eight of the nine owed their positions to fdr. it was by the biggest impact on the supreme court of any president since george washington. and it wasn't just the number of justices. they were all extremely to fdr in some instances too close to they had very, very close personal relationships. and just to kind of briefly get the players on the table, they sort of into three groups, four of the justices were very well known, hugo black, felix frankfurter, william douglas, robert jackson. those are the four very well known ones. then there are four who were not very well, stanley reed, frank murphy, james burns and you know, burns had been a senator from south carolina and he was only on the court for 14 months because in the fall of 1942, fdr to him come work with me in the white house. you'll be the assistant president overseeing the domestic economy and burns left the supreme to join fdr in the white and the fourth justice in this category of lesser known justices in the fdr appointees was wiley rutledge, who was appointed to be b

that's fdr. and there's a great of there was a one time when johnson was a young congressman and he met fdr and there was a picture of him and there was some guy in the middle and he cut the guy out of the middle. the picture was just him and fdr. but fdr said after meeting him, you know, i have a feeling there's something about that young guy. he may be the first southern president or as incredibly something in him. and so then then you get fdr as hero and fdr as hero as teddy roosevelt. in fact, during this huge he just they knew each other because they were related to some extent. and of course, eleanor was related to teddy roosevelt because teddy roosevelt, her uncle, because eleanor his father had died and etc. and and so all mixed in together, the genealogy of the thing is incredible. but anyway, when and franklin got married, teddy her away and they said that teddy was superseded. then there was nobody interested, the two of them. and all they cared about was teddy. well, teddy loved to be

that's fdr. and there's a great of there was a one time when johnson was a young congressman and he met fdr and there was a picture of him and there was some guy in the middle and he cut the guy out of the middle. the picture was just him and fdr. but fdr said after meeting him, you know, i have a feeling there's something about that young guy. he may be the first southern president or as incredibly something in him. and so then then you get fdr as hero and fdr as hero as teddy roosevelt. in fact, during this huge he just they knew each other because they were related to some extent. and of course, eleanor was related to teddy roosevelt because teddy roosevelt, her uncle, because eleanor his father had died and etc. and and so all mixed in together, the genealogy of the thing is incredible. but anyway, when and franklin got married, teddy her away and they said that teddy was superseded. then there was nobody interested, the two of them. and all they cared about was teddy. well, teddy loved to be

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able to successfully then stt stacking the larger presidents in front starting woodrow wilson, teddy, fdrt then he realized that if he took the final three washington, 6éjackson, lincoln, that it woud be obscured to the remaining ones. so he had to pick and choose which three he wanted to come up front. and these are the three that he chose. and we're going to talk about why in a moment so that that is kind how the schematic and the order of them occurred it's not chronological like it's fairly random but see mt of the smaller ones are set and the larger ones are are up front. george. is one of the favorites and he obviously was born. he was born, i think around five miles from here in a little place called creek, virginia, in westmoreland county. and he waspeople think he wore a wig. he actually didn't he powdered his hair. he was a distiller ofand what hf the american fox hound. he had at any point up to 30 different fox hounds, two of which were named drunkard. and tipsy and he had an intense fear of being buried alive, which, believe it or not, was not uncommon. back in the 1700s, peo

this fdr who died his fourth term the hall on the top of his head is pretty pronounced relative to the holes on the rest of their heads. i don't know why. but you can kind of see the steel infrastructure out of the top of it. he supposedly was a victim of polio and i've read somewhere that some current physicians ced that he had polio rather a disorder called barry syndrome, regardless of the authenticity of that claim. the interesting about it is because he either was a victim of polio or purportedly had polio that the because he was such a high profile individual, lot of people save thousands of were saved because of the acceleration of the timeline and the appropriation of the funds that ultimately ended in the vaccine created by salk, which i thought was an interesting tidbit of information. this is george bush jr, who is also highly decayed if you can zoom in on his tie you can see where he's got his elephants. a lot of people love seeing that. the most decay president is woodrow wilson. pretty much looks like he has a leprosy and the question comes up, is there a rhyme or reason

what happened to fdr? letters. why did you not present him tonight or is he? oh, well, we have letters of fdr in there, and there's some interesting ones. there's actually letters that, too, of letters that he was right. he wrote to eleanor when he was started having the affair. and and he you can see how he's trying to put her off the track of what he what he's doing. sorry. i think he went on a boating trip and his mistress was along on that. but she was amelia and but but she made it seem in the letter he wrote, eleanor, that she was the date sort of of another man who was on. yeah, right. well i think that's going to be our last woman question you can still ask questions every after the event, especially if you get your book signed. but do want to give you the last word. you had a question there, in fact. well, we look, we don't mind why he wrote the missing hand his mistress. you know, i know. there he oh sorry. interestingly, she had her breakdown or when she finally they had to hospitalize her really almost the exact same day that oh my my mind is gone.

the government had made a mess, not fdr.t government that preceded him, although it was mainly the federal reserve system, which really wasn't subject to election. but once fdr came in, he did very different kinds of things. we'll have the government made a mess by what it did about. but but by what it didn't. by what it did. by its monetary policies which forced and produced a sharp decline in the total quantity of money. it was a mismanagement, the monetary apparatus. if there had been no federal reserve system, in my opinion, there would not have been a depression at that time. but given that thecurred and ita catastrophe of an almost unimaginable kind, i do not fault at all. indeed on the contrary, i s;@ted roosevelt for some of the measures he took. they obviously weren't of the best, but they were emergency measures and you had an emergency and you had to deal with. and the emergency measures such as relief programs, even the wpa, which was a make work important function. he also served a very important by giving peopl

so with link, what happened with fdr first was that i wanted to write fdr and eleanor to make a different and about the homefront rather than the war front. and it worked. i mean, it allowed me to feel that the two of them together had made something larger than, one of them alone. so when i went to lincoln was so scared. it was the moby--- of historians and everybody wants to write about lincoln. it was the 19 century. i hadn't really studied it. so i figured, well, it worked with mary with fdr and eleanor so i'll do abe. mary, i spent two years on writing a book about them and i realized that she couldn't carry the story the way eleanor. eleanor was everywhere i wanted to be. she's in the middle of everything happening. so luckily went up to auburn, new york to give a talk and that's where seward, his secretary of state from. and i went to the house that he had lived in, which is still preserved like. it was then and i found out he'd written a thousand letters to his wife because she was in auburn while he was in washington during war. and they're amazing to talk about their relationshi

the government had made a mess, not fdr. his government government that preceded him, although it was mainly the federal reserve system, which really wasn't subject to election. but once fdr came in, he did very different kinds of things. we'll have the government made a mess by what it did about. but but by what it didn't. by what it did. by its monetary policies which forced and produced a sharp decline in the total quantity of money. it was a mismanagement, the monetary apparatus. if there had been no federal reserve system, in my opinion, there would not have been a depression at that time. but given that the depression occurred and it was a catastrophe of an almost unimaginable kind, i do not fault at all. indeed on the contrary, i commend ted roosevelt for some of the measures he took. they obviously weren't of the best, but they were emergency measures and you had an emergency and you had to deal with. and the emergency measures such as relief programs, even the wpa, which was a make work program, they served a very i

. >> jesse: we went from biden's fdr because he accomplished a lot do he's fdr because neither could. another strategy. >> instead of trying to refute the tool to be president slants, job must embrace them. stop with the i'm sharper than ever, nobody is buying that. [ laughter ] don't try to deny the age thing, lean into it. lean in, lean in like your eating soup. admit it, say yes, i'm bad with names and i walk like a toddler with a full diaper. be yourself and joe, yourself is old. [ laughter ] that is who you are. [ applause ] old. >> jesse: -- you fell down the stairs of the underground railroad, you were sold your bad kid with the drug problem at 54. >> jesse: democrats disagree over if his fdr or a baby with a dirty diaper, other suggest that you have to call in the military >> 30 to be general campaign where the generals who have worked with him need to turn to the american public intern to camera and say you don't understand how scary this can be. we really can go over a cliff here, get people scared. >> jesse: incentive 51 cia guys, will go 51 generals beating the metals off

the combination of abraham lincoln and fdr.en declaring himself a wartime president, saying he is saving democracy at home and abroad just like america did in the civil war ended world war ii. >> franklin roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation. he said i address you in a moment unprecedented in the history of the union. war was raging in europe, freedom and democracy were under assault in the world. tonight, i come to the same chamber to address the nation. not since president lincoln in the civil war have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as there are today. what makes our moment rare is the freedom and democracy are under attack both at home and overseas. at the very same time. we will not walk away. we will not bow down. >> jesse: he flamed -- framed the selection not as a military -- political campaign but a military campaign. putin and trump will also... this help biden is positioning himself. he will defeat trump, the enemy of the state. >> ask all of you without regard to party to join toget

fdr would give you 1000 parameters. that's not this. pdr is basic.napshot of the major systems on a vessel. we have long wanted more recording, more parameters to be recorded on ahopefully that is t we can provide. ■rha timeline. before i do, i want to continue with what our team has done. our survival factors group. their whole rural is to examine the response. so they were able to obtain dispatch the maryland transportation authority, the baltimore county fire department , the baltimore city fire department to begin to put together a timeline. they will be conducting interviews tomorrow including with a few people in the bridge area. now we also have from our office of highway safety a bridge structures group. many know thathe built in 1976. it has three spans. the main span is 1200 feet. the entire bridge is 9090 feet. the average annual daily traffic on the bridge is 30,767 vehicles per day. 30,767 vehicles peray. the bridge is fracture critical. it's a fracture critical bridge. what that means is if a member fails, that would likely cause a port

and i think reagan i think reagan will go down without fdr as two of the strongest fdr, but clear and clearly more important, a significant president. but i think reagan, if you look at the year since reagan stacks up very well oh, my god. he looks like cicero. yeah i'm with general hair. yeah, but so the one thing to remember about jim baker is how a man managed to get past nancy reagan. yes. having run two campaigns against ronnie. yeah. because he ran the ford campaign in 76 when reagan him and the bush campaign in 80. and i've always had a slight theory that one of the reasons mrs. reagan said yes, that baker looked like her idea of a chief of staff. yes, right. and he was. yeah, they went to princeton. well, you know, we didn't have everything. but you're right. we call that the vanderbilt of new jersey. but and that was that troika, right? it was ed meese, baker, mike deaver, my dad. right. is that correct? no brief story every every year in those days, there would be a g-8 meeting that was meeting of the top people, the president and prime minister, a small number of countries,

he made great historical an that will analogies to fdr. and it was a big moment.ss him. so if you are a democrat, you are feeling better. >> and president biden opened his remarks by comparing this moment in history tord roosevelt's state of the union address in 1941 during world war ii. stark contrast obviously to other state of the unions. how do you see it? >> i thought it was smart to remind us about world war ii and to use fdr's for freedom speech kind of as a pivot because back then in 1941, hitler was rampaging through europe. we were still trying to stay neutral in the united states in the days before pearl harbor. and now you have biden talking about putin on the loose in europe, in the ukraine. i thought it was significant that the funding of ukraine came at the very top of the speech. this was not something buried in the middle or just another bullet point of anyone to getting across. i think that he is drawing a sharp line. the very idea that this is no ordinary time, you know, that was a phrase used during the roosevelt years, so we see biden adopting

fdr had, which was network was brand new in 1930 233. president kennedy had brilliant advisors and television on and he was brilliant in his press conferences. the state department and, barack obama understood that was a new thing called the internet. and he, you know, had a web site which was the first. and donald trump understood twitter as a mechanism for reaching people. i think those were the top presidential communicators. excellent. well that's a that's a nonpartisan of presidential command. thank you all so much to our panelists and to all of for your wonderful questions.

peter: fdr reached out to him fdr reached out to him before the film.of back and forth chaplin make the film, would he, etc.. there is a letter in the book from jack warner to chaplin. warner had just come out of a meeting in the oval office with roosevelt and roosevelt had brought up chaplin's film about dictators. because there was publicity in the papers about if or not he would make it, should he make it or not. the president told jack warner he certainly hoped the film was made and that he believed it would do a great deal of good and warner in the letter rights to chaplin him, if the president thinks it is a good idea, i certainly hope you go ahead with did not offer to fint or distribute it, but the warner bros. were there this time one of the few companies that were engaged in making antifascist films, so for a brief moment in hollywood, they were on the same page as chaplain. hence the support of letter. peter: scott eyman was the great dictator a commercial success? scott: a great commercial success all over the world, remarkably so, because m

it's 54. >> while democrats over biden's fdr, a baby with a dirty diaper, othersy suggest callinl the military and there needs to be a general campaign where these generals who wor bk t with him need to turn to theubli american public and turn to camera and say, you don'tcary understand how scary this can be, really can go overs can clif here, get people scared out of people. >> so instead of 51 cia guys,, l we're going to go 51 generalses. beating the medals off their chest. >> how does the biden campaign plan on closing the will be overwhelming on democracy. i think the biggest images in people's minds are going to be of january's minds t sixts so biden's not going to run on policy. gonna run january 6th. and he thinks in november voters are goinganuary 6 to goi walking to their polling place, thinking about the guy who put gup on nancy's deskdesk and the shaman obama world, not convinced. david axelrod says, quote, i'm pretty certain in scranton.a they're not sitting around their dinner table talking about democracy every nightdemo this is what they're talking about around their ge