this tells you a lot about eleanor roosevelt. it was not important to her that her name was misspelled, she appreciated the gift of the child had given her. mrs. roosevelt wrote a daily column, which was her way of reaching out to the american people and connecting the government to the american people during a time when people were feeling a lot of fear, a lot of despair after the great depression happened and people had lost everything. their homes, their jobs, their life savings rate with her close friend lorena hickok who suggested she do the column, and it was a column that eleanor roosevelt wrote six days a week, no matter where she was. she could be traveling overseas, that column would be written. but many times, the column was written right here at this desk at val-kill. it really made people realize that the first lady was more than just a hostess at the white house. the first lady at that point was a partner with the president of the united states. that she was there, sharing her thoughts and ideas with the president an

i'm going to introduce you to a woman that was the most powerful than eleanor roosevelt in washington during this period. she had known her she knew franklin roosevelt when he first ran for vice president and have been with him through his polio recovery and when he was governor of new york and arrived in washington, d.c. in march of 33 she was technically the secretary that was almost a de facto chief of staff. if you wanted to see the president, you had to see missy this is a very sexist time in washington and it was difficult for women to be acknowledged in the role the roles they played. eleanor was breaking bounds by her exercise of her role as the first lady and what it meant to be a first lady and missy redefined what it meant to be the president's assistant. so please come a warm welcome. [applause] >> thank you for that warm greeting. you may know that the president has on his way up for vacation and i will be joining him there with some of the other staff in the white house family. it's the first time he's been there since he was stricken with polio in 1920. it ended yesterd

i think eleanor roosevelt had an extraordinary influence. cy and in her way, and what she espoused and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there was another one i don't know i will get to, about the firebrand and the first lady. so, it is a big undertaking. i am excited to be able to do it and to learn from a great role model. announcer: book tv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter at book tv or instagram at book underscore tv. or posted to our facebook page, facebook/tv. -- book tv. next, a conversation about iran's nuclear program and the influence in iraq, syria and yemen. the expandingted influence in the region. the heritage foundation hosted the forum. >> good afternoon, welcome to >> welcome to the heritage foundation. guests in-house, we would ask that courtesy check that. off as we prepared to begin. for those watching online, you're welcome to spend -

eleanor? >> mrs. roosevelt? >> nand fact i told that story here one night and one of the grandchildren stood up and told -- >> yes. i remember. >> we are always thrill today have you. you're a great audience. i want to give a special thanks to leslie. i don't know how many years we have been doing women in the white house panel. she shows up every time and she does many other programs with us. keep your eye out for leslie. she is always coming back. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] >>> and just another announcement for another program. i think louis was talking about the program in may. we also have one coming sunday, march 19th to be interviewed and his to y'all david ruben stein. come to that as well. come back for more. thank you all so much. [ applause ] >>> the u.n. warned of a possible humanitarian crisis of the congo. they have asked for elections by the rest of the year. this morning the human rights commission will host a discussion on the political and human rights situatio

i think eleanor roosevelt is extraordinary influence. in her way, in what she espoused , and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there's also another one and i don't know that i'll get to it. it's about the firebrand and the first lady. so, as i say, it's a big undertaking, but i'm excited to be able to do it and to learn from a great role model. >> book tv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter apple tv, or instagram at book, -underscore tv, or posted to her facebook page, facebook.com/book tv. put tv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> from this morning's "washington journal", a segment on the national flood insurance program. >> joining us from south carolina, robert herwig. he is a codirector of the centet for risk and uncertainty management and previously the president and economist of the insurance information organization of new york spee2 thank you. glad to be here. >> we are tiny about the national flood insurance progra could you remind our viewers what the

>> and she later reports somewhat guiltily that she gets papers that were supposed to go to eleanor roosevelt and went to the daughter anna and she said, i took them because i wanted that moment. eleanor is quite upset with her, but not as upset with her as when franklin roosevelt is stricken and dies down in georgia and it turns out that he's in the presence of his former lover, lucy mercer rutherford, and anna knew about it and facilitated it. >> right. >> ouch. >> ouch. >> and she said, lucy listened to my father. eleanor didn't. >> so much for happy marriages. >> well, yes, after he had betrayed her when she -- >> well, yeah. >> a small point. >> i wouldn't listen to him either. >> small point about that, after you've given somebody five kids, but never mind. that's another story. >> here is a little factoid off to the side over here. when anna moved into the white house when she got divorced, she brought her little kids. so there were these two little grandchildren, adorable, fabulous looking, beautiful children who lived with fdr. he would have his staff meeting every morning in his bed

i think eleanor roosevelt was an extraordinary influence on public policy and what she espoused and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there's also another one that i would get to it but it's about the firebrand in the first lady. as i said, it's a big undertaking and i'm excited to be able to do it and to learn from a great role model. >> book tv wants to know what you're reading. send us your summer reading list be a twitter or instagram or posted to our facebook page. book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> now, on c-span, a review of the 2018 f

i think eleanor roosevelt is an onraordinary influence in her way and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. it is also another one, i would get to it. it is about the firebrands and the first lady. excited to be able to do it and to learn from a great role model. to know whatnts you are reading. send us your summer reading list twitter @booktv or facebook.com/booktv. television for serious leaders. >> the wisconsin congressman and to illinois congresswoman par and discussion for the best strategies for progressives for lobbying congress and building grassroots leadership. >> good morning, everyone. great to see you. at 9:00faces so early a.m. we appreciate you coming out and we will endeavor to do our part on the panel to make it worth your while. our goal for this panel is to provide best practices for our lobbying congress. we have three amazing organizers here to lead excellent organizations who focus on congress and two champions in the congressional caucus who committed their careers to inside-outside organizing and are the best people to tell you what works, wh

david: this is a letter from eleanor roosevelt, 1955, wishing president truman birthday wishes.ave quite a bit of correspondence between president truman and eleanor roosevelt, some of which is on our website. this is a book, we are not sure how this came into president truman's possession but it is a copy of mein kampf. from 1926, it is apparently signed by adolf hitler. so. that is one of the prized possessions here at the library. who can name the person in the photo? >> stalin. david: yes. potsis that potts dam -- dam. this is 1945. sorry, ok, thank you. here is another photo, anybody want to guess who is on the left? >> churchill. david: thank you. this is july 23, 1945. this is a dinner program, from potsdam. president truman was a very prolific letter writer. he would write to relatives and other people. he got the sign and he stuck it in an envelope and mailed it to margaret. if you look closely at it you could see on the slide on the left, there are three signatures josephby harry truman, stalin, and winston churchill. there are a lot of signatures on the right as well.

a state, presidential library next door and the final resting places of fdr and first lady, eleanor roosevelt. we visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, grandson of president and mrs. roosevelt to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. >> it really was not until my grandmother's funeral that i realized that it really hit me l that she was really a special person. and something of a celebrity and see the president, to ex- presidents, one futurend other president, and all sorts of ambassadors another diplomatic people there, very important people.e my gosh that it really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important.l >> we never thought of her in that way. we never viewed my grandmother, she was only a grandmother to us. and that's all she ever wantedot to be to us. i was born in january 3, 1942. f my father was elliott and elliott was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldest of the children. so my dad fell right in the middle. i think he always felt that he was the middle child. but, but my uncles used to cla

because i know that you think, she, eleanor roosevelt, broke the mold, right? we all know she broke the mold. let me give you another example of her just to confirm, there she is. she broke the mold, yes, but who made the cracks in the mold, i ask you? who did it? well, the subject of our talk tonight florence harding. so florence harding i will suggest, created a model for other first ladies -- sorry, i'll get used to this for first ladies to carve out culture in a way that eleanor and others really were others wouldn't, and it was path breaking and something others would follow. she helped pave the way for the activism that we have seen growing over the last century since she was empowering and it is almost a century, if you think about it. so she was well recognized for her boldness in the nation's affairs. she was, of course, the first first lady to vote for her husband. i don't have to do that. i forgot. i have this nice little gadget. i have a picture for voting -- actually, i don't want. i have a picture of what she thought people were voting and she cam

i think that eleanor roosevelt was an extraordinary influence on public policy and in her way of whatshe espoused in the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there's also another one but i don't know i'll get to it about the firebrand in the first lady. as i say, it's a big undertaking and 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 or instagram or posted to our facebook page.

if you look up kemp alderson, you will find eleanor roosevelt associated. it was actually constructed during the time of the coolidge administration in 1927. but the ideas for it came from fl florence and people around her. she was also as i mentioned very interesting in animal rights. and she had laddie bithere who kept her company as well. but i want to go on and talk a little bit about the some of the difficulties that florence had to face. and i have mentioned about her illness, but i don't know if you know this woman, who i don't know if she's treating those animals well, but i hope she is. this is carry philips. she and her husband jim were very close to the hardings. they would vacation together even after the affair started. between carrie and warren, jim was also sickly, the husband of carrie. so what do you think happened? oh, yes, so carrie and warren became very attached. and this is a really interesting story because the full revelations of their letters did not appear until 2014. i mean this is repeat, right? why was this? because when they we

i think that eleanor roosevelt is an extraordinary influence on public policy and what we, you know, her way and what she espoused and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. it's also another one, i don't know that i will get to it, it's about a firebrand and the first lady, so as i say a big undertaking and 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, or posted to our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> we have this for you from the new orleans times picayune with one of us use pictures on the website as tropical storm harvey made a second landfall just west of cameron louisiana early this morning. the national hurricane center said the storm came back on land almost two and miles east of houston with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles an hour harvey is forecasted to drop substantial amounts of rain on louisiana before moving on to arkansas, tennessee and parts of missouri pi

ended to say this isn't the description of his other roosevelt as a man of great deceit and eleanor roosevelt said one of his guests as a politician is the ability to be cold and calculating when he thought it would get the vintage. -- a vintage so guide knows how many other people careers were ended so yes lincoln was not like roosevelt but could make very tough decisions about the compassionate lincoln but we forget to be very cold and calculated if he thought that would get to where he was going so maybe he could have made a good president. >> but to continue a bit they did have a good cop bad cop the good cop and cannot completely escape the bad cop is doing and i spent a lot of time with those civil liberties general levels but though whole civil war there but bin jefferson davis when he returns in 1862 gives a speech and says that they are incapable of self governance without the most basic civil liberties and '03 men to jail is although jefferson davis does not mention stanton by name is lincoln that he has in mind that old thing clinton could completely say i had no idea he knew exact

a time after i graduated from public service university -- university in chicago started by eleanor roosevelt and carries that tradition of public service, i majored in history and political science and i was thinking, okay, what now, but i needed employment. and unfortunately a lot of the people who might have thought about employing me said, you don't have any experience, all you've done is goo to school. yes, there's some recent grads here that are saying that. what have you done, interned and everything. so -- but because i loved books and libraries and things, between job interviews i would go to the central library at the chicago public library. i'm sitting there waiting on the next interview thinking on how to explain not having work experience and a gentleman came up and said, hey, are you here for the library jobs, they are hiring anybody. [laughter] >> anybody with an undergraduate degree. i thought, oh, wow, hey, i'm here. i like it, i went upstairs. just to let you know he didn't get a job, i did. years later -- he made out all right. and then i got in and i was assign today a sma

is ank eleanor roosevelt extraordinary influence on our public policy. in her way, and what she espoused, and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there's another one, i don't know that i will get to it, it's about the firebrand and the first lady. it is a big undertaking and i'm excited to be able to do it and learn from a great role model. next book tv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading was the atwitter at book tv or book underscore tv or post it to our facebook page. book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. today, afl-cio president richard trumka spoke about the future of the labor movement and its relations with the trump administration. he looked at how his group feels about nafta renegotiations, the future of wage growth and the reasons he left

earlier this year, news4 broke the news that milestone pulled its proposal for a tower at eleanor roosevelt high school after months of backlash from parents there. >>> here's an update to a story we brought you last week. today the scorched souls motorcycle club, a group made up of d.c. firefighters, will hold a fund raisers for dane smothers jr., who was injured a week ago whilst hit by a ladder truck. the tune inn will provide breakfast and lunch specials with all proceeds going to help dane. news4 will be live there in our 6:00 kept us busy over the years, keeping up with a big project that is just about to start happening. >> construction starting today, to add new toll lanes on the i-395 corridor in virginia. no matter where you live and drive, you probably have an opinion about the coming tolls. amy cho is live in pentagon city now with more on how it will impact your commute. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this construction is expected to last over a year. you should be seeing delays for quite some time. if you look behind me, you can see the two hov lanes in the middle of

something eleanor roosevelt could not even get fdr to talk about. i will answer questions. e truman more than roosevelt. i would not set out loud, but there i have said about love. -- but there. i have said it. brian: what is realclearpolitics.com? carl: it was started by two guys who went to princeton at the same time. after college, they were political junkies, they were doing different jobs. one was a day trader, one was in politics. but politics was their passion. they saw a need where you can get a one-stop jump of politics whether you are a conservative or liberal or libertarian. it turned out not only was our business model about to be blown up because of the internet. these two guys who knew nothing about the news business, that was a time when it was the right amount to know. we who had grown up around it had negative knowledge. do things we thought were true or not true. and they started this company. it is a free website. anyone can go to it. we started it as an aggregation. we have 17 stories on our front page every day. it is left, right, center. it is unpredict

historian blanche wiesencook on her book, "eleanor roosevelt." discusses the craft of writing in "do i make myself clear." book tv all this week in prime time on c-span 2. >>> sunday night on "after words." talk raid wrote host mark levin on the expansion of the federal government and what the country must do to move back to what the founders intended in his book "rediscovering americanism." he is interviewed by former south carolina senator jim de mint. >> have we reached the point where we can't get back? have we overwhelmed in the culture, in politics, in the media with this progressivism notion, centralized government, a phoney egalitarianism, of the smothering of individualism? has it become so entrenched in our institution that there's no way to rip it out? i say yes. we have to do everything we can to confront it, to debate it, to explain to our fellow citizens what's taking place. we simply have no choice. >> watch "after words" sunday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >>> when you think about a one day festival, the national b

freshman, "time" magazine made the person of the year and he was asked this is like 12 years after eleanor roosevelt asked to see the stuff at the lincoln memorial and so this is like a decade after and they are both the most despised and most religious of any people on earth. in 1969, the head of the urban league and daniel patrick moynihan organized a tour of urban america for white journalists and visited 6 pounds and buckley had some community organizers and radicals for the first time and writes he sees a little but of himself except for the background. they are sassy and cynical about what bureaucracies can do and the. he says "-end-quotes chamber and this is interesting it is stuck in the back of his head for 35 years or so and he's writing this column. i got out the magazine and the column but it was in his memory and by now life is a lot different. they got keen% of the vote that would elect people to office. we ask people to come down to the microphone to add to the discussion. buckley aimed to be an insider yet he knew he would always be something of an outsider and wouldn't be completely

there are the three books about eleanor roosevelt written by blanche wisencook. .. >> book tv or post to our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. [silence] good afternoon. i like to welcome all of you who have joined us at frc also watch via c-span and online lecture is abandoned truth. my maim is ian steens i'm an

was dearomething that to franklin and eleanor roosevelt, but has fallen into complete oblivion since then. i think it is a complete game changer that needs to be put at the front of our agenda. secondly, our measures for employee empowerment. this has two sides to it. givee one hand, we have to employees a fair share of management, in business, by boards ofthat all directors of private and public corporations have 50 -- 15% of their seats filled by employees picked by their peers and we also have to mandate something that is not being achieved nlrbgh the efforts of the or the efforts of unions themselves. we have to make it a matter of law that any corporation employing freelancers are part-time or full-time workers have mandatory collective bargaining. >> ok, thank you very much. we appreciated. let us open that to the panel. anyone wants to address that? >> i am a big fan of -- >> please speak read into the microphone. >> thank you, i am a big fan of eight jobs guaranteed. we did not really get into specific policies, but i would imagine that many of my colleagues on the panel woul

that certainlyng was geared toward franklin and eleanor roosevelt. it has fallen into complete oblivion since then. i think it is a complete game changer to put at the front of our agenda. our measures for employee empowerment and this has two sides to it -- on the one hand, we have to give employees a fair share of management in business by mandating that all boards of directors of private and public corporations have a 50% of their seats filled bite nonmanagerial employees who are elected by their peers. and on the other hand, we have something by law, that is not being achieved thelrb the efforts n of or the efforts of union themselves. we have to make it a matter of law that every corporation and play multiple employees, full-time and part-time and freelancers. they need mandatory collective bargaining. >> let's open that up to the panel, thank you very much. anyone want to address -- >> i'm a big fan of a job guarantee. >> speak right into the microphone for all the panelists. >> thank you, i'm a big fan of a job guarantee. we did not get into s

eleanor -- thelt, written by early years, middle years, prewar and post war years. that will be my project for the summer. i will try to read all three of these volumes. roosevelt an extraordinary influence on public policy. way, the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there is another one about the firebrand and the first lady. it is a big undertaking. itm excited to be able to do and to learn from a great role model. announcer: send us your summer reading list on twitter at book tv. or posted to our facebook page. book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. announcer: