he married his distant cousin, eleanor roosevelt, who was one of his great heroes. theodore roosevelt's needs. that was in march of 1905. he was very influenced and impacted by his presidency of roosevelt and he admired him very much. he won the state senate seat for dutchess county and, interestingly, no democrat had held that seat for over a quarter of a century. he worked on, and we look at this lens into his early political views and we see, during his first tenure as state senator, he worked on passing farm and labor bills and to develop social welfare programs. as i said, he married eleanor roosevelt in march of 1905. this became a very important, not only personal relationship, but i would also say, elliptical partnership. she was an important first lady. she transformed the expectation of what a first lady might contribute to the office, and to the white house. she was an active participant in politics, gave press conferences, wrote a newspaper column, and later, served in the u.n. she became known as an advocate and a leader of women and civil rights. they h

story in ther's white house is about eleanor roosevelt. everybody knows that she and her mother-in-law had a very tense relationship. by one of thebook grandchildren. i discovered that eleanor was a very cold grandmother and sarah, the great-grandmother was the real grandmother. they called her granny. they loved her, she was fun and indulgent. she gave them presence, overindulge them --overindulged them. they called sarah "granny." guess what they called eleanor? -- i told that story. one of the grandchildren stood up and said yes. that was one of the stories that you wish you heard before you bought your book. >> i am gale gregory. havee always thrilled to you, you were a great audience. i want to give a special thanks to leslie stahl. i don't know how many years we have been doing this. she shows up and does many other programs with us. keep your eye out for leslie. she is always coming back. [applause] this is why new york is great. you can come to a place like this around 7:30. >> then carol bergen and a net annette gordon. just anoth

eleanor. gil: she was mean to many people. teddy roosevelt said, i have a choice -- either handle my daughter or run the country. when he was governor and he wanted her to go to some conservative boarding school, she basically said, i will shame you, embarrass you, you are not going to do this. he knew it was true. when the tafts move into the white house, they discover a little voodoo doll that alice had left for them. and alice was banned from the taft white house, among other white houses. lesley: we have some questions from the audience. first for you, annette. was sally hemings ever freed from slavery? annette: she was informally freed. she moved into charlottesville after jefferson died. if he had freed her, couple of things -- she was over 45. at this point, she was actually 53 years old. any enslaved person over 45, if you freed them, you had to petition the legislature to allow them to remain in the state, and say how you're going to take care of them for the rest of their lives. you sort of imagine jefferson putting that in a docume

bethune. >> 1937, november the 7th, i was assigned from the ywca, assigned to eleanor roosevelt in a meeting that mrs. bethune was holding. after mrs. roosevelt spoke and she was driving herself on up to hyde park, i took her up to her car, mrs. bethune said to me, what is your name? and i told her. we need you. so i've been back ever since and from that moment i don't think there was a week for the rest of her life that i did not have some direct contact. she was a mentor, a tutor, a spiritual advisor, everything. >> so you met these two women at the same time. >> same time. >> and what about the relationship with eleanor roosevelt? >> the next year 1938, i was one of ten young people, mrs. bethune invited to come -- mrs. roosevelt invited to come to hyde park and we spent the weekend with her planning for the world youth congress and i became sort of like the chairman of that group and we worked on how as american youth -- the conference was held at vassar college in 1938, how it was we would work with young people coming from all around the world with her as first lady in hosting t

previous visits to our beautiful islands from white house dignigaries include first lady eleanor roosevelt in 1943, president lyndon johnson in 1966. and president jimmy carter's son, jeffrey, who represented his father at the inauguration of our first elected governor in 1977, who happens to be my father. madam speaker, pursuant to legislation i introduced in february, which was enacted by congress and signed into law by president trump on may 31, vice president came to american samoa at my humble request to dedicate our veterans' clinic to the memory of the late former representative of american samoa, congressman eni faleomavaega with whom the vice president served the entirety of his tenure in the u.s. house of representatives, from 2003 to 2013. while in american samoa, the vice president also reviewed the troops comprised of reserve companies who are part of the 100th battalion, 442nd infantry of the u.s. army based in hi hifment head quarted in honolulu, the 100th battalion, 442nd infantry is the only infantry unit in the entire united states army reserves. samoan soldiers who are p

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. >> that would be franklin and eleanor roosevelt who led america to victory in world war ii and to great steps with the new deal with social contracts and build a more equal society. in fact, what's interesting as well as is that many europeans today when thinking about resolving europe's economic difficulties, we will point to roosevelt new deal as a great model and in terms of immigration, all nations need to do more in terms of accepting refugees from the war-torn middle eastern countries specially syria, countries that in the region as kay mentioned but also european countries and the united states. >> can you expand a little bit on the refugee crisis, what's happening in europe, what's happening in north africa and in africa and the mediterranean? >> so right now europe is very divided with the surge of influx of refugees from different countries including syria and beyond and destabilized european politics by favoring the rights of far-right european parties who believe that the european union which promotes open borders and freedom of movements is responsible for letting so many p

harvard law school, clerk to al oliver wendall holmes, social friends of franklin and eleanor roosevelt, groomed to be a future cabinet member or head oh the u.n. algier hiss was accused oft having been a spy for the soviet union and hi accuser was whittaker chambers, and chambers was a former communist, hiss' go-to guy for the communist party and eventually leaves the party. well, buckley comes to the conclusion that we need sterner stuff. they're getting to the prime of our youth. they've singled out the kind ofr kids that would good to yale in 1948 for this kind of activity. so a lot of this going on. even though then i would say the student body at yale more hoe -- all white, all male, not what you into now there or here. the breakdown of the campus in '46, 60% for dewey, 40% for truman. so, i don't you look at any campus since then, republicans have out inas well. on the faculty it was a fight o between harry truman and not tom dewey. harry truman and harry wallace. >> host: my students don't mow who hari -- harry wallace is. >> think bernie sanders and you got it. >> guest: wallac

edith north rogers along with eleanor roosevelt had put the fear of god into the navy admirals back in december of 1941. so the navy supported the bill that passed, and it was signed into law on 30, july, 1942. of now, guiding the creation of these new women's military branches was the women's advisory council. members of the -- they were civilian educators who represented the five sister colleges which included mount holyoke and smith college in northampton, massachusetts, where women marines and women accepted for voluntary emergency service were trained. the women of the advisory council were some of the brightest and most well-educated women in the country. the chairman of the council was virginia, dean of barn ard college who overheard -- who was overheard at one point in the deliberations regarding the acceptance of women in the navy, she said: now, if navy could possibly have used dogs or ducks or monkeys, either of those certain admirals, the older admirals, would certainly have greatly preferred them to women. in november of 1942, the waacs and can the army chief of staff, geo

according to the school system, milestone communications withdrew its proposal for a cell tower at eleanor roosevelt high school in breen get after school ceo kevin maxwell complained to the company that it lacked transparency. we've all waited far metro train longer than we thought but it looks like some were longer than others. in march, the blue line ran on time only 45%. on the yellow line 53%. the green line had the most online trips. metra says it does want to improve to get the numbers to at least 75%. >> tonight a lot of you will be locked into what is the biggest day in d.c. sports in a long time. >> can't wait, the caps, wizards and nats playing tonight. excitement at the ice presidential electiplex, how's it going? >> reporter: good morning, we found fans who came in from as far as way as virginia beach for what they say will be a real life look at the finals-bound team. the caps jumped off the ice a few minutes ago but take a look. these guys are out here still working, some of them. fans say what you're looking at is the a team on a mission fine tuning skills they'll use to push the pen

nixon committed, they were not out of line with what presidents had been doing since franken eleanor roosevelt's time. he was not the -- other presidents have done that before. the underlying suggestions here, if true, and we don't know they're all true. if true. this really is a unique and sinister turn in american democracy. exactly the thing the founders of the country were most worried about in the office of the presidency, which was foreign interference. >> i want to listen to what -- you just made reference to this, david, that's sarah huckabee sanders deputy press secretary of the white house on fox news tonight, she is scheduled tomorrow to give the briefing, according to the white house schedule tomorrow, which is the thinnest white house schedule i have ever seen. it has exactly one meeting for the president of the united states and the 1:30 briefing is now scheduled to be delivered by senator sanders and this is a preview on fox news tonight about what we're going to hear from her tomorrow. let's listen to this. >> i think the bigger point on that is, my gosh, tucker, when are they go

the year, and hen lie luce asked chambers to write the piece, and this is like 12 years after eleanor roosevelt allowed -- asked her to sing the stops of the lincoln memorial and the daughters of the revolution said she couldn't sing before them. this is a decade after. and has had every role you can get the metropolitan opera, and chambers writes, african-americans are the -- both in the most despised and the most religious of any people on earth. wow. so, in 1969, the head of the urban league, whitney young, and daniel patrick moynihan, now working for nixon, organized a tour of urban america for white journalists. and they visit six towns and buckley meets some rather charming community organizers and radicals in the black movement for the first time. and he writes that -- he sees a little bit of himself, except for background, obviously. they're just like we are. they're sassy, they're cynical about what bureaucracy can do for communities. they want the self-help movement, want to teach their own children. want to start businesses. don't want washington breathing down their throat. where wi

roosevelt using wiretaps extensively. it is essential for national defense. enemies could be sending messages. suddenly he wiretaps republicans that he wiretaps his wife eleanor, so we see an abuse of the civil liberties as well, as well as shutting down magazines and newspapers that opposed him, so much so that his own attorney general had to fight him. that is a fair deduction of the content of the book, although have to give simon & schuster credit for doing the subtitle . we got the main title, "fdr goes to war." >> questions. yes? there. >> my name is stephen. i was a bit thrown by the title of the book. that the tax rates had reached prewar levels, but the other is in his, the rationing, direction of production to win the war, the consequences of the expanding debt, i not sure any other am president would not have afterup at the same locus a two-ocean war. >> part of the premise is one of the reasons we wound up of the war is we weren k during the 1930's. fdr cut military spending during the 1930's in terms of the percentage of military spending in the federal budget. this was on top of the factoring there who were presidency military budgets were very