i am the deputy director at the franklin d. roosevelt presidential museum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the eleventh annual roosevelt reading festival. when fdr established the first presidential library at his home in hyde park he imagined it being the premier research center for the study of the roosevelt era and we are consistently one of the busiest research rooms in the presidential library system and one of the reasons we love this so much is we get to see the fruit of the labors of all the people who use our research rooms throughout the year so it is our pleasure to have you here. let me quickly go over the format of the day as well as a couple housekeeping matters. the first thing is will everyone take out your electronic devices and turn them off so there presentation isn't interrupted today? thank you. the other housekeeping matters if you find somebody on staff here today, that would give you one of the roosevelt library buttons that would get you into free admission to the exhibits we opened a year ago after our 3-

my name is bob clark, and i'm the deputy director here at the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. you know, when fdr established the first presidential library here at his home in hyde park, he envisioned it becoming the premier research center for the study of the roosevelt era. and we're consistently one of the busiest research rooms in the entire presidential library system. and one of the reasons why we love this base so much is we get to see the fruit of the labors of all the people who use our research room throughout the year. so it's our pleasure to have you here. let me quickly go over the format of the day as well as a couple of housekeeping matters. the first thing is would everyone please take out your electronic devices and turn them off so that our presentation isn't interrupted today. thank you. the second housekeeping matter is if you will find somebody on the staff here today, they will be happy to give you one of these roosevelt library buttons, an

president san -- president franklin d. roosevelt came to see the new bridge. and the year laugh first lady elenore roosevelt came to visit the world's fair. so what would it take to take a nation out of the great depression. and here's the 1990 record, break of war. >> reporter: in 1940, america was holding the rest of the world at arm's lenght. fortress america wanted no part of the war that hitler and his access partners japan and italy were waging. as the year began, americans were hanging on every piece of news from europe where poland had already fallen and the entire continent. with the isolationist tide was so strong he became fear of republican isolation would become a target for hitler. so he accepted his third term in office. >> i do so with mixed feelings. >> reporter: thus committed, fdr began to steer the country away from isolationism and toward the role of ally. he wanted to show the country they were still neutral but on the other side he was doing his best to turn america into the arsenal of democracy. >> this nation will remain a neutral natio

this is not just about teddy roosevelt and franklin d. roosevelt but also about eleanor roosevelt. who is a figure as remarkable in history as perhaps her husband. let's just talk about the similarities between teddy and franklin and connection there. let's just run this clip. >> they belonged to different parties. they over came different obstacles. they had different temperments and styles of leadership. but it was the similarities and not the differences between the two that meant the most to history. both were children of privilege who came to see themselves as champions of the working man. and earned the undying emnity of many of those who had grown to manhood they shared a sense of stewardship of the american land. and unfamed love for people and politics. and firm belief that the united states had an important role to play in the wider world. >> schieffer: doris, the thing that struck me over and over again, we find the same thing with eleanor roosevelt. these were rich people. these were rich boys and she, of course, she was came from family of means. but what was it that ca

it was dispatched by franklin d. rooseveltcalifornia in the months preceding the pearl harbor attack. he got himself in with the japanese folks up and down the coast and described them to fdr as pathetically loyal americans. there needed to have been a momentary pause before the round tops where everyone got together and said, what are the stakes? what's the right thing to do? who are the true bad apples? how do we ensure the civil liberties of a law-abiding majority while isolating the potentially dangerous people? we were constrained by racial hysteria. we were constrained by the language difficulty. and we were constrained by the sheer logistics of going to warx >> i want to go back to the density, the size of this particular novel. i'm thinking earlier in this conversation of how much you said you love l.a. spike lee comes to mind because spike loves new york city. >> he does. >> and i love spike. so all your books are set in l.a. spike films everything in new york. we know him to be a lover of new york city. one of my cri

eastern, ken burns and historian geoffrey ward look at the lives of theodore, eleanor and franklin d. roosevelt. .. >> good evening. i'm so glad to be here at politics and prose with my wife this evening. thank you so much to the entire staff for coming out on this damp august evening. now is the time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might be during the presentation. when we get to the q&a in the program, there is a microphone over there and we would appreciate it if you would make your way to it if you would like to ask a question, especially with the cameras going here this evening. finally, at the end, please help our staff by enfolding of the chairs and placing them in something solid. thank you for joining us. hampton sides has several best-selling works to his name and among them are those soldiers about the daring world war ii games to rescue more than 2000 pows. that has sold more than a million copies since its release in 2002 and another of his book, blood and thunder, the life and times of kit carson made the best book list in 2006 when it came out very and then fou

we think back to the great inaugural addresses of franklin d. roosevelt in 1933 we have nothing to fear but fear itself and john f. kennedy in 1961 ask not what you can do your country. ronald reagan, we can do this because we're americans. if a president doesn't have that sense of uplift and inspiration and follow-through, by the way, then he is probably in the wrong job. jon: alan, i want to read you this quote because he is catching some heat in the media for everything that is going on right now. edward isaac dever in "politico" wrote this morning. president barack obama has one person to blame for looking indecisive, and dithering and cowed by bungled political calculation ises, barack obama. this is reoccurring theme for obama, bold speeches set dazzling high bars for action and slowly backpedaling into a muddle and letting issue and poll numbers fade away. what do you think, alan. >> i disagree with the premise. the media hardly covering fact we're bombing isis. he has not been indecisive. he talked with the strategy with chuck todd. part of the in

doing, which is very much like what president kennedy did in the early '60s and what president franklin d. roosevelt did during world war ii is paint the vision -- paint the picture of a better world that can arise after we address issues like the conflict with isil. >> david fromme, the president said once again, there is no military solution to this problem. he said, we have to address the underlying conditions. the oppression, lack of opportunity, the hopelessness that lead to terrorism. ban ki-moon said it a little more poetically, i would think, in saying missiles kill terrorists but good governance kills terrorism. these are messages leaders understand but the american people don't really want to hear. they want to hear, we can do anything, especially had it comes to our military. is the president expressing that concept that he believes is true? is he expressing is it properly? >> it's a bizarre thing to say in the context of isil. president mentioned 15,000 foreign fighters in syria. hundreds come from britain, canada and australia. these are not people who are coming from lands where there

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and it's been the same since franklin d. roosevelt. there never was an idea to redecorate it all the time, but, of course, it's a background for television and that's always of interest. but mrs. kennedy had plans to redecorate the room for -- to match the house, but in his death, precluded that. and president johnson moved in with a very different -- two ticker tapes, typewriters, it was a work room under him. mostly, unless the president loves to work there, it's ceremonial now. you go to have your picture taken with the president. elvis did. and you can, too. and so -- and he had a gun. but anyway, that's -- it's used ceremonially ma lly mainly now. but that's the brief history. it was designed for roosevelt by gugler. roosevelt likes to play architect and he had quite a design and mrs. roosevelt got the signal n got her friend eric gugler whom roosevelt called that silly man. he came in and did a design that roosevelt finally agreed to and that's the design the president wanted and there are parts of the other one in it. ma'am? >>

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how many major bills president franklin d. roosevelts of his first term. >> he didn't get much done -- >> answer to that question is 15. >> he said 4 for the record. >> the first person to send us that correct response, congratulations. >>> coming up, filmmaker ken burns joins us on set with his new documentary "the roosevelt, an intimate history." before the names "theodore," "eleanor," and "franklin" were indelibly etched into the american consciousness. and the course of human history was forever changed by their individual endeavors. a prominent family made a point of teaching the value of altruism, the power of perseverance, and the virtue of helping out one's fellow man. [ inhales deeply ] [ sighs ] [ inhales ] [ male announcer ] at cvs health, we took a deep breath... [ inhales, exhales ] [ male announcer ] and made the decision to quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. now we invite smokers to quit, too, with our comprehensive program. we just want to help everyone, everywhere, breathe a little easier. introducing cvs he

he speaks from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library in hyde park, new york which is home to the annual roosevelt reading festival. this

understanding and help us way all d just in the of the roosevelts took what they and the bout life adversity they faced and overcome. a guide to what it was like for franklin roosevelt. >> once you understand the last you watch him, you realize as you have before, hat he's going through just to make a public appearance, make a speech. host: barbara up next, blair, nebraska on the line for independents. good morning. > >>. caller: we marked the calendar to watch this. purchase this. offer recall the guest: wonderful books. caller: of course. i kept asking him if we were oh, yes.him, is it -- thought teddy had adhd. if he were alive today, he would be on medicine. historians in the film brings it up. the first episode is as you just blair, it's really our table setting. it's the 19th century. e're introducing you to all three characters. eleanor and franklin in a minor it's the trajectory of theodore roosevelt's birth to president ofas the the united states. episode two, everything gets started. the story, you know everybody. happening. all of the dynamicsful all this tightening noose and dramatic things each night. to understand who the add kind of unstable

franklin roosevelt mobilized a nation whose unemployment rate 25%.t the civilian conservation corps went out and planted trees and cleared land. we built roads, put people to work. up.leaned things dwight d. eisenhower's vision interstatethe highway system and the jobs that it took to build it. jobs are people who need and there is work to be done. and along the way, i believe to meld such a program with another one, featuring adult education for who did lose their way when they were 17 and now know important it is as a worker and as a parent to get that diploma, earn some money and be your kid.el to we need to reform the criminal justice system. this is a leadership issue and has dramatic manifestations throughout our society. the u.s. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. this i doubt we are the most evil people in the world. maybe we are doing something wrong. millions of citizens are in prison or under the supervision of the criminal justice system. during lifetime of the senate, we were to examine every component of this process from the point of apprehension to the length of sentencing to the elements of life in prison coming and to the challenge of reentering society an

he speaks from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york, which is home to the annual roosevelt reading festival. this is about 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations]

and it's been the same since franklin d. roosevelt. there never was an idea to redecorate it all the time, but, of course, it's a background for television and that's always of interest. but mrs. kennedy had plans to redecorate the room for -- to match the house, but in his death, precluded that. and president johnson moved in with a very different -- two ticker tapes, typewriters, it was a work room under him. mostly, unless the president loves to work there, it's ceremonial now. you go to have your picture taken with the president. elvis did. and you can, too. and so -- and he had a gun. but anyway, that's -- it's used ceremonially ma lly mainly now. but that's the brief history. it was designed for roosevelt by gugler. roosevelt likes to play architect and he had quite a design and mrs. roosevelt got the signal n got her friend eric gugler whom roosevelt called that silly man. he came in and did a design that roosevelt finally agreed to and that's the design the president wanted and there are parts of the other one in it. ma'am? >>

eastern, ken burns and historian geoffrey ward look at the lives of theodore, eleanor and franklin d. roosevelt. ..