what was franklin delano roosevelt's answer to the needs of older americans? too many young people were untrained, uneducated, and unemployable. how could they get a place at the economic starting line? welfare reform. after 60 years of guaranteeing benefits to welfare recipients, the federal government wants them to go to work. has the new policy succeeded? we are the richest, most prosperous nation on earth.

he doesn't have to wait until the administration of franklin delano roosevelt. it is interesting to note that pull. very much understood republican politics of going out and talking to people because he had to. he started as a city councilman and worked his way up and there's not a change of corruption associated with him, none of the sort of thing we expect of people who are machine politicians in our day. don't know if that helps. the gentleman in the back. >> my question relates to his economic and budget cutting policies. coolidge was well known for using the veto to get rid of pork barrel spending. many could look at it as an example of where republican politicians should go today. many have said theircumstances are entirely different now than they were in the 1920s. would it be possible to have a president who is a ruthless budget cutters like coolidge was today? >> here is where i part company with my friend who wrote a good book on coolidge as well. i believe that coolidge's budget cutting policies and fiscal policies were the fruits of more serious thin

>> michael: few presidents have had a more profound and lasting impact on the word that franklin delano roosevelt. his new deal is credited for getting america out of the great depression and laying the foundation for social welfare. but if argue that fdr should have done far more to protect jews fleeing nazi germany. joining us now is the man who quite literally wrote the book on this, presidential historian allan lichtman. he joining us from washington, d.c. where he is a professor of american university. welcome. was he in any way anti-semitic. >> he was not anti-semitic. now most people of his class certainly had some degree of anti-semitism. but fdr's father did business with jews counseled him against bigotry. his mom was involved in charity work. in her 80s she traveled to give a talk to hadasa. she won a medal for her work. he was certainly not anti-semitic although from time to time he could talk loosely given the anti-semitism that was so rooif during the 1930s and 40s. >> michael: yours isn't the first book on the subject. many have taken a more accuser to tone. why is your book more f

going back to the great depression and the new deal, this is president franklin delano roosevelt speaking3. >> and three months since i've talked with the people of this country about our national problems, many things have happened. the major part of the well-being of the average citizen. in the short space of these few months, i am convinced at least 4 million have been given employment. saying it another way, 40% of those seeking work have found. that does not mean, my friends, that i am satisfied or that you are satisfied that our work is ended. we have a long way to go, but we are on the way. we come to the relief for a moment of those who are in danger of losing their farms or their homes. i have publicly asked for closure on farmers, cattle, hogs be delayed until every mortgagor and the country impunity to take advantage of federal credit. and i may be for the request that if there's any family in the united states about to lose its home or farm, that family should telegraph at once the the farm credit in ministration or the home loan corp. in washington, requesting their help. >>

every president since the one in the 1930s -- his name was roosevelt, franklin delano roosevelt -- every president since then has been a president when the economic system goes down. sometimes it only goes down for a few months. sometimes, like this one, for years. every president has done the following. he has said, if you do my policies, what i propose, not only will it get us out of this crisis, but it will make sure that no future crisis creates problems for our children. every president promised it. no president has yet delivered on that promise. that is why we have a crisis now, because the system does not know how, has not been able to solve this crisis -- these kinds of crises, and they sure as heck hasn't -- have not been able to prevent them. that is a reason to criticize the system that is working in this manner. what did the government do this time? what can we say about it? the first thing to say about it is, it hasn't worked. when this crisis first began to bubble up into thousand seven, the president at this time, george bush, promised us and repeated statements -- nothing

franklin delano roosevelt was widely remembered for the new deal but he is also known for controversialromises that have shaped his legacy good and bad. his defenders praise him for crushing nazi germany but others accused him of turning his back on the jews of hitler's europe. could both sides be right? or are both sides wrong? joining us now, the u.s. presidential historian and professor at american university. he is co-author of the new book, fdr and the jews. first, describe for me fdr's complicated history with the jews and why you felt compelled to write this book? >> well, you said it in part. both sides are wrong. fdr was neither a bystander or worse to the persecution and slaughter of jews. nor was he the savior of jews. you've got to understand fdr was a humane but ultimately pragmatic politician. he wouldn't have gotten elected politician four time had he not been. so the real story of fdr and the news which is an epic story is how did this president weave his way through competing priorities at a time of the world's worst depression, the crisis i of the 1930s, and this blood

it's meaningful and telling it to recognize that it was a political action wasn't just that franklin delano roosevelt suggested which would have been constitutionally completely legal by the way to increase the number of the number on the court but that is to say political pressure began because the court during that time was consistently undermining the social movements that were happening in response to the great depression i submit to you tom and to your viewers that we're seeing the same thing app and this court is not only completely out of touch which it is but even deeper still it is actually undermining the political process because you know political decisions ought to be made by the elected representatives the courts should only come in and overturn a decision if there is an inherent unalienable constitutional right of an actual living breathing human being at state this court has looked for opportunities to undermine and deal with the political process they have been supplanting their own decision and other way to say it tom this is the most activist court in our lifetime it's probably the

. >> reporter: president franklin delano roosevelt stayed here so did a little girl who was a big starld war ii the royal hawaiian became a rest and relaxation center for navy personnel and saw a resurgence when it reopened in 1947. today the royal hawaiian remains an icon on the waikiki shoreline giving visitors a modern line experience with old world charm. >> they feel that spirit, that spirit of aloha. >> and joining us now is jean matsuraba, executive chef here at the royal hawaiian. good morning. >> good morning. >> this is early for you, thank you. what are some of the staples of what would be more are traditional or hawaiian inspired food? >> we try to use the local products, fish from pier 38 and bringing in great products and working with the local producers to really put together some more modern fare, take classic cuisine. >> there's a fish option every day. >> absolutely, checking in and getting the best product and making sure that the fish comes in absolutely fresh. >> i love the name of your first dish, black magic ahi. how could you not order that. >> the black magic a