and i think i'm the only one here today talking about air rather than fdr. and i'm also a film and television historian. so my topics a little different than everyone here today. but over the years, i found myself recognizing that eleanor was not just a pioneer in print and radio, but she's the first woman in the united states to host major public affairs, broadcast television. and that's something nobody talks about. but quite a big deal today with mrs. roosevelt, aired weekly on nbc in 1950, and albert einstein made his first television appearance as a guest on her show on the premiere that also featured robert oppenheimer after working in europe with the united nations, she came back to tv with mrs. roosevelt, meets the public weekly on nbc 1950 and 51. both of these shows were lead ins to meet the press, a program on which she also appeared. many times. she would not have another regularly scheduled television show until 1959, but was able to express views on political candidates and focus more on her own issues. with appearances on popular shows through

influenced by churchill's use of maps, fdr has his staff assemble his own war room inside the home. located next to the diplomatic reception room, here on the ground floor of the white house, and with his physician's office just on the other side, fdr's staff takes over what had been a low ceilinged ladies coat room and converts it into a hideaway office where he and a select few monitor and plan america's war efforts. >> you feel fdr in the map room. you feel that period because you know what happened there, though it looks so radically different. it had things smacked all over the walls, maps and a little plant and old beat up metal desks everywhere and finally cabinets and telephones and filing desk lamps and things like that. it was the brains, the communication brains of the white house for the president, personally. >> entering the map room from roosevelt's vantage point while in his wheelchair, he traveled toward the center of the space, imagining what it would've looked like in his day. turning to the right and just above the fireplace, you see the last map made for presiden

while the country sees fdr in the newsreels, standing at a podium. those who live and work at the white house view him either in a wheelchair or as this rare film footage reveals in the metal leg braces, he wears the remainder of his adult life after contracting polio in 1921, partly because of his limited mobility. the white house is the center of fdr, his presidency, and he uses it and a handful of rooms inside it to his advantage. i am happy to address this evening in this unique manner, utilizing the growing power of radio and film technologies, fdr transformed forms how the building is seen by the nation, increasing its visibility far beyond any president before him. franklin d roosevelt had an acute awareness of the power of the white house. the main stage was in the historic house, just below the south portico from where fdr addresses. the nation is the entrance to the white house, reserved for presidents, first ladies and their guests leading into the first room in the home they see the diplomatic reception room centrally located on the groun

i happen to agree much more with fdr and barack obama. but i've studied reagan for decades and had a coherent worldview and he was a lot more than a mere actor. and he was he did a brilliant job throughout his presidency of developing that worldview and. i will also say that he he has demonstrated to be right about the soviets. so you're right that domestic that doesn't work won't resonate very and very in the long term. and i i'm i can think a recent example of that, that i'm not going discuss here today. so with inaugural speeches is the push and pull within the like the rhetoric. who speaks to the audience like what does he have stay in line like inspiring and showing a clear path to the future? i guess just asking, where is the push and pull with these speeches? the seven characters of an inaugural are like a recipe where. those seven ingredients are really required and if you're missing and in gradient i'm very fond of making the dessert cranberry lay and without eggs and and and cream and sugar you don't have a dessert all you've go

i found the parts about fdr and stalin in the book revealing about we always hear about 4142, fdr and churchill, the chummy and the stories are great for history, but the relationship was complicated but what your book also is that while churchill had a frayed relationship toward the end with franklin roosevelt churchill, after he leaves power comes back to power years later and, he really encounters that person he met years before dwight eisenhower. and once again, the white house stays in the same room he stayed in when he was with fdr. help understand churchill's with eisenhower. why it's important and how it shaped the cold war. it's important for a number of reasons. one is that of course eisenhower had been based primarily london during, the second world war. of course, he moved around. good deal. but but he got to know churchill very, very well. but it's a different relationship when you have a prime minister and a military leader versus a prime minister and the president of the united. and eisenhower right from the very beginning, churchill went out of way to come to right aft

again, billie really liked fdr and maybe because fdr was the first president to actually embrace contemporary music. yes, his favorite singer may have been kate smith, at least that's what he told kate smith and the king of england during a visit to hyde park, but maybe he had kind of cooler taste when he was staying here in town because he was -- and he ran his presidential campaign from here. fdr was the first presidential candidate to choose his official campaign song from a modern source. happy days are here again was actually from a 1930 musical called chasing rainbows. i looked in vain for the ultimate keck that the composer and lyricist might have produced a song that billie holiday sang, i didn't succeed there, but i did try and it's also notable that during the new deal which was planned upstairs in fdr's library during the presidential trance igs of 1932-33, this small house, in fact, one small room served as the entire transition headquarters for that momentous four-month period inaugurations were in march. during that time, the administration that was incoming conceived the idea o

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

of course there's not too far removed from fdr's little white house, which is of course were former president carter watches general election campaign in 1976. but back to that site there in archery, you noted the fact that children are often incredibly interested in the outhouses, the fact that it doesn't have electricity. but former president carter shared what an incredible impact that living there had on his life, the influence of his parents, and his siblings obviously, but also offers itinerant farmers who lived nearby, folks like miss rachel, who helped shape former president carter's understanding of race and socialjustice, and the friends that he had there, and in the teachers within the community. apologies, professor, just to jump apologies, professor, just to jump in here, because we are seeing that motorcade now beginning to arrive here in the area of the carter farm where jimmy carter was, area of the carter farm where jimmy carterwas, and area of the carter farm where jimmy carter was, and you see quite the motorcade for a state funeral, many cars and motorcycles, and the main

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

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plans and the regional plan was a group of people from the business community and private citizens and fdr and going for them on the regional plan. moses was working on his first project then and he was gaining a public reputation and he had no public reputation at the time. this wasn't something where moses said we have to build all these roadse and new york city said, oh, yes, we have to do what moses said and he enacted what other people, elected officials, governors, mayors wanted and what they continued to want until the 1960s. the bad man and good woman that prevents us from some successful or achieving the goals and suggest an idea and we can tap this thing and mitigate the impact on the middle south bronx and you sort of just hear oh, well, you know, moses built this road and we're condemned to live inat the world that moses built for us. i mean, moses has been dead for four decades and what are we doing today to litigate the impact of the road and in fact i talk about in a the book and people in the bronx are working on that. not just local politics but state and federal. the crim

i thought fdr was great. i like harry truman. i liked jfk. i liked dwight eisenhower. i guess i am old enough to hanker back to an age where there were differences, but they were not differences that made people hate each other. so, you know, i think what happened in the last election was, the american voters delivered a bit of a corrective to the democratic party. and my hope is that they learn and adjust accordingly. because if they don't we may be looking at a long, long period of a republican-dominant government. and that is not healthy. host: let's go to benjamin in huntsville, alabama on our line for independents. good morning, benjamin. caller: good morning. i just want to make a statement during inherent in the very definition of liberalism are seeds of conflict. the ideas of progressivism, individualism, free-market economics, and christian theology are all used in the definition of liberalism, and they do not harmonize with each other. this definition limits the possibility for the conceptualization of a clearer and more expansive and comprehensive view of wh

>> well, that's how he's rebuilding fdr legacy.'s understand, it was joe biden's choice to go in this direction and to be forced to do all these things at the end. the progressives have to have been very happy with the joe biden presidency because he basically held the door open for all of this spending, especially on climate. but he's going to go out having lost because of inflation. and really, strikingly, because the american people dibuy into his presidency or into kamala harris' candidacy. that's the ultimate repiewduation. paul: kim, let me ask you about donald trump's sentencing in the alvin bragg so-called hush money case. it was a total -- the judge with issued a total discharge meaning that trump can appeal, but there's no, there's no punishment, no fine and in jail time. what do you make of this decision by the judge? >> well, trump will appeal, and system people made a big deal out of the fact thupreme court would not intervene to stop all of this. essentially, what the supreme court said was the proper way for donald t

not one time did we her that fdr sent checks out. he sent hope and opportunity and we rebuilt america. put people back to work. that is what it's all about. government is there to help you during difficult times. there are americans out there today all over our great country that need a second chance. they really do, and we should give it to them. that's our responsibilities. for example, 1946, the federal government intervened to stop a nationwide coal strike because it was destroying our economy coming out of the war. something had to be done. in exchange for returning to work, the united mine workers of america received a guarantee from the federal government that their pensions and their health care benefits at that they had worked for and earned would be guaranteed for them for their life. over the next 60 years congress had to step up to make good on this promise as individual coal companies, bankruptcies threatened to take away all they earned. the entire system was on verge of collapse and nearly 100 thousand coal miners not

the funeral of fdr was at the white house but there was a recognition that they wanted to have an opportunitypoint of the state funeral as well, as a country as one mourns the passing of a former president? >> guest: i believe so. it can mean a lot of different things to different people. in particular there is a recognition even if the president is no longer in office they were the former head of state and so it makes sense to some sort of service for them in the nation's capital on behalf of the american people in recognition that even if they don't currently hold those powers they did at one time and that is a tremendous burden and service and sacrifice. >> host: we spoke the other day when the former president, the late president came to washington for the final time. you spoke about the state funerals, who gets to decide, plans them? remind our viewers. >> guest: every single element of these funerals of commemorations receipt of the last six days, sometimes it eight days. reagan had eight days. carter had planned for eight days but because over the new year's holiday felt that a a short

the funeral of fdr was in the white house. was recognition you wanted to have an opportunity for the country to mourn. the national cathedral is designed to embody that for all people. host: is that the point of a state funeral? the country mourns the passing of a former president? guest: i believe so. it can mean different things to different people. there is recognition even if the president is not in office, they were the former head of state so it makes sense to have a service for them in the nations capital on behalf of the people in recognition even if they don't currently hold powers, they did at one time, and that is a tremendous burden, service and sacrifice. host: we spoke when the former president, the late president came to washington for the final time. you spoke about these state funerals. who gets to decide, who gets to plan them? guest: every element of these funerals, commemorations of the last six days, sometimes it is eight days, reagan had eight days and carter had planned for a tears but because of new yea

be a transitional figure, then it was the most transformational president since lyndon johnston or fdr was -- which was direct up to his predecessors, barack obama, strong animosity, 2016. and bill clinton who happened to be married to the person who snatch the nomination away from him in 2016 when he thought it belonged to him. this it has not been a particularly productive theories of affairs by the current president, i am not sure tonight will fundamentally change that for the people already looking at the rearview mirror. >> martha: thank you as always. with that we bring in florida republican congressman cory mills, u.s. army veteran went to israel days after the ago seventh terror attack to evacuate americans, he hasn't done that on numerous occasions and places it was difficult to go in. he thinks joining guess. we seem to be uniting from the early days after active her seventh and a few of these families, -- october -- when he was released and reunited with her family, but for many of these families, their loved ones are not coming home alive. your thoughts on the emerging deta

he has hung this massive portrait of fdr over the mantle of the white house fireplace.at he sees when he looks up. that is the really consequential president he wanted to be and he hopes history will see him as. >> and vaughn hillyard joins us. you were at the news conference and i asked one of the most important questions of that entire news conference following up on the president's view toward the panama canal and greenland. and canada. talk to me about what he said. >> reporter: there is a serious question now taking place about what the trump administration actions would be taken to acquire greenland and the panama canal and the extent to which military force would be an answer. he answered to me he was not under consideration military force to acquire and annex canada. we are talking about a broader conversation about american imperialism. about conquest in the 21st century here. the u.s. hasn't acquired territories in land in more than 100 years here, what donald trump is openly suggesting is keen interest in doing exactly that. in the case of canada, cutting off

fdr also tried to buy greenland in 2004 by sending his vice president, the erie canal, a democrat! luckily that deal was halted by president genghis khan, two years before the big bang. trump's second term agenda isn't all annexing greenland. he also wants to annex canada, aka "left greenland." yesterday, trump posted two maps on social media, one with the united states and canada together, made of the american flag, and another with them labeled "united states." that doesn't preserve any canadian identity. i would have gone with "u.s., eh?" you're welcome! [cheering] ♪ the king of glory comes a nation rejoicing ♪ open your gates before him ♪ you guys got to be here for rehearsal. unlike greenland, trump plans to acquire canada peacefully. >> are you also considering military force to annex and acquire canada? >> no. economic force. because canada and the united states, that would really be something. you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like. they should be a state. >> stephen: hey! dummy! all of the lines on maps are artificially draw

he wanted to be fdr. bottom of the list of presidents. >> we are under 10 minutes away from the certification of president-elect donald trump's election went back. the procession ceremony for electoral votes has just begun. when a joint of congress kicks off, vice president, harris will be presiding over her own defeats becoming official. keep it here. m around any vet t. absolutely. at newday usa, that's what we're doing. we put our arm around the veterans. when i think of the veteran out there that needs to refi his home, he may want to purchase and we can help them and provide that financial solution for them and their families. it's a great, rewarding feeling. everybody in the company, they have that deference and that respect and that love for the veteran that makes this company so unique. veterans, need cash? get up to $70,000 or more with a newday 100 va cash out loan from newday. thank you admiral. this money saving benefit for veterans lets you pay off high rate credit card debt and costly car lo

fdr during the second world war more or less militarily annexed greenland with the permissions of denmark, who were unable to defend it. so they still have a military base. there's kind of a long history of america thinking about the strategic dimension of greenland with respect to the panama canal. there's probably no more vital strategic chokepoint in the western hemisphere. if we want to move naval assets from norfork to the pacific, that is where they are going through the fact that trump has expressed some concerns about chinese holdings buying the canal including at least one or two of the locks is not completely incommensurate with i think legitimate strategic concerns that relate to frankly stuff that they factor the monroe doctrine. host: i think this is really a misguided message that president trump is sending, underlying it is a rational concern which is frankly the competition with china. there are rare earth minerals and greenland. magnesium, all kinds of things that are required frankly for the future of air industry, especially when it comes to electric vehicles. so there'

on that platform from the left and yet when he started those were the articles that he was the new fdr that got from the left a big push and that's how he governed, at least at the beginning. he had some successes on legislatively clearly and the op-ed goes into that. his biggest thing was whether to run again and clearly that june 27th debate showed that he shouldn't have. >> bill: interesting to hear chuck schumer on sunday we didn't talk face-to-face to people about the things that concern them. it is really remarkable revision as we look back. >> bret: shocking. >> bill: wow. bret, we'll talk to you at the top of the hour when the press conference gets underway. let's roll this, shall we? >> i am spider-man and i've really messed up. wait. >> you are being serious now? you are 1 hundred% serious? >> i'm not joking. >> i was only 67% sure. >> he shoots web out of his fingers and wears a rock on hers. ac actors -- the two met on the set of the box office hit spiderman homecoming in 2017 when the actress appeared sunday night a massive diamond, engagement speculation took off. sources

week six of his term he met with historians in the east room talking about wanting to be fdr and leaving in a different light. his staff says "washington post" will him kindly. that's up for debate. >> dana: schumer was asked questions about what people knew about biden's mental capacity. >> what do you say to americans who feel as though you and other top democrats misled them about president biden's mental acuity? >> look, we didn't. let's look at president biden. he has had an amazing record. he is a great guy. and when he stepped down he did it on his own because he thought it was better not only for the democratic party, but america. we should all salute him. >> dana: last word. >> that's one of the big shames. we won't find out really what happened with the biden mental acuity. books will be written. there was a lot there. cover-up. reporters knew and reporters were debating how frail and being kind the president looked after meeting with him early in his term. they lightened his schedule. this is a big cover-up and we'll never know all of it. >> bill: it probably deserves a follow

and that recognition that confronted with a crisis in some ways as fdr was confronted with a crisis presidentith a level of ambition, saying let's take the tools of government, use them to solve those short-term and long-term problems. and that's what this decade of infrastructure is all about. >> how do we get voters to understand who did that? this fundamental thing. all they get in the voting booth is a name and they don't know why are things running so much better in my town or in my state because of things that people in government did, might be your governor, might be your mayor. you've been a mayor. you've been trying to get that credit for yourself i'm sure as mayor sometimes. >> yeah. and we have been out there working with governors and mayors because one of my favorite rules of political mathematics is somehow it works out that if two willing parties share request for something like this each party walks away with 2/3 of the credit. and it can be a beautiful thing. of course we've also seen people trying to take credit for projects they opposed -- >> really? >> i try not to be cyni

and seeing it all fall apart and four years ago, he walked into the white house hoping to be the next fdr then came af afghanistan and disastrous debate and striod to tough it out and age and family refused to admit he was in decline and reached the point that people didn't believe he was calling the shots. it's not easy watching an american president aging rapidly. it's not pretty seeing him lose his train of thoughts, slur his words and look out with a vacant stare. there's no joy reporting joe biden's decline. he brought it on himself. he should have never run for a second term, but he couldn't resist the tempation to go after the man he loathes, donald trump. now he's walking away, his failed presidency is almost over. third hour of varney starts now. stuart: mollie hemingway with me this morning. i find is sad to see a american president walking away like this, do you? >> well, what's sad for america is what the presidency brought so many people. you have the average monthly spending up by more than a thousand dollars since he first took office. weakened posture and complete eradicat

we all remember fdr's immortal words. >> december 7th, 1941, a date which you promised to shovel theo it quick, and i won't tell your mother, who is also my cousin. weird time to tell you, but there you go." [laughter] >> stephen: it was a weird time for him to bring that up. [applause] just in time for christmas, there's happy news from paris, the san francisco of france. it's been five years since a fire devastated the cathedral of notre dame. well, this weekend, after extensive repairs, the cathedral is finally reopening to the public. the french are so happy, they celebrated the only way they know how: a three-way. [laughter and applause] the opening ceremonies -- some french people are here this evening. [laughter] the opening ceremonies are this sunday, and the restored cathedral will be honored with massive pyrotechnics, a fire-eater, and an exhibit of "europe's most oily rags!" [laughter] the restoration cost almost 1 billion euros, and it really is incredible. here is notre dame before, and here it is now. ooh-la-la. she has really been gussied up. and it's not just the buil

i listened to about 20 minutes of gospel music, and then when i hit the fdr, i switch to, like, really hard old school hip hop or rap to like, get me amped up for the show. from gospel to rap. yes. why not? that's kind of who i am. i love it, i love it. all right again, the today show with craig and savannah begins at 7 a.m, right after today in the bay at the box office this weekend, the den of thieves sequel debuted at number one. you've got to be loaded. isn't that enough? it'll never be enough. it'll never be enough. den of thieves two pantera pulled in 15.5 million, with audiences giving it a b+ rating. it's lions, lionsgate's first number one opening since the latest hunger games movie, mufasa. the lion king took the number two spot with 13.2 million and sonic the hedgehog three rolled in at $11 million over the weekend. the numbers are significantly lower than the past few months. january is typically a slow month for the new movies, and this week saw the closure of about ten theaters in los angeles due to the fires. okay, the physics department at foothill college welcomed thou