. >> the director of the fdr library, today were going to talk about fdr'sde really leadership in one of the amazing skills that's he had with the right person for the right job at the right time. stickley true among his military colleagues and he put together an extraordinary team during worldd war ii and sometimes ignoring it seniority and protocol the process of doing it pretty one of the questions is the relationship between fdr and dwight our eisenhower percent and ten specifically when it was it about eisenhower's leadership that allowed to be selected for these incredibly important roles joining us today, to us that question is don the director of the eisenhower library, dawn hammett. >> thank you paul and what a delight to be with year here. >> so what was the qualities eisenhower presented the made result to tim first through north africa and then at normandy and dj and what was it about eisenhower the really attracted fdr. >> when i think that it makes sense to point out that eisenhower had an amazing relationship with general fox connor and fox connor took him under his win

>> that is a huge problem for fdr as well, obviously. there is a new book on hitler's decision to declare war, from cambridge, actually. but the problem for hitler is that he is operating with that information at this point. he doesn't really understand at the time that he is formulating this decision to go to war with u.s., just how badly things are unraveling on the eastern front and the other factors as well. it would have been a terrible problem for fdr. >> this goes back to the point about, if this clock is delayed, a month or two, it effects japanese decision-making but german decision-making as well. >> if the japanese had decided against the pearl harbor operation, which of course, many in the navy and the regime were opposed to it, but they had gone south, they had attacked us at guam and they had attacked the philippines. hich they essentiallythere's little y would have wiped out mcarthur's air force, as they essentially did, even when mcarthur had something like nine hours notice because of the attack on pearl harbor. so with

what does fdr do, what does the u.s. congress do, how do the american people i react to that what does the press do. it's one of the -- it's the burden of being a democracy, right, that you've got to have some consensus to go to war. iri think it's an immensely difficult problem for fdr, for the allies, for americans who at that point foresaw that inevitably we were going to have to getnd into this global conflt and settle it in a way that was satisfactory for democracy. and i think it's just very hard to speculate what happens in that case. i think it takes longer for the united states both to declare war and to actually fully mobilize. i think it's a longer war. and i think we win it in the end. but, you know, you could easily see itto going to 1948, perhaps. again, that's just guesswork. i think informed speculation, i guess, is the polite thing to call it. but yeah,ea it's a political problem. there'sea very good book by lyn olson called "the angry days," about the great debate between the isolationists and the inter

richard frank is not convinced that this is true with the bottom line, if there is in his right and fdr did have the sense that the oil embargo would push into the war they didn't want that, what happens if we through sanctions in the summer of 1941, with the oil embargo that we would still end up with japan and the war the way they do. >> nobody wants to take that one and i'm not going to. [laughter] no actually i will read think that i would go back to the statement at the beginning that you only get out that you may gt more time out of the process. and it's clear that was a good time for us to be standing for the time that we could get given the state of her own more preparations but i think again it just sort of given that the largest trajectory of the u.s. and japan and their entanglements in china, that there has no way at some point those two are not going to come into a collision course and you'll end up with a war. that's my take so you would say the maybe a little later, that's what i would say. >> okay, and with good reason. it was clear that the toilet in the total oil embar

and for a while, fdr actually worked in his presidential library.is office can still be seen there behind plexiglas now, but this was a very unusual thing. there may have been other reasons involved, and that could be something like in england where you have these tremendous estates of great families who can no longer afford to keep them up or taxes were an issue, so they were donated to the national trust to make them public places. this is a little bit different in that the library is run by a private foundation connected to fdr and his family. but it was extremely influential as an example. and the next one to sort of arise was truman's in 1950. truman had a much shorter lifespan as a president, but also, in the late 1940's as the cold war was taking shape and the atom bomb became an issue and domestic policies were shifting and international relations were overturned, i think truman was reluctant but his perspective was that this should be a place where the public can come and see and learn something about the history of the presidency and its i

and for a while, fdr actually worked in his presidential library.is office can still be seen there, behind plexiglas now. so this was a very unusual thing. there may have been other reasons involved. something like in england, where you have this tremendous estates. donated to the national trust. this is a little bit different in that the library is run by a private foundation. connected to fdr and his family. but it was extremely influential as an example. the next one to arise was truman's in 1950. he had a much shorter lifespan as a president. but also in the late 1940's as domestic policies were shifting in major ways. international relations had been completely overturned. i think truman was reluctant, he thought this should be a place where the public can come and see -- and learn something about the history of the presidency and its importance. these sort of examples set up an expectation that this will continue. but presidential libraries were not set up legally until 1955. when the presidential libraries act was passed establishing them. th

greg, you know this picture of fdr, right? >> yeah, fdr. of course fdr's physical disability made it impossible for him to write a horse or to walk or to mature even to stand for long periods through passing reviews. so the typical way he would look at the [inaudible] what we see here, he'd be in this case in a jeep. he's sometimes in a staff car with a driver in the front and maybe it's a chief of staff, admiral [inaudible] sitting next to him, and in the back, roosevelt who would give speeches from the back seat of the car, in this case from the front seat of the jeep too, the troops, without getting out of the cart. so, maintaining one harold referred to as the splendid deception. he had to walk, i think, with that title. but then a number of people who had no idea that franklin roosevelt was physically handy pack handicapped that he couldn't walk without assistance, or that he had braces on his tax, that was just a big surprise. on his legs, that was a big surprise. he stage managed this quite carefully. you couldn't have done it as oft

yeah fdr, of course fdr's physical disability made it impossible her to ride a horse or to walk or to march or to even to stand for long periods while troops passed and reviews. so the typical way he would look at the troops is what we see here. he'd be in this case in a jeep sometimes in a in a staff car with a driver in the front. maybe the chief of staff admiral leah. he's sitting next to him and then in the back roosevelt who would give speeches from the backseat of the car in this case from the front seat of the jeep to the troops without getting out of the car. so maintaining what herald referred to as a splendid deception. someone had a book i think with that title, but the number of people who had no idea that franklin roosevelt was physically handicapped that he couldn't walk without assistance or that he had braces on his legs. that was just a big surprise. so this he staged managed this quite carefully. he couldn't do it as often as he would have liked. he did it at casablanca. he did it in hawaii. he did it in various camps around the continental united states, but he like

you know this picture of fdr, right? >> his physical disability made it impossible to ride a horse or to march or to even stand for long periods while the troops passed in review. the typical way he would look at the troops in this case a jeep, sometimes in a staff car with a driver in the front and maybe the chief of staff, admiral leahy and roosevelt who would give speeches from the back seat of the car or in this case the front seat of the jeep without getting out of the car. referring to a splendid deception. someone had a book with that title. but the number of people who had no idea that franklin roosevelt was physically handicapped that he couldn't walk without assistance or that he had braces on his legs, that was just a big surprise. so this, he stage managed this quite carefully. he couldn't do it as often as he would have liked. he did it at co casablanca and hawaii and different camps around the united states. lincoln called it public opinion baths that he would sense the mood of the troops by being in their

again, i have a real problem with fdr at number three. i have recently finished miss slaves forgotten man and although fdr comes out friendly with his fireside chats according to your book he was going after kosher chicken butchers in new york city.rs he spent years going after andrew mellon causing him to spend many many thousands of dollars of his fortune on legal fees and i wonder personally with miss schlage where you believe fdr should be on the list, where do you happen and i'd like to thank mister norton smith. i have the opportunity to see you speak and lecture in ohio and it was a very informative and humorous presentation. let me thank panel and i will take the answer off the air, thank you so much and happy independence day to all of you. >> amity shlaes on the forgotten man. >> i'm going to fast, low on the economy, higher on foreign-policy. >> host: is 202748 8000 for republicans, if you want to join. democrats202-748-8000, independence202-748-8000 two . coming back to you , in light of the discussion about abraham lincoln, b

but anyway, then i fdr was a fdr in his wheelchair. was a towering figure anyway but one that do we had a little mustache which reminded some people of charlie chaplin and others of hitler. and today of course. you know the hand was would make sure there was long gone. he had a gap. right on presidential gap between his two front teeth. and nina say that's the first thing that would have been fixed. now. they both he kept them mustache and the gap because his wife francis liked them. so at least he was authentic. i mean that tells you, you know something but anyway the little man in the wedding cake, i i contacted. i wrote to mrs. longworth. who then must have been in her eighties? legendary figure in this town and she wrote back and said i'd be glad to talk to you he gave her phone number. and tell me when to call. and i called her and she was wonderful. she total wacker pretense. first of all, i think my god, i'm talking to alex throws them along with you know, which is god if you ask the best things about being a biographer, that's

fdr triples taxes and doubled spending. tell people today, imagine if the federal reserve pulled one third of money out of circulation and we doubled spending and triples taxes. what do you think is going to happen? it's going to plunge into a depression. it lasted throughout the 1930's. on the eve of world war ii, it was 19%. the new deal clearly failed and i don't know my -- don't know why they want to give the credit to harding. susan: let's talk about foreign policy. he put charles evans hughes in the state department. what did he bring to the table? ryan: he was an excellent choice for secretary of state. one of the best we have had. he was a supreme court justice, he was governor of new york. he was the 1916 republican presidential nominee. very close to defeating woodrow wilson that year. he was a superb choice, then who would. this is something harding does not take credit for, foreign policy. everyone looks at scandals. his foreign policy was very good. coming out of world war i, we ended world war i. we still had

i'd look at fdr. um, i look at washington. who's never thought of as a political figure and that's part of his genius i would argue. iq and obviously i don't know any more than anyone else does exactly what are is is by large. it seems to me not a reliable. measure do you know your own iq? i knew what it was in the ninth grade. but what? because wonderful the woman who made high school bearable for me. we've talked about the was the librarian. her name was laura conley, and she she provided. protection and encouragement she you know the day general to go died. we had you know, we had morning in the library. we we had rallies against g herald curds. well, i think since he was a who was a deservedly obscure and forgotten nominee for the supreme court in 1970 by president nixon. it's not so much that she actively encouraged my interests. in an environment, that was perhaps hostile. to them she provided a refuge. and anyway she as a token of her of the the links to which he would go. we were given iq tests. in the ninth grade, god

so the fdr administration with the exception of fdr's second vice president henry wallace. he actually supported the era but pretty much everyone else in the fdr administration did not because the fdr administration was really full of a lot of liberal protectionists and again the thinking for liberal protectionists, is that women needed sex specific labor laws because women had special needs that special treatment would recognize and fulfill and i just have a great. little antidote to add here when fdr had passed away alice. paul supposedly said the greatest threat to the amma has now been removed. so so that just shows you how intensely opposed to the era the fdr administration was now truman though actually came out in support of the eri when he was a senator and then he reafford reaffirmed that support when he became president and a part of that the significance of that is it just shows how much the era had gained in popularity during the 1940s. but as i talk about i think it's in chapter 5 he started to back away from the amendment a lot through the course of his presid

if you liked fdr, you are not going to like harding.eading little things in grad school, the idea for this book i started in grad school. i went back and found my original notes when i had sketched the book. i wanted to -- a few people have written good things about him, and i wanted to dig deeper. look at primary sources. what did he say in his letters, his speeches. what did people who knew him say about him. it is far different then what others have said about him. susan: harding's papers do not become available until 1964. why did it take so long for them to become public? did you use them, what did you find? ryan: luckily, there are historians that went through his letters. he died in 1923, his wife found a lot of them. we have some important ones. a lot of his political letters. that is what i was interested in mainly. not his personal life, this is not a full biography. i talk about his background. i was able to use that book and go through his letters. they were not released until 1964, not sure what the problem was. that is whe

when fdr had passed away, fdr supposedly said, the greatest threat to the amendment has now been removed. that shows you how intensely opposed to the e.r.a. the fdr administration was. now, truman, though, actually came out in support of the e.r.a. when he was a senator. and then he reaffirmed that support when he became president. part of that, the significance of that shows how much the e.r.a. gained in popularity during the 1940s. as i talk about, i think it's in chapter five, he started to back away from the amendment a lot through the course of his presidency. that's because so many -- when the protectionists started to row assert thej themselves in the post war era, they really went after truman and really said to him, if you open flee support the e.r.a., we are going to withdraw our support from you. so when i went to the presidential library, truman's presidential library and i went through some of his -- some of the related source materials, some of his presidential advisers -- it is political dynamite. either way you throw it, it is going to go off in your face. he didn't come

fdr starting industrial mobilization. president trump's ability to mobilize and get a vaccine in a record time. that is something that could enhance it down the line. everybody votes differently. this is not groupthink. these are scholars. we collect them. we really try hard to find balanced scholars that don't have a chip on their shoulder toward any president. i think the most impressive ex-president i have seen since doing this has been barack obama, managing to break into the top 10. i think it is important to be a two-term president. trump is a one term meaning the voters said we don't want any more of you. obama or eisenhower, the public voted on them twice, doubling down on their policies. bill clinton, doubling down. you have a better chance of rising if you have two good terms. richard nixon, who accomplished so much -- wrote a wonderful book called watergate: a new history, looking at nixon. all 50 years of watergate, 50 years of nixon. his greatest moment at his worst moments happening in 1972. you think someti

fdr starting industrial mobilization.resident trump's ability to mobilize and get a vaccine in a record time. that is something that could enhance it down the line. everybody votes differently. this is not groupthink. these are scholars. we collect them. we really try hard to find balanced scholars that don't have a chip on their shoulder toward any president. i think the most impressive ex-president i have seen since doing this has been barack obama, managing to break into the top 10. i think it is important to be a two-term president. trump is a one term meaning the voters said we don't want any more of you. obama or eisenhower, the public voted on them twice, doubling down on their policies. bill clinton, doubling down. you have a better chance of rising if you have two good terms. richard nixon, who accomplished so much -- wrote a wonderful book called watergate: a new history, looking at nixon. all 50 years of watergate, 50 years of nixon. his greatest moment at his worst moments happening in 1972. you think sometime

and for a while fdr actually worked in his presidential library.can still be seen there behind plexiglas now. so this was a very unusual, very idiosyncratic thing. there may have been other reasons involved. that would be something like in england where you have this tremendous estates of great families who could no longer afford to keep them up or taxes were an issue so donated it to the national trust to make them public places. this was a little different in that the library is run by a private foundation connected to fdr and his family. but it was an extremely influential as an example. that i want to sort of arise was truman's in 1950. truman had a much shorter lifespan as a president but also in the late 1940's as the cold war was taking shape the atom bomb became an issue, domestic policies were shifting in major ways, international relationships begin to overturn. truman's papers became of great importance. i think he was reluctant but he ended up agreeing to set up the truman library. his perspective was this should be a place where the pu

i would like to turn now to fdr. ... >> the missionaries who sparred with the united states during the second world warin it is the author of the book including it won an apocalypse of an jerry follow and another on mcpherson and he has been a fellow and i happen to know that he is working it on a new brilliant new interpretation it protects for market history that you should all be expect to purchase in the next 18 months or so without further ado, over to you matt. >> thank you so much jeff and thank you to the mentalist for putting this together. a quick a b couple of papers and this is a topic that i'm going to be focusing on my paper today predict as you'll know the religion it can inspire lots of great behavior and also lots of bad behavior. be in fact would all discussing today is how religion it inspire presidential history this is not a surprise anybody in this room i'm sure and we can see a particular groups of those activists barack obama joe biden and i'm going to talk more about the roots of that nora comes from by focusing on on franklin roosevelt and i think it one of th

kennedy, the intimacy of an fdr fireside chats.t was exhausting and reassurin and scaring and comforting and extremely weird. >> the intimacy of an fdr fireside chat, except fdr never told us about his skincare regimen. sometime he won the second worl war anyway. you wonder how he did that. you also wonder what brand of concealer heat used great sadly there was no instagram than so the details have been lost to history. think in god we know what sandy cortez uses. we are happy to have him on our show. trevor, thank you so much for coming and. social media makes us more self-involved, but it does seem like she is the kind of living example of what could happen if you didn't get out of leak meet before you drowned. >> the book is called take up space, and she is a veiled theater kid. one thing about failed theater kids is they just take up space so it's aptly named. firstly i was shocked when i read it i heard about the book and i peeked through the pages had, i was very shocked until i realized who it is written for and who it's wri

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presidents, dwight eisenhower, ronald reagan and fdr all of whom changed the course of history and the fate of the nation. his newest book, on our 18th president ulysses s. grant entitled "to rescue the republic" is as educational as it is timely and i say educational and that grant was far more important in u.s. history and some historians had given him credit for. and timely and that when it comes to the fragility of our national unity and the times we live in today their read of his book shows you that we have been here before. it is always a pleasure and an honor to have him with us us so ladies and gentlemen if you would, please join me in welcoming to the reagan library mr. bret baier. [applause] >> thank you very much. i started with reagan sound bites. the issues that reagan deal with that were big issues when we are dealing with the debt so it kind of all works out pretty well to say hi to my friends and i know i have friends in the audience. we are here to talk about grant. years ago you wrote your first book in the challenges you had with your son paul, remarkable but please

kennedy, the intimacy of an fdr fireside chat. au it was exhausting and reassuring and scary and comforting and extremely weird. >> the intimacy of an fdr fireside chat. >> sure. except that fdr e never told us about his skin care regimen. somehowre he was able to win the second world war anyway. you wonder how he did that . you also wonder what kind of g concealer he used. sadly, there was no instagram then. so the details have been lost to history. thank heaven we know what sandy cortez uses. patrick moore is a columnist for the spectator usa and we are always happy to have him on our show. trevor, thanks so much for coming. i know we're all a little self-involved, of course, and social media make us more self-involved. it does seem like sini cortez is a kind of living example ofge what could happen if you didn't get out of lake meadd before you drowned. well, the book is called take up space and sandy or cortez is a failed theater kid. i and one thing about failed theater kids is they just kind of tend to take up space to be ho

records of the president were his personal property so could take them with him, whatever he wanted, so fdr established a precedent of creating a presidential library where all the records go to one place and scholars, interested citizens, students, researchers, could go to this one facility and have all the records compiled in one place. so each president after him followed that precedent, and established their own presidential library. eventually, congress passed a presidential libraries act that set the rules and parameters for how this would work. so fast forward back to 1978, president nixon, you know, claimed that these were his personal property. congress thought, well, this material here, we do not want to have this appear based on watergate so he passed a law that changed ownership from the president, former president, to the federal government. so the minute the january 20th at noon, those papers become the property of the federal government. >> and what role does the national archives and records administration play? well the national archives plays two important roles. one on th

dwight eisenhower, ronald reagan and fdr, all who changed the course of history in the fate of the nation. his newest book on our 18th president ulysses s. grant entitled "to rescue the republic" is as educational as it is timely. i say educational in that grant was far more important in u.s. history than some historians have given him credit for. and timely in that when it comes to the fragility of our national unity as in the times we live in today -- well a read of brett's book shows you that we have been here before. it is always a pleasure and an honor to have him with us. so ladies and gentlemen, if you would, please join me in welcoming to the reagan library mr. bret baier. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. it is great to be back here. thank you for making the effort to come out. mask and all. we had our show out here today, which we love to do ahead of these events. and started it with reagan sound bytes. looking at the big issues that reagan dealt with that are big issues we're dealing with with today. so it kind of all works out. and i want to say hi to my friends, the o'hurl

we can imagine fdr standing behind the podium and responded to the attacks on pearl harbor. or we can think again most recently about the address that biden delivered last april. the last time we spoke to a joint session of congress. a small number of members of the congress were invited to sit socially distanced and masked because of covid. we think about how biden will deliver this address in this particular time, in this place that has held so many shared memories or visuals of what our democracy is going to stand for, we have those images in our mind and biden's challenge is to reference those images and put in historical perspective. to her the audience that they have the possibility -- remind the audience that they have the ability to change the course of history. >> we have had a year of the biden presidency, where is he successful in your view and where would you see improvement? >> i think he has been successful in the moments in which he will deliver pretty direct assessments of where we are in terms of covid, the global pandemic, thinking about his speech in respo

jfk, fdr, lbj or ronald reagan? >> fdr. kennedy: that is correct. daniel is on the board with one.e wait to press your luck. this is for jenna, who was the first -- are you ready? who's the first american president? with a beard? john quincy adams, abraham blinken mama millard fillmore or merkel? [laughter] >> i'm a fan of hers and i'm going to go with adams. kennedy: no, he did not have a beard. he was always freshly shorn. everyone knew that about him. except for you. oh well. that's that. plenty of time, hubert gallagher points later. stephen, what's the name of the children's book written by president jimmy carter? daniel becomes a boy scout, look at me, go first say goober or the little baby future? >> i was expecting one option to be about peanuts. i'm going to go with a. kennedy: i'm sorry, that's incorrect. the little baby snooper leader. >> that's not even a word. kennedy: and his lexicon it is. i don't even know what this is but i don't want to google it because i will get my phone taken away. question number two. a gun stolen from this president was used in at least ten

the bay area communities are mark agday of remembrance, 830 years affidavit fdr signed 90676, an orders of thousands of japanese americans out of their homes. weekend forecast spoke with internment camp survivors. >> this could happen so quickly and it makes you apprehensive about things that could happen today. >> reporter: alice has lived in the south bay most of her life, coming here for college and making this her home ever since. she's turning 90 this year. when she was 9 she lived in alaska and was forced to move to an internment camp in idaho with most of her family. the separation from my father because she was take done day after pearl harbor. >> reporter: after returning home from what many considered an incarceration camp, she didn't tell me about it, but now she feels obligated to help many understand that moment in history. >> about things that are happening in our society and to be able to counter that. are after fdr signed the executive order, 120,000 people were move into camps. 70,000 were american citizens. >> american story that challenges us on many issues such as w

out of control, the whole theater, part of this as a political play, mcarthur a count weight against fdr and mcarthur of course does in a nothing to dissuade this lobbying as you imagine but it's completely unrealistic but gives you a sense of just how we have the ideal over here, yes one person in control and then the reality when you look at the campaigns in 1944. >> i think of all the times the commanders were awakened in the middle of the night, especially given multiple time zones involved. your circadian rhythm is completely blown. >> which impacts things. >> look, i would love to go at you three for the next 24 hours. you're the pros from dover. this was nice, beautiful succinct answers but i think it's time to turn you over to the tender mercies of our audience. you've spoken at the museum before, you know our audience is going to have some fun in the q&a so that being said, thank you to john and to ian and to james, really brilliant presentations and round of applause and we'll let you guys have at them. >> if you'd please raise your hand i'll bring microphone to as many of you

and then throw days at the brink, fdr, church hill and stalin planning d-day at the tehran conference, which gets chauffeur shadowed. so it's another spotlight i wanted to give to something i didn't think was focused on. so once that three-day series was done and the beginning, middle skpebd of the cold war, i wanted to find something that was also overlooked. i looked at grant, and i thought, i know nothing about his presidency. other than he was a drunk and it was scandal filled and he basically handed the baton off. i didn't really know. so we started digging in. and grant, people will focus on his time as general, which was really spectacular. there's amazing stoies in the book that go through his time. it's not 800s, but then spends a lot of time on his presidency. which was really consequential. it you think about all that happened in his time, he takes over for andrew johnson, which is one of our worst presidents. if not the worst. racist a fair balanced description, but lincoln is assassinated and johnson is erasing lincoln's vision day by day. and grant can see that happening

fdr understood that's not the way you talk on the radio. he also used radio effectively on certain special occasions. and some of his major speeches were broadcast. roosevelt gave acceptance speeches. now you may say, yeah, so, and the answer is this was his innovation. roosevelt flew to the convention in 1932 and accepted the nomination in person. which was something people just didn't do in those days. wow, this is something special. in 1936, he gave an acceptance speech again. really, acceptance speeches as we know them would not become regularized into the 20th century. and one speech in particular that coincided with his presidential responsibilities came after the attack on pearl harbor. the day of infamy speech. we'll see it at the beginning and then we'll skip ahead. ♪♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> senators and representatives, i have the distinguished honor of presenting the president of the united states. >> vice president, mr. speaker, members of the senate, the house of representatives, yesterday, december 7, 1941, a date which wi

given churchill and andrew's affection for him and later work of him, it's a very fair portrayal of fdr, in some cases, churchill comes off less astute especially about the mediterranean strategy and just when you think the icon george marshal can do no wrong, the self-centered allenbrook comes off as a pretty valuable strategist to have around. when i reviewed napoleon, the magnificent of napoleon the great, i thought andrew is conservative, really going to let napoleon have it. he didn't. he did chronicle the wrath of destruction napoleon wrought but at the end said with wart and see all, kept up much of the revolutionary idealism and fervor of the good side of the french revolution and institutionalize it and i think the same is true with this magnificent new biography of george the third. i think he's trying to tell, i don't think he went so far in this book to say unfortunately we missed out on being good canadians but saying to all of us, yes we were very patriotic, idealistic and fought ferociously against the british but part of our success was that george the third was not a ty

has favored the democrats since fdr.ry so often, republicans would try to do something with social security and it would always blow up in their faces. and so this was an opportunity for clinton to seize the public attention and focus on this issue. so, they include a lying in the speech, its social security first. what can you do if you are a republican? could you withhold applause from that, with all your elderly constituents watching on television? i don't think so! because the camera is going to pan the chamber, and those of us who are old people, we notice who is applauding for us and who isn't. okay! so, this [inaudible] just before you get to the speech, at the end of the chapter, something important happens to president clinton. the controversy, the controversy that will eventually lead to his impeachment. so, how does he address it in the speech? he doesn't! doesn't say a word about it. and, and people were saying, what is clinton going to say about all this? is he going to resign? is he -- is he just going to t