well, this book concentrates on the way eleanor roosevelt wrote the script for first ladies. now, every first lady since eleanor has either followed the script or hasn't followed the script, but at least they had to read the script. they've had to know about it. there are lots of books on eleanor roosevelt, but what this book does is tell what she did in the white house to make the job of first lady more than just that of a hostess or somebody who was interested, perhaps, in a cause or two. she really made the first ladyship a potent part of of the american presidency. >> so was the script that she wrote giving the first lady a role to play in policy? >> the script showed what a first lady could do. the script showed that the first lady could make the job of the president's wife of into one in which she could promote the . >> political reporter for the associated press, and it was lorena hickok who introduced eleanor to the plight of miners in west virginia who were living in horrible circumstances. so one of eleanor's first projects as first lady was to try to do something a

>> this book concentrates on the way eleanor roosevelt wrote the script for first lady. every first lady since eleanor has either followed the script or hasn't followed the script but they had to read the script. they had to know about it. what this book does is tell what she did in the white house to make the job more than just that of a hostess for someone interested in a cause or two. she really made the first lady shift. an important part of the american presidency. >> so was the script she wrote giving the first lady a role to play in policy? >> it showed what a first lady could do. showed the first lady could make the job of the president's wife into one in which she could promote the administration. she could show the public that the presidency was interested in individuals. she was the public face of her husband's political program, the new deal but because she traveled so much and really had an inmate glove of people she personalized the presidency and made it a lot more than passing laws. she made it a way of connecting with people. >> did you come upon any fac

or eleanor roosevelt, but the real heros are who we live with every day. if you want to talk about the hero i spent my time with is my oldest son. i wrote the book for him, and this is the moment i recently gave him the book, and it's a moment i waited for eight year. i wrote it for my son, and i'm presenting it to him, and he doesn't care about eleanor roosevelt or rosa parks. he goes looking for the athletes in the book and he's flipping through and finds roberto clementi. i told being a professional athlete doesn't make you a better person. it means nothing being on the best sellers list. he reads this and roberto is in the book not because he plays baseball, but because there was an earthquake in nick wag ray and he sends three plane loads of food to the victims. all three plane loads were stolen. he sent a fourth plane. he got on the plane himself to make sure it got there. he gets on the plane and it crashes in the ocean killing everybody on board. he's not a hero because he died, but why he died on board. my son reads this and i'm waiting for him to

or eleanor roosevelt and these amazing people. the real heros are the heros that we live with every day. that's vital. i should tell you do you want to talk about the hero who i spent my time with, my son, my oldest son jonas. this is the moment that i gave him the book. i've waited eight years. it's called "heros for my son" i'm telling my son. he doesn't care about eleanor roosevelt or rosa parks. he's looking through the athletes. he finds roberto clemente. you know what being a famous athlete, nothing. it doesn't make you a better person, nicer, you know what selling a lot of books and being on the best seller list, nothing. doesn't make me smarter. it means people read the books. roberto clemente is in there not because he was a baseball player, because there was a earthquake in nicaragua. he sends three planes for help. they were stolen. he was so determined to make sure the plane gets there, the fourth one, he gets on the plane. it crashes in the ocean. killing everyone on board. he's not a hero because he died. he's a hero

wouldn't eleanor roosevelt be proud? that women in high office will never be a novelty again.o proud that there are more women here, including from the other party. every time a new one of us comes, they bring new ideas, new energy and gives a lot of other young girls the belief that they can do it, too. >> and so we choose barbara mikulski. she says it's not about how long she's served, but how well. congratulations, senator. that's all for us tonight. david muir will be here tomorrow. diane's back monday, and i'll see you that morning on "gma." have a great weekend. >>> a light earthquake shakes up nearly the entire bay area, we're going to have latest information for you san francisco appears to have a new mayor in a vote late today. >> and plus, everyone wanted him but 49ers got him. jim harbaugh taking talents north. >> and the smashing success of a project by a singing duo and a teacher to increase literacy in richmond. >> good evening, everyone. a magnitude 4.1 earthquake rattled the bay area. and widely that it struck a 4:10 in the afternoon centered east of san jose c

well, this book concentrates on the way eleanor roosevelt wrote the script as first lady. every lady since then followed the script or have not. they had to at least know about the script. there's a lot of books on her, but this book tells about what she did in the white house to make the job of first lady more than just that as a hostess. she made the first lady shift a potent part of the american presidency. >> so was the script that she wrote giving the first lady a role to play in policy? >> the script showed what a first lady could do. the script showed that the first lady can make the job of the president's wife into one this which she could promote the administration or she could show the public that the presidency was interested in individual. she was the public face of her husband's political program, the new deal, but because she traveled so much and because she really had an innate love of people, she personalized the presidency, and she made it a lot more than just passing laws. she made it a way of connecting with people. >> did you come upon any facts that yo

." >> you mention eleanor roosevelt and theodore roosevelt. >> he aggressively use -- in my case i did it to defend the country. my presidency was defined by september 11, and i vowed to use every legal means at my disposal to protect america, and one interesting thing is to encourage democracy, to spread freedom,, because that ultimately marginalizes ideologues who use murder as a weapon to spread their views. >> we have about 75 students here, and you majored in history. a good idea to major in history today? >> i gave a speech at yale university, and i said, congratulations. as for uc students, you can be president. i think history is important. i learned a lot about the presidency from reading history. one thing is to be a part of history when objective historians show up that truly want to analyze the effects of my presidency, this will be a reference point, so people are interested to know what it was like inside the oval office and will like this book. i could not have written it this way if i had not been a student of history myself. >> i am a freshman. how would you change the

we were founded by eleanor roosevelt. we are a bipartisan organization, which is to say our board of trustees are nonpartisan. we are headquartered in washington, and we also have an office in new york, as well as 10 offices overseas. we issue reports, such as the one we have been talking about this morning. we do programs that we undertake, supporting human- rights activists, journalists. we also engage in advocacy work, where there is in support of freedom of expression, working with congress, international organizations, foreign governments in trying to raise awareness about human-rights issues are around the world. host: one of the things i read was about the use of social media. does that play a role in the future of these countries? guest: absolutely. we have seen it in a small country of -- we have seen it in a small country in 2009. people were text messaging each other. we have seen it in other places. we have seen it in china. i think the new communication has become an important tool for a human-rights activist

this is a moment i waited eight years and i'm presenting it to him and he doesn't care about eleanor roosevelt. he doesn't care about rosa parks he goes looking for the athletes in the book. and he is flipping through and he finds a book of roberto clemente but i tell my son all the time do you know what being a famous athlete means. nothing. it seems nothing. it means you're good at sports. it doesn't make you a better person or nicer or anything. i say to him do you know what's selling a lot of books and being on the bestseller anything, it doesn't make me smarter or nothing. he's reading it because there was a earthquake in nicaragua and roberto sent three plane loads of food and medicine for the victims and they were stolen. they were confiscated so he sent a fourth plane i'm so determined to make sure the fourth plane will get there. i'm going to get on the plane myself and make sure it gets there. and he gets on the plane and the plane crashes in the ocean killing everyone on board. and it says -- he's not a hero 'cause he died. he's a heroes 'cause of why he got on board. and so my son

a speech coach or that rose kennedy, his mother, was fumingr over her role in seat with that eleanor roosevelt had refused t sit on the platform at all because she could not bear being so close to kennedy's father. there was so much bad bloodood between some many dignitariese gathered on this platform that is grudges had with the entire contraption would have crashed to the ground. no one suspected that cardinalc cushing had slowed thecation bee invitation because he believed the smoke wafting from beneath th the poedium came from the itoldering bomb meant fory. kennedy. short it was actually a short circuit. he wanted to avoid the blast itself or suspected that kennedy as he glared at cushing who was taking eight minutes for his invitation was probably still sh editing the words of the speech of his own mind it would make 32 alterations to the reading copy of the address as here deliveren it. now the inaugural address camet rsed ncross the political spectrum. lifeit magazine reprinted under the headlines a great speech.eda declared that it rang with ther rhetoric rarely found in a political s

we were founded by eleanor roosevelt. we are a bipartisan organization, which is to say our board of trustees are nonpartisan. we are headquartered in washington, and we also have an office in new york, as well as 10 offices overseas. we issue reports, such as the one we have been talking about this morning. we do programs that we undertake, supporting human- rights activists, journalists. we also engage in advocacy work, where there is in support of freedom of expression, working with congress, international organizations, foreign governments in trying to raise awareness about human-rights issues are around the world. host: one of the things i read was about the use of social media. does that play a role in the future of these countries? guest: absolutely. we have seen it in a small country of -- we have seen it in a small country in 2009. people were text messaging each other. we have seen it in other places. we have seen it in china. i think the new communication has become an important tool for a human-rights activist

changed, said, boy, was i duped and then changed and weren't duped again, humphrey bogart, eleanor or roosevelt, paul douglas, john dewey. from hollywood, lucille ball, jimmy cagney, olivia dehalve lin, melanie on gone with the wind. and also a later anticommunist crusader conservative republican president named ronald reagan who admitted in 1946 that he had been misled, that he had been duped as well. democrats, on the other hand, there were anticommunist democrats and liberals from the very beginning who i think were never duped and right away recognized the danger that the communists posed to their plans and their policies. and i'm going to surprise you here. the first president who had to deal with this at the founding of the party, founding of the american communist party was who? 1919? woodrow wilson. woodrow wilson. and woodrow wilson may have been -- [inaudible] of a man on the left, all right? but he was an anticommunist x he was stridently antiboll she e vick. described the bolsheviks as barbarians, tyrants and

we were founded by eleanor roosevelt. we are a bipartisan organization, which is to say our board of trustees are nonpartisan. we are headquartered in washington, and we also have an office in new york, as well as 10 offices overseas. we iss reports, such as the one we have been talking about this morning. we do programs that we undertake, supporting human- rights activists, journalists. we also engage in advocacy work, where there is in support of freedom of expression, working with congress, international organizations, foreign governments in trying to raise awareness about human-rights issues are around the world. host: one of the things i read was about the use of social media. does that play a role in the future of these countries? guest: absolutely. we have seen it in a small country of -- we have seen it in a small country in 2009. people were text messaging each other. we have seen it in other places. we have seen it in china. i think the new communication has become an iortant tool for a human-rights activists an

the president completely avoided -- that is the major difference between him and roosevelt went to the slums with eleanor and reached out. we cannot go down our own road, the most direct route to the airport. he wavoided it. the people that will pay for other people surgery, because now we have to buy a certain amount of insurance -- i am so sick about hearing about the emergency room. suv.subsidizing someone's he literally sped 120 miles per hour. he had to make a huge ring outside the city. none of my students said a word about the president being here. guest: two separate issues of course. the local reaction to a presidential visit. i have covered many. they're always destructive. -- disruptive. the picture was about the turbines and jeff and meimmelt. everything else was either third or fourth in the pecking order. the president got what he wanted out of the pictures and the day of emphasizing jobs summit technology, and investment and growth. on health care, this will be a debate we will continue to have, because the reform measure passed by the house sits now in the senate. republicans will bring i

the president completely avoided -- that is the major difference between him and roosevelt went to the slums with eleanor and reached out. we cannot go down our own road, the most direct route to the airport. he wavoided it. the people that will pay for other people surgery, because now we have to buy a certain amount of insurance -- i am so sick about hearing about the emergency room. suv.subsidizing someone's he literally sped 120 miles per hour. he had to make a huge ring outside the city. none of my students said a word about the president being here. guest: two separate issues of course. the local reaction to a presidential visit. i have covered many. they're always destructive. -- disruptive. the picture was about the turbines and jeff and meimmelt. everything else was either third or fourth in the pecking order. the president got what he wanted out of the pictures and the day of emphasizing jobs summit technology, and investment and growth. on health care, this will be a debate we will continue to have, because the reform measure passed by the house sits now in the senate. republicans will bring i