fdr was not heard from.hat went on in his mind during that period is in historian school, but no one will ever know because he never wrote it and he never told anyone what was in his mind. that didn't keep me from speculating a little bit in this book, but that is the license of in historian. in any case he won the election in this election i maintain was one of the most consequential in american history. his decision to run for her term really was justified. the first consequence was to put in place a man of proven it aaronson ability to lead this country through world war ii and we are now in evidence of how he took command of the anglo-american alliance immediately after pearl harbor and among other things, that the alliance from launching across the channel invasion of france in 1942, which would have been in an educated disaster. george marshall was the primary proponent for that. this election began the eclipse of isolationism in america. america had always an isolationist nation come of it ever since

wasthe truth is, the last fdr. and probably beyond given the degree of the complexity of the operation. >> it would have given him a second term. the book is called the end of greatness, why americans can't have and don't want another great resident. greatgument is because presidents come on the top of the crisis that is threatening to the country at large. thank you. aaron david miller. back in a moment, stay with us. ♪ >> many say he has the best job in the world and has been the main photographer of victoria's secret. his work has appeared in vogue, sports illustrated, and his work focuses on the female form. and how did you come to photography? >> i am probably an accidental photographer. i have a very diverse background , making trash cans, i trained dogs. i was a police officer for five years. there was a photographer i was assisting. i saw an image lifted out of the when digital was still in myth. it was a singular moment that grabbed me and this is what i wanted to do. >> regardless of if the camera whatgit

and the truth is the last good war was fdr. truly fdr's war. >> rose: what if jimmy carter had rescued the hostages? that's equivalent to osama bin laden. >> it would have been altered. >> rose: given him second term for sure. >> i would think. >> rose: why america can't have and don't want another great president. the argument why they don't want of course is because great presidents obviously come on the top of a crises that is threatening to the country at large. thank you. a pleasure. >> thank you. >> rose: aaron david miller. back in a moment. stay with us. >> rose: russell james is here. he's an australian born fashion photographer. say he has the best job in the world. for the past 15 years he's been the main photographer of victoria secrets. his work appeared in vogue, sports illustrated and w magazine. his new look focuses of the female for it is called angels. i'm pleased to have russell james on this program. how did you come to photography? >> i'm probably an accidental photographer. my curiosity was my single answe

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to me one of the essential the noble things about fdr is the division of government.if it's not just its aspirations that the government can do, it is the realism about what our expectations of government should be. it's always going to fall short of the expectations and there is a tension between the aspirations for government and limited expectations for the ability to do it. we have to believe that these problems are worth solving and we have to understand that in a lot of ways it's beyond our ability to solve them and john f. kennedy had of it, too. i think that he departed a major way as he is passing all these programs he communicates to the country as though the problems that affect humankind throughout its history during the reach of solving. these are the most hopeful times at the time he gives that speech in october of 1964, johnson is on the other side of the country and he says it is a time of peace on earth and goodwill among men and the timing is now. that's a pretty remarkable expectation for government. and it is inevitably going to fail to meet that a

henry wallace, many may remember, was vice president under fdr in late world war ii. had he has been vice president and so truman, things might've been very different. instead, he was vice president and became secretary of commerce later. he was famous for being the most prominent u.s. politician in the early years of the cold war for standing up against what he saw and many saw was a wrongheaded, overly confrontational policy with the soviet union. has your research complicated your understanding of the views of those two men and how they relate to one another? >> absolutely. not just those two men, but many others. realize first that their ideas were very much, as henry wallace, he was a man seeing himself as the legacy of the fdr and the new deal and the desire to extend those democratic policies of the world. that is what people recognize that the time. that is what scared a lot of people. that is what made a lot of people like hoover very skeptical. by doing the research, you get to see both figures as beyond the slogans. see them behind the scenes, marrying thos

going to compare him to with fdr or washington. >> since fdr, lbj who gave us medicare and medicaidway big thing. >> rose: and civil rights. >> and civil rights. >> rose: vietnam was there and -- >> right. >> rose: he didn't know how to handle it. >> but then, let me do the reagan comparison, reagan trying to move the country in an opposite direction from where i wanted it to go, reagan is touted as a great president but the fact is -- formative by guess who? president obama. >> right. but -- okay. but, in fact, in fact, he wasn't, that's the amazing thing, if you were somebody who wanted to see the u.s. welfare state unravel, if you were somebody who want to see a radically smaller government reagan did not deliver that, in the end he left the structure pretty much the way it was. obama on the other hand has left us with healthcare is now essentially a right of legal residence of the united states. so obama has achieved a permanent transformation of america a way reagan did not. and by my analysis that makes obama a more important president in the end than reagan was. >> rose: ther

implement to be a leader in addressing this issue, presentation by jonathan lyens president of the fdr democratic club of san francisco for senior and people with disabilities. >> thank you council members, once again, my name is jonathan lyens and i am the president of the fdr democratic club for the people with disabilities and there are a couple of disclaimers at the beginning. i am a proud city employee this issue is personal for me, and the city of san francisco is a place that gave me a lot of my first shots, you know, began my career with the city, and actually working in the mayor's office and then i had more opportunities, afforded to me by the city's department of human resources, and calahan personally, is a mentor of mine, and somebody that i respect very, very much, and really gave me an opportunity to learn a lot about labor and employment and i have moved on to the city's department of public health and so i had a lot of opportunities in the city and i come at this issue as somebody who wants to see other folks with disabilities qualified applicants with disabilities aff

do you know why they built a new one when the old one was what fdr specified? >> well -- and i think i forgot a few. the congressional cemetery, pierce mill, the old fdr memorial -- i forgot to put that in, but it is still there. there's a lot of controversy now about the eisenhower memorial and whether or not he would want a very large memorial. i think it is, frankly -- seems to be the trend at the moment. you know, there has been discussion about truman. the state department is named for harry s truman, and there has been a bill introduced in congress to name union station because he needs a building. well, he has a building. i don't know. i don't remember exactly. i was talking to someone about the jefferson memorial, and fdr pushed that memorial. apparently, it is because jefferson was a democrat, and there had been a huge memorial to lincoln, the republican. there is a little bit -- when the state department was named for harry truman, the executive office building was named for eisenhower, and that's a real mouthful. i try to adhere to that, but it is a

>> no, fdr is in a different league. >> where are you putting him?he end reagan did not leave the structure of american society particularly different. he did not, in fact, change the basic legacy of lyndon johnson and fdr. i think if my ranking of consequential presidents at least in modern history would probably be fdr, lbj, obama and then reagan. >> leon panetta says that obama too often relies on the logic of a law professor rather than the passion of a leader. does he have a point? >> i'm allergic to this kind of does he have the leadership quality. >> well, this is an important thing when it comes to a president. >> obama is pretty professorial. i've had a couple of meetings and i and other academics there and think he's more professorial than we are. look at what he did. bill clinton is an incredibly gifted politician. bill clinton is in a room and doesn't matter how many are in the room you think he's talking to you b. you, in fact, bill clinton was not a consequential president and obama, although clearly not the natural politician, he is a

>> some wanted fdr to put it in social security. it certainly began with truman. it failed under clinton, and now we have it. it is not the -- it has complexities, but it is working better than expected. costs are below expectations, enrollment is above expectations. >> do you believe the public perceives it that way? >> no. by construction, the affordable care act leaves most people unaffected. if you have good insurance, you pretty much get to keep it. >> a lot of people say -- >> it turns out it was only a small number, and what actually you could not keep was skimpy policies that did not meet the standards. if you have insurance through your employer, it is the same. most people are not affected. it is run through state-level exchanges, so many people do not even realize it is a federal program. the other day mitch mcconnell did a word salad in his debate where he tried to blur the issues, saying people can keep the kentucky version even if they repeal obamacare. it is part of obamacare, but people don't know that. even liberals are not aware of how well the f

they interpreted the fdr leg ac differently.he way he was able to transform people's lives, and johnson passed a progressive program. for reagan, fdr was able to connect with millions and millions of people he would never know, never see but he could make them feel like he knew who they were and what he wanted. reagan tried to imlate that in his own political career. >> you write reagan created his own legacy, lbj was always working off of kennedy. and you write, johnson would encourage the myth of kennedy, the martyr, so that he could be the martyr's redeemer. that way kennedy would live on forever and so would i. he had seen his country searching for a story to believe in. seizing a moment of opportunity in the chaotic aftermath of the assassination, he promised it the grandest story of all. you say that was essential to his governing and also created a vulnerability. >> yeah. it's an incredible moment. i think we all sort of take it for granted now, knowing how history works out. johnson assumes the presidency on november 22,

look, if president obama wants a progressive big government role model he should look to fdr. i disagree with fdr's economic potions. thought he was a great military leader in world war ii. the last thing he was, whiney, an uplifted chin. projected an aura of confidence and action, you know, that this president does not. >> rick is there anything that this president has spoken on or done that inspires confidence in you? >> well, there's quite a bit. going back -- >> like what? >> original years, you know, i'm a fan of the health care reform movement. just for starters. look at some of the numbers in terms of employment. 10 million more now than when he came in. i can give you a list of things he did well. let me say this, the one thing that concerns me, the tendency to go over the top. you asked the question, should government be messing with these things? who else is going to handle an ebola outbreak? who else will handle isis? these are government functions. you can criticize if you feel that they're not being done well and i probably share some of that criticism with you, b

. >> fdr consulted with his attorney general, francis biddle, and issued an executive order. >> thatrder provided that these saboteurs would be tried not in civilian courts, not by a regularly constituted court-martial and not even in accordance with the articles of war, which governed the procedure for trials of criminal cases in the military, but by a special military tribunal that he convened. >> those eight saboteurs who landed secretly in florida and on long island, put ashore by u-boats, they came to do criminal work against this nation, two are american citizens, traitors, now they go to face military justice. >> the united states had been at war with germany since december of 1941. there was great apprehension in the united states and there was a great deal of concern as to the ability of the united states to combat saboteurs and ultimately to defeat the axis powers. >> fdr decided there should be a secret trial and execution. he made that decision almost the first second he heard about the landing of nazi saboteurs, so it was, a, nazis have landed. b, they're going to die. t

. >> yeah, fdr was undersecretary of the navy.is own private force of enforcement and investigators. i know that he was basically tracking down the immorality of the american naval people and he got censured by the congress for doing that, which wasn't thought of as that important. i'm wondering, when the war began, did he still maintain this investigatory squad -- squad, i would call them, or did that come at all into your -- >> no, it didn't. it does sort of come into the book i'm writing right now, which is a world war ii story where fdr is now president, and he's using his friends, really, jacob aster, and robert vanderbilt, they have a group of very well connected men who work out of a room that the vanderbilts own in a building on 63rd street, and they're an informal spy network before america goes to war, trying to put the pieces together for fdr, before pearl harbor. >> you mention one of the german culprits, and you said that his father was a civil war hero. >> a medal of honor winner. >> right, and you said they were inv

lincoln 19, fdr 20th.gnment of crisis of a profound nature and character of an extraordinary dimension and an amazing capacity aligned to make these presidents undeniably great. presidents have demonstrated greatness but not the kind of these three. the problem for the post-fdr presidencies is at the world has gotten more complicated. the presidency is more constrained and american wish lessns, we government but demand more. it is a paradox. ais administration inherited bad hand. the worst recession since the great depression. two longest wars in american history, but ultimately, maybe will beident role judged to be more consequential. the problem for obama is that he sent a reference flame of , andness in the presidency aspirational effort to be a transformative leader, and the reality is that it is hard the state to transform american domestic policies, let alone foreign policy. so he could not help that, and he did disappoint. >> what you're saying is we are having a tough enough time building the natio

. >> yeah, fdr was undersecretary of the navy. he had his own private force of enforcement and investigators. i know that he was basically tracking down the immorality of the american naval people and he got censured by the congress for doing that, which wasn't thought of as that important. i'm wondering, when the war began, did he still maintain this investigatory squad -- squad, i would call them, or did that come at all into your -- >> no, it didn't. it does sort of come into the book i'm writing right now, which is a world war ii story where fdr is now president, and he's using his friends, really, jacob aster, and robert vanderbilt, they have a group of very well connected men who work out of a room that the vanderbilts own in a building on 63rd street, and they're an informal spy network before america goes to war, trying to put the pieces together for fdr, before pearl harbor. >> you mention one of the german culprits, and you said that his father was a civil war hero. >> a medal of honor winner. >> right, and you said they

it was that quote from fdr in the great depression. that is what one guy is saying. and one guy is saying that is why we are so afraid. fear has taken over the united states. spitals, today we're looking at how good design can save lives. coming up in the program, how scientists on opposite sides of the world are beating

fdr hadn't heard of leo. yourid, albert, please put signature on this. was researching and surveilling everybody, including the oppenheimers, leo solard. he followed these guys. their houses. all of this was without a war it -- warrant. this is about as far of an overage as you could possibly h is possiblyac get -- as you could possibly get. these were investigations into scientists who were suspected leftists. these are two of the scientists i gave you on the third tier of nelson's group. i am blowing this up a little bit. this is about one of the scientists in nelson's rank. it says, subject has been an active member of the communist party, and he is still considered to be associated by local communist party leaders, and it is believed he is still sympathetic with communist principles. subject is dangerous as an employee at the radiation laboratory. pash single-handedly could keep people from getting jobs inside the manhattan project. here you have three of the top ofple on that third tier scientists under steve nelson's command. i want to read you the

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

the question about fdr, this was a little over a hundred years ago. fdr would have done away with it, probably would have. he was a manly man. he liked that football was a hundred years ago like it is today at the point of falling apart. before the forward pass, broken limbs were common in games, one game in ten lead to someone dying. their was very little football played then but football deaths were common compared to the small number of games played their widespread calls for the abolition of the sport and teddy brought all the football powers together for a job and learning session in the white house. football players were princeton, yale, harvard, and one that doesn't even play football anymore and got them to agree to a deal that was very forward thinking and progressive by the standards of the time. why don't we have the same thing going on today? the paper bag came out your ago, i have a few modest connections from the white house, tried to twist some arms, i wrote a piece for the new york times -- >> fingers. >> i wrote a piece of the new yor

fdr acted quickly.r again would farmers see such a torrent of legislation passed for their benefit. for the first time, there was a national program to raise farm income by guaranteeing minimum prices for farm goods. president roosevelt could not have envisioned that over the years, the formulas determining who receives farm subsidies would evolve in such a manner that it's corporate agri-businesses who are receiving the farm subsidies, not the small, struggling family farmers that president roosevelt envisioned in the 1930s. at that point in time, we had a significant percentage of the population that was directly engaged in agriculture, so the subsidies were focused on sustaining a very large percentage of the population. over time, we have seen that population in agriculture dwindle down, but the notion that you need to protect that food supply has always been there. schoumacher: by the mid-1990s, with a booming economy and high agricultural prices, congress decided it was time to wean farmers from d

heights this is group 72nd class reunion that's the reason to celebrate the last time they were in class fdrn the white house. world news tonight with david muir is next. "action news" continues at 10 on phl17 with brian taff, shirleen alicott, adam joseph and ducis rogers. and then please joins us for "action news" at 11 here on channel 6. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers, the entire "action news" team, i'm jim gardner. we hope you joyb us at 11:00 i'm jim gardner. we hope you joyb us at 11:00 tonight. jl with tom corbett, things keep getting worse. september 16th. budget deficits force pennsylvania to borrow $1.5 billion dollars just to keep the lights on. three days later, pennsylvania's unemployment rate goes up for the second straight month. under tom corbett, we've fallen from 9th to 47th in job creation. and on september 25th, pennsylvania's credit is downgraded for the fifth time in two years. why would we give tom corbett four more years? >>> welcome to "world news tonight." developing right now. what we just learned about the ebola patient in dallas. what they're giving to him. the a

coughlin, a priest broadcasting out of new jersey, hatred for jewish people, racial epithets, hated fdrd the new deal and so forth. wasn't easy -- it wasn't hard to understand by the time i was 11 that this of unfair. you can't say to a child that happened to be born a certain way, you know, whether the kid is black or jewish or an indian, you know, trapped in -- you know, in the country that was his, fair is fair. it seems so simple. and that's the way i viewed it. the same thing with the arguments with the network. it seems like a giant war, but each time it was over some simple thing which if we gave in -- and often we didn't give in but it got bitter as a result of the confrontation -- but if we gave in on some small matter, we'd be giving it constantly, and we wouldn't have the show we wanted. so i don't know -- it seems like a lot of skirmishes that takes on the send of such a giant -- that's the way i feel about fairness. people for the american way basically -- i like the title again, the american way, is -- >> i take that part about it's simple if you see the world through the

presentation of the third quarter, 2014, fdr b findings and recommendations and ois. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> president loftus, my name is sergeant john, and i am with the internal affairs division and the officer involved shooting investigations. one of the things since at the wei have changes in the organization, this is the report that you have in front of you, and there are a couple of document and one is a memo that gives you a quick status update on the status of investigations that are open, still with the internal affairs division and most of you know is sort of the last stage of the officer involved shooting investigation and it is still with us and still open. and through the five year, ois investigation summary list which gives you the recap of the last four years and plus the current year of what the cases were or, are, and what the finding was if there is a finding yet, and if there is not what the status is. and then, the last attachment is a memo, that summarizes the officer involved shootings, incidents since 2000, and gives you a recap of the specific incidents

restaurant including mementos relating to some of the more famous visitors over the years, from ike to fdrchill to cronkite and a bearskin rug, the original wearer of which was said to be shot by president herbert hoover. >>> and a man in torrence, california has been reunited with his gray african parrot. he reported nigel missing four years ago. at the time of nigel's disappearance the bird spoke english in a clipped british accent. when nigel was returned, he was using spanish phrases and kept mentioning some guy named larry. well, it turns out nigel showed up at another family's house. he lived with them for a few years. they finally tracked down the original owners with the help of a microship implanted in nigel, who picked up a few things during his sabbatical. >>> when we come back, what you throw away today these kids could turn into art a few years later. >>> in tonight's making a difference report, cultivating our next generation of modern artists. in a lot of school systems these days the moment money gets tight, it's arts education programs that are often cut first. but one gro

presentation by jonathan lyens, president fdr democratic club of san francisco, for senior and people with disabilities. and break, the council will take a ten-minute break item 6, information itema review of civil service rule 115 and its' implementation for hiring people with disabilities. presentation by donna kotake, department of human resources, workforce development director, city and county of san francisco. item 7, information item, san francisco public library and its successful implementation of civil service rule 115, presentation by marti goddard, access services manager, san francisco public library. agenda item number 8, information item, comments from community-based organizations that train and place workers with a broad spectrum of disabilities. terry goodwin, director of partnerships and business development, the arc of san francisco, mark melanson, director of community services, tool works, jessy, lorenz, executive director independent living resource center of san francisco. ilrc. >> public comment is welcome. agenda item number 9, information item, department of

restaurant including momentos relating to some of the more famous visitors over the years from ike to fdr, churchill to cronkite and a bearskin rug, the original wearer of which was said to be shot by president herbert hoover. >>> and a man in torrence, california has been reunited with his gray african parrot. at the time of nigel's disappearance the bird spoke english in a clipped british accent. when nigel was returned, he was using spanish phrases and kept mentioning some guy named larry. he showed up at somebody's house, lived with them for a few years. they finally tracked down the original owners with the help of a chip implanted in nigel. >>> when we come back, what you throw away today these kids could turn into art a few years later. ♪ i remember when i wouldn't give a little cut a second thought. when i didn't worry about the hepatitis c in my blood. when i didn't think twice about where i left my razor. hep c is a serious disease. take action now. go to hepc.com or call 1-844-444-hepc to find out how you and your doctor can take the next step towards a cure. because the answer