up at fdr at the site. talked with one of the park rangers about her columns. >> this is eleanor roosevelt's typewriter. this is the type of typewriter she wrote her my date column. she wrote her my date column on december 31, 1985. they continued for 26 years amassing 8,000 columns. she was a prolific writer and wrote books that focused on her interests. some of the books were about international politics. some were the time in the white house. others were an interest to children. often roosevelt wrote alone but sometimes she would write with other articles. she wrote with her friend and colleague, arena hickok. i would like to take you back to archives to show you some of her more significant my day columns. what i have here are the original drafts of the my day columns that i wanted to share. the first one was eleanor roosevelt's first my day column and it appeared december 31, 935 and it sets the tones for the my day columns to follow. this is a day of taking up more or less a regular routine again. the

what did he do for fdr? >> guest: well, i mentioned a moment ago that the united states didn't go into the intelligence business in a serious way until 1941. we were probably the only world power that didn't have a professional intelligence service. roosevelt relied very heavily prior to, let's say, 1940 on a circle of socialite friends as his sources. there were a group of them who styled themselves the club, and they had taken a shabby apartment on new york's upper east side. they had an unlisted phone number. they had a secret mail drop. it--it--it sounded like the spy games of boys being carried out by grown men. the ch--the chief figure in this outfit called the club was vincent astor, one of the wealthiest men in the country. c-span: which one is he in this photo at top? >> guest: vincent astor is the one to the right of the bar on the ship where's is standing. c-span: or to the left of fdr? >> guest: and he's--and he--let's see. it looks to me like he's to--yes. yes. c-span: and--and who was he? >> gu

fdr was infected at a boy scout picnic campout of all things in the summer of 1921.o the campout and was chairman of the boy scouts. and he came back to new york in about 10 days later he began to exhibit symptoms and put him in contact with the polio virus. and it might have come fm the polluted water at the mountain. and it had been overrun, it wasn sanitation. there were a cple of things workingagainst him making him susceptible to infection. lou: you talk about his family and wife and children and how polio affected and altered the relationship. >> yes, it's interesting to look at the relationship between fdr and eleanor. she discovered this now famous relationship. the trust had been damged. but one fdr became ill, she came to his aid and nursed him and help him through the early stages of recovery and i think it brought them closer togeer. he was going to have to be away from home often and she was getting involved in politics. and not running for office, but politically very active and he followed his own path. but the marriage was on a different point from th

joining usame how fdr won the presidency. amazon.com.ou with compellingly to explain fdr? > i read a bi to quickly over the polio episode. and we all grew up with the that they had become president. but had anyone really told the story of how that happened? and had they told the story the way willie could be told, and i was hoping that i might find that story. and so that is what i worked on. >> tell us about that? >> it's pretty clear that if you look at this. fdr was infected at a boy scout picnic campout of all things in the summer of 1921. he went to the campout and was chairman of the boy scouts. and he came back to new york in about 10 days later he began to exhibit symptoms and put him in contact with the polio virus. and it might have come from the polluted water at the mountain. and it had been overrun, it wasn't proper sanitation. there were a couple of things working against him making him susceptible to infection. lou: you talk about his family and wife and children and how polio affected and altered the relationship. >> yes,

young fdr was under the hierarchy of three heavyweight isolationists and yet he was not. what was said about his upbringing that led him to be an internationalist not the isolationist? >> john franklin partly because he understood the see that the two functions the isolationist did not protect us at all because the country in the world had changed and communications had changed in the navy had changed the panama canal was now open 1953 were under threat constantly and would remain under threat as long as their request -- countries that princess we headed international position to maintain because after the spanish civil war we had acquired colonies if we would maintain those colonies to have to protect them. >> thank you for honoring us by coming to the home of franklin and eleanor roosevelt here at hyde park i read to of your books recently in of four verge to reading this one i did read from a different author when he was secretary of the navy he had his first run and with joseph kennedy? is there any mentioned were you aware of this at all? >> his connection with the e

because then you've got the speech and newspaper up to fdr, his radio, everybody is listening, 80% ofeople. even jfk after reagan only watching the speech now own network you may be watching cable, may be hearing the pundits criticize the speech before it's begun. breaking news comes in, it has been diminished over time. probably do curse him. >> dickerson: probably ten twitter responses to what just you said in realtime. johnberg, wilson, he head as the presidency that president is at liberty to be as big a man he can be. then in office he had some trouble with senate republicans, not unlike this president. and he called them, a little group of willful men. talk about that tension. >> i would say he entered office what was put there. he picked up that ball ran with it. came win a very aggressive, progressive agenda. also really took press relations to a new level by being the first president to hold press conferences rather regularly in fact. he was blessed with democratic congress when he arrived which diminished with each congressional election. such that they were beginning to fil

can you imagine a fdr's begin public or private about the way polio j.j. is life? >> guest: and their hearts that was about as good a piece of the device as al gore could have gotten. that is a first of my had see that. that was the value. >> you could take that value for their to discuss his choice of the vice-presidential where she makes it clear he felt this man joseph lieberman was a rather smugly and pious fundamentally not the kind of choice we should look to. at the same time praising al gore but he had to put added to make clear with everything al gore was doing >> of the politicians we have mentioned the what changed the most of the trajectory after it ended so tragically in los angeles his relationship with him and began the body that was the enforcer or much more conservative. then by 18682crfk as a great hope of fulfilling the promise of the new deal what was that germany like? >> the fascination of jack kennedy with such a profound experience from bobby kennedy that even as he has become quite liberal under various times with the but brothers administr

roosevelt, woodrow wilson, fdr, reagan. how did they achieve big transformations. and the second and he wanted to talk about how to reclaim this hold on the public of the united states, because this is 2010 and he was slipping. 2011, he talked about the election, the coming election of 2012, and tell you one and a goat. he complained about congress in particular, michele bachman. shook his head and said, what she says about me, and so i said to them, mr. president, i guess you know what mark twain said about congress, and taoiseach is a. he said marc twain said the closure a congressman and suppose you were an idiot, but i repeat myself. [laughter] >> he loved it. but yeah, coming back to your point, i think there are similarities. obama is very cerebral. he is an academic, taught at law school if you wish chicago. in kennedy published books, wrote books. obama wrote books, editing it is a certain affinity for this kind of -- now kennedy was i think he was never a glad hander, and certainly obama is not a glad handed. i sat next to that one did and there's no small

another writes stalin, pol pot, fdr are also dead. they don't deserve a positive eulogy either. >> jon: you know the ghost of fdr was like how did i get dragged into this? [laughter] what did i do? [laughter] bring me a martini in a tea cup and one of my second cousins. [ laughter ] anonymous jerkz on the web site say stupid (bleep) all the time. what about nonanonymous jerks. >> nelson mandela stood up against a great injustice and willing to pay a huge price. that's why he is mourned today because of that struggle he performed. >> jon: that's great as long as you don't say anything else. >> we have a great injustice with an every increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives and obamacare is front and center in that. [ laughter ] >> jon: how do i put this in terms you have going to understand here. apartheid is not obamacare. [ laughter ] the systemic subgentleman gaition of a race of people different from the health care exchanges. the fact that that insurance is now mandated gets us nowhere close

but as i started plowing through the papers of george marshall, the papers of bill donovan and fdr's papers, i realized there were a lot of unst--untold stories and i was very encouraged to proceed. c-span: let's pick one of those names, bill donovan. who was he? >> guest: bill donovan was an authentic hero of world war i, a congressional medal of honor winner, subsequently a vastly successful wall street lawyer. now he becomes, in effect, the first head of a central intelligence agency in the united states.

roosevelt, fdr also had cancer in his latter days in office. then there's all the discussion about jack kennedy and all of his health problems. i think our track record is pretty good in that regard and i think we put out the right amount of information. in the end you can substitute medical judgment with a political judgment especially where the vice president is concerned. we provided -- he had full and complete knowledge of my situation. we have a situation where i didn't keep anything from him and i gave him all the reasons why and he went ahead and did it anyway. so i don't, i'm reluctant to say that somehow we have to have a medical board set up so you get a stamp on your forehead that you are certified healthy enough to be vice president. the other point i guess i would make is you could have a very strong healthy 40-year-old and might have been a great half bad for redskins or whatever, a great athlete. >> it would be good if there was a good halfback. we could use him right now. >> based on my health -- they picked me for my experience

fdr earned. kennedy, from the moment of the bay of pigs and he reaches out to eisenhower whom they had not, i think it's safe to say, it had not been the warmest of transitions between the two, and yet there's that wonderful pulitzer prize-winning picture of the two men taken from the back as they're walking toward the cabin at camp david after the bay of bay of pigs where kennedy had called the old guy and said, help me, you know? and he was learning. and i would draw a direct line from the bay of pigs to the cuban missile crisis. what did he do? he didn't have a meeting during the bay of pigs, so he had a 13-day meeting in october 1962. arthur understand, i hi because of his own political experience and being in the arena, being in the white house, knowing that these things aren't always hoe herric narratives that these things do take time. these are human beings. they're flesh and blood. >> you know, the other thing and i would just add to that is the best advice he was getting during that tim

schoumacher: within six weeks, fdr acted on this pledge. he abandoned the gold standard. result -- u.s. exports became cheaper, more jobs were created. though it would take years for the great depression to end, a critical step toward recovery had begun. the roosevelt administration was willing to move in new directions to get the couny working again. fdr helped restore america's competitive position in exports and encouraged recovery by breaking off from the cherished gold standard. we asked economic analyst richard gill what was so important about the gold standard in the first place? what was really lost when it was abandoned? the gold standard was cherished historically for two main reasons. first of all, by giving each national currency a fixed value in terms of gold, it gave the world, in effect, a single common currency. but, also, secondly, it provided a mechanism for keeping every nation's balance of payments in balance. the theory of this went back to david hume, the 18th-century scottish philosopher. suppose you have two countries trading together. let's call t

it would be reported in full even by the time fdr went on his fireside chats. he could hear 80% of the people would listen to his chats whole. saul bellow said you could walk down the street on a hot chicago night and not miss a word of what he was saying because everyone was sitting in the kitchen listening to the radio. you would listen to the whole speech up to reagan when there were three networks. now the media is divided the way it was in 19th century. the national newspapers came along at my time at the turn of the 20th century, i live in these periods. sometimes when i'm writing checks sometimes i'm writing 1913. [laughter] the national newspapers emerged in the early 20th century are placing partisan press. in the old days you would only read your newspaper if you are a republican or whig or democrat. linking gave a great speech and was carried out on the shoulders of his people. he fell on the ground and they booed and hissed him in the same speech. we got it way from that and now here we are again divided media. you may only watch her all my favorite

estimate is about her as a washington resident from 1943 to 1949 and became in the 1930's to work with the fdr administration and she served as the director of the national deily commercial use administration and she was taken by her leadership can deter the director of the actual organizations itself. by the conservative right to vote in the house, they have lost their funding by by at that time she was able to grow the council of women in the organization. >> what did he learn about her in this book and we probably didn't know before? >> we learn she's not only a local figure here in washington bg, ka she is a global figure and because of jim crow in d.c., the city that it was she purchased a property at

either comparison between tr and fdr, similarlities, disalready similarities.eflections give that yesterday was the 50th anniversary of killing of kennedy. how in the world do we get to campaign finance reform? , ii mean, everyone is so disheartened about the road where we are. what do you see in the future? >> thank you -- thatch. i don't think it was in my job discrepancies to answer that question. i heard something about the league of nations in there somewhere. [laughter] which wilson wanted to have pass so we might have fought the war to end all wars. and wilson was intransigent. i think for a couple of reasons, one of which he was a stubborn guy as a rule. when he was over in paris, and he was there for six months, the president of the united states left the country for six months to negotiate in treaty. during that time, especially toward the end month five and six saying agree, i have a country to get home too. he began to make some comprises. one or two big ones in the end. he came back, and i think when he found this senate that was going to be comple

become the common conversation in the country and it would be reported in full even by the time that fdr went on his fireside chats. he could hear 80% of the people would listen to his chats. saul bellow said you could walk down the street on a chicago night and not sure if what they were saying because everyone was listening to the radio. primarily you would listen to the whole speech. now the network is divided. the national newspapers came at my time, the turn of 20th century. even sometimes when i'm writing checks i am writing 1913 instead of 2013. the national newspapers have emerged in the early 20th century replacing partisan press. in the old days you would only read your newspaper if you are republican or democrat. lincoln gave a great speech that was carried out on the shoulders of his people and the democratic news he fell on the ground and he bade ludham and histamine in the same speech. national newspapers and radio and television here we are again divided media. you only hear a part of the president's speech. her attention span has so diminished. the guys that wrote about t

fdr had the roosevelt revolution. the roosevelt recession.rn era, as presidents -- firstre visible radio, then through film -- as becoments have almost adjunct members of our family because of television and the internet, the constant exposure they have, it is only increased that tendency. the greatest single danger to presidents and one reason why second terms tend to be dreary earier than the first is a danger of exposure. host: a caller from new mexico on our line for independents. he says inst of all, his past term that jobs had been his number one issue. the aca has been his number one issue. i wonder if he has ever had a real job. in his secondate term on anything? that's an interesting -- i'm not sure. i don't work for the white house. have heard the president offered to negotiate on a number of things. take something very specific, very concrete. it will be interesting to see what happens on this proposed extension of unemployment. while all this debate is going on, there are real-life people out there who are hurting badly. in some w

he did not do what fdr and lbj did. they understand the majorities are temporary.easceased on a temporary majority. american people really rejected now he's reaping the whirlwind from that. >>> the administration has initial goal of having about 700,000 people sign up by the end of november. as we know from health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius all have been much lower. >> one texas woman has been struggling to sign up for obamacare since the beginning of october. she has filled out the application twice and both times she has hit a brick wall. >> they want proof of my my personal resident id number twice proving that i am a permanent resident. they also want proof that my husband is not incarcerated. i said what about the social -- i put my husband's social in there. he said no. somebody with his name is in jail. >> but not only is he not an inmate, he was in the army for 15 years. the solution letters from local police proving he has never been locked up. it's not that simple. >> in the last few years my husband laz lived in texas, germa germany,

fdr had the roosevelt revolution. then the roosevelt recession. in the modern era, as presidents become more visible -- first radio, then through film -- as presidents have almost become adjunct members of our family because of television and the internet, the constant exposure they have, it is only increased that tendency. i think probably the greatest single danger to presidents, and one reason why second terms tend to be drearier than the first is the danger of overexposure. host: a caller from new mexico on our line for independents. good morning. caller: first of all, he says in his past term that jobs had been his number one issue. that clearly is not true. the aca has been his number one issue. i wonder if he has ever had a real job. please correct me if i'm wrong. my question is, will he negotiate in the second term on anything? guest: that's an interesting -- i'm not sure. i don't work for the white house. i have heard the president offer to negotiate on a number of things. specific,hing very though, very concrete that everyone can get th

here's a guy himself, that's actually a light bounce off of fdr roosevelt. this was his chakra. this was march 4th, 1933. he made the statement and he made it, i didn't understand a long time. the point i was making, people were terrified. because it seemed like the economy had no bottom and the banks were going down and there was no federal deposit dollars. so imagine a time when we actually had a president who told us we should be courageous rather than trafficked in fear. to his own advantage. there's been a long war on the new deal. it was when roosevelt got started. almost immediately, the more than great realized the lengths he was willing to go. at the beginning, roosevelt didn't understand how far he was going to go. the dupont family and the ones that set up the american liberty league. that was successful because they have unlimited amounts of money. there were so popular, they were not able to stop it. they began to finance right-wing think tanks. they have been successful to the university of chicago economics department and notable fraud such as milton freed man. th

did he not do what fdr and lbj did. they understood these math tiz are temporary.bama seized on temporary majority, american people rejected and now, he's reaping whirl wind perfect that. >> he seems to be confused or indignant republicans aren't rushing in to try to salvage the law as opposed to sitting back and criticizing it. they don't like the law. but, charles, do they have an obligation to do problem solving with the reality that we have a democratic president in the white house for at least another couple years? >> not if you believe as republicans do and i as do, that the law is in and of itself a disaster. that the architecture on the law, the complexity of the law, intrusiveness of the law, contradiction of the law is such that it cannot work. it's going to hurt american medicine, the finest in the world that you have to start over. if it was repairable, boy say let's repair it. it is not. have you to start over. you have to address the issue of preexisting conditions you don't call remaking one sixth of the economy on the grounds of 20,000 pages of regu

he didn't do what fdr and lbj did. they understood that these majorities are temporary.bama seized on the temporary majority in 2009 and 10 and passed something the american people rejected. now he's reaping the whirlwind from it. >> he seems to be confused or indignant. i don't know what the word is. that the republicans aren't rushing in to try to sal vanl the -- salvage the law as opposed to criticizing it. they don't like the law. they have never believed in the law. do they have an obligation to do problem solving here with the reality that we have a democratic president in the white house for at least another couple of years? >> not if you believe as the republicans do and as i do that the the law is in and of itself a disaster. that the architectural law, the intrusiveness of the law, the contradictory nature of the law is such that it cannot work. it's going to hurt overall the american medicine which is the finest in the world and you really have to start over. if it was reparable i would say to repair it. it is not. you have to start over, address the uninsured

that is why fdr never shook hands with kevin hitler. okay. pretty nice guy, by the way. (laughter) >> stephen: solid dude. but he would help you move, you know, you call him up, kevin, would you help me move. and we say, you know, my brother is adolf hitler. and you go yeah, yeah, i know, but could you help me move, it is a five story walk up. and he would go i'm there, man, is there pizza. yeah, after we move there's pizza. but i'm not going to pay you the pizza before we move, you know, or bother or anything like that we move first. and then he goes it's raining. he goes nope, i'm there. that's kevin hitler. (applause) but perhaps the biggest outrage of the day had nothing to do with president obama, it had to do with the man standing a foot away from president obama. >> this is incredible. the sign language interpreter used at tuesday's memorial service for nelson mandela, right there on the stage, a foot away from the president of the united states, by 9 way, it turns out is being called a fake by the deaf federation of south africa. they're saying nothing he is doin

who has the worst fifth year and a very common answer is fdr. >> fdr comes out feeling quite empowered and overreaches basically. then he gets snapped back. a lesson that president seem to learn over and over again. >> who had the best -- you had the best third term. >> by far. >> you were an early adopter, innovator on twitter. you are aggressive. >> i am a time waster. >> how has social media changed in the past year at? what do you see happening in 2014? >> for myself, twitter is where i find the stories. >> politico is your politico. >> >> yes and nothing else will be my politico. i find out about a breaking news story on politico on twitter. you are not particularly active on twitter i should point out. dylan and a whole bunch of your reporters are on all the time and promoting each other stories. that is where i find out about them. i follow more than 2000 people from all walks of life and all over the world. it is the way i find out about what is going on. honestly it is a real-time newsfeed. also a way to interact with people. i find it most valuable as a news source. >> it is

. >> go back the last hundred years of public life, he doesn't compare to a roosevelt or fdr or woodrowilson. but where does he rank among the great public figures and game changers? >> the person i'd liken him to is george washington. he was the father of his country. he was the person who like george washington stepped down willingly. african leaders don't do that. they usually leave horizontally. that set the path for africa that had never been there before. so he's a man of the ages. >> finally as we watch this period of mourning, what should we know about modern south africa, such a young country but they had such a relationship with him often calling him father. often saying about old age it's time for him to rest. >> yes. and what people don't realize, it's a very young country. so the majority of people never really experienced nelson mandela as a leader. but the legacy of bringing people together, the legacy of bridging black and white, the legacy of bringing old and new is something that should live on for them. and i think it's a very hopeful time for them and should be. and

frank remembers fdrs voice on the radio. >> he talked every sunday night. if you were listening to it and looked out the window you wouldn't see anybody. the streets would be clean of pedestrians. he would begin with a very warm -- my friend. and he would warm up very quickly. he was a wonderful man. >> as fdrstarted the economy again, he saw action in the pacific. when the war was over he married his neighborhood sweetheart and they are still married today. is there optimism of the new century. >> if you look back in history there's those who have a dreadful look of things. but things always pan out some way. >> reporter: people say you are old when you stop accepting change. by that measure, frank isn't old yet. >>> we'll tell you the role alcatraz prison played against the gangsters who ran the booze trade. >>> tonight on a second look we're taking a look back at the prohibition years. and we met a man who never knew his father and found out that his father had been a police officer during the prohibition age. >> reporter: he has a house he bought for $1

this is the first administration since fdr that didn't want it until march of this year. >> and you think you can get that done before max baucus leaves? >> i'm hopeful that we can. you know, sometimes these confirmation -- confirmations take a little while. and hopefully, we can get that done. >> how about trans-pacific? >> the tpp, which is the trans- pacific partnership -- a lot of alphabet soup here, i think has to follow tpa. i don't think that the united states can negotiate the final agreement without letting countries know that we have a fast-track way to get this done for a yes-or-no vote on the floor of the house and senate, so i think you have to start with tpa. that's certainly been the experience over the years, so let's get that done first. then, i think it'll be easier to deal with the trans-pacific partnership. >> max baucus also was the democratic -- foremost democratic champion of some kind of tax reform, working withdave camp in the house. that's pretty much dead now, isn't it? >> no, actually - >> in this congress, will we have big tax reform? >> on trade and taxes, i

as a consequence of that, people were ready for fdr. it was just in a few months, there was not the popular will. it was a shame he didn't come into office a year later. he only had 1 weeks until scott brown came in and filibusteredded. they opposed structural changes, were not able to get through. pelosi pass the great legislation in the house, filibustered in the senate, so the structural stuff, reagan stopping the enforcement of the appty trust agent, you remember this, strip malls and shopping centers were havens of small locally owned businesses. you remember that the downtown of every town was local family owned businesses, some for generations, and not that way anymore. reagan stopped enforcing, and if we were to start enforcing the antitrust act, if we were to reinstate glass and separate commercial banking from gambling banking so they can't take your paycheck deposit and gamble with it on wall street, do that and undo graham's terrible legislation and end this phony bologna derivative market and bring back a manufacturing to t

king, and their fdr all rolled into one. nelson mandela wanted a country where babies were born into freedom and equality. of the two, it is equality that for so many remains a long walk. which brings us to tonight, after a day of heavy rain tonight's fog has blotted out the union buildings behind us. but beginning in a few hours, this is where nelson mandela will come to lie in state as the long farewell continues right up until burial next sunday. >>> that is for us our broadcast on a tuesday night. thank you for joining us. i'm brian williams reporting to the from pretoria, south africa. we, of course, hope to see you from our new york studios tomorrow evening. good night. ♪ >>> right now at 6:00, anger outside santa rosa city hall. the protesters you see here are trying to crash a city council meeting to express their outrage over the death of a teenager and the return to work for the sheriff's deputy who killed him. thanks for joining us. i'm janelle wang in for raj mathai. >> i'm jessica aguirre. the deputy is back on

just as fdr's polio transformed him. he was aware that fate dealt him an unkind hand.e reached out to other people whom had the same thing happen. >> wilson did not believe in a great class structure in this country. he was from a lower, lower middle class. being a minister's son. what believed; however, was the educate class. it was the class that mattered for him. as i said before, this is a man who spent most of his life in career on a college campus either as a student, professor, or president. this is a man who believed that was the great level leer of all playing field in this country. and so, the interesting thing when wilson became a politician, and it was a really fascinating tool he used. as a politician, he never spoke down the audience. he never got folksy. he used rather elevated language. he spoke invery belie without any notes. he get out there and could deliver an hour, hour and a half speech with a card and five bullets on it and speak in perfect sentences, heightened vocabulary. he could do. the fans loved it. they fund, they felt elevated by it. and

these same track beds were used when fdr took the train north to hyde park. something went wrong sunday morning. the process of determining if it was human error or mechanical error or both is now under way. so is the grieving for the victims of this crash and recovery for the injured. we begin tonight just above the scene of the wreck with nbc's tom costello. tom, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. behind me is the george washington bridge. down below, the tracks flooded with lights. they have removed all of the trains. the ntsb talked to the engineer on the train. we don't know exactly what he's told them about the crash. it's not clear that there wasn't a mechanical problem. but we can say that the ntsb is looking very closely at what the engineer did. on the tracks in the bronx, crews lifted the remains of the broken train as investigators went in for a closer look. tons of twisted steel scraped and crushed from sunday's violent crash. late today the ntsb announced the two black boxes recovered from the train have revealed a stunning developm

when millions lived in poverty fdr fought for social security, and minimum wage. when millions died without health insurance, lbj fought for medicare and medicaid. together we have forged a new deal, declared a war on poverty in a great society, we built a ladder of opportunity, and stretched out a safety net beneath so if we fell, we could bounce back, and as a result america built the largest middle class the world has ever known. and for the three decades after world war ii, it was the engine of our prosperity. we -- we can't look at the past through rose-colored glasses, the economy didn't always work for everyone. racial discrimination locked millions out of poverty -- or out of opportunity. women were too often confined to a handful of often poorly paid professions, and it was only through pain staking struggle that more women and mine nor advertise and americans with disabilities began to win the right to more fairly and fully participate in this the economy. nevertheless, during the post world war ii years, the economic ground felt stable and secure for mo

wilsons showed it as a political favourite. 27 years later fdr converted a cloakroom into a screening room. that is the white house movie theatre. the 40 seat room is far from perfect, narrow and directors complained about sound and focus issues. still, dwight d. eisenhower watched more than 200 westerns during his two terms. president kennedy put his famous rocking chair in the middle of the front row to help with the back pain, and later had an orthopaedic bed to watch propped up on pillars. kennedy watched "from russia with love" the night before his il-faith trip to dallas. >> lbj was not a movie pan, but watch a documentary called "a president's country" 18 times. jimmy carter viewed nearly 500 films, the first "all the president's men". president kenny had an awkward screening with "the apostle", hillary clinton diffused the tension saying, "just another quiet day at the white house. >> films of significance from lincoln, "the butler", but he is not all business. the president made "high school musical 3 and other musicals available for his daughter. >> coming up n.a.s.a. plays

decentralized political and economic power has been changed with policies and we detail it back from fdr all the way back up with what we have done with all good intentions, it has fundamentally changed the concept of america. but this is not doomsday for us. and that is what a recount in the book. we are at a point where we can still control our own destiny and we can pull ourselves away from the cliff. we do not have to balance the budget this year. we have to show ourselves in the world that we are committed and we are determined and we have a plan. we have a plan to move towards a balanced budget and get our fiscal situation under control. we can do that over a 10 year period of time in a rational and transitional way that did not cause hardship except for federal government employees that may need to seek other employment. i detail what we call freedom solutions. heritage helped to develop a lot of them to give people more freedom and prosperity. what we can do to open our own energy supplies. not only creating jobs, but the revenue to the federal and state governments to deal with