. >> president franklin d. roosevelt says the day was livering. what happened two months after the attack is much less talked about. a visitor update you this week shed light on the event that affected thousands of japanese americans in world war ii. >> it's hard. this made us sad. everybody was sad. should not have ever happened. >> she was a junior in high school when president franklin d. roosevelt passed executive order 1966, order that authorize -- her and her family were ordered to lever their home and relocate to a camp post in arizona bringing only what they could carry. we didn't have a chair to sit on. the only thing we had was the cot with a straw that we had to stuff ourselves. she went to students tuesday to visit the memorial in downtown san jose and speak abher experience in the camp. she said she admires her grandmother's strength to relive something so difficult. >> i think it's good because now a new generation can carry it on and learn about it. >> donna nichols has taking her students to the memorial for 12 years. she says this

that it was the health care bismt i think that the health care is the onissue, rember that franklin d roosevelt could not make any headway on. roosevelt and trueman and eisenhower and john f. nnedy. >> and bill clinton. >> and bill clinton all of them tried to pov forward on national health care, on expaing health care. nobo succeeded until barack obama. and that has been from the point of the business community, something they ve objected to for 70, 80 years, charlie, this has been a point of convention-- contentionness. >> rose: i thoht what the president did in part was to get more people inside the tent than many administration before. the clinton administration alth-care program got off to a bad start because of the way it started it wasn't transparenand all those things. about you my impressi was in this ca, thepresident was able to get more people on board and then it got lost in the political process. >> well, i think that it got lostn the political ocess partly because-- . >> rose: more ff sis on access than cost containment. >> not enough emphasis co containment and he allowed congres

but at franklin roosevelt offered was a vision and a hope for the future. okay, things may not be great right now but we're going this way d hers t vion. and what happened is they got so stuck defending what they did that they didn't come up with a pl toake pple hopeful about how we were going to get out of this. they didn't set up competitiveness, for examp, globalcompetitiveness as the go and foshat we could all work on together. maybe not as divisively, for ampl as we' talking about these othe things. they dn't have a forward-looking progr in a way and let me emphasize that, ey were always playing defense. and, you know, y can't win particular if you're an incumbenplaying defense. you ve tplay offense. >> i agreehe's done a very we job given how smart he is and how aiculate hes in explainingo pele what h strate is to tur the econo ound. he's passed a set of discrete, very big pieces o legislation that he believes firmly, intellectually, will eventually lay down a foundation that allowed the economy to improve. but getting both credit for those things and also projecting forward a vision o what needs be done now rather t