lead a revolt from the left and douglas macarthur from the right. march 4, 1933, when he gave his inaugural address, the line that we all remember is that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. the line that got the biggest applause and a bloodthirsty cheer according to eleanor roosevelt when fdr said the circumstances of the present crisis are such that i may require more time like executive powers. and they roared and it chilled her they said -- she said because they realize that they were ready as the europeans had proven themselves for a strongman or dictator and it terrified her. that night fdr had a drink before bed and one of the brain trust comes to them and says mr. president if you succeed to save capitalism you will go down as the greatest president but if you fail you will go down as our worst. fdr look to him and said if i fail i will go down as our last. so don't tell me we have not been here before. the 30s were decade were we did not know if democracy would succeed against dictatorship. churchill saw it and thought roosevelt

it was not the last time douglas macarthur was to disobey executive authority.an: how big did fdr when? -- win? richard: fdr swept the country. -- more modestly, jimmy carter between 1976 and 1980, that i don't anyone has toe from when he was elected such a powerful consensus he should leave office. roosevelt carried all but six states. congress.t, and then, of course, in some ways, what put the seal on hoover's reputation as a failed president was the next three months. -- uber-roosevelt hoover-roosevelt situation was so that the constitution had to be amended. that it was too long for roosevelt to be sworn in. the two men had virtually no communication. i think it is safe to say that hoover believed fdr was the liberally avoiding having any responsibility in the hopes that if things did go to hell, he would then receive the credit, and in many ways that is exactly what happened. the irony is, the banks were crashing -- the roof was falling in. hoover could have closed the banks. someone say it was stubbornness or principle, i would say it was a lack of finesse

who do you think you are, douglas macarthur? you couldn't make a military decision for your life.ou couldn't decide what to do with that jv team isis. and you got iran to halt its nuclear program? really? how would you know? you didn't know about krawrn when they were secretly spinning centrifuges and lying to you and your gullible team. you didn't even require that we be able to monitor their nuclear development. you let out the worst of the terrorists from gitmo for a deserter our stand bay liar susan rice, called bowe bergdahl a hero. you can't stand it that every metric under the trump administration is better off than when you were in office. and donald trump is one of the biggest threats to our democracy? how dare you? this man is the president of the united states. someone that we put in office, and he is to be respected. your attack on him as a racist and fascist is not about making things better for us. it's about you, your ego and corrupt deep state power structure. you desperately tried to defeat trump and it didn't work. and you remain in washington top support the res

douglas macarthur who the president fired from his command in april 1951. that decision was initially very unpopular with the american public. macarthur was an american hero after all. this led some people to believe that the truman administration was defeatist and passive in the war against communist and the spies who serve them. by 1952, americans voted overwhelmingly but for dwight eisenhower for president. as president, eisenhower issued an executive order in 1953 to revamp the loyalty security program, scrapping the loyalty program that extending the security program to all departments in the government. also in 1953, now former pres. harry truman got into a dispute with eisenhower's attorney general over harry dexter right despite evidence that white himself had been a soviet agent. the case against white had not been a clear one, and truman who was aware of the charges that time when he was president , decided to disregard them. angry at burnell, truman asserted, inaccurately, that the fbi had not warned him about harry dexter white. when presented w

his grandfather was there on the deck of the missouri, standing in a position of honor when douglas macarthur accepted the surrender of the japanese. >> it was expected that he would be in the navy for his career. he would become an admiral. >> that's a tough burden to bear for a young man and as a young man, he kind of rebelled against the idea that his future was already set for him. he sort of fought against it. >> i was immature and a bit resentful that my path had been charted for me, either intentionally or unintentionally, by my parents. ♪ >> in spite of his family history, the young mccain was not a star pupil at the academy. far from it. >> as he would always remind you, he wasn't quite last in his class, but he was really close to last in his class. >> diane sawyer interviewing john mccain for "20/20." >> what does 894 mean for you in. >> fifth of the bottom of any class many the naval academy. if i had stood at the bottom, president eisenhower, who spoke at my graduate, then would have shaken my hand personally. >> still, the young midshipman was a natural leader. and he was comfor

lead a revolt from the left and douglas macarthur from the right.march 4, 1933, when he gave his inaugural address, the line that we all remember is that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. the line that got the biggest applause and a bloodthirsty cheer according to eleanor roosevelt when fdr said the circumstances of the present crisis are such that i may require more time like executive powers. and they roared and it chilled her they said -- she said because they realize that they were ready as the europeans had proven themselves for a strongman or dictator and it terrified her. that night fdr had a drink before bed and one of the brain trust comes to them and says mr. president if you succeed to save capitalism you will go down as the greatest president but if you fail you will go down as our worst. fdr look to him and said if i fail i will go down as our last. so don't tell me we have not been here before. the 30s were decade were we did not know if democracy would succeed against dictatorship. churchill saw it and thought roosevelt a

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a few we long and douglas mccarthy because you long to lead a populist role on the left and douglas macarthur from the right. 1943, when he gave his inaugural address, the line we all remember from the east front of the capital is that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. the line that got the biggest applause and kind of a bloodthirsty cheer according to eleanor roosevelt who wrote about it that night was when fdr said the prices are such that i may require wartime like executive powers and they roared and it killed her, she said. because she realized they were ready as the europeans had proven themselves ready for a strong man or a dictator. it terrified her. that night, fdr is having a drink before he goes to bed and welcomes to him and says rather pretentiously, mister president, if you succeed in saving capitalism you will go down as our greatest president but if you fail, you will go down as our worst and fdr looked at him and said rex, if i fail, i willgo down as our last . so don't tell me we haven't been here before.so 1930s were a decade where we did not know if democracy