fdr having been. neurological problems at all. deception was specifically to hoodwink the greatest story. and woodley accepted a false narrative he was being fed enthusiastically that set of falsehoods soldier of freedom. that book won the pulitzer prize in 1971. and in january 1970 burns had written to bruen to inform have the release of soldier of freedom to fill that gap would be writing a article to raise a cover feature of saturday review. in april 1970 at the 25th anniversary here's the cover of that magazine. the young cardiologist has an emergency summons to conduct a heart examination characterization is another part of the deception. was not young but rather a full professor of p medicine and onef america's leading clinical f cardiologist 1942 at the age of 37 with one child and another on the way specifically he incidentally also treatedr eleanor. which are full and authoritative likely to have on the matter of forces to revise the most interpretations of the significance ofin roosevelt's medical condition during his fi

fdr's epilepsy, sounds shocking, but true, first described in fdr's deadly secret, my 2010 biographytten with journalist eric feltman has since been found to be true by a colleague's medical journal. the seizures which occurred frequently after 1943 are the best way to ascertain who was participating in a medical coverup by virtue of silence reporting them. these shocking events, though not understood, were nonetheless described by over a dozen observers and others who surely witnessed scores of them, including his frequent companion, his doctors, his daughter, and his wife did not. the first female cabinet member, francis perkens who had known fdr from his days as a senator, described it to the historians in 1955. quote, the change in his appearance had to do with the oncoming of a glassy eye and an extremely drawn look around the eyes and cheeks and dropping of the muscles in the jaws and when he fainted as he did occasionally, not for many years, but for several years, that was all accentuated. it would be momentary and brief and he'd be back again. unquote. even anna mistook the

fdr is on the democratic ticket in 1920. fdr gets polio in 1921. and i think that sort of really important context for understanding what it was like for fdr when this happens to him, because i think in a certain way, if you're franklin roosevelt and you've spent all this time trying to become the next teddy roosevelt, teddy roosevelt dies. and it's that's your moment. you're you're you're that you're the first roosevelt's in line. and that's sort of what he thought he was headed for. and in fact, he was headed for something really different. but when the republicans took over congress in 1920 election, they went really, really rough on him on a sex scandal. and, you know, it said lay sex scandal at fdr. roosevelt details is unprintable on the front page of the new york times. so not exactly the headline you want if you see yourself as the next teddy roosevelt. so what was that about? and that was just before he was he was stricken. yeah, i mean, it was so it was it was in 1920. and you're right, it comes it came about in the aftermath of world war

fdr. half brother rosie, who assigned franklin's law firm to represent the astor family while franklin nearly ten years older than vincent. by the time their friendship blossomed in 1912, they, in vincent's words, grown to become the same age vincent and franklin shared a love for the sea and used voyages as a retreat to avoid the press. mr. astor discovered early the solace of the sea time in 1928. reporters not infest the ocean, said vincent. the social gulf between american eyes is not so much measured in money as in newspaper headlines. fdr harbored similar sentiments, referring to his cruises, quote, the only place can get away from people telephones and uniforms. to learn more about this fascinating relationship, simply google, astor and franklin roosevelt and a highly informative and exquisitely documented article written by a researcher while employed at this will be found at the top of the list. fdr first cruise aboard normal hal was an early 1933 just after he'd been elected pres

and eleanor or fdr and civil rights.we are flipping it to really highlight and put front and center the the conversation we want to have. and it's no less important of president roosevelt and his career life. but like we've been talking about, people deserve to be named. their names deserve to be called out. they deserve their own attention in their own and their own power and agency. and we've been doing this in a variety of ways. we've talked about research. we have our sexuality study. we also just finished a study on civil rights leaders in the roosevelts and that study is also in the exhibit space and we have a great relationship with our fdr presidential library that is on site. and they just opened a new civil rights exhibit where they get into the details. again, focus on individuals like mary mcleod bethune, who was the highest african-american woman in fdr government. she was part of what they informally underground called the black cabinet and effected change from they were inside the system, worked with the s

because lend lease, say england as you've just been seeing on the fdr series. then she goes to the french consulate up in the vichy french consulate in georgetown and see seduces a senior member of the staff. and while she is having her way with him but letting him think he's having his way with her. lo and behold, a team of black bag fbi i safe crackers walk in through an open door. go to the safe and the vichy consulate. open it up. pull out the code and cipher books to see if i remember all northwest africa was under vichy control. and they take them out and they photocopy him that night and take him back in just morning. no one the wiser. those are the code and cipher books that enable general eisenhower to succeed fully launch operation torch. and of course, who else could lead it but george patton. but we need to go to georgetown. we didn't go to northwest africa. we can go six miles up the road to arlington hall on route 50. and collins brings road. it was girls finishing school as they were knowhat time, taken over by army signal intelligence. and here

that's not fdr. it's a secret service decoy. the real fdr is actually ducked down and hiding in the back of a beat up sedan that's racing through the side streets of tehran because they're worried there's a nazi assassin who's about to murder him. and i just ruined chapter one of the nazi conspiracy scene. but that's chapter one. and what i love is we get to tell these stories about abraham lincoln of a secret plot. you've never heard about him at the start of his presidency. and even books that i've been able to to read to u.s. presidents like the first conspiracies about the secret plot to kill george washington. so what's your process for writing a children's book, nonfiction book and a thriller all at the same time? yeah, it takes some juggling, but it frees my brain, you know, the thrillers take me and even the nonfiction books. i do what josh means. they take me two years to do and, you know, sometimes you just need to recharge. so i can tell you that, you know, one, one, i'll get to a point in the in the thrillers where i

kind of fdr piece breaks down a bit. and, you know, maybe we could start with the 4/42 regimental combat team and the search for a buddhist cleric and you know what the solution. yeah, they are the army to its credit. and i'm indebted to a fellow scholar might run that stall. i mean it was interesting she did larger book on the chaplaincy in the 20th century so she saved me a lot of research on this topic. but and army did try she argues halfheartedly to get a buddhist chaplain. i will say to the army's credit, they now they could not find a suitable candidate that would qualify because you were you had to be of certain age. you had to have a certain physical, you know, physical fitness to to to to to qualify. you also had to have a college degree and theological education. so this qualified a lot where i would say the army was very good was it did have several nisei chaplains who are protestant ministers and the army really does try to reflect religious pluralism. the other what i found remarkable about the army's is th

classic fdr. even though fdr's democratic party was two thirds in the house and the senate, they could have amended the constitution actually to set its size or overturn the decisions. that democratic congress rejected fdr's proposal because they thought it was an assault on the independence of the judiciary. i have to say interestingly, one of the people who first proposed court packing was not a democrat, actually fdr's relative teddy roosevelt, one of the court, because he was frustrated by the supreme court. he and woodrow wilson, the progressives of their time before world war i, thought the supreme court was, and it was, putting the brakes on progressive legislation, so they first started floating the idea of having supreme court, but it goes back to thomas jefferson, who really would have loved to change the size of the supreme court because he and john marshall were constantly at odds like people related in virginia can be. they were actually distant relations. they were from the same clas

classic fdr. even though fdr's democratic party was two thirds in the house and the senate, they could have amended the constitution actually to set its size or overturn the decisions. that democratic congress rejected fdr's proposal because they thought it was an assault on the independence of the judiciary. i have to say interestingly, one of the people who first proposed court packing was not a democrat, actually fdr's relative teddy roosevelt, one of the court, because he was frustrated by the supreme court. he and woodrow wilson, the progressives of their time before world war i, thought the supreme court was, and it was, putting the brakes on progressive legislation, so they first started floating the idea of having supreme court, but it goes back to thomas jefferson, who really would have loved to change the size of the supreme court because he and john marshall were constantly at odds like people related in virginia can be. they were actually distant relations. they were from the same clas

the secretary of the treasury for fdr.here was great resistance back then to the idea of social security running surpluses. there was resistance on the left and right. the right didn't want the government controlling this massive investment pool, steering it and controlling the economy. the left didn't like it either. the left didn't like the government sitting on a big stack of cash and people could be getting benefits. the two sides reached a compromise to basically have a system operate on a pay-as-you-go basis. fdr actually wanted a pre-funded system. it was run on a pay-as-you-go basis for many decades though there was no massive surplus, until one began to accrue in the 1990's and 2000s. historically, there was not really a plan for what to do when the government ran a massive trust fund because there was not intention to be one. host: two the peach state. social security recipients. good morning. caller: good morning. i don't have as much of a question as i do a comment. when i was 14 or 15 years old, believe it or

stuart: i go with fdr, he introduced so many new things. look at this. we got it right. fdr.ring his 12 years in office, averaging 300 orders per year. modern presidents, trump or biden, don't issue anything like that number. >> pretty heavy in the first 90 days of president biden. stuart: we are almost out of time. coast-to-coast starts now.

kennedy, fdr, they all set high bar. so then what happens to all the presidents who really aren't good at this stuff? and, you know, you can look at george w bush as an example. so he wasn't known as he wasn't he didn't have a label like reagan did as the great communicator. but he did have a skill set. it just wasn't necessarily on the national stage. but he also proved that you can maybe be the best communicator. but for all sorts of reasons you can still get reelected. because when you look at some of the presidents who weren't necessarily skilled in this area, there are a lot of some one term president george h.w. bush, for example, before him, jimmy carter, you. so there were times when it felt like the news media was using presidents, but they couldn't use it as effectively themselves to win reelection or to govern. but george w bush won reelection in 2004 and he had a couple of seminal moments in terms of public leadership right after 911. and i would say that best speech ever was probably his address to the natio

yes, of course a lot of that is fdr johnson trying to out fdr fdr but it's lbj himself and that battle that we talk about with the conservative movement that you've described that is contesting, you know, those those very points. and it is that push and pull and the wrestling that's that's taking place around that. and, you know, nikki, i'm wondering if you can pick up on some of that that mark was just talking about. you know, the low stock of johnson when he dies 50 years ago in 1973 and this new moment that seems to be happening for for lyndon johnson right now and why you you think that's occurring, particularly early? because there was such an effort to use him as the the target the poster child for all that wrong with government for for many of the reasons that you described i think conservatives have a big role to play in why lyndon johnson is so popular these days or why gained in reputation in part because of the increase in lee novel forms of obstruction that the right has used over the past 30 years or so government shutdowns, fiscal cliff debt ceiling crises, sequestration.

and 1935, as huey long was gearing up to start his campaign, he was gonna run against fdr, fdr believeif anyone could it could be huey. in 1930, five fbi was at the summer white house in new york. he summoned father coddle to come talk to him about the fact that coughlin was supporting huey long. he believed coughlin and long together would bring american to a fascist dictatorship within two years. he thought it was an unstoppable force the two and i'm. he was there to try and talk offline out of it and asked coughlin was driving to fdr's house that day, for that time, we long was assassinated. >> spoiler alert! >> that was 1935. that's the way things went that way. in terms of what huey long's power was. what was magic about him was his unbridled appetite for power. the thing that he did was, yes, he paved roads, he gave away school textbooks, he was a spellbinding order, he wore silk outfits, all sorts of things you could say about him. but really what he was a maestro of was power. he never met a source of authority that he could not accrue to himself. and that was the thing that yo

ken burns film on fdr and, the holocaust, which i think is good.but they took the traditional isolationist interventionist approach in the run up right into the war and ken burns, a little bit to the left and a little bit on the right, victor davis hanson, who's at the hoover institution, has new book on world war two. that's quite good. and i've always admired his work, but --, he too took he took the tradition tional isolationist point of view from 39 to 41. and i don't think there's any historical evidence for. so on that note, i will stop. you're welcome to ask questions you want to and hopefully i haven't confused you too much. thank you. so what do you want to know? if if you have question, there's a mic in, the aisle on each side. so just go to the microphone and ask a question and i'll let you pick. yeah, i'm fine. i'm open to anyone if anybody has any. none, no question. i've started out all right. so why does myth persist? you know? well, i guess, you know, urban, i guess i don't know. it's legend. it's really hard to know. myths persist.

stuart: i go with fdr, he introduced so many new things. look at this. we got it right. fdr. he signed over 3700 executive orders during his 12 years in office, averaging 300 orders per year. modern presidents, trump or biden, don't issue anything like that number. >> pretty heavy in the first 90 days of president biden. stuart: we are almost out of time. coast-to-coast starts now. neil: stocks having a rough go, higher rates not helping in and out of 4% but that is not the money we are following right now. more the ridiculous amount of money nikki haley is raising, another $24 million. that's more than double third-quarter overall and triple what she took during the second quarter. that is a lot of money in the latest sign of momentum as well. the ohio caucus is 12 days away. a lot of questions about changing the political calculus, moving up in iowa and new hampshire but still polling far behind donald trump in both states. lost to follow, to richardson who is doing that. >> reporter: when you look at that, nikki haley in new hampshire a couple weeks after iowa. other candi

and we kind of dither, and fdr comes up with land lease, right? this is the basic version, because he's realizing something is gonna have to be done, but it's very hard to get americans into this idea of a second war in europe in just several decades later, and then pearl harbor happens, and we're in, and we defeat fascism. right? [laughter] go, yes! that's basically the story. and that story also masks exactly the same thing. that is masked in those other moments, from the country's founding to the trail of tears and jackson to the creative of u.s. empire in the pacific by theodore ruth about. which is can -- what democracy is and whether it's good. whether what we actually do want is for all of us collectively, as individuals with sovereign rights of ourselves, collectively coming together to transfer that sovereignty into a collectively that decides as a democracy how we will mark our faith. how we will go for it would. or whether what we want to something else. dominion. we will buy some group or person. that is an internal debate in american

what he would do is spy on fdr's edit me and then tell fdr about it when we get more resources so hecould do more spying would help different centers, different congresspeople spy on their enemies and they would give him more resources that it's how the fbi suddenly grown. we have excellent federal law enforcement agencies. people like the u.s. marshall, the dea who do a better job of fighting child sex trafficking, frontal epidemic than the fbi. there are agencies of treasury who do a better job of fighting white-collar crime than the fbi. so what vivek believes we need to do is we need to shut down the fbi altogether. and take the 15000 actual front line fbi agents, the people who are actually fighting crime and move them to these other agencies that have not been corrupted. there's another 20000 members of the fbi who are in the back office of the j edgar hoover building in washington d.c. who are the source of the corruption the source of the investigations into normal day-to-day americans. people who go and speak out at a school board meeting and suddenly get put on a list. thos

a huge part of the fdr constituency. hit the last one to win in 1964. the votes were up for grab ever since. it's incredible. now the populist republican billionaire made deeper inroads to the traditional democratic base. the phrase, drain the swamp, never heard of george wallace. if he did, he would've used it. that was part of his ethos in 1968. >> the final days before the election, humphrey is searching. it has been written in popular history that it was due to the sorted scheme that was initiated by the nixon campaign to play on racial fears in the south known as the southern strategy. you attribute the surge by humphrey to something else entirely. >> i'm coding from the humphrey records. my take on this is different than most other things in the book. i have been in touch with his political strategist, nick, who mainly worked democratic campaigns. he is still around today. he said that it is all nonsense. the way every history book says, either because of the chennault affair, or humphrey separating himself from lyndon johnson on the issue of viet

did fdr ever receive it?were not in social security until the reforms of 1983. they were inretirement system. one of the reforms made in 1983 was to bring federal employees inin get the surge of payroll. they were phased out and put in the new federal employee retirement to quickly think we should know about ida mae fuller in her story? >> the significance of that it goes back to what we were earli. the original vision for social security would be a big fun d started paying significant benefit checks to people. but ida mae fuller and others are part of a generation who basically got benefits they personally did not pay for they did not spend their whole paying social security tax. this is at the root of our current social security shortfall today remember it this is an income transit program can have income out of nothing. for every person comes out ahead someone comes■d. ida mae fuller comes out far ahead which means subsequent to have more to get this imbalance for. >> one or two more phone calls today. >>

fdr and british prime minister winston churchill worshiped together that day in george washington's hometown church. american history tv visited christchurch and alexandria, virginia to hear the story. hi, i'm john lawson and the former senior warden here at christ church in alexandria, virginia. with me is our rector, the reverend noel, george simmons. the story that i will describe today to me is really a lesson in leadership from perhaps the greatest leaders of the 20th century. president franklin roosevelt and prime minister winston churchill. these are men who are willing to commit their countries to a long, bloody conflict act in the name of freedom to support the freedom and independence of their own homelands, but to support freedom and democracy for other people around the world. they combine that with a deep humility. they believe that our countries had to be worthy spiritually and morally of the victory. they were asking god to grant us. so on january 1st, 1942, president roosevelt and mrs. roosevelt came here to christchurch with prime minister winston churchill. lord halifax, th