roosevelt looked into it a little and then phamisith said "is there anything to stop me? i so declare a federal bird preservation." -- roosevelt said that. this was the first time land was set aside to be run and controlled for species. there were signs "no trespassing." displays was off-limits. to these types of documents are year. in florida you can talk to people, but to come here to see documents like this. if you go down to sebastian, fla. there is a statue of this man in florida. is always right there. paul craig will grow and germany. he loved storks. it was bad luck to kill a start in northern europe. * christian andersen had a folk tale about the store, that babies were brought by storks. as a teenager he arrived in florida right across from pelican island where roosevelt's day. he saw people slaughtering the birds. paul started independently taking a shotgun and pointing it at people who would dare to approach to slaughter the birds. he became the pelican water. he was considered a bid of eight cook. he was a legendary person. he became the first game warden and florida to stop the se

federer roosevelt and the crusade for america. sunday night at 8:00 p.m., or listen on satellite radio, down lied that c-span podcast and watch part one c-span.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us is congressman jay ainsley, a democrat from washington and one of the strongest proponents of the legislation moving on the house floor. we want to go to a clip of president barack obama talking about the importance of congress coming together to pass this legislation. >> now i urge every member of congress -- democrat and republican -- to come together to support this legislation. i can't stress enough the importance of this vote. i know this will be a close vote in part because of the misinformation that is out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and our economic growth. but my call to those members of congress who are still on the fence, as well as to the american people is this -- we cannot be afraid of the future. we can't be prisoners of the past. we have been t

particularly western senators and congressmen were not into the federal government grabbing an area like the grand canyon and closing it off. roosevelt's conservation can be seen as he was inspired by lincoln's emancipation and the power of the federal government and roosevelt's heroes were keen on protecting yellowstone. general grant saved yellowstone in 1872 as president and sherman and sheridan, the union generals were hunters but they wanted to create game reserves. and so roosevelt's part of that tradition somewhat also but he is determined to use the executive power to save wild america. >> go back to the business of the archives here. are you afraid maybe that you have opened this place up to others that they would discover and take away this -- you have had a special look at this stuff? >> no. what i want, brian, is to come. it's a campus environment here. you want scholars to start looking in this. look, you can't pick up a magazine without reading about green power or wind power, the environmental movement, a planet in peril like in anderson cooper's. in order to understand it, roosevelt created the global modern conservatio

it's roosevelt that realized that the federal government has an obligation to save speesies, birds, animals, plants and trees. the president has an obligation to make sure we put aside those >> i was really interested in him. i had a program called magic bus. i brought kids across the country. he wrote this incredible book. one i particularly like called the willederness hunter. >> i started realizing that from the civil war and world war one, roosevelt use the white house to promote conservation and nature the support to save birds. the eventual creation of fish and wild life, it's changed america. this summer, if anybody opens the atlas, you see all that green. you are look at roosevelt monday ue meants. he put aside 240 acres of wild america. now as people are talking about environmental ix and green movements. roosevelt is becoming the key figure. the only politician of the day to under darwin and birds migration patterns one of the things you see throughout this center are stuffed animals. >> tax determiney >> he was asthma and was sickly. his first document we have is about birds. the

>> what entered me is writing the book like wilderness warrior, roosevelt realized that the federal government had an obligation to save species and plants and trees. and the president has an obligation to make sure that we put aside for generations unborn natural wonders like roosevelt. like the grand canyon or mount o -- olympus or petrified forest. >> that training center is one place that doug brinkley went. >> we talk about the renovation. when did that start? >> about five years ago we had bald eagles and trying to build a nest. the first season they didn't do a good job, but the second season they came back and built that nest. they had two eaglets that year and one died. >> what did this have to do with this end? >> until recently, the american bald eagle was an endangered species and was taken off the list about a year ago. it's a good model for us to aspire to, where critters almost gone off the face of the earth come back. >> mark, why do you do this work? >> i wanted to make a difference. i help teach biologists that go out into field, and i feel that history is making a difference

roosevelt's game wardens, out of his first four usda, department of agriculture, federal government wardens, two of them were murdered down there. i write about the murder of a guy, bradley, in my book. there's two -- here's the first guy t.r. is putting in. two are killed because it was like a feather mafia going on in the industry here for women's fashion. craigle stays on the job, and he was so proud -- i went and i didn't unfortunately get to put this in my footnotes in my book, for length reasons. i went to his an tess or thes' homes in florida. they showed me his first badge, theodore roosevelt's badge he gave him, and his shotgun. his double barreled shotgun, he pointed at anybody pointing at these birds. t.r. dice, theodore roosevelt died in 1919, january, and he lived on in the 1920's. hardy comes down in a yacht by pelican island and roosevelt said nobody's allowed to even set foot on pelican island. hardy and his yacht guys are playing cards, going on a golfing trip in the 1920's, he's president, they approach pelican island. he comes out on the boat and pointed a gun at the pres

roosevelt. he didn't even look at laws. he was running and say i so declare it. that was his frays. i so declare a federal bird reservation. i so declare a national monument. local people with commerce were outraged. how can roosevelt be grabbing our land. t.r. more than f.d.r. is a believer in the power of the federal government and he wants the federal government to protect american wilderness for future generations. >> do you like that? >> i think it's spot on. who doesn't want to -- you know what would have happened with yellowstone? this was when he was a civil service commissioner. they were going to take the railroad wanted to cut through the middle of yellowstone build it up as a commercial center and allow people to build all of these contraptions, coney island sites in the middle of yellowstone. roosevelt and the boon and crocket club went to congress to stop it to protect the integrity of yellowstone. 90% of the americans would say it's a good thing. >> do you like the idea that he just declared that is going to be a wilderness -- >> i did. >> how would you like it if someone declared your home

roosevelt. "i so declare it a federal reservation. also declared a national monument." locals were how outraged wondering how he could just grab their land. he believed in the power of the federal government. if you want the federal government to protect the land for future generations. >> do you like that? >> i agree. he was right on. they're going to take the railroad wants to cut through the middle of yellowstone, building up as a commercial center and allow people to build, island sites in the middle of yellowstone. roosevelt with the boone and crockett club went to congress and fought to preserve the integrity of yellowstone. 90% of americans would say that's a good thing. >> do you like the idea that he would declare that is going to be a wilderness. >> i do. >> how would you like it someone did that at your home? >> that is what it was like back then. it was a moment to save our species and habitat. he had hiked to the top of the matterhorn and not see any wildlife. you go to our western mountains, you're going to see wildlife. it is special. if anybody who has e

federal reserve as a whole. we need to do what franklin roosevelt did. he declared this country bankrupt, and great organized it vas -- with infrastructure projects. then he had an exchange rate system. until we do that, we will suffer the consequences. and hosthost: 2 new york next. caller: talk is cheap and actions speak louder than words. i heard president obama, i don't call him met me -- my president. last week in a speech he made, here is iran fighting for democracy and he is not doing a thing. he is taking the easy way out, straddling the fence. i then worry, like you said inflation, hyper inflation. the cbo tell them not to spend the money. he was a community organizer. he does not know anything about how to run a business. these people do. have a wonderful weekend. thank you. host: to michigan on the democratic line. caller: if you are living in michigan, ohio, we are in a recession. the country needs to -- the republican party needs to help this president bring this country back together. they stood on the fence when bush, cheney, and that gang