why didn't fdr lie in state at the u.s. capitol? >> why didn't fdr lie in state at the u.s. capitol? there are various theories. [laughter] as i am sure you know, there is this very sad train taking him back, the ferdinand magellan that takes him back, with eleanor aboard, to the capital. there have been various theories. some people feel that eleanor was still upset that she had not been present when her husband died, and that lucy rutherford had been present, and was annoyed or angry with her daughter anna for having kept that secret. i don't think that is why eleanor decided against it, for her own reasons. secondly, i don't think eleanor, it has been much exaggerated, her feeling of anger. the point is, it is impossible for any historian to believe that fdr could have had this in some it--insummate, not sexual, the president was unwell, but it is impossible to believe that the commander-in-chief, surrounded by doctors, personal staff, lawyers, politicians, it is impossible to believe the claim that eleanor did not know that lucy rutherford was keeping him alive. and afte

third-term issues straight to the polls, could the magic of fdr chowder -- could the magic of fdr?elt wins. narrator: the nation was jubilant. had done it again and his family received the well wishes of their neighbors. ♪ again the president addressed the nation. in the presence of cabinet members, diplomats and leaders of nations south of the border, fdr asked for broader powers than had ever been given to any american president. president roosevelt: the fundamental fact is that what started as a european war, as s always intended it would develop, has developed into a war of world denomination. conscious of my sponsor abilities to my countrymen and my country's cause, i have tonight issued a proclamation unlimited national emergency exists, and requires the strengthening of our defense to the extreme limits of our national power and authority. narrator: with the world facing the greatest conflict of all time, with the rights of all free people in danger, roosevelt met winston churchill on the high seas and gave a pledge to the world. fight for the right of all people to choose t

the fdr trilogy. here he brings this vast story all covering the saga of fdr from d-day to yalta. so an appropriate time for the release of this book and today as you may know is the 74th anniversary of the german surrender in western europe. we are mere weeks away from the 75th anniversary of d-day. so without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, i give you the incomparable nigel hamilton. [ applause ] >> good evening, everybody. this is a slightly sad occasion for me because it's sort of a farewell to somebody i have lived with for ten years. franklin delano roosevelt. and i shall miss him. i never intended to spend ten years writing this series. and i certainly didn't intend for the story to take three volumes. all i did know was that it was something of a national scandal in this country. that no one -- no historian had written a full-scale account of president roosevelt in his role as commander in chief of the armed forces of the united states in the most violent war in human history. how was it possible that that had never been done? one of the main reasons was because fdr die

there is fdr arriving. where fdr got stalin to back the d-day invasion with a simultaneous offensive on the western front, forcing the wehrmacht to fight on two fronts. in which case the germans would be unable to withdraw forces from the east to reinforce their armies in france, facing the allies. operation bagratzion. stalin also promises the president to join the war against japan once hitler surrenders. fdr's trip to cairo and tehran was thus historic, a triumph. when churchill was asked by his doctor whether anything had gone wrong, he snapped, a bloody lot wrong has gone wrong. in fact, as history shows, a bloody lot has gone right. certainly hitler is in no doubt as to the defining importance of an allied cross channel invasion for the fate of the nazi third reich. the landings and subsequent battle will, quote, decide the war, hitler warns his staff and goebels. it will not be too hard to beat the western allies, hitler adds. after all, he doesn't, quote, have the feelings that the british have thei

the initials fdr began to stand for progress or national security. the fireside chat became an american institution. the white house secretary staff helped in the process of his radio reports. the president's talks were masterpieces of simplicity and directness. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> my friends, the american public ... >> with that now familiar salutation he brought his messages straight to the firesides of the people. >> he talked with them in their homes about the vital issues of the day. roosevelt never gave up hope and his battle against infantile paralysis. in the healing waters of the white house pool, swimming was his one relaxation and only exercise. >> how he organized the great warm springs foundation for the eventual benefit of the nation's half million polio victims will forever stand is a monument to his name. on each year on his birthday, all over the land, little children singing his praises. >> happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear president, happy birthday to you.

the nation was jubilant, fdr had done it again.in the president addressed the nation, and the diplomats and leaders from south of the border, he asked for broader powers than had ever been given to any american president. first, what started as a european war, into a war for world domination, there have with profound consciousness of my responsibilities to my countrymen, and to my country's cause, i have tonight, issued a prok proclamation that a national emergency exists and requires the strengthening of our defense to the extreme limb of our national power and authority. >> with the rights of all free people in danger, the rights of all people to choose their form of government. history records this meeting as the birth of the atlantic trucker. it was burned into the pages of american history. the president faced a nation united. >> i ask that the congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by japan on sunday, december 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between thenitis and the japanese empire. >> in 1942,

fdr was going to use it against germany and japan, but a bomb was not ready for testing until after fdr'suly of 1945, president harry s. truman authorized the use of the atomic bomb against japan. in august, bombs were dropped on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. ♪ ♪ the most important legacy franklin roosevelt left the world was the united nations organization. from the earliest days of world war ii, fdr worked to create a postwar organization dedicated to global cooperation and peace through collective security. on january 1, 1942, he welcomed representatives of 25 allied nations to the white house to sign a declaration pledging each to defend life, liberty, independence, and religious freedom, and to preserve human rights and justice. fdr called this wartime coalition the united nations and later led efforts to expand it into a postwar international organization. pres. roosevelt: i am returning from this trip that took me so far, refreshed and inspired, with a firm belief that we have made a good start on a world of peace. i am confident that the congress and the american

next, on reel america, "fdr and world war ii." a program produced by the pare lorentz center at the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum. it includes nine segments, each focusing on fdr's involvement with a key wartime issue. (music) >> world war ii began on september 1, 1939 with the german invasion of poland. (music) by the time the war ended in 1945, more than 60 million people have been killed and dozens of nations were destroyed. the ability of democracy to sustain and survive a direct attack had been put to the test and proven. across the globe, the decade of the 1930's had been a time of great unrest. economic depression resulted in widespread despair. some nations fell under control to authoritarian leaders. in europe, and a fiddler and benito mussolini took advantage of the turmoil and promised prosperity based on expansion. in asia, the government of japan plotted a similar course. separated from these troubles by two oceans, americans do not want to be in an overseas conflict. at the time, the u.s. mili

the president was fdr not abraham lincoln. the new york herald tribune reprinted that the speech under the headline roosevelt's gettysburg address. the chicago tribune proclaimed roosevelt anza lincoln armor. is -- it's seldom helps to wonder how a statement of one generation would surmount the crisis of another. a statesman deals with difficulties with things that must be done from day to day. not often can he frame conchas patterns for the far-off future fdr acknowledged in his remarks. the stature of lincoln's nature and the usdamental conflict invite to turn to him for help. it is such invocations of the civil war past and a new deal era context that nina silver examines in her new book. silver introduces a the civil warto memory and explores how americans reinterpreted the civil war to meet their own needs during the great depression and world war ii. since completing her training as berkeley,n at uc professor silver has returned to the fertile field of civil war studies to uncover new perspectives with which to engage ci

and in the tense early hours of the assault fdr monitored reports from the front. that evening he delivered a statement to the american people. it took the form of a prayer which he read on national radio. >> almighty god, our sons, pride of our nation, this day of set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization and to set free a suffering humanity. lead them straight and cruel. give strengths to their arms. stoutness to their hearts. steadfastness in their faith. >> the normandy invasion left them trapped in a vice fighting and expanding anglo american canadian force in the west and the soviet red army in the east. the allies began to tighten the vice. by 1945 time was running out for the german and japanese forces. the year before the allied forces had pushed deep into japan's pacific empire, by autumn of 1944 the liberation of the philippines was underway and american bombers had began a fire bombing campaign from basis in the mariannas. in some of the bloodiest fighting, marines landed on the island of iwo jim

he says fdr wants us to go to war, calls fdr a warmonger. and third he says, "the jews want us to go to war." he cites his belief "the jews want us to go to not i think would lindbergh is doing their is -- i think what lindbergh is doing there is -- one of the most effective critics is a political cartoonist, who we today know as dr. seuss. -- who we today know as dr. seuss. what if see in this newspaper and on this screen are multiple cartoons published by p.m. that show him attacking the isolationism. you see lindbergh on the top of a pile, and shoveling this nazi propaganda. you see him with this fantastic attack on america first. here he is showing the ostrich of isolationism ringing the hand that should be hitler's's neck. in the aftermath, he draws this fantastic cartoon about america first. you see a grandma reading a scary children's story called adolf the wolf to these children. what we do is take on fdr's presidential leadership. between the pumping that europe ghost warns of timber september 1939 and pearl harbor in december 1941.

host: a quick follow-up to fdr. president trump did not have any elected experience, did not serve in the military. in your book, you talk about how fdr's tenure as governor of new york trained him for the new as president. can you explain? it is interesting to remember, he is elected and he has almost three years during the early years of the depression as the governor of new york, and at that time, because there was a vacuum in washington in not providing the leadership that was necessary, he assumed that leadership in new york. he was the first governor who created a comprehensive relief program, unemployment relief, and a series of public works jobs. he became known in the nation and that is what actually catapulted him into the nomination for the presidency. now we are seeing governors in a central role, and it is interesting. presidenciesast have been through the governorship. in this last election, the governors who ran never made it to the top and obviously in 2016 , there was president and hillary clinton.

he says, fdr wants us to go to war, calls fdr a war mongerer and argues the administration has been lying to the american people. then third, he says, and the jews want us to go to war. he cites the fact or his belief that america has been a tolerant land for jews and then he basically issued a threat to jews in america. if we go to war that's perceived as a jewish war, that tolerance might fade. he slips into many anti-semitic tropes arguing about jews clannishness and controlling hollywood and controlling international banking. i think what he is doing is saying out loud what many americans believe at the time. one of the loudest critics, one of the most effective critics of lindbergh is dr. seuss. he was writing for this magazine -- newspaper out of new york called pm. what you see in this newspaper and on this screen are multiple cartoons published by pm that show him attacking isolationism of america first. here is one of my favorites where you see lindbergh on the top of a heaping pile that he calls nazi anti-semitic stink wagon. lindbergh is wearing the gas mask and shoveling this

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fdr was prepared against germany and japan but a bomb was not ready for testing until after fdr's death and germany's surrender. in july 1945 president harry s. trueman authorized the use of atomic bombs against japan. bombs were dropped in hiroshima and nagasaki. he welcomed representatives of 25 allied nations to the white house to defend life, liberty and religious freedom and preserve human rights and justice. fdr lead efforts to expand it into a post war nation. >> i'm returning from this trip. refreshed and inspired with a firm belief that we have made a good start on the road to a world of peace. and at the beginning peace upon which we can begin to build under god and a better world in which our children and grand children, yours and mine must live and can live. i know that all of you are feeling it and are going to feel it in the future. the united states, great britain, the soviet union and chuy in that would enforce the peace. on the day before his death he labored over a speech about the post world war. americans have to cultivate the science of human relationships. the abil

hoover exists in the shadow of fdr. fdr did so much more. but in the context of the time, what hoover did was seen as so much more than his predecessors. >> remember, we'd had great depressions before. martin van buren, and president james monroe when president. grover cleveland in the 1890s had been president. the notion that the government, that the federal government especially, would step in and try to correct the economic cycle was heresy. depressions were acts of god. there were booms and there were busts, and there was nothing you could do about it. >> and that's the philosophy that, for example, andrew mellon, who was hoover's holdover secretary of the treasury, maintained. he basically told the president just, you know, flush out the system. all the bad, the crooked bankers, the speculators, all of that, you know. i mean, that was hobbesian economics. >> and hoover's response was to get himself a new secretary of the treasury. he sent mellon to the court of st. james. >> but the other thing was, we tend to think that the stock marke

what fdr means by that -- this is something that dodd wrote in his diary. it was as told to by fdr. what we think -- i think what dodd thought that fdr meant by that is that it's our job -- it's his job to respect germany's national sovereignty. the story that we're telling in this part of the exhibition is actually about multiple attacks on americans by the sa. this is a "new york times" piece covering dozens after tacks s this is a "new york times" piece covering dozens after tacks of 1933. during dodd's first meeting with hitler in october of 1933, item number one on the agenda for dodd is to say the sa has to stop attacking american citizens on the street. the united states government at the time thinks it's outside their purview to try to protect the citizens of another nation. of course they know that jews are being persecuted there are attacks on jews. political opponents and others are being rounded up and sent to the first concentration camp. that's well reported in the american press. the u.s. government doesn't speak out about that during this early period. one of the way

he says fdr wants us to go to war, calls fdr a warmonger and argues that the administration has been lying to the american people. and then, third, he says and the jews want us to go to war. and he cites the fact, or his belief that america has been a tolerant land for jews and he basically issues a threat to jews in america. he says if we go to war that is perceived as a tolerance war, that will be our trade. then he slips into anti-semitic tropes, jews controlling a banking system. what he is doing there is saying out loud what many americans believe. and when it's a lot of critics, one of the most effective critics is a political cartoonist name period or guys, all who we now know as dr. seuss. but he was writing for this magazine, this newspaper out of new york called pm. and what you see in this newspaper and on this screen are multiple cartoons published by pm who show giesel attacking the isolationism of america first. here is one of my favorites, where you see lindbergh on the top of a heaping pile that giesel calls nazi anti-semitic stink wagon, lindbergh wearing a gas mask,

brian: how big did fdr win? richard: fdr swept the country.s man who had -- i mean, i don't think -- more modestly, jimmy carter between 1976 and 1980, but i don't think anyone has gone from an overwhelming mandate to when he was elected to such a powerful consensus he should leave office. i think roosevelt carried all but six states. and with it, congress. and then, of course, in some ways, what put the seal on hoover's reputation as a failed president was the next three months. the hoover-roosevelt interregnum was so bad that the constitution was amended. presidents used to be sworn in on march 4. it was decided that was too long. it was too long because it was too long in 1932, 1933. the two men had virtually no communication. i think it is safe to say hoover believed fdr was deliberately avoiding having any responsibility in the hopes that if things did go to hell, he would then receive the credit, and in many ways that is exactly what happened. the irony is, the banks were crashing at the end of -- the roof was falling in. and hoover coul

of fdr. fdr did so much more, but in the context of the time when hoover did was seen as so much more than his predecessors. but remember we had great depressions before. martin van buren, grover cleveland in the 1890s had been president. the notion that the government, the federal government would step in and try to correct the economic cycle was hearsay. and the secretary of the treasury maintained and he basically told the president to just flush out the system, all of that was economics and hoover's response was to get himself a new secretary of the treasury. he sent melon to the court of st. james. early in 1930 "the new york times" among other media outlets praised hoover for doing more than any president before funde the circumstances. in fact, go back to warren harding's administration as secretary of commerce and there was a severe recession right after and it was hoover who was delegated with the responsibility, and what he did was among other things greatly increase public work set

what fdr means by that, this is something that dodd wrote in his diary so it wasn't as told to by fdr, but what we think -- and what i think dodd thought fdr meant by that, is that it's his job to respect germany's national sovereignty. so the story that we are telling is actually about multiple attacks on americans by the new york times piece covering thousands of attacks on brutal americans by 1933. during dodd its first meeting with hitler, item number one on the agenda for dodd is to say the essay has to stop attacking american citizens, but the united states government thinks it's outside of their purview to try to protect the citizens of another nation. of course, they know that jews are being persecuted, and that there are attacks on jews. the political opponents are being rounded up and sent to the first concentration camp, that is well reported and the american press. the u.s. government does not speak out against that during this early period. one of the ways we wanted to get at the question of what was on all americans minds, are one of the reasons was to use public opinion

they sent fdr jr. down there to campaign for kennedy. considered one of the things that turned the tide. >> elliott married five times. >> elliott married five times. >> died at age 80. >> right. >> i did get a chance to talk to him before he died. again, there would be that twinkle in the blue eyes that gave you a memory of frank roosevelt. he had a tough time finding himself. i think the alcoholism that was in eleanor's family visited itself upon elliott. he had success in politics. he was a mayor in palm beach. mainly what he did is wrote mystery stories after a while in which elanor roosevelt is the defective. his mother becomes a detective. so he wrote a series of sort of tell all books about the family that all the other kids found very disquieting. >> james died at age 83 in 1991. he ran democrats for nixon? >> right. i mean you wonder what eleanor and franklin would have thought. he had four marriages as well. he had some success. he never was able to hold on to his career or to his family very easily. so it's not been an easy ti

she lasted an extra 17 years after fdr's death. >> the kids. >> ms.k of their parents. and for the four boys... actually, the five children had a... somewhat combination of 18 marriages between them. i think they had a hard time apprenticing themselves to becoming people in their own right. they wanted to skip steps and suddenly become important, run for senate, run for governor, as we often see happening, and they never got their own confidence on their own. it's not an easy part of this whole story. >> anna married twice. her second husband jumps out of a hotel room in new york city? >> ms. goodwin: right, he was... >> how come? >> ms. goodwin: he was a manic depressive, and was under sedation for his psychological illness. they had already separated, but he was always troubled. you can see it even during their marriage. they write each other these amazingly romantic letters--"my one and only, you're the most precious i've ever known..." you feel them clinging to each other in an almost unnatural way. and shortly after the war, her husband, whose na

brian: how old was fdr when he died? ms. goodwin: fdr was 63 when he died. brian: and how old was eleanor roosevelt? ms. goodwin: eleanor lasted from 1882 to 1961, so she's 70-something or other. she lasted an extra 17 years after fdr's death. brian: the kids. ms. goodwin: that's not -- brian: how many kids were there? ms. goodwin: that's not a happy story in many ways. there were five children. the daughter anna was the oldest, and then there were four sons: jimmy, elliott, john, and -- and somebody whose name i'm not -- franklin, jr. and i think what happened is, it was hard for the five of them to grow up in the shadow of that giant oak of their parents. the five children had a -- somewhat combination of 18 marriages between them. i think they had a hard time apprenticing themselves to becoming people in their own right. they wanted to skip steps and suddenly become important, run for senate, run for governor, as we often see happening, and they never got their own confidence on their own. it's not an easy part of this whole story. brian: anna married twi

baime, author of "the arsenal of democracy: fdr, detroit, and an epic quest to arm an america at war". i had a chance to read it and i recommend it to you. it is a topic that covers politics, business, even some art design, incredible personalities. i learned a lot from reading it. i am a world war ii buff. do we have any other world war ii buff? i am a history buff for sure. a.j. baime writing about a subject from the 30s and 40s. how did you do it and what does the young guy like you know about world war ii? >> it is wonderful to be here. my wife rochelle is here and my son clayton running the arsenal -- writing "the arsenal of democracy: fdr, detroit, and an epic quest to arm an america at war". i was born in 1971. my last book took place in the 1960s and a lot of people said what do you know about this? when they ask me a question i always answer i have to work much harder than anyone else who lived through this because i didn't. i have to not just understand the characters and what was happening and why it was happening but had to understand their motivations which meant going th

he meets with fdr, tells him of these atrocities that he's witnessed, and pleads with fdr at the endf the meeting, what can i tell the polish people? fdr says tell them we shall win the war. and that speaks directly to u.s. government priorities. the priority is always the defeat of nazism and not the rescue of jews. the u.s. government and forcefully sees what we would see as a humanitarian division that see today is a man -- government unfortunately sees what we would see as a humanitarian mission today as -- he writes this fantastic book about the story of the secret state, published toward the end of the war. this is a book-of-the-month club book in 1945. he's also writing in popular magazines, this article polish death camps about what he's seeing. it's not about what he's telling privately. the american public could have picked up this in 1944 and read this article with really harrowing details, deeply disturbing details about some of the atrocities he had witnessed. another force of pressure on the government is this man, peter. it's actually a pseudo name. he works in many di

host: a quick follow-up to fdr. president trump did not have any elected experience, did not serve in the military. in your book, you talk about how fdr's tenure as governor of new york trained him for the new as president. can you explain? it is interesting to remember, he is elected and he has almost three years during the early years of the depression as the governor of new york, and at that time, because there was a vacuum in washington in not providing the leadership that was necessary, he assumed that leadership in new york. he was the first governor who created a comprehensive relief program, unemployment relief, and a series of public works jobs. he became known in the nation and that is what actually catapulted him into the nomination for the presidency. now we are seeing governors in a central role, and it is interesting. presidenciesast have been through the governorship. in this last election, the governors who ran never made it to the top and obviously in 2016 , there was president and hillary clinton.

they sent fdr jr. down there to campaign for kennedy. it was considered one of the things that turned the time. >> elliot married five times. >> five times. >> died at age 80 in 1990. what was he like? >> i talked to him before he died. again there was a twinknell the blue eyes that gave you a memory of franklin roosevelt but he had a tough time finding himself. i think the alcoholism that was in he will under's family visited itself upon elliot. he had success in politics. he was a mayor in palm beach. mainly he wrote mystery stoers after a while, eleanor was the detective. there is always a dead body and his mother becomes a detective. he wrote a series of sort of tell all books about the family that all the other family found disquieting. >> james died in 1981, four marriages. ran -- for nixon. >> he had some success as a congressman for a while from california. he never was able to hold on to his career or his family easily. it has not been an easy time as i say for any of those children. >> would you mind jumping to the end and tell

next, on our weekly series real america, fdr and world war ii, a two thousand eight program producedy the center at the fdr presidential library at a museum, composed of narration and archival film, photos, and audio from the collections of the library and national archives, it includes nine segments, each focusing on fdr's involvement with a key wartime issue. at 6:00 p.m. eastern, 3:00 pacific, on our series oral battle of the bulge andveteran the liberation of the buchenwald concentration camp. eastern, aific -- footnotes program with an author on his biography of 19th century lk.sident james po that is what is coming up. ♪ >> world war ii began on september 1, 1939 with the german invasion of poland. ♪ by the time the war ended in 1945, more than 60 million people have been killed and dozens of nations were destroyed. the ability of democracy to sustain and survive a direct attack had been put to the test and proven. across the globe, the decade of the 1930's d

whoas fdr, not churchill delivered -- it was fdr, not churchill, who delivered influence.he president often seemed to side with stalin. but if things seem to blink in yalta, churchill was aware that others had it worse. at one point, he sent to his daughter sarah -- i do not suppose that it any moment in history had the agony of the world been so great and so widespread. tonight, the sun goes down on more suffering than ever before in the world. but churchill had little choice but to accept the new realities to launch immediate hostilities powerful recent and ally would have been in thinkable. and yet he did think it for a time and even ordered the joint planning staff to explore the possibility in order to impose on russia the will of the united states and the british empire. the secret plan was called operation unthinkable as, indeed, it was. , thenthinkable or not conflict would come. with rob's taken examination of the battlefields of a war that was months from confluence would stem not only on the remainder of that conflict, but the outlines of the next one. the battl

at the time of the 1944 election, 55% of americans could name fdr's running mate. isn't that extraordinary? 55%. 45% really had literally no idea who this guy was. they win the election. 82 days later, truman is walking through the white house door, right? think about this. the nation is in shock. he's in the white house. he has to walk into roosevelt's office. stasters, they don't know who this guy is. all the staffers kept diaries. a lot of them are in your lie burglary. it's so fascinating. a lot of them are published. and truman puts a sign on his desk. i'm going to begin to make a point here. truman puts a sign on his desk that says "always do right." this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. who knows who said that? here in missouri, we should know. mark twain. he puts a quotation in a leather portfolio on his desk and it reads "i do the very best i know how, the very best i can. and i need to keep doing so to the end." that's abraham lincoln. traes truncated slightly. he rolls up his sleeves and goes to work. those same staffers and cabinet member

i did not put up fdr because fdr he only cited 50 times. the prior president who reagan cited the most was dwight david eisenhower. now, it is december 8, 1983. this is the 30th anniversary to the day of eisenhower's atoms for peace speech at the u.n. reagan is negotiating nuclear arms reductions with the soviet leader. this is before gorbachev appears on the scene. adropov leaves the meeting out of the clear blue. reagan is dejected. the press asks about this being the 30th anniversary and reagan says my administration endorses the view of dwight eisenhower completely. we are dedicated to achieving what dwight eisenhower could not. and that is critical for history. six months later, it is the 40th anniversary of d-day. ronald reagan is the first president to travel to normandy to honor our slain troops, and whose troops is he honoring? eisenhower's troops. he says in that speech, i will forever stand for d-day veterans. they are my heroes like they were his. well, there's more. off the coast of normandy, while reagan is speaking, is the ai

have these programs for free, it is a way to give back to the community because we feel so strongly, fdr loved this area and wanted it used in is a and we are honoring citizen so our speaker today, lew paper, is a journalist, he taught at harvard and was involved in georgetown but he also written a number of very interesting books. he is the author of perfect about the don larson world series, remember that? perfect pitch world series, he wrote a book called promise and performance about john f. kennedy and i want to hear about this, he wrote a novel about john f. kennedy, right? deadly risk, about his assassination. he wrote both nonfiction and fiction book, i bet they are a good combination. a book called empire and william haley. william haley was the man who built cbs and his rise to power parallels fdr's period of radio into television and probably one of the most fascinating and powerful media moguls in america. another book on the we brandeis, supreme court justice. he has deep grounding in twentieth century american history which allows him to bring a really fresh perspective to

spirit about him. >> no. >> that's what i meant. >> no, because when fdr -- we mentioned pearl harbor on the show earlier, i mean, boom, immediately he mobilized the country in a way that trump was so slow out of the gate on that we're playing catchup ball, and i think we have to think big and large right now and it's our great hope. during -- one thing, during world war ii, you know, it was the first time penicillin got used and people's lives got saved, you know, people that had blood poisoning or, you know, venereal disease or on and on in world war ii because doctors, medical people were working to solve things even while the second world war was going on. >> yeah. douglas brinkley, thank you, sir. appreciate the hope. we'll see you soon. >> thank you. >> absolutely. >>> the commander of a u.s. aircraft carrier that has been hit by a major outbreak of coronavirus has been relieved of command days after writing a memo warning navy leadership that stidecisive action was nee to save the lives of the ship's crew. acting secretary of the navy making that announcement today. >> i am her