signing the letter to franklin delano roosevelt,a reconstructed set piece photo of the 1939 warning toroosevelt from einstein about the dangerous possibilities of others developing nuclear weapons. einstein and his wife elsa in pasadena during one of his visits to the california institute of technology. in 1945, almost overnight, einstein became the conscience of the world. he wrote, spoke and broadcast throughout the last ten years of his life. einstein and several famous american physicists gathered in princeton, new jersey to launch an appeal for $a million to educate americans on implications of nuclear fission. portrait of albert einstein, 1879 to 1955. 76 years of age. that's a lot in those photographs that we can cue off and discuss, but before we do that, did einstein make any commercial endorsements to allow his likeness to be used for marketing purposesthat you are aware of? alice? by the way, alice, i should point out that you've done the quotable einstein? you also have a volume here of albert einstein's letters to and from children. tell us about@that a little bit. >> well

crashed our economy nine hundred twenty nine triggering a worldwide great depression but franklin delano roosevelt turned it all around and turned the economy around too thanks to government spending and government regulations f.d.r. showed us all what government is capable of winning as the trust of the people but today even though our country's in the same boat that it was in in one nine hundred thirty two or that close to it president obama and the democrats have been unsuccessful at restoring the good name of government and convincing the american people the government can actually do something that it can be a good force it's a simple idea we do have a market economy dependent on private business but when those businesses get their it not down there but as they did in twenty nine as they did two thousand and eight then someone needs to step up and be the spender and employer of last resort and that's the government without the help of the government over the last three years a double dip recession recession is now a promise in fact a double dip is a misnomer the vast majority of us never reco

f.d.i.c the groundwork that was laid for the boom that is the american century created by franklin delano roosevelt as a reaction to the banks or in the one nine hundred twenty s. position limits on commodity futures another containment margin limits on commodity futures another containment and all of these things and commodity futures modernization act being screwed introduced in year two thousand scrapping much of the containment these are the elements that open. up the floodgates of toxic derivative trading and the alien like exposure to the global economy from the monsters of derivatives like the blank lines of the jamie diamonds so we're going to look at one little other headline that this is also a poppy feral research firm to and this is from newsweek mad as hell they're angry that fuel the arab spring is now boiling over in europe could club wielding protesters be in america's future too the answer of course is in the picture you see in this newsweek article and that is people with images of jamie dimon the head of the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan chase the biggest bank in america one of the bigge

in his second inaugural address, franklin delano roosevelt laid out i think a very good test for us, it was the test for this nation at one of its most desperate periods. we too find ourselves in a difficult situation, we do have a big deficit and we need to make some tough choices and today as we debate this piece of legislation we are indeed making choices and we are being tested. we're being tested about our values, we're being tested about what we think is important. franklin delano roosevelt suggested this be the test, the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much , it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ponder those words and apply those words to what we are debating and what we will soon vote for or against on this floor. the test of our progress. add more to the abundance of those who have much we've discussed here many times in the last couple of hours, the options that are given to us on tax policy, continuing to provide subsidies to the wealthiest industry in the world, the oil industry, not to the tune

ronald reagan carried more states in 1980 than franklin delano roosevelt carried in 1932. reagan had a simple phrase -- he said when your brother in law is unemployed, is called a recession. when you are unemployed, it is called a depression. when jimmy carter is unemployed, it is called the recovery o-- it is called a recovery. [applause] some of you might expect to hear this next year with one name change. [laughter] let's talk about how destructive the energy policy is. we have 20% less production in the gulf of mexico today than was projected because his moratorium and his regulatory policies are anti-american energy and he is killing jobs and louisiana. [applause] -- in louisiana. [applause] is not just killing jobs here, he is forcing americans to send money overseas. 70% of our net deficit in trade is oil. this makes no sense at all. the president goes to brazil. he says to the brazilians -- you will see this as a commercial -- i want to show it to you because i don't want you to think i am making these things up. the president goes to result and he says to the braz

the guy at the other end of the line is franklin delano roosevelt, the new president of the united states, and one little note, he was president at that point since his inauguration in march in 1933 and inauguration day was still march. it was subsequently changed to january because the feeling was you didn't want to have a president be a lame duck for any longer than he absolutely had to be. so roosevelt is on the line and he asks you, would you be the next ambassador to germany? america's first ambassador of nazi germany, the post that nazi germany had been vacant at this point for about six months. here's the kicker. he gives you two hours to decide. he gives you two hours to decide. what he does not tell you is that one reason he has called you apart from the fact that a confidant of his had recommended you, apart from the fact that you know german, one reason he called you is that nobody wanted the job. three weeks later you find yourself on a ship to germany, leaving new york for hamburg. you've got your family with you. your wife, a grown son and your 24-year-old daughter martha. a

what we are learning now about franklin delano roosevelt's era and we read books about him and we read them too early. right now is when you should read about fdr. the same would be true of kennedy and nixon. and watergate. future generations may know the answer to that question you asked. host: is the most remarkable thing you have learned in 39 years since the watergate break- in? about guest: watergate? host: and by extension the nixon presidency. guest: it is depressing but i would say that we have legalized corruption. i have had long conversations with people in the cis, from kazakhstan and russia and other countries and they will argue that. i will say that you have rampant bribery and how the new function and they say you have the same thing in the united states but it is legalized. we have legalized best. if you are elected to the united states congress, you will not get elected -- reelected easily if you don't take major money from lobbies and they will ask for things. the major lobbies may be a hamburger company that will say that we want federal money and the congressman wi

caller: franklin delano roosevelt prevented the very wealthy from driving up oil barrel prices.are driven by unscrupulous speculators. i believe is a gas cap should be resurrected or inactive again -- inactive again -- enacted again so that the wealthy will keep their hands out of the oil futures market. guest: you get into a lot of issues regulating wall street when you try to put on a cat. back then, there was a lock 1 on the world that gave roosevelt the power to do that. -- there was a lot going on in the world that gives about the power to do that. if gas is cheaper, if you do not have the motivation to buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. if gas is expensive, is dragging down the economy and they do not have the money to buy fuel efficient vehicles. it is a tough issue. i am not sure there are any answers. host: jalopnik.com is the website our guest writes for. how often do you write for the publication? guest: i write a couple of stories a day. the story you are showing now, i used to cover job of working in back in my early days -- jack kevorkian back in my early days of wo

no democratic president since franklin delano roosevelt -- let's go to tampa, florida.lex, what do you think? caller: the economy is the first priority for everyone right now. not only here in the u.s., but around the world. president obama will have a huge problem next year with a latino vote because he only got one reform, dealing with immigration. i did -- i do not know how he is going to deal with that next year. you already have 12 states that want to do their own immigration laws. from my point of view, it will be a powerful issue for both parties. host: are you going to stay home? caller: i am disappointed. they are taking advantage of the minorities that cannot defend themselves. instead of fixing the problem, they are making it worse every single month. host: might from wisconsin. caller: we need to put tariffs back in place to create fair trade. then we need to go back to pre- reagan tax rates. then you have to eliminate corporate tax altogether, since 67% of corporations do not pay taxes right now. and then reduce the defense budget by 50% over three years. i

no democratic president since franklin delano roosevelt -- let's go to tampa, florida. alex, what do you think? caller: the economy is the first priority for everyone right now. not only here in the u.s., but around the world. present obama will have a huge problem next year with a latino vote because he only got one reform, dealing with immigration. i did -- i do not know how he is going to deal with that next year. you already have 12 states that want to do their own immigration laws. from my point of view, it will be a powerful issue for both parties. host: are you going to stay home? caller: i am disappointed. they are taking advantage of the minorities that cannodefend themselves. instead of fixing the problem, they are making it worse every single month. host: might from wisconsin. caller: we need to put tariffs ck in place to create fair trade. then we need to go back to pre- reagan tax rates. then you have to eliminate corporate tax altogether, since 67% of corporations do not pay taxes right now. and then reduce the defense budget by 50% over three years. if he

franklin delano r. they became good friends and president row vellet even became a constituent of senator russell's because georgia was a place that president roosevelt would come to heal. it was that relationship that brought russell to be one of the first to endorse franklin roosevelt for president of the united states. richard russell served with roosevelt, harry truman, eight years side by side with harry true man, he served under president dwight eisenhower and in just a minute i'll explain why he made lyndon johnson who he was and finally passed away under the term of richard nixon's first term as president of the united states. back to richard russell and lyndon johnson. johnson became president of the senate and later president of the united states. in his own works, lyndon johnson credits richard russell as the strength of his career as a senator. so great was senator russell's control of the united states senate that in a quote by powell moore, his press seact few year, he said, "when president kennedy gave advice to newly elected senators, he said the following: 'if you want to become an effective senator, you should start by going to see