. >> let's talk about eleanor roosevelt. that to me is news. talk about your interest in human rights. given both your background in the segregated south and your international experience in the navy and it into your public career. >> i grew up in a little village which had about 50 families, farm families. my family was the only one that was white, all the rest were african-american and i grew up completely immersed in an african-american culture and i can see as a little child that there is a great distinction between white and black. my mother was a registered nurse and she never paid any attention to racial distinctions. she treated everyone was the same. she was part of the medical establishment. i grew up in that environment and later became chairman of the board of education and i demanded that the other board members go with me to visit the schools and to see what was going on there. we found that the black kids were going to school as close to where they lived because they didn't have school buses. white kids have school buses and blac

meacham: having made news -- [laughter] let's talk about eleanor roosevelt.ughter] which, to me, is news. talk about your interest in human rights. given both your background in the segregated south and your international experience in the navy, heading into your public career. mr. carter: i grew up in a little village in georgia, which had about 50 families. farm families. my family was the only one that was white. all the rest of them were african-american. i grew up completely immersed in african-american culture, black culture. i can say as a little child -- i could see that there was a great differentiation between white and black. my mother was a registered nurse and never paid any attention to racial distinctions. she treated everyone the same. she was part of the medical establishment in plains, so she was impervious to condemnation or criticism. i grew up in that environment and later i became chairman of the board of education in our county. i demanded that the other board members go with me to visit all the schools. we found that the black kids wer

meacham: having made news -- [laughter] let's talk about eleanor roosevelt.er] which to me is news. talk about your interest in human rights, given both your background in the segregated south and your international experience in the navy, heading into your public career. president carter: i grew up in a little village in georgia which had about 50 families, farm families. my family was the only one that was white. all the rest of them were african-american. cell i grew up completely immersed in african-american culture, black culture. and i could see, as a little child even, that there was a great differentiation between white and black people. my mother was a registered nurse and never paid any attention to racial distinctions, she treated everyone the same. she was part of the medical planes,hment in georgia, was very powerful so , she was impervious to this. i grew up in that environment and later, i became chairman of the board of education in our county. and i demanded that the other board members go to visit schools and to see what's going on. we found

united states presidential eleanor roosevelt award for human rights in the presidential medal of freedome first latina inducted into the national women's hall of fame. [cheers and applause] >> therefore, be it resolved that the san francisco board of education accepts the community proposal to rename the school to dolores huerta elementary school and as the superintendent said, thank you for allowing us to name the school after you. thank you to the school community. you have done an amazing, brilliant job. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, commissioner. and now we are going to invite a special guest to come up. that is supervisor safai for some remarks, please. welcome. >> good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon, everyone. all right. that is about the only times we want you to yell. my name is supervisor safai. i see a lot of families here today. many of whom went to school with my kids. it is good to see you. i'm so honored to be here in this historic day for the ribbon-cutting and the renaming of this school. her name signifies a hard-working, inspirational, an

or nelson mandela or eleanor roosevelt. but of all the speeches he stole, ashton kutcher?e 2013 "teens choice awards?" ( laughter ) like, now it makes me wonder if he does this every year? maybe he only steals from awards shows. maybe last year he was like, students i'm going to let you finish but bey once had the greatest video of all time." that's it for the headlines. let's move on to our top story. ( cheers and applause ) today was day two of president trump's visit to the u.k. and last night, the world's cutest white walker, her majesty, the queen, hosted an official state dinner in honor of trump's favorite thing: himself. >> the president's first day ending in grand fashion with a dinner at buckingham palace, surrounded by royalty, the very best china, crystal, and guild silver on display for the president and 170 rs guests, the president praising the queen: >> a great, great woman. >> but possibly breaking with protocol when appearing to touch her back as she stood up. >> when he put his hand on the back of her majesty queen's-- you just don't touch the queen! >> t

revolution concert hall here in washington, many figures and fdr's fdr's administration, including eleanor roosevelt, helped to arrange anderson's new open air concert in front of the lincoln memorial. rolealso lauded lincoln's in striking the chains of slavery from marian anderson's ancestors. thisnk the timing of concert is particularly important. it is april, 1939. it is a moment of growing awareness of nazi is a -- not -- nazism abroad. singersmparing jewish i stageanned from a naz and anderson being shunned from the dar hall, one person pointed out the crucial difference between hitler's germany and roosevelt america. in washington, we have a shrine for abraham lincoln. in this more explicit acknowledgment of lincoln's role as an emancipated, including his work in freeing those of an oppressed race. take a new poised to role as the 1940's begin. he appeared with increasing frequency in hollywood movies and broadway plays. he figured as the central 1941ct in aaron copland's lincoln portrait, celebrating american spirit in the aftermath of pearl harbor. he featured greater prominence in fdr's spe

. >> we didn't fully know, eleanor roosevelt and other had information but we weren't fully convincedn camps until our soldiers actually walked into them. but we sensed evil in we had said. one of the heroes who came to my mind was teddy roosevelt, jr. he was a great general and his great battlefield exploits were censored by fdr because he saw him as a rival. he convinced eisenhower to land with his troops in the first wave. he went out on the beach with his cane and pointed to the german machine gun nets while the bullets bizzed by him -- whizzed by him. he died of a heart attack a few week later and was given the medal of honor. it was memorialized in "the longest day." trish: they went through hell. it's important we never lose sight of that ander in forget that. >> a great hero that comes from that that we can look to is dwight eisenhower. macarthur and patton come to mind. but we turned to eisenhower and the whole world turned to eisenhower because he knew how to get along with people. trish: and history was written. we are going to hear from a world war ii vet coming up. so cha

united states presidential eleanor roosevelt award for human rights in the presidential medal of freedomed into the national women's hall of fame. [cheers and applause] >> therefore, be it resolved that the san francisco board of education accepts the community proposal to rename the school to dolores huerta elementary school and as the superintendent said, thank you for allowing us to name the school after you. thank you to the school community. you have done an amazing, brilliant job. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, commissioner. and now we are going to invite a special guest to come up. that is supervisor safai for some remarks, please. welcome. >> good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon, everyone.

in excess of the quotas and it had the strong support of eleanor roosevelt. franklin kept quiet about it. opinion in congress was very much opposed. this bill died in congress. the children could come here as part of the quotas but they were not willing to relax the quotas. -- 30 muchs also congress reflected the state of the american public at the time. when the opinion polls were taken and the question was -- should we admit more refugees? should we admit the children? ofre was usually majorities 60%, 70%, 80% or higher against any relaxation of the immigration quotas even involving children. right up through 1942 at least. we have time for one more we can alsorhaps or wrap it up there. one question, yes. >> you mentioned that one of the reasons you focused on ke thenheim was because of prevalence of photos of the deportation. i wonder why you think there was this prevalence of documentation? michael dobbs: that is a good question. it goes to my motivation for heim as a focus of this book. i was amazed about the amount of information that was available. nac

when eleanor roosevelt was outraged over the internment of japanese-americans and argued the point withband. >> we have gotten subtle but deliberate signals they may not agree with their husband on every policy. melania's statements that contradict or don't back up donald trump, they don't have that feel. they don't feel like smart political strategy. they feel like tiny rebellions. >> i have never known a first lady who has accumulated in a relatively short period of time, so many small acts of resistance. >> could melania trump be changing the first lady playbook? melania tweets and conducts her own social media without running it by anyone. some of her posts and actions fly in the face of her husband. >> there have been many situations with the west wing. her saying what she thinks, how she feels. she's authentic. and she will remain authentic always. it's just who she is. >> like this past august, when trump ripped into nba star lebron james. >> right after her husband on twitter, of course, as a cyber bully, mocked lebron james' intelligence, her office puts out a statement praisin

women like eleanor roosevelt and her social justice network really came out of the settlement. women like florence kelly and jane addams. appointed two new positions during the new deal. it is the new deal that says no married women hold -- married to a government employee will hold a job. act. is an equal pay .hen you have the baby boom white women go underground. women areerican active in the 20's in , increasingly active through the 40's through either marching again or the threat of marching. hires all ofrshall these women attorneys laying the groundwork for the cases that will change the laws in the 1950's. mary church terrel, she has been around since 1885 in memphis. she has two degrees, enormously althy. her husband is a harvard graduate. is doesn't ever quit, she active and organizes through the 30's. in 1950 she is photographed picketing washington restaurants with her cane in one hand and picket sign. these women were sensational. >> part of the promise of this panel was that we would also discuss what these women did in the early 1900s. does it have ripples today? h

franklin roosevelt sent eleanor. to walk amongst those men and say that there will be a better day. but even since those times we have experienced homelessness, world war ii veterans, korean war veterans. most prominently those fromvietnam but even today with iraq and with afghanistan. roosevelt himself heeded the lessons that he saw heeded the lessons that he saw in those streets bypa passing 75 years a this week signing the g.i. bill, the most transformativ e piece of legislation in this country other than the civil rights act, because it provided the impetus of the rest of the american century. but they were still american veterans who were still not made whole. now, today because of you're efforts, we are seeing a sea change in the way this country addresses those veterans who have fallen on hard times. there are a number of states who can tell you to this day that they have effectively ended veterans' homelessness by making it rare, brief and nonrecurring. hundreds of communities have made that same claim. new orleans, houston, jacksonville. just last week the city of lexington

eleanor roosevelt said she felt like she had a sword hanging over other head, not knowing when it will had to fall. winston churchill when he was going to sleep on this night said to his wife, do you realize tomorrow morning 25,000 of our men may be dead? franklin roosevelt was so tense he couldn't even go to sleep. and all those soldiers, i can't imagine what they were feeling when they were waiting to land. churchill wrote to roosevelt saying, i wish you were here. i need you to help me break the tension. roosevelt was supposed to go to england but his health wasn't well enough. but roosevelt, they said interestingly, they said had the most capacity to deal with the tension because his polio had taught him, i can do what i can do but i can't control other things. and he knew all those soldiers were equipped with the best tanks and trucks. it had taken the united states years to mobilize this force, so he had to sit back and wait. finally at 4:3030 a.m., eleanor called and said, they've landed. they're going up the beach to the hills. and then with the great crusade of eisenhower, whe

. >> according to his story and michael beschloss, eleanor roosevelt said his message fortified our confidencerises, he was guided by a strength and wisdom larger than his own. israel had long known that when d-day finally came, thousands of american boys would suffer for it. the president asked god to intervene. >> they will need thy blessings. their road will be long and hard. the enemy is strong. he may hurl back our forces. success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again. >> americans listening that night were hopeful that hitler would soon be defeated and prayed for the safety of the sons of their hometowns, whose fate would not be known for days. >> they will be tried by night and by day without rest until the victory is won. the darkness will be rent by noise and flame. men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war. but for the end of battle they return to the haven of home. some will never return. embrace these, father, and receive them, thy heroic servants into thy kingdom. >> roosevelt wouldn't live to see another year or even the end of the war. b

and a what that means to me is carrying on the legacy of franklin eleanor roosevelt he said you knowe have got to guarantee all americans fundamental economic rights the right to a job that pays you a living wage the right to health care. the right to education. we have expanded that to say economic, human rights that means clean environment. so what democratic socialism in that sense means to me is guaranteeing all of our people in the wealthy country in the history of the world a decent requirement. a decent standard of living. elizabeth warren has come out with her plan which would, give up to 50,000 worth of student debt per family that makes under 100,000 a year regarding bernie suggesting in left leaning circles they say canceling of the student debt is essentially offers too much help to families with highser incomes already. because the top 40% qowld receive about two-thirds of a benefits from elizabeth warren plan we dongt know the metrics of bernie. >> fascinated at the fact that basically if you ask me bernie sanders is lying in that intuf he's trying to reframe his social