so when franklin was elected, she went to franklin, and she said i'm not going to have very much to do as first lady, could i take care of your mail for you? actually, that was rather commonly done by political wives in those days. harry truman's wife had worked in his office and taken care of his mail, and the vice president, vice president garner's wife also had been in his office and helped take care of the mail. so that wasn't a truly unusual request. what do you think franklin said? no. of course not. that's missy's job. and he was referring to his personal secretary, missy lehan. in fact, history is dubious on this, but it is in the biographies, there is even speculation that eleanor was so upset by thinking of having to be first lady which she saw as an empty, ceremonial role she didn't want to participate in that she wrote a letter. and in that letter threatened to leave franklin and run away with earl miller who i'll show you a picture of in a minute. so you've got to remember, you know, we think of these people as saints now, they're flesh and blood folks just like us. well,

ben franklin?> that's ben franklin. >> everyone shows up at the bookstore. >> so we're very excited about the book, it's about how to put america back on top, how to make america rich again. frankly, there's no one better than donald trump to talk about how to be competitive, how to get what you want out of any deal and any negotiation. whether that's a real estate deal or, frankly, whether you're a country negotiating with another country. >> marji ross, it's may 2011, and you're saying this book is coming out in fall 2011. >> yes, that's right. we are probably the experts, for better or worse, at crashing books. because we do so many current events books, so many news-driven books, we do something that most of the rest of the industry doesn't do, and that is we put books on a very fast track. we know that when we capture the imagination of the audience, we want to get that book out as fast as possible. so we are putting this on the fast track, and we will have it, um, out there before christmas,

franklin, for you? >> i'm delighted to be here among a friendly audience also i would like to see them a little bit closer of here but can you all here okay? that's the question. good, good. let us begin sounding rivals come a very interesting title. of course i have had many rivals in my lifetime including i wouldn't want to mention john adams but perhaps we could and his rivalry. you know, you mentioned this founding a rivalry between james madison, the father of the constitution, and james monroe. now how is it that jr founding rivals rather than founding friends, weren't all the founders really supportive of this great country, this new nation we created? >> they were patriots to a person but for many of them the had different ideas of what looked like and what it meant to be true to the principles of the revolution and what it meant to be patriots and to be an american. so i think we have developed this assumption over time that the founding fathers were hegemonic at the agreed on everything. if th

small wonder then that he turned to franklin roosevelt as a focus of examination. in 1971 professor burns won the pulitzer prize and the national book award for his landmark study of fdr, roosevelt soldier of freedom. he is also the author of the acclaimed companion book, roosevelt the lion and the fox. together with another of our guests, susan dunn professor burns also co-authored the three roosevelts, leaders who transformed america and the 2004 biography of george george washington. professor burns' 1978 book "leadership" is still considered the seminal work in the field of leadership studies and the theory of transformational leadership has been the basis for more than 400 doctorow dissertations. what he has written about he is also lived. professor burns served as a combat historian in the pacific theater from 1943 to 1946 and he

so that was his first exposure to the world of franklin roosevelt.it began to get him very interested. that fact did not prevent him in 1936 from being a central part of the national franklin roosevelt campaign. i think you are living in lexington, massachusetts at the time? and jim organized his own soundtrack with an amplifier and speaker and he spoke through a microphone loudspeaker. we want roosevelt and other roosevelt slogans. the problem was that there was a thunderstorm and it lieu out the speaker and amplifier shorted out, so at least as jim has said, that was the end of his campaign for front and roosevelt in 1936, but it worked. every state but maine and vermont. >> i elected him. >> he elected roosevelt and by a great landslide history so i think we should thank jim for that. [applause] amazing because of jim's role and roosevelt scholarship. he actually only got to see the man once, which was if you had to choose a moment to see fdr if you had known this would probably be one of the seven moments i would have liked to have seen him if i

franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in the hyde park, new york. coming up in just a moment, mario dinunzio examines fdr's new deal legislation. it's booktv live from the roosevelt reading festival. .. used of all presidential libraries and this year's group of authors reflect the wide variety of research done here. we are delighted to highlight these works in book talks throughout the year especially at our annual reading festival. let me quickly go over the format for the concurrent sessions. at the top of each hour procession begins with a 30 minute of her talk followed by ten minute question and answer period. than the authors move to the tables in the lobby next to the nubile store where you can purchase your books and have the authors sign them. at the top of the next hour the process repeats itself. let me ask everyone who has a cellphone or other electronic device please turn it off or put the rigor off. there was an incident earlier today involving my cellphone so i am v

franklin roosevelt planned his library to be a premiere research institution, and the research room is one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries. this year's group of authors reflects a wide variety of research done here each day. we are delighted to highlight books at the festival. let me go over the format. at the top of each area a session begins with a 30-minute talk by an author, followed by 10 or 15 minutes of questions and answers. then the authors move to the lobby, where you can purchase one of the books and have the author sign them. at the top of the next hour the process repeats itself. it's my pleasure to introduce greg robinson, a native new yorker and an associate professor of history in quebec, and a board member of that university's center for united states studies. he is a specialist in north american ethnic studies and u.s. political history and the author of the book "by order of the president," fdr and the internment of japanese americans, and "a tragedy of democracy: japanese confinement in north america." he is also a coauthor of a book, and an associa

franklin: so it's very expensive. the bottom line is, we, as atlantans, as georgians, don't have a choice to protect the river. we need to leave it better than we found it, and it's really been a political advantage for me, not a disadvantage. people laugh about me being the sewer mayor, but they remember what i'm doing. griffin: we want people to understand, when they see one of our work crews out working on the mains, that that work is necessary in order for them to have good clean drinking water or to have a good, functioning wastewater system. franklin: you don't put a roof on the house one time. you don't fix the plumbing one time, any more than i get my hair done one time. if we don't continue to invest for the next 20 years, we'll find ourselves back at the same point that we were in the late '90s. if we don't protect water, we will be without water. we will be without industry, we will be without jobs, we will be without a healthy economy, and our people will be sick. so we don't really have a choice. we're go

franklin d. roosevelt in the third american revolution argues that roosevelt avenue the achievements resulted in a revolutionary change in american life which ranks with the work of washington and lincoln, thus the third revolution. it was a revolution that grew not by chance through pragmatic political response to the crisis of the great depression but rather it resulted from a longstanding and well developed political ideology and embedded religious convictions. the 18th-century enlightenment phrase adopted but never fulfilled by the french revolution was liberty, equality and fraternity. roosevelt's revolution worked to achieve the third of these ideals of just government which emerged from the thinking of the enlightenment but which matured and america. all three of these ideals have been part of the american democratic experience, washington's revolution focused on liberty for the americans. liberty from the british and the establishment of democratic liberties. lincoln's revolutions that th

that is just off franklin and that sutter. access design underwent a number of changes as part of the informal review process. we try to minimize the number of access points into the parking. we know curb cuts sometimes conflict with pedestrian flows, and was reflected in the proposed project to minimize some of those conflicts. in addition to analyzing the access, we also covered variance. this is the access variant, with the only primary difference that you'd be able to leave the m.o.b. onto geary. you'd have the the opportunity to exit onto cedar or geary boulevard. because of that, there is no need to convert cedar 2-way and it would remain one-way eastbound. the other access variant is 2- way post street. the only primary difference between that and the proposed project is making post street 2- way, which would allow for access in the parking garage. under the proposed project would be right turn out and and only. if it was to way, there would be for different maneuvers. -- if it was2-way there would be four detrick maneu

i am the museum curator at the franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum. wait a second. i would like to welcome you to the eighth annual roosevelt reading festival. i would like to welcome c-span's booktv which is broadcasting this program this morning. franklin roosevelt planned for the roosevelt library to become the premier research institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. the research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries and this year's group of others reflects a wide variety of research done here. we are delighted to highlight these others's works at botox for route the year, especially at this hour annual meeting festival. let me quickly go over the format for the festival's current sessions. at the top of each hour a session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a ten minute question and answer period and authors move on to the tables in the library where you can purchase your books and have the author's son them. of the top of the next hour the process repeats itself. now is my pleasure to introduce todd mo

for the next seven hours we will discover presentations from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. coming up in a couple minutes, todd moye on the tuskegee of world war 2. and literary editor philip kerr's the presents "architects of power: roosevelt, eisenhower, and the american century". in two hours we will take a break from our live programming to show an event from the atlanta history center. david nichols discusses eisenhower in 1956 about the days before the 1956 presidential election. in three hours we will be back live from the 2011 rose about reading festival. fdr's new deal legislation. susan dunn discusses president roosevelt's efforts to change the democratic party. in five hours greg robinson presents his book a tragedy of democracy, japanese confinement in north america. that is followed by the final event of the day, discussion between presidential biographer james macgregor burns and presidential historian michael echelon and susan dunn. that is live from the 2,011 roosevelt reading festival. and now

heritage thomas jefferson was a deist george washington refused to acknowledge christianity ben franklin was essentially an atheist you have you have a model you know patrick henry was a bible thumping fundamentalist but he was he was the outlier you know this not surely if you go back to the writings of the founding fathers that we consider d.s. they all put me at our references to bill because scriptures and even thomas jefferson there's a draw in that he did put the seal of the united states that included most of the hard part of the warders and so. thomas if thomas jefferson february tenth eight hundred fourteen i don't care ok cooper he says finally an answer for test you allen's question why the ten commandments should not now be part of the common law of england or the united states we may say they are not because they never were anyone who asserts the ten commandments are the basis of american or british law is manifestly believing a document that was a manifest forgery mistakenly believe. this is thomas jefferson he went on to say christianity is he says but christianity was not

it s a complicated relationship with franklin roosevel franklin roosevelt was a complicated man, ande kept secrets from, you know, the rest of his staff and he didn't let donovan in on everything he was doing. but he liked donovan, he liked the fact he was a spark plug for ideas and thought outside the box. donovan never had that kind of relationship with harry truman. there was just bad chemmary between them, they were never going to get along. >> charlie: how did you come to know him. >> i was a young lawyer in his law firm, it was a great law firm and when i was working as a young associate should in the library, and the general came in around midnight and he said to me young man, i'm debating tomorrow whether or not the demoatic party has been good for the country in the last few years. and donavan was a conservative republican with the young man says i'm a democratic and i'll tell you what he's going to say. we worked that night together and went to the debate together and i stayed with him essentially for the rest of his life. >> charlie: how long was that. >> six years. >> ch

i have been falling birth franklin, key witness for the prosecution in that bribery case. i am going to kill him. he later made the comment in his autobiography that no greater friend is the man who is willing to kill for you and so darrow gives him some cash he probably couldn't afford, enough money to get back to chicago on a train. that is the kind of friend that clarence darrow had. when the labor movement -- when his wife--he and his wife were not getting along, darrow is reminded what george's life and career and life and politics really mean. he has been fighting for people like george and they came to help him and he recovers out of that depression. he almost killed himself in los angeles. he mounted a spirited defense against the prosecution which he argued and i tend to agree was politically motivated. >> further on, looking at the arc of his life, you would think from the politics he did as owls and was heavily into the democratic party politics at he would support the new deal but he was critical of fdr. it turned out to be very critical of the administration.

that is just off franklin and that sutter. access design underwent a number of changes as part of the informal review process. we try to minimize the number of access points into the parking. we know curb cuts sometimes conflict with pedestrian flows, and was reflected in the proposed project to minimize some of those conflicts. in addition to analyzing the access, we also covered variance. this is the access variant, with the only primary difference that you'd be able to leave the m.o.b. onto geary.

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but over on eastbound highway 4 there is a report of a traffic collision just west of franklin canyon golf course. chp is on their way to the scene there. time is 4:39. here's steve. >>> all right, allie, thank you very much. little north wind right along the sonoma and marin coast. point rays lighthouse a northeast wind from south golden gate it's clear. temperatures come up today. warmest day of the week. inland we could see our first 90s of the season. very mild lows compared to where we've been lately. little cool for some. 52 san francisco. 59 concord and 58 fairfield. still a westerly breeze though. it's about cut in half compared to yesterday. but it's still there. high pressure will build every over us today. weaker system just beginning to show itself. today if you're away from the coast, warm to hot. if you're near it, maybe not too bad as we start to see warmer weather move in. some morning fog but mainly south right now. highs today 62 to 90. this is looking more like a summertime pattern again along parts of the coast. the north wind will take care of the fog and a beauti

more from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york, after this break. >>> we asked, what are you reading this summer? here's what you had to say. >> send us a tweet at booktv using hash tag summer reading to let us owe what you plan on reading this summer. you can also e-mail us, booktv at c-span.org. >> well, a new self-published book out on the market. it's written by richard toliver, and we are joined by richard. mr. toliver, who is that on the cover of this book? >> well, that's a young richard toliver, an air force fighter pilot of a few years ago, and it was taken during a time that i was very fortunate to be involved in the f-16 aircraft. >> when was that? >> 1974-1976, to be exact. >> why'd you write a book? >> well, after i had gone through life, retired from the air force, looked back over some 50 years, i realized that i'd had some very unique experiences in my life, and be i'd met some very unique people. and all of them, the experiences and the people, made

no sabe nada de inglÉs. >> franklin sÓlo contaba con esta abogada.l tiempo. >> jackie esta lista. >> buenas tardes a ustedes. vamos a empezar con este vÍdeo donde las alertas a residentes de varias inundaciones en missouri. las autoridades dieron un paso de 40 horas para abandonar una zona amenazada por inundaciones. otras comunidades cercanas han recibido estragos del mal tiempo, y muchos residentes se han visto obligados a dejar sus casas. por otra parte, mortal fue una tormenta que azotÓ new jersey. los vientos derrumbaron los Árboles. al menos una persona lamentablemente perdiÓ la vida. tenemos que tener muchasprecauciones a los avisos y alertas, como es el dÍa de hoy en tennessee. no se descarta las posibilidades de tornar desde kentucky. se espera en todo el noreste actividad de fuertes descargas elÉctricas, asÍ que ustedes quÉ piensan viajar, que estÁn de vacaciones, ya saben que se van a enfrentar a demoras. todavÍa hay inundaciones en el medio oeste, precipitaciones en todo el sur de texas, condiciones estables, todo seco. yo morirÍamos con

last president to be elected with unemployment at or above the current level to be reelected was franklin roosevelt his second term and everybody understood the great depression was going on in herbert hoover caused and you know what are other nations doing with their banks that were not doing here in the u.s. what are the lessons that we should learn. well the key thing that has gone on in sweden for instance which the washington post just reported on is the rockstar economy it's great innovation job growth it's got a balanced budget they put on some serious capital controls on their banks and not allowing their banks to lend our at the rates that our banks have been wending out is that to say they require a bigger capital reserve in a bank or for banking go a lend out they also demand better standards for look for better loans that are guaranteed by the taxpayers that's the exact opposite of what we've done here in the united states we've simply bailed out our banking system without any strings attached in britain you see a situation which if an american president proposed this he would

little information propaganda bubble here in the united states all right joining me now is neill franklin executive director of law enforcement against prohibition to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the war on drugs now you said at the at the press conference if you had earlier this week. when president nixon declared the drug war in one nine hundred seventy one we arrested fewer than half a million people for drug offenses that year the day the number has skyrocketed to almost two million drug arrests a year we jail more of our own citizens than any other country in the world those including those run by the worst dictators in totalitarian regimes so we must be winning the war on drugs right now. i don't think we're winning anything i mean and you mention these these numbers here in the united states five percent of the world's population that's what we make up we have twenty five percent of its prisoners and by far the majority the majority of those prisoners come from the war in drugs ok so you also released a study from law enforcement against prohibition looking back forty ye

franklin d. roosevelt himself wanted to get this into the war. the two of them worked hand-in-hand to do everything that they could serve bring the united states into the war. they had a special relationship. they had no incentive to lie to each other. in fact all of the incentives or to work closely with one another to get a sense of the war. >> host: politically while leaders find it easier to lie to their own public? >> guest: actually quite simple. easiest align when there is trust between two people or to groups. and in international politics there is not so much trust between any two states. one leader dealing with another leader, in most cases, not much trust and therefore it is kind of hard to live because the other side is distrustful. but when you're dealing with your own public, in most cases public's tend to trust their leaders. they think that their leaders are looking out for their own good. and we look at the president of the united states we think he is trying to protect us. international politics is a rough-and-tumble business, a

it is not called ben franklin anymore. i have grown up now. my whole thing is, i can remember hearing the stories about jim jones and how he rated the black community of their properties and businesses. it is very painful to see that. i was born in the 1980's and i saw i whole lot of black businesses when i was growing up, but now, even back then, elders were telling me things were not the same. now that i've grown up a little bit more, and i come from the fillmore, i am seeing less and less black businesses. to me, it is not the same. it gets even deeper than what they were saying. i am seeing less black businesses. please find them if they have good ideas. support the use and support the community. please support them. it is important. the western addition, the fillmore, would not be the same without the african-american community. san francisco would not be the same without the black people. i will just ask you respectfully to support that. it is very important. thank you. >> thank you, everybody. for those of you in line, we only have a fe

politician within two years was within the few years was taking us to war in europe franklin roosevelt doctor. dr new deal became franklin roosevelt dr win the war after world war two happened harry truman acquired a progressive president. wrote wound up taking us to war in korea and his domestic programs were consumed. by by the war lyndon johnson sitting on my first job was not his press like a peer. i was responsible for much of the domestic policy civil rights environmental message economic policy and all of that and suddenly with the escalation of the war in vietnam in one thousand nine hundred sixty i saw all those hopeful possibilities consumed by it by the growing ravenous may ends of the military for more and more money and more and more troops and i saw all our hopes for bringing about a great society disappeared of the quagmire of vietnam it was a very sad time a grave. for those who lost their lives both americans and the the enemies but it also represented a turning away from the possibilities of building a better society at home. if. you very well said if we could move ba

. >> es con ansiedad que recuerda franklin cuando en su 8 año escolar admitio ser lesbiana. >> mis papásl y para mi no fue fácil cuando tienes 13 años estás todabia pequeño y cuando no tienes apoyo de tus amigos o tú casa se hace más difícil es por eso. >> que la ley de uniones civiles ha lanzado una campaña que tendrá cómo objetivo investigar casos de apoyo y educar a maestros de responsabilidades. >> que los estudiantes que se mataron fueran los últimos el 60% de los estudiantes dijo que no se sienten seguros ni en su escuela. >> que sepan que hay ayuda. >> en los Ángeles univision . >> el hombre detenido bajo sospecha de golpear a el jugador. >> se vio violando la ley de detencion detención:stouper aún está en esado de coma. >> el huracan beatriz tocara tierra con fuertes lluvias torrenciales. >> hoteles de la zona han pedido a los turistas que sigan en sus habitaciones. >> en el puerto de acapulco se encuentra una persona aprisionada. >> decenas de personas están siendo invitadas a visitar zonas concurridas pamela díaz nos dice porque. >> cuando las máximas sobrepasan los 90a nadar e

he's a good friend of benjamin franklin and it was actually through his collection with benjamin franklinhe company in philadelphia that he was to do contact with english gardeners. but as i read on through the letters and manuscripts and accounts, i came across an account of a visit of the delegates of the constitutional convention in 1787 to the bartram's garden, and i'm going to talk about that a little bit later. and i found an invoice to george washington, who had ordered hundreds of trees and shrubs for his garden in mt. vernon to read james madison had visited, john adams visited and the jefferson found time to come here while and he was writing the declaration of independence. and therefore, romanticized the depiction of george washington visiting bartram's garden, and you can see this is the kind of back of the house. so, but it was really only when i followed john bartram's footsteps through the appalachian mountains in october, 2006 that i understood just how important plants had been for the founding fathers. because bartram had ghana plan taunting and had gone to the appalach

this is highway 4 near the franklin canyon golf course exit. this is an accident that happened about an hour ago, but it is still not cleared up. not sure if the vehicle involved is on the shoulder or one of the lanes, but just keep in mind it could be causing delays in that area. 5:31. let's go back to the desk. >>> new this morning, the red cross is providing temporary housing for a person displaced by a fire in san francisco. it started about 1:00 this morning on elm street between pierce and scott streets. ktvu channel 2 reporter jade hernandez is at the scene with why this fire was particularly challenging. jade. >>> that's right. san francisco firefighters put this fire out quickly. now that the sun's coming up you can actually see some of the damage and debris outside of the home. firefighters quickly ruled this a second alarm fire in order to fight the flames trapped between two structures. >> fire looks like it started between the two buildings and went up and got into the building here on golden gate and into the building in the back

the adams/franklin/jefferson time had been worked over pretty well. including by me. >> rose: and hemingway. >> hemingway's been done up and down. and here was this 70-year gap as it were in which some of the most interesting and influential americans ever were there and were greatly affected by the experience. and that drew me. i also feel strongly and i felt it increasingly as i've thought re and more about the american story that our history isn't ju abo generals and politicians. and that if we leave out the art, the music, the medicine, the realm of ideas, if we leave out educators and sculptors and architects we' leaving out much not only of the subje matter of our story, but the soul. >> rose: and the permanence of a civilization. >> exactly. and there's a wonderful quote from john kennedy which i can't say... that our power should not beust... our strength should not be just in our wealth or military. our strength should be in what we contribute to civilization. and i felt that i had the chance with this setting and this group of people that i

i am rated some of the finest hen houses from franklin to madison. i am a fox and you'll act accordingly. she put her hands on her hip and said [inaudible] she skipped away leaving the fox dumbfounded. got all the way through the woods tricking that fox. he had been reduced to sniffling and crying. he was a pitiful mess. give me once last chance i am certain i can prove it. about that time [inaudible] came through the woods. you can see it a little ways in the distance. fox didn't notice a thing. he was begging to be believed. wait, wait here it is. i am a fox, he said yes, yes. sometimes he could run. it doesn't matter what i think anymore. it doesn't matter anymore. you have sharp teeth and can run fast. by the way he is looking all over for you. if fox dashed towards the woods, not to worry, the hound dog knows who i am. i have been out running that old miserable mutt for years like i told you i am a fox. i know. i know. she turned toward ms. viola's with a basket of eggs. i rewrote it and sent it back and it was 7 pages long. that was the beginni