she was assigned to cover eleanor and fell in love with eleanor.re is an intimate trust that develops between the two and the love that develops between the two. >> emotional or physical? >> we do not know. there is no doubt in my mind that hickok was in love with eleanor. we know that eleanor will help hickok later when she falls in love with marion. they will build a home together. when marion dies, she struggles with diabetes. eleanor will support her. you cannot put these in a box. what we can say about hick is that hick taught eleanor how to deal with the press in a way where eleanor could define her own message. when eleanor becomes first lady, hickok resigned her position and moves into the white house. because she has fallen in love with eleanor and she can't be objective. then eleanor went to fdr and he said i want you to investigate what the new deal is doing and not doing. i want you to get the hopes and fears and put your journalist's craft on paper in very private reports to us. what we get is the most incredibly honest and powerful as

and eleanor just did not like alice paul. she just did not like her. and one of the reasons that -- they only met twice. and they had a vicious conversation about race. and it's a word that eleanor uses vicious which is, you know, as ann will know is a word that she very rarely used and so she thought that the equal rights amendment initially would not only undercut immigrant women, not only undercut working women, but was also a tool by some really educated white women who wanted to keep african-american and immigrant women out of the labor force. and we're only beginning to learn this now by looking at how eleanor really argues when she is constructing the universal declaration of human rights about article i. and article i is all human beings are born free, and equal in dignity and rights. endowed with reason and conscious and should treat one in a spirit of brotherhood. even though it's article i of the declaration, it was the article that was the most difficult to adopt and get passed. and so, one of the things that i have been really trying to re

. >> according to eleanor and chris and the affordable care act. >> let's try this. okay, promises promises. >> secretary sebelius says the cost will drop $2,300. and that's before any subsidies, depending on income and tax credit. here it is verbatim. middle class families purchasing private insurance in the new state-based health insurance exchanges could save as much as $2,300 per year in 2014, unquote. >> question, that promise of the $2,300 drop materialize next year, mort? >> all i can tell you is everybody in my company got a notice that their payments were going up and going up dramatically and they just got them yesterday in response to that bill. i can't talk for americans, all i can tell you in my own company is what happened and i think that is a disgrace for what this program is going to imply for a lot of american families. >> chris. >> the 5% that eleanor keeps referring to is the reality, 5% couldn't keep what they had are junk policies, which don't cover hospitalization. deductions of $15,000. so if you get serious illness, you have to pay it out of

i am with eleanor on this. i think it will be duked out in the end on what your values are. african americans are for this because they need it. the working poor, they don't have health insurance and the whites are the other group in this case, they are against it. this will be duked out. you want health insurance or not from the government? >> mort. >> let me give you a factual. determine whether or not you were full-time or part-time work. the first six months of last year, these are labor statistics, we created jobs and lost 97,000 full-time jobs. now, we created, it balanced out a little bit, but that is a direct reflection of the anticipation that part-time jobs are not going to be covered by this insurance program. so in terms of employment, 65% of the jobs this year are part- time jobs. this is all a reflection of the healthcare program. more than any other single issue and it is a disaster for the average american who is looking for a job. >> when the employer mandates, a year from now, what you talk about is going to hit hard and it's going to be another blow to thi

has written extensively about how the presidency changed dramatically on november 2nd, 1963, and eleanor clift who just marked her 50th year at news week" magazine. eleanor, you remember exactly where you were, what you were doing and what you were thinking. >> i was hired earlier that will year in 1963 as a secretary to the national affairs editor. and the bulletin came across on the news wire, that the president had been shot. then we turned on the television. it wasn't like there were televisions everywhere like there are today. i think there was probably one television everybody collected around. and, of course, when we learned that the president had died, the national affairs editor, he told everyone to go home and do their grieving. it happened on a friday, the day that the news magazine goes to bed. and he said go home. we'll put out the magazine the next day. i watched him sort of draft a story list, contact, we had a bureau in houston kind of unheard of today. we had a stringer in dallas. he assembled what was really vast machinery that a news magazine had to get the reporting,

eleanor clift, what do you think? to reflect on what was and might have been, but back to reality pretty soon. >> yeah. >> i'm personally very, very happy president kennedy inspired me to join the peace corps, because he gave us the legacy that those who served for peace also serve. it's not always just about the military. >> gloria? >> today, we have seen a generation kind of pass before our eyes, which reminds us of the resiliency of this country, whether it's in the medal of the freedom that was awarded to this astonishing array of people, and then moving on to the 50th anniversary of jfk tells us an awful lot about our ability to change and adjust and overcome tragedy. >> the historian douglas brinkley, thought? >> the internal flame represents john f. kennedy's can-do spirit. that's what the american people are hungering for now. he said we could put a man on the moon at the end of the decade. that's why people loved john kennedy. he appealed to our optimism and our sense of public service. >> we had a tremendous

first lady from 1933 to 1945, eleanor roosevelt became a key player, an advocate for women and civil rights and president kennedy appointed her to chair a special commission on the

you go through procurement. >> eleanor, pat wants to straighten you out. go ahead, pat. >> at all defending the plan for americans to get healthcare. >> okay. we all want americans to get healthcare, but he is on a slippery slope to a broken presidency right now. >> you know,. >> after the website is up and running. >> he writes for the washington post. he says the insurance industry is furious. they have been working with the white house to get healthcare.gov up and running and now they want to make them into a scapegoat. >> exactly. >> they are the ones who are making the decisions and this is a jerry built -- excuse me, it's a jerry built plan to keep the insurance companies in the picture. they are the ones deciding to raise premiums, to cut out plans. >> the insurance companies have been ordered to make these changes, get rid of these programs. >> they have not been ordered. >> the law orders them. >> obama back in, okay. friendly fireworks? >> i personally believe even if it takes a change in the law, the president should honor the commitment to thos

that as a young girl growing up, grand'mere, which is what we affection atly call eleanor in our family, took her aside and said to her, it's really important that you are involved in public life. it's really important that you run for political office and that you always work to make people's lives better. and she thought that this was something that she must be saying to all of the cousins. and only as she got older and spoke with her brothers and her

first lady of 1933 to 1945, eleanor roosevelt continued in public service for years after she left the white house. and she became a key player in john f. kennedy's presidential campaign and administration. she was an advocate for women's and civil rights and president kennedy appointed her to chair a special commission on the status of women. this event was hosted by the radcliffe institute for advanced study at harvard and the john f. kennedy presidential library. it's about half an hour. >> hi. >> hi. >> it's a pleasure to be here today to celebrate

right now it doesn't look like it will go the way eleanor is saying. we will have to wait to see. [ talking at the same time ] >> he would have had everything down in his head on what he was going to say -- [ talking at the same time ] >> he hasn't apologized for the ongoing deliberate deception that you can keep your health policy. when those people had to know -- [ talking at the same time ] >> they did know. >> nbc did that story -- [ talking at the same time ] >> 2010 the democrats lost the house and a vote of back lash against obama care. 2014 will the backlogs cost the back -- back lash cost the democrats the sentt -- senate? >> it will. >> it won't. democrats keep the senate. >> something as big as this will overwhelm that and it will cost the senate if it doesn't turn outlet as you predicted -- out as you predicted. >> it revived the republican fiasco. i don't know what the outcome will be but it will change the odds of the election. >> republicans have no alternative. it is the law of the land -- [ talking at the same time ] >> yes. issue thre

john king, eleanor clift, maureen orthare still with me in the studio.torian douglas brinkley, kathy horn with the "new york times" and the author gerald posner. we've been discussing the historic moment 50 years later, what's going on. it's interesting, i want to show viewers, here say live picture. you see the eternal flame there at the gravesite of john f. kennedy. this was the idea of jacqueline kennedy by all accounts, she was the one who told her associates and the u.s. army corps of engineers moved quickly, a last-minute decision to go ahead and establish that eternal flame. she later told william manchest manchester, the kennedy family friend, that the idea just came into my head she said because on an earlier trip toparis, the kennedys had seen a similar flame an the memorial to the french unknown soldier at the arc de triomphe. maureen, this is typical. you spent a lot of time studying jacqueline kennedy. it's not surprising she would want that eternal flame at her husband's gravesite. >> absolutely. i think the whole focus of that administrati

>> well, first of all, let's not miss the news that you got from eleanor holmes norton. no one has been more supportive of the administration on this than she has been, and yet she said there is no appetite to impose those penalties on americans for not having insurance if the website doesn't get fixed fast. you know, that is one of those key provisions that if there's not a willingness to impose those penalties, then why will young healthy people sign up? if they don't sign up, how does the system then become financially feasible? so i thought that was a significant point that she made in your interview. as to the clinton calculation, any time john boehner is praising bill clinton for what he said about barack obama, you know that is bad news for barack obama. and it's hard for me -- that doesn't seem like a mischievous interview to me, it sounded like he got asked a question and answered it the way he thought. the interview was a whole was quite supportive of president obama and the affordable care act. >> susan makes a good pointing picking up on what eleanor holmes n

she digit years at the at the convention with eleanor roosevelt that saved him from himself. he was full of arrogance and on the verge of making a huge mistake and they came together to prevent it. this was a time when women were not at the table politically but they pulled off and it was remarkable and i so admire what they did. they paved the way for women to play a role in the political affairs. charles lindbergh plays a prominent role because he was the leader of the isolationist movement in the united states. they only met once and danced around each other they did not like each other. roosevelt told a colleague he thought linda bird was a nazi. he wasn't but he was very cozy with them when he was over in germany. but their real surprise of the book who in my view is almost as much of a hero as roosevelt wilke was an executive who was up until the republican convention a to rickrack he was a new dealer and almost reduplicate roosevelt. because his opposition do we and taft worthy old republicans the old style and he presented a huge contrast and people wanted someone who

we have been know eleanor. when they arrived from san francisco we looked at where we're here and with the help of terry shulman we turned this into a community based on art space. we've welcome dozens of groups into the community to share that space with us. we'll have argue teacher training here and accessible programs and we realized that market street is happening. it's important that arts groups as we also do take the lead in creating civic discourse. we're going to begin build open it. in this space we've got the supermarket orange will a new theatre and front of the of that it will be a 2 hundred seat black box theatre and a double story lobby. great coffee we promised. to really welcome the neighborhood and to light up this block. part of what gives me joy is expanded the story of kc e t. this city helped us donors and trustees people that work here and they helped to rebuild gary and we knew that c e t are here. a lot of the students raise your hand. the merge theatre folks standing here we've got educ

to life some of the most fascinating figures in american history and awarded the pulitzer prize, eleanor the home front in world war ii, her 2005 book, teams of rivals of abraham lincoln and leading members of his cabinet was part of the steven spielberg movie lincoln, this tells the story of roosevelt and howard taft, they door roosevelt, william theodore .. roosevelt. >> william howard taft. >> thank you. >> your red sox did it. >> oh, my god, we were there. the happiest day to be there when they won in that stadium. >> rose: game six at home. >> and that they were winning all the time so i didn't have to run around to the bathroom to be afraid. it was great. >> rose: and good for boston. >> it was great for boston. it really was. and that team was a different kind of team that we usually have, scrappy, no big stars. >> rose: exactly. >> except for big papi and they worked together as a team. >> rose: can you imagine, he hit about 7:30 for the entire series. >> i know. incredible. he is magic. >> certainly was magic in the playoffs and series. the bully pulpit, you came to this, becaus

also speaking to kennedy about the tax issue and there is a great scene in my book at eleanor roosevelt's funeral, it's not just a book by leibovitz. our town has this great scene at the tim russert you know what everyone is doing their own business at the funeral in a kind of modern washington way and the same thing was happening at hyde park at eleanor roosevelt's funeral and al gore senior kind of just cornered him and said that he was talking about the tax cut. and dwight eisenhower was standing in the corner trying to say hello to his successor and he couldn't even although his way into the conversation. and then on the airfield, where the two men were returning to washington, kennedy sent for him and was on another plane and had him right back continue the conversation. that is a first kennedy rule of leadership. once you decide, the decision is made. and well, you guys, you won. presidential me to shut up about it. >> there are newspaper headlines about al gore denouncing the kennedy tax cut as a bonanza for fat cats. and there is a tape of kennedy denouncing al gore senior as a so

and she has always been a champion of the living wage and to eleanor the living wage is an equal wage. that's her quote. so thank you all very much. >> thank you. >>> this november 22nd marks the 50th anniversary of the president kennedy's assassination in dallas. join american history tv on november 23rd and 24th for eyewitness accounts of the events surrounding that fall day in 1963. we'll air footage of the kennedy funeral and president johnson's address to congress. watch ceremonies from dallas and the jfk library in boston. and we'll take your phone calls. remembering jfk, 50 years after dallas, here on american history tv, on c-span3. >> i started with teddy roosevelt, i knew so much had been written about teddy that i needed another story. i got into taft, when i figured out what was the difference between the two and their leadership, it was teddy's leadership, and taft's failure of leadership. so i started reading the publications, the magazines, the press, these guys stood at the center and played a single role. even the best historians writing secondarily, said these people

eleanor, i'll start with you. >> i'll watch for the climbdown on benghazi.day talk shows. is he now going to back off, saying that he's going to block all obama administration nominees including federal reserve nominee, janet yellen. cnn retracted its story. republicans thought they finally had the goods on hillary clinton and it's all going to fall apart. >> shannon? >> i think this week, coming up, women across the country are really going to show up for the women of texas. they, of course, have all sorts of clinics closing down because of the law there and waiting on the courts there. so those clinics will be closed at least until january, until the courts look at this or february. so i think women will really start rallying for the women of texas. >> all right. ari? >> this week is the second week of the trial challenging wisconsin's voter i.d. law. there's a lot of national significance to this case. >> okay. mary? >> mine's easy. tomorrow is veterans day. make sure you get out, thank your veteran, every single veteran you know, thank them for their ser

or to eleanor forget about the fact he had an affair 20 years ago and they think what is going on inare talking to dead presidents. >> and dead presidents have been very good to doris kearns goodwin. >> all of her presidential biographies have been best sellers. she won a pulitzer for her book on fdr and eleanor roosevelt and her lincoln biography was the basis of the steven spielberg movie. >> i can't accomplish a goddamn thing of any human meaning or worth until we cure ourselves of slavery and end this pest, this war. >> her newest book is about the friendship theodore roosevelt and william howard taft, unusual for good win in that one of them is not a larger than life president, although he certainly was large. >> how many people are going to know much about taft other than that he weighs 350 pounds. >> and had a bathtub that could fit four men? >> indeed. there is a picture of the bathtub with the four guys in there. >> that is a white house scandal waiting to happen. >> the two men were a study in contrasts. roosevelt a contemporary wrote, barrelled through life as if launched

ladies first, eleanor. what's behind his endorsement and what about the timing?ll the female democratic senators who have written a letter saying that they endorse hillary. that includes some potential presidential candidates like elizabeth warren and kirsten gillebrand of new york. so i think he just wants to get in early. you get some creds if you're one of the first ones out there. i think every day that it goes by that hillary thinks that she has time to make up her mind, she's basically saying yes. >> jim, you write about this in your latest article today. in fact, here's what mitt romney said about a potential hillary clinton run on today's "meet the press." take a listen. >> anybody can be beaten. she's a very well-known figure. obviously, if she becomes a nominee, we'll be taking a very close look at her record as secretary of state and what she accomplished. i think people will have to think the last four years, last five years have not been a great time for america's interests around the world. she's responsible for part of the that. >> okay, wait. anyb

major vincent grey and eleanor holmes norton will be among those at d.c.link information and enrollment fair. it's this morning at the martin luther king memorial library. >>> today will be a traffic test for prince george's county police and the tanger outlets. this is day one for weekend shoppers. erika gonzalez braved the crowds to see why everyone is so excited. >> the tanger outlets at national harbor opened with a bang. >> parking wasn't fun. >> things got so bad people were seen parking along 259 to avoid this. >> it was crazy. the traffic was terrible. >> reporter: ruth shelton can atest to the traffic tie up. >> i live in maryland and of course it takes me 15 or 20 minutes but today took more than an hour. >> reporter: is it worth it, though? >> tell me about the deals? are you saving money? >> i think we are. most places are 40 or 50% off. >> reporter: leslie and her daughter braved the crowds to add new things to their wardrobe. >> we arrived about 11:00 this morning. >> you're leaving? >> yes we didn't even stop to eat. >> reporter: they're pum

delegate eleanor holmes norton.ou so much, ma'am. >> always a pleasure. >> coming up, 50 years after the assassination and we remain one nation under the gun. >> they found the rifle, partly hidden behind some books. it was a bolt action model. we still don't know exactly what kind of rifle it was. so if you have a flat tire, dead battery, need a tow or lock your keys in the car, geico's emergency roadside assistance is there 24/7. oh dear, i got a flat tire. hmmm. uh... yeah, can you find a take where it's a bit more dramatic on that last line, yeah? yeah i got it right here. someone help me!!! i have a flat tire!!! well it's good... good for me. what do you think? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >>> according to the official report, in march 1963, lee harvey oswald clipped a coupon from an advertisement he saw in the "american rifleman" magazine published by the nra. he posted the coupon, as well as a money order for $21.45. the rifle he ordered, an italian car conta

it's interesting to look at the relationship between fdr and eleanor roosevelt.ly three years before that eleanor had discovered this now infamous famous affair between fdr and her social secretary. the marriage had been not destroyed but certainly deeply damaged, trust had been damaged. but when fdr became ill, she absolutely came to his aid, nursed him, literally nursed him for the first couple of months, helped him through the early stages of recovery. for a time i think it brought them closer together. but then after about a year, it was clear that he was going to have a very long recovery, he was going to have to be away from home often. she was interested in getting involved in politics and so although it brought them together at first, then i think it set them on the parallel paths that they followed really for the rest of his life. she embarked on an independent political career, not running for office, but being politically very active and powerful, and he followed his own path. they helped each other but the marriage was on a different track from that p

this is a remodel of the eleanor friend playground that's been there roughly 29 years and we had a $3 million face lift now the animal updates. those are not pigs although they look like that this is a south american wild boar. we only knew of them as fossils. i'm happy to report we now have 6. they don't care who their mother is and they'll nurse on all the mothers. also on animal news. the big guerilla is there and her grandchild is there. just this week we introduced grandma to the baby. the mother had not taken over nursing. this is quite credible she feeds the baby with the bottle she takes a sip first and they've been together w about 48 hours. she's the main mat relic of the herd so they leave her loan. okay. and then i have lastly. this sunday people mint and bell arrive to inaugurate our playground and savnt will be here and i need to thank moisture airport who donated pumpkins >> there any public comment on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. we are now on item 7 which is the san francisco children's and nature forum san francisco children's outdoors bill of ri

eleanor, what do you make of that?d to coronating a presidential candidate, so you are getting rumblings, particularly from the left, thinking they want somebody with a more forceful, substantive presentation, especially on the income inequality in this country. and elizabeth warren embodies that. but she signed the letter along with every other democratic female senator supporting hillary clinton. if you write anything suggesting that she might be thinking of running, her press secretary comes down on you hard that she's not running. but i do think that it may force hillary clinton to think about what her economic message is, because right now, her message is i'd like to break the glass ceiling. and that might have worked in 2008, but it's not enough this time. and she's going to have to think about the kind of economic policy she wants to put forward, the people she wants to surround herself with. she can't have a renaissance of the bill clinton years. so i think all of this conversation sl positive. hillary needs to