martin van buren and franklin delano roosevelt, all went onto become president. i think certainly franklin delano roosevelt had an incredible impact on new york state. he came back into public service after being a state senator. and then contracting polio when he was 39 years old. but was encouraged by wife and friends to run for governor. that of course led to the presidency during an incredible time in america's history, world war ii and the great depression. grover cleveland went quickly from being mayor of buffalo to governor in 1884 and then on to the presidency, where he was the only president to serve two terms with interruption in the middle. martin van buren of course governor in 1828 and was from this area, actually. and his home is not far from here in kinderhook. there's one governor who was impeached, and his name was william salzar. he was governor in 1913. and it seems like, you know, in retrospect as we read about it today, it seems like it might have been, you know, he might have been set up, shall we say. but he was notorious for -- and there wa

i think that certainly franklin delano roosevelt had an incredible impact. he came back into public service after being a state senator and then contracting polio when he was 39 years old. encouraged by his wife and friends to run for governor. and that, of course, led to the presidency during the incredible time in america's history world war ii and the great depression. grover cleveland went from being mayor of buffalo to governor and then on to the presidency. he was the only president to serve two terms with an interruption in the middle. martin van buren was governor in 1828. and was from this area, and his home is not far from here. there is one governor who was impeached, his name was william salzer. he was governor in 1913. and it seems like it -- in retrospect, it seems like it might have been, you know, he might have been set up, shall we say. but he was notorious, there was a trial, and after the impeachment, his supporters went over to the executive mansion and trampled their muddy boots on the furniture. he didn't leave the governorship with a g

. ♪ >>> on july 19, 1944, president franklin delano roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourtherm. >> this convention for the office of the president of these united states. franklin delano roosevelt. >> after nearly three years at war, the president was still america's favorite candidate. he was succeeding politically and in his role as commander in chief of america's armed forces. a mighty american military was pushing hard on two fronts -- europe and the pacific. in europe, the president's joint chiefs of staff agreed on a strategy to defeat adolf hitler's nazi regime. but this was not the case in the pacific. there was still a sharp split in strategy between fdr's two principle commanders, general douglas macarthur and chester minitz. >> they couldn't stand each other. macarthur was set to go back to the philippines and he dearly wanted the philippines back. >> jim is a former marine sergeant, an historian who has been to peleliu nine times. >> nimitz didn't to want go to pill pe philippines. he wanted to go to the coast of china. >> 2 1/2 years into the war, there was stil

became president with the right wing stations for what they are talking about but then also franklin delano roosevelt and then take control of the republican party. and they will not vote for anl person like donald trump.y >> so in the last minute?. >> guest: us a tape this is why the color changed because people put in power to activities is to engage citizens to bring more people to channel that t energy into the most vital issue for voting rights and affirmative action in trying to ensure we're moving this country inin the right t direction look back at the history of the change for black americans so that color of change with over 1.2 million members and part of continuing to grow moving us in a strategic direction for wordr of..co >> host: you can find him a color of change thank you for your time. . >> debbie but he has an idea they are out of control then the question that i get is what do we do about it? if we were looking at the constitution and properly we would know what to do

now we are with franklin delano roosevelt, the 32nd president. roosevelt said i owe my life to stamp collecting. what we have on loan from the franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum is some of his stamps and one of his magnifying glasses he would use to explore stamps. as a child, he would collect stamps. they taught him about geography and the world. polio,dult when he had they would take his mind away from that and that allowed him to recover quicker. president, his son has commented how he had never seen him more relaxed than when he had time off to look at his stamps. that is what he loved to do. here we are with harry s. truman. harry truman would spend some of his winters in key west at the little white house. while at the little white house, he started wearing these button up shirts, like a hawaiian shirt. they became very fashionable very quickly. they were more comfortable in the heat. it affected men's fashion and a lot of men around the country started wearing these shirts. for the men's clothing companies across the country

long used communication to get their message out in an unfiltered way, that goes back to franklin delano roosevelt and his amos fireside chats the other radio. he spoke directly to the american people because he did not think the newspapers were reporting. correctly use television in his 1960 campaign and his too brief presidency. he was good at bantering with reporters in the life white house briefings. use -- i talked about how he walked by a televisn with one of his aides when you the campaign. he said he would not have if not for that gadget, tv. caller: how are you doing today? host: good, hope you are safe in texas. caller: [indiscernible] houston is not doing so well. wanted to see if they could assist in any way. i know some have opened up a their doors. the hurricane will ba problem. not many have had the support they need. hopefully they can provide federal funding or possibly help out the right side in southern texas. host:'on that note, the president -- on that note, the president and congress? he has veto power, if he does not approve of what congress does, they give some leverage in

you know before jfk probably the , most beloved president the united states had was franklin delano roosevelt, who was always in a wheelchair. and he never wanted to be photographed in the wheelchair. whereas jfk, who had back problems, didn't mind being photographed, no matter whether he was able to run down the street or couldn't even move. like this picture of him being foisted into the airplane because he can't climb steps very well, even though he could walk down them. so, jfk was never afraid to be photographed. he wanted to be known as being human. that he was no different than anybody else, and that was something quite extraordinary about the kennedys. so, now we are getting into jfk's 100 days in his political years. one of the things that came out was the bay of pigs, which was the invasion of cuba supported by the united states and the cia. which led to the cuban missile crisis in which castro led -- castro allowed missiles that could almost hit any target in the united states, nuclear missiles to be housed and made operational in cuba. of course this is a picture of castro and khr

franklin delano roosevelt, president during the initial years of world war ii signed executive i order 8802 that band discrimination in the workplace and called for fair employment practices and fair housing opportunities. there were also movements against and resistance to civil rights progress. remember, we have mexicans becoming a larger portion of american urban populations. we have african-americans migrating internally to big cities across the country and by the time we get to the end of the war and evenhe during the w as it goes on year by year we have black and brown veterans returning to their old lives expecting equality. and there are responses to this, and racism and discrimination and lack of opportunity and the entrenchment, not just of jim crow segregation against african-americans in the deep south and jim crow and what we might call juan or jaime crow segregation against mexican-americans in southern ie california, andns elsewhere arod theif country is commonplace. inco 1946 at the end of the war just to leap ahead for a momen, it shouldn't be surprising that asng vete

my question is, if you could ask franklin delano roosevelt. >> i ask all the off there's of the same question. it's interesting the responses. so if you could ask him one question, what would you ask him what to think his answer would be. >> i would not answer question if i had a good guess of what his answer would be unless i need a quote for a newspaper story. how to think, i think mike question would be about stolen. did he really think he had a chance of reaching some kind of postwar accommodation was stol stolen? or did he think it was worth the effort because the consequences of not rich in it were so scary that i might've asked about there's a lot of talk about whether it be a good idea to tell the russians about the bomb. and why he never did it. i have no idea what his answer would've been. >> one of the most interesting points in the book was have the war ended prior to the 1944 election, the people thought roosevelt might actually lose. could you talk more about that i would you care to comment about governor dewey is a candidate? >> well, as well as in a situation not unl

franklin delano roosevelt appointed the first woman to a federal appellate court in 1934. stepped down the year i graduated from law school in 1959, and then there were none. then johnson appointed shirley hostetler. she became the first ever secretary of education. and then there were none again. i didn't think about being a judge until jimmy carter became president of the united states. he looked around at the federal bench and he said, "you know, they all look like me, but that's not how the great united states looks." he was determined to appoint members of minority groups and women in numbers, not as one at a time curiosity's. he appointed over 25 women to the federal district court, the trial bench, and 11 to courts of appeals. i was one of those lucky 11. no president, by the way, ever went back to the way it was. president reagan did not want to be outdone, so he made a nationwide search for the first woman. charlie: sandra day o'connor. justice ginsburg: it was his choice. charlie: in fact, you said that when she left the court, retired, and alito came on, it mark

my favorite part is when he counseled the president the time franklin delano roosevelt, he counseled him to use fewer adjectives and adverbs which pay me think, position heal thyself, right. >> and remember fdr's response was to counsel churchill on what to do about india to which churchill muttered, at least we didn't kill all our indians. >> it was a tough relationship between those two. but it was not just lovey-dovey which is why sometimes is presented nowadays. >> churchill they even called him halfbreed american, orwell didn't know the united states for a well but the president and the growing power of the united states was significant in both in some ways mr. >> i think orwell did but i don't think churchill did, when he was invited to speak in front of the congress in december of 1941 after pearl harbor he basically said thank you for inviting me here, but i'd like to think had my father been american, you got here by myself churchill was fascinated by america spent a lot of time with america and was nearly killed crossing fifth avenue the 1930s because the british look the r

. >> it started even earlier, actually, with franklin delano roosevelt.e working class that put him in the oval office four times. the author thomas frank. >> this is who they were as a party. >> note frank's use of the word "were." all of that changed, he says, with a democrat that actually had a unique appeal to the white working class. >> in the name of the hard-working americans who make up our forgotten middle class, i proudly accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> bill clinton was only part of the transition of the working class people to a party that was very concerned about the innovation. >> the party had to stay awake during the presidency. they made it into that tent, and into the big democratic tent went the elites of america, its lawyers and doctors and stockbrokers. but let's remember, clinton essentially tied his republican opponents in the white working class demographic in both 1992 and 1996. so why did the white working class vote for bill and not for hillary? >> what they've become over the last couple of decades

this goes back to franklin delano roosevelt and his famous fireside chats via the radio.si he would speak directly to theha american people because he pelt that the newspapers weren't reporting -- he felt the newspapers weren't reportingt accurately.at john f. kennedy used it's very effect -- used television very effectively in his too brief, tragically, presidency where he was very good at going back and forth, bantering with reporters in live white house press r briefings. int fact, kennedy's use of tv ws so effective in the 1960 campaign that in one of my books i tell the story about how kennedy walked by a television with oneou of his aides after hd won that 1960 election, and he said, you know, we wouldn't have had a prayer without thate gadget, referring to the tv. i love the fact that in 1960 he was still calling a tv a gadget. >> host: good morning, you're on with tevi troy. >> caller: hey, tevi, how youth doing today? >> guest: good. hope you're safe down there in texas. >> caller: yeah, i'm pretty high up in san antonio. houston on the other side to the right, though, is not doi

. >> it started even earlier, actually, with franklin delano roosevelt.king class that put him in the oval office four times. the author and scholar thomas frank. >> this is who they were as a party. >> note frank's use of the word "were." all that changed, he says, with a democrat who actually had a unique appeal to the white working class. >> in the name of the hard-working americans who make up our forgotten middle class, i proudly accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> bill clinton is the sort of emblematic figure in the transition of the democratic party from the party that cares about working-class middle-class people to a party that is very much concerned with the innovation, economy, and wall street and all that. >> frank's right. the democratic party did change during bill clinton's presidency. bill clinton made the party a bigger tent. and into that big democratic tent went the elites of america. its lawyers and doctors and stockbrokers. but let's remember, clinton essentially tied his republican opponents in the white wor

this goes back to franklin delano roosevelt and his fireside chats via the radio. he would speak directly to the american people because he felt the newspapers weren't reporting what he was saying accurately. john f. kennedy used television very effectively not only in his 1960 campaign but also in his presidency where he was very good at going back and forth bantering with reporters in life white house press briefings. entities use of tv was so effective in the 1960 campaign that in one of my books i tell the story about how kennedy walked by a television with one of his aides after he won the election and said, we wouldn't have had a prayer without that gadget. i love that in 1960 he was still colored tv that gadget. -- calling tv that gadget. host: good morning. houston is not doing so well. few phone calls to see if they could possibly assist in any way. i know joel osteen has finally come around and opened up his doors. the hurricane is kind of a big problem. not meant to counties have had the support they need. agent is going to be here later today. hopefully

if you weren't sensitive enough to the holocaust, we should take down all the statues of franklin delano rooseveltnt for that. >> martha: can you make argument for george washington or thomas jefferson. >> they were slave owners. >> martha: absolutely. that's my pointed. >> i think the point is we ought to be a country focusing on the future not a country frothing at the mouth about the past. it tells you something about the intellectual collapse of the left. all they have is this kind of rabid behavior. of course mayors in towns that are largely black are going to pander to their audience go. out and prove they are popular by doing something that meets the current demagogy needs. that's all the worried about. having demagoguery define your country is dangerous. listen to the mob you have on the scene there that's not democracy. that's not a free society. that's a group of people behaving like a mob. >> martha: we will see. we are watching it tonight. newt gingrich as always. good to talk to you. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> martha: still ahead tonight. so when exactly did the obama admin

the ku klux klan remember senator byrd, one of the klan members served in the senate and franklin delano roosevelthen he dedicated the statue of general robert e. lee, just applauded him as a great gentleman, a great leader of men, and then went on to say he's one of the great christian americans in our history now should we start taking down franklin delano roosevelt's statue it's sad -- go ahead >> i think the question for a lot of ceos is, this past week, was what their responsibility, and moral duty was in regards to the comments that the president made and i'm not going to dispute what you said tosuggest clearl the president condemned those words, but then, he both doubled down on what some people thought was an equivalency between not -- people promoting nazis, and white supremacists and those that were promoting the sort of anti-fascism and that those are not the same things and that that's why so many people have come forward on this issue. and that he's been slow, not just this week, but has a history and i pattern of being slow to defend that position >> well, i think that's pretty ridic

in 1939 when cardozo retired or actually, he had passed away, right after his retirement, franklin delano roosevelt appointed his adviser felix frankfurter. for two weeks, frankfurter served on the court before he retired. >> briefly, frankfurther and fdr had met at a lunch in new york's harvard club in 1986 and they were both recent high school graduates from very different backgrounds, both very ambitious politically and their connection and friendship continued on again, off again for 33 years until fdr's appointment of frankfurter. >> okay. so we've got -- so far by my count we've had three and we've had one anti-jewish justice. we have mcreynolds out of the way. >> yes. he retires in the 1940s. >> all right. i promise you, we're coming back to all of these people except mcreynolds. >> of course. of course. >> but who's next? >> next is -- >> so frankfurter passes away. >> frankfurter passes away in 19 -- actually, he retires in 1962 and passes away in 1965. he, interesting to note, all of the jewish justices were liberal justices by any definition. frankfurter had been a flaming liberal harvar

your viewers noticed that what chief justice roberts said sounds exactly the same as what franklin delano roosevelt said. many of them simply imported the roosevelt new deal jurisprudence and made that parts of their politics. so in fact it was the progressive restraint criticism of lochner that gets imported into the modern conservatism and it's the liberals on the court, the left on the court as early as the 1940s start abandoning all these calls for restraint. and they start assuming what they call an activist role. so we've done a flip here and now it's conservatives who are unreconstructed jurisprudence new deal. both left and right in this respect are all operating in a post-new deal mode. >> we have several major citations of the lochner case and in 1908, muller v. oregon, adkinsv. children's hospital of d.c. and griswold v. connecticut and roe v. wade and in 1992 in one of the planned parenthood cases and there were liberals citing the dissent and here's an example of the shifting politics. >> everything flipped as the court flipped. i actually think the liberals, being in favor of judicial

democratic party, the party of the working man and the attitude that is unuseful admiration of franklin delano roosevelt. he voted for roosevelt four times picky was an ardent new dealer. he memorized roosevelts fireside chats according to his coworkers in fact, he even more dates by talking a new deal politics when you want to be talking something else. but he continued to be a democrat even after roosevelt died. he supported the democratic nominee can stretch it makes 1950 and he continued to support new deal democratic ideals in private conversation well into the 1950s owing so far according to barry goldwater recollection of calling him a fascist s.o.b. when he first met goldwater who were friends of the second wife's parents, loyal davis, in phoenix in the early 1950s. he'he moved over to the right ae became aware that the democratic party was leaving its ideals as he understood them behind. he understood those ideals as using government to help the average person. but you instead begin to see the democratic party was interested in power for its own sake, centralizing vision that made government an

cardozo retired -- well, actually, he had passed away -- right after his retirement, fdr, franklin delano roosevelt, appointed his old friend and adviser, felix frankfurter, and he served two weeks with brandeis before brandeis officially retired. frankfurter -- just briefly, frankfurter and fdr had met at a lunch at new york's harvard club in 1906. they were both recent law school graduates from very different backgrounds, both very ambitious politically, and their connection and friendship continued on again, off again for 33 years until fdr's appointment of frankfurter. >> okay. >> okay. >> so, we've got three -- so far by my count, we've come up with three and one anti-jewish justice. >> right, right. >> so, we got mcreynolds out of the way. >> and he retires in the 1940s with -- >> all right. i promise you, we're coming back to all of these people, except mcreynolds. >> of course, of course. >> but who's next? >> okay, next is. >> so, frankfurter passes away. >> frankfurter passes away in 19 -- actually, he retires in 1962, passes away in 1965. he, interesting to note, all of the jewish justic

your viewers noticed that what chief justice roberts said sounds exactly the same as what franklin delano roosevelt said. they are articulating the same position. many conservatives -- fewer and fewer of them -- simply imported the roosevelt new deal and they made that part of their conservative politics. it was the progressive restrabt criticism of lochner that gets imported into modern political conservative arguments. and it's the liberals on the court, the left on the court as early as the 1940s start abandoning all these calls for restraint. and they start assuming what they call an activist role. they would protect liberties in ways that previous to that progressives criticized. so we've done a flip here and now it's conservatives who are unreconstructed jurisprudence new deal. both left and right in this respect are all operating in a post-new deal mode. >> here is an example of this. we have several citations of the lochner case and follow on cases of court. in 1908 muller v. oregon. 1923 adkins v. children's hospital of dc. 1965, a very important case, griswold versus connecticut. and then