it was lucy mercer in fact, not eleanor roosevelt at nen 45. separately. it's been said that you have roosevelt was lesbian and that is also brought up a an assertion by you. are you sure of all thi data? >> i'm fairly confident. you know there was a eleanor roosevelt written b blaven cook and she was the evidence thattel by sexual orientation if no a lesbian one. >> letters >> based largeor upi. she was a wire reporter. and she began covering her when she was still in new york and later continued into the white house and in in the white house >> which came first? mercer the alleged by you roosevelt, or hick ocnating part of the early life i'm interested in perhaps doing something more on, prab book in and of itself, going a separate house which was the roosevelt family estate and lived with two other women in this house at a marriage and in fact fdr referred to the house as the honeymoon cottage and the love nest. happy living with these tw years. in her separate house at the family estate. >> that doesn't necessarily mean there was a karnal relationship a

one was eleanor roosevelt, and the other was the duchess of windsor. [laughter] and i can even buy nine or 10, had had quite enough of eleanor roosevelt. and so i chose the duchess of windsor, and i brought it home, and my mother asked me what i was doing, and i said well, i'm writing this book report on the duchess of windsor's biography because she's an admirable woman. and my mother got incensed. and she said, admirable? what did she ever do in her life except marry somebody she shouldn't have? [laughter] so i learned the lesson, and i took the books back and turned it in, and, of course, did the inevitable eleanor roosevelt. but i sort of got imprinted i think very early on, you use biography as a way of exploring that which you, that which was my. and my mother was right, to keep me from the duchess of windsor. i think that we're all very lucky that it didn't start writing biographies earlier because i probably would have produced the definitive biography of hopalong cassidy. [laughter] when i was six, going even further back, whenever they wanted

and getting advice of eleanor roosevelt.y have latitude to do with the office what they will and i think they feel like this first lady really done a great job highlighting issues not partisan and need to be addressed in the country. >> yeah. funny how you never hear o outspoken applied to men. one third grader taking the first lady's let's move campaign. iowa's mason and third grade basketball team tied up at the buzzer in overtime and mason sunk a half court buzzer beater driving them to third grade victory. number 12 celebrating with the teammates. nice job. our facebook fans are helping the video go viral and weighing in on what the lessons the pros can learn from mason. dick wolf says it's simple. never give up. amen, dick. like us on facebook. tell us what you think about little mason and if there's viral videos we should be watching. >>> up next, tackling the most pressing international issues of the day with a man who's lived to tell the tale. now alex berrinson is using tei journalism to expose the truth. he will be

eleanor roosevelt. she is traveling and raising money, building the profile of the movement. alan their roosevelt, the head of highlander, she meets them. he said, you told her she was going to get a renovated, right? eleanor is aware if somebody stands up for civil rights in 1955. the picture in the book, there is a major civil rights rally here, fund-raiser organized by ella baker, in madison square garden. the picture also includes the woman who desegregates the driver's seat of the alabama briefly before she is kicked out for the ride that ensues when she desegregates the university. it is a beautiful picture right before the big demonstration, rally here in new york. >> how did rosa parks fit into the black power movement? >> she moved to detroit in 1957 and her activism continues, in terms of working against and challenging racism of this new home town, the jim crow no.. jobs, housing, police brutality. she is extremely active. everything that she had been committed to is now growing with this move

we have it written down on paper because of eleanor roosevelt and the united nations. let's judge the quality of the character, please. >> now breaking news this morning. united states postal service effective in august, we're hearing, is going to stop saturday delivery of the mail. >> has anyone really noticed? >> you will now. >> they say it will save about $2 billion a year. you can still go into a post office on saturday and get -- packages will still be delivered. >> packages, right? >> some will say this will be one of the final death nails for snail mail. >> taking post hold to a whole new level. >> e-mail and twitter and all this, there's still -- there's something special about getting a handwritten card or note. >> true. >> you hope that never goes away. >> it won't if we don't let it. >> i think the post office, everybody appreciates the postal service. granted, it doesn't make any money. that's the problem, but i do feel bad for the workers. >> of course. >> maybe losing their jobs who do the saturday delivery. >> huge budget shortfalls. that's what it is a

back at the lives of martha washington or abigail adams or dolly madison or iesco wilson or eleanor roosevelt or mamie eisenhower, you can see that each woman has defined the in a way that is true to herself. how she can help her husband take care of her family, make her contribution to our nation. quick c-span's new original series, "first ladies," produced with the white house historical association. season one begins february 18 at nine: 00 p.m. eastern and pacific. >> if you go to most american history textbooks, if you go back to the textbooks in high school, in your american history textbooks, if you go to the index, you will find no tension of eugenics. if you go to your biology books in high school, you would find no mention of the word "eugenie cs." i looked at a biology book assigned to most classes here. great textbooks. i did not see any mention of eugenics. it is as if because we no longer believe in it, we do not have to think about it. we know eugenics was so awful we can somehow pretend that it was not part of american culture. early 20th-anin century history. saturday night a

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

go back to eleanor roosevelt who was advocating for a lot of issues.hey are on the forefront on things that are going on in the country. eleanor roosevelt was holding press conferences in the white house but only female reporters were allowed. so the stodgy newspapers had to hire women. >> shannon: there is so much that you will unfold and you put months and months and years into getting this ready. rolls out starting tomorrow night on c pan and every monday there on through. a year long project. >> it as two season project. season one goes february through you june and season two we will take the summer off and starts up in september and goes through president's day 2014. >> shannon: i guarantee we will all learn something. thank you for your work on this project. >> thank you. >> shannon: up next a look at the stories you are checking out online. we will take you to los angeles where supporters of an admitted killer are congregating in front of police headquarters. why they feel the plight of chris corner is a worthy one. that is one of the most clic

i think eleanor roosevelt is in a league of her own. the work she did during the great depression to inspire people to fight for civil rights, women's rights, to be the conscience of the new deal is quite extraordinary. she continued after her husband's death with the united nations declaration of human rights all the way into the 1960's. my personal favorite of first ladies is lady bird. i live in austin. she built the park where are i run -- shoebill the part where i run and spend my weekends. the town has a great world power center because she believed in the purification of america. anti-billboard, planting native grasses. she did a great job of working with in my opinion the greatest secretary of interior in history. they would save the redwoods and make sure they became national parks. her beautification campaign was remarkable. host: if our viewers are interested in the first ladies, c-span kicks off its original series with the white house historical association at 2:00 today. we will have to two panels discussing the topic of f

you're not going to be an eleanor roosevelt unless a woman of her generation was willing to step out of the normal first lady role take a more public position on issues that were important to her. whether i agreed with her issues or not, you won't succeed. >> rose: you've made history because of this appointment to the supreme court. do you want to make history in terms of what you do on the bench? >> well, if what you're talking about is that somehow you're going to write opinions that are going to create whole cloth a new direction for the courttor society -- >> rose: yes. >> you don't want to do that? >> no. >> rose: why not? >> because i'm a great respecter of the law. >> rose: can't you respect the law and believe the law is imperfect? >> absolutely. and that's why -- >> rose: believe that you may have the opportunity in the sense? think of brown. have board of education. >> absolutely. and there may be a case. >> rose: that's a historic decision! and there may be a case in which i look at what our precedents have been and enough time and evidence is demonstrated like in "brown"

certainly say that the most powerful woman in american history was eleanor roosevelt. like it or not. to paraphrase another political voice. hillary is no eleanor. she hasn't been a bad secretary of state, she has beened me okay kerr. around average, maybe slightly below average. >> ending with benghazi in the last day on the job, you know turkey attack, that's not saying it was her fault. >> i don't think she moved the ball forward. but also to be fair to hillary, she was doing obama's foreign policy, which was the reset with russia and we're going to deal with putin basically a re-set with iran. don't met with hugo chavez. so, i will cut her slack on that. none the less, i think she was energetic, very hard working and dedicated. >> just not sure what her influence was in the end. let's move on to the turkey situation. in ankara, this bombing today, what does this tell us about where we are in the world. turkey an important ally in the united states. they have their own troubles. >> attacks on u.s. embassies and other u.s. installations or new companies that's the new

w.e.b.bdubois, martin luther king, jr., eleanor roosevelt, fannie lou hamer, ella baker, bobby kennedytance rice, and perhaps most of all, paul robeson for me, paul robeson was the sparrow. he was an artist who made those of us in the arts understand the deaths of that calling when he said, artists are the gatekeepers of truth. we are the civilizations' radical voice. never in the history of black america has there ever been such a harvest of truly gifted and powerful artists, and yet our nation hunters -- hungers for the radical song. in the field of sports, our presence dominates. in the landscape of corporate power, we have more african- american president and leaders of industry then we have ever known. yet we still suffer from abject poverty and moral malnutrition. our only hope lies in the recall of the moment which has been referred to earlier here, and was my last meeting with dr. king just before he left to go off to meant this to join the strike was sanitation workers. he held a strategy meeting and dr. king -- the meeting was in my home. dr. king during the meeting appeared

>> no, but i do have a picture of eleanor roosevelt over my bed. >> it will be fine.ls with the fact that when mom is out in l.a., she lives with you. >> yes. >> how does that work? >> how did that work? >> yeah. >> well, it -- i'm very patient. >> yeah. >> in one sense it's wonderful for my son and for myself, but, i mean, my mom stays with me. no, you're living with me. there is a difference. and it's -- it's great but it's trying. >> i don't see you puttering around the house, making a coffee cake or something like that. you get involved? >> oh, you have no idea. >> her hello is like, why haven't you changed this light bulb? did you notice this needs to be washed? it's constant. >> let's talk about -- you're a divorced parent. when your ex comes back into the picture. >> he was there. >> your son as well. how does that go? are those episodes? >> those are episodes. one of the things we decided to explore a little bit this year is the fact that my ex-husband and i actually finally have a very good relationship. and we are co-parenting a child together, who is now a

certainly eleanor roosevelt was extremely active in the campaign. by the time you get to mamie eisenhower, she was the one who accompanied her husband to the west will stop -- to the whistle stop. that is a real watershed. after mamie, you cannot have a presidential wife who is not involved visibly in the campaign. >> harding had a front porch campaign, too. >> winded first ladies began to take platforms? the literacy campaign with barbara bush -- >> i would say ladybird johnson, "lets beautify america." >> and certainly jacqueline kennedy in raid -- in renovating the white house, which i thought was a brilliant stroke because she was still involved with the national home, so people are not in fear that she should be interfering with. it was so much based on scholarship and the decorative arts that after that it is very difficult to see a first lady without some kind of cause. >> about lady bird, i think "beautify america" was code for "look at the environment." it wasn't just the white house. i think she was really on the cutting edge of modern day

moved the services to a hotel ballroom and now to the rented auditorium, cafeteria, and gym at eleanor roosevelth school. >> on sunday, 57 new converts came to jesus christ and that is the most important thing that can happen. what takes place is small in comparison to a soul that is saved. >> reporter: the board invited another minister in his congregation to move in to their expansive facilities. and some of the longtime congregants believe that board is self-appointed. >> according to the defendants, there are only six people in the 10,000-member church that have a right to a vote. and they vote for themselves. >> the suit by the congregants s asking the courts to install a neutral party to run an election for the church board. the tarp for the board declined an on-camera interview and said the board of jericho church is committed to carrying out the a possibles and both sides express confidence they will prevail in court and have yet to issue the final rulings. we'll stay tuned. this is not over. >> i know you're watching for us. thank you. >>> a former maryland delegate was laid to rest tod

. >> one of my favorite people historically period is eleanor roosevelt.ble, activist in her own right, even before she became first lady. she was at first depressed about being the sort of hostess and the wife and playing that role so she continued doing what she was doing, she wrote a syndicated column, she gave press conferences and she was the first first lady to speak at her husband's convention and after her husband passed, she had an active role in public life and she actually disagreed with her husband, something we still don't see first ladies do. how did she broke the mold of first ladies? >> you're right, she's the first first lady to hold press conferences. the interesting thing is only women reporters are allowed to be at the press conference. the stodgy owners of newspapers have to hire women reporters. if you look at where you all are, maybe it doesn't happen as quickly. she certainly was a trend setter and she was one of those first first ladies to really get out in the television era, she's using the media in radio shows and addresses to t

you're not going to be an eleanor roosevelt unless a woman of her generation was willing to step out o the noalirst lady role take a more public position on issues that were important to her. whether i agreed with her issues or not, you won't succeed. >> rose: you've made history because of this appointment to the supreme court. do you want to make history in terms of what you do on the bench? >> well, if what you're talking about is that somehow you're going to write opinions that are going to create wle cloth a new direion r the courttor society -- >> rose: yes. >> you don't want to do that? >> no. >> rose: why not? >> because i'm a great respecter of the law. >> rose: can't you respect the law and believe the law is imperfect? >> absolutely. and that's why -- >> rose: believe that you may have the opportunity in the sense? think of brown. have board of education. >> absolutely. and there may be a case. >> rose: that's a historic decision! and there may be a case in which i look at what our precedents have been and enough time and evidence is demonstrated like in "brown" at we made

certainly eleanor roosevelt was extremely active in the campaign.y the time you get to mamie eisenhower, she was the one who accompanied her husband to the west will stop -- to the whistle stop. that is a real watershed. after mamie, you cannot have a presidential wife who is not involved visibly in the campaign. >> harding had a front porch campaign, too. >> winded first ladies began to take platforms? the literacy campaign with barbara bush -- >> i would say ladybird johnson, "lets beautify america." >> and certainly jacqueline kennedy in raid -- in renovating the white house, which i thought was a brilliant stroke because she was still involved with the national home, so people are not in fear that she should be interfering with. it was so much based on scholarship and the decorative arts that after that it is very difficult to see a first lady without some kind of cause. >> about lady bird, i think "beautify america" was code for "look at the environment." it wasn't just the white house. i think she was really on the cutting edge of modern day e

you look back at the lives of martha washington, abigail adams, dolley madison, edith wilson, eleanor roosevelt, the truman, mamie eisenhower, you can see that each woman has defined the role in a way that is true to herself. how she can take care of her husband, take care of her family and make a contribution to our nation. >> first ladies, their influence and image, produced with the white house historical association. season one begins feb. 80 at 9:00 p.m. and pacific. >> president obama on wednesday nominated the ceo sally jule as secretary to replace ken salazar that will leave in march. at this event, we also hear from outgoing secretary salazar. >> please have a seat. everybody is so formal. well, good afternoon, everybody. the department of the interior is actually the department of america. other members of my cabinet may not entirely agree with that statement but you can see where he's coming from. secretary of the interior is in charge of overseeing 500 million acres of public land, including places like yellowstone and the grand canyon and protecting our natural heritage for our chi

if you look back at the lives of martha washington or abigail adams or dolly madison or eleanor roosevelt or mamie eisenhower, you can see that each woman has defined the role in a way that is true to herself. how she can help her husband for her family make a contribution to our nation. to our nation. >> the public and

>> no, but i do have a picture of eleanor roosevelt over my bed. >> it will be fine.t in l.a., she lives with you. >> yes. >> how does that work? >> how did that work? >> yeah. >> well, it -- i'm very patient. >> yeah. >> in one sense it's wonderful for my son and for myself, but, i mean, my mom stays with me. no, you're living with me. there is a difference. and it's -- it's great but it's trying. >> i don't see you puttering around the house, making a coffee cake or something like that. you get involved? >> oh, you have no idea. >> her hello is like, why haven't you changed this light bulb? did you notice this needs to be washed? it's constant. >> let's talk about -- you're a divorced parent. when your ex comes back into the picture. >> he was there. >> your son as well. how does that go? are those episodes? >> those are episodes. one of the things we decided to explore a little bit this year is the fact that my ex-husband and i actually finally have a very good relationship. and we are co-parenting a child together, who is now a tween. and it is challenging. and yo

thanks in part to eleanor roosevelt who helped draft the u.n.' 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. with one major exception. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> guest: you have to understand that all the founders' primary concern, number one, numero uno, was with national security. so what would they say, for example, about a company such as lockheed? i'm of the opinion that based on how they acted in other instances they would have grudgingly favored a bailout of lockheed because it supplied the united states at the time with its top fighter jets and its top reconnaissance airplanes. i think you can make an argument that they would have supported, for example, the bailout of chrysler back in the 1980s but not the bailout of chrysler today. what's the difference? chry

and i was thinking of eleanor roosevelt and when you were thinking of paul and essie's relationship,ir evolved into the collegial and very respectful relationship, and eleanor used that privilege and really did try to open up pathways and which i think is pretty great to use that opportunity to make it into something good. >> i have a question, because as you were describing this, there is a tradition in american life of black celebrity leaders becoming political voices and not on quote, unquote black issues, but variety of images. mohammad muhammad ali took a great risk to his career and he was not utilizing the profit yield of his image, but he was as you described with with the robesons to take that to do something broader in politic, but to pick one, and beyonce at the super bowl and has the hbo show this week. >> just to pick one. >> just to pick one that i am obsessed with, but it is fair to say that jay and beyonce have stayed in a safe and mainstream democratic politics role and why thauld coy do tremendous loi more if they wanted to take up more issues, they could, but they