eleanor roosevelt long worth, the daughter of t.r. and eleanor's cousin and the maid of honor at eleanor's wedding, encouraged the romance between franklin and lucy and sometimes invited the pair for dinner. franklin deserved a good time, said aliss maliciously. he was married to eleanor. after the affair broke off in 1918, lucy and franklin remained close throughout the president's life. she surreptitiously attended each of his inaugurals in a limousine provided by the secret service, met with f.d.r. often in the 1940's and was with him the day he died in warm springs. mice ila hahn, quietly confident, attractive young woman, joined roos vest's team in the 1920 presidential election. she remained by his side until she suffered a debilitating stroke in june 1941. she feels not only roosevelt's secretary but a constant attendant and companion. a surrogate really for both eleanor and lucy. when roosevelt cruised off the florida coast for months at a -- for his 1920's to health, it was missy who went with him. who went to warm springs, wh

she was not only roosevelt's personal secretary, but his constant companion and attend incident. a surrogate, really, for both eleanor and lucy. when roosevelt cruised off to the florida coast for months at a time in the 1920's to regain his health, it was missy, not eleanor, who accompanied him. it was missy who went with him to warm springs. it was missy who preside over his office. and it was missy who served as his hostess when f.d.r. entertained. neither eleanor nor sarah objected to the arrangement. roosevelt's friends took it in stride. missy was deeply in love with f.d.r., and the president, if not in love, certainly preferred her company to all others. she died without knowing that the president made her the beneficiary of one-half of his estate in his will in gratitude for her commitment. 60 years after his death, it's really high time that roosevelt be revisited. the great depression, the new deal, the second world war, are fading memories. the extent to which the united states was threatened is scarcely remembered. the national sacrifice all but forgotten. all the more reason, i think, that westerly this

meddling you name it but i think this has been boiling for quite some time you know the old quote eleanor roosevelt quote i think applies here no one can make you feel inferior without your consent you can't get angry about something and politics if you weren't already angry so a guy like donald trump doesn't just come along and get elected for a particular reason or because people supported him are were against him he got elected as a symptom of what was going on is america and that is i believe the elite bureaucratic class in washington d.c. versus the rust of america in places like i grew up in oklahoma and texas and so i think that's the bad news i think were very close to the tipping point. i think the good news is though i did and informal poll on my social media yesterday in preparation for coming on today and said are we past the divide or can this nation be saved and i was surprised by the result 100 percent of people 100 percent said it can be saved but we have to go back to what we just discussed in the last segment which is we have to allow free speech and debate and discussion without

eleanor roosevelt supported. a very interesting history of the amendment and you are right that there were issues of protection. chandler and sedona, arizona, you have 30 seconds. go ahead. >> to what degree did men who understood the talents and abilities of their wives play a role in the suffrage movement? >> thank you, sir. >> men played a large role. very important and supportive men champions. actually a great book that came out a year or two ago. it is about the mail, the league of men that supported suffrage. only men could make decisions. men had to be convinced. men were only in the legislatures, state legislatures only men in congress. by 1917-18 janet rankin the only woman, the first woman elected to congress. only one. when referendum at the state level, it is only men making these decisions. having men allies, we see some very brave men allies really step up in nashville in my story. yes. men were important. >> you have somebody involved in the miniseries. how did that happen? >> is i get a producer

he established an unofficial two-term tradition that politicians would follow until frank and eleanor roosevelt. of course, that was the crisis of world war ii as well. one of the more interesting scenarios after washington name -- a young painter named benjamin west was actually in britain and commissioned to paint a portrait of aging king george the third and george, said thisll talk general you have, george washington, what is he doing now? hadbenjamin west said he retired to private life and returned to his farm in virginia and he is a private citizen. george the third looked surprised and said something to if washington can do this, he is the greatest man in the world. away when heked had everything in his hand and i when you combine all these stories about washington and see the choices that it makes, you start to see the development of his character. the choices you made for the betterment of his nation rather than the betterment of him. charactere type of that even a portrait cannot portray. so, we will open up the floor for questions. questions, i will make up answers. how did they sel

national values with religious figures from around the world all coming together, human rights, eleanor roosevelt. this is a part of the exhibition that's been extremely popular with guests and particularly younger people who sometimes see the freedom of expression as expressed in the 1940s as sometimes limiting, sometimes monolithic and now understanding that freedom in america today is something that's vitally important from what perspective someone comes from to what extent they've received such freedoms and it bestowed the respect onto others. so you can go through this part of the exhibition and see various themes of different peoples and certain inhibitors of liberty such as the intrusiveness of electronics and surveillance that enters people's homes. religious figures, the dalai lama, gandhi, and others all part of the same family. rockwell in ideal like the golden rule and yet more diverse, more inclusive perhaps from the perspective of today's artists and today's viewers. certainly some images of resistance and the reminder that sometimes the nation has fallen short of its ideals. a powe

martin's fight for justice, justice for minority communities and for that he has received the aka eleanor roosevelt award, ncaap thurgood marshal award and michael luther servant award. i'm kenneth mack, representing the right, civil rights lawyer among other works and we are here to talk, format today is, i think we are going to allow mr. crump 15 minutes and stories that have inspired it. i'm going to ask him questions or maybe another 25 minutes and after that you all are going to have the opportunity to ask questions of mr. crump and that would be the remainder of our time so without further due, we will start with mr. crump and just give him 15 minutes or so to introduce us to this provocative and important book. >> thank you for having me at the boston book festival, and as a trial lawyer i may stand because -- [laughter] >> and i will tell you this is my mission, ken i told you, this morning i was in atlanta georgia with colin kaepernick, the nfl quarterback and activist and we were talking to a high school gymnasium of thousands of young people and so i spoke for about 15 minutes and kept t

no wonder eleanor roosevelt found him to be a difficult houseguest. when roosevelt went to hyde park, leaving churchill alone in the white house, his message to the prime minister was winston, please tweet the -- treat the white house as your own, invite anyone you want at any of my als and do not hesitate to engage my dwriesors at any time you wish. churchill took full advantage. eleanor didn't warm to the british take over of her home after 18 years. interestingly when the diary was plushed after the war, it caned this -- after the war is over, winston, will i think, settle down in the u.s. if that had happened, i would say that winston churchill's home in washington, d.c. would be a top tourist attraction today. churchill did not return to washington for two and a half years, at which point the world had changed dramatically. germany had been defeated. two atomic bombs had forced japan into surrender un conditionaly. the dynamic was world politics had also changed. america was the dominant partner in the rhythm with britain and the leadership of win

eleanor roosevelt naacp thurgood marshall award and the fcl sees martin luther king servant award. i am kenneth mack and the lawrence professor of law at harvard law school and author of representing the race of a civil rights lawyer among other works and we are here to talk. our format today is we will allow mr. crump about 15 minutes to introduce us to his book and the really difficult stories that inspired it and i will ask him questions for maybe another 25 minutes and after that you will have the opportunity to ask questions of mr. crump and that will be the remainder of our time. without further ado we will start with mr. crump and give him 15 minutes or so to introduce us to this provocative and important book. >> thank you so much. thank you for having me at the boston book festival. as a trial lawyer i may stand because -- [laughter] i will tell you this is my mission that this morning i was in atlanta georgia with our common kaepernick, nfl, quarterback and activists and we were talking to a high school gymnasium of thousands of young people and so i spoke about 15 minute

mulholland who was a disciple amodei man who is a great figure for the musical and performed for eleanor rooseveltd he had a great celebrity of friends. so godley went to see him and presented him with this problem. he said i'm able to make poisons and mind altering pills and devices and we have agents who can get close to the targets. how do we deliver the pill, how do you get the pill into the drink, how do you stick the needle he invented them they were so hyper then you would not feel them when they went in. how do you get to them and deliver the poisons. and he hired mulholland to write a manual based on his technique about how to draw pills in the people's drinks without them noticing, how women could use purse --he'd become public not g ago actually the only document that has become fully available in one of the things that i learned from john mulholland when he talked to the cia because he not only wrote the book but he conducted seven other training sessions for cia agents and how to drop the poison and stop people with poison surrenders th surrenders. that is not how magic works. magic w

you see it in the new deal with eleanor roosevelt and in the 1950's with the civil rights movement. i tried to think, that they have done that without the vote? trying to imagine the 20th century without the vote, it has been less than 100 years that women have had it. i tried to take the long view. think of it as the long 19th 1920ment stretching beyond and stretching before 1848. >> nobody should feel bad about passed.a. having not because it has only just begun. >> we could take a poll. [laughter] >> i did not really here. -- hear. >> learning what they did, i don't know. the audience would be like this, a good selection of men who have been interested. i have had one or two hostile comments. bringing up any credit to the men, people sometimes find that offensive. the suggestion is never to say that this is a men's victory, just to recognize that social change requires everyone. i think what is interesting about this movement as opposed to some other movements for social change is that it is a one issue thing. it is not a complicated question. it is not like bringing up abortion

in 1936 and the famous campaign speech, franklin eleanor roosevelt said the following.cial monopoly, speculation , reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. they had begun to consider the governments of the united states as a mere appendage to their own affairs. we know now that governments by organized money is just as dangerous as governance by organized mobs. never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today , they are unanimous in their hate for me and i welcome their hatred. what was true in 1936 is perhaps even more true today. when three people own more wealth than the bottom half of america, when in the last 30 years the top one percent has seen a $21 trillion increase in their wealth and when many of the largest most profitable corporations in america do not pay a nickel in federal income tax. now, i understand that nobody likes to be hated. not me, not you, not anyone but the truth is that real change never takes place without struggle. without having as roosevelt told us, the c

you see it in the new deal with women like eleanor roosevelt. you see it in the 1950s with the civil rights movement. it's an ongoing continuum. what i try and remind myself sometimes is to think, couldthy have done that without the vote? or try to imagine the 20th century without the vote. it's been less than 100 years that women have had it. and, so, what i try and do is take the long view, think of it as the long 19th amendment stretching between 1920 because i think the roots of it all much broader than that. >> no one should feel bad about the e.r.a. having just passed. it's just begun. 100 years. >> do you think men are more interested in the role they played in women's suffrage? >> we could take a poll. >> brooke, do you think -- >> i didn't really hear -- >> becoming more interested. >> in learning what they did? >> i don't know. >> but when you give -- >> when you give lectures -- >> the audience would be like this, a good selection of men who seem to be interested. i've had maybe one or two hostile comments, not many. usually from wome

a lot of these value-based things, human rights , the eleanor roosevelt, the human rights council is one. and on the other hand, it is hybrid because it mixes that with the balancing of the power of states. the respect for sovereignty. whatsometimes produces seems very odd situations. made,k the point you there is a need to adapt and recognize some of the developments in this world have unforeseen,ate, unintended consequences for a lot of people i suppose. but the fact that changes on the agenda is inevitable. inis how we handle change how we engage with change that will determine not only the fate of international cooperation and multilateral institutions but also the future prosperity of our people. on reform, to answer your question, you have at the home of the u.n. a secretary general that is more committed to reform of the system than any other secretary-general in recent history. him up. up -- back u.n. member states are not paying for their order. it is like people walking into a restaurant ordering will only pay 5%. there are less than 14 member states of the 193 member state

i looked into development of row houses that eleanor roosevelt wrote the ground there. they were built like english row houses. the backyards had a commons. the interesting thing was when the 40 year easement was lifted on the comments, everybody extended their backyards into the center, which shows human possessiveness and instincts, which is what the left is always fighting which is why the in-depth with the gulags and the firing squads. >> you literally were raised among card-carrying communist over routing for stalin. how so? that's a fascinating idea. it's one thing to be leftist, one thing to be a democrat. you are talking about something a little different. what was this group and who were your parents that you find yourself in this situation? >> when you get into that, people have a need -- first of all, this book is not a political book and it's not -- there's politics in it but it's not at a philosophical level. this might be the best book i've written. people who have read it certainly feel in the writing and so forth. >> the writing is very, very beautiful.

it continuing through groups like the league of women voters, in the new deal with women like eleanor roosevelt. you see it in the 1950's with the civil rights movement. it is an ongoing continuum. what i try to remind myself sometimes, to think, because they have done that without the vote? try to imagine the 20th century without the vote. it has been less than 100 years that women have had it. so i try and take the long view. think of it as the long 19th amendment, stretching beyond 1920, and starting, like you do, before 1848. the roots of it are much broader. >> so no one should feel bad about the e.r.a. not having passed, because it's only just begun. [laughter] 100 years. >> you think -- do you think that men are becoming more interested in the role they played in women's suffrage? >> we could take a poll. [laughter] did?arning what they i don't know. you give lectures, that the audience would be like this, a good selection of men who have been interested. i have had one or two hostile comments but not many, and usually from women, not men. but the concern about bringing up any credit to

there is a scene in one of my books where her mother, eleanor roosevelt, comes to her daughter and begs to be put on the manifest. her daughter says sorry, can't do. this has been going on for a long time. nepotism, but if you become the president of the united states you will want people that you can trust who are loyal to you, and you will have a tendency to pick people closest to you, and often that will be your own family. this has happened all through history, even modern history. they change the laws but the president will put them on the d&c payroll like jimmy carter did his son or the rnc payroll .ik there are two things that the child will do helping the president. is offer loyal and two continuity. if your boss is reince priebus and you have all of these great projects, all of your projects collapse. now it is general kelly. then general kelly is gone. now it is mick mulvaney. the children remain. they will always be at the dinner table at thanksgiving. what you say to one of the children or relatives will endure. that continuity is important. republican,ticut, a good morning.

there is a scene in one of my books where her mother, eleanor roosevelt, comes to her daughter and begso be put on the manifest. her daughter says sorry, can't do. this has been going on for a long time. nepotism, but if you become the president of the united states you will want people that you can trust who are loyal to you, and you will have a tendency to pick people closest to you, and often that will be your own family. this has happened all through history, even modern history. they change the laws but the president will put them on the d&c payroll like jimmy carter did his son or the rnc payroll .ik there are two things that the child will do helping the president. is offer loyal and two continuity. if your boss is reince priebus and you have all of these great projects, all of your projects collapse. now it is general kelly. then general kelly is gone. now it is mick mulvaney. the children remain. they will always be at the dinner table at thanksgiving. what you say to one of the children or relatives will endure. that continuity is important. republican,ticut, a good morning. c

april 12, 1945, he becomes president, eleanor roosevelt tells him you're the one in trouble now, he makes to what willie touched on about the presidency itself. you have these men who have sort of fall into this job. what kind of impact does it have on the rest of the country? how have the american people responded to these individuals who suddenly -- you didn't think about them as president. they were vice president or sort of put on the ticket. now they're in the job. how does that shape or reshape the presidency itself? >> that's a great question. since it's the 56th year anniversary of the kennedy assassination, americans who voted jfk into office were horrified by the idea of lyndon johnson as president. think about civil rights, lyndon johnson was a southern segregationist who used the "n" word and was primary architect of the whittling down of the civil rights bill. on foreign policy this is the man who, when sent to south vietnam, was handing out free senate passes to street children on the streets of saigon and asked photograph ers to take pictures of him chasing cattle around an

ne private from the division few they sent the army a eeks ago and roosevelt said eleanor.e ordered his fellow missouriin to take order of the veterans affairs known then as administration. educational stered benefits to 7.5 million americaning veterans, and he set america on the course for doing the right thing that it had forgotten in between the two great wars. but things did not continue in that way. when my father went to vietnam, the tide had turned again. we forgot why we send americans overseas, and the wisdom of taking care of those who put this nation's freedom on their backs. there were no welcome home parades, and my father, a senior officer in america's most decorated combat division, was not even allowed to wear his uniform off of fort bragg. there was such neglect that our friends at the vietnam veterans of america created the most lasting slogan. never again will one generation of veterans abandon another. that must be our charge today and always. we must vow never to let those dark days return, and to always be a welcoming family for those, who as lincoln s

end, one private from alvin york's division said, they send the army a few weeks ago, and roosevelt sent eleanorier of the first order, -- the first war, harry truman knew what had gone wrong. to make sure those things did not happen again, he ordered his fellow missourian omar bradley to take hold of the department of veterans affairs, known then as the veterans administration. general bradley built 150 hospitals. he administered educational benefits to 7.5 million returning veterans and he set america on the course for doing the right thing, that it had forgotten in between the two great wars. but things did not continue in that way. when my father went to vietnam, the tide had turned again. we forgot why we send americans overseas, and the wisdom of taking care of those who put this nation's freedom on their backs. there were no welcome home parades, and my father, a senior officer in america's most decorated combat division, was not even allowed to wear his uniform off of fort bragg. there was such neglect that our friends at the vietnam veterans of america created the most lasting slogan. n