i and the deputy director here at the fdr presidential library it is my honor to welcome you to the 11th annual festival. let me go over a couple of things would everyone please take out your electronic devices and tear them off so we don't have interruptions today. the next is if you have not had an opportunity to see the exhibit installed last year at this time we will be happy to give you one of these buttons to get you into the galleries for free today. and a? thanks to our friends from c-span they are great supporters of all the programs and they are back today. to talk about how the session will go, amity shales will speak roughly 30 minutes she likes to do something very interactively she will talk about the process and how we came to fruition but then she is very open to questions from audiences to the above to take as many as possible. come up to the microphone so c-span can catch your voice and face then was that is over we will go out to the new deal bookstore she will sign all the copies that you want to buy. she also wants to let you know, that "the forgotten man" is now thr

fdr being charming and money platoon and elusive. which of these figures did you find harder to grasp and why? >> that's interesting, all the adjectives are describing theodore r. all positive. to or three of them for franklin or negative. they're both equally disturbing and equally magnificent. franklin roosevelt is a much better president and the much better in some ways human bein beings. but you will be infuriated by his manipulative as an opacity, and at least early on his sort of overweening ambition. they're all complicated people. william shakespeare was described by john keats as having negative capability, the ability to hold intention these things, when the rest of us want to make a judgment, good or bad, yes or no, red state or blue state, gay or straight, whatever it is, we have to superimpose on the other. and the best figures in our lives and in the, art, our literature, is where we have held the very comforted facets of the human being and tension. i think that's a we tried to do in this series. >> most historians ran

the fdr dreaded budget deficits as much as he saw the homelessness. turned back to be indispensable. of the public works administration at its peak in 1938 to get along. fdr was a master of improv.nt he would say above all try something. a couple of anecdotes but it was passing with astonishing speed. another from iowa was part of a husband's paycheck and he was out of there two years with oranges. >> i have not tasted one in so long i forgot what they tasted like she told lorena hickok. then a gentleman at of works as a teen 30 allowed his daughter to order the high-school class ring. so i got the ring. lorena hickok told him and it was the impression how fast the new deal was going through and he thought for sure he should have a job by now. the job ended bet a week or so he was back on relief. most of the time with that kind of work we cannot do this or that because we cannot afford it. the that procedural risk and told to go ahead to get the reprimand to turner to the judge said on monday morning. and now i am happy to take questions. [applause] >

. >>> a visit to fdrs floating white house which is now anchor at jack london square. blood pressure >>> today we're looking back at the roosevelts. teddy roosevelt served four terms. mackenzie looks at what roosevelt's new deal accomplished in america. >> reporter: a great depression had cast a chilling shadow across the land. a stock market crash, a series of violent strikes, collapsing farm prices and a generally stalled economy had thrown millions of americans out of work. >> i think it was about the worse catastrophe i've ever seen in my life. that includes two stints of war that i was in. you just couldn't find anything to do. >> we kids would go out and we would just be looking for a job. >> reporter: men who were turned down for jobs over and over began to feel there was something wrong with them. the suicide rate multiplied. >> there was a man in a house adjacent to us. he would play cards in the upstairs all the time. so my sister went up to get him one day for lunch and he was hanging from one of the rafters. absolute dispair i guess. >> reporter: things beg

i've just been thinking about why did fdr ran for his third term. i think by the end of his second term had there not been war in europe he would not have run again or even if he might have wanted to stay in office he too loved it just like teddy roosevelt did. somebody asked him once why would anyone want to be president but it's so hard and you have to make all these decisions. he said what do you mean? everybody should want to be president. it's the greatest job in the world but still he knew by the end of the 30s that the new deal was sputtering out and there was new opposition to him and people did want a third term or any president. once the war broke out i think he really did believe that he had the experience and therefore the capacity to lead the country. this was in 39 and before we to the world. .. and as long as he could tell himself, and that's why when he didn't go to his own convention in 1940 because he wanted to make it feel like he was being drafted,, they wanted him rather than he was looking for a third term, and in fact that is

i think of james mcgregor burns theing away in this 2014, great fdr biographer.there was to know. what do you bring new here? >> we bring a lot of things. one of the things is we put them all three together, which seems kind of obvious in retrospect, but it has never been done before. these are three people all born with the last name roosevelt, they are interconnected. there is no franken or eleanor without theodore in his early progressive underpinnings. he sort of set the course, set a block for franklin roosevelt, even though they are from different parties, and i think that if the intertwined, sort of complicated russian novel of a story. we run for tonight on pbs will stop tonight is the teens and oh, my goodness, it gets more comic hated, third-party move on assumingess of tr, fdr assistant secretary of state 80, betraying his wife. it gets curiouser and curiouser as these episodes proceed. >> the pivot of fdr, i put that as the commonwealth speech of 1932. was the nation ready for the new deal? oh, most definitely. they were starving for a full stop you a

and fdr were strikingly different personalities with t.r. being boisterous and brilliant, fdr being charming and manipulative and elusive. which of these figures did you find harder to grasp and why? [laughter] >> that's interesting, all the adjectives describing theodore are all positive, and two out of three of them for franklin are negative, so there's a little bit of the thumb on the scale. they're both equally magnificent. franklin roosevelt is the much better president and the much better, in some ways, human being, i think. but you will be infuriated by his manipulativeness and to passty and at least -- opacity and at least early on his ambition. but they're all complicated people. william shakespeare was described by john keats as having the ability to hold intention these things when the rest of us want to make a judgment -- good or bad, gay or straight, whatever it is we have to superimpose on the other. and the best figures in our lives and in our drama, our art, our literature is where we have held the very complicated facets of

fdr used to call it sob stuff. i'm older now and i was absolutely prepared to do this without a moments emotion. a master interviewer got me on the second question. >> host: what was the question? >> guest: i had avoided asking him about it. i think he was pent-up not to respond and not to have an emotional reaction. we don't have to point neon signs and the way in which the story of the roosevelts resonate with the questions of the day and we don't have to put signs up today that geoffrey ward polio victim and in fact that's the wrong word. what we wanted to do was clearly communicate that he was someone who knew what was going on that had a first-hand understanding and could help us understand just in the wail of the roosevelts took what they learned about life in the diversities they had overcome and helped everyone else overcome. i think geoff becomes a kind of guide to what it must have been like for franklin roosevelt. >> guest: i hope we have done that. i think we have so that once you understand that the la

>> fdr and president obama both basically believed had you to attack success. look what drives economic recovery. it's business investment. that's where those higher wages that rick and others point to, that's missing, that's where it comes from. during the reagan boom, business investment was 22% of gdp. during president obama's recovery it's only been 17%. why should we be surprised? this president has raised a combine top tax rate for dividend and capital gains to 43.4% from 35%. he's punishing successful investment. naturally, you're going to get less of it. >> and sabrina, all boats were rising in the 1980s. the lowest 1/5 of the population had incomes rising at the same level, just about, as the top fifth. now it's very unequal. >> right. and look, this point we can create conditions for success is so important. one of the problems is that government, they do deserve a lot of blame, because they've been floundering around micromanaging wages and pushing for conversation about contraception than saying we need more energy kploration, bring our corporate ta

fdr used to call it sob stuff. didn't want to write about it. i'm older now. to do it without a moment's notion. and ken got me on the second question. was the question? > i had avoided asking him about it. i think he was hyped up not to to have an el motional reaction. i danced around it and i said it hell.be and he just said -- i said so.as and don't have tos we point neon signs with the way they resonate with all of the questions of the day. put signs that say jeffrey ward, polio victim. that's the wrong word. we wanted to do is clearly communicate that he was someone going on.hat was that under -- firsthand understanding and help us way all d just in the of the roosevelts took what they and the bout life adversity they faced and overcome. a guide to what it was like for franklin roosevelt. >> once you understand the last you watch him, you realize as you have before, hat he's going through just to make a public appearance, make a speech. host: barbara up next, blair, nebraska on the line for independents. good morning. > >>. caller: we marked the calendar

i was surprised he said fdr. he was a kid in harlem and he said roosevelt changed life for the poor in a way that permanently won over his heart. fdr is wildly hailed as one of the greatest presidents of all time. the man who passed the new deal and defeated hitler. he's just one part of one of the most impactful families, which included his cousin teddy who gave us national parks and his wife eleanor who changed the role of women in america. so, it makes perfect sense that ken burns, master documentarian had to bring the ken burns touch to qult the root vel-- "the roo seven days on pbs. >> they occupy the white house first 45 years of the 20th century. years of which much of the modern world and the modern state was created. they shared a sense of stewardship of the american land. and unfeigned love for people and politics. and a firm belief that the united states had an important role to play in the wider world. >> in the guest spot today we're honored to have ken burns back on the show once again. ken, please

fdr was famously available to the press. can you talk more about his relationship with the press and how it shaped its historical image? >> well, that's a really good question. and he was famously accessible, as i describe. i don't think it's shaped his historical image. in fact, the image that comes down to me is the this one that i was describing a little bit earlier. a sense of how kind of naive earlier times were where they turned off the camera. that the secret service would turn off your camera or confiscate your film or it was just a jentle man's agreement that we wouldn't cover the degree that their president was aflikted with polio. there's discretion, but it is in no means naive. they knew as franklin roosevelt knew, as his advisors knew, that to see this process -- ladies and gentlemen, there were many, many audiences when this was on full display. it was a secret, it was held by hundreds of thousands of americans who got to meet the president or see the president or hear the president up close and in person. but

fdr put a klansman on the supreme court. put jimmy byrnes of south carolina on the supreme court who blocked the anti lynching law. for decades the democratic party used the issue of race to maintain the solidity of the northern liberal southern coalition. adlai stevenson, carried the same states advice stevenson carried, was that because stevenson was a tougher guy on foreign policy than dwight eisenhower? no. stevenson put on his ticket john starkman of alabama who was a signer of the dixie manifesto which called for massive resistance to integration and passive resistance to the supreme court decision when he was a senior in high school so the democrats were as we read in that piece, but that the column are robe with nixon and for nixon where i said nixon went south and he said let's leave it to be dixiecrats' to squeeze the last ounces of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice and nixon voted for the civil rights act of 1957-1960, 1964, 65, 68, he desegregated the south. once the south was desegrega

fdr put a klansman on the supreme court. put jimmy burns the south killing on the supreme court who brought the anti-lynching law.hs wh so for decades the democratic party used the issue of race to maintain the solidity of thesolf northern liberal southerner the coalition. whatn happened was adlai stevenson, the states wallacesae carried ones that he carried with eisenhower is that because he was tougher have foreign policy? he put on his ticket to a man from alabama from the tickseed manifesto calling for resistance to integration and passive resistance to the supreme court decision. so the democrats look at the column i wrote for nixon when he went south leave it to the dixiecrats to squeeze the last ounce of political juice out of that racial injustice. and he voted for the civil-rights act 1964 and 65 and he desegregated the south. but naturally the south moved from the conservative convictions but only after it was desegregated. and to take it on in that book. and read all confederate states every single time they ran a

it's remembered as one of fdr's most popular political moves.richard gill, was it really necessary? what had happened to the money supply? well, the money supply shrank drastically between 1929 and 1933. by money supply, we mean not just coins and currency, but also our checking accounts in the banks. since we make most major purchases by checks, rather than cash these deposits are the most important part of our money supply. commercial banks can actually create these deposits, actually create money. this seems a bit much, but it's a simple consequence of our old friend, fractional-reserve banking. let's follow a million-dollar deposit in the banking system. let's suppose a rich widow frightened by the panic of 1907, has been keeping her million in cash under her mattress. now, in the twenties she deposits it in the bank. the bank has $1 million more in cash, and she has a million-dollar demand deposit. here's the fractional part. the bank lends out $800,000 to businessmen. the businessmen withdraw this money. our bank now looks like this. the b

people who opposed fdr. same thing in this question, is it more important to help england or stay out of the war? republicans are flat. supporters of fdr are increasing supporters of fdr are increasing in support. we see this through mid-1940. they are more informed and more engaged. the more likely you are to support that position. this changed after pearl harbor. we have mean levels of support, we can see this in the convergence of opinion. one inning thing about world war ii is the kinds of support questions that john mentioned. was it a mistake to get involved? the closest they came is in 20 years, do you think other people will think it's a mistake ta enter the war. in part it's a sign of the high level of support there was for world war ii. basically pollsters were not asking the questions today. they didn't think there would be differences. there were questions that indirectly got at the u.s. position of unconditional surrender. a bunch of times they asked would you support making peace with the germa

here is something with fdr. when you look at that it is hard to describe how exciting that can feel to see the actual material. here is a cartoon that came about when he was fighting to get this library put forward and they are saying here is fdr as santa claus giving himself his hyde park memorial. there was a lot of opposition. one lady send him a check for $1 and -- $0.20 i think and said i couldn't send more because of the economy. there was a lot of criticism about doing this. you learn sometimes by bumping into something about someone. everything i always read about roosevelt was asked at pearl harbor, he was depressed, couldn't believe the navy was gone and here he was thinking about his presidential library to next day. roosevelt kept his hand in everything and one of the things you do, you look at these presidents and learn lessons about how to live and you see roosevelt would never have had to say you know what? this guy ran my bank account, i didn't know he invested that or i did know this, if you loo

it's making our country hard for governor because the congress is stronger than in fdr firms and i think in congress we could lose the election. in 2005-2006 when the republicans in the house did not accept a senate bill and focus on deportations is when the big shift in the vote happened in american politics, 2006. the house republicans talking about deportation is what put the republican party in a bad place, and the latinos could be doing it again and they could drive their numbers down to the low 20s. >> and it happens in california with pete wilson. this is where it really started. the republicans played a blunder. they should have taken that senate bill but they couldn't because their members were hearing from their constituents. if you're the chamber of commerce and want to get something done, you need to educate th the constituents. >> matt, i really want to hear from you how to smooth out latino participation so they and other minority voters don't disappear mid terms and then come back surging in polling places in national years. >> simon said it earlier. you need to invest in

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fdr put a klansman on supreme court who had blocked the anti-lynching law.decades the democratic party used the issue of race maintain the so lidty of the northern liberal southern coalition. what happened was adlai stevenson. the states wallace carried were the same states stevenson carried againstizen lawyer. was that because stevenson was a tougher guy in foreign policy than dwight david eisenhower? no. .. and 1964, 1965, 1968, and desegregated the south. once the that was off the table, naturally the south moved from its conservative conviction but only after the desegregation. i'm happy to take that on. the liberals wiping and complaining. none of them wind when fdr, won all confederate states every time he ran. >> pat, we are live streaming this program tonight, and we asked our viewers to submit their questions on e-mail, and i'm going to ask one of them, from gary kim of denver, colorado. what are your memories of election night, 1968? >> well, they're fairly terrifying. [laughter] teddy white in his book, says, -- some of you know the fella's name.

it's fdr in his third term. >> what's the joy and the beauty for you of, dare i say, living in the past man. i have to tell you that i'm digging it. i have to tell you that "perfidia," the title of this derives from a great latin-tinged big band song. i feel the patriotic fervor of the time. i got beautiful humped back '40 ford coups going by at all time. i have about 10 suits like that pinstripe you're wearing now. men had to wear hats to go outside. what a time. i live it. >> yeah. >> i've got a big buick super convertible. red leather interior. it's white. plaque top. black top. i have a couple of staffordshire bulldogs and they stick their big snouts out the window and get that cold air coming in. and i'm a little scared because pearl harbor was just bombed, and we could be next. but i'm hanging in strong, and, tavis, you and i are both too old to be drafted. we're going to sit this one out. >> which is ok by me. >> it's ok by me too. >> the inspiration for your stuff comes from multiple places? >> yeah. there's the famous story, my mother was murdered when i was 10. unsolved crime

friends that what richard nixon did in the 20th century is matched only by one other man and that's fdrated that coalition which dominated the white house. i guess if you exclude eisenhower seven through nine presidencies after 1932. let me tell you a little bit then go back and try to tell some of the story as much as i can do in the limited time we have available. the first words i heard from the president of the united states where these. buchanan was that you throwing the eggs? [laughter] he had just been inaugurated and delivered his inaugural speech was coming up pennsylvania avenue and his limousine was showered with debris and rocks and eggs and everything and he showed up at the white house and was going into the viewing stand and shelly and i were walking into the viewing stand alone these boards that the secret service had put down because it was so muddy. i heard behind me the secret service kept saying could you step off the board sir? i stepped off the boards and in walks a person of united states. that is when he said buchanan was that you throwing the eggs? [laughter] le

with fdr after polio transformed him, made him clearly more related to other people for whom fate an unkind hand. where with a whole bunch of other people, also in the state senate there were irish guys, first they looked down on them, i have to get along with them. eleanor, do, adversity. of having that mother who called her granny and father who was alcoholic. yet she finds herself in madam sylvester's home and boarding house wants to couple back serve other people. they got their sense of full i willment it was way removed from just elite world. >> let's just play this clip here about eleanor. >> the living link between them was theodore roosevelt's best loved muse and franklin's wife, eleanor. she had learned to face fear and master it long before her husband declared that the only thing americans had to fear was fear itself. her own character and energy and devotion to principles would make her the most consequential first lady and one of the most consequential women in american history. >> schieffer: one of the most consequential women in american history, you convinced me as i

here's something with fdr, grand. and when you look at that, it's hard to even describe how exciting that can feel the actually see the actual material. here's the cartoon that game about when he was fighting to to get this library put forward, and they're saying, look, here's fdr as santa claus giving himself his hyde park memorial. there was a lot of opposition. one lady sent in a check for $1 and said -- no, i'm sorry 20 cents and said i don't send more because of the economy. and so there was a lot of criticism about doing this. you learn sometimes by bumping into something about someone. everything i'd always read about roosevelt was after pearl harbor. he was depressed, here he is thinking about his presidential library the next day. roosevelt kept his happened in everything. his hand in everything. and one of the things you do as you go across, you look at these presidents, and you learn lessons about how to live. and you see that roosevelt would never have had to say, you know what? this guy ran my bank accoun

s legislative aide as a congressman. >> rose: fdr, jr.elped jack kennedy get elected in west virginia, played a powerful role because hubert humphrey was a powerful opponent. >> very powerful. quite dirty. >> rose: being a lawyer never appealed to you. >> i was going to do exactly that but i was failing in my harvard interview, my first harvard interview and the guy was totally bored with what he was saying. and i was saying i don't really want to do this. i don't want to just do exactly what my father did. i would like to try to write a novel or write novels. so that failed, and so i thought -- >> rose: falling upward. >> failing upward. that was a great period of tv comedies in my book, mary tyler moore, sanford and son, bob new heart show, bob reiner, he became my teacher in film. i thought that was great. if you don't have the courage to be a novelist you could write for tv comedies and finally i have a tv comedy out. >> rose: some have said i don't remember friends you see the world through the prism of the great gatsby. >> i think i

fdr at war from 1941 through 1942. walter isaacson, the innovators, how a group of inventors and geniuses and geeks created the digital revolution. >> i wanted to look at real people at the computer and the internet and how innovation truly happened. it was something that came out before that, to say who made that type of person and how did they end up being successful? and the book is not just about this but collaborations. one of the things that i discovered in doing this book is that real innovation comes from great things and not just great leaders. >> the 2014 national book awards long list includes tennessee williams and matt pilgrimage of the/, age of ambition, chasing truth. and nature's god, the heretical origins of the american republic. >> let me lay my cards on the table here. and i will just tell you right now but in my view and i will try to testify this later, the christian nation myth is something worse than a false misinterpretation. i see it as a sort of betrayal of the american revolution and i think

we had clear objectives, there were men like marshall and fdr and others that were in the leadershipitions. and we managed to handle it in a way that seemed very satisfying in the end. it was the first time in our history that the winner paid reparations when you think about it. i mean, up until that point it was unheard of. the loser had to pay for the war. but when you think about the marshall plan and everything we did, it was the winner that took our adversaries and raised them up, germany and japan. and i think in many ways that's always been our model. when we think about committing our military, that's the good war. no wars are good, of course, but it's a good war in the sense that it seemed just. everything we did seemed on the, from the perspective of the moral high ground. the leadership was in place. we had a strategy, we had an end state. and so these sorts of things were sort of set in concrete as the way that we would commit our military. but think what's happened since then. the korean war, vietnam war, iraq, afghanistan, somalia and many other maybe smaller commitment

the opening begins with a bold prediction of the young fdr made himself when he was first starting his career as a legal clerk on wall street. >> the junior clerks were idly talking about their dreams for the future. most hoped just to become partners one day. ♪ but one had far bigger dreams. he didn't plan to practice law for long, he said. he intended to go into politics and eventually become president of the united states. the speaker was just 25 years old, an undistinguished student and indifferent lawyer but no one laughed. his name after all was franklin roosevelt. his fifth cousin theodore roosevelt was already president. the youngest in history. >> joining me is the filmmaker the great ken burns. i think people don't realize how enormously popular teddy roosevelt was in his time. he was the first media president that everybody knew and knew what he looked like and everything. >> i think so. he completely redefined the presidency. he was young. he was energetic. he was essentially himself even though he's got kind of harvard or certainly upper crust accent and he's got coke bott

like truman succeeding fdr.eople who liked fdr -- they would say toerr is human. >> james madison suffering compared to tall red headed thomas jefferson. i really think, although i'm certain it's that, in this millieu, i think anybody would have gotten it. the republican party was suffering the disease of the victors, which is in-fighting. with thomas jefferson sort of sweeping into town with this new party, the federalists were on their way out. they weren't going to let go without a fight but they were still on the way out. instead of holding together, the wife of mitchell from new york said why do they keep fighting. they are trying to pull and splinter with him. james madison's greatest enemies were his fellow republicans. so thank you very much. >>> we're back live at the decatur house as the conference commemorating war of 1812 and burning of washington. this is day two of a two-day conference. another day long presentation by historians and authors, geo politic and causes of the war of 1812, british captu

people who opposed fdr. same thing in this question, is it more important to help england or stay out of the war? republicans are flat. supporters of fdr are increasing in support. and we see this through mid-1941. you know, should we let germany keep land in exchange for peace? supporters of fdr, more informed, more engaged you are, the more likely you are to support that position. now, this change aftd after pea harbor, but we see it not just in the mean levels of support among republicans and democrats, we can see this in the convergence of opinion. now, one interesting thing about world war ii is the kinds of support questions john mentioned about the mistake, was it a mistake to get involved, so familiar to us, this question was never asked after u.s. entry into world war ii. the closest it came was in 20 years do you think other people will think it was a mistake to enter the war? which i think is in part a sign of the high level of support that there was for world war ii, that basically pollsters were

remember when fdr had his meeting with churchill. he made it clear, i'm going to lead here. churchill moved to the white house, and mr. fdr said i'm making this crystal clear. you're not going to colonize. we are going to lead. you're going to take our directions from us. i don't see that happening with this president with the coalition. he's like, what do you guys think we should do. let's get together and have a meeting and discuss the best strategy. we know what the best strategy is. our military leaders know what the best strategy is. all we need is a leader to tell the rest of the coalition, here's the plan, here's how we're going to execute it. once you do that, then you have a leader, not anna layoff president that nobody can nail down. >> neil: we might be hearing you after all these visits. craig smith calls them like he says them. i want you to look at some other pictures. these are coming out of hong kong. from speaking out on social media. easier said than done. to our fox all stars is this more proof we should be happy to be american. tracy, what do you think? >

fdr junior was the under secretary of commerce. my father worked for him.to that, he was working at fdr junior's legislative aide as a congressman. >> jack kennedy, west virginia, played a powerful role. being a lawyer never killed to you? or a politician? >> i was having a feeling in my harvard interview -- the guy was totally bored with what i was saying. i was saying, i don't want to do this. i don't want to do what my father did. i want to write novels. >> that is calling falling upward. >> that was a great. of tv comedies, mary tyler moore, sanford and son, all in the family. i thought that was great. finally, i have a tv comedy on. >> some of your friends have said about you that you see the world through the prism of the great gatsby. >> i think it is more this side of paradise. it is more juvenile romantic. >> all the characters in your novel are not indulgent, they are sending romantically. >> yes. you can wear those glasses. you can look at the world through a romantic lens. i think that the best model for a lot of us who are working in this area,

eisenhower and truman, fdr, everybody thinks they know them. until this stuff rolled in and patton himself, who is an amazing figure, by the way. just an amazing, amazing american. and that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox news factor website which is different than bill o'reilly.com. o'reilly@foxnews.com. if you wish to opine. word of the day, brand new word. do not be tautological. if you think jocund was hard -- no, it's in every dictionary. look it up. you look it up, you'll never forget it. i tell you. two minutes later, what did that idiot say? if you look it up, you'll never regret it. thanks for watching us tonight. i'm bill o'reilly. please always remember this stops here. >>> breaking tonight, homeland security issues a new bulletin to law enforcement warning that last night's air strikes in syria could ramp up the threat of lone wolf terror attacks by extremists right here in the united states. welcome to the kelly file, everybody. i'm megyn kelly. the associated press breaking this story in just the last couple of hour

my great grandfather helped woodroe wilson and fdr become president.d him, the more i saw that as i got into the this and i had all of the myths of harding in my head when i started looking at this that had harding become president in 1916, and he had a good chance to do so, the world would have been very different, i think. it's always dank trous gerous tt ifs. the fact is he would have gone in and won -- had he tried, won the nomination instead of charles evans hues who was a very lackluster candidate. brilliant man. supreme court justice, governor of new york, later secretary of state. but not a very good campaigner. still woodroe wilson almost did not beat him. one of the big differences was ohio. ohio went for wilson by 90,000 votes. that was 24 electoral votes at that time. it would have been a landslide the other way for harding had he won easily just as did he in 1920 when he beat jamest kox, a newspaper man running for kox communication today running in 1920. i think had harding been president in 1916 that you would have had a different questi

we have seen masters of that and ronald reagan and fdr and the fireside chat.t is what i call the my fellow american speech. you have got to give them. has to be given in clear, concise terms. it has got to give in and the in which you appear decisive. i often quote my daughter. she says in her president she wants to see her father and the white house. not me, but she wants the idea of a father in the white house. everything is ok and dad's in charge. >> she would probably like to see da in the white house. >> i think she is smarter than that. >> what is the threat of isis? and how should we meet the threat, and what would you do and recommend the president do? >> the threat is they can destabilize iraq quickly. they cannot take baghdad, but they can infiltrate it, create violence and chaos that it would basically affect iraq. i would worry now that -- >> iran would not let it happen. >> in the shia areas. iraq, i worry about how you're going to put this back together again. rds have gone their own way. there is still an issue of the sunni provinces and what wi

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why did wallace lose favor with fdr and the democrats? why did he become the candidate for the aggressive party? -- the progressive party? >> that is a long question. some historians have claimed that he never lost favor with roosevelt, and somehow political bosses mola belated -- manipulated to get him out. roosevelt knew that wallace was a problem. roosevelt also knew that he was in bad health. there was some concern over whether wallace was a safe candidate to be president. i don't think roosevelt thought he was. as a matter of fact, when wallace came in and said what can i do to help the ticket? what can i do to put the whole team together and make things go better for us? roosevelt suggested he take a trip to siberia. [laughter] >> that's roosevelt. and wallace went. [laughter] by the time he got back, the knife was in, and truman was art of the candidate. that is the first part of the question. how did you become a candidate for president in 1948? simple financer, he originally wanted to challenge truman in the primaries. i don't th

registration after the fact of renting out a short-term rental the registration should be in advance of the fdr and in terms of the permission under the tenant to get the permission from the landlord/tenants it should be required from the landlords not only notification privacy some people actually said they want to keep all of this private but when necessarily they registered to vote and signed up for a driver's license number their information was public somehow people feel this should be private until the legislation can actually assure all of us. it will stop the local i don't think it's ready for ath

registration after the fact of renting out a short-term rental the registration should be in advance of the fdr and in terms of the permission under the tenant to get the permission from the landlord/tenants it should be required from the landlords not only notification privacy some people actually said they want to keep all of this private but when necessarily they registered to vote and signed up for a driver's license number their information was public somehow people feel this should be private until the legislation can actually assure all of us. it will stop the local i don't think it's ready for at that particular time time and not fartdz actually written in the legislation i'll ask as one other commenter said we see the actual text of the amendments in advance of the next hearing thank you thank you. >> so i realize my colleagues reminded me we have a recess coming up another 1 o'clock but those folks (calling names) if you're still here i want to give you an opportunity to speak seeing they're not here i have 27 more speaker cards - oh, you're he you're here come up. >> i thought it was

growing up, we had basement pictures of fdr autographs and wilson.he more i studded and saw that as i got into this -- i had the myths of harding in my head when i looked at this. that had harding become president in 1916, and he had a good chance to do so, the world would have been very different, i think. it's dangerous to do what ifs. what if somebody had done this. but the fact of the matter is, he would have gone and -- he had tried, won the nomination instead of hughes, what was very lackluster. brilliant man. supreme court justice, governor of new york. harding's secretary of state who did the washington naval conference. wilson almost did not beat him. one of the big differences was ohio. ohio went for wilson. by 90,000 votes. that was 24 electoral votes at that time. it would have been a landslide the other way for harding had he won easily as did he in 1920 when he beat a fellow ohioan, also a newspaper man. running in 1920. i think had harding been president in 1916 that you would have had a different question about whether we got involved