eleanor roosevelt saw films for culture. how the movies keep us out of war followed by democracy on-screen. thepe dially news paper column they use film regularly and offered movie recommendations for readers. the 30s and 40s when the white house had a special screening room. this includes other prime ministers. a profile on movies in the white house noted she was too busy with her mail in the evening. eleanorsor involvement would expand todv lend it to advertising. this was training women for war production. starting in the late 1930s. all becameam involved in the entertainment industry. catapulted them into film and television to use her celebrity to their careers. we work to sam goldman to start their own production company. this was the 1940s prologue. the this film was quite interesting. part t of the long-term campaign for the international situation.n. coupled with the inadequacy of defenses prior to world war ii. of course, they stayed very strong. hear aboute will from paul today. eleanor and james aided the campaig

eleanor roosevelt on screen. her first book, please join me in welcoming ms. beachum to the roosevelt reading festival. well, thanks for that introduction and thanks, everybody, for being here. thanks also to the archivists here who are so important to all this work that we do, thanks to the other researchers and scholars. and also, i have to thank both franklin and eleanor roosevelt for the shining example that they made for all of us. so i'll be talking about my book. eleanor roosevelt on screen. and i think i'm the only one here today talking about air rather than fdr. and i'm also a film and television historian. so my topics a little different than everyone here today. but over the years, i found myself recognizing that eleanor was not just a pioneer in print and radio, but she's the first woman in the united states to host major public affairs, broadcast television. and that's something nobody talks about. but quite a big deal today with mrs. roosevelt, aired weekly on nbc in 1950, and albert einstein made

indeed, eleanor would have preferred churchill to occupy house across the street from the white house instead. anyway, book offers a fresh and frequently entertaining look at u.s. british relations at the highest level during an important span of history. and moderating the discussion this evening about these special will be one of our country's leading political correspondents, bob costa, whose chief election and campaign correspondent for cbs news. so you can imagine he has nothing to do these days about previously as a national political reporter, the washington post and as moderator and managing editor of washington on pbs. he also co-wrote it with bob woodward, the bestselling peril about the tumultuous transition between the trump and biden presidencies. plus, he has his own connection to churchill, which he will explain in a minute. so ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming bob small and bob costa costa. thank you so much, brad. appreciate it. good evening to everyone. thanks much for coming out here tonight. i'm bob costa with cbs. and i'm really to be here not only

it's no surprise here in all of this that the first lady, eleanor roosevelt, did not seem to love the churchill staying so long. what did you learn throughout the course of your reporting, research about her response and her interactions with churchill, eleanor. roosevelt by, her husband, that's a bad start. that's bad start. but a true start actually not informed that they would have visitors that christmas. and as she in her column, you know are you aware that eleanor roosevelt a very popular newspaper column my day and over 100 newspapers i think pretty sure and she this right after it's announced that churchill has arrived that she knew nothing about it to take care that group of people coming might involve the moving of furniture over and things like that that. she should have known about. well to get to your point she was someone who did not look favorably upon his habits. his habits he did i think we acknowledge that he was known to drink somewhat. he was also known to roam the hall aisles of the white house. and one morning at 3 a.m. he is walking around in his rompers and she

he also eleanor roosevelt. his wife, eleanor was, a political intellectual partner. know she had her own expansive role as first lady. but i think that she was an important adviser who was also hearing these ideas. would go, as she called herself, the eyes and ears of the new deal. she would go out to civilian conservation corps sites. works. progress. works. projects. administration sites in order to see how people were experi in seeing these government programs and are they working and what things weren't working needed to be changed. she pushed franklin roosevelt, things like civil rights making. that was part of his agenda to the extent that she could. so there were this whole kind of panoply of advisers him that he made pretty sustained use of throughout his presidency. most of the pieces of legislation that we've been talking about our economic nature. you mentioned civil rights. anything in the first 100 days when it came to civil rights? not in the first hundred days. and civil rights would not be a core component of fdr. his administration. it was something

eleanor mueller, thank you for bringing this to us.awake? carl writes i'm up early for day two of taking the bar exam. months of studying have led to this moment, so here goes nothing. i mean, eleanor, good luck to him. the bar is huge. that's really tough. carlos says i'm vacationing in puerto rico from my navy base in japan. great way to start the morning. i would definitely prefer to be on a beach in puerto rico. mark is up in austin, texas, putting the finishing touches on a big proposal due today for his small business. good luck and beth is awake knitting this scarf for saint patrick's day. are you a saint patrick's day person? >> i am not, but i. >> like that green. i know, me too. i could definitely get into that if i were sporting something cute and knit like that. and coming up next this morning, apple shareholders reject a proposed ban on dei programs despite conservative backlash. we'll go over what it means as a wave of companies roll back diversity policies. and coming up on morning joe, a win in a win for president trump

we're also reminded that here in the home that eleanor and franklin roosevelt shared for five years, we're reminded that both the president and the first lady visited the island of puerto rico within year of the president's beginning. eleanor, as usual going first as her husband's eyes and ears to report on the economic devastation gripping the island in the midst a depression that we customarily think of as a mainland phenomenon, it was more than a mainland phenomenon. and by the way, fdr, his visit in 1934 was commemorate, aided in puerto rico by a statue showing him in his wheelchair. only the third statue in the world that offers such a realistic view of the president and certainly worth remembering and acknowledging here in house where he recovered from polio in 1921 and where he learned to use the wheelchair. yes, he had to learn in that armless wheelchair that was created so that he could fit into the elevator that is still here. and you'll see. take a look when you're at the reception, at the tiny elevator that he maneuvered, that armless wheelchair into the style that used f

eleanor roosevelt. right. i mean, we had edith wilson pretend, you know, don't, don't look behind the curtain. i'm not doing anything important. i'm certainly not acting as the executive while he has a stroke. and then you've got, you know, pat not taking credit for anything and getting accused of being plastic pat lady had her own causes but was constantly giving lyndon credit for things that she should have taken the credit for and in between there was eleanor who very publicly political views and agendas that differed from her husband and in fact had use her as a trial balloon you know, to see if he could get little bit more extreme with things. so it's just how it it just underscores what a banana's job first lady is and how each woman has to define it for herself and figure out, you know, how to fill that and reflect american womanhood, which is a moving target. and it's i wouldn't i wouldn't want to do it. one of the things one of the things i noticed your book and it it's it helps anticipate what might

joining us now, congressional reporter for semaphore, eleanor mueller. eleanor. i mean, the vice president was on capitol hill yesterday. it seemed like it was going to be for a finger wagging at this two pronged approach that the senate is doing, but they're going ahead with it anyway. explain what happened. >> you know, senate. >> republicans came out of. >> that room saying that vance. >> had. >> basically implied to them. >> that they may as. >> well move forward with. >> their budget. >> resolution, if. >> that's the. >> approach that they think. >> is fit. but, i. >> mean, everyone's. >> seen it at this. >> point as a. >> backup to the house bill. >> which obviously. >> has. >> the weight of the. >> president behind it. >> it has the weight of the president behind it. but senators don't always love. at least typically being told what to do that directly by the white house. yet in this case, they seem to be kind of going along with it. >> yeah. i mean, i think they think that he has a huge popular mandate by the. american public. and at the end of the day, i

if you want to study eleanor in. the all legalities involved. we have a constitution, all sorts of things but it very generous offer. no one is afraid offer like that. to outsource at a fraction of the cost at least some of the most dangerous and violent criminals we have in the united states but obviously the administration of to make a decision but i recent yesterday. it's an incredible offer, and oppressive one. look, we froze foreign aid so that we can review those programs. the waiver process exists we could review those programs today here with waivers for programs of a call the center world that make america safer. the make america stronger because the programs are helping our trusted partners intercept and stop drugs and terrorists from coming into the united states. i issued a blanket waiver that said if this is life saving programs, providing food, medicine anything saving lives and is immediate and urgent care not included in the free pair of how much more clear we can be than that. i would say some organization is receiving funds fro

and our congresswoman, eleanor holmes norton has as well. i am very pleased that the delegation has asked the department of defense to halt the helicopter traffic and put a pause on that while this matter is investigated. but you point to, in a very comprehensive way, joy, what what the stakes are and the look that we have to see, whether it's during the faa reauthorization or in another process, how the traffic and or additional traffic is determined at reagan national. i mean, you pointed out that dc does not have a senator, which emphasizes the way in which our capital is essentially treated as a colony with with its fate in the hands of congress. and so when you think about that, and the billionaires who have funded to make sure that dc cannot be a state, it does sort of point to the powers that could have been right to determine dc's own fate. please feel free to comment on that, or if you'd like, on president donald trump quipping that he would not visit the site of this horror because, quote unquote, do you want me to take a swim? whi

imagine walking through the park and seeing eleanor roosevelt, rosa parks, susan b.her inspiring women who would look great as gnomes. >> gnomes? >> gnomes? >> desi: it's a garden. obviously all the heroes will be gnomes. you'll be walking around and be like, "oh, look, it's ruth bader gins-gnome." >> we are not making the statues into gnomes! >> and if we did, wouldn't it ruth bader gnomes-berg? >> i hate you, and i hate your half of the country! >> desi: guys, this garden is tearing us apart! please, let's compromise. for the sake of unity and all things dignified, we will give ronny a paul giamatti statue. >> thank you. >> desi: and to please josh, giamatti will be wearing a john adams hat. >> thank you, desi. >> desi: and he'll be naked on a horse next to a proud gnomes bader ginsberg. >> fine. but she's nude and her boobs have to look like paul giamatti. >> i'm fine with that. as long as she's surrounded by a lovely little field of begonias. >> begonias, you stupid [bleep]? it's picadillies or i burn this garden to the ground. >> desi: okay, you know what, forge

and again, there's a story of eleanor witnessing them.n't supposed to be in the room either, although she did come in a couple of times, but she saw them in the room playing with the pins on the wall, and she said they looked like two little boys playing soldier. they were in animated conversation and they looked like they were having a wonderful time. and then she paused and said, maybe two wonderful. somehow that anger on her part toward war in general and feeling like even though these two great men are prosecuting a war that has to be fought, they shouldn't be looking like they're having fun. moving pins around on the wall. as president roosevelt grapples with a country at war, mrs. roosevelt wrestles with tensions inside the home. in a historically poignant moment, she and her head housekeeper citing austerity reasons, as well as believing that the service staff will function better if it's all one color. dismiss all white members of it and hire only blacks at a lower cost. that donkey in uniform is john may's white house doorman. un

to call out a few of the ones that i think are particularly important, this is the portrait have eleanormost famous and most well-known and first ladies obviously she was here for 12 years because you plenty of time to put more effort into it but she was very much and out of the connectedness lady and sort of mold without role this first portrait first lady the association acquired first permanent white house collection and the whole background history of the commission collection was really more of a government supported thing the associationt came along now something that we done over the last several administrations. >> where this actual portrait say. >> it would be downstairs the ground floor and that was knighted the stretches back to the first lady roosevelt and she suggested putting the purpose along the ground floor of the print and traverse 90s because that would be the primary interest to the white house and she thought that it would be a good place to have all of the first ladies come together using a quarter wasat a gallery printd as we continue down and i sent you know calli

we have mary margaret and we have eleanor born three weeks before the election. >> congratulations. >> i have got my three girls at home, and being a dad is so much better than any job that i could have, including a congressman, but they are such a big reason why i am doing this, because my kids will inherit this mess, and i think about them a lot and the conversations we are having now regarding reconciliation and the budget and that sort of thing. i think about my kids and what we will give to them someday. >> one last question. back to you being the age of 30. what does a young boy's like that bring to a place like this? >> my life experiences are unique, but i do not think it matters the age. i have been -- i do not want to say shocked, but my colleagues from the dean of the house treated me with the same respect he would've treated anybody. speaker johnson treats me with respect just like anybody else. i am not the youngest republican in the caucus. there is one that is about three weeks to one month younger than me. everybody has treated me like i am one of them, which i am. >>

i if anything of the the there eleanor was the radical and because she's the one that put together along with scholars the universal declaration of human and deliberately just i think i kind of knew you were going to bring that question up and tell me tell me the name of your book again it was the imperial san francisco imperial san francisco. greg has is one of the scholars that has looked at at these kind of elites and san francisco and. so i, i don't think i mean roosevelt resisted the call for. you know violent repression. he didn't believe that it was all communism. speier and they never they they tried for years to try to prove harry bridges was a communist. and and claim to have actually discovered some papers in the pentagon when was opened up that said that it was his this was his name. it was his code name or something. but i mean, so whatever was i mean, it was it was an incredible time and a movement that scared the heck out of elites. in fact, i did a paper on the bohemian grove elites and and and the other general strike. i interviewed three of them at the time who were you

eleanor holmes norton, i think, had to sue newsweek because they had a rule against hiring in 1970, hiring women correspondents. it was an, as you say, until that equal opportunity credit act in 1974, women had to get a credit card to get a loan, to get a mortgage and to go through that with their husbands approval. so it was quite a the context in which this was all in which was operating was something. and indeed, i think the the the opposition to change that would be represented a woman justice of the supreme court was so extreme that the chief justice sent a letter of resignation that he didn't specifically mention that as the reason, but he said that because of the changes that, i can't i don't think i can continue this role. so this was really groundbreaking stuff. john so as dean has out that nixon used the approach of civil rights to a number of this, but there was some legislation and as i said, because of nixon having both houses of congress against a controlled by the opposite, by the democratic throughout his administration the legislation was hard to do although in the last da

eleanor holmes norton had to to newsweekek because they had a gl of hiring in 1970, women correspondence a credit card, a little mortgage and go through their husband's approval. the context in which nixon was operating. the opposition to change represented c was so extreme the chief justice didn't specifically mention that is the reason because of the changes i don't think can continue in this role said this is groundbreaking stuff. >> using the approach of civilri rights, there was some legislation because of nixon having both houses by the democratic party throughout the administration, the legislation was hard to do although in the last days of bipartisanship, he did get a number of legislations that became what the did get some things through but what was present at the creation on the family assistance plan, a picture that is pivotal to this, i think we have a picture with the president. john worked for and with pat monahan on these programs and particularly, the program assistance and the child development act so tell us something about this legislation. >> let me go back to thehe

civil rights activist eleanor holms norton joined this broadcast a month later. >> how are we going totive action. >> we'll know because black unemployment won't be twice more than white unemployment and 2% black doctors and black lawyers. we'll know because the ghettos won't stand out in poverty while prosperity appears to abound elsewhere. i am one of those who believe that in a single generation we can, in fact, get rid of the consequences of 200 years of racial discrimination, but i believe that can happen only if we are willing to pursue very strong remedies now. the lighter the remedy, the more the lighter the remedy, the more we guarantee that the period of [monologue] i got somebody for that! ♪♪ i got somebody for that. ♪♪ i got somebody for that! you guys got somebody for peyronie's's disease ♪♪ there's hope for the estimated 1 in 10 men who may have peyronie's disease, or pd. a urology specialist who treats pd can help you create a plan— including nonsurgical options. find somebody today at gogetsomebody.com at&t has a new guarantee. because most things in business are not gu

eleanor, first to you. this is a trade war, the one that donald trump has not backed off from. >> that's exactly right. and as. >> you mentioned. >> john, the president's, you know, widespread 10% tariffs. on all of chinese goods went into effect at 1201 this morning. we saw beijing immediately retaliate with a barrage of their own measures. but look, this 10% figure is a far cry from the 60% figure. we know that the president repeatedly talked about and threatened to levy on china throughout his time on the campaign trail, and it really signals that if the two countries cannot come to some sort of deal, we could see these tariffs increase even further. now, we did hear the president kind of speak to this yesterday while in the oval office. take a listen to how he put it. >> we'll have some good meetings with china. we have meetings planned and we'll see what happens. but that was just an opening salvo. if we can't make a deal with china, then the tariffs will be very, very substantial. >> so you heard him,

travel around in a ford and ford who hates roosevelt, is jammed in the backseat of this car with eleanor roosevelt on one side of him. and franklin roosevelt on the other side and across from him in the jump seat. his son, edsel and edsel who knew how much his father hated the roosevelt said his dad was giving him the stink eye the whole time, so but for the most part, these corporate executives have been interested in being pro-business meaning their business. a great example of this is lee iacocca. he first shows up in character in the power of, the money as a kind of pro-free market anti guy who comes to the white house to argue against nader write regulations being on the auto industry and then as time goes on evolves and the auto industry gets these challenges. competition from japan and abroad and suddenly they want government intervention. and so he is buddies with jimmy carter in leading to the chrysler bailout of the 1970s and then in the 1980s, he's with ronald reagan for anti market regulatory actions that would help his company. now, ronald reagan, very little patience for it

and ford, who hates roosevelt is jammed in the backseat of this car with eleanor roosevelt on one side of him and franklin roosevelt on the other side of him and across from him is his son, and a son who knew how much his father hated the roosevelts, and his dad was giving him the stink idaho time -- stink eye the whole time. for the most part they have been interested in pro-business being their business. lee iacocca first shows up as a kind of pro-free-market anti-regulatory guy who comes to the nixon white house to argue against regulations being imposed on the auto industry. and as time goes on he evolves and experiences all these challenges from competition from japan and abroad and suddenly they want government intervention. so he is buddies with jimmy carter leading to the chrysler bailout of the 1970's. and then in the 1980's, he's argument with ronald reagan for anti-market regulatory actions that would help his company and ronald reagan had very little patience for him. there's a great story where reagan doesn't accept the arguments in favor of a gas tax and he tells them tha

eleanor, how is washington reacting to this? >> well, we're hearing a lot of different reaction. boris, including some skepticism that we are hearing from many republicans, even republicans, who have worked closely with the president and the president's team on this. that includes senator lindsey graham, who said he's not so sure this would go over well with people in his home state of south carolina. but i do think your point as well, just i mean, listening to the president say this on stage, publicly standing beside prime minister benjamin netanyahu yesterday was remarkable. and you're exactly right. this is in opposition to what we've heard. u.s. presidents say for decades, pushing for a two state solution. this is, of course, very different from that. i think one of the key questions, though, of course, is what exactly this could mean in practice. and if there are any details that are being worked out behind the scenes. now, i can tell you from my conversations with a top white house official that some people were very caught off guard by this when the president got up there

eleanor, what's behind this? >> well, fred did hear from the president, as you mentioned, saying that he has made precision military strikes in somalia on different terrorist groups, namely i.s.i.s. or excuse me, just on i.s.i.s., but this is what he posted to truth social this morning about this. he said, quote, this morning i ordered precision military airstrikes on the senior i.s.i.s. attack planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in somalia. these killers, who we found hiding in caves, threaten the united states and our allies. the strikes destroyed the caves they live in and killed many terrorists without in any way harming civilians. now, fred, we did also receive a statement from the new secretary of defense, pete hegseth, who also confirmed that he had authorized these strikes, as well. as noted that no civilians were harmed. this is what he wrote. he said, quote, at president trump's direction and in coordination with the federal government of somalia, i authorized u.s. africa command to conduc

which is, you know, for us, i'm sitting here, as you said at the beginning, i don't know, ohad and eleanor, but i know them. and inside captivity they were given a lot more access to both media to knowing what's going on as part of the psychological warfare to make it worse for them, meaning they were both secluded and then shown very specific type of pictures. so it's very hard to know how they're going to recover. and the last thing i'll say is that there's no question that the three men that we're seeing come out today, they look emaciated, they look horrible. i'm allowed to say that. right. and that's just in the staged moment on stage. i'm going to hope that once they come back into israel and they're not in these horrific brown prisoner uniforms as this, they were arrested and put on trial and put on jail and held against, okay, these are people that were snatched out of their homes. i'm hoping that afterwards they'll be able to contend a bit better with the new reality. we all know them, and they've been in captivity for 491 days. >> yeah, certainly. as i mentioned before, a very lo

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washington, many volumes of those, the works of theodore roosevelt on the top, beautiful bust of eleanor roosevelt and over here, you will like this. this is a replica of the biden family bible that he has taken the oval office on every time he's been elected to office including the presidency. we have a replica. >> even has the wear marks. >> this is an exact addition as the one he has in the oval office, which we could take credit for re-creating it but we went and obtained an exact copy of what he has. >> we walked past a couple of doors. where to those doors go? >> this door would go into the president's study and dining room. you've seen the picture of the president having lunch with the vice president in that space, some president's actually work in their most of the day and use the oval only for ceremonies. others will spend most of the workday here and use that to take a phone call or do something, have a change of scenery. the door in the wall behind us goes to the roosevelt room and the cabinet room, the door we walked through coming into this building in the real oval if you w

. >> he and churchill would spend time here and story of eleanor, witnessing them, she wasn't supposedthe room either butt she saw them in the room playing with thela pins on the wall and they said they looked like two little boys playing soldier and in animated conversation and theyy looked like they were having a wonderful and she paused and say too wonderful and somehow anger on her part toward war and two great men area prosecuting a war that have to be fought they shouldn't look like they should be having fun moving pins on the wall., >> mrs. roosevelt wrestles with tensions inside the home, poynant moment she and head housekeeper believing that the service staff will function better if it's all one color dismiss all white members of it and hire only blacks at a lower cost. >> john mace, white house doorman. >> when i talk and think about ways, i talk about the white house. the white housee often seen as central american place and so i want people to realize that part of that centrality is because it's a place that grappled with questions of race, it was a place that was reflectiv

chair lower post here patty zoghbi president eleanor bloom bear paul woolford is an excused absence and gerald turner president. all right. with four members present we do have quorum for the streets and sanitation. uh, we have john anderson as selena you soap. yeah. chair kim hartwick shulman here . >> thomas harrison here and chris see me present. okay. and with four members present from the streets of sanitation we do have quorum public. with that, may we have quorum in both public works commission and streets and sanitation. public comment is taken for all informational and action items on today's agenda. to comment in person please line up against the wall near the screen to the audience left when public comment is called. for members of the public wishing to comment on an item from outside the hearing room you may do so by joining via webinar through the link shown on page two of today's agenda to be recognized. select the raise your hand icon in the webinar and you may also comment from outside the chamber by dialing 1415655001 to raise your hand to speak press star three the tel

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