eleanor roosevelt -- eleanor roosevelt would sometimes just invite total strangers she met on the street to stay overnight in the white house and often there weren't enough bedrooms to go around. so i'm sure hilarity ensued. that was what -- that was what she did. she was a real people person. shy would just service personnel and so forth, sometimes people she met. she just liked to talk to people and that's what she did. so she's quite an interesting character. hi. >> was sally hemmings on staff at the white house in the jefferson administration? >> talking about jefferson's -- his mistress, slave, with whom -- it's believed he fathered, what, i about six children with her. i don't think she was. i'm not sure. i think she probably stayed down at monticello. that's a good question. don't know. it's a fiction question. >> one of my favorite stories that you tell in the book relates to wilson. the last virginia president, woodrow wilson, who -- >> that's right. >> who got married, second wife, and they had an interesting ip a relationship. tell that story. >> woodrow wilson's first wife di

brinkley: eleanor roosevelt, does she holed up in history as the great first lady? prof. leuchtenburg: absolutely. absolutely. i never really knew her to talk to, but i was in the room with her numbers of times. i always felt when i was with her, a stirring in the crowd in london and the rumor goes out around the crowd that royalty has moved by. she was the most direct kind of person, the kindest woman. it was a sense of something special, something regal about her. it was wonderful to be in her presence. prof. brinkley: when fdr dies and the united nations is born, harry truman was the president. very quickly, in the truman years, we have bombs being dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. how do you assess his decision to use atomic weapons to win the war against japan. prof. leuchtenburg: it is something that bothered me a long time at the time and i have never been able to shake it off since. there had already been so much devastation with ordinary bonds -- bombs in japan, dresden, and elsewhere. we had not seen a very great step up beyond this. the more that i wrestled wi

i think it was eleanor roosevelt who said that. alex... i told you i don't wantto see you anymore. yeah, but i want to see you. we got to talk. i feel terrible about what happened the other day. alex, in five minutes,i have to do my speech. if you felt bad, you'dhave called before this. i've been busy. doing what? moping... and whining... and being a real idiot. you'd be surprised how much time that takes. alex, you hurt me. when i needed you,you really let me down. i know, rache. why does itbother you so much that i'm valedictorian? i'd have thoughtyou'd be happy for me. we should build each other up. i would've been happy for you. i know. why do you have to win at everything? i have a little problemin this area. i don't want to always compete with you. we're notalways competing. we are. give me an examplewhen i've beenoverly competitive. when i beat you at miniature golf. i handled that very well. you fileda formal protest with the manager. it wasn't a formal protest. i asked him to examine your clubs. i don't wantto feel guilty for beinga better golfer than you. you're absolutel

. >> i had read that eleanor roosevelt used to have all kinds of people come in and stay at the white house over her time period. what was the wackiest one that she had in? >> that would be a long list. [laughter] eleanor roosevelt would sometimes invite total strangers she met on the streets and there were often not enough bedrooms to go around. so i am sure hilarity ensued, , but that is what she did. she was a real people person. she would serve as personnel and she just liked to talk to people and that is what she did. she was quite an interesting character. >> hi. >> was sally hemmings on staff? >> you are talking about jefferson's mistress, slaves, fathered at believe least six children. i do not think she was. i think she probably stayed back. that is a good question. i don't know. that is a good question. >> one of my favorite stories in the book relates to wilson, the last virginia president who got married to his second wife and they had interesting -- an interesting relationship. why don't you tell that story. wife diedlson's first while he was in office and he was very lon

[laughter] eleanor roosevelt would sometimes invite total strangers she met on the streets and there were often not enough bedrooms to go around. i am sure hilarity ensued, but that is what she did. she was a real people person. as personnel and she just liked to talk to people and that is what she did. she was quite an interesting character. >> was sally hemmings on staff? >> you are talking about jefferson's mistress, slaves, and i think he fathered six children with her. i do not think she was. i think she probably stayed back. that is a good question. >> one of my favorite stories in the book relates to wilson, the last virginia president who got married to his second wife and they had interesting relationships. ? >> his first wife died while he was in office and he was very lonely and wanted to meet somebody else and thought he never would. about a month later, he saw a woman on a street corner who happened to be a friend of the person he was with, his personal physician. an introduction was arranged. her name was edith and the president was smitten. dating and the president to

arnaud: i guess it was eleanor roosevelt who said, "life belongs to those who believe in the reality, i think that he truly believes that he will be able to get an impact in changing the world. i wish there will be more and more people like alex to be able to make that right. ♪ ♪ narrator: as an entrepreneur, alexandre mars specialized in identifying and profiting from the latest developments in technology. now he believes people can use these developments to monitor and evaluate their social investments. his latest startup, epic foundation, aims to bring new technology to the world of philanthropy. alexandre: we are kind of a conduit between two different worlds. we're not really talking to each other. people with money, power, wealth, they want to do more, really. but it is so hard, you know, to find those organizations. so, for us is how can we bring tools to this industry? three sets of tools. the first one is about selection. the second one is about tracking. the third one is about the experience. that's what we do at epic foundation. the first tool is the selection. we have dec

does eleanor roosevelt holed up in history? >> absolutely. i never really knew her. i was in the room with her in number of times. felt like the passage at the big dinner of a movie. there was a stirring in the crowd in london. murmur goes out across the crowd that world tea has moved by. that majesty has moved by. and, she was the most direct kind of person. the kindest woman. of somethingnse special. of something regal about her. it was wonderful to be in her presence. dies and harryr truman assumes the presidency, very quickly, and the truman the comment age with bombs being dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. respect his decision to use atomic weapons? >> it is something that bothered me a long time. i have never been able to shake off the tension. there had already been so much bombsation with ordinary in japan and in dresden and elsewhere. same to be a very great step beyond this. for him to have taken that. it more that i wrestled with he was at i felt that a culminating moment. he had notd that if used the bomb, and there had morehundreds of thousands deaths,

that eleanor roosevelt used to have also to time. come during her what was the wackiest one that she had? sometimes invite total strangers she met on the streets and there were often not enough bedrooms to go around. i am sure that polarity would ensue. just like to talk to people and that is what she did. she was an interesting character. >> was sally hemmings on staff? >> you are talking about jefferson's mistress with it is believed that he fathered six children with. i do not think she was. that is a good question. >> one of my favorite stories in wilson, theates to last virginia president who got interestingthey had relationships. died while heife was in office and he wanted to meet somebody else and thought he never would. later, he saw a woman on a street corner who happened to be a friend of the person he was with, his personal physician. her name was edith and the president was smitten. they began to date and the president -- as if being president was not impressive enough -- he really wanted to impress her and he shared top

. >>> eleanor roosevelt's girls high school basketball team will have to finish their season without their coach. the coach has been suspended f violating prince george's athletic committee regulations. they say they played and practiced during a blizzard last month. >>> transportation leaders are talking about several projects that could change your commute. then you'll be able to respond to some of their plans. here's some of the projects the national transportation board is discussing. bus only lanes on 16th street. and new express lanes on i-395. now, you can go to a meeting about the 95 expressway in virginia today. vdot holding a public hearing at pool middle school in stafford tonight. talking about the plan to extend lanes south of garrison road. vdot says the change would mean less congestion on your way to and from work. >>> well, you may have seen t winner of the pat collins challenge. we asked for your best patriotic picture for presidents' day. and the judges chose the howard family snow sculpture of teddy roosevelt. they live in alexandria. that's good for pat. sometime

activists and cofounder of the national organization of women, polly murray, and first lady eleanor roosevelt. >>> on thursday, former bush justice department official john you will weigh in on the expansion of the federal government during the obama administration at a taping of our weekly author interview program, afterwards from our studio in washington dc. >>> live next sunday at 12:00 p.m. eastern, the new yorker's jane mayer will be our guest on in-depth to take your questions and talk about her book, which includes her most recent on the influence of big money in politics, dark money. >>> that's a look at some of the author programs book tv is covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on book tv on c-span 2. >> i will begin by saying i'm delighted to welcome jesse as he presents his second book, invisible: the untoward-- untold story of african-americans in the white house. he's a nationally recognized journalist and media authority who as contributed hundreds of articles in african american history, politics, news. he make

activists and cofounder of the national organization of women, polly murray, and first lady eleanor roosevelt >>> on thursday, former bush justice department official john you will weigh in on the expansion of the federal government during the obama administration at a taping of our weekly author interview program, afterwards from our studio in washington dc. >>> live next sunday at 12:00 p.m. eastern, the new yorker's jane mayer will be our guest on in-depth to take your questions and talk about her book, which includes her most recent on the influence of big money in politics, dark money. >>> that's a look at some of the author programs book tv is covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on book tv on c-span 2. >> i will begin by saying i'm delighted to welcome

frequent eleanor roosevelt. fdr, in many ways was carrying out theodore roosevelt policies. fdr's new deal, i think, is in large part, a fulfillment of theodore roosevelt square deal. fdr has the same problems that theodore roosevelt with judges. they are invalidating laws that people support and they are often doing it in the name of the due process clause. fdr decides to do something about it. he has four justices who support him already. he is visiting these cases by a very narrow 5-4 vote. and he says that he is going to appoint more justices. this is the infamous court packing plan. he does not say that the reason he is doing this to is to give himself a majority supporters, but, that is obviously why. court packing fails, of course. fdr loses that battle. but, he wins the war. the supreme court backs down. in 1935, it gives up on the idea that it can define what the public interest is and strike down laws that depart from it. so, and other people to get to decide, what is reasonable and what is oppressive. how does that work out? well, it works out ok in terms of the d

is someone in line with the thinking and thoughts and direction with franklin roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. we have gone a long way from what the democratic party was and that is what i consider progressive, what the democratic party was under franklin roosevelt and where it is today. if they were alive today, i don't think they would recognize the democratic party as it is today. .ertainly, eleanor roosevelt it was a fair country then. she would have been the first unitedresident of the states. if she were alive today, she would laugh at the fact that mrs. clinton would be running for president under the democratic party. i think the new party that will develop should, mr. sanders should not get elected, should be a new particle the progressive party. i left at a previous caller who indicated that bernie would make a great second person to mrs. clinton. i think that is ludicrous and i don't think anybody would endorse that. lastly, i would like to say that there are a number of people like myself who i feel will never vote for mrs. clinton and will look for alternative candidates to vote

speaking to the past history of frank and eleanor roosevelt tried to stack the -- frank and eleanor roosevelt tried to stack the court and how that is representative of whatever president would like to do. i'm also wondering if the senate judiciary committee cross examines these candidates that the president would nominate, to the questions of the senate judiciary committee asked, do they influence the final decision? the issues that they asked the nominee? host: to her earlier point? populardr was a very president and had a big economic problem when he came in in the depression and passed a lot of aggressive laws seeking to address it. the supreme court in the 30's was very conservative, very hostile to the new deal and struck down many of those initiatives, making fdr very frustrated. in 1937, to get around the supreme court, he proposed a plan to add an additional justice for each one who turned 70 years old and dear rationale was they are old and tired and the work load is too heavy. this will help them. if you do the math, you would see that he would instantly be able to appoint a majori

eleanor roosevelt flying with the tuskegee airmen and imagine what the statement was she made.ut the story we're going to do next week. >> okay. >> on the athlete, the first african-american to skate in the nhl in hockey and what he faced was just amazing. so we'll take you -- we went up to ontario to shoot this story. got out on the ice and it was really, really inspirational. we look forward to that. >> wonderful to have you here. i know you have a busy day ahead of you. >> a little bit. just like that. >>> well, a man holding a mom hostage, the police officer no room for error. take a look. >> oh! oh! shot him. >> oh, wow. the incredible split second decision the officer had to make and it was all caught on camera. >>> his father had been in afghanistan for months and months so he didn't expect this -- the awesome surprise that is guaranteed to make you smile this morning. oh, look. ♪ [screaming] ♪ ♪ the bold nissan rogue, with intuitive all wheel drive. because winter needs a hero. now get a $199 per month lease on the 2016 nissan rogue. nissan. innovation that excites. >>>

bernie sanders is a socialist in the same sense that franklin and eleanor roosevelt worked socialiststhe same way that johnson with the war on positive -- war on poverty was a socialist. the people themselves are very involved in the economic decisions as well as the political decisions of our country. and people know that they have been shut out by the corporate powers. they have outlawed unions in this country. bernie sanders is a guy who has walked a picket line. he has been there with the unions. a member of congress. he has stood up in the senate and now, he is the guy who is out there with the ordinary .olks of the country that is why people are responding. so to sit there in the confines of washington, d.c. and live in -- it isle of chatter contrived wisdom of corporate interests. is not bernie sanders first record. to the u.s.ed congress as a democratic socialist and then to congress and the senate as a democratic socialist. he has faced this before and of course corporate interests are going to say that. having aeople are different view these days. they are not going to buy s

roosevelt defined himself as the opportunity, with eleanor pushing him along. 1940 -- 1939, a play opened up called, "abe lincoln in illinois." fdr like the play and called up the playwright. he said, enough of the plays and pulitzers, come to work for speechwriter. that is where the action is. he did. all of a sudden, the character offdr becomes the character lincoln in a play. i do not want to organize the world against this threat. please don't make me!" it was brilliant. one could say that roosevelt invoked lincoln to face down the fascist threat to the free .orld, like the confederacy rich people would be in a fixed position in aristocracy. i will leave this at roosevelt. did i ever answer the question? host: if fdr comes closest, which he does, who contradicts the vision the most? harold: i will get into trouble. statement of "the business of america is business" reflected a pushback against situations,way totally on -- bad wage banking,s, unregulated the"good old times of 1920's," and america paid a price for that kind of belief that the superrich would encourage everyone to come a

. >> i think eleanor roosevelt as well. each in their own way. the president and i would be hopefully as supportive in whatever way he thinks is necessary, and i will be a voice, i think, what i would be using that pulpit for is to make the quality of life for children and families to be the best in the world. >> bill clinton has been much more outspoken in the last couple of days and very critical of your husband and of your campaign and saying that it has been sexist, well, as you know, hillary clinton talked about the smear. what's your reaction to bill clinton and the attacks in the last coupling of dayinle of day? >> i'm surprised. disappointed. to call this a negative campaign is as any observer would allow, is just not accurate. we've been running a very, very positive campaign. so it's disappointing, and yet at the same time, it's politics 101. i want to run a negative campaign, so i'm going to accuse my opponent of running a negative campaign. i would hope the media and all the candidates would raise the level up a bit. that's what the v

roosevelt defined himself as the man for equal opportunity, with eleanor pushing him along. in 1940 -- 1939, a play opened on broadway called, "abe lincoln in illinois." i'm sure many of you have seen the movie version. fdr like the play and called up the playwright. he said, enough of the plays and the pulitzers, come to work for me as a speechwriter. that is where the action is. and he did. all of a sudden, the character of fdr becomes the character of lincoln in a play. "i do not want to organize the world against this threat. please don't make me!" like this. stop and do this. it was brilliant. one could say that roosevelt invoked lincoln to face down the fascist threat to the free world, like the confederacy. it could not occur in this continent. i will leave this at roosevelt. did i ever answer the question? host: if fdr comes closest, does, who contradicts the vision the most? harold: i will get into trouble. [laughter] coolidge's statement of "the business of america is business" reflected a pushback against unions, bad way situations, -- bad wage situations, unregul

roosevelt was dying to approve it and eleanor resigned from the dar. how many commissioners were there, there were three commissioners and one had died and one of the commissioners was more interested in the easter seals campaign and passing out certificates to good drivers. things like that. i mean it was, it was preposterous what was going on. this by the way, this situation existed up, for 100 years. from 1871 to 1971 washington really didn't have a mayor. >> [inaudible] >> i have a speculative question. if the jefferson view of the city had prevailed, how would that have changed our history? >> hmmm. well, i think i want to broaden the question. if jefferson had prevailed how would that have changed our history? jefferson was an agrarian. he believed in an agrarian democracy. he distrusted cities that over 20,000. in fact that was the outer limit. and he said things like, of new york, which was in the largest city, it was the cloquina of civilization. the out house of civilization. that is putting it nicely. so any way any jefferson wanted a very d