that is not what fdr is thinking.owever, fdr is campaigning on keeping america out of any war in europe. so there's this contradiction in what is being presented to the public a bit. and there's hits -- this chafing behind the scenes were fdr wants joseph kennedy to get with the program, that america will support the u.k. if it really comes to it, but while he is campaigning for his reelection, he's not going to commit to send british troops into mainland europe, for example. and so they fall out and eventually joseph kennedy is recalled. but not before quite a famous, or quite an intriguing meeting happens. because kennedy's son, john kennedy, comes to visit on a break from harvard. he comes to stay and basically have fun in london high society and visit europe. in fact, he even gets as far as berlin i think on that trip, just to see how things are shaping down in the run-up to war. and of course he gets invited to buckingham palace for presentation events to the king. and has coffee afterwards with the 12-year-old p

fdr his legacy biden's new deal and the struggle to save democracy. in this book, bob draws a line through a line from fdr to joe biden and describes the possibilities and perils facing president biden as he attempted to go big during his first term. i'm i'm looking forward intently to this conversation here at bob thinks about the prospects of going big and bold if there is a second biden term and what the social agenda be and that with the political climate at this moment our history and also i'm interested in bob's comments and on the topic of day and that is what is the future our democracy. where are we going? how's movie going to end after the november? so please, please join me in a warm community action welcome for robert kuttner. so bob, i want to start off by asking you really sort of a softball question to start this, but why did you write. going big? was it with frustrations with the democratic? was it fear of what donald trump or republicans might do if, particularly a party led by donald trump to the country? or was it out of a sense opt

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

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

important presidential foreign policy speeches of the 20th and 21st century in, the same category as fdr fought for freedom speech at the time, people thought it was largely ineffective and a failure. what makes it resonate so much better in the long and how did reagan see what others did not? the fundamental weaknesses in the soviet union? those are the puzzles that we have to confront to begin to answer those puzzles we think need to start by thinking about the audiences to whom reagan was speaking. and we've seen a little bit of the audience there in the royal gallery. so he certainly is speaking to parliament, other assembled people in great britain, but more broadly, reagan was speaking to the united states, to our allies in western europe and our allies, asia, you know, australia new zealand, taiwan, on japan, south korea. and he is asking them to continue to his soviet policy. he's on a trip to, europe, where he's trying to build support. and his conclusion is that optimism is an order because day by day, democracy is proving itself to be a not at all fragile, all pile up, a fragi

here you're not fdr dealing with a war. you've got 20 days or whatever left, you have a president-elect lawfully certified and you're trying to steal the thing. >> so appellate argument is very different from arguing in front of a jury. you don't have to be splashy. no theatrics involved. michael dreeben more than any other speaks the supreme court's language. former deputy solicitor general. he's argued cases in front of the court for decades. michael dreeben went into this knowing he had a difficult path to walk. in fact, in the government's brief they had argued in the alternative, that if the court was inclined to go somewhat the direction it appears to have been going, that the government had fall-back positions including something that surfaced in court today, they were willing to argue only the non-official acts were crimes although they believe they're still entitled to use evidence of official acts to show his knowledge and intent. they had crafted this fallback position for such an emergency and dreeben executed t

well i believe that the way fdr ultimately overcame may be the greatest story in american of any one person overcoming adversity and going on to do amazing things. keep in mind he polio when he was 39 years old. most people thought you just got it when i was a kid. but but he he not as a child. he'd been an only he hadn't been around many children. he didn't get all the illnesses that kids get, that develop antibodies. and so, lo and behold, he gets polio. he's 39 years old. he'd been very physically active for and played golf, loved to dance, loved to work the crowd, politics, all of a sudden that was gone and it took seven years for him to work way back. and it was very painful. he tried and tried and tried and thought one day he'd be able to walk by himself. that happened basically from the waist. he was useless. his legs useless, but. but he maintained optimism. he he maintained that sparkle. he maintained that that eloquence, that joy for living that is a sign of most great leaders. pessimists rarely are very successful at doing anything but to see how he came back over those se

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. you managed to find.

in the great depression, when many ceos, industrial corporations turned from the banks and allowed fdr to regulate and there are all too many, all too many of my own profession. our own profession, economists who theories based on flimsy assumptions that rationalize financial deregulation. what claiming that free markets are the best of all possible worlds. this club was not always so powerful when the great depression hit in the 1930s. many americans and many businesses blamed the wall street banks for the calamity. as one historian put it, for the first time in decades when the bankers spoke, no listened. fdr, the new dealers, were able to push through a spate of financial reforms, including the famous glass-steagall act that separated deposit, taking banking from more investment banking. these regulations in a 40 year period of stable banking that tended to promote a stable and growing economy. now, most of the bankers didn't like highly regulated system. partly because it ended up limiting the amount of money they could make goes to figure. so rather than just rattling their cages,

he went down east river fdr highway and landed there. >> brian: the palestinians, women, do you thinkou think that is tolerant society? check in with dana perino for what is coming up, i'm sure she'll be covering this. >> dana: we will follow your amazing lead, "fox and friends." thank you. attacks on jewish students and a rabbi suggesting they get out of town. a student will join us before passover begins today. opening statements in hush money trial of president trump, we have a reporter sending news as it breaks. first witness david pecker of national enquiry and burgum on the president and you can't throw things at concerts, hew luke bryan fell and what comes next. look forward to seeing you at 9:00. try dietary supplements from voltaren, for healthy joints. the all new godaddy airo helps you get your business online in minutes with the power of ai... ...with a perfect name, a great logo, and a beautiful website. just start with a domain, a few clicks, and you're in business. make now the future at godaddy.com/airo ♪ music ♪ ♪ unnecessary action hero! ♪ ♪ unnecessary. ♪ was that n

fdr, new deal. i mean, much to the consternation, conservative republicans, they didn't i mean the size of government under the nixon grew it didn't shrink and a lot of what nixon did as president upset conservatives, which is a theme. we'll leave that with you right now. we're to come back to that later in the presidency. so on the issues, he was surprisingly moderate. the convention in miami beach is actually where actually where the democrats wish they had moved. johnson had locked in chicago as the site of the convention for the democrats, which we'll talk about more in just a minute. whereas the republicans were in miami beach so near key biscayne, it was comfortable for nixon. it was a lot easier. when you choose a convention city, it's huge questions about security. and when you're in south florida, it's like miami beach, you can seal off the whole area. closing a couple of causeways, you kind of know that area. so miami beach was a much better site the democrats after johnson withdrew, actua

fdr did more than anybody. i chose to be a worker bee, i choose the party that represent me the best. the family leave act, the republicans stripped out the part where we get unemployment insurance, minimum wage, they will not pass that. reagan fired the air traffic controllers which was the downhill for unions. i was in aerospace. i watched unions dissolve in front of my eyes after that. it doesn't make sense for working-class people to vote republican, at least i don't think so. host: thanks. guest: we don't have a measure of working-class as such, sort of a self-definition, but union members tend to affiliate with the democratic party at pretty high rates. nonunion people along with the republican party. to the caller's question, you do see that pattern of union members, have seen that for quite a while, probably going back to the 1930's and before, identifying with the democratic party. host: william in mississippi for our guest, jackson, mississippi. independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call o

alk to fo >> i got a washington, lincoln, fdr, reagan, all have in common. >> america was at war or in aamc recession and they puta the people first. they didn't worry about how history woulrecessiod judge the. bush 43 put it this way i'll let history take its course. >> the key for me wakey for s ti , ve it my all. you know, i served. i didn't sell my soud l. u and history will ultimatelyth be thee ju judge. >> history is best written by historians. >> and now the jewish puerto rican truck driving greek professor raised in thehurc black church claims he's a historian until here he is reflecting on his legacy to do spend a lot of time thinking about what your legacy would look wha like.>> w well, i hope i hopele the legacy is that i kept my word and thati i send that it remains that its was running. it was to help change the life l of ordinary people. they reduced the prospect of war and because of vietnamd n and i when i ran, i said that i was once asked why i wouldn't when i was 129 years old. w it must be a secret. and so i hopas e my legacy is that i was straightforward and did wha

so author steve drummond what did fdr think of the truman committee? franklin roosevelt was not happy about the truman committee initially. he was reluctant to have this senator who had virtually no relationship with investigating his own administration. eventually the two men established a good relationship, and one of the first big reports, the first annual report that was going to talk that was going to say very clearly that franklin roosevelt's sort of management structure for managing the defense program was a mess. truman was a wise politician, took it to the white house three days before it would be released. roosevelt took that head start. he the day before the committee's report came out, he announced a big shakeup in the defense hierarchy. he appointed a new production czar the very night before truman committee came out, came out with its report. truman said in his memoirs, i didn't care who got the credit as long as the work got done. and after he and he and roosevelt for, the most part had a pretty good relationship where truman would ofte

so author steve drummond what did fdr think of the truman committee? franklin roosevelt was not happy about the truman committee initially. he was reluctant to have this senator who had virtually no relationship with investigating his own administration. eventually the two men established a good relationship, and one of the first big reports, the first annual report that was going to talk that was going to say very clearly that franklin roosevelt's sort of management structure for managing the defense program was a mess. truman was a wise politician, took it to the white house three days before it would be released. roosevelt took that head start. he the day before the committee's report came out, he announced a big shakeup in the defense hierarchy. he appointed a new production czar the very night before truman committee came out, came out with its report. truman said in his memoirs, i didn't care who got the credit as long as the work got done. and after he and he and roosevelt for, the most part had a pretty good relationship where truman would ofte

. >> he's heading down the fdr to the manhattan courthouse on chambers street. >> arriving at this intersectiontory with defiance. >> jon: arriving at the intersection of american history with defiance. the brilliant juxtaposing of the gravitas of the moment with simple traffic terms was... [chef's kiss] "arrived at the intersection of american history, where he put a quarter in the parking meter... of destiny. leaving the car, looking to avoid stepping in the urine puddle of jurisprudence." seriously, are we going to follow this guy to court every [bleep] day? are you trying to make this oj? it's not even a chase! he is commuting. so the media's first attempt at self control failed. and i'm sorry to say that it didn't -- i'm sorry, hold on, we're getting breaking news. >> you know, he wanted to get a jury seated. so we had a lady -- >> i'm sorry to interrupt, i've just one second. i apologize. we're just showing the first image of donald trump from inside the courtroom. it's a still photograph that we're showing there. just want to make sure our viewers know what they're looking at. >> jon: ye

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