fdr was quite a lady's man. there were a number of ladies that fell for fdr over the years francis perkins relationship with him was somewhat different when she met him they were both young. he was in the new york senate. she was a young labor activist in new york. and she remembered seeing him on the steps of a state office building before he become disabled before he was handicapped and she noticed how he stood very erect. he was a very handsome man and he had a way of holding his head back like this and someone was asking questions and he was answering the questions like this and she said, you know, it seemed like he just had his nose in the air. he seemed, you know, very snooty in those early years, but she noticed there was a huge change that occurred to him after his terrible disability. some people think it was polio others think maybe he it might have been some kind of other neurological disease that he had. there's been some dispute about that. but the fact is he had a very terrible disability that came

when fdr was there is a young assistant secretary to the navy. churchill did not remember the meeting and fdr did. he felt the churchill had been very dismissive. called him a real stinker. so this next meeting was going to be crucial. it was important for both men that they get on. and churchill took the step crossing a the u-boat infested waters to make it to the coast of canada. on a new british battleship, hms prince of wales. his bodyguard said he was so excited he was like a little schoolboy. the two men met for four days. and this gathering also allowed the meeting of their military chiefs. in particular, those two men standing over churchill's left shoulder, the american army chief of staff george c. marshall and the then chief of the imperial general staff, field marshal sir jon dill. these two men, the american war secretary, henry simpson, later said it made possible global prosecution of war. and it was at this first meeting that they got to know one another. at these meetings, fdr told churchill that he could not declare war on his o

where reporter asked fdr about this he said well, it's very very simple. we are it's like it's as if a neighbor of yours has his house on fire and you are loaning him your garden hose to put out the fire. that's all we're doing. amazingly it worked. and congress in march of 1941 past lendlease lendlease was decisive in winning the war. uh by the end of war thanks to lindley's not only were weapons being provided to the british and as you can see from this poster to other allies as well later on but for britain itself, thanks to lynn lease fully one fifth or 20% of the food it eaten by britain's civilians and military forces alike were provided by lindley's for his part churchill called lynn lease the most unsorted act in history. it would be a mistake though to say that when lease was in one way street. it was not under the terms of lendlease the british had to provide what was called reverse splendlease. among other things they were required to give up all rights and royalties on inventions such as radar jet aircraft antibiotics nuclear research and to he

and fdr agrees and winston churchill agrees. >> reporter: but getting fdr through the city with naziption. >> the person in the motorcade is not fdr. fdr is hiding in a junkie old car racing through another part of the city where they are potentially are six snipers, six paratroopers. they are somewhere out there and it's the greatest thing you can use. it's like any magician uses, distraction, and they get him to the russian embassy to start that summit. >> during the last two days in tehran, marshall stalin, mr. churchill and i looked ahead, ahead to the days and months and years that will follow germany's defeat. >> reporter: the americans got what they wanted. fdr's safety, but so did the soviets. why would the soviets want to have him? >> fdr's room is bugged. there is microphones in the walls. there is microphones in the carpet. >> reporter: when nazi agents were rounded up the same day, meltzer writes a spy sent a message back to berlin. the plot had been discovered. maybe the assassins were ordered to stand down or maybe the soviets made up the entire story to eavesdrop on fd

catherine smith is a journalist in history writer with a long-time interest in fdr and his times. she is the biographer of marguerite alice lahand who was fdr's private secretary counselor confidant from 1921 to 1941 and who served as his de facto white house chief of staff. in addition to her book the gatekeeper katherine co-authors a missile hand mystery series with kelly durham she also impersonates the hand for tell all talks about life with the roosevelts and is given more than 100 presentations at venues including the fdr library. a little white house in warm springs, georgia and the national world war two museum her most recent book is baptists in bootleggers a prohibition expedition through the south with cocktail recipes. she considers the repeal of the 18th amendment to be one of the greatest achievements of the early, new deal. catherine lives in anderson, south carolina with her husband leo please join me in welcoming catherine smith. well, i was telling patrick if i had a moonshine samples. it might have drawn a bigger crowd in today. we'll still have a good time with

fdr on the other hand mina was a social drinker so he kind of called himself a damp. until it became politic to become a wet. so is the the century is moving on after you are becomes assistant secretary of the navy to josephus daniels who was a newspaper publisher from raleigh, north carolina a great advocate of temperance and really josephus daniels is assistant secretary of the navy under woodrow wilson his big cause was wiping out sin, which if you've ever met a sailor, you know, what a tall ordered that is and he banned any beverage stronger than coffee on ships bases and even in the officers' mess which is why we still call a cup of coffee a cup of joe after joseph is daniel. so fdr was his lieutenant in that cause the first decades of this century were very anti-immigrant very ant. click and increasingly anti-german is we got into the war in europe the annie immigrant cause came because we had had such a huge amount of immigrants coming into the country many of whom were catholic. so you had the the italians who were catholic and drank wine you had the germans w

reagan is picking up fdr's text, rendezvous with destiny. you and i, fdr loved that. reagan does the same y thing. it's not you and me having a conversation that orientation for the future is unusual to this day for conservatives. as a conservative i'm looking to the passenger's ronald reagan looking at the future and then there's personal characteristics that makes him stand out as the pantheon of the american right. the person who i enjoyed learning about with senator robert taft who is mr. republican who represented the pre-world war ii right opposing americans entry into the organization. robert taft who ran unsuccessfully t several times would be the first to tell you he was not the most charismatic person around. some of us have the tendency to be dour and very pessimistic and gosh the world is going to in a handbasket. that wasn't ronald reagan. nothing faced him so this too was unusual and it made him appealing toic the electorate particularly when he threw the word conservatives for the american right in. then hered comes ronald reagan and with a movie star h

it was very rustic when fdr first came to camp david. there has been some notable additions to the complex. you mentioned there's a chaplain. there is a chapel at camp david. talk about the buildings and the activities and how that complex has changed over time. >> go back to fdr it again. it's because he took the sailors off the uss potomac. they had not had a job. he took them with them to camp david. he brought the marines on for security. fdr only went there during the non-winter months. truman is not a fan of camp david. he preferred to go to key west. he put a perimeter around the place he had the trees pushback from the cabins. during eisenhower times it was winterized. he was -- he still maintain that. over the years the administration, president nixon during his time put a lot of expansion into the camp. expanding aspen and putting in the hourglass shape pool. adding laurel, the main entertainment cabin. you see it on news reports and coverage of world leaders visiting. a number of other features throughout. it's been modernized

then it has a built fdr.hat has to do with lbj or hold it, now we are in the obama era we are dealing with that were jennifer great awoken ink as we meet here today. another left. each time they transform themselves take on new guises the right often has to do as well. whenever i teach the founding documents of national review that magazine in 1955. says conservatives are against the new deal and in parentheses were not sure there can be any other kind. all align with national review principles. for the american on the right to read that order here but paul just said said clearly things have changed. the small see conservative instinct of just well we don't want to rock the boat. but also the left has changed too. the left has moved on into new territory. and in many ways we are not fighting over the new deal as so much as the cultural agenda of the left which really comes out i think of the anti- or movements of the late 1960s. has waxed and waned over the ensuing decades. cracks wasted about bill buckley be

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

so you can draw a line between fdr in 33 to arguing more government. the new deal as the solution to. ronald reagan in 1981. and then to barack in 2008. respond ing to that. it is because of the importance of the ideas in 1982. in this speech that there are two different books about the reagan and reagan's time. one by a very conservative scholar. one by a very liberal scholar that have the age of reagan, their title. they're simply question that begins in 1980. there's an argument that reagan had begun to get these ideas to the nation before 80 that what reagan's in this inaugural address changed american politics and moved it into a different direction. until obama and then again until trump took a very different perspective. so for writing in 2006. new york times columnist conservative david brooks that reagan's view that less government equals more freedom government is the problem. it became the organizing conservative principle of the. nicholas lehrman, who writes for the new republic talked about how reagan's ideas became unassailable in politic

i'm just you know here up at the fdr library. she's the author of five books including the book. she's going to speak of today the newspaper access express barons who enabled hitler i strongly encourage you to read this book if you haven't already it's excellent, and she's also written i'll you a couple examples, right? fornia, the 1930s and the big business roots of modern conservatism. a real enemies conspiracy theories in american democracy world war one to 911 you've got an update for that one. i'm sure that'll get you on the best seller list her work has appeared in washington post the new york times los angeles times lamond and other media outlets so join me and welcome. all right. okay. thank you very much. thank you for that lovely introduction and thank all of you for coming thanks to the thank you to the reading festival organizers for inviting me because i really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you all today. all right, so my recent book is on newspaper publishers and isolationism and what i want to specifically focus on today is the hostel media environment that

fdr was much sicker than wilson was. he helps make major decisions about the presidency, for the president in that critical final year of office. he is doing the same thing, informally, he is considered a great hero but edith is suspect for what she did. next, please. my final thing, i will wrap this up fast, she dismisses everything she does. she dismisses it, i did not do anything that important, i did not do anything that critical, i just stepped in like any wife would, any first lady would, but she created a role that has been going to become much more important as 20th century goes on. historians have dismissed her. i learned about this, you see that writing tablet. she filled writing tablet after writing tablet with her memoirs and out of that will come her autobiography. next, please. in her autobiography she is under immense pressure to prove her femininity, this is the most shocking thing i learned about all the publicity materials for the publisher. you keep saying your feminine, you keep saying you're just a g

forgetfulness for latin america countries close to the policy of the titan of freedom and liberty, fdr family. there'd be this implement of the enterprise beginning with you and starting a new stage with you, president, the nation as a continent asking with respect this is a complex converse y'all conversation but it implies many difficulties, but i also believe that there's no better act to guaranteeing the prosperous will be peaceful fair and just will be the future of our people's and fellow men and women and also the all the people in the future generations to come. strengthening our fraternal relationship with the world and differences and sovereignties so no one is behind and all of us together we can seek the beautiful utopia of freedom, liberty, equality, and true democracy. there's many of us and many of us will stop streaming in the fraternal integration of all the countries of our continent. if this grants us the desire of r united america it could be called the queen of nations and the mother of the republics. welcome, this is your home. make yourself at home, this is your

what fdr would have done is said that is crazy.need to spend money now so i want a one page statute to go to congress authorizing me to cut through processes along the following lines to make this happen. but no one in the obama white house had that idea because we lost the idea that government is not about complying with rules. it is about people making things happen. susan: two more stops on the history tour. you write that after world war ii they held power into the big cities. for executives in those cities, organized public unions were a better alternative. philip: that's right. probably the first collective bargaining law that was authorized was put in place by wagoner in new york because he thought the public unions would be a more pliable interest group than tammany hall. and by giving him collective bargaining then all the power of the jobs went to them. i don't know whether they were more pliable or not, i don't know how bad tammany was. there are books on the party machines that argued they were actually quite effective

latin america and the caribbean, which is close to the policy of the titan of freedom and liberty, fdr. and starting with you, because there would be no other leader. -- no other leader that could implement this enterprise's beginning with you to start a new stage with you, mr. president, the nations and people of the continent to ask for respect and aid and help and assistant. president biden, you hold the key in your hand to open and substantially improve the relationship among all the countries of the american continent. i know this is a controversial initiative, i'm very much aware of the facts that its implementation in place many difficulties. but, i also believe that there's no better way to guarantee that it prospers wealthy and peaceful and just being the future of our peoples, our fellow man, our fellow women, our competitor it's and also all the people from the continent and future generations. so my proposal, president biden, is an integral proposal that is the economic region in the world's, strengthening our fraternal relationship and the american continent, respecting ou

candidate wanted to win and he was defeated an anti-fdr democrat and the men in the wpa were kind of told, you know, if you want to know that's who to vote for and that caused the national fear war and they were in a sense government employee employee recipients and some of you know the hatch act was passed the next year by congress. this meant that federal civil servant types could not be browbeaten by the political people into giving money for the campaign and you can't touch me. i'm neutral. this was a protection act for the civil servants and the scandal that erupted for the money that wasof used with a kid of weapon to get people to vote a certain way so that cannot happen again. hoover can claim with some justification he'd be vindicated and the offense into a political opening apparatus in which that would happen and so i think of the administration and our expectations are different and i think hoover are feeling relevant today and even though it's quite different and the federal government in 1932 or so was something like 5% of gdp and now it's around, what, 20% and big gove

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

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

in 1934, under fdr. so that's usually up as a bad example.my own point here is that it's import in the total context. i think has been overstated. i'm not the tariff. i'm saying that it's not is somehow the the the bugaboo that it was made to be. thank you. dr. nash. another wonderful lecture. certainly appreciate the clarity. bring us back to herbert. my question is, you would expect from west michigan, are there any instructive parallel contrasts with the ford presidency? ford, of course, went through a very economic situation not as dire, of course, as the great depression. but i'm just curious if you've speculated about that a little bit. okay. i tried to do. that's fair question. of course, when when ford became president very shortly thereafter, the democrats scored huge gains in the 74 election. and so, like hoover in his last two years, ford faced a hostile congress and, the rest of congress with a presidential election coming up. so there is that that parallel to ford i would sense would call him kind of an old fashioned centrist or

there was another woman in under fdr who acted as a chief of staff again de facto informal and that's missing a hand especially in his second term. she was a gatekeeper. she helped to push so much legislation through but we think of her. okay two minutes. i see it. we often think of her as well. she was this is what she wore. this was the dress wasn't she a bubbly person? no, she was a chief of staff next, please. might be a stretch but there was a relative in the future who stepped in a crisis to act as an acting chief of staff as robert kennedy who stepped in after the bay of pigs and became the real gatekeeper and counselor somebody jfk could trust performing a similar role to what either did next please. i think the person she was most like i would compare to admira william leahy, especially in fdr's final year in office. fdr was sick much much sicker than wilson was and he he helps make major decisions about the president's for the president that critical final year of office again doing the same thing. informally he's considered a great hero, but edith is often suspect for what

there was another woman in under fdr who acted as a chief of staff again de facto informal and that's missing a hand especially in his second term. she was a gatekeeper. she helped to push so much legislation through but we think of her. okay two minutes. i see it. we often think of her as well. she was this is what she wore. this was the dress wasn't she a bubbly person? no, she was a chief of staff next, please. might be a stretch but there was a relative in the future who stepped in a crisis to act as an acting chief of staff as robert kennedy who stepped in after the bay of pigs and became the real gatekeeper and counselor somebody jfk could trust performing a similar role to what either did next please. i think the person she was most like i would compare to admira william leahy, especially in fdr's final year in office. fdr was sick much much sicker than wilson was and he he helps make major decisions about the president's for the president that critical final year of office again doing the same thing. informally he's considered a great hero, but edith is often suspect for what

and fdr, in the united states, thought that chaplin's speech at the end of the great dictator, wherechaplin himself is talking really more than the character that he plays, is a key moment in terms of thinking about a better world. and during his 1941 inauguration, this was for his third term, fdr wanted that speech as part of the inauguration day festivities. so, chaplin repeated it. the political orientation of chaplin, like the travels of the little tramp, were often more about the journey than the destination. efforts by scholars, film critics, and even by fbi director, j edgar hoover, to place chaplin into an intellectual box, we are never all that convincing. opposition to what was seen as the communist messaging of chaplin and his immoral lifestyle were relatively widespread among conservative americans among the years after world war ii. hoover, of course, had a vendetta against chaplin, who he had never liked, and went to various friendly media outlets to try to encourage them to write a great deal about the controversial, at least, lifestyle of chaplin. as well as these iss