the truth of the health of franklin delano roosevelt. the conclusions are based on the weight of the evidence, much of it presented and analyzed in this book is medical biography for the first time. if my assertions are not documentable beyond a reasonable doubt i said for example the scenario i laid out just another of franklin delano roosevelt's prostate, much of what you are about to hear is not speculation but fact. fdr unmasked discusses the swarms ofillnesses that he was to confront . crippling polio, frequent actuarial infections and a nearly fatal hemorrhage aboard his yacht in 1934. life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding in the months leading up to pearl harbor. swamp fever, a disease he made up to deflect from another medical crisis. excruciating abdominal pain, to cancers, countless surgeries or camouflage and treatment above his left eye and in his last year severe cardiovascular disease and frequent epileptic seizures just to mention a few. two revelations in fdr unmasked including information from the archive of a previ

franklin delano roosevelt do solemnly sfaithfully the officef president of the united states.st of my ability. preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. so help me god. the president delivers a brief inaugural address. we americans of today, together with our allies, are passing through a period of supreme test. it is a test of our courage, resolve of our wisdom, of our essential democracy. if we meet that test successfully and honorably from a of historic importance, of historic importance, which men and women and children will honor t time. as i stand here. having taken the solemn oath of fice of my fellow in in the presence of our godod. i know that it is america's purpose that we shall not fail in days and the years to come. we shall work for justice and reduce a durable peace. today, we welcome fight for total victory in war. ■

nearly a century ago at franklin delano roosevelt signed the ruralng electricity to every home and farme it was insidious but it is not in a lot of rural areas. because electricity becamen essential part of modern life. so he wanted to make sure everyone had access to it he was determined that no american should be left behind noattewhey are in a big city or rural area. [cheering] i tell you what, i made the same determination about our affordable high-speed internet. it really is critical. just as essential today's electricity was a century■9 a. e pandemic when schools were shuts mentioned it, kids were not able to attend school so they had to go online. how many spent time in mcdonald mcdonald's parking lot tapping d do the homework with your kid? look, think of all of the workers and it internet to do thrhey are working from home. so many are working from home. small businesses needed to reach and literally around the world. our senior senate to connect to their doctors through telemedicine because they cannot make it to doctors in high-speed internet is not a luxury anymore it's an

however, when we get to the larger-than-life presidency of franklin delano roosevelt, oscar 's is art, working for the new york tis, imagining that the white house is overtaking washington. it is the personality, the strength of the president, he redraws the map. we get to truman. he gives us the white house that we know and love today. and herbert ock, the cartoonist, reminds us that he cant fulfill the promise of the presidency because no one ll run against him. hnson, larger-than-life, everything is coming up roses, he gets the pass legislation and settle issues. it is almost like a honeymoon between him and herbert block. we have a great herbert black editorial cartoon collection of more than 14,000 drawings at the library. in part, he got tired of johnson asking for every cartoon that depicted him and just said, they are not available. and we have pretty much every cartoon drawn after the johnson administration. south facade, the tapes, the existence of the tapes are discovered in 1973. and edward suarez, the art editor of the new york times, depicts it smashing into the white ho

so january industrial curve from the franklin delano roosevelt's administration, everybody's lining up for a patronage this is a wolf that so closely resembles joseph mccarthy. you could call it a caricature of him and it's the white house it's the eisenhower white deflecting mccarthy then another year to go and at her block was no no fan of the way eisenhower treated mccarthy there are plenty of cartoons calling him out for not being strong enough. but here the white house is deflecting him. the bay of pigs this is a conservative cartoonist gib crockett and we now think of the bay of pigs as a successful party on the part of john kennedy against the russians. but crockett wasn't so sure. he thought the chickens had come home to roost. and then i g to return to the cartoon in that i introduced the session with and it's block and it's the north facade because he's challenging the corruption in the presidency and the power of t presidency during the nixon administration, when he drew this cartoon. and it's not about the person reality of the president, he had already done that in the day

however, when we get to the larger than li presidency of franklin delano roosevelt about os caesar of working for the new york times imagineite house that's overtake washington as the personnel of the president and strength as a president redraws the map. we get to truman who gave us the white house. we more know and love today and he's remodeled it. her block the washington post cartoonist us that he's remodeled it but he can't quite fulfill his promise as president because nobody will run with in his first campaign. lyndon baines johnsonarger than life. everything's coming up. roses is as it gets to pass legislation and settle issues it's it's almost like a honeymoon between him and herb block and we have a great her block editor a cartoon collection of more than 14,000 drawings at the library, in part because mr. got tired of johnson asking for every cartoon that depicted him and just said they're not available. and we have pretty much every cartoon he drew after the day after. the johnson administration cell facade. e pes are discovered at 19. the existence of the tapes are discov

the truth of franklin delano roosevelt the conclusions i have drawn are based on the weight of the evidencemuch presented and analyzed in this book. this medical biography for the first time. some of my assertions are not entirely documentable the scenario of another of his illnesses is his prostate cancer. much of what you are about to hear is not speculation but fact. fdr unmasked swarms of illnesses that he is confronted with crippling polio frequent viral and bacterial infections and nearly fatal hemorrhage of what has the front yacht in 1934. life-threatening intestinal to humorous and deflect from another of his medical crises. countless surgeries to camouflage and treat the lesion above his left eye and in his last years cardiovascular disease and frequent epileptic seizures. new revelations includes information you befriended fdr and began treating him while he was governor of new york. discuss in detail the relationship between fdr and his relative by b mary marriage. the closest mail friendship of his m life. medical coverups that begin to decades after reading the subtitle of thi

guarded and most historically important medical mystery of all, the truth of the health of franklin delano roosevelte conclusions i've drawn are based on the weight of the evidence and much of it presented in this book, in medical biography for the first time. if some of my assertions are not documentable beyond a reasonable doubt i say so. the scenario i layout for another of his illnesses, prostate cancer. much of what you're about to hear is not speculation, but fact. fdr unmasked discusses the swarms of illnesses that he was confronted with, crippling polio, frequent viral and bacteriaal infection, a nearly fatal hemorrhage aboard his friend vincent astor's yacht. and gastrointestinal bleeding leading up to pearl harbor. and other medical crisis, attacks of excruciating abdominal pain. two incurable cancers, countless surgeries to camouflage the pigmented lesion above his left eye and last years, cardiovascular disease and frequent epileptic seizures, just to mention a few. new revelations in fdr unmasked include information from the archive of a previously obscure cancer surgeon who befriended

and diligence, interest for he's political contemporaries, like winston churchill or uh, franklin delano roosevelt. do you think that the interest was reciprocated dressing? they, they saw a nickel in him as he saw in them. oh boy, absolutely. i mean, one of my, of the special it is actually because you are, you must know was the stone is, will lead to stalling during the 2nd world war. i'm particularly the relationship between solving a churchill and originally. yeah. and this does know to look like respect to the rules of the contractual hats. don't include respect for stallings no much you know, no, the 2 books and the profundity of a obviously thinking what i found fascinating is that style in started the american constitution. and i think what's almost unknown both in russian in the west was that he was a keeper sided over and was very much engaged in the works of the of the soviet constitutional commission that was tasked with drafting the soviet constitutional 1936. that's at least in writing, attempting to give a, uh, or a to encourage more active grass roots political participation. and t

and diligence interest for he's political contemporaries, like winston churchill or uh, franklin delano roosevelt juicing that. the interest was reciprocated, dressing they, they saw a nickel in him as he saw in them. oh boy, absolutely. i mean, one of my other specialities is that you as you are you must know was the stone is will lead to stalling during the 2nd world war. i'm particularly the relationship between styling churchill and ritual. yeah, and this does note the um, the great respect that the rules of the country that you have just on, including respect for stallings no much, no, no they do. but let's see. and the profundity of the, of the secret thinking, what i found fascinating is that style in started the american constitution. and i think it was almost a known both in russian. and the west was that he was a, he presided over and was very much engaged in the works of the, of the soviet constitutional commission that was tasked with drafting b. so be as constitutional, 1936 that's at least in writing attempted to give uh or a to encourage more active grass roots. political participa

an honor to be here with you, john, and to be here at the roosevelt house talking about franklin delano roosevelt's. i think anyone who's sort of smart in a karmic sense might be tempted to call it the sarah roosevelt house. you know, this was sarah delano roosevelt was franklin roosevelt's mother, and this was very much her house. she died, of course, in 1941, but she was such a formidable and indomitable presence that i don't think the grave would stop her from letting us know if there was anything we say tonight that she doesn't like. so it's wonderful to be here with all of you. that's right. i didn't set out to write a book about fdr and polio. i wanted to look at fdr because i wanted to sort of get at a question that seems pretty urgent right now, which is when the world is scary. how does a president form a bond with the with the american people and inspire hope? and i thought i would look at the presidency and i didn't really think i was going to spend much time looking at polio at all. i thought, you know, i sort of knew the polio story and that everyone else did, too. but as i got into it

franklin delano roosevelt do solemnly swear that i will faithfully the office of president of the united states. and will to the best of my ability. preserveefend the constitution of the united states. so help me god. the president delivers a brief inaugural we americans of today, together with our allies, are pasng th supreme test. it is a test of our courage wisdom, of our essential democracy. if we meet that test successfully and honorably from a of historic importance, of historic importance, which men and women and children will honor throughout all time. as i stand here. having taken the solemn oath of office in the presence of my fellow in in the presence of our god god. i know that it is america's purpose that we shall not fail in days and the years to come. we shall work for justice and reduce a durable peace. today, we welcome f total victory in war.

and the book starts 1937 and the established meant of people who hated franklin delano roosevelt's new deal as a political entity that would work to over to overturn that. and they they looked at the fact that the new created a new kind of government that regulated business and protected a basic social safety net and promoted infrastructure and protected civil rights. and they came out with they called a conservative manifest so in 1937 and it said that the the government had no role to play business because a man should be all men should be able to do with his business whatever wanted and accumulate as much wealth as could. and the government had no business in social social welfare because that belonged the churches and the government had no business developing infrastructure because would take tax dollars. and that too should be done by private enterprise. and it certainly had no role to play protecting rights in the states for they called in that document for something called home rule, which was the idea that states, especially southern states, could develop whatever kinds of civi

these three inaugurate the american tradition, frederick martin luther king, ronald reagan, franklin delano rooseveltgovernance, right, out of reflection and choice, not accident and and so american conservativism is always going to be distinctly with aneedom because national dna. you cannot have an american conservative movement that rejects america's founding principles and documents, that's not the thing. you can have other forms of conservativism that do that and many of them are on display in the world, but we have to understand that american conservativism begins with our charters of liberty. right now though, i think whatm george says is a way to respond to your question. america is having to relearn essayist, tom wolf wrote a piece in the 1980's called the great relearning. >> i think that was about relearning how to brush your teeth >> it was about relearnin of the facts of life after having lived through the derangement of the 60's and the 70's. i think we're just at the beginning of our great relearning, unfortunately, and when i look at the world today, i see that not a willingness to fac

the way did during herbert hoover's administration, which made it relatively easier for franklin delano rooseveltjoining us is simon rosenberg, author of whole pm chronicles on substack. simon, thank you for us joining us tonight. you and i have been waving people off polls for the past year of highly hypothetical polls. entirely of registered voters, by the way, pretty much no likely voter polls last year, which are higher quality poll. now that we're in the campaign year, there are polls i'm willing to look at in certain situations. the, globally new hampshire in january, when voters are actively thinking about this seems to me we're looking at. >> absolutely. these are informed voters. there are ads running. they have to make decisions on what they're going to do, unlike many voters in the country who have lots of time before they have to make up their mind and i really checked out. but in new hampshire there checked in. that poll is very encouraging. i have seen it. the big poll that i think didn't get enough attention with the new york times poll, which freaked everybody out back in october.

franklin delano roosevelt, richard nixon, and donald trump in this, so to me, the most important thingmargin is because if that margin is bigger than 20 points, it's very hard for anybody to catch up at that point going forward. >> what does ron desantis have to look forward to after iowa? i mean, he has put a lot of work and a lot of resources into iowa. he's been to the 99 counties. what is his way forward, matthew? >> a vacation in florida, but it's probably what it looks like to me. i mean, ron desantis has spent about $200 million and has only drifted down in the polls since the time he got in until the time today, and that is especially true. he has put all his chips on the table and tried. right now he initially wanted to fight for first place. now he's fighting for second place. and i agree if he finishes in third place, i don't care what he told hallie jackson, the race is over for him, all but over. so to me right now, if he doesn't do what he's supposed to do in iowa and at least finish second in the course of this, he's looking for warm time in the sun in florida. >> and yo

however, whwe get to the larger than life presidency of franklin delano roosevelt, the new york timesimagines a white house that's overtaking washington as the personality of the president and his strength as a president redraws the map. we get totruman who gave us the white house we know and love today and he's remodeled it. herb block. the washington post cartoonist reminds us that he's remodeled it, but he can't quite fulfill his promise as president because nobody will run with him in his first campaign, lyndon baines johnson. larger tn life. everything's coming up rosesas he gets to pass legislation and settle issues. it isalmost like a honeymoon between him and herb block. mr. block got tired of johnson asking forevery cartoon that depicted him d just said they're not available. and wepretty much every cartoon he drew r the, after the johnson administration self facade, the tapes are diovered in 1973. tis depicts it, smashing k the white house. a little premature. it takes another year. jimmy carter,american author, you know, he kind of, we still think of him as a peanut farmer and not