this is eleanor roosevelt's friend. the most famous female writer during the roosevelt administration for the associated press. i brought it to the attention of the people in kingston that put on the play. we had a fundraiser at beakman arms and several people came. her biographers and other people and we raised enough money to put in a blue stone bench, a tree, and a plaque in the cemetery in memory of lorana hicock. thank you. [applause]. >> a couple comments. hickok -- >> she drove herself on most of the trips. including a couple cross country trips. driving was different then than now. i tried to re-create the journey she made on the much-improved roads. she was a terrific reporter. i drudged up some of her associated press dispatches. she was good. there was one where she was assigned to cover the passage of hardings -- the train with warren g hardings remains. and the reports dashed off at night are models of this kind of reporting. they are well-worth reading in their own right. i quoted them in bits and pieces bu

our belief that is legacy and franklin and eleanor roosevelt is relevant today and the world we live in is the world they created. our library and exhibits reflect the spirit of the roosevelt's optimism combined with gre greatness. i hope you all have the chance to see the new museum and return often with family and friends. james tobin is professor of media, journalism and film at museum university in oxford, ohio. educated at the university of michigan. he spent 20 years as newspaper reporter and free-lance writer. he has written several bock -- books from a variety of topics. he has books that the wall street journal named one of the five best books about invention. and the wonderful book he is talking about this afternoon "the man he became: how fdr defied polio to win the presidenc presidenc presidency". ladies and gentlemen, please welcome james tobin. [applause] >> thank you, lynn. what a pleasure to be here. what an honor to be here and to be asked to speak at the home of these two amazing people. i had breakfast this morning with a great roosevelt authority and a wonderful pe

her relationship with eleanor roosevelt, with whom she was in regular competition for most popular woman in the u.s., was perhaps more nuanced. like mrs. roosevelt, she had overcome the disadvantages of her childhood to become a self-made woman who was well ahead of her time with successful and highly visible careers in multiple fields, politics, journalism and diplomacy. she may have disagreed with much of mrs. roosevelt's philosophy, but as early as 1948 she was recommending that truman ask her to be his running mate. and for her part, eleanor roosevelt publicly praised her appointment as ambassador to italy writing that mrs. luce would be an able ambassador who will represent us well. price of fame goes into fascinating detail about luce's relationships not only with the roosevelts, but with so many of the great figures of the 20th century from eisenhower to several churchills to jfk and, of course, her stormy marriage to henry luce. and so does morris herself in a wonderful account of how she became to be clare boothe luce's biographer, the only one to have access to her public and p

it attend eleanor roosevelt high school in the 12th grade. a significant number of students and my experience with f.i.r.s.t. as i started in the seventh grade. and digest have decided, by fellow students touched very well on the educational aspects and values. i would like to talk about my personal story. and i describe it in three ways, spirited, challenging, fun. i am basketball fan, a tennis fan, football fan, so i love hearing everyone talk about that but for me it has been spirited and different than any other educational activity i have been too, the subculture behind it. it the guy who comes up with the challenges behind it, all of the mentors to do it, they are the people who are my role models with respect to engineering which i think is unique to f.i.r.s.t. and in general to these kind of activities. so i think that to f.i.r.s.t., the challenge that is before me pushed me to engage these s.t.e.m. feels differently and more thoroughly than anything i have ever done in class. i have done all these glasses and got the grades, but bein

eleanor roosevelt was wrong about the gender of the figure. but she captured perfectly the spiritual balm. >> she was so beautiful and so smart and also so witty, she was always irresistible to men. party,0th birthday richard cohen was at this party and they sat together after dinner having coffee. she began to stroke his beard. i have neveraid, met in 80-year-old before that i wanted to leap into bed with. career andife and sharing about their personal relationship. tonight at 8:00. >> each week, american history tv "reel america" brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. from the lyndon johnson presidential library, a 1968 documentary produced i the office of economic opportunity. the mexican-american -- a new hope for opportunity to fix efforts to assist spanish-speaking americans on part of the war on poverty. continue toprograms the present day under other federal agencies. ♪ >> ever since my teaching days, i work for the education of progress of the spanish-speaking people of this great country of ours. mexi

my two choices would be eleanor roosevelt and rosa parks. >> that's it? why? mean why? why eleanor roosevelt? probably the strongest woman, first lady there ever was. and rosa parks, because she had more courage than any 200 million men in america. >> nancy reagan. >> eric? >> okay. so, the -- the idea that you have a prominent american female. hillary clinton i would say at first, but she's already on a bill, right? >> you're wrong about that. >> i'm sorry. i'm trying to embrace the libertarian movement the best i can. >> i went with willa cather. >> do you know willa cather? >> the american author. wrote one of the best american novels, death comes for the archbishop. women who can express themselves in great lit yeah tur at that point has an impact on america. >> i'm amazed they didn't put these people on a bill. i'm just absolutely shocked. that's the whole point of this segment was to show -- oh, we can't do that with money? they just told me it's against the law. by the way, why does this have to be about gender? why does it have to be a human? i suggest

clintons have as marriage that is somewhat similar to the marriage of franklin roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. hav it's essentially a working relationship. they have gone do their separa ways in many ways. they don't live together often.s but they are colleagues and collaborators on policy, as eleanor and franklin were. on the other side -- we have a first lady in michelle obama wht is best friends with valerie jarrett and who is a behind-the-scenes advisor to her husband in a way that's quite different because in many respects, michelle behaves s toward her husband as though she knows better. he has set in public that she's the boss. he often sounds like a henpecked guy, i must say. i know that's very radical to say that. but i think there's a lot of truth to that. these women, both michelle and e valerie, have enormous influence over his policy decisions. another concrete example, when bill daley was the chief of staff of the obama white house, he said after he resigned that he and obama would come to an pr agreement and then valerie nigt jarrett would go, upstairs to e residence that night

i might have a chapter on not only eleanor roosevelt but on jackie robinson. they are everything i've looked in my whole life. >> do you still have that autograph? >> i can't even blame my mother because my mother died before these autographs and after my father died everything had been at his house. i was in college and i didn't come and get it all. not only that but all of my baseball cards are gone. i had all the brooklyn dodgers. you always say you blame your mother and i can't. i have to blame myself. >> it looks like will conclude with this young man over here. >> i would be glad to. >> the question would like to ask you is why do you think that fdr ran for a third term even as he was considering a return? >> absolutely interesting. i've just been thinking about why did fdr ran for his third term. i think by the end of his second term had there not been war in europe he would not have run again or even if he might have wanted to stay in office he too loved it just like teddy roosevelt did. somebody asked him once why would anyone want to be president but

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hopkins was a friend of both e m frank ling roosevelt and eleanor. valerie jarrett is best friends with both michelle obama and ha barack obamas she lives in thee white house.pies per i mean by that, she literally has a suite of rooms that she h occupies permanently in the fi white house.rs she has a secret service detail she eats with the president and first lady every night that .hey're in the white house she goes a on vacations with th. she goes to whatever meeting sho wants to attend, and she carrien the president's message to ones cabinet ministers and other people in the administration.wh there's been no one since harry hopkins who has this kind of power itches i write of her saying she watched overfe him a made him feel safe.evoted he was her special charge, the d chosen one. sheun focused, doted on him and she gave him the unconditional love that he never received from his mother, who frequently abandoned him as a child. >> that's right. they have been several lo biographies of barack obama. there's been a lot of left speculation about the fa

hopkins was a friend of both franklin roosevelt and eleanor, valerie jarrett is best friends with both michelle obama and barack obama. she lives in the white house. i mean, by that, she literally has a suite of rooms that she occupies permanently in the white house. she has a secret service detail. she eats with the president and first lady every night that they're in the white house. she goes on vacations with them. she goes to whatever meet showing wants to attend, and she carries the president's message to cabinet ministers and other people in the administration. there's been no one since harry hopkins, way back in the '40s, who has this kind of power. >> host: you write of her, from your book, saying she watched over him and made him feel safe. he was her special charge, the chosen one. she focused on him, doted on him, and devoted her entire life to him and gave him the kind of unconditional love he never received from this mother, who frequently abandoned him as a child. >> guest: that's right. now there have been several, as you know, biographies of barack obama, and there has

thing you just saw, i looked next to me and i was here at the anniversary and to is there but eleanor roosevelt's granddaughter. i was ready to catch her but she didn't. in case anyone at the kennedy library is watching this. and jutting out into the waters the john kennedy actually sailed in, he had chosen to have his library in hovered and it was such a flight. harvard was so unhappy about that and there was so much fighting going on that he was not able to do that. again there is a lot of talk about kennedy and classical music and the dresses that jackie wore and right now there's an argument going on between the bobby folks and john kennedy folks because they don't feel bobby has been given enough attention and the roosevelt library does a good job incorporating eleanor because she is such a part of the story. bobby's family is interested in may be going to different place. i would go and do a research topic everywhere i went so what i wrote about in the kennedy library was this man, a jazz pianist. if you want to hear is that store you know where to get it, "chasing history: 1 man's road tri

just saw, and i looked next to me, and i was here at the anniversary, and who is there but eleanor roosevelt's granddaughter. and i was ready to catch her if she fainted. i was ready, but she didn't. so, just in case anyone at the kennedy library is watching this, i think it's going to be okay. beautiful library, though. out on columbia point, with the jutting out into the waters that john kennedy actually sailed in. he had chosen to have his library in harvard, and there was such a fight. harvard was so unhappy about that. he was unable to do that. and, again, there's a lot of talk about kennedy and classical music and the dresses that jackie wore, and right now there's sort of an argument going on between the bobby folks and the john kennedy folks because they don't feel like bobby has been given enough attention, and the roosevelt library does a good job in incorporating eleanor because she is such part of the story, and bobby's family is interested in maybe going off to a different place. i would go and i would do a research topic everywhere i went. i what i wrote about the new kennedy lib

eleanor roosevelt. she did a great job creating jobs. very active.les: later on we will talk about capital. we have so much action on this alone. and here's a funny one. fiat money is beyond money. >> 56 thousand dollars, we need real gold eagle on the money. charles: look at rosa parks. i thought about all of the roosevelt and i said younger people may not know who she is and this may be more relevant. but it's interesting. one woman said why would it make a difference. and i think some are actually saying that it is sort of a condescending kind of thing. >> i think it's actually kind of an interesting topic to talk about and what comes to mind when i think about it is i like thinking about women in business and looking at the fortune 500. >> i think many of them are paving the way. charles: the sky is the limit for this company. the earnings report blowing things away. in three minutes for now i will share with you. so we're all set? yyyup. with xfinity internet your family can use all their devices at once. works anywhere in the house. even in the

what about eleanor roosevelt. she was really pro jewish. what was her role sanjaya?t she have any influence with her husband to issue an executive order? >> i do understand that she, in a sense, lobbied the president on this particular issue. how strong did she do it, i guess she wasn't successful, i don't know the answer to that question. but as you said initially in your comments, the political pressure and the fear, right, that he was going to do something that none of his predecessors had done which was to go for a third term could have been hurt if he had made this exception, which is the way it was portrayed at the time. >> yes. >> and one of the things that you did not even touch on and you need to is my understanding and always been my understanding that the cuban government invited that ship to come to cuba, not one word was said about that. and then turned them away and i would like you to clarify that at this point. >> you did say -- >> the cuban government -- i would say the opposite. the ship st. louis, and i'm sure mr. miller can add something on this,

police began to investigate after a high school official at eleanor roosevelt high discovered a creditscrepancy. >>> today a virginia campground torn apart by a tornado last week is reopening. hundreds of volunteers have worked nonstop to get the area back open before the weekend. two people were killed at the cherry stone camp ground last week. dozens more were hurt when the ef-1 twister ripped through the site. >>> if you were planning to spend will weekend buying your child's school supplies, picked the perfect time. the virginia tax free holiday begins now and derrick ward is live outside a walmart in woodbridge. >> reporter: this holiday isn't one of the ones that will show up in red on your calcalendar, it may keep you in the black when it comes to your finances. this is the no tax holiday. it runs between today and sunday. so no tax on school supplies priced up to $20 and no sales tax on shoes and clothing up to $100. now, 5% sales tax in the state of virginia, shall counties tack on another%. so that may be a 6% savings for folks on purchases of things like choir reasons, golf

good news is that the high pointed of population in washington was after the terms of franklin eleanor roosevelt who grew the federal government massively and washington grew along with it. and then the population of washington declined until this last census is the first time the population again grew. but with that, has come threats to buildings. now, you know, what, in this book, which is -- and i should have explained, it is 12 chapters with a brief narrative at each chapter and then you go to the sites that illustrate the narrative. we're fortunate, because there's so many buildings that were almost tore down that were at risk. whether it was the eisenhower executive old office building. the patent office was almost torn down, and fortunately many of them were saved but not all of them. just, i think it was yesterday, we have an example of the old post office, which was considered a very ungainly building. most of washington government architecture is this kind of -- i'm going to blank on it, classic style, and here you have the old post office pavilion which is romanesque and it sticks out

eleanor roosevelt had lunch and said look i don't think this was the reality we needed the votes need the votes of the segregationists to be elected. can you please postpone your challenge to segregation and they will offer solutions to the material poverty in the united states. thinking of that of that parallel it helps us to think about this debate so that in the end fdr went along because they saw the parallel between the colonialism and their own treatment and offered few real solutions to black poverty but not the rights to the. then what happened after the end of colonialism, one thing in the story that you have to know is "colonialism was not anticipated by anyone during world war ii. it was a surprise, it's 15 years later and there were statements i could show you that for generations if not centuries. so this was a sort of indefinite justification to the empire. but then what happened after colonialism did collapse, while there was a new set of parties that under the technocratic justification for the authoritarian rule to be very helpful. so first there was no form called co

honor would go -- >>> betsy ross, rosa parks, eleanor roosevelt. >> beyonce'. >> yeah. one of the most influential women so says what time magazine something like that. >>> exactly. got lot of money. >> right. >>> maybe that would go. >> that's true. if you have of it you can put your face on it. got ya. thanks for weighing in and helping us out. after years of research archaeologists have more information on an discovery the a ground zero and it's got ties to philadelphia much crews working on the sight back in 2010 discovered part of a ship but no one knew where it came from. well, four years of research later, now they do. it dates back to 1773. it's part of a merchantship about 60 feet by 20 feet called a sloop and here's where it links to the city. made from wood harvested the same type to use independence hall. >> it is somewhat surprising. you look around the city's skyline and you think there couldn't possibly be anything left and where we found the ship there were buildings standing around that area. >> 1700s shipped used to sale into the area known as ground z

clintons have a marriage that is somewhat similar to the marriage of franklin roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. it's essentially a working relationship. they have gone their separate ways in many ways. they don't live together often, but they are colleagues and collaborators on policy as eleanor and franklin were. on the other side, the obama side, we have a first lady in michelle obama who is best friends with valerie jarrett and who is a behind-the-scenes adviser to her husband in a way that is quite different because in many respects, michelle behaves toward her husband as though she knows better. he said in public that she's the boss. he often sounds like a henpecked guy i must say. i know that's very you know radical to say that but i think there's a lot of truth to that. these women, both michelle and valerie, have enormous influence over his policy decisions. another concrete example bill daly was the chief of staff of the obama white house, he said after he resigned that he and obama would come to an agreement and then valerie jarrett would go upstairs to the residents that night, spen

leadership that i'm going to be working on right now i think i'm going to have a separate chapter on eleanor roosevelt just because in a certain sense she got her power originally from her husband's position then after he died and she could afford to be when he was in power much like frederick douglass the agitator constantly pressuring him to do more than he could do. he had to be political and pragmatic and once he died she had to incorporate into herself a politician in the agitator. she became a figure in her own right the way that a woman president would be now. i have been reading studies from harvard business school on the differences in female leadership and male leadership. they still talk about females being more collaborative, more emotional intelligence at some point but the dual problem that women have if they are to competent and they are aggressive they are looked down upon. if they are too kind they are looked down upon for being weak so how to forge themselves with the strength that women have from not having been in power for long time and from being collaborative and working with fa

eleanor roosevelt? i think what i would ask eleanor, in fact it happened when i was working on the boat. they were so many times what i felt there what i thought they were such love between eleanor and franklin in as such hurt because he had had an affair so many years before. i would ask her again, just forget that affair. i know he loves you. i would talk to her when i would write the book could just tell her, just remember you are so much better than any other women in his life. just absorbed the fact that you are eleanor and just be closer to him because he was boldly in those years and there was still a present and understandably that separated them from their beds from each other, but made them this incredible part errors. i guess i was trying to tell her, i know him and i know he wants to be with you more and if you could stay home a little more, i think it would be good. [laughter] >> if you hadn't been a presidential scholar, you would've been a marriage counselor. [laughter] what would u.s. te

scripted, some of it very unscripted and it contained a fascinating cast of characters, not least eleanor roosevelt and frances perkins. there was a lot of resentment at the convention because the delegates didn't feel roosevelt had been candid about his intentions and he picked henry wallace to be his vice president who is not only anathema to most of them, as a former republican and some thought a mystic but it had always been the prerogative of the convention to fix vice presidents, fdr set another precedent when he decided he was going to pick his own vice president so there was a revolt going on at the convention and frances perkins called the president, she pleaded to come to chicago to address it and said i can't do that, they will make me say things i can't say. i am not going to do that and after a while they agreed eleanor should come. wouldn't it be good if the president was very enthusiastic about eleanor and so was frances perkins so they schemes together to persuade eleanor to come and frances perkins, this is at a time when women did not play a role in politics. this is a significant

they tellegramed president roosevelt, the children wrote letters to eleanor roosevelt, and they telegramed the state department that was in charge of immigration and visa distribution. the passengers heard back only from the state department, from mr. a.m. warren, who was in charge of the visa division, and in the telegram, it said that mr. warren said that the st. louis passengers, though they had waiting numbers, would have to wait their turn until the numbers came up and would have to leave american waters. so that sort of closed the door on the st. louis, the state department telegram. and just for a second to anticipate some of the questions, if you were going to ask about president roosevelt, who, again, this was primarily a state department issue, but the question has come up, couldn't president roosevelt, who was a rather powerful, persuasive president, have issued an executive order init technically what was legal for the passengers to come to the united states based on bureaucracy, but could there have been an executive order. the answer is yes, of course, there could have been.

i might have a chapter on not only eleanor roosevelt but on jackie robinson. they are everything i've looked in my whole life. >> do you still have that autograph? >> i can't even blame my mother because my mother died before these autographs and after my father died everything had been at his house. i was in college and i didn't come and get it all. not only that but all of my baseball cards are gone. i had all the brooklyn dodgers. you always say you blame your mother and i can't. i have to blame myself. >> it looks like will conclude with this young man over here. >> i would be glad to. >> the question would like to ask you is why do you think that fdr ran for a third term even as he was considering a return? >> absolutely interesting. i've just been thinking about why did fdr ran for his third term. i think by the end of his second term had there not been war in europe he would not have run again or even if he might have wanted to stay in office he too loved it just like teddy roosevelt did. somebody asked him once why would anyone want to be president but