when sarah roosevelt built a townhouse for franklin and eleanor roosevelt as a christmas gift, she had it built in 1906 in new york city, that place had connecting doors from one apartment to the next, because sarah roosevelt built that building as a duplex. she would live in half of it and franklin and eleanor roosevelt lived in the other half. and there was connecting doors on various levels so that there could pop into their section whenever she wanted to unannounced, which made eleanor roosevelt not happy. townhouse,bout this and you could kind of read between the lines, where she just mentioned that it was not a great thing where sarah was living right next to them and she decorated their part of the townhouse and so forth. and i would imagine that she was of happy to be in a wing this house where sarah could also opened a doorway from her bedroom into eleanor roosevelt's bedroom or early on, franklin and eleanor shared bedroom, whenever she wanted to. when she moved into the section of the house, she moved all the richer out of the room -- all the furniture out of the room that f

working here at the fdr national historical site at eleanor roosevelt vanderbilt mansion. at th david roosevelt birthplace and statue of liberty and the burial ground national monument as well as massachusetts at the john fitzgerald historical site and the orchard house. geraldine majored in history. studying journalism at new york's school continuing education and served as an intern at the national journalism center in washington, d.c. and a public affairs officer for the u.s. navy reserve. thank you for your service. the byline is including human events, images and all hands of the magazine at the u.s. navy and where she enjoys her many friends many of whom are here today and the hundreds of books in the ever-growing collection. please join me in welcoming off her geraldine hawkins. [applause] there are two people before i begin, two people in the audience today. i would hope to acknowledge them on c-span. my good friend linda and alan the front row. i forgot to do so in my book. it's a great honor to see so many people here. she showed him a bible that she carried since

going to introduce you to a woman who is probably the most powerful woman other than oliver-- eleanor roosevelt in washington during this time. she had known franklin roosevelt when he first ran for vice president, had been with him through his polio recovery and when he was governor of new york and when they arrived in washington dc in march, 1933, she was technically the secretary, but really almost a de facto chief of staff. if you wanted to see the presidents, you had to see this equally hand. this was a very sexist time in washington and it was difficult to be acknowledged. eleanor roosevelt was breaking bounds by her exercise of her role as first lady redefining what it meant to be a first lady and missy really defines what it meant to be the president's assistant. please, warm hand to missy. [applause]. >> thank you for that warm greeting. it's such a joy to be here at heide park. you may know that the president is on his way up to temper bellow for vacation and i will join him there with some of the other staff. it's the first time he has been there since he was stricken with polio in 1

but she did all those things, lived in the white house, was eleanor roosevelt's backup never eleanor was off traveling as the eyes and ears of the president and we know that he travels so much. there were jokes but yo that yor knew and would pop up like in a coal mine. she had so many of her very own causes and interests that she was passionate about and felt comfortable letting missy d. her backup hostess and they had such a good working relationship by that time she didn't have to feel nervous that things were going to be done wrong or that missy would overstep her boundaries. she knew she was not first lady. eleanor was first lady but she was in the white house so that also meant she worked on called around the clock so she might forget her desk which her office was the only one joining fdr. she might just spend the evening with him in his private study working on a stamp collection or music or talking over the day so since neither kept. the high school education was the only level of education she obtained. eleanor roosevelt dropped out of high school and didn't have anything bey

a fresh look at the lives of franklin and eleanor roosevelt and of the roosevelt presidency. the exhibition began in 1932, the year he was elected president of the u.s. world. the country was in the third year of the great depression. in 1929, the depression began and unemployment in the u.s. was at 3.2%. at the time he was running for president in 1932, it is almost 25%. the context of the election in 1932 was a nation in a state of disarray and fear. this gallery really points that out. we have dramatic photography that shows the state of affairs and nationally. this photograph in particular is very poignant. this is a photograph of new york's central park in in the 1932. foreground, you see a shantytown, one of many that have sprouted up around the nation. many of them are nicknamed hoovervilles. they are in the shadow of the metropolitan museum of arts. this is a reminder of the scale of human suffering in the year 1932 when franklin roosevelt is running for president. the 1932 democratic convention was held in chicago. when roosevelt was nominated, he received word of th

eleanor roosevelt wrote a letter on her behalf and there were newspaper reports because walter leaked that they can you imagine that happening today? so there is a story out there that she got the part said she would accompany to warm springs georgia and started to go to george judge as governor of new york but daisy bonner is one of my favorite characters in which she would go to a georgia so she would stay in a cottage in warm springs and cook and introduce to all kinds of specialties. i dish said it is very popular is chicken curry and she and president roosevelt joke about a secret recipe with 45 ingredients. but also with those other indelicacies the one thing that fdr loved is a big speech. -- pigs' feet. she would boil them then broil them and then butter them that is how he liked them so stay with me it will get worse for a second. [laughter] so one of these and also its service to winston churchill. now alonso fields started to work in the hoover administration wrote about this in his diary. and then to be served at a luncheon. living in maryland had a cut. this was sweet and

and on the far right, eleanor roosevelt. this victory was so immense that fdr really felt confident going into his second term. that he would be able to expand the new deal. he had all kinds of ambitious plans on what he wanted to do on the domestic front during the second term. presidents find out as they go into the second term, events can sometimes take surprising turns. in fact, his second term turned out to be a much different than he thought it would be. very early in the second term, fdr is involved in a big conflict with congress. theecomes concerned that supreme court is striking down a of new deal legislation. he becomes concerned in particular that there is a court case involving the social security act and that it may end --h the court striking down striking it down as unconstitutional. he beat best he comes up with another plan. it was a plant to put additional members on to the supreme court. presumably, at one point, he would then get the majority that would support his legislation. this becomes a very content

she was also an enormous fan of eleanor roosevelt. she was a scientist, and so thought their support for research and education were vitally important. she had sort of instilled in me a love for the roosevelt and a real interest in history. our family is mostly scientists, so they were expecting me to go into the world of science. i instead went on a different path. the storytelling was what always fascinated me. there are so many extreme area stories about franklin delano roosevelt that it is hard not to become a fan. brian: did he read when he was president, and if you write a book? ofhe published several books his speeches, but he did not ever write a book on the. -- on his own. he had a screenplay he had written that he was trying to sell in the 1920's to the hollywood movie studios. it was sort of a spy mystery. it was pretty awful. no one bought it. he wrote the forward to a book on whaling ships. but he never wrote a book that was published. brian: what does the director do? >> nothing. i have the greatest staff in the world. i

so he gave them both to eleanor , roosevelt, and she donated them to the roosevelt library.hey were put on display here in 1945, and remain on public display ever since. in addition to the actual desk and chair, we have many of the items that the president had on the desk at the time of his death. we have it arranged almost -- as close as we can get it to the way he looked in march of 1945, the last time he sat here. what you see is a wide variety of things. some serious items, a lot of whimsical items. fdr had a sense of humor and enjoyed having stuffed animals and toys on his desk, but again, many serious items. things that he was using in the course of his day. on the left side of the desk, you see a portfolio that has the portraits of his four sons, who all served in america's military during world war ii. parents whose children are serving in the military, he wanted to have a photo of them nearby, in this case, on his working desk. you also see on the right side of the desk, his daily schedule. that would've been a schedule tucked into that holder every day giving him a

there is controversy whether eleanor roosevelt cooked the scrambled eggs or just stirred them at the last minute before they were served but there were scrambled eggs a lot. the housekeeper henrietta was in charge of the food. president roosevelt went on a diet and he would like to stray from that diet, the white house physician and relevant or roosevelt would make sure he stays on the dallas, so memorialized in exchange between eleanor roosevelt and the doctor and i will read that. he was a navy vice admiral doctor mcintyre. call on me if you need help. that is what eleanor called it when the president would get upset. he cooperated to get the appetite back to normal. he sent to new york for specialists and brought doctors from the navy hospital. a dietitian arrived in uniform for a time, the president ate everything he was told to leave because it was ordered by the navy. the president reducing diet came from the navy and the surplus on record, cut out all fried foods. that was one directive from the doctor. typically the president is going to get what they want to get any african a

he wrote good biographies of eleanor roosevelt, franklin roosevelt and "kids on strike." very good resources. there is fiction, lots of fiction. little fiction for young people. fire at the triangle factory. libby is about a spinner in vermont. "dreamland" and alice hoffman just wrote one that mentions the triangle fire. this one happens to be out of print, but it is really fabulous. "we shall not be, moved" about the 1909 strike. this one is portraits. just wrote one that mentions the school biographies, short biographies. you can use a lot of these. this might be in the play that they put on, the triangle factory fire project in houston. you can get these materials. we list our resources to teaching about the unions, labor history and triangle fire on our website. that is why i gave you brochures because it has them listed. thank you. [applause] >> i am going to stay seated. would you mind staying up there? i am very happy everybody is here. i have heard this story of triangle for years and years. when i heard marianne describe it as felt my stomach tightening. it is th

the episode that will come on sunday with eleanor roosevelt.alvanize women to get hyped the war effort to go work in the factories, providing all of the support and materials for their husbands and sons that were at war. and thenhe trail blazers all of them are trail blazers in my mind, but we think about eleanor roosevelt and hillary clinton and the ground-breaking things that they did. >> when i look at the four different topics, the one of the ones that stood out in my mind was the ones by chance. >> yes. >> and i kind of think of that in terms of even melania trump. >> of course. >> i'm not really sure she every thought she was going to be first lady or even wanted to be first lady. >> sure. >> so what would be your advice to her in terms of leaving her mark doing the job she needs to do now and the legacy that will go on beyond her? >> i think for any first ladies be yourself. draw from your own inner strength and draw from what you know. and we've seen her now on two foreign trips. mrs. trump. remember, she's only been an american citizen

there are the three books about eleanor roosevelt written by blanche weiss and cook on the early years, middle years and then prewar and postwar years. that is going to be my proj

eleanor roosevelt with observed, "franklin is not at ease with people not of his own class." at this summit near newfoundland, roosevelt and churchill this added to send a small delegation to moscow to the side what military resources should be shipped to russia. fdr would choose the man who had been managing the american side of langley's, in britain another man. if i may, harriman was the not so rare american in london to embraced the prime minister's. or in law. edward r. murrow was another. no more locker room talk tonight. going with harriman to russia was controversial. a canadian who had served with churchill in world war i cap. indeed, the self-confident prime minister would choose beaverbrook for his first cabinet in 1940 over the doubts and hesitations of king george the sixth. beaverbrook could and did stand up to the prime minister, but he would later complain that eating, drinking, and arguing with the prime minister, "nearly killed me, almost made me a drunkard." not every man could drink 20,000 bottles of champagne in a single lifetime. fdr was like churchill, a

this was 12 years eleanor roosevelt allowed her to sing on steps of lincoln memorial. after the daughters of american revolution said she couldn't sing for them. this is after every role she had you could get in at the metropolitan opera. chambers writes, african-americans are both the most despised and most religious of any people on earth. well, so in 1969 the head of the urban league, whitney young, and daniel patrick moynihan working for nixon, organize ad tour, a tour of urban america for white journalists, and they visit six towns and buckley meets some rather charming community organizers and radicals, radicals in the black movement for the first time. and he writes that, he see as 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 self-help movements. they want to teach chair own children. they want to start business. they don't want washington breathing down their throat. where have we heard it before. he said out of their ranks will come a

and he added to that his own useful admiration of franklin eleanor roosevelt and voted four times art and new dealer memorized reagan -- me wised roosevelt according to coworkers, in fact, he even bored dates by talking about new deal politic when they wanted to be talking about something else. but -- he had continued to be a democrat even after roosevelt died. he had hollywood for truman barkley and supported democratic nominee against richard nixon in 1950 and he continued to support new deal democratic ideals in private conversation well into the 1950s going so far according to bury gold water recollection of calling him a fascist s.o.b. friend of second life of parents loyal davis in phoenix in early 150s. he moved over to the right as he became aware that the democratic party was leaving its ideal as he understood them behind. and he had understood those ideals as using government to help the average pern. but instead began to see democratic party was interested in power for a centralizing vision that made government and socialization of america its animating goal rather than ass

anderson the person of the year, and henry luce asked whittaker to write the peace. 12 years after eleanor roosevelt allowed astor to sing the lincoln memorial. a decade after. and she has had every possible -- and chambers writes, african-americans are the -- both the mose despised and the most religious of any people on earth. so in 1969, the head of the urban league, whitney young, and daniel patrick moynihan, organizes a tour of urban america for white journalists, and they visit six towns, and buckley meets some rather charming community organizers and radicals for the fir 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 self-help movements 'they want to teach their own children. the want to start businesses. they don't want washington breathing down their throat. where with we herd that's before? he said out of the ranks comes a president in ten years, he quotes chambers, but he doesn't quite quote it literally, meaning that quote stuck in

i think eleanor roosevelt had an extraordinary influence on public policy and what we, you know, in her weight and what she espoused and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there's also another one, i don't know that i will get to it. it's about firebrand and the first lady, so forth. it's as us a big undertaking. i'm excited to be able to do it and to learn from a great role model. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter @booktv or instagram @booktv or posted to our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm karlyn bowman and it's a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you and our c-span audience to the saponins event to celebrate the publication of henry olsons new book "the working class republican: ronald reagan & the return of bue-collar conservatism." henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center, a former aei colleague and a member in good standing of apis election launch team. henry arrived at aei in 2006 and we soon

of war, which is such an important role to help comfort the nation like laura bush bush did, eleanor rooseveltexpect to be in the role. lady bird johnson came at a time of such national grieving, after the assassination of jfk. and had that famous line, people look at the living and they wish for the dead. that's how she started as first lady. ainsley: i want to play a clip for our audience. this is the clip that highlights laura bush's life. you know her well, watch. >> this thank you. >> certainly somebody like laura bush drew from inner reserves of strength. >> laura bush after 9/11 became a different first lady. she really had to confront this issue head on, the fact that the nation was at war. ainsley: you bring up a good point in that because everybody can be going great and then all of a sudden something happens, there is breaking news, have you a tragedy like 9/11 and everyone turns to the president and first lady to see how they are going to respond. >> absolutely. at this point this was september of nine months into the administration. already started with, you know, such controversy

could we not investigate the internationalism of eleanor and frank when roosevelt and link it to their troubled marriage? george f kennan displayed a brooding antidemocratic personal life. were these characteristics related to his diplomacy?" his challenge pointed to an important disconnect that still existed between the political and cultural subfields in diplomatic history. mainly that those of us who seriously emerge are -- immerse ourselves in the cultural approach were often content with examining the discourse that showed how international relations were embedded in notions of cultural difference. what he demanded was that they produce concrete evidence that this discourse mattered. , soft rhetoric of cultural gender needed to enter into some kind of relationship with power politics. whether hisd frank article was actually a direct response to that. it seemed like all of his work , seeming to kennan be a direct response to this. he addressed the criticism by showing how kennan's personal life, his emotional attachment to the russian people come his experience at the american emba

i think eleanor roosevelt had an extraordinary influence on public policy and what we, you know, in her weight and what she espoused and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there's also another one, i don't know that i will get to it. it's about firebrand and the first lady, so forth. it's as us a big undertaking. i'm excited to be able to do it and to learn from a great role model. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter @booktv or instagram @booktv or posted to our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. tv on c-span2, televi f