there is another very vital issue which i would like to debate with franklin d roosevelt debate with face-to-face, and that is the assumption by this president in seeking a third term of a greater public confidence that america afforded to its presidential giants, washington, jefferson, jackson, theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson. we have not and i pray to god we may never reach the time in america where there is any such thing as the indispensable man. we are engaged in a sacred cause, the preservation of american democracy. i cannot lead this cause alone. i need the help of every american, republican, democrat, independent, protestant, catholic, jew, people of every race, creed and color. if we all join together, each doing his utmost, dedicating ourselves to the principles of american liberty, a revitalized and reunited america will triumph over any enemy within or without. i thank you, and god bless you. narrator: remember, he knows our needs because he has worked with us, teaching, driving a bakery wagon, and as a field hand harvesting wheat and a labor in california, and in

the clock back and feature several films from the 1940 four presidential campaign between franklin d roosevelt and thomas dewey. that's what's coming up here on american history tv. > i'll be the petersburg campaign certainly has quite a bit to discuss. c-span sake of our audience, who we deeply appreciate i want to run through keynote hlights of our speaker. wilson green is the former xecutive director of pamphlet historical park and the national museum of the civil war soldier located near petersburg ulysses virginia. he previously severed as the first president of the for the preservation of civil war

entered world war ii, our president, franklin d. roosevelt put a call out. >> we must be the great arsenal of democracy. >> we needed to create the products that would help the allies win world war ii and michigan and detroit in particular were very quick to answer the call. in fact most factories or production companies that were making consumer products switched over to war manufacturing including all of the automobile factories. one of probably the most successful factories that was built to make products for the war was ford motor company's willow run plant. there's a gigantic mural behind us that shows the innovation in making planes via an assembly line which had never been done before. construction started on the plant in 1941. it was completed in 1942 and by 1943, 41,000 people were working to build airplanes in this plant. and by the end of the war, the factory had built just under 9,000 b-24 bombers and at one point they were rolling one off the line every 63 minutes. so wartime work was very different. most of the young men, able-b

america," we feature several short films from the 1944 presidential campaign, between franklin d roosevelt and thomas dewey. look at the 1981 nomination by president ronald reagan of sandra day o'connor, the first woman to serve on the u.s. supreme court. author evan thomas and one of o'connor's sons discusses the characteristics and qualifications that led to her appointment. un-american artifacts, we visit a -- on american artifacts, we visit a mobile emergency room that would have been located close to the front line. on "the presidency," we hear about pat nixon's work and contributions to the nixon administration. she entered the white house as first lady 50 years ago in january 1969. that's coming up on american history tv. ♪ [locomotive chugging] ♪

the clock back and feature several films from the 1940 four presidential campaign between franklin d roosevelt and thomas dewey. that's what's coming up here on american history tv. > i'll be the petersburg campaign certainly has quite a bit to discuss. c-span sake of our audience, who we deeply appreciate i want to run through keynote hlights of our speaker. wilson green is the former xecutive director of pamphlet historical park and the national museum of the civil war soldier located near petersburg ulysses virginia. he previously severed as the first president of the for the preservation of civil war sites from 1990 to 994 ulysses s. grant an early version of what today we know as battlefield trust. e's also spent time as a istorian including local fredericksburg in spotsylvania. he's also served in other capacities. dedicated research ulysses s. grant a prolific writer ulysses s. grant has published more than works on the civil wares ses on stonewall jackson ulysses s. grant st. petersburg ulysses s. grant 1861 to 1865 ulysses s. and my favorite ulysses s. grant the final battles of the p

he talks about the views and policies president franklin d . roosevelt and former president hoover on war-torn europe and the question of what to do about the plight of war victims, especially women and children. >> this is the title for my new book called the battle royale, hoover versus roosevelt. i'm going to show you two images first. this is the first one from the america first committee, which alist, andntervention lis some would say isolationist. here, we will take a look at these two and go back. these are from the committee to defend america and to aid the allies. everything i'm going to say about the relief efforts are in the context of the battle over intervention and anti-intervention. i don't think america first has received the attention it deserves. the justice has done some good work on it. it is usually written off as right wing isolationist organization, but it is a key factor in the antiwar movement, along with hoover, who did not belong to america first committee, the quakers, the pacifists, people who were upset about world war i. it

woodrow wilson, franklin d. roosevelt had private emissarie. but giuliani wasn't tasked with carrying out investigations for the country, but effectively acting as an arm of trump's reelection campaign. that's an exert -- >> first of all, a private lawyer. second, it assumes it's not in the interest of the country to dig up corruption from one of the highest -- >> laura: you were helping his reelection campaign, or working for him as a a private lawyer. >> i heard about this two years before the election, where joe biden wasn't even a candidate. he hadn't announced. and, it was absolutely necessary, in order for me to defend it. decided it's not against the interest of the united states -- w laura: we've got to go. rudy, we will have you back, and i can't wait to find out whathan the hill. >> donald trump is a thug. he is acting like a mob boss right now. >> he is delusional in that he l has a very outside sense of himself. >> donald trump had obstructed justice multiple times, that's an impeachable offense. >> donald trump will be impeached. >

he talks about the views and policies president franklin d . rooseveltnd former president hoover on war-torn europe and the ti

he talks about the views and policies president franklin d roosevelt and former president hoover on war-torn europe and the question of what to do about the plight of war victims, especially women and children. >> this is the title for my new book called the battle royale, hoover versus roosevelt. i'm going to show you two images first. this is the first one from the america first committee, which was isolationist. here, we will take a look at these two and go back. these are from the committee to defend america against the allies. -- to aid the allies.