and when franklin d. roosevelt said, and his labor secretary, frances perkins, what a great labor secretaries in history, basically 1935 created the opportunity, and the legal basis for collective bargaining, and created social security and minimum wage and a 40 hour work week with time and a half overtime. and all sorts of other incentives. it change the organization of the market, followed by a period of time in the late '40s and '50s and '60s when this country invested in education, higher education, primary school, secondary schools, infrastructure to a huge degree. the national defense highway act. i mean, we as a country, as a government, working sometimes against business, sometimes with business, we completely reorganize american capitalism, and made it work for everyone. >> to clear up one thing from your book, from that period that you seem to quote with approval, you talk about how american business is organized time and have come incentives operated, and you quote from the book, all our employees, not o

he said that franklin d. roosevelt, commander-in-chief, lest there be any doubt once his authority to rice rise. eisenhower right is the blackest day in history, which is a ridiculous overstatement given the blackness of other days. but what marshall certainly recognizes as the mediterranean because they sound. once you're there, it's hard to get out. so, the strategic decision to go there, which i think they allow to send house collateral strategic decisions, which involves i'm going to sicily and southern italy and so on. because there is now shifting to get that half-million man force that is a north africa at the end of the tunisia campaign back to britain in stagecraft in this channel or go anywhere else. we don't have the wherewithal to do it. so my feeling is that italy becomes increasingly, strategically untenable. there's not a real good understanding by anyone of why it can particularly once we captured the air fields in southern italy and can really take the campaign home to the fatherland from the south in

and when franklin d. roosevelt said in his labor secretary, frances perkins, one of the great they were secretaries in history -- basically 1935, created opportunity in the legal basis for collective bargaining and created social security and a minimum wage and a 40 hour workweek with china have for overtime. and all sorts of other incentives to change the organization of the market, followed by a period of time in the late 40s and 50s and 60s, when the country invested in education, higher education, primary school, secondary schools, infrastructure or to a huge degree. the national defense highway act. i mean, we as a country, as a government, working sometimes against business, sometimes with his nascar would completely organize american capitalism and may work for everyone. >> i mean, to quote one thing from the book from her. that you seem to quote with approval, you talk about how american businesses time and a half and you quote all our employees not donis. placing the system depends on rules for bureaucrati

he spoke at the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. >> [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] >> those were the hard times. and i want to take you to another place, which is my hometown of canton, ohio. i want to take you to the week of christmas 1933. unemployment was 50%. that's the best guess. nobody knows for sure, and it didn't matter because there was no one to help them. the number was academic. there was no social security. there was no medicaid. there was no unemployment. there was no fdic. you dropped, there was no one to catch you. that week on december 18, a small ad appeared in the canton repository newspaper. it was addressed to the community and basically said if you're hurting, you write to me, tell me what you are going through, and i will help you in a small way before christmas. this was the summer 18, 1933. the ad was about as big and it ran on the inside of the can repository. the writer instructed the community to write to mr. b. virdot, gener

library of ngress and i went through it line by line and there were something like 600 books on franklin d. roosevelt. and i thought it's all said. but ve witten a great deal about intelligence and maybe i could combine the two and there was nothing in this list of 600 books in the catalog about f.d.r. and intelligence. my reaction was, joe, you are either brilliant and you've thought of soething that nobody else could think of or you're a fool and wasting your time because there's no story. >> in the end, when did you start to see a story that had never been told? >> well, i started going down, brian, to hyde park, tothe roosevelt archives. i stared virtually from ground zero. as i srted through papers of george marshall d bill donovan and f.d.r.'s paper, i realizized there was a lot of untold stories. >> let's pick one of those names, bill donovan. who was he? >> bill donovan was an authentic hero of world war i, a congressional medal of honor winner, subsequently a vastly successful wall street lawyer. now, he becomes, in effect, the first head of a central intelligence agency in the united states

franklin d. roosevelt, december 21, 1941, said these words, i won't read the whole thing, but he said, sincere and faithful men and women are asking themselves this christmas, how can we light our trees, how can we give our gifts, how can we meet and worship with love and uplifted spirit and heart in a world at war, a world of fighting and suffering and death? how can we pause, even for a day, even for christmas day, in our urgent labor of arming a decent humanity against the enemy which is beset it? he goes on and says, i do hereby appoint the first day of the year of 1942 as a day of prayer, of asking forgiveness of our shortcomings. of the past, of consecration to the task of the present, and asking god's help in spirit but strong in the conviction of the right, steadfast to endure sacrifice and brave to achieve a victory of liberty and peace. he said, our strongest weapon in this war is the conviction -- is that contradiction of -- is that conviction of the dignity and brotherhood of man which christma

that is my political hero of heroes, franklin d. roosevelt. i think he was the greatest president this country ever had, with the possible exception of eight lincoln and george washington. -- abe lincoln and george washington. >> i put it over my shoulder this nature i do not screw up too often. >> this is bob when he was running for president in 1824. he is seated in the car behind him. bob died in 1925. young bob took his place. this is his picture. he wrote the congressional reorganization act of 1926. then he was defeated by joe mccartney, who was the worst public service this country ever produced. character assassination. this is jerry boyle, the last progressive republican to represent my district, 1930- 1938. he succeeded him as the chair of progressive republicans in the house. in 1957 in wisconsin, it used to be a one-party republican state. this was the first democrat to break that and get elected. >> he was famous for his golden fleece award. >> here is my mentor and friend, who next to bob fall off -- fawke the month -- the greate

franklin d. roosevelt to george w. bush. .. what my question is there are some delightful buddhist books out now from a young buddhist man who was doing testing on the mind and the university of wisconsin. the joy of living. and it was a scientist said -- neinstein -- weinstein said that in his opinion, buddhism is the only religion that was really copacetic with the progress of science. so i'm kind of wondering if you have any feeling about the books today or what the books becoming more popular than say 1970 or the 80's or is there a lack of progress? do you have any feeling for that? i know you don't have the statistics. >> host: thank you, bill. jenn risko? >> guest: in trying to understand correctly. we have a feeling if buddhism is more popular now is that what he asked? >> host: kind of. i don't want to paraphrase his question. i think he was trying to compare -- would you like to answer about what he said? >> guest: you know, i'm sorry i don't -- yeah, i don't have -- i don't have a feel for it. i'm sorry. >> host: that

franklin d. roosevelt to george w. bush. .. what my question is there are some delightful buddhist books out now from a young buddhist man who was doing testing on the mind and the university of wisconsin. the joy of living. and it was a scientist said -- neinstein -- weinstein said that in his opinion, buddhism is the only religion that was really copacetic with the progress of science. so i'm kind of wondering if you have any feeling about the books today or what the books becoming more popular than say 1970 or the 80's or is there a lack of progress? do you have any feeling for that? i know you don't have the statistics. >> host: thank you, bill. jenn risko? >> guest: in trying to understand correctly. we have a feeling if buddhism is more popular now is that what he asked? >> host: kind of. i don't want to paraphrase his question. i think he was trying to compare -- would you like to answer about what he said? >> guest: you know, i'm sorry i don't -- yeah, i don't have -- i don't have a feel for it. i'm sorry. >> host: that

president franklin d. roosevelt said that december 7 is a date which will live in infamy. no matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the american people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. and we did. in the aftermath of pearl harbor, america succeeded not only militarily, we succeeded morally as well. our nation bonded together with a newfound resolve to help those who sacrificed so much for our nation and take care of our fellow citizens. in the months that followed the attack, democrats and republicans knew exactly what had to be done. congress came together, not only to declare war but to pass legislation that provided health care and compensation to each and every civilian who was injured during that pearl harbor attack, every citizen who sacrificed for america that day. it did not take nine years for that to be done. congress acted bravely and swiftly without partisanship, without gridlock, with a clear moral compass and a clear determination that we as a nation have an undenial moral obligation to help the pe

called "american caesars" from franklin d. roosevelt to bush. highly recommend it. thank you so much. >> guest: it's been a pleasur pleasure. >> coming up next book tv presents afterwards, an hour-long program where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. .. >> host: and welcome to "after words." my name is amity schlaes. i'm a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations in a bloomberg news columnist. i'm your host today for the show but others in their books. today our guests or to they're too preventable, two outstanding political authors, scott rasmussen and doug schoen. scott rasmussen collects and distributes polling data. mr. schoen is a poster comic who had conch to make bloomberg. mr. schoen foc contributor to fox news. their book is "mad as hell," how do t. party is bundle and silly remaking the two-party system. we have a double out there, so we're going to be a little bit shorter. could you each get a two sentence description of what the tea party movement is? >> guest: tea party movement is a grassroots movement that has been disrespected by pe

great point about lincoln, but my two would have to be franklin roosevelt who saved this country during dire need, and my favorite would have to be dwight d. eisenhower. he stood up and spoke the truth in that military-industrial complex speech, in my view, one of the great speeches ever. the release spoke the truth with the military and industrial complex speech. -- he really spoke the truth with the military industrial complex speech. host: this story? about five men arrested, as far as a danish terrorism attempt is concerned. a group of men arrested wednesday in denmark was about to mount a "mumbai style" attack on the danishes paper that ignited muslim. by publishing satirical cartoons of the prophet mohammad in 2005. in michigan, bill, republican line, good morning. caller: my favorite, joe wilson. he speaks truth to the power, doesn't he? and i would like to say to america, and all of the women that think bill clinton, we know that -- we know what bill clinton did to young women. host: most admired female, according to offer of twitter this morning, senator debbie stabenow, who stood up to senator kyl. rio, brazil, tony, good mornin