live on the day of infamy is of course the one used by franklin roosevelt franklin delano roosevelt to describe the horrors and atrocities witnessed the attack on pearl harbor sen league compared the reese the recess appointment of four officials two of the most horrifying and deadly days in american history. people utah are represented by a man who compares a personal disagreement to a monumental american tragedy and throws around words like sabotage obstruction and scorched earth and promoting his agenda that is very fair. you know if you are outdoors at night in the forest naked cold and hungry i think it would be reasonable to say that you're unhappy. well know that and if somebody came out and said hey come on inside you know we're going to bring in make you warm give you some clothing sit in front of a comfortable fire have a meal you'd be full and happier so we know that you know if this much stuff you know there's an actual change in the amount of stuff the it have can actually affect your happiness and this has led to a sales pitch basically a cultural belief that well if this

franklin delano roosevelt died in the middle of campaign. the war was ended in europe in the middle of the campaign. and there was something about that didn't make sense. we took this big island and dropped the bomb two months after as if we think that was unnecessary. but people from okinawa were angry we didn't drop it before. why were 300,000 people die when this weapon could have stopped it. it's a strange battle to look at. and when i tried to interview survivors or talk about the literature came out of it. william manchester good-bye darkness, w.b. sledge with the old reed. and two things are important for us in the present period. if you want to learn how americans or the west react to people who get them in planes and fill them full of explosives you would do no better than to go back to okinawa that act of suicide murdering has a profound effect on the west. when people want to kill so badly they are willing to sacrifice their life in the process it brings back a response out of westerners. if you want to know where in the united st

we are so overdue for a return of franklin delano roosevelt's democratic party that it is just it's not even describable we really need to bring back progressives in the democratic party so here we get this whole republican cycle and this whole republican discussion about you know the republicans going to become more moderate and and it's time frankly as the republicans are cycling moderate it's time for the democratic party to become more progressive and i think that the bill clinton presidency is not is not so long for the way that f.d.r. is was because he wasn't that progressive he was a moderate democrat and so for republicans if they want to hold power they need to have moderates democrats if they want to take power if they want to get elected they want to get things done if they want to accomplish things and if they want to have the long term love of the people then do things like creating social security or creating medicare do things or defending them standing up for them or let's build out something you know let's let's go to medicare party and bring everybody into the party or

john quincy adams, franklin delano roosevelt -- i don't want to see any of these guys naked -- calvinoolidge or lyndon b. johnson. franklin had physical problems. >> i'm going with john quincy adams. >> coolidge because he was a whack job. >> go. john quincy adams! >> naked? >> yes. >> i don't believe it. all right. i don't believe this for a minute. i've never seen anybody who's better with people than you besides me. >> they say if your name is difficult to pronounce you are not favored in work, in your personal life, in school. >> who did you sleep with to get this job? >> ha. here's the thing. when people don't know how to pronounce your name, they don't ever say it because they don't want to be wrong. >> he doesn't care. how's by koda? most people go heeyyyy. >> some people are name injectors. >> both ends, so to speak. hoda and then kotb. you know? i mean -- didn't you add an "e"? what did you add? >> an "e." for a few minutes. to help people out. but people kept saying vowels, but it didn't work so i took it back off. >> be you and be proud. >> people with easy to pronounce nam

against james middleton cox and his vice presidential candidate can't die you heard of named franklin delano roosevelt that november, when they took off his skull and coolidge took office he chased under the idol is the lack of responsibility in the vice presidency, his only actual duty by the constitution was to preside over the united states senate and this really doesn't take much effort. so he wrote, i soon found the senate had that one fictional rule subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the senate would do anything you wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it. when i had learned not, i did not waste much time with the other rules because they were so seldom applied. so any votes at prove themselves accomplish, washington saw only is this fat little redheaded man who wore an harding was probably dumped from the ticket in 1924. but the coolidge luck eventually did strike and when it struck, it struck in his face. when worn harding died in august 1923, calvin coolidge was vacationing in plymouth dodge them by flickering kerosene myna blacklock in the morning, he was sworn in

i'm through with it, i don't understand the historians who say his great leadership, if franklin delano roosevelt had conducted world war ii as disastrously as abraham lincoln conducted the civil war in the first two years, america would be a engineer man protectorate today. >> how many years have you been in chicago? >>h, about 47. >> how big is "ebony" magazine? >> the biggest black magazine in the world. about two million subscribers. about 10 million readers overall every month. >> and this book was published by johnson publishing? right. >> john johnson. >> yes. >> did you try to get it published anywhere else? >> no, i did not. >> does johnson publish books all the time? >> no, he publishes books by authors, internal books by authors. primarily we publish several books outside, but primarily books by authors, people who work at johnson publishing company or who have worked at johnson publishing cny. >> has your book been reviewed by "the washington post," "the new york times," or "the wall street journal"? >> it has not to this date been reviewed by "the washington post," "the new york time

and her pulitzer prize winning work on franklin delano roosevelt. joining me in new york, michael beschloss. he is a historian who has written a number of books including "presidential courage." jim fallows. he served as a speech writer for jimmy carter. he wrote a piece on president obama in the "atlantic" magazine called "obama explained." jon meacham, he is the author of "american lion: andrew jackson in the white house." it earned him a pulitzer prize. he's currently writing on george h.w. bush and thomas jefferson. finally, robert caro, he is a two-time pulitzer prize winning author and has dedicated decades to writing about lyndon johnson. his fourth volume "the passage of power," is set to come out this may. i am pleased to have them here to have this discussion about men and power, the power of the office and how those two things come together. i begin with barack obama. what did you go in search of? >> trying to find out to the extent anyone could what makes obama tick. we know if you support obama or oppose him there's something different

in it, president franklin delano roosevelt ordered people holding gold to sell it back to the companyan no longer use the word "confiscation." the company must also be more transparent about the price and markup of their products. goldline believes it's been targeted because of politics, citing its ties to glenn beck. beck has not been accused of wrongdoing, and through a representative declined comment. the attorney for santa monica denies politics played a part. as for catherine

in it, president franklin delano roosevelt ordered people holding gold to sell it back to the companyan no longer use the word "confiscation." the company must also be more transparent about the price and markup of their products. goldline believes it's been targeted because of politics, citing its ties to glenn beck. beck has not beenac

that's the date that the precedent franklin delano roosevelt called for the interment of all japaneseine's day for a man when he bought a winning lottery ticket. he is identified as alfred n bought his ticket in san jose on tuesday. he will buy some things for himself and put it away in a retirement fund and for his daughter's future. >> the shop goes gets winnings for selling the winning ticket. >>> well, we will check in with rosemary one last time. we are talking about the rain lingering out there. it doesn't want to come in. >> unsettled is a good word for it. a few sprinkles. and back with us tomorrow. monday, it looks like the possibility of just a chance for some light showers. >> giving a live look and starting with this morning. once it starts through. and break away to partly cloudy skies. it will be breezy. cool and breezy for the afternoon. picking up a little bit of drizzle over areas as well as santa rosa and cal list toga. and -- calistoga and we are looking at 50s in the afternoon as opposed to 60 and # 0-degree that is we saw for thursday and friday. >> just a little

you can't say mitt romney saying what franklin delano roosevelt saying -- >> no, i think there, it's the person communicates, right? i don't know that people care that romney has that much money. they care about whether he seems to understand them or not. >> yeah. >> norton smith has a great story in there about gerald ford, the first week that he became president, he found that and said when does my paycheck come? because i've got two kids in college and my bank account -- i don't think anyone felt that gerald ford has any understanding of the plight of the common man. >> the second night gerald ford was president, he had tip o'neill in the house to dinner at the white house which he and betty ford and among the things talked about at the dinner table, tip o'neill related the story to me, he said, tip, do you have any idea what the boost in pay in this job is going to do for my pension? >> it's a working guy. >> yeah. yeah. >> you know, though, rick stengel, joe in washington here. i always talk about my parents and how they were very poor from the south from rome, georgia, and how

kind of a distant past. 1933, franklin delano roosevelt come he didn't asked for a pay freeze. he put in place a pay cut. a pay cut for federal workers. at a time in the early '30s when i think folks could argue that was not dissimilar to where we are now. and the bowles-simpson commission has been mentioned, recommended a three-year pay freeze. this isn't something is out of the or near the bowles-simpson's commission has been touted by folks on both sides of the aisle around this table right here within the last week to 10 days. so i think that we need to recognize that others have looked at this issue outside of the cameras and outside the microphones have said, look, it's a reasonable thing to do to have a pay freeze. and remember the pay freeze doesn't include the s.t.e.m. increases. simply includes the cola. the cost of living adjustment. it's what our seniors have done in this country over the last two years. they have had not had a cola increase in social security. so, we all want to pay for these policies. we all want these policies to occur. there's no doubt about it,

behest of president eisenhower after a long drought of civil rights bills under presidents franklin delano roosevelt and president harry truman. it was a senate minority leader every rst -- everett dirksen, who helped right -- write the first civil rights act of 1964, widely regarded as the most influential of them all. in recent years, it's been the republican party that has fought to prevent african-americans from being trapped in a permanent underclass through dependence on government handouts. in the 1990's, they have republican-controlled 104th congress that passed the personal responsibility and work opportunity act then democrat president bill clinton signed it only after reluctantly vetoed it twice. this reform changed the face of welfare, ensuring that recipients who were able to work will be required to seek employment. no longer would government checks be seen as an entitlement. no longer would states have a financial incentive to add as many names to their welfare rolls as possible. finally there was an alternative to the cycle of poverty caused by years of misguided democrat policy. it'