eleanor roosevelt was angry when she died. she loved people a lot. she had incredible friends, ed that and david, joe and truda. her children. but she was angry. she felt like she had risked herself and basically dedicated her life to this and her husband died for it. and people -- especially elected officials and young party leaders had dropped the ball. and so part of this comes from the story of when steveson goes to read to her in the hospital. t the day of the mismissile crisis. he's trying to read "the new york times" to her. she said nothing makes sense. and she rolls over. so she's lonely not because she doesn't know people. not because she doesn't love people. she's trying to say where are the leaders? this is a woman who braved assassination attempts. who traveled without secret service, who wrote 8,337 column, 27 books, 226 and counting articles. and the only time she fired anybody was when they signed her name to something she didn't write. and she is trying to see -- she pins her hope on young people. and this book is really written to t

and the star was eleanor roosevelt. so eleanor continued to help theremin and thurmond was less needy perhaps then rudy black and got help from eleanor but not in such an -- after eleanor left washington, following franklin's death in 1945, must be remembered. i have here at lenore's earnings in the white house years. this is based on study of income tax returns available in the hyde park library and it showed from the years 1937 to 1939 she averaged annual earnings of $62,000, a lot of money in those days, 68,000 before expenses. and they never wrote about eleanor. and enhance yourself. they covered up that kind of thing because they did feel somewhat grateful to her for allowing them to come to the white house every week. it was made craig, the one wy c first asked men be allowed in the pushed for the civil-rights activist for end to sex discrimination and forced news organizations to hire women on an equitable basis. in 1964, 81-year-old howard w. smith, a conservative virginia congressman, major civil rights legislat

eleanor roosevelt.hat's the eleanor roosevelt ,erforming the traditional job the par she dreaded before she ever fielded. the eleanor roosevelt who made history and polarized the country was the eleanor roosevelt who wanted to see marion anderson perform at the lincoln memorial, even though she was denied, which we do not find controversial. >> marion anderson, african- >> the fact is a first lady was in the middle of that controversy. that setr predecessors and set her apart from the red cross promoter. >> did she come into the role, or did she grow into it? >> she had been in the movement since she was out of high school. it's not correct she only started when she got out of the white house area did -- a white she was very practice and politics even before she went into standing in for franklin in new york state when he had polio. she had been an activist in the women's movement, the labor movement, and she was probably one of the few first ladies who came into the white house with political constitue

not the historic eleanor roosevelt. roosevelt eleanor performing the traditional job before she ever filled it. the eleanor roosevelt who made polarized the country was the eleanor roosevelt who wanted to see marion anderson perform at the , even thoughial she was denied, which we do not find controversial. >> and african-american. is a first lady was in the middle of that controversy. that set her apart from her predecessors and set her apart from the red cross promoter. >> did she come into the role, or did she grow into it? >> she had been in the movement since she was out of high school. correct she only started when she got out of the white house area did -- a white house. been an activist in the women's movement, the labor movement, and she was probably fewof the first -- the first ladies who came into the white house with political owntituencies of her separate from her husband. >> has that happened since then? >> maybe hillary. >> on a much more modest scale. with things. broadcast.dio she was proud she drew more

imagine american history and go back to the early stages before the eleanor roosevelt, "modern era." the adams presidency was unsuccessful enough. it arguably would have been more successful that he paid more attention to abigail. likes or not. -- >> or not. [laughter] she was a good political adviser before he was president that she cannot take the criticism. -- but she could not take the criticism. she was a huge supporter of alien -- she talked about the batteries of use and schola looksee -- scholility. nothing will have an effect in less commerce passes this bill. bash -- unless congress passes this bill. >> her attitude toward people, she softens and john considerably. >> it took some doing. >> she goes all over her papers, the speeches, but the interesting thing is -- and it is the single biggest difference, is that these relative handful of women in the 19th century who went out of their way not to conceal their interest in a political partnership were inevitably the targets of severe criticism and mocked the president. >> i know we want to hear from you. i think we can make

imagine american history and go back to the early stages before the eleanor roosevelt, "modern era." the adams presidency was unsuccessful enough. it arguably would have been more successful that he paid more attention to abigail. >> or not. [laughter] she was a good political adviser before he was president that she cannot take the criticism. -- but she could not take the criticism. she was a huge supporter of alien -- she talked about the batteries of use and schola looksee -- scholility. nothing will have an effect in less commerce passes this bill. bash -- unless congress passes this bill. >> her attitude toward people, she soft and john considerably. >> it took some doing. >> she goes all over her papers, the speeches, but the interesting thing is -- and it is the single biggest difference, is that these relative handful of women in the 19th century who went out of their way not to conceal their interest in a political partnership were inevitably the targets of severe criticism and mocked the president. >> i know we want to hear from you. i think we can make a real case that the

>> when eleanor roosevelt and franklin roosevelt came to the white house in the middle of the crisisf 1933, a told friends that we would really like our white house to be like uncle theodore's and aunt edith's. they were role models for other couples, presidential couples, because they were vigorous and active. they maintained a homey sense and kept their personal life alive. >> she kept the embodiment of the ceremonial aspects of the job. she kept the same folksy sense. >> on that note we will say iq to stacy cordrey for being with us tonight. thanks to both of you for your scholarship. ♪ >> as a teenager she was invited to the white house as a party from that moment on she yearns to return as a first lady herself. live monday night at 9:00. we are offering a special edition of the book resenting a biography and a portrait of each --rst lady and comments from from each first lady. find out more at www.c-span.org /first ladies. a ceremony honoring the four girls who died in the 1963 birmingham church bombing. remarks from former secretary of state hillary clinton. a look at the presi

of eleanor roosevelt and automatically the word "influence" comes to mind and a public sense. you don't automatically associate bets truman -- associate bets truman -- bess t ruman -- define public influence and private influence? the fact that president truman discussed the decision to drop the bomb with his wife and very few other people is a unique kind of influence, but it may escape the public eye. , laura when it is public bush's advocacy for overthrowing the regime of burma, it is so people put the first ladies in a box. she complained that people would say to her when she became first lady, are you going to be hillary clinton or barbara bush? she said, why don't i just be laura bush? she got, through a relative, very interested in what was going on in burma. lady tothe only first go to the press room at the white house and take the microphone herself and take it to call for the overthrow of the burmese regime. that is kind of the public image of her. she did it on her way to her daughter's wedding. i asked her m1 point why -- at -- i asked her at one point, why . worki

who is eleanor roosevelt? yes. new york for $1,600. jared. who is billy the kid? he's the man. new york for $2,000. hillary. what are the finger lakes? correct. national geographic for $400. as one of these snapped fences and power lines in its path, carsten peter was there to get the photo for an article. parth. what is a tornado? good. national geographic, $800, please. these river dolphins seem to glow orange as they swim in the tea-colored waters of this south american river basin. hillary. what is the amazon? yes. national geographic, $1,200. their mouths covered to ensure silence, these boys are performing a ritual dance in this country -- drc for short. parth. what is the democratic republic of the congo? correct. national geographic, $1,600, please. sadly, after ingesting the marine debris on the right, this once-wandering baby bird died of starvation. [ beep ] and that bird is an albatross. parth, pick again. national geographic, $2,000, please. we'll wrap it up with this. accompanying an article on bog bodies was a photo of this danish man likely sacrificed over 2,000

eleanor and love franklin in the beginning. ted roosevelt has political ambition. some people accused him of being involved with the teapot dome scandal. it turns out it is really not fair. eleanor drove a car with a teapot on top of it to embarrass her cousin. that created it her feelings for a wild. -- four a while. for a while. quite selective historians say about the missing record? >> i think we know a lot about that. we have a good record of what the relationship was like. theodore roosevelt adored edith roosevelt. she was devoted to him. it is not that they did not have their difficult moments. he was not an easy husband. he forgot birthday. he could be very inconsiderate. i think we know a lot about them, even though she burned some of the letters. >> he wrote about her, highly complementary things. >> we will return and look at the collection of artifacts for the white house here. you here areow objects of the white house. mainly personal objects. also, this lovely cup. you can see the presidential seal. this is a cup and saucer from the white house service

eleanor roosevelt by far became a delegate to the united nations so in the post first lady career, she and lady bird johnson, there are others, but those would be two. >> we will show video of it for later on. next is a call from leroy in kentucky. hello. caller: great program. i enjoyed this so much. i was looking forward to it last week. i did not get to watch it. i have got a question for ms. cook. were the taft family christian people, born-again christians? did they know jesus and study the bible? >> what was the religion and how important was it? >> she grew up in an episcopal church. he was a unitarian. at that time, the difference was mostly about the trinity or not the trinity. unitarians did not embrace the trinity. there is a story i read of a minister in the more traditional tradition who went over to the white house and talked to taft and he came away feeling confident in his traditional religious the leaf. it was important to them. they were not evangelical in that tradition. it was definitely something that targeted that. >> taft was to be president of el in 1900 and dec

eleanor roosevelt is attending a conference when she gets a notice to come back to the white house immediately. she comes back to the white house and all this is playing outside outside of the public eye. it is the former first lady who has no constitutional role or power who informed the vice president harry truman that roosevelt is dead and harry truman is now president. within a few hours at 7:00 that evening within a few hours in the white house harry truman takes the oath of office. what is so different about this is this takes place in the full glare of the media. you cannot understand the assassination and understand the impact it had on an entire generation. i look around and i see people who were my age and older. you remember where you were when kennedy was shot in large part because of the people. this is the first event in human history that the entire nation experienced in real time. with the roosevelt assassination was played out on the radio but people watching this -- kennedy used television to build a personal bond with the public and when they saw him assassinated within a fe

partly because of her close relationship with eleanor roosevelt, african-american women were looted in the quarter. but the government used a quota system to limit the numbers of black women. it was estimated that 10% of the u.s. population was black at the time for the number of african-american women allowed was limited to 10%. some newspaper reporters referred to them as the 10% errors. as the first class of 400 or deny female officer candidates began to arrive at the training center at fort des moines, iowa in july 1942, the commanding officer issued its first direct it. while the colored girls move over on this side. they set the stage for the 39 african-american women who had come from across the country. most of whom are college graduates. barry campbell was a podiatrist from new york. cleopatra daniels county school superintendent superintendent from alabama, mildred carter, graduate of the new england conservatory of music. this first class of officer candidates that scummy nations throughout throughout the six-week training. it started the first day. the african-american wome

partly because of her close relationship with eleanor roosevelt, african-american women were included. the government used a quota system to limit the numbers of black women. it was estimated that 10 percent of the u.s. population was black the time. the number of african-american women allowed was limited to 10% . some newspaper reporters referred to them as the ten percenters. as the first class of 439 female officer candid it's began to arrive at the training center in fort do more in iowa in july july 1942 the commanding officer issued his first directive. well all the colored curls move over on this side? this set the stage where the 39 african american women who had come from across the country. most of whom more college graduates. a podiatrist from new york, a school superintendent from alabama, a graduate of the new england conservatory of music. this first class of officer candid it's met with discrimination throughout their success returning. it started the first dead. the african-american women were housed at building 54, segregated from the white bracts , and as they enter

. -- eleanor roosevelt. wilson was the first to take on a social cause in washington, that was the slums and she thought the way the african- americans in the city lived was appalling and she would drag members of congress through the alleys of washington to see what is happening. on her deathbed, she called out to wilson to have legislation. , just momentsid before they died. i think their attitudes were similar. put ourselves in the 19th century and not the 20th century. again, did not want to keep blacks down. he believed in "separate but equal." it had to work for a while. he did not think the country was ready to integrate. he thoughtthe case, that if everything was equal, that is fine. that being said, during the administration, things were not that equal. he segregated be treasury department and the post office. the conditions for black workers were different than those for the white workers. here is what he is guilty of, he did nothing about it. he looks the other way and he let it be. that is a sham

that wouldagenda have made her rank with eleanor roosevelt or lady johnson in terms of transforming washingtonf things had gone the other way. >> she had an agenda to get her husband to the white house. >> the story is that she decided when she visited the white , "hey, i want to do that as well here: there are a lot of women who wanted to have their husbands be presidents. sometimes, she is portrayed as a cross between mommy dearest and lady may have, which is not the case. she was a much more constructive influence. anhelen taft has interesting story. many of you in the audience will be hearing it for the first time tonight. you can be involved in our conversation in a lot of ways. send us a comment on facebook facebook. we already have a robust discussion starting there. ,ou can also send us a tweet --rst lady." -- hash can't #first ladies. this story.ar how did she get to the white house at age 16? in cincinnati was rutherford b. hayes and lucy hayes and they went to the white house. she went only once but had not yet made her debut and could not yet participate in social activity, but she

roosevelt. everybody knows about teddy, and everybody knows about eleanor and franklin, but i think mrs. ys set off the modern first ladies role for the 20th century. people know very little about her. >> this is another category, which is first ladies who are burdened with media images that may have very little to do with who they really work. you think of pat nixon. and to some degree nancy reagan. she had a very tough time of it for the first two years she was here, and i think, frankly, with the passage of time, people realize just how great a role she played behind the scenes, with some very good advice in personnel matters and other things. >> one of the other things we will be able to do is not just being with the first ladies but also some children of the white house. we have a clip of one of the children. this is steve ford. as family you know well, having worked on the ford library creation, and we will listen and talk about intervention. >> dad led that intervention, and, you know, my memory of that is we walked in the door that morning, all the kids, and dad surprised mom, and

to my mind, a really interesting piece and hereby eleanor roosevelt, actually, about the peace corps, in which he is making a very non-sentimental argument. it is not just about idealistic young people going out into the world. it is about containing the soviet union. she says, i spent time in russia and i see the way they train their young people. i spent time in places like morocco and i have seen the way the colonial powers are retreating. and these countries need experts, and the russians will be in a position to supply the experts to help them make the transition into a new era in full independence. if we don't have our people in there, we will lose the struggle in the long haul. which is a very kind of hardheaded argument on why we needed a peace corps. host: james bennet, editor-in- chief of "the atlantic." talking about the special commemorative edition a just put out. some of the pieces will be available online. but it is a lengthy piece, a special edition with an introduction by former president bill clinton and several other pieces throughout the magazine. it is marking the

roosevelt. i don't think many people -- they all know about teddy. and everybody knows about eleanor and franklin. but i think mrs. roosevelt who really in many ways set up the modern first ladies' role for the 20th century people know very little about her. >> and then there's another category, which is first ladies ho are burdened with media images that may have little to do with who they are. you think of pat nixon and to some degree nancy reagan who really had a very tough time of it the first two years she was here. and i think with the passage of time people realize just how great a role she played behind the scenes. >> i think that's true. >> with some very good advice in personnel matters and other things as well. >> one of the other things that we will be able to do in the second series with the modern age, not just seeing here the first ladies but also seeing some of the children of the white house. we talked about them. we have a clip of some of the children. steve ford, you know well having worked on the ford library creas. we're going to listen to him and talk about inte

he loved dearly eleanor roosevelt who was his alcoholic brother's daughter. fran lynn married his niece. and so franklin would call thee thee door. >> dissubstantiate -- dissubstantiate cousins. dis and decided chef tired of living over the store. she wanted to separate the living area from the public area. and so the upstairs was renovated. the downstairs was renovated. most people really liked it. the upstairs had what, even bedrooms and the teen daughter had her own bedroom. et president had a study and office on the second floor. so did the first lady with a door that adjoined. that was important to knowledge the door and say you're working too late. it's time for bed. >> the change was really -- created the white house as we know it today. if you look at the photographs as it existed before they began the renovation. there were large greenhouses around this. and the west wing. she changed the whole feeling of the white house by adding the west wing to it. how cooperative was the congress? >> congress voted money for this. and they wanted a better house.

you think of eleanor roosevelt to be in the trenches. ellen wilson is the first to take on a cause here in washington which was the slums and she thought the way the african-americans live in this city was just appalling so she literally used to drag members of congress through the alleys of washington just to see what was happening. literally on her deathbed, she called out to wilson who proposed some legislation to say, you know, have they passed the legislation yet? and, indeed do, they did just moments before she died. >> the id she have a different attitude then about the races? >> well, no, i think their attitudes were very similar, which is to say, again, that we -- we have to put ourselves in the 19th century, not just the 20th century. wilson, again, did not want to keep blacks down. he did believe separate but equal might work, should work, had to work for a while. because he just didn't think the country was ready to integrate. so that being the case, he thought if everything is equal, fine. now that being said, during the yea

thanks in part to eleanor roosevelt who helped draft the declaration after her husband's death. today more than 70 countries recognize a right to health or health care in their constitution. virtually every industrialized nation has taken steps to implement these right by establishing some type of universal health coverage for their citizens. with one major exception, anybody know? the united states of america. but it's not for lack of trying, after fdr's death, president harry truman announced a national health insurance program that would have made medical coverage for all part of the social security act, but the physicians of the american medical association attacked truman's plan as socialized medicine. that might also sound familiar. in the early cold war, the ama won that battle, and truman's proposal was defeated. other presidents, including richard nixon and bill clinton tried to pass universal health care programs, but they failed due to entrenched and vigorous opposition from not just the medical professions, but opposition from business and increasingly powerful insur

there was a very interesting convergence of great thinkers like charles come activists like eleanor roosevelt. so these great thinkers and activists did what they did against the backdrop of the world order of the nazi death camps and was that convergence. people realize the extraordinary degradation of the jewish people and the holocaust and so on. now we don't have that today. since then, you can see there was no communist china then for example. one of the leading thinkers who is behind it was one of the nationalist chinese. the communists would be opposed to it. saudi arabia is the one that sustained. the only one that sustained on the declaration of the freedom of conscience. today they would be openly opposed and almost all of the muslim nations would be openly opposed. plus the fact we have to face the fact that the west has lost its moral authority in the world and some of its power relative to the rest of the global world. so it is unthinkable if you did it today. now my concern in the book is article 18. it is a magnificent and a simple statement that puts the whole thing. you take

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i don't know if eleanor roosevelt was there. they tried to have them all. but there's a president of president truman with these three first ladies. yeah. >> i know that ellen wilson had to entertain theodore roosevelt at an army-navy game when woodrow was president of prince ton. and she did contact frances cleveland for advice on how to entertain ex-presidents. >> did she go back to the white house? >> who? >> edith. did she ever go back to the white house again? >> i don't know. >> with the kennedys. >> yeah. >> and i think with the roosevelts. >> one thing i thought was very interesting is that when fdr went to congress on september 8 the day after the bombing at pearl harbor, he invited edith wilson to come and sit in the gallery as she had sat in the gallery when wood row wilson called for war in the first world war. >> your question? >> i have a question here about the president's illness when edith was covering up or not letting the nation know about his illness, was she being investigated or did she commit a crime by doing this? >> i don't know that

i don't know if eleanor roosevelt was there. there is a picture of president truman with these three first ladies. guest: i know that alan wilson had to entertain theodore roosevelt at an army-navy game when woodrow was president of princeton. she did contact frances cleveland for advice on how to entertain ex-presidents. host: did she go back to the white house? edith? guest: i don't know. guest: with the kennedys, yes. guest: i assume. probably with the roosevelts. one thing that i thought was very interesting was that when fdr went to congress on december 8, the day after the bombing at he invited edith wilson to come and sit in the gallery as she had set in the gallery when woodrow wilson called for war in the first world war. dan, omaha, nebraska, your question? coveringhen edith was the role, was she investigated for that, or was she committing a crime by doing this? guest: i don't know there was a crime. i think it was a big mistake. no, there was no congressional investigation. sending senators up to check on him, that is

eleanor roosevelt was there. there is a picture of truman with these first ladies. >> i know alan wilson had to entertain theodore roosevelt when woodrow was president of contact and she did frances cleveland for advice on how to entertain ex-president. >> did she go back to the white house again? >> i don't know. one thing i thought was very interesting was when fdr went to congress the day after the bombing at pearl harbor, he invited edith wilson to sit in the gallery. >> from omaha nebraska. your question? >> i have a question. covering up about could she be investigated for that? did she commit a crime by doing this? >> i don't know if it was a crime. i think it was a big mistake. christy >> she was buried with him in the cathedral. >> and we often talk about the first. they were the first and only presidential couple to be buried in the national cathedral in washington, d.c. those of you who are fortunate to go to europe and various figures buried here, they tried to emulate that and they got to one presiden

she's a really important person in eleanor roosevelt's life too. >> going to return to sag more hill for a look at how edith ran that house hold, which she established as her own after bammy had run it for a while. >> sagimore hill designed to be a summer home. it was always their primary residen residence. when the first five or six years they were married, they lived here year-round. it was hard to heat in the winter, it was the center of their life even though they weren't here, it is where their hearts were. edith ran the house hold. not only in sagimore hill, but in albany, in washington, d.c. she managed the family's accounts and the investments. what we have here is an account book. an example of the annual counts. it's from 1891, i think it is. and every family member is listed. and then she kept track of the expenses that she paid for each family member every month of the year. but it's also broken down to grocery bills. what she was buying for the butcher. what she might pay a plumber to come in and take care of the affairs. she counted every penny. s arc gimore hill was di

the only of the first lady to earn money in the white house was eleanor roosevelt. that did not become a first lady tradition and, just as well, i think. >> welcome to our conversation. >> yes. thank you for taking my call. i like to show much. -- i like the show very much. i called her in the first season when you talked about the two wives of john tyler. woodrowan is about wilson's first wife, alan -- alan -- ellen. away, hehusband passed was interred in the gc jewel in cathedral in -- washington, d.c. >> thank you. ellen question is, was reinterred with woodrow. the answer is no. died, edith was determined that she would not be buried with him. was, he'd been the president at princeton and the presidents of princeton get buried at a nice cemetery. there were some ill feelings. there still were. bishop of washington, mr. friedman, started to get famous people buried at cathedral. washingtonn the cathedral is new. he approached edith about this. idea.kes the gould, told me that william howard taft's granddaughter told him that, when taft heard about this, he not le

he doesn't mean it and dog grandma who calls herself eleanor roosevelt says the government doesn't helperson and gives it to another. it is legalized theft. mama bird says absolutely not. life is tough, get a helmet. pretty good advice. cheryl: diane dreamed of swimming from cuba to florida for 35 years and finally on her fifth attempt the sixty-four-year-old completed no 110 miles from this weekend. >> we should never. you are never too old to chase your dreams. cheryl: hundred of people lined the beach to welcome her after 53 hours swim. dennis: that remember reading about that and thought she would never do it. cheryl: i hope she comes of of something else to do. tough new york lady. want to mention that. so much for a holly jolly christmas, this holiday season, will cost you a lot more. tracy and adam on the stealth fighter and heating oil is jet fuel. dennis: residents of dubai worth your waiting will literally, how dropping pounds is making them have peer. . thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging

for that culture of rights and roosevelt playing an integral role in that as well as his wife eleanor roosevelt playing a very critical role in that as well shaped my view and and in fact one of the things that i will admit in this period and i've said it over and over again and it is and it's sort of streaming in the wilderness is that even the democrat. it's the progressives have failed to defend the public space and as the great equalizer in the capital political economy when we've been in retreat every sense dukakis lost in the l. word became the dirty word and whatever and people start railing against big government i mean we have just i mean all of the truth in fact it's not just democrats if you look at what teddy roosevelt did with follow did and i mean the whole they were. that's why i think aggressive or right that's not saying so it's really not democrat or republican it's more a struggle between left and right between progressive than conservatives and so you have progressives early on in the fall that others you know who really fought for government regulations want to make sure th

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>> when eleanor roosevelt and franklin roosevelt came to the white house in the middle of the crisis of 1933, a told friends that we would really like our white house to be like uncle theodore's and aunt edith's. they were role models for other couples, presidential couples, because they were vigorous and active. a homey maintained scents and kept their personal life alive. sensey maintained a homey and kept their personal life alive. >> she kept the embodiment of the ceremonial aspects of the job. she kept the same fulks he sense of this is your house as well as mine. same folksy sense. >> on that note we will say iq for being withy us tonight. thanks to both of you for your scholarship. >> as a teenager she was invited to the white house as a party from that moment on she yearns to return as a first lady herself. she had a great influence over her husband, guiding his career and on his inauguration day she became the first lady -- the first first lady to ride alongside her husband in the inaugural parade. find out how she brought 3000 cherry trees from japan to washington as we dis

. >> she was invited back to the white house by eleanor roosevelt in 1940. >> yes, she was. cleveland,d frances and they were only three years apart in age. they got married the same year. club of firsttle ladies, and to invite her back was a nice tradition. on may 20 second, 1943, and she was one of the buried at arlington national cemetery. as we close out, i want to go back to where we started. i think because of her role in making taft president, she was a consequential first lady in the cultural and political and marital cents, and i think -- enjoys -- marital cents sense. a woman to it ok for have interest in politics. we see she was ahead of her time. more of them have that natural instinct as well. >> thank you for helping us understand about one of the more obscure first ladies. we hope you interested them in learning more. thank you for joining us. ♪ wilson. ellen they wrote passionate letters and were married for 27 years before moving into the white house. she died of kidney disease after being first lady for less than a year and a half. resident wilson wrote, go

to my mind, a really interesting piece and hereby eleanor roosevelt, actually, about the which he isn making a very non-sentimental argument. it is not just about idealistic young people going out into the world. it is about containing the soviet union. she says, i spent time in russia and i see the way they train their young people. i spent time in places like morocco and i have seen the way the colonial powers are retreating. and these countries need experts, and the russians will be in a position to supply the experts to help them make the transition into a new era in full independence. if we don't have our people in there, we will lose the struggle in the long haul. kind of a very hardheaded argument on why we needed a peace corps. host: james bennet, editor-in- chief of "the atlantic." talking about the special commemorative edition a just put out. some of the pieces will be available online. , a it is a lengthy piece special edition with an introduction by former president bill clinton and several other pieces throughout the magazine. it is marking the upcoming 50th anniversary

there is a really, to me, to my mind, a really interesting piece in here by eleanor roosevelt, actually, about the peace corps in which she's making a very nonsentimental argument for it. it's not just about sort of idealingsic young people going out into the world. it's about containing the soviet union. her argument is she said i have spent time in russia. i see the way they are training their young people. i have spent time in places like morocco. i have seen the way the colonial powers are retreating. and these countries need experts and the russians are going to be in the position to supply those experts to help them make the transition to the new era and full independence if we don't have our people in there, we are going to lose this struggle over the long haul. which is very kind of hardheaded argument for why we needed a peace corps. host: editor and chief of "the atlantic" talking about their special commemorative edition they have just put out. some of the pieces will be available online. but it is a lengthy piece, a special edition with an introduction by the former presiden

eleanor roosevelt. that's not the history making eleanor roosevelt. that is the eleanor roosevelt performing the more traditional part of the job she dreaded before she ever filled it. the eleanor roosevelt who made history and who polarized the country in some ways and the process was the eleanor roosevelt, for example, who wanted to see marion anderson perform at the lincoln memorial after she was denied the use of constitution hall which was something that we were certainly not think controversial today. >> for people who don't know marion anderson, african american. >> that's right. but the fact is the first lady of the united states was in the middle of that very heated controversy. that alone set her apart from her predecessors and, frankly, set her apart from the red cross promoter. >> did eleanor roosevelt come into the role as an activist or did she grow into it? >> both. she had been an activist in the women's and labor movement and in the settlement house movement since she was out of high sc