of course i did the inevitable eleanor roosevelt. i sort of got imprinted, i think, very early on, the biography is a way of exploring that which you, that which you admire. my mother was quite right to keep me from the duchess of windsor. i think that we are all very lucky man did not start writing biographies earlier because i probably would have produced the definitive biography of hopalong cassidy. [laughter] when i was six, what i really wanted to be was a cowboy. started at that point, i would have certainly written about hopalong cassidy. so now we will move ahead to virginia woolf.

idea has been we've learned in our work that the universal declaration of human rights that eleanor roosevelt shepherded and adopted bit general assembly 64 years ago is actually not known by a large proportion of our population. and we also found that when youth and adults found out about it, they got very excited and, in fact we got the name because someone said my goodness this document spells out the world it's could be. it has been the creative spirit of the administrators and students at balboa that have really brought this to life. we're now, i just got to see on friday, their third student-produced assembly about the universal declaration of human rights and it's breathtaking to see how their whole culture has taken on this path and that they are setting an example for how to help us bring forward eleanor roosevelt's work and make it continually relevant to the world today. i would love to have you here from kevin curr, the principal of balboa and oxy trejos, sr. to explain what it is to them. thank you so much. >> good evening commissioners. superintendent. you know, we live in kind

because that's what introduced him to franklin and eleanor roosevelt. and that is when it enabled him, his new wife, barbara, the woman from the office -- they moved to washington dc. so there you have unemployment in america a 25%. new president, franklin roosevelt in 1933 hired harry to head up the first of several of his jobs programs. culminating with him as leader of the wpa, which was the works progress administration. the centerpiece of the new deal. the mission was to put americans back to work on public works and construction projects. he looked as if he had slept in the office at night, which he often did. harry achieved spectacular results as head of the wpa. they put 8.5 million people back to work. it also put $10 million back into the economy. once again, harry became one of the most visible members of the roosevelt administration and the new deal. he was on the cover of time magazine twice. he hung out with the kennedy family and other notable families of the time. in 1938 and 1939, the president's encouragement -- i have notes on us this

eleanor roosevelt was heartbroken about this. you'rehard to believe vi going to die. he thought he would fight for peace. he told churchill the stop worrying about the soviets. these things work themselves out. he had a great relationship with stalin. so did wallace. grains and the result was harry truman. -- >> and the result was harry truman. >> a of a party hack. part of the prendergast machine. prendergast was the party boss in kansas city before he went to federal prison. they asked him why they chose harry truman and he said, i wanted to show the world that a well or ill machine could take an office boy and get him to well oiled machine could take an office boy and get him elected to senate. other senators called him the senator from prendergast. he squeaks in to get reelected in 1940 and then they elevated him, not because he was qualified to be president, as emitted over and over again, but because he did not have a lot of enemies and he was very pliable. if wallace had been in there, there would have been no atomic bomb, and no nuclear arms race, and very pos

franklin eleanor roosevelt had consoled harry following the death of his second wife, barbara, in 1837 a breast-cancer instant that time, mr. roosevelt had been a surrogate mother of harry stan daughter, diana, age seven lives in vienna, virginia right now. and so, by that time, harry was almost a part of the roosevelt family and he was at that time the closest adviser and friend and if anybody could be a confidant of roosevelt, he was. the president since terry was not feeling well that evening. he knew hopkins had two thirds of his stomach removed at the mayo clinic because the diet assist at the time was cancer. this is about two years before 1940. since that time, had been unable to gain any weight. he was clearly malnourished. something was terribly wrong with his digestive system. senate president insisted that his friend stay at tears for the night in the white house. so here he was the man who came to dinner and he never laughed. he stayed in the southeast corner of the white house in the link of rooms for three and a half years. the tear, just a couple doors down from the pres

early education department's preschool programs were established in 1943 by president franklin eleanor roosevelt work projects administration to provide the city's families with care and education for preschool age children during world war ii. whereas eed began with four sites. today eed has grown to 43 sites that serve over 4,000 students including infants, toddlers, preschool opportunities, transitional kindergarten, other students and tk as well as fifth grade students during non school hours. over 90% receive completely free or subsidized care based on their family income and more than 75% of families served a language other than english at home. whereas sfusd's strategic plan contains three main goals: access and equity, student achievement and accountability, and calls out the achievement gap as one of the greatest civil rights issues facing the district. whereas decades of research has shown that providing children with early education opportunities can have significant positive impact on their growth and academic achievement. in addition for students from families who face economic ling

eleanor roosevelt had consoled harry, following the death of his second wife, barbara in 1937, of breast cancer. and since that time, mrs. roosevelt, the first lady, had been surrogate mother of harry's young daughter, diana, aged seven, who is in virginia right now. and so by that time harry was almost a part of the roosevelt family, and he was at that time the closest adviser and friend. and if anybody could be a confidence of roosevelt, he was. -- be a confidant of roosevelt, he was. the president said -- sensed harry was not feeling well that evening. he knew that hopkins had had some say two-thirds, of the stomach removed at the mayo clinic because diagnosed at the time with cancer. this was about two years before 1940. and so since that time, harry, as the president knew, had been unable to regain any weight. he was clearly malnourished. something was terribly wrong with his digestive system. so the president said, he insisted that his friend stay upstairs for the night in the white house. so kerry was the man who came to dinner, and he never left. he stayed in the southeast corner

there is eleanor roosevelt, but hillary clinton is constantly surprising people just by her sheer competence whatever she traiks on. she was a popular first lady and then a very popular new york senator and even more popular secretary of state and as she prepares to leave she will write a memoir on what the last four years were like. she traveled a million miles on behalf of our state department going to korea, vietnam, pakistan, vietnam. on and on. >> that earns one the platinum card when it comes to flying, i spoiz. they do talk about her, the hillary doctrine. and this great secretary of state, but what can she point to specifically as her accomplishments in that role? >> well, she promoted smart power, meaning after george w. bush and the iraq war sending troops abroad. finding other ways to achieve goals in the war on terror. she's largely been the voice of the women's movement around the world. talking about democracy and women's issues. she's beloved by feminists and holds a feminist role of global stature and i think most significantly in the end she is just very well liked by presid

ones on the ground floor, the modern-day perce ladies are the ones i can identify with more, eleanor roosevelt, jacqui kennedy -- jackie kennedy. those are the woman's -- women whose stories to a close enough to connect with. many of the women in the higher floors, on the state floor, they seem like characters from a wonderful story because it was such a long time ago. it is history. you read about it in books. to be in their presence seems little bit disconnecting. the first lady's on the ground floor, the ones i remember, i remember there are real stories. i can picture their lives. in this incredible way that makes me think about their challenges and struggles and how they used the space. >> the first ladies, their private and public lives. c-span is teaming up with the white house historical association. "first ladies: influence and image." this begins on president's day, at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. >> just before question time and wednesday, british prime minister david cameron delivered a speech outlining his government's position on britain's role in the eu. he pledged t

that i'm drawn to our on the ground floor, the more modest ladies that i can identify with like eleanor roosevelt and jackie kennedy. you know, those are the women whose stories deal close enough to connect with. many of the women in the higher floors of the state flower, they seem like characters from a wonderful story because it was such a line long time ago its history and the books to be in the presence seems a little disconnected. but the first lady's on the ground floor that i remember i remember their real story is and i can picture their lives in an incredible way that makes me think that their challenges and struggles and how they would use the space. >>> you are watching book tv on c-span2. here is our prime time lineup for tonight.

eleanor roosevelt said you can't strengthen democracy abroad without strengthening it at home and can't let that world outside sort of thin your ambitions at home. >> starting in the clinton administration, certainly in the first term that was part of what you were learning how to do, right, is deal with the crises of the day, yes, there are plenty, but continue to move an agenda for it. again, by the second term you have a much better sense of how to do that. >> go ahead, tom. >> politically, though, these things as important as they are frankly don't move domestic politics. i think of george herbert walker bush, who was enormously successful in not just the gulf war but in handling his arab spring, the unraveling of the soviet empire and doing it peacefully in europe. amazing achievement. didn't even get him re-elected. i would be worried as a political consultant can if my top two accomplishments were foreign policy were my top two for domestic. >> jonathan, six weeks ago when we talked about the second term agenda we would have talked about immigration, talked about the economy, spe

written an article about this, too but first lady of the world is the term that was applied eleanor roosevelt her 20 or so years in public service. i think really that is genuinely aapplicable now to hillary clinton. even when she was not elected official, first lady, taken on conversion to issues but important every day issues that face people and known that she will have to -- she will be attacked and criticized personally attacked, even if it's unfair. on the other hand, she has always had a global -- an interesting cultures and people from around the world and saw the big picture what is it that makes -- she is commonality among human beings? that way, very much like jacqueline ken day real fascination for different ways people live. >> let's look at a little of that. there are other first ladies who have made major impact opts country. you can go back many years to lady -- the first lady, dolley madison, many feel defined the role of first lady, policy side, bet any ford with substance abuse, nancy reagan has the just say no campaign on drugs and jackie kennedy, style you glamour, glitz,

to our on the ground floor on the modern-day first ladies that i can identify with more like eleanor roosevelt and jackie kennedy and of those are the women that feel close enough to connect with on the higher floors and the state flores. they seem like characters from a wonderful story because it was such a long time ago. you read it in the books to be in their presence seems a little bit disconnected. the first lady on the ground floor that i remember, i remember their real story is coming and i can picture their lives in an incredible way that makes me think about their challenges and struggles and how they used the space.

eleanor roosevelt was furious with them. every one of the rows of kids was furious with them.they were huge wallace supporters. he had all the black delegates at the convention, all the progress. there were fights in the party that is split still today in the democratic party. roosevelt didn't have the gumption to fight at that point. he lost that strength. wallace said publicly at the convention if i were a delegate i would vote for henry wallace, which he would have, but it's tragic as a say in the document is, it's tragic you didn't have the strength to fight at that point for wallace. >> i sense in the opening question, michael, you're pointing to the forces of history. and i see the marxist side of this, the forces that pushed history -- [inaudible] >> in the sense of wallace would've been opposed and the forces were not in his favor and the forces were ultimately between this capitalism versus communists ideology would clash and that would begin. that, of course, was the subject of the february 46 speech stalled amid that was misinterpreted by the west by the two systems

sort of more modern-day first ladies are the ones that i can identify with more, people like eleanor roosevelt, jackie kennedy, you know? those are the women whose stories feel close enough to connect with. many of the women in the higher floors, on the state floor, they seem like characters from a wonderful story because it was such a long time ago. it's history, and you read about it in books. to be in their presence seems a little disconnected. but the first ladies on the ground floor are the ones that i remember, i remember their real stories and their real -- i can picture their lives in an incredible way that makes me think about their challenges and struggles and how they used the space. >> the first ladies, their private and public lives. c-span's teaming up with the white house historical association for a first of its kind original series for television. first ladies: influence and image. airing over two seasons. season one begins presidents day at 9 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. >> next on booktv, peter bergen and a panel of contributors discuss th

think to go to joe's point, one of the legacy questions will be to richard and us combined, eleanor roosevelti you can't fight for democracy abroad without strengthening it at home. and i think getting our middle class rising again, figuring out inequality of income, dealing with our fiscal problems, that has to be a priority even as we step abroad. that's the first economist quote. they said we screwed up at home. and then they argue we're not engaged enough abroad. you have to do both. and the question is management of time. i think the most important thing hopefully the president learns after four years, how did i spend my time? did i spend enough time with congress or too much time? enough time with the press or too much time? enough on foreign or enough on domestic? he has a limited number of time in the day. that's the best thing to learn. you become a better president after those four years hopefully. >> david axelrod, i have a question for you. the president famously said to medvedev of russia, tell president putin i'll be more flexible in my second term. >> i don't know that he said

eleanor roosevelt did this. she became a liberal spokesperson for the roosevelt family.ouldn't go as far as he wanted to, he would say, listen to my wife and that's where my heart lies. in another case where it can backfire hillary clinton in the first clinton administration. >> a crucial role michelle obama played giving that speech which was very well received. >> she helps to humanize him and provide that behind had scenes look at who he is and what he's trying to accomplish. she can relate to people on a level of shared experiences. she's a working woman. she understands raising kids and juggling work and family. and when people can hear from her in that sort of long form format and really have that conversation with her, it really electroifies the room and i think that's what helped changed the dialogue in 2008. >> in that speech that she gave at the convention, i think people forgot, you know, democrats were really a little bit down. she got out there and when she spoke, that wasn't just one of the best speeches of a first lady, that was one of the best speeches in

people like eleanor roosevelt, jackie kennedy, those are the women whose stories feel close enough to connect with. many of the women in the higher floors on the state floor, they seem like characters from a wonderful story, because it was such a long time ago. it's history and you read a

the united nations universal declaration of human rights after world war ii thanks in part to eleanor roosevelt who helped draft the u.n.'s declaration after her husband's death. today more than 70 countries recognize a right to health or health care in their constitutions. virtually every industrialized nation has taken steps to implement these rights by establishing some type of universal health coverage for their citizens. ..

luxury to live with abraham lincoln just as it was an honor to live for years with franklin and eleanor roosevelt. indeed the older of gotten the more i realize what an extraordinary privileges to have spent my life as a biographer living in one's mind with such large and fascinating characters in contrast to my experience of president johnson i will not have the opportunity of some debate could spending hours as i did with president johnson after having been chosen by now i've met some in trepidation as a white house intern for johnson but that was the white house fellowship of the fabulous program that what me to spend a year in washington and in and go and help them throughout the rest of the life. it was an unforgettable experience to have spent those hours with the line of finance to the victor of a thousand conquest and he promptly defeated in the end of dollying in virtual exile on his ranch. during that steep i now realized he opened up to me in ways he never would have had i known him at the height of his power sharing in his memory and his white mayors can read it to be sure i shall nev

ground floor, sort of modern-day first ladies, the ones that i can identify more with, like eleanor roosevelt and jackie kennedy. those are the women whose stories feel close enough to connect with. many of the women in the higher floors, on the state for, they seem like characters from a wonderful story because it was such a long time ago. it is history, and you read it in books. to be in their presence seems a bit disconcerting, but the first ladies, the ones i remember, i remember their real stories, and i can picture their eyes and in an incredible way that makes me think about their challenges and struggles, how they used the space. >> "the first lady's." c-span is teaming up with a historical association for a first of its kind. "first ladies -- influence an image." this will be beginning president's day on c-span. president's day on c-span.

i can identify more with people like eleanor roosevelt, jackie kennedy, those are the women whose stories feel close enough to connect with. many of the women in the higher floors, on the state flora, -- floor, they seem like characters from a wonderful story. it was such a long time ago. it is history and you read about it in books. to be in their presence seems a little disconnected. the first ladies on the ground floor floor are the ones that i remember. i remember their real stories and i can picture their lives. in an incredible way that makes me think about their challenges and struggles and how they use the space. >> the first ladies, their private and public lives. c-span is teaming up with the white house is oracle situation -- association white house the store association. the season one president they at 9:00 p.m. pacific. >> now, a discussion about the 2012 campaign and the challenges facing conservatives. this forms part of a conference hosted by the national review institute, and advocacy group founded by william s buckley junior. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> can

is energetic and present and participatory, but the feistiness of eleanor roosevelt. >> we understandd of tortures my character a bit. >> hard hitting. exactly. >> my character put herself through law school and ran her husband's campaign and got him into the presidency. what they took from my life, i am a classically trained dancer and they brought that to my character. she's like really -- >> let's put it this way. i'm the butt of the joke on that one. >> again? >> exactly. >> jenna elfman, it's a great series, "1600 penn." catch it at 9:30, 8:30 central. thank you. >> this is wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. let's check on your morning commute with sarah caldwell. >> good morning, everyone. latest accident is southbound ritchie highway and on old road. there is a bus involved in this accident. injuries reported. avoid southbound ritchie highway. still heavy from server and a park all the way towards 50. ritchie highway, not seeing delays here. ritchie highway in the southbound direction, watch for delays. holding onto delays on the north and west si

book are the signatures of herbert hoover, franklin roosevelt, which was signed by his wife, eleanor roosevelt, harry truman, and dwight eisenhower, lyndon johnson, john kennedy, richard nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, ronald reagan, george bush, and so on. more recently, george w. bush and barack obama. the tradition has been maintained. when a new president is elected, st. john's makes an effort to contact them and have them sign this historic book, which is a very dear item to the church. it is one of those great pieces of history that has been long associated with this church, from 1856 till the present one of the little-known fact about presidential inaugurations is that it has been the custom in modern times to have a church service, and worship service of some kind before the president takes the oath of office. people feel this is a longstanding tradition. it began with franklin roosevelt on march 4, 1933. when he wished to have a worship service take place before he took the oath of office, in the depths of the great depression. he contacted the church and he organized a special serv

fortunately, eleanor roosevelt went to the floor to the convention in chicago and made them know he wasllace on the picture. 1944, the war was ending, getting close to the end of the war, wallace was up rerenomination again. the party bosses wants him off the ticket. they knew wallace wasn't going to survive another term. in 1941, henry lewis writes the 20th century. wallace countered that and said it must be the century of the common man. he called for a worldwide people's revolution. ending colonialism. >> wallace is a fascinating figure. he compares the american revolution and the revolution. he steps through the revolutions. broadly with this counternarrative which is kind of a revisionist history of the world war. i think that's a fair way of describing it. and it's a revisitist history that aren't novel in the left. this kind of history has been there before. and the issue here is the recognition of the nature of the soviet state, right? that wallace was on the wrong side of history in this respect. that he was duped. that he went there, he saw the siberian work camps, they said,

. >>> when her husband franklin delano roosevelt was president, eleanor roosevelt was the first, firstr own press conference and these press conferences came with a catch, for women reporters only. women were typically barred from the presidential press conferences, and so mrs. roosevelt only allowed women to attend hers. nearly 70 years after fdr, and we see a lot of women covering the white house, but among the five major networks, four still employ men as the chief white house correspondent. so folks who sit on the front row in the white house briefing room are still mostly fellows including our own chuck todd. and jessica yellin and brianna keel er are from cnn and joining them on the front row is julia pace. i want to come back to the white house to talk about this question, because if women in the room matter and we are all critiquing the president's picture, the fact is that the room is full of a lot of guys, too. >> we were on the campaign trail together, nia, and i and there were a lot of women in the campaign bus, and it was not boys on the bus anymore. this is a thrill to th

anthony or eleanor roosevelt.me for that now, particularly since the president's been getting some heat of not having enough women in his second term and the women's vote contributed to his re-election mightily. >> historically speaking, how much does a second inaugural speech matter? does it set the tone? do people hold the presidential account foblable for it? >> not too many matter. abraham lincoln's is the huge exception, that with malice toward none speech but he was uttering it when it looked like the union was going to be victorious. they're important as olive branch speeches. jefferson said in 1801, we are not federalists or not republicans. we're americans essentially. and the president might want to take that kind of bipartisan tone. it's about a unity speech. and anybody who's looking for a lot of new policy ideas are not going to get any. this is about poetry and oratory. >> president obama hadn't been reelected 24 hours when he said he was well aware of the perils of presidential overreach in his seco

he was met by eleanor roosevelt and he looked up and she said harry, the president is dead.he was in total shock and he said, what can i do for you? and she said, harry, what can we do for you? you are in trouble now. and that is how he became president. c-span: to jump into one of your two points if you are trying to make in the book, he took over on april in april the 12th, 1945, dj, european theater ended may 6? so from april 12 to may 6. and then when was the pot dam conference? >> guest: july, july the russians in the soviet union. americans and plymouth at leg had replaced winston churchill and an election. c-span: we have some video showing harry truman. by july? >> guest: yes, some of the problems before. c-span: there she is. >> guest: there is jimmy burns to his right. c-span: he has only been present for a couple of months. did he know anything? >> guest: he did know anything. true men never learned anything from fdr or from his staff. it was a transition with zero knowledge. that doesn't happen anymore. c-span: what was decided to spots dam conference? >> guest: