so, one looks at eleanor roosevelt fbi files. john edgar hoover hated eleanor roosevelt. and her fbi files that we got in the freedom of information act are unbeatable. he hates her personally and calls her that old cow. the old cow is at it again and she has friends that are communists. every integrationist, every civil rights leader, all of the great southern integrationists were attacked by john e-echo hoover and called communist. who else would be for integration except a communist and of course the november. virginia? i mean, please. >> so you are hopeful. >> i'm hopeful, but who promoted this man to be the fbi had? i mean, he was george bush's appointment. what is he doing here and why is he doing it and why isn't he being removed instead of her being hounded from it is aggravating in my opinion. [applause] a question from upstairs about eleanor roosevelt. we are bringing you a microphone. thank you. 54 years ago what i hope hillary will do to try and, i was the runner-up iran against her in 1961 because my brother said she has nobody running against her and that is

so, enhenrietta nesbit had an exchange between eleanor roosevelt and the doctor he was a navy vice admiral. and what mcintyre said to mrs. roosevelt is call on me if you need help. he said at the start of the president's tizzies. that what's eleanor would call it when the president got upset. advertiseys. he cooperated on the menu and tried to get the president's appetite back to normal. sent to new york for specialists be brought in doctors from the navy hospital and a dietician arrived in uniform. the president ate everything he was supposed to eat but a it was ordered by in the navy. the orders were cut out all fried foods. one direct disfrom the doctor. typically the president get haze they want to get and they african-american staff is caught in the middle and they often have to help the president out. love this exchange with dealing with lizzy mcduffy and daisy bonner. lizzy ways wove 0oj mcduffy, prosecute relevant's valet, and so she eventually comes to the white house and works as a maid. some would ouch accompany roosevelt on long trims but interesting thing about lizzy mcduffy i

he did occasionally use eleanor roosevelt as his go-between and there was -- go-between. there was a time after the war where eleanor went more vocal and set out on her own political and pains and careers. she wrote a newspaper column ", in which she was openly critical on positions taken by herbert hoover. he did not take kindly to those remarks. there was more friction after franken was about passed away than there was before the time. i don't know about the time before eleanor and herbert hoover. there was an effort on the roosevelt's part in the years after world war i and in the 1920's to have them curry favor with the hoover's. i think they saw the hoover's were an up-and-coming power couple and they wanted to hitch their wagon to that success. frequent roosevelt was president -- franklin roosevelt was president of a construction company, residential housing trade group. working with the secretary of commerce would be a feather in his cap. there was every reason for them to make friends and that breaks down as franklin roosevelt becomes governor and hoover becomes re

i wanted to talk today about the clash between franklin and eleanor roosevelt on the subject of japanese americans. president franklin roosevelt and first lady roosevelt clashed strongly about their view of the internment of japanese americans. the president signed executive order 9066, which authorized the removal of over 110,000 japanese americans from the west coast on the basis of their ancestry and sanctioned their imprisonment in government camps, or as the president himself referred to them as publicly concentration , camps. mind you, he meant concentration camps in the old sense of where people were concentrated together, not in the sense of nazi death camps. and when we talk about this affair, commonly called japanese-american internment, internment technically refers to the confinement of enemy aliens. this was the case of a government confining its own people. so "internment" is slightly inaccurate. but because there is no other word for this treatment, we use it as kind of a placeholder. in the same time, the president allowed japanese americans to be stripped of their proper

roosevelt and first lady eleanor executive order 9066. author ofon is the "by order of the president: fdr and the internment of japanese americans". the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum hosted the event, it is about an hour. mr. robinson: good afternoon. welcome to the fdr library. i am the director here, it is nice to see everyone out here this afternoon. we want to thank you on behalf of all of our supporters and we want to thank you for your support. support of our members, trustees and the national archives records administration. also, an organization like amenities new york for their grant that is allowing this to make possible -- this to be possible today. this library is not just a place to hold and display the materials he generated and collected, also -- but also a place to study and learn about the administration and about the times in which he was working. appreciated the advanced economic capacities of the ultimate war which helped define his administration and presidency. we take the charge very seriously

i wanted to talk today about the clash between franklin and eleanor roosevelt on the subject of japanese americans. president reagan roosevelt and first lady roosevelt -- president franklin roosevelt and first lady roosevelt clashed about this. the president signed executive order 9066 which authorized the removal of over 110,000 japanese americans from the west coast on the basis of their ethnicity. the president referred to the intern camps as concentration camps. he referred to them this way meaning that this is where people were concentrated. not like the nazi concentration camps. this was the case of a government confining it on people. we understand that technically -- internment is slightly inaccurate. because there is no other word for this, we use it as a placeholder. at the same time, the president allowed japanese americans to be stripped of their property and to be confined without charge. we will talk about what happened in a minute. his wife was a human rights activist who considered arbitrary confinement un-american. forced to remain publicly silent on this by her position

at a history major from the university of miami had a paragraph or two of eleanor roosevelt in ordinary stories were lost and i believe they are part of our western history. in fact, historians realize we didn't have the native american story, didn't have the japanese truth. we were missing our stories and one of the part as american women do i live extraordinary lives. she was born in oslo. her father died when she was two. her mother remarried a few years later and her stepfather emigrated with her when she was allowed into america. they settled to begin with and then gets pregnant at 15 and we don't have the background i'm not. they then moved out in homestead is there and they had an arranged marriage with the norwegians with her husband do not swear she was for many years before they came to spokane. what happened was helga and ollie, he was a trained carpenter and moved up to spokane, washington after they were in minnesota and it was a rough time in minnesota that they were able to build a house, have a farm and sell it to come last to know at the time of a lot of encouragement,

a reporter asked eleanor roosevelt in the spring of 1946. she quickly responded -- a kind and understanding heart. and perhaps this was the quality that herbert hoover and harry truman had throughout their friendship which began in this spring of 1945, a little over 72 years ago. hoover and truman were, on paper and on surface, very different men. hoover was a republican. he was the depression era president. he was an engineer. and he was also a humanitarian. truman was a democrat. he was the post-world war ii president. he was a politician. and he also had been a captain in the first world war. but as the joint project of the truman and hoover library so eloquently states, it is easy to overlook the fact that they both have roots in farming communities. him communities. they had known economic hardship and self-reliance. there were transformed by the conflagration of world war i. and they lived in the shadow of franklin d. roosevelt. but i also add that both men were quite similar in their hearts. both were ethical men in their respective r

roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. this led to the forced relocation of japanese americans to internment camps during world war ii. here's a preview. >> has far as the president's background and personality, it is more subtle. it is hard to say what influence the habit we can say that fdr had a past history of sherry popular prejudiced. years before he was elected president, britain was about having a set of arguments that he was proof. he publicly insisted that japanese were not able to be a simulated into american society. i'm quoting him. i will give you my best fdr. this is from his article in asia magazine. >> so far, as americans are concerned, as a whole, they honestly believe that the mingling of white with oriental blood is harmful to our future. while it is not clear how much he continued this through the. of the war, he was in correspondence with the chief anthropologist at the smithsonian institution about japanese skulls. he agreed that the reason that japanese people were biologically so aggressive and ev

robinson discusses the comput between frank and he was about and -- frank teddy roosevelt and eleanor rooseveltut the forced relocation of japanese-americans to internment camp during world war ii. here's a preview. but as far as the president's background and personality, that is a more subtle and compelling factor. it is hard to say what influence they had, but we certainly can say that fdr had a past history of sharing popular president -- popular prejudice against japanese americans. in the mid, years before he was elected president, france and roosevelt had written a series of articles about the united states and japan, but he publicly insisted that japanese inter-americanle society and justify discriminatory laws on the west coast that prevented japanese immigrants from buying property or marrying whites or becoming citizens on the ground that this protected the racial purity of white americans against intermarriage. i am quoting him. i'll try to give you my best fdr . this is from 1923. "so far as americans are concerned, it must be admitted that as a whole come up they honestly believe

he and my mom met at yale, they went and worked for eleanor roosevelt in the depths of the depressioney were trying to help coal miners get back on their feet. my dad fell in love with the traditional music day would play, particularly the fiddle. we did not have a television. what did you do after dinner? my dad would read charles dickens out loud or we would play. if you wanted to be in the family, you better learn to play something. david: did famous musicians come to your house? dr. collins: people would drop by. the best-known was a sullen 18-year-old who showed up, brought along by a more senior, experienced folk songwriter and singer. the young 18-year-old turned out was having his birthday in our living room. he sang a few songs and had a terrible voice and no social skills and i was quite sure he had no future at all. that turned out to be bob dylan. david: did you ever meet him again? dr. collins: i did. david: did he remember you? dr. collins: no. he denies the whole thing. it was quite a bit later, maybe 10 years. david: you went to the college of university of virginia wh

eleanor roosevelt hammering the first lady. run o country the last year of roosevelt's presidency. she was actually the first woman president there was. i don't get our country any longer. host: do you think that the first lady should be off limits? for criticism and things like that? caller: yeah. well, she's doing the best she can do. and i like her very well. i don't know what everybody thinks. but she seems to be very nice. nd i don't know why people are hammering her. host: brett from searchlight, nevada. front page of the "wall street journal" its lead story to the federal reserve saying it made deet significance to unwind stimulus buying they took back earlier during the financial crisis. nick writes that the unanimous decision to reduce the holdings of bonds purchased after the crisis, a program that lowered borrowing costs for homeowners, business, and consumers, to stimulate the economy and financial markets have been signaled for months. the bigger question this week, how the fed would frame the bait debate over raising rates in december and beyond. while official's late

a man of great deceit, and eleanor roosevelt who knows a little about deceit said he understood they had the ability for the capacity.. his wife said that. so you can imagine what the residents said and god knows how many other people. he was trustworthy but also to make a tough decision when we think about the compassionate one can always going around the forget it can liquidate and that is how we remember the pardonsns that he was capable in the calculation. calculation. >> just to continue a bit with what albert was saying, if lincoln and a stanton had a good cop and bad cop routine. if they both know what is going on, the good cop can't completely escape the. it's how they throw many people into prison and generally they don't spend the whole civil war there but they spent several months in prison, and indeed jefferson davis when he returns to jackson. although jefferson doesn't mention stanton. he knew exactly what stanton was doing on the civil liberties front and in his dealings with political opponents of theth administration. i am just wondering if you all want to talk about

after i graduated from a public service university in chicago, i started, it was started by eleanor roosevelt. she still carries that tradition of public service. i majored in history and political science and i was thinking okay, what now but i needed employment. fortunately, a lot of people who might have thought about employing me said you don't have any experience. all you've done is go to school. yes, there are some recent grads here that are saying that. what have you done? so, because i loved books and libraries and things, between job interviews i would go to the central library at the chicago public library. sitting there waiting on the next interview trying to think of some way to explain not having work experience, and a gentleman came up and said carla, he had just graduated with me, are you here for the library job. they are hiring anybody. >> anybody with an undergraduate degree. i thought oh, wow. i'm here, i like it, i went up there and just to let you know, he didn't get a job, i did. years later, he made out all right. he has a company now. he's doing all right. and then i g

roosevelt and first lady eleanor roosevelt over executive order 9066. fdr signed to the document, which led to the forced relocation of japanese-americans to internment camps. mr. robinson is the author of "by order of the president: fdr and the internment of japanese americans." the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum hosted this event. it is about an hour. mr. robinson: good afternoon. -- >> good afternoon. welcome to the fdr library.

the idea of eleanor roosevelt era, sometimes the united nations would lead us to one world government and set the standards for everything in the world, that has never come to pass. for one big reason. countries like the united states and our western allies and allies in the pacific, the things that we want, countries like russia and china do not. the things they want, we do not want. agreement and consistence is hard to find here the reason why u.n. is dysfunctional, why can't they do anything with north korea, because russia and china does not want to deal with north korea. >> harris: they are not at the table today, and angela merkel not at the table. talk about the absences, that speaks volumes, i would imagine, what you said about china and russia. december 26, 2016, the president tweeted this. the united nations have such great potential, but right now, it is a call for people to get around, talk, and have a good time. sad. how can you change it? >> he will drain the swamp message to turtle baked. he will drain that swamp while he drained the swamp in washington. the reality is

even eleanor roosevelt, her idol talks about how we shape our own lives, and ultimately we're responsible before we die for our decisions and our fate, and yet every turn, whether it's going back to, you know, 1998 and monica lewinsky all the way up to the clinton scandals, it's never, ever, ever the clintons' fault, and i think that refusal to take really pretty much any personal responsibility of any note is part of the reason why trump won because people are just kind of sick of that type of politics. trump is not a -- someone who's going to apologize a lot, but he did expose the clintons for what they do and who they are, and i think that second debate, sean, remember the second debate where he stood next to her and he had all those women who -- >> sean: it was creepy. he was within ten feet of her. >> and all the women who bill clinton had abused, brodrick and paula jones and all the rest, and he said you're talking about locker room that i regret and i'm sorry for. yeah, that's bad, but what about what happened to these women? and he called out the clintons for what most republicans

one of the of great quotes that i have loved for years is eleanor roosevelt anybody who enters the publico read and she needs to growfo skin the effect as rhinoceroses because you will be judged by everything from your hair to your voice to whether you're married or not or have children or don't.dren it is a constant gotcha i gave you have to be clear what you're going into politics and what you hope to achieve in so to pull back a curtain back so is want people to be more aware so you can call that out for what is. there was a fascinating article about women and sports in the grief they take because of their voice and somebody who has been called everything when it comes to everything but in particular about voice, there really struck home with me. and to get through that with a good supporters friends and families and those who can tell you the truth like telling it is a terrible idea to write this book because a friend tells you with things are good or not. but it is important i have started in organizationn called on word it together so the primary purpose is to support the groups tha

no one expected her to be eleanor roosevelt, but it would be nice to see her pick a particular interest the way that nancy reagan did with say no to drugs or the way lady bird johnson did with america beautification. take a hold of one of our many american dilemmas and try to become the leadership person in that. i-8 -- i'm sure she is raising baron and trying to figure out what she wants to put her energy into right now. published by doug brinkley earlier this year. john: -- doug: it came out for john f. kennedy's 100th birthday. he was killed in his prime. i think there is a kennedy research going on right now because people are looking at the success of the moonshot, saying we are going to put a man on the moon in 1961. we went to a joint session of congress and said we were going to do it, got bipartisan support, raised the money, had a success with alan shepard and john glenn. now people are looking at the advantages that we got out of the space program and telecommunications on loan, not only 10 mention the science of leaving the shackles of planet earth. new look.g to get a >> go

nobody expected her to be eleanor roosevelt, but it would be nice to see her pick a particular interest the way nancy reagan did with "say no to drugs," or lady bird johnson with america beautification. take a hold may be of one aspect of american dilemmas and try to become the leadership person and that. baronre she is raising and trying to figure out which one she wants to put her energies into now. host: speaking of the kennedy's, a book you wrote was published earlier this year, may when it came out? guest: that is right, it came out for john f. kennedy's 100th birthday. we get older but john f. kennedy is still that handsome, gallant president, who was killed in his prime. i think there is a kennedy resurgence going on now because people are looking at this shot, saying we will put a man to the moon, may 25, 1961, and it went to a joint congress session and said we would do it, raise the money, and it had the success and i think now people are looking at the advantages we got out of the space program and in telecommunications alone, and not to mention the science of leaving the pla

presidency," author greg robinson discuss the conflict president franklin d roosevelt and first lady eleanor rooseveltr executive order 9066, which led to japanese internment camps during world war ii. here is a preview. >> as far as the president's background and personality, that is a more subtle but more compelling factor. it is hard to say what influence they have, but we certainly can of fdr had a past history sharing popular prejudice japanese-americans. as i talk about in my book, in the mid-1920's, years before he was elected president, franklin roosevelt written a set of articles on diplomatic relations between the united states and japan, which he wanted to improve, but he publicly incentives that japanese for honest and local -- un assimilating into united states culture, and becoming citizens on the ground protected the racial security of white americans against intermarriag. i am quoting him. i will do my best fdr. this is from this article in 1923. "so far as americans are concerned, it must be admitted and as a whole we believe that the minion of white with oriental blood on an extensiv

one of the great quotes that i have love for use as eleanor roosevelt same for any woman who enters the public arena she needs to gross skin as thick as the height of rhinoceros because you will be judged everything from your hair to your voice to whether you are married or not married whether you have children who don't have children so it's a constant gain. you have to be clear about why you're going in and what you hope to achieve through your efforts. i say in the book by pulling the curtain back in talking how hard it is i don't want to discourage anybody, i want people to be more aware of it. so we can call it out for what it is. this is common across every walk of life. there's a fascinating article in the times sports section about women in sports and the brie grief they take because of their voice. somebody was uncalled everything i'm thinking particularly about voice, it really struck home with me, you just have to be prepared, you have to have a sense of humor to get through some of what you will face, if you're prepared and educate yourself if you're surrounded by good suppo

ie of the great quotes that have loved for years is eleanor roosevelt saying for any woman who wants to enter the public arena she should grow the skin as thick as a rhinoceros. you will be judged from everything to your hair, your voice, whether you are married or not married. whether you have children or do not have children. it is a constant gotcha game. you have to be clear about why you are going politics and what you hope to achieve through your efforts. i say in the book, by pulling the curtain back and talking about how hard it is, i do not want to discourage anybody. i want people to be more aware. so we can call it out for what it is. this is common across every walk of life. there is a fascinating article in the new york times sports section about women in sports and the grief they take because of their voice. as someone who has been called everything when it comes to everything -- i'm speaking particularly about voice. it really struck home with me. you have to be prepared, you have to at least have a physics humor to get through some of what you are going to face but if

russell friedman wrote good biographies as well of eleanor roosevelt, franklin roosevelt. and kids on strike also very good resources. there's fiction. lots of fiction. okay? for young people. fire at the triangle factory. liddie is about a spinner in one of the mills in vermont. dreamland by kevin baker and other -- alice hoffman just wrote one that mentioned the triangle fire. and then this one happens to be out of print, but it's really fabulous. we shall not be moved about the 1909 strike. you can find it but it's out of print. and marching to a different drummer. this one is portraits, you know, school biographies, short biographies. you can use a lot of these things. this might be the play that they put on. the triangle factory fire project in houston. right? so you can get these materials. and we list our resources for teaching about the unions, labor history, and triangle fire on our website. and that's why i gave you brochures because it has the website listed. it's remember the triangle fire.org. thank you. [ applause ] >> i'm going to stay seated. would you mind

one of the great quotes that i've led four years is eleanor roosevelt sink for anyone who enters the public arena she needs to grow get as thick as the height of rhinoceros. because you will be judged by everything from your hair to your voice, to whether you are married or not married to whether you have or don't have children. so it's a constant gotcha game. and you have to be clear about why you're going into politics and what you hope to achieve through your efforts. i say in the book, by pulling the curtain back and talking about how hard it is, i don't want to discourage anybody. i want people to be more aware of it so we can call it out for what it is. but this is common across every walk of life, and there is a fascinating article the "new york times" sports section today about women in sports and the grief they take because of their voice. and as somebody who has been called everything when it comes to, well, everything but a thinking particularly about voice, it really struck home with me. you just have to be prepared. you have to have at least a sense of humor to get throu

you know, one of the great quotes that i have loved for years is eleanor roosevelt saying for any woman enters the public arena, she needs to grow skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros because you wile be judged by everything from, you know, your hair to your voice to whether you are married or not married, whether you have children or don't have childreno so it's a constant gotcha game, and you have to be clear about why you're going into politics and what you hope to achieve through your efforts. but i, i say in the book, you know, by pulling the curtain back and talking about how hard it is, i don't want to discourage anybody. i want people to be more aware of it. so we can call it out for what it is. you know, but this is common across every walk of life -- [applause] and there's a, there's a fascinating article in "the new york times" sports section today about women in sports and the grief they take because of their voice. >> yeah. >> and as somebody who has beenf called everything when it comes to, well, everything -- [laughter] but i was thinking particularly about voice, it

but it's clear she sees, once again, eleanor roosevelt as her modem.ch is something that goes back to her days as first lady, eleanor roosevelt continued to speak out even after fdr died and she declined to run for office. >> was there sing e anything she shed she should have done differently? >> yes, not having a private e-mail server. sheing a only ins that was pretty much a mistake. >> that it was, usa today susan page, thank you so much. we gaitly appreciate it. still ahead this morning, we got the "washington post" john costas, he will join us with his latest recording. >>> we will speak about the city's mayor talking about flooding from irma. we are back if just a moment. >>> have you ever seen anything like this? >> no. not this bad. i've been through some hurricanes. i was born and raised in florida, but this is i have never seen the river like this. it was cresting through here like we were out in the ocean. >> i did not expect to see this at all. okay, flooding. okay. no big deal, but these were waves. i was like is this the ocean or a river?

this is something that certainly was dear to franklin and eleanor roosevelt. and yet has fallen to complete oblivion since then. i think it is a complete game changer that needs to be put at the front of our agenda. >> and the -- >> secondly, secondly, our measures for employee empowerment. 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 50% of their seats filled by nonmanagerial employees who are elected by their peers. on the other hand, we have to mandate by law something that is not being achieved through the efforts of the nlrb or efforts of unions themselves. we have to make it a matter of law. >> great. >> that every corporation has mandatory collective bargaining. >> okay. so let's open that up to the panel if we can. thank you very much, appreciate it. anyone want to address -- >> i'm a big fan of a jobs guarantee. and i think -- >> can't hear you. >> speak right into the mic for all the panelists. >> pull the

roosevelt and first lady eleanor executive order 9066.

something i take of great volume there are the three books about eleanor roosevelt in the early years in th and the middle yeard then about the prewar and postwar that is going to be my project for the summer to try to read all three of these volumes. i think that eleanor had an extraordinary influence on the public policy and her way in what she espoused and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there's also another one i don't know that i did get to it but it's about the firebrand and first lady and so forth. so it is a big undertaking and i am excited to be able to do it and learn from a great role model. the third volume came out here is the historian blanche. and [inaudible conversations] there were lots of events going on but i absolutely could not not to be here because we were