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this was recorded at the franklin d. roosevelt library and museum in hyde park new york in 2010. it is about 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much for coming to this talk. for supporting the book, and thank you so much to the roosevelt library for offering this invitation. the new deal is often characterized as progressive, even revolutionary. new policies coupled with a sense of executive emergencies led many americans to celebrate the roosevelt administration as a symbol of change and progress. in the minds of new deal administrators, these programs would alleviate suffering for american families, but they also have the potential to create an inclusive participatory democracy. as cultural visionary louis mumford reflected on this impulse in the 1930s he pronounced "more public good has

did you know today in 1937-franklin d. rooseveltfficially opened the bridge to traffic. >>> the bay area has a winner, not the warriors yet, but we are talking about the national geographic bee champion. education reporter lyanne melendez tells us what it takes to be a master geographer. >> reporter: proudly showed off the medals he earned. the this eighth grader is surrounded by maps in his room and it started with a talking globe that his parents gave him as a child. >> i read the national geographic magazines in order to keep up with news. >> reporter: the united states he says is by far the most complex country to study. >> you need to treat each state like a country. >> reporter: that means learning towns, mountain ranges, rivers, straits every geographical aspects of a your eighth grader knows more than you? >> he knows more than us. >> reporter: held in washington when he answered this question correctly. >> lebanon has a population most similar to which south country? >> reporter: para guy was the right answer. what will he

other thing there's really a position of dictation and not negotiations and you know once franklin d. roosevelt said the office of the white house is an office of international monetary and office of international morality needs john statesman not real estate agents this administration cannot be a partner and of course we our only option is to stay on this land and to be in this land today between the river jordan and the military and we are the majority as palestinian arabs but a sin and christian and muslim arabs we are fifty point nine percent jews are forty nine point one percent what are they going to do with us other than creating extremism and then you know when violence spread and people are being killed and what side then israel would say all of these people have it in their d.n.a. ere they are terrorists and so on. i have the was it twenty five years of my life in negotiations with israel to save lives resample athenians to live and let live we have who denies there's a right to exist we have accepted a palestinian state with is the recent us capital to live side by side in peace and

this was recorded at the franklin d. roosevelt library and museum in hyde park new york in 2010. it is about 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much for coming to this talk. for supporting the book, and thank you so much to the roosevelt library for offering this invitation. the new deal is often characterized as progressive, even revolutionary. new policies coupled with a sense of executive emergencies led many americans to celebrate the roosevelt administration as a symbol of change and progress. in the minds of new deal administrators, these programs would alleviate suffering for american families, but they also have the potential to create an inclusive participatory democracy. as cultural visionary louis mumford reflected on this impulse in the 1930s he pronounced "more public good has come out of the bankruptcy of the economic quarter than ever came out of its flatulent prosperity." did mumford statement, however, apply to all american? more specifically, did the new deals inclusionary mission extension african-americans who had arguably been suffering the most extreme p

in this role, barkley proved to be a dedicated proponent of franklin d. roosevelt's new agenda and was a loyal lieutenant of robinson. when the 75th congress began in 1937, the democrats -- listen to this -- had a whopping 76 seats. there were 96 senators at the time. hawaii and alaska were not yet admitted. they had 76 out of 96. in fact, if you've ever seen a picture of the u.s. senate floor, there's an aisle down the middle and the democrats sit on one side and republicans sit on the other. there were so many democrats they couldn't get them all on that side of the room. so they moved a bunch of them over on the republican side in the back of the room and they called it the cherokee strip because they said they were off the reservation. about half the caucus supported roosevelt's new deal policy while the other half frequently undermine them. the divisions within the caucus became fully exposed in 1937 when f.d.r.'s full efforts failed to add more liberal judges. that split the democratic caucus down the middle. that year, due in large part to the strain trying to

d it comes from franklin delano roosevelt. it can apply to the great recession in 2008 and 2009 and applies today and applies to the tax cut that took place in december. it says, he said, franklin roosevelt, the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abuppedance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough nor those who have too little. a statement of value, a statement of purpose. and having listened to my colleagues talk about the grite tax cut, i think we need to understand what it was all about and the implications of that tax cut and what it means to america. not just to the working men and women that were so well discussed by our colleagues. and indeed, they did get a benefit from the tax cut. however, i think we need to tax stand the size of that cut. it's estimated that that tax cut will reduce the revenues to the federal treasury, that is to the american government and all the programs that it does, funding the military, funding social security and medicare, medicaid, keeping in mind that 60