was my teacher franklin should be we should get our theology from franklin.all of us should be learning from franklin and his idea that the way you serve god is by doing good to man. you should not die rich you should die having lived a useful life. just as franklin wrote. the way to wealth carnegie wrote the gospel of well, he modeled his autobiography on franklin as well and tried to give as much of his money away as he could. carnegie as many of you know, though put his name on almost everything that he donated money to but after a big outcry in boston he agreed to take his name off the franklin trade school, which i'll show you at the end is still there today. okay quickly now summing up into the 20th century franklin's image changes greatly in the book. i keep saying that every generation discovers franklin for themselves in the 20s people like gatsby jay gatsby are saying we love benjamin franklin at gatsby's funeral gatsby's father shows nick nick caraway. excuse me. got you. wake up every morning as a boy and say what inventions should i study? what e

it's my pleasure to welcome the honorable barbara hackman franklin. she served as the 29th us secretary of commerce under president george hw bush and was the second woman to hold that position 20 years earlier secretary franklin led the first governmental effort to recruit women into high-level government jobs as a staff assistant to president nixon and effort which resulted in nearly quadrupling the number of women in those positions. her story is told in a book by lee stout entitled a matter of simple justice the untold story of barbara franklin and a few good women and the secretary will be available and signing copies of that book in the library's gift shop immediately after this program. she served on the boards of 14 public companies and was one of the first women graduates of the harvard business school. in fact time magazine named her one of the 50 women who made american political history. secretary is joined this morning in conversation by heath hardage lee and historian curator and biographer who is currently at work on the first commercia

um, it was to eddie by franklin called her too. and two old gate rather than any other home that franklin first chose to come in his wheelchair. when he emerged from home after he decided with eleanor and lewis howe the polio would not blight his political career. franklin's mother cousin sally was with bammy at old gate only nine days before bami died in august of 1931 at the age of 76. her pain was great. but she petted cousin sally's hand and said firmly to shut off the flow of sympathy. never mind. it's all right. these were the last words from bammy anyone remembered before she went into a coma. out of which the doctors said she would never emerge never emerge and then truly old gate was for a time a quiet place. corinne jr. was karin's daughter could not bear watching sheffield and his wife day after day at their bedside vigil and one afternoon. she managed to get them out of the house for a little exercise. they were on the second green at the farmington country club when they saw running down the fairway bammy's secretary c

what happened to nailah franklin? search, police focused on the men in her life. and with a little digging one of their stories started to unravel. here's keith morrison with more of our story, "smoke and mirrors. " >> it's a grassroots effort by family and friends. >> for all the frantic activity, the phone calls, the flyers, the organized looking about, it was a rare quiet time, nine days in. when nailah franklin's sister felt it. >> we had a prayer service at our church, and in my heart i knew. i was like, you know what, she's not coming back. >> and that very night in the 3:00 a. m. hush of calumet city, night patrol officer calvin lucius felt his way past the glittering earbuds his partner saw hanging from a tree to the inky black fringe of forest at the back of a long abandoned parking lot behind a derelict video store. >> i probably got like maybe right around this area and just looked over and the body was there. >> what was that moment like? >> shock. you don't know if it's her or not. but you have an idea be

hi you made reference to robert moses and eleanor and franklin not wanting him to be part of franklin's administration. obviously, we know that he later on comes back with the vengeance in what ways did he interact with roosevelt when roosevelt was governor if if at all he kept him as the head of the state parks. council or agency, so that he did but the reason why he didn't want them. was that he had a falling out with him because franklin had wanted to appoint lewis how to the taconic state park commission or something and moses wouldn't go along with it and they remembered so he felt he would not be you know, he wanted he wanted his own people. he wanted people around him. who were his aides who would not only be policy aids, but the people he put around him were people who physically also could help him, you know like his you know, the guys whonow, it's my o introduce catherine smith. catherine smith is a journalist in history writer with a long-time interest in fdr and his times. she is the biographer of marguerite alice lahand who was fdr's private secretary counselor confidant fr

here at benjamin franklin house we like to say franklin should be credited with the stairmaster. >> reporter: today the house is a museum, maura rockland is visiting from boston. >> today it was lovely to hear from the point of view of polly his landlady's daughter what a lovely father figure he was. >> reporter: grace gallagher re-enacts the daughter, polly baker. >> he's complex. there's a lot of mystery, a lot of unknown. >> reporter: one thing that is known, franklin liked to take air baths every morning for an hour. >> bathing with no clothes on with the window open. >> reporter: a bit scandalous. >> a bit scandalous, yes. we can definitely see into the house opposite so no doubt they could see in here. >> reporter: and a window into the man that many call the first american. ian lee, cbs news, london. >> benjamin franklin was the only founding father to sign all four of the key documents establishing the united states, that includes the declaration of independence, treaty alliance of france, the treaty of paris and the constitution. important piece of painer there. 5:51. >>> the comman

he talks with franklin. he talks with adams and he writes some more and slowly word by word thought fight thought their evolves the noble majestic music of the declar. and of independence when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another and it gathers momentum like an eagle taking off from a mountain crag into the vastness of the sky. then this tremendous statement we hold these truths to be self-evident. that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights and that among these are light. liberty and the pursuit of happiness notion of independence former, john dickinson of pennsylvania protested what he said made much good sense. prepared to battle power of britain they ever hope to win the cool logic of this cast to damper on the congress. then john adams rose never an orator or easy with words or once his lips were touched with fire. he had but one theme the necess

the first one is how much did franklin roosevelt know about? breckenridge long and others in the state department were doing in 1938 1939 1940 1941 to make it as difficult as possible for refugees to enter the united states and my second question is if you could ask fdr one question, what would you ask and what do you think his answer would be? nothing like an easy question. so on the as far as the first question, i'm breckenridge long. you know roosevelt was this sounds like an excuse. but again, let's keep in mind that it was the great depression and that it was world war two or at least we were on the verge of a world war in europe during that period that you mentioned 1938 to 1940. he had a lot of he had a lot of balls in the air during that time. and i think he was aware. to some extent of what was happening in the state department in particularly of what? breckenridge long was doing it was not his highest priority. there's no doubt about it. he was aware because his wife was telling him. she she was she did everything she could. to influe

franklin was it.it was john adams the light of history the chairman of the committee picked almost by chance he was from virginia and 33 years of age. sandy hair, outstanding in politics, economics, agriculture, architecture and science. his name was attached for all timeme wherever freedom and liberty and the committee met and as was the way with committees three of them had other things to do. so the work fell to adams and jefferson. adams much i more experienced, e senior of the two said you should draft this document. jefferso' declined modestly. i will give you the reasons. you are a virginian that ought to appear at the head of this business. reason second, i am controversial land on the popular. you were very much otherwise. reason thoroughly, you could write ten times better than i can. that settled it. thomas jefferson was elected shortly as settled to the task. we could imagine this sensitive young man angry and resentful wise enough to hold himself in check. he h writes and talks with frank

here at benjamin franklin house we like to say franklin should be credited with the stairmaster. >> reporter a museum, maura rockland is visiting from boston. >> today it was lovely to hear from the point of view of polly, his landlady's daughter, what a lovely father figure he was. >> reporter: grace gallagher re-enacts the landlady's daughter, polly baker. >> he's complex. there's so much known, but there's a lot of mystery, a lot of unknown. >> reporter: one thing that is known, franklin liked to take air baths every morning for an hour. >> bathing with no clothes on with the window open. this window itself. >> reporter: a bit scandalous. >> a bit scandalous, yes. we can definitely see into the house opposite so no doubt they could see in here. >> reporter: and a window into the man that many call the first american. ian lee, cbs news, london. >> benjamin franklin was the only founding father to sign all four of the key documents establishing the united states, that includes the declaration of independence, treaty of alliance of france, the treaty of paris and the constitution. >>> time r

benjamin franklin was on that drafting committee.legend of his own time, printer, author, inventor. he invented bifocals, you know. statesmen, publisher, philosopher, scientist, educator, philanthropist, you name it, franklin was it. from massachusetts there was john adams, only 41, who, one of the most eminent of all americans, was adams, forthright, impulsive, he was honest and he was noble. and the chairman of the committee, picked almost by chance, a chance we may say now guided by a divine hand. he was from virginia and he was but 33 years of age, sandy haired, slightly freckled, outstanding and politics, economics, agriculture, architecture and science. his name is edged for all time wherever freedom and liberty and the dignity of land are recognized, thomas jefferson. the committee met and as is the way with committees, three of them had other things to do. so the real work fell to adams and jefferson. adams much more experience in the senior of the two, said to jefferson, you should draft this document. jefferson declined mod

franklin said when my quote when god says rain rain is my choice. i feel like every single thing in my life is here to serve. the hard stuff the good stuff. i've had six shoulder surgeries. i was told repeatedly a couple times in my career that i would never play again and every single time i had heard those things or went through those things. i was with my mother and my mother's like babe. this is gonna make you so good. you know, and so that mentality that through challenges there's new strength. there's new workarounds. there's all these things. that's kind of how i live my life and now my kids, you know compete and they fall down the fat on their face or if they fail like this is gonna make you so good like you're crazy mom like but it will you know, so i think that, you know having lived that and i'll give you that to my kids those really special it feels right. my life experience tells me it's true. we are here celebrating title nine today, and certainly we'd be remiss not to talk about the future. of women's sports. there's a lot of people r

benjaminin franklin put it very well.e said what we gave you, half with our lives and half was the cost of the struggle. then we gave you all of our trade. although our commerce. how dare you tax us on top of that. the stamp act in 1765 and others to the towns to recoup this money what was the reaction? >> what startedh out immediately as americans saying we have to buy a stamp and put it on every piece of paper. practically, you look at that and to say it doesn't sound like enough to start a revolution but george washington, for example, what he got through was a hard day in the field and they like to play cards with his friends they said in his drawing rooms. all of a sudden he had to pay ten shillings tax on a deck of cards. for ten shillings, he could hire a farm manager for the week when they cracked open the dice there was a tax on that and it would give him two horses. so what seems like a small thing to us was a big thing to them at the time. and how they reacted is the way any good english would come a riot. it w

benjamin franklin put it well . he said what we gave you, was our lives and was the cost of the struggle and then we gave you all of our trade. all of our commerce and how dare you tax us on top of that. >> how shocked were the colonists when the british started passing all the hats, stamped in 1755 and that he .and others to the townsend act to recoup some of this moneywhat was the reaction ? >> it was gradual but it started out immediately with americans saying we had to buy stamp on every piece of paper. practically you look at that and it doesn't start sound like enough to start a revolution over but george washington when he got through our day in the fields and over the account books liked to play cards with his friends in his drawing room. all of a sudden he had a 10 shillings tax on a deck of cards for 10 shillings he could hire a farm manager for a week. when they cracked open the docs to play with them was a tax on that too. attacks on a pair of dice when given to horses. so what seemed like a small thing

although franklin throws out the notion while he is in london out of touch with american opinion that maybe we can have some representatives from the colleague, maybe hundreds the way the scots do in the way the scots did in 1707 when they became great britain, when england and scotland great britain. the americans want no part of that notion. they know that they will be swamped, by the british and know whenever susan considers having memberships in the house of commons as a solution to the problem. right from the outset in the stanback of congress which meets in reaction to the stanback which is the tax law on all paper products in america they know instinctively the colonial assemblies will be the legislature that will determine taxation. now they have representation of the outside of their own colonial legislatures. only their willing to recognize the supremacy of parliament and the empire. that concession confuses the english because the english look at parliament as a sovereign body, and fact is the protector of liberty, is the instrument that they have honored ever since the rev

it was under his rule that you eso via diplomatic relations were established in 1933. franklin delano roosevelt is recognized by many in the american historical and academic and political ranks as one of the greatest for term presidents in history. the only president to ever, sir. 4 terms, in fact, for his work in resuscitating the united states after an economic depression that occurred after the fall of the stock market in the 19 twenty's. the big 3 is how the allied 2nd world war leaders were known. they had different personalities, were from very different backgrounds and had opposing views, each defended their own peoples and ruling classes, interests that miss donna, he, indigo. she stood the men chide, krista, thank up as non east in his books and on lot. so who has a ph d in history? so really analyzes the events of world war 2. as why i'll ask my leaving the shift to the main check dash i enjoy has been place in creek. thing dodge fund, start match, dunbar, endangered. for she that visited shaft on 40 dish. oh no one hash. hash molly guy as i swam, nor yet she thought jordan

he knew of action. england on franklin dusk, had been magento did tuition inc. i'm from brian dodge fund. somebody was italian, our on with the united states continued its policy of appeasing imperial japan. the americans held on to the hope that japan would re focus his attention on the ussr. the soviet union did not want to be caught fighting a 2 front war war with japan and the east, and also a war with germany in the west. and they knew that the germans were going to attack sooner or later. also, when the british and french rush destiny to form an alliance against germany was to study in the polish government also refused. on january the 26th, 1934, poland became the 1st european country to conclude a non aggression treaty with germany. the bel, such k, hitler packed along with germany, poland plan to attack the ussr. poland must not remain idle at this historic moment. the main goal is to weaken and crush russia. but on september the 1st 1939, poland was attacked by germany to ship europe for should got good. you good. last week. got cooney dwaa fornia. and

to 1945. franklin roosevelt came from an extraordinarily wealthy family of very high elite socialite family, dating back to the 1600s. the roosevelt family. the delano family were old money that had built their fortunes in merchant ah, ship building other trades. roosevelt was a pragmatist. and when it suited american interests was prepared to cooperate with the soviet union, it was under his rule that you, a soviet diplomatic relations were established in 1933. franklin delano roosevelt is recognized by many in the american historical and academic and political ranks as one of the greatest for term presidents in history. the only president to ever sir. 4 terms and fact for his work in resuscitating the united states after an economic depression that occurred after the fall of the stock market in the 19 twenty's. the big 3 is how the allied 2nd world war leaders were known. they had different personalities, were from very different backgrounds and had opposing views, each defended their own peoples and ruling class. his interests that miss donna, he, indigo. she stood the men chide,

he was talking how he listened to kirk franklin in college. and kirk franklin, i have of the items.t listening to the music here, you can listen over there. meanwhile keep it here to find out what the president is up to and saudi arabia from its right now for a very impactful trip. one of the highlights will be oil production and the royal family to do something he doesn't want to do. and that is pumped more oil. >> ainsley: the remarks made this morning with palestinian leader and unprecedented visit to the hospital. >> will: peter doocy joins us live with more this morning, peter. >> we might have some answers this morning about what exactly president biden's trip to the middle east accomplished in terms of advancing middle east peace because he came to the middle east to talk about a two state solution as part of the peace process, but then today standing next to the palestinian president, he said he doesn't really think it is time for peace talks right now. >> so even if the ground is not ripe at this moment to restart negotiations, the united states in my administration will no