and franklin roosevelt used exactly the same language that his cousin, theodore roosevelt, had dictatedin 1903. now there are at least a couple of events affecting my research that occurred, i would say, serendipitously. early on a new york literary agent found out that i was doing this. i'm not sure how he discovered me, but he contacted me to offer his services and to request that i write a book proposal that he could blog with very under various published housing. this prompted me to organize my thoughts and to write what he essentially became the introductory chapter to my work. ultimately, this agent informed me that he had learned that another writer had signed a contract with a major new york publishing firm to write a history of guantanamo, and he didn't think the commercial market would absorb two works on the subject. the other book, has never materialized. the second serendipitous event was that one of the first places i went to do research was the washington navy yard, and what i do whenever i plan to go to an archive is i get in touch with the head archivist before i'm comi

you know where franklin roosevelt stood in the polls one year before he carried 46 out of 48 states. he was at 50% in the gallup poll. remember, bill clinton who, of course, in many ways, the republicans their history that is repeating is not 1933 but 1993. they think barack obama is bill clinton. of course, bill clinton was rewarded with a republican congress the first in 40 years. what they failed to extend the analogy is because they overreached as a result of that clear and stinging setback, bill clinton won a landslide in 1996. ronald reagan lost significant support in the mid-terms in '82. and i think the history books suggest he didn't have much trouble two years later. things can change. beware of historical analogies. >> brown: all right. fair enough. riehan salam, sipt i can't tucker, richard norton smith, thank you all very much. >> thanks for having us. >> ifill: finally, looking at president obama's first year in office from farther away. the view from kenya, where the president's father was born, and also a nation coping with ethnic conflict and corruption. tristan mcco

polk plus great mentor, andrew jackson, and they're great 20 cents a person would have been franklin roosevelt. >> at the end of the day, is it the litany of human folly, or is it something more? >> it has been called that, a catalog of crimes and follies. that is what some people have said about history. certainly, the more you get into it, the more you see an awful lot of folly, but you also see a lot of heroic actions on the part of people. you see movements that are worthy of reverence. >> and things do get better for lots of people. >> sometimes, sometimes not. >> in western europe, life is better than it was 200 years ago print it is in many places -- to the years ago. it is in many places. we are on sirius xm radio. myself, llewellyn king, my co- host, linda gasparello, and my special guest, robert merry, the author of "a country of vast designs," about president paul. >> talk to us a little bit about james k. polk as a man and where he got his expansion of vision. how was that generated in his life? >> as i mentioned, he was a jacksonian, who was a great patriot and believed in america

is on president and was a difficult life he had. >> host: in that case it was similar it was franklin roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt, a mother and father who were extraordinary and you see this i think you see this clearly and at 11 is was very hard on her children triet she would write these very strong letters to her youngest son, thomas who wasn't doing the things she was pretty much accusing him of the two of because she assumed. >> guest: she assumed he was being bad at harvard and he was working his head off trying to do as well as his brother, john quincy, who was a genius, so there's a lot of fascinating by playback at fourth. >> host: tells the story to the audience we've all heard the letter where he wrote, abigail rights during the independency discussions to remember the ladies of the reply -- >> guest: it was one of the most famous letters. she wanted him to remember the ladies and the government he was putting together. but instead of a sensible answer, john was overworked and day and night struggling to be a country the declared independence so he wrote back this small the reply

going to be president right now was going to face the most difficult contentious times since franklin roosevelt in 1932. there are no easy solutions. wars abroad, the economy at home. the disaffection of the country. the feel the politics is broken and more vicious and vile and tearing apart all the country and the disaffection of the united states. so this is a tough time. but i thought if you look through the history of this period that herb so brilliantly drew, captured, we went through enormously difficult times. from the great depression to world war ii, to the vietnam period, civil rights.meñ nobody was more courageous than herb on civil rights and the drawings of them and you'll see them. they're just terrific. and all this. so we did go through a lot of very, very tough times. we always surmounted them. and i also have to say -- i thought about this a lot, carla, and looking at the book, i even -- even though i did the writing on this thing, i sat at home and i looked at the cartoons, that's great and i find things in them and i hadn't seen before. i admire them very much. my feeling is

he was out of with roosevelt for instance. i know franklin d. roosevelt junior quite well and be a terrible time with that name. you know, he was supposedly supposed to be the actual would say, are you a code of your father? he wasn't. he was trying to be his own person, you know, and it was a very difficult life. >> host: and then not face it is similar that franklin roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt there were extraordinary and i think you see this clearly. and abigail adams was very hard and her children. she would write very strong letters to her husband thomas wasn't doing the things that she was pretty much accusing him of because she assumed he was. >> guest: she assumed he was being god and he was working his head off trying to do as well as the older brother, john quincy, who was a genius. so there was a lot of fascinating a play back and forth. >> host: tell the story to the audience. we've all heard the letter where he wrote -- were abigail writes in the discussion. but the reply -- >> guest: she wanted him to remember the ladies. but in

a new book out about the 32nd president, franklin roosevelt talking about a massive cover up in his timeoffice called "fdr's deadly secret." coauthors eric setman and dr. steven lamazio are here now. welcome to the program. what was his deadly secret, doctor? >> the deadly secret was a melano melanoma, malignant skin tumor, which all probability me tas te sized to his brain and bowels and made him ill in 1944. >> did he and his doctors reveal anything to the public? >> absolutely not. that's why we call it the deadly secret. >> is there physical evidence of the melanoma? if we were to look at the pictures at fdr at different portions in his presidency, might we see this mark on his fa face? >> yes you might and i wrote a paper with the leadi ining dermapathologist that shows that. >> what are we looking at on the screen? >> the last image you saw was august of 1940. this is a later picture probably around 1942 or 1943. surgically adjusted? >> well, we have no evidence of that. but there is no -- there is absolutely no other medical explanation. >> what are we looking at now? when is that

franklin roosevelt said that capital had gone on strike. it had. for uncertainty. people don't know what energy costs will be, what the epa will do about car bohn emissions. health care costs uncertain. interest rates, because they're zero, any change w can be adverse. >> there will always been uncertainty. this kind of economy generates uncertainty. the toast important thing that government can do is stimulate economy. you have republicans sounding like herbert heaoover, saying, don't do anything. >> the most important thing that the government can do is to provide the incentives for the prove sector to create the jobs. a private sector is unwilling to step up and add new employ years because of costs. >> they're worried about health care. let get to that. the house and senate negotiations began this week. the president lost a big ally. not this week in his state of the state. >> california's congressional delegation should vote against this bill is that the a disaster for california or get in there and fight for the same sweetheart deal that senator nelson got fo

president franklin roosevelt and british prime minister winston churchill issued the historic declarationling for democracy, free trade and arms reductions and representatives of 26 countries signed onto the document calling the declaration by united nations. it came weeks after the japanese attacked pearl harbor which resulted in america's involvement of course in at that war. the united states, great britain and the soviet union agreed to use all resources to defeat the three major axis powers, italy, germany and japan. in their agreement the leaders sewed the seeds for the modern united nations right here in new york city when they promised to ensure life, liberty and of course, keeping the peace 67 years ago today. and this just in, millions of americans will not lose their fox television stations, newscorp the parent of this network and time warner reached a deal to keep fox broadcast on the air. no words of the agreement, newscorp demand add fee $1 a subscriber to keep local fox stations on time warner. that's the fox report for january 1st, 2010. i'm gregg jarrett for shepard smith

franklin roosevelt said that capital had gone on strike. when he was frustrated during the depression. it had. more uncertainty. people don't know what energy costs will be, what the epa will do about car bohn emissions. health care costs uncertain. now there's talk of a value added tax. interest rates, because they're zero, any change can be adverse. >> there will always been uncertainty. this kind of economy generates uncertainty. even if nothing else was done. the most important thing that government can do is stimulate economy. you have republicans sounding like herbert hoover, saying, don't do anything. just allow the economy to do what it's going to do on its own. the problem is, it's not going to do anything on its own. >> the most important thing that the government can do is to provide the incentes for the prove sector to create the jobs. what you're seeing is -- a private sector is unwilling to step up and add new employees because of costs. >> and they are worried about health care. let's get to that. the house and senate negotia

reagan had it, franklin roosevelt had it, and it contributed greatly to their success. jimmy carter did not have it. the to bush's did not have -- the two bush's the not have it. obama inherited an economy collapsing from capitalist greed. he did by securing the fortunes of those who caused the disaster, but never explained adequately to the public why this was necessary. franklin roosevelt announced -- denounced what he called the malefactors of privilege. i think that the result was anchor field by those seeking to direct it from the perpetrators to the victims in the inheritors. -- and the inheritors. the next issue is health care, to offer americans the kind of security that is offered as a given to people in economically advanced states. he never explained to the public exactly how it would work and why it was essential. i think it was a terrible mistake and resulted in a bill that was not as good bet -- as good as he would have liked. he did not explain how it would work or how it was essential. what he did was jointly offer, but he never sold it. he had congress

has been a significant shift in public opinion over the last, really over the last year when franklin roosevelt was passing his reforms he galvanized the majority behind him. what obama has done is recoiled the majority. so you have the pollster's list, who do you trust on this issue, republicans or democrats on 13 separate issues, the public opinion is shifting to the republican side on all 13, some of them quite significantly. more people call themselves conservative than have before. more people think global warming isn't real than before. more people are more pro-life than before. gun control, more hostility. so the whole shift to the right in the country has happened over the past year. sort of a recoil. and i suspect and it's just a theory, that it is because people are traditionally suspicious of washington, and they see a lot of power concentrated in washington and they are recoiling so that should be of concern. >> lehrer: that is a big picture, mark, do you see -- >> it is, it is an enormous picture, yeah. david -- >> i can get bigger. >> i was going to say. i was going talk about chr

and busted the trust and that business got big again, and then people got poor again, and ben franklin roosevelt had to come in and save them. i think that a great deal of this, i'm all for spending more time on learning american history. but one of the terrible terrible things is that people in high schools, i know you're asking about elementary schools, our reading howard zinn's a people history of the united states, which is a tissue of lies. about the country. among those lies, the notions of the growth of business makes people poor. no recognition at what henry ford did. i'm not a huge fan of henry ford that i am jewish and henry ford was a world-class anti-semi. over, he changed america vastly for the better. giving people ordinary people, the ability to buy a car a lot of people to go on vacation, and a lot of people take weekends off. i mean, it's incalculable, the gift that was provided there. and virtually every gift that has allowed the middle-class lifestyle, for better and worse, to emerge with the limbless choices that middle-class people have for this country today has come becaus

came in and boasted the trust and business got big again and then people that poor again and franklin roosevelt had to come and save them. i think that a great deal of this, look i'm all for spending more time on learning american history that one of the terrible, terrible things is people in high schools, and i know you're asking a live tree schools are reading hubbard zinn's which is a tissue of lies about the country and among those are the notions that the growth of business makes people poor. no recognition what henry ford did. i'm not a huge fan of henry ford. i'm jewish and very jewish reactive and henry ford was a world-class anti-semite. however, he changed america for the better. giving people ordinary people the ability to buy a car following people to go on vacation and take weekends off. it is incalculable the gift provided there and virtually every gift that is allowed the middle class lifestyle for better and worse to emerge with be limitless choices middle class people have in this country today has come because of the creative ability of businesses. there is no lesson of any ki

the came cayman the trust and business got big again and then people got poor again and then franklin roosevelt had to come in and save them. i think that a great deal of this. look, i am all about spending more time in learning american history. the one of the terrible, terrible things is that people in high school but i know you're asking about elementary schools are written in howard's end people history of the united states, which is a tissue of lies about the country. and among those lies are the notions of the growth of business makes people poor. no recognition of what henry ford did -- i'm not a huge fan of henry ford. i am jewish and he was a world-class anti-semi. however, he'd changed the world vastly for better giving ordinary people the ability to buy a car. and a lot of people go on vacations, a lot of weekends off. it's incalculable the gift that was provided there. and virtually every guest that has allowed the middle-class lifestyle for better or worse to emerge with the limitless choices that middle-class people have is got to be because of the creative ability of businesses e

i knew franklin roosevelt, jr. quite well, and he had a terrible time with that name. supposedly people were saying are you a clone of your father? he wasn't. he was trying to be his own and was a very difficult life he had. >> host: in that case it was franklin, eleanor and roosevelt so you have a mother, father extraordinary and you see this i think you see this clearly -- at adel adams was very hard on her children and would write these very strong letters to her youngest son, thomas, doing things pretty much accusing him of. >> guest: he was assuming he was being bad at harvard and he was working his head off doing as well as his older brother, john quincy, who was a genius so there is a lot of fascinating byplay back and forth. post total story about the audience. we've all heard the letter where he wrote where abigail rights during the independency discussions to remember the ladies reply. >> guest: of course of reading was that she wanted him to remember the ladies in the new government he was putting together. but instead, instead of a sensible answer, john was

grace tully served as the personal secretary of presidents franklin delano roosevelt from june of 1941 to april of 1945. in her capacity as personal secretary to the president, ms. tully represerved an assortment of personal papers and other historical items that have come to form a historically significant collection. while the private owner of the collection would like to donate the materials this the -- to the franklin delano roosevelt library, the national archives has asserted a claim to a portion of the collection. the claim asserted by the national archives impacts whether the private owner may claim a tax deduction for the donation. nrd to -- in order to facilitate the donation of the archives, senate bill 692 waives the government's claims to the records and will allow the collection to be gifted to the roosevelt library. madam speaker, the grace tully archive represents an important part of american history through the passage of senate bill 692, we ill ensure that this collection will be properly preserved and made publicly available through the roosevelt library. i'd like t

and capitalists eager to roll back what she thought was the legitimate and immoral reforms of franklin roosevelt. this is where ayn rand made her fame. i turned to the question of how did she affect the american right. i spend a good deal of time detailing her connection to other pivotal figures. she knew every one. she pretty much got in a fight with everyone. i want to focus not so much on these luminaries but on the rank-and-file, the libertarian movement or the american right. what kind of impact did she have on those people whose names we don't remember today? the metaphor i like to use is ayn rand as the gateway drug to life on the right. there was a fee freshness and intensity, it is singular and unique. some of this comes out in a letter in the book that she received from a young fan who told her, quote, a month ago i noticed how much i was talking about your books to my teachers and classmates. as a result of my enthusiasm i have lost two friends. i am beginning to realize how unimportant these people are. what i want to stress here is this type of encounter, but many readers described

franklin roosevelt, the famous saying after he had a meeting with union leaders in the '30s, he leftthem at the white house door. he said i think you understand that i am with you and i agree with you. now you've got to go out and forced me to do the right thing. we have to force obama. we have to force workers in the white house. we have to force the heads of corporations to do the right thing. we've been sending this message, you and i come up with all been sent this message that we want cheap t-shirts. and if that means slaves and sweatshops in indonesia, we will just look the other way. and we want cheaper toy for our cars. and if that means destroying the amazon rain forest, we will just look the other way. and we want high rates of return on our stocks. so that corporations have gone along with this, and it's also the milton friedman policy, you know? so we need to turn that around and we've got to send the message, what we want is a good world for our selves, our children, grandchildren and realized that for every child in the world. we want homeland homeland security. but we

i saw a huge vacuum in the debate over the very difficult decisions that franklin roosevelt and his staffin the war department and attorney general's office, all of those folks and intelligence and national security had to make when they made these decisions, and the passage that you've read is a careful distinction because there is this all encompassing term now, in turn meant, that has been calcified and history lessons to refer to not only the evacuation and relocation of those 112, 120,000 residents who are either first or second generation japanese, and others including any aliens, nearly half of whom were from european ancestry who were actually in the department justice camps. the whole book was inspired by their rhetoric i heard after september 11th from various ethnic lobbies, not just asian americans but also air of groups and muslim groups, who oppose any form of national security profiling by invoking the war to episode, and i think it is a dangerous a simple civil rights absolutism that prevented folks then and now from having really important discussions about the kinds of d

abraham lincoln did great things, greater than anything done by theodore roosevelt or franklin delano roosevelt. he freed the slaves and saved the union. and because he feeds the union he was able to free the slaves. beyond this however, our extraordinary interest in him and his team for him has to do with what he said and how he said it. and much of this had to do with the union, what it was and why it was worth the saving. he saved it by fighting and winning the war of course. but his initial step in this was the decision to go to war, not a popular decision and certainly not an easy one. his predecessor, the incompetent james buchanan, believed that the state had no right to succeed from the union but there was nothing he could do about it if they did. that, by the time lincoln took office, seven southern states have succeeded and nothing had been done about it. led by south carolina, they claim to be doing only what they and the other side done in 1776. to oppose them might bring on the war and buchanan had no stomach for this. lincoln knew that the time had come when the only way

. -- franklin roosevelt had this. it also contributed greatly to their success.immy carter did not have it. the two bushes did not have it. expectations were lower. obama inherited an economy collapsing from capitalist greed and the failure of public regulation. he did it by securing the fortunes of those who caused the disaster but never explained adequately to the public why this was necessary. there's enormous anger as a result of the federal bailout. franklin roosevelt by contrast denounced what he called the malefactors of privilege. he was not afraid to do so. he did not want to be universally loved, and he was not. i think the result is a flood of populist anger, fuelled by those seeking to directed away from the perpetrators to the victims of the inheritors. on the issue of his presidency in after that is health care, to offer americans a security, offered as a given to people in economically advanced states, but he never explained to the public how it would work and why it was essential. he pointed off to congress. i think it was a terrible mistake that

in my lifetime, no non-jewish leader with the possible exception of franklin roosevelt had the morality that martin luther king had with my jewish community. my personal experience was i was at a convention of rabbis, i'm not a rabbi. martin luther king sent a telegram to the convention "i need you tomorrow." in st. augustine, florida. we didn't even know where that was. we need you tomorrow. because we're challenging segregation in public facilities. 17 people were on a plane first thing in the morning. i was one of them. we met martin luther king and he answered the question that you just asked. what is this all about? and it wasn't just injustice. it was something profound and spiritual and moral that went to the root of our beliefs as jews and he invoked the hebrew prophets in a way that was amazing to every one of us. he made them live. he made them act and within hours, because of martin luther king, we were all in jail. we were in jail for the younger people here for the crime of sitting down and having lunch. that's what we were arrested for. sitting down and having lunch wit

it took franklin d. rooseveltately the second world war to show everybody that keynesianism was right. if you have to spend and go into debt to

it took franklin d. roosevelt to show everybody keynesianism was right.f you have to go into debt to get people back to work that's better than not doing

during franklin delano -- franklin roosevelt's term, the german, 6 of the 8 was 42 days. think president bush thought it was going to be more military justice. host: our guest is joining us from new york. the book is available on-line at amazon. appreciate your time this sunday morning. tomorrow morning we will continue the conversation on health care with a round table of reporters to talk about what is next for the president's agenda. tomorrow on "washington journal", brian quinn will be joining us. he is the president of that this decision to talk about new forms of energy, including a fuel-cell vehicles. it gets under date -- underway at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. "newsmakers" is up next. our guest is the republican from texas, senator john cornyn. we want to share some of the comments from the new senator- elect from massachusetts and talked about what is next from massachusetts and republican party. >> i will work with the senate with the democrats and republicans to reform health care in an open and honest way. no more closed-door meetings, back room deals. [applause]

as a young man, my political hero was franklin d. roosevelt-- obviously -- after that, i didn't have very many political -- >> charlie: yeah. >> heroes. i did admire john f. kennedy. i was beginning to get a bit disillusioned with him by the time he was assassinated but still, i had great hopes for him. aside from that, i don't think there have been any political heroes that i knew, though winston churchill, of course, is an inspiring hero. >> charlie: what about ronald reagan? >> ronald reagan was a man for whom i have enormous respect. he was not a brilliant man, but he was a very shrewd man with a sense of command, and he did a good job for eight years. he's one of the few presidents who actually left office after two terms as popular as when he went into it. and that's a testimony of some kind. but you a hero, no. >> charlie: stu alsop was my idea of a great columnist back in the 1960's and 1970's. >> charlie: wrote it with his brother, joe. >> right. i went to him -- he was kind of my rabbi in this thing going into the pundit -- and he sa

had we had not some of safety net provisions in place that franklin delano roosevelt helped instituteight have been in a great recession or a great depression of the 21st century. dr. elmendorf, we'll be looking for your wise council over next several months as we formulate the budget for 2011 in this country. we look forward to working with you and appreciate your patience responding to some of my question. i see the gentleman from virginia, mr. connolly is here, so i will turn to him for his questions. >> thank you congressman. >> here we go. thank you, mr. chairman. and, sorry i'm late, mr. elmendorf. i was at the oversight and government reform committee hearing, listening to secretary geithner, and, you should be glad you're here, not there. i'm going to ask just, some, series of questions, real quickly if i can. first of all, i worked in the senate from 1979 to 1989 for a committee and those were the gramm-rudman hollings days, because we were so concerned about the deficit, growing debt. in retrospect in your opinion, is there empirical evidence that gramm-rudma gramm-rudman-ho

look at the post-war period, since franklin roosevelt.no party has carried the white house for three terms since then, with one exception, which was when george h. w. bush, bush 41, defeated ronald reagan. it is difficult to push the party either direction, giving them the same party, the white house or three terms in a row. history was against senator mccain in this election cycle. the second thing was the party in power is held accountable for economic factors. we had the market collapse in october which was truly frightening. i was in the white house at that time. there was a concern weaver looking at the prospect of a genuine meltdown in the -- we were looking at the prospect of a genuine meltdown in the financial and housing markets. ben bernanke and hank paulson said to the president, looking at the prospect of an economy worse than the great depression, it took people to their core. it reinforced a change, and republican party suffered from that. let us also give credit to where credit is too. president obama was a phenomenal candi

franklin roosevelt built on these ideas when he delivered his four freedoms speech in 1941.ade of crises and a crisis of confidence. the vision of a world in which all people enjoyed freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear transcended the troubles of his day. years later, one of my heroes, eleanor roosevelt, worked to have these principles adopted as the cornerstone of the universal declaration of human rights. they have provided a lodestar to every succeeding generation, inviting us, and enabling us to move forward in the face of uncertainty. as technology moves forward, we must think back to that legacy. we need to synchronize our technological progress with our principles. in accepting the nobel prize, president obama spoke about the need to build a world in which peace rests on the inherent rights and dignities of every individual. in my speech on human rights in georgetown a few days later, i talked about how we must find ways to make human rights a reality. today we find an urgent need to protect these freedoms on the digital

medicare into all the other apparatus of the welfare state that was given to us by woodrow wilson, franklin roosevelt and winded and johnson. if it is preemptively before comment on the marks of professor feldstein. on the stress test, i have a different interpretation from secretary krueger. i believe that they are best considered as a successful, highly successful public relations exercise. they led in effect to a case of engineered adverse selection, the signal was not the banks were solving, but that they were too big to fail and there is no question that the government can support the banks of it is determined to do so. it's not a question of having enough capital. banks do not lend capital to come back to kamensky is used to save eggs are not moneylenders they do not too have money in order to land. the issue is rather whether the financial structure that we are building through this stabilization program is one which is going to be effect to in producing a strong and rapid economic recovery going forward your alan krueger concluded by saying that we need to think in terms of rebuilding the eco

medicare into all the other apparatus of the welfare state that was given to us by woodrow wilson, franklin roosevelt and winded and johnson. if it is preemptively before comment on the marks of professor feldstein. on the stress test, i have a different interpretation from secretary krueger. i believe that they are best considered as a successful, highly successful public relations exercise. they led in effect to a case of engineered adverse selection, the signal was not the banks were solving, but that they were too big to fail and there is no question that the government can support the banks of it is determined to do so. it's not a question of having enough capital. banks do not lend capital to come back to kamensky is used to save eggs are not moneylenders they do not too have money in order to land. the issue is rather whether the financial structure that we are building through this stabilization program is one which is going to be effect to in producing a strong and rapid economic recovery going forward your alan krueger concluded by saying that we need to think in terms of rebuilding the eco

i filled a huge vacuum in the debate over the very difficult decisions that franklin roosevelt and his staff in the war department in the attorney general's office, all of those folks had to make when they made these decisions. the passage that you read is a careful distinction because it is all encompassing term, internment, that has been calcified in history lessons. to refer not only to the evacuation and relocation of those 1,124,120,000 residents who are first or second generation japanese and others including enemy aliens nearly half of whom were from european ancestry who were actually in turned in the department of justice camps. the whole book was inspired by the rhetoric that i heard after september 11th from various ethnic lobbies, not just asian americans but arab groups and muslims who opposed any form of national security profiling by invoking the world war ii episode. it is a dangerous example of civil-rights absolutism that prevented folks then and now all from having a really important discussions about the kind of detention procedures, court proceedings and privacy po

look at the post-war period, since franklin roosevelt. no party has carried the white house for three terms since then, with one exception, which was when george h. w. bush, bush 41, defeated ronald reagan. it is difficult to push the party either direction, giving them the same party, the white house or three terms in a row. history was against senator mccain in this election cycle. the second thing was the party in power is held accountable for economic factors. we had the market collapse in october which was truly frightening. i was in the white house at that time. there was a concern weaver looking at the prospect of a genuine meltdown in the -- we were looking at the prospect of a genuine meltdown in the financial and housing markets. ben bernanke and hank paulson said to the president, looking at the prospect of an economy worse than the great depression, it took people to their core. it reinforced a change, and republican party suffered from that. let us also give credit to where credit is too. president obama was a phenomenal cand

and music, that's also an area which can bring money and which can be used and remember that franklin roosevelt, quote when he was busy reviving the american economy, he also paid attention to the artists because that's also part -- an important part of the team of the country. i was reading yesterday or day before yesterday in "the herald tribune" an article which speaks about a cathedraly you -- where you have -- cathedral where you have the stained glass window with bible figures but they are black bible figures. this is part of the national pride also that has to be recovered. well, as president clinton has already said, brazil is already committed. we lost 18 soldiers and officers now and we also lost what we consider the brazilian mother teresa who worked with children there. but it the device, the deputy of the u.n. mission, of the civilian mission, but that didn't detract our attention. on the contrary, we're even more committed now. i don't want to belabor and to extend myself on what we have been doing and what we are doing because i don't think this is the time to make any kind of pr

that was not because franklin roosevelt convince them isolationism was bad. it was because they could see the policy was an abject failure. i think people who have not made up their minds about something, the debate can change, so what is the virtue of a free press. the virtue is that democracy is a very messy system, and the free press is a part of that system, and the system would be worse off if we did not contribute to it, but it is very difficult to say that we have made things better in a very specific way, and to the question about bias earlier, the problem with bias in my view is not that there is more of it, because there obviously is in the blogs and whatever, but most of that is harmless in the following sense. people know this is bias. nobody pretends that they are moderates, so most of the biases of front. it is like going to the grocery store and buying something with sugar or not. you can read it. there -- when people read it, it is the unconscious bias in what we decide. those are the most dangerous, and i think my view of of the danger of for

and were it not for franklin roosevelt safety net protections that were created back in the 1930's we would have seen americans look at this as a great depression. and what we see that the federal government can do is help stimulate in local communities and in states the opportunities to start creating those jobs. so the economic recovery package that we passed at the president's request at the beginning of last year helped create and will save several millions because we gave states the opportunity to continue the road construction project or the school retrofitting project that was going to be on the self for quite some time for lack of money. we gave small businesses tax breaks to hire that new employee or buy that new computer when they said we don't have the finances. we can stimulate on the federal level but at the end of the day it's in the communities where businesses know i'm going to sell another widgeet and i need to hire another worker. host: congressman becerra is joining us this morning. and our first telephone call with our focus on jobs and the economy is from oklahoma

president franklin delano roosevelt said a long time ago during the great depression, when my father and mother were young, that the best social policy ever devised, the best government program ever devised is a good job. and that is what we have to understand -- our mission this year is to revive our economy and put people back to work. we can do it in the state of illinois. i want to be the building governor. i want to build more things, more good things across our state than any other governor in state history. we have the wherewithal and the will to do it and the people to do it. we have the work ethic to do it. it is very important in illinois that we have work. we have to replace a culture of violence in some of our neighborhoods with a culture of work, and we must have work available to those who are ready and willing to do the job. i have laid out a jobs and economic growth plan for our state. i want to go over what we will be doing this year. we have more construction planned for illinois -- road construction, bridge repair, water investment, rail construction, helping build

i have heard him say that franklin roosevelt's new deal did work but the problem he did have was in the second half is he failed to spend enough money. if he would have spent a lot more money, the new deal would have been a good deal but f.d.r. got nervous about spending too much money but he pulled back and what he had was a recession within a depression that was brought about by the federal government not spending enough money. well, this wild program, these keynesian theory is on steroids driven by fralm. and every nickel and dime, every nationalization, every single move that was taken in the last months of the presidential campaign and in the last months of the bush presidency were all things that were approved and were approved by and supported by president obama. he voted for tarp. he spoke for tarp. he sat at the table in the white house and spoke in favor of tarp. that $700 billion that you can hardly say that is not president obama's responsibility what he spoke for when he negotiated for it, voted for it and took it over. and by the way that tarp was only -- i say only, madam

franklin roosevelt built on these ideas when he delivered his for freedom speech in 1941.isis of confidence. but the vision of a world in which all people enjoyed freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear transcended the troubles of his day. and years later, one of my hero's, elno roosevelt worked to have these principles adopted as a corner stone of human rights. they have provide add load star to every succeeded generation guiding us, galvanizing us and enabling us to move forward in the face of uncertainty. so as it can noling hurdles forward, we must think back to that legacy. we need to synchronize our technological progress with our principles. in accepting the noble prize, president obama spoke about the need to build a world in which peace rests on the inherent rights and dignities of every individual. and in my speech on human rights at georgetown a few days later, i talked about how we must find ways to make human rights a reality. today we find an urgent need to protect these freedoms on the digital front tiers of the 21s

franklin roosevelt built on these ideas when he delivered his four freedoms speech in 1941.a cavalcade of crises and a crisis of confidence. but the vision of a world in which all people enjoyed freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear transcended the troubles of his day. and years later, one of my heroes, eleanor roosevelt, worked to have these principles adopted as a cornerstone of the universal declaration of human rights. they have provided a lodestar to every succeeding generation, guiding us, galvanizing us, and enabling us to move forward in the face of uncertainty. so as technology hurtles forward, we must think back to that legacy. we need to synchronize our technological progress with our principles. in accepting the nobel prize, president obama spoke about the need to build a world in which peace rests on the inherent rights and dignities of every individual. and in my speech on human rights at georgetown a few days later, i talked about how we must find ways to make human rights a reality. today, we find an urgent need t

in my lifetime, no non-q with the possible exception of franklin delano roosevelt had the same clout that martin luther king jr. had with my community. martin luther king sent a telegram to the commission. i need you tomorrow. i need you tomorrow. in st. augustine, florida. we need you tomorrow. because we are challenging segregation in public facilities. 17 people were on a plane first thing in the morning. i was one of them. we met martin luther king, and he answered the question that you just ask. what is this all about? it was not just about justice. it was something profound and spiritual and moral that went to the root of our beliefs as jews and he invoked the hebrew profits in a way that was amazing to everyone of us. -- the hebrew prophets in a way that was amazing to every one of us. within a few hours, we were in jail for the crime of sitting down and having lunch. that is what we were arrested for. sitting down and having lunch with fellow americans. and we were turned over to the tender mercies of a name that still sits in my head, osman is a -- hoss menucie. the chief of

franklin roosevelt built on these ideas when he delivered his four freedoms speech in 1941.icans faced a cavalcade of crises and a crisis of confidence. the vision of a world in which all people enjoyed freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear transcended the troubles of his day. years later, one of my heroes, eleanor roosevelt, worked to have these principles adopted as the cornerstone of the universal declaration of human rights. they have provided a lodestar to every succeeding generation, inviting us, and enabling us to move forward in the face of uncertainty. as technology moves forward, we must think back to that legacy. we need to synchronize our technological progress with our principles. in accepting the nobel prize, president obama spoke about the need to build a world in which peace rests on the inherent rights and dignities of every individual. in my speech on human rights in georgetown a few days later, i talked about how we must find ways to make human rights a reality. today we find an urgent need to protect these fre

had we had not some of safety net provisions in place that franklin delano roosevelt helped institutee might have been in a great recession or a great depression of the 21st century. dr. elmendorf, we'll be looking for your wise council over next several months as we formulate the budget for 2011 in this country. we look forward to working with you and appreciate your patience responding to some of my question. i see the gentleman from virginia, mr. connolly is here, so i will turn to him for his questions. >> thank you congressman. >> here we go. thank you, mr. chairman. and, sorry i'm late, mr. elmendorf. i was at the oversight and government reform committee hearing, listening to secretary geithner, and, you should be glad you're here, not there. i'm going to ask just, some, series of questions, real quickly if i can. first of all, i worked in the senate from 1979 to 1989 for a committee and those were the gramm-rudman hollings days, because we were so concerned about the deficit, growing debt. in retrospect in your opinion, is there empirical evidence that gramm-rudma gramm-rudman

this is a lesson out of franklin delano roosevelt he punished capital in the 30's, he had his new deal, he said it was a good deal, i said it was a horrible deal, the president said it would have been a better deal but he didn't spend enough money. f.d.r. new deal president on steroids, obecause marx he went to copenhagen, wanted to get the world fair in chicago, then he went to copen hague ton get a deal were cap and trade got a fig leaf but not a deal. then he went to virginia to try to win the governorship around there, about three stops over, we got govern -- governor mcdonald. then he went to new jersey and instead of governor corzine, we have governor christie, then he went to massachusetts, a place where you would never have to call the president of the united states to massachusetts for reinforcements, they couldn't imagine a situation like that. the president's reputation on the line, he was in a situation where he couldn't win, the race was already too close, this is worse than taking a black eye. this is a thumping. s that real thumping. it is a movement along the east coast