president. that is a little bit, when george stephanopoulos wrote, the rabbit freshman became his best friend because the more they pushed on things the easier it was for clinton to look like the same balancing act against the others. and i'll skip over some wonderful details of that because the point i should have gotten to a few minutes ago is that the overlooked element that i emphasize that the book brings together for me is team work. what does it take to have a presidential team? and they're all different. there is not a formula. you can't rent to team. every president needs different pieces. you can't just hire them and do it quickly. and it's difficult because the only people who run for president are truly audacious. you really have to be bold and feisty and have a lot of brass if you're going to stand up and say, i am ready to be the most powerful person in the world. and you're not, and you know it, but you have to act like to believe it. you have to get out. yo

most of the heavy rain is over beaches, dewey beach and towards ocean city. a few sprinkles in springfield and in manassas. wolf trap, vienna, crossing the ,oll road and towards route 7 267, that is pushing to the generally isd staying west of the beltway. cross into potomac, maryland, momentarily. there's a break from the rain in the the most part theatlantic and across washington area. off to our west there are storms ohio, getting begin in west virginia and kentucky. that's a cold front. with all the sunshine we have region, that is atmosphere.g our it looks nice with sunshine, but not such a good thing. the more sunshine, your chance of strong to severe storms. it adds to the instability of the atmosphere. we have a slight risk of severe storms today. in terms of risk factors, a line, dusty, damaging wind locally. that seems to be the biggest threat. that's followed by flash floods. more heavy rainfall today. hail is the next biggest risk afternoon. locally, around sunset. earlier, to the west. locally, don't anticipate much until around and sunset. this

tom dewey was the former governor of new york and a progressive much like mitt romney once was, former governor of massachusetts. some think mitt romney still is. in any event, he wasn't as conservative as the republican controlled 80th congress and he successfully tied him to do nothing congress and that gets me to today's politics because mitt romney is broadly acceptable to the american people in a way that his party isn't so his challenge is to establish himself as a centrist conservative and keep a distance from his party particularly the house republicans. the obama campaign challenge is to more for the republican party and its agenda with mitt romney and paint him as an extremist and to make him colin every one of the positions he took on his way to securing the nomination. he vowed to get rid of planned parenthood funding. he has taken some pretty far right positions on immigration in order to get to the right of rick perry during the primaries of that is the tension that is going on and you can see it played out from day-to-day in the political rhetoric. now president obama ha

mcgovern and assassin -- stasen dewey's rivals the only other people who did it. there was a piece out basically reviewing what he said in israel and said he maybe violated the first rule of traveling abroad, and they know something there about how combustible it is. they said, first do no harm, and he's done some harm. >> and, joy, he's a panderer, a relentless panderer. so, yes, of course he gets off the plane in israel and he's going to pander and he's going to say praiseful things about the israelis who are an easy population to praise. i've been to israel. there's a lot to praise there. what he didn't know, because i'm not so sure he's so smart -- it's not hard to know this -- what he didn't know is, how do i praise the israelis without insulting the palestinians? he didn't know how to do that. >> and you also have to consider the possibility, right, that everything that romney has done hasn't been about the country he's in or the audience that was directly in front of him. you know, there is a way in which saying the things that he said pleases, once again,

as a ten voice in war torn syria and fears seeming lack of objectivity dewey's legs jordan's oil family. coming up a special report in which r.t. explores the life of the called the rush romany inhabiting russia and how their lifestyle and customs collide with their surroundings. there will be no kiss for the bride at this wedding nor will the couple don't sell for the ceremony in fact the newlyweds won't get anywhere near each other a tool to an outsider it's hard to tell which of these men is the group. but the under like a new husband is standing a little apart from the rest. nine twelve my wife is fifteen there never kiss is a wedding some of it is against the law we will start talking to each other in a month or so. however. our marriage is the main objective in life for a caldera but none of them are free to she was their own partners children have no say in who they marry if the parents who arranged the weddings. more often than not a young couple will be married just three days after they're introduced her to. a. twelve year old has been a husband for a year now his parents paid

he see them pop-up when you read these books about thomas dewey, particularly the campaign of 44. forget the campaign in 44 -- 48. so that a more beyond. also giving to another nonfiction book that i have been meaning to read for some time. that's about a friend of mine. he wrote a book called binge. and it was about -- it's about the great recession. and it is chronicling, sort of, how it is culturally changing as. it is not just in the pocketbooks but what kind of long-term changes taking place in many places around the country, talking about a white male underclass. but it is a good way, and i'm thinking about making it required reading for a lot of my folks internally, but i think every politician ought to read this and understand. i think it explains as well as anybody the chronic pessimism that is out there. we see it in all of the polls, but that is something. why is it that we are so pessimistic about the future temecula of this optimism anymore. we talk about the importance of optimism from president to can't it pointed you, but they're is a pessimistic view not necessari

points a veteran diplomat me as it's and boy in a war torn syria and it fears he may lack objectivity dewey's langston jordan's royal family. well coming up here in our tease spotlight talks to software freedom activist richard stallman about the differences between companies who paid products and those that do it for free. hello again and welcome to the spotlight millions of new show on our t.v. and alvin and today my guest on the program is richard stallman. the computer world is divided in two confronting camps with two totally different thoughts on the one side the corporations which sell programs and gain big bets on the other the people who believe that software must be free. form all based dominates the market yet please software products are starting to be commercial how can this help why isn't the market always working properly and the software world poor asking the number one person in the free software movement to true computer genius who has always confronted business with steve jobs and validates spotlight gives you a unique opportunity to hear your questions also directly by ric

comedy read about thomas dewey and you see a lot of mitt romney. the good, bad, all the issues that we're talking the gc being talked about mitt romney, you see pop-up when you read these books about thomas dewey, particularly the campaign of 44. forget the campaign of 48. so that no one am working on. i'm also finally gaining to a nonfiction book i've been meaning to read for some time. it's about a friend of mine named john pack. he wrote a book called pinched and it was about the great recession and it is chronicling sort of how is culturally changing us. it's not just in the pop in books, the sort of a kind of long-term changes taking place in many places around the country, talking about a white male underclass is one of his thesis is there. but it's a good way and think about making it required reading frankly for a lot of my folks internally. but i think every politician that you read this and understand because it really explains as well as anybody that chronic pessimism out there. we see it in all the polls, but that's something that's way

we are joined right now by katelyn dewey. >> reporter: a lot of kids go through school, they go that college degree and then they can't find a job. let's take a look at some of the economics. what are people looking at nowadays for college? >> talking about $50,000 a year. a kid graduating certainly wants to have a career where they can actually pay off the debt. >> we have a top five list here and the top major was pharmacology. >> a grad right out of school who majored in pharmacy can expect to make $100,000 a year. to make that out of school is incredible. >> nursing came in at number two. you don't tend to think about nursing as the most profitable major, you don't think it is necessarily going to top the lift. what is the story there? >> nursing you are pretty much guaranteed a job when you graduate. the unemployment rate for nurses is something like 2%, which is extraordinarily low. >>> and number 3, we come in with transportation sciences. what is the story there? >> aaron ngataical -- engineering. >> i was surprised not to see finance and account majors. why is that? what is

. >> can i say let's not glorifying the dewey decimal system. [inaudible] >> i want to say you know why this whole thing -- what are they called? the mindless -- it is so professors can pick up on their students. so they can say, oh yes, you are into nicky ma nag -- niki minaj? >> are you talking about the song she did with eminem? >> no. >> i don't remember that. >> i have pictures that can prove she had a boob job. >> it is about being able to quote the title of a song to a 16-year-old girl. >> they missed one though. you know how we got to appreciate good movie there rows like bruce willis and john wayne and big, strapping men? they have jonah hill and shy yaw law buff. what happened to the men in hollywood? they are all a bunch of wimps. john wayne in his prime was 84. we have to take a break. it is true. watch the movie. he is old. william holden had to pull his pants up here. >> batman was fat. >> he was fat. superman was fat. and everything was tight on him. do you have a comment on the show? e-mail us. if you have a video of an animal do

caitlin dewey, thank you so much for coming in. we appreciate it.iplinger.com. >> thank you. >> allison, over to you. >>> okay. thanks. i think. coming up, remembering the queen of comedy. we are going to look back at the life and work of phyllis diller and later the lord of the rings, our holly morris is behind the scenes at cirque du soleil's new show at the national harbor. time no 8:21. ♪ i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! my bowl, my spoons! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios has whole grain and 110 delicious calories. ...more grains. less you! multigrain cheerios in multi-grain cheerios peanut butter. >>> celebrities are speaking out about the loss of a comedic leading edge end. phyllis diller died in her sleep on monday in los angeles. >> she makes you laugh when you hear her. she was known for her laugh, her wild hair and making herself the butt of the joke. she made her debut in the 1950s when she was in

the good, the bad, all the issues, popped up when you get these books about thomas dewey. forget the campaign of 48. the campaign in 44 as well. the new one, and what i have been meaning to read from some time about a friend of mine who wrote a book called pinched and it was about the great recession and chronicleing how it is culturally changing us and what kind of long-term change is taking place in many places around the country. talking about a white male under class is one of his thesises and it is a good way and thinking about making it required reading for a lot of my folks internally but every politician not to read this and understand because it explains as well as anybody the chronic pessimism that is out there. we see it in all the polls. while we so pessimistic about the future? we don't have this optimism anymore. we talk about the importance of optimism for presidential candidates but there is a pall of pessimism. not necessarily translating in the benefit of one party or the other. a is sitting there and sitting on us and this great recession really did it.

to dewey beach, delaware. >> and all of the other kidsa have autism. >> reporter: frankie's sister camiles autism. >> hi, bap. >> reporter: tothey raise money for a non-profit company. >> reporter: there will be hundreds of requires this year. it start -- riders this year. why i started small. a young man from the d.c. area with an idea. >> i want to go to the beach, mom. she said you have a bike go. she was joking and he went on his bicycle -- got on his bike and went 108 miles to the beach and kept doing it. he made it a tradition and said let's combine it and raise money for autism. >> reporter: years later, that is still happening. last year, daniella and frankee cheered from the sidelines and this year, they wanted to be a part of the action. >> we have been e-mailing people, and we have been writing them letters to donate money. >> reporter: together, the two have raised $6,000. >> a lot of people said yet. >> reporter: daniella's mother said yes to getting the grill girls in tip top shape. they logged plenty of miles. >> we play word games and i try to make them laugh. >> it's fun

to dewey beach, delaware. >> for my sister and all the other kids who have autism. >> reporter: frankie'sr camille has autism. bike to the beach raises money for a nonprofit called autism speaks. now bike to the beach has been growing. there will be hundreds of riders this year, but it started small, a young man from the d.c. area with an idea. >> he said i want to go to the beach, mom, and the mom said you have a bike go. she was joking and he got on his bike and went 108 miles to the beach and he kept doing it. he made it a tradition and then he said let's combine it and raise money for autism. >> reporter: years later that still is happening. last year danielle and frankie cheered from the sidelines. this year they wanted to be part of the action. >> we've been e-mailing people and writing them letters to donate money. >> reporter: together the two girls have raised $6,000. >> a lot of people said yes. >> reporter: her mom said yes and they've logged a lot of miles getting the girls in shape. >> i try to play word games and make them laugh. >> it's really fun when you get to go downhil

school and kissed me, but i was in love with his best friend chuck kennedy and had a little crush on dewey pfeiffer. it was like a perfect troicut. >> mine was john, and we were living in alexandre, virginia. and it was so exciting and thrilling for me. i was so excited. i thought we were dating. >> because he kissed you? >> of course. i'm going to go with you. that meant go steady. are you going to go with me? >> it was go behind? >> no. we were in sixth grade. he used to mouth, this is so weird, across the way to me, he would look at me and go -- i thought he was saying i love you, but he was olive juice. i thought that was so awful. no, no, olive juice. it's a different thing. they thought that was funny. >> hilarity did not ensue. >> whatever happened to him? look where you're sitting. >> who knows what happened to these people. >> they say 22 is the age you should be able to support yourself. >> 22, that's after college. you've probably had a little bit of fun. >> that's cody's age and we're praying. >> 25 is supposed to be the best age to consider getting married. >> consider. going

tom dewey in 1944 and fdrr's final election.hen it's wrong, it tends to be wrong in a republican direction. right now, president obama is slightly ahead there. >> is there a way to pennsylvania avenue other than through ohio? >> not for romney. at least i don't think so. you can always put all these strange combinations together in the electoral college. i play that game too. but practically speaking, i think romney has to win florida and ohio. >> it's a chemistry of numbers. great to see you. thank you. >> thanks, thomas. >>> coming up, new reasons to hold a beer summit. details ahead. >>> plus five days since the paul ryan pick was announced. is he hurting or helping the ticket? >>> the cycle host, they join me next. and one of these lucky cycle members is going to walk away with a special prize for correctly picking paul ryan as the running mate. wait until you see what my team has put together as a gift. has helped fund economic and environmental recovery. long-term, bp's made a five hundred million dollar commitment to supp

tom mast dewey, al gore, john kerry, if people liked them more they might have won the elections. >> ifill: andy talked about the mormon issue has it's come to be known. his religion. this takes you back to john f. kennedy and his catholicism. at the time that was a big deal and was considered to be a negative. do they care? >> it was a big deal. what it really tells you is you hold a mirror up to our culture 50 years later it's a very different country. in fact, there's a lot of analysis from the 1960 j.c. that suggests in the end it was at worst a wash to go back to richard nixon. he certainly thought that in the end it may very well have worked to kennedy's advantage. there were any number of independent voters who did not want to be thought of as prejudiced anti-catholic repeating al smith's experience in 1928 the fact that the whole hormone issue has been such a non-issue 50 years later is a reflection on a culture that has changed profoundly. >> reporter: david, what about that? this idea of a president's religion, a candidate's religion how much of the american people evolved

john dewey wrote about it over 100 years ago. month sorry schools do it everyday. it's appearing in providence because educators here were not happy with the results they've been getting using traditional teaching >> this district doesn't have terrific scores. >> we have horrible scores. reporter: don't your kids need remediation instead of this summer fun? >> i think (sighing) the kind of and remediation that might lead to a temporary bump in scores is not the kind of education that really any parent wants for his or her child >> i think that's a branch from a tree. i don't think we're going to get that out >> what i've seen is a tremendous amount of growth very quickly in children. kids are more actively involved and engaged. this program is very different from the traditional classroom setting. >> well it's kind of like school because we're learning about stuff. at the same time we're having a lot of fun. >> i found a web. ewww reporter: superintendent lucy says programs like this are one way to level the playing field >> there are students who never leave provi

. >> host: hal dewey -- we have a battle, this fear of the partisan battle over these voter laws. what do we do about that? >> guest: everybody should have observers guest for the socially would be wrong. the citizens' organization having volunteers all over the country goes through whenever the registration to see which is accurate and what is not. monitoring people of the polls to read a lot of states and people from what is going on in the polls. voter fraud in the bundling is a lot like shoplifting. you put up signs showing with the responsibilities and their rights are for. remember a voter has the right to vote. the voter also has the responsibility to take certain steps to assure the vote is counted properly. and one of those is among others to have a variety and if they don't have a variety we have to make it as easy as possible to get that. and as pennsylvania for example you felt an affidavit and certified who you are and your vote will still be counted. >> host: there have been problems with fifa division haven't there been problems with accounting and professional nell

. >> and thousand from louisville, kentucky, we hear from local author or dewey clayton. his book is "the presidential campaign of barack obama." >> clayton, how historic was the campaign of barack obama? >> guest: oh, it was truly historic. it was a transformative election. we had had 43 previous presidents in this country. they had all been white, and they had all been male. and so here comes a young senator, okay, who has a bold and innovative strategy as to how to win the white house. many people felt that it wasn't his time. many people felt it wasn't time for an african-american. he was running against in the democratic primary, he was running against hillary clinton who had the name clinton being, you know, the biggest, largest brand in the democratic party. she had a considerable war chest advantage as well as name recognition, and the fact that he was actually able to defeat her and then go up against war hero and a maverick in the general election, and america as such, was truly incredible, truly historic. sometime between 2006, 2005-2006, sometime in the there,

. >> now from louisville kentucky we hear from local author dewey clayton. the campaign of barack obama? >> it was a transformative election. we have had 43 previous presidents and they have all been white and they had all been males. so here comes a young senator, who has said old and innovative strategy as to how to win the white house. many people felt that it wasn't his time and many people felt it wasn't the time for an african-american. he was in the democratic try mary running against bill clinton who had the name clinton, the biggest largest brand party. she had a considerable war chest to get -- warchest advantage and a lot of recognition and the fact that he was actually able to go up against the war hero, maverick in the general election and america was truly incredible sometime between 2006, 2005, 2006, sometime in there, i know people began telling him in various forums that we think that the time is now right for you. one of his advisers said that you know timing is everything in politics and one of his advisers a think in early 2005 said even

>> thomas dewey. >> it was 1940 convention in philadelphia.was a guy who by his name alone, you got to know wasn't going to win. w wendell wilke. by the way, wilke was womped by f dn fdr. >> it was a tough one. >> you don't want to be wendell wilke running against fdr. >> too much like james polk. just a thought. >> too much like james polk. >> all of these parallels. just a thought. >> the fourth one, 2008, what former member of a democratic national ticket had a role in the republican convention? >> joe liberman. >> yfs joe liberman speaking? >> because he's crazy. >> we don't do crazy here. >> he broke his word. initially he said he wouldn't speak against the democratic nominee, and then he decided that he had to speak because mccain was a good friend. >> and you remember that mccain wanted to choose lieberman as a running mate and ended up with sarah palin. you get a nerdland sticker. >> i really love this. i really love this question. which former louisiana give nor was a delegate at both a democratic and republican national convention? >