i mean, franklin roosevelt light an awful lot. a good cause in terms of getting the united states into the second world war. lyndon johnson lied an awful lot in terms of that cause, getting the united states involved in vietnam. today we are critical because of what he did in vietnam, and admired roosevelt for is in world war ii. they both fly. we have a first amendment, and we have a system of checks and balances that work for the media because we know this. we know we can't trust the people in power to tell us the truth about what they're doing. well, fox news masquerades as one of the watch dog institutions, but they operate as a political organization. the lie of the time. they make things up. they expanded their opponents. they work hand in glove with politicians and political organizations and make no apology for it or even pretend to do differently. all they do is call themselves a news organization. the rest of it is quite obvious. they sponsor tea party rallies. every single potential republican candidate with the excepti

and so, for example, after franklin roosevelt was elected in the 1930s he had to fight back to revolt from within his own party. and really racing forward, if you want to know why the country has become so polarized in a partisan sense and you want to know what bipartisanship is dead and it's not coming back in the foreseeable future, it's not that people are any more mean-spirited than the used to be. it's that the two parties have sifted themselves ideologically. until the 1960s, both parties have both liberals and conservatives. the democratic party at all those southern conservatives. and as result of that the republican party have a whole bunch of northeastern liberals. what happened to? and 1960s, lyndon johnson, the first southern president really, before the civil war, he only came in the side door, we could get woodrow wilson as a partial exception. he was born in the south but he spent his entire adult life up north. anyhow, lyndon johnson attacks himself to the civil rights and that gave permission to all of those southern conservative democrats to bolt the party. and they

franklin roosevelt lied a lot. in a good cause to get the united states when did johnson and my lot with vietnam's and today we are critical but we admire rose a bell from world war ii but they both live. and we have a first amendment of checks and balances because they know we cannot trust the people in power. fox news operates as the watchdog and they live. they lie all the time. they make things up and slander their opponents and work hand in glove with politicians from political organizations and make no apology for it and do not pretend they just call themselves a news organization and put up a news show but the rest of it is obvious. they sponsor tea party rallies and raise money for candidates. every potential republican candidate with the exception of mitt romney who was not in office right now is on the payroll of fox news. media matters added up what it costs them that was $60 million of free air time. not really for them because they are working with the service of the cause of fox news. if roger ailes d

amelia heard about it, she sent a blistering telegram -- it was just before the 1936 election, franklin roosevelt's second-term election. and amelia earhart sent a blistering telegram to eleanor roosevelt saying that if franklin fired gene vidal, she wasn't gonna go on -- she wasn't gonna campaign. aside from all the other things that she disapproved and it was a bad thing to do, she said, 'and furthermore, i'm not campaigning for franklin if this goes through.' so within 48 hours, franklin roosevelt was having lunch with eugene vidal's boss at the department of commerce, because the bureau of air commerce was at -- was a subdepartment in the department of commerce, and he changed his mind. and within 48 hours, amelia is sending another telegram to miss -- to eleanor roosevelt saying, 'thanks very much. appreciate your help.' c-span: what was the date that they took off and where did they -- which way did they head? because you talk about the--you know, the title of your book, "east to the dawn." guest: "east to the dawn." they originally took off from california and it was going to hawaii. and the

franklin roosevelt was the president. he represented the net assets of america in wartime. my parents, i commend everyone i knew what look to him. >> and you were so taken with stevenson that he ran for congress at the age of 29. very dark horse dan rather than he is nowadays. what movie to begin says in? >> i was the longest of long shots. i worked in washington for to congress, one from ohio and one from michigan. suddenly out of the blue the woman who was the congresswoman who had succeeded her husband occupying that congressional district from 1932 until 1960. she announced she was not going to run for reelection. that thought to myself, my goodness. that family owned by district for my entire lifetime. he may not get another chance. a talked to joyce. she's gained. something like 100 volunteers helping. people running around with things on their cars and earrings and buttons and bumper stickers and sure enough i was fortunate one of the things that might have helped is that president kennedy had an elected two years before. he was so young, running for congress at 29,

but franklin roosevelt was the president. he represented the united states of america asked for time. and my parents, i and everyone i knew looked to him as the leader of the country into was enormously important figure for an jongh man. >> you were taken from stevenson and what he said and i assume that his influence over the fact that he ran for congress of the age of 29, very dark horse, 1952. most people don't run for congress that early or at least they did in those days. it was younger than it is nowadays. what moved you to get in so soon? >> i was the longest of long shots. i had been away from my home district for a decade. on for years to college, three and a half and the needy and the am i worked in washington for the congressman, one from ohio and one from michigan. i never met a congressman in my life, and then i had gone back to chicago, home and suddenly out of the blue, a woman who was the congressman who succeeded her husband and a that congressional district from 32 until 1960 she announced she wasn't going t

franklin roosevelt. it is not like the private sector where you have management pushing back. not a fair fight. in the state, the union's controlling the legislature. it is not bargaining. they got what ever they wanted. one of the arguments against the government is if he had not given away tax breaks he would have had a surplus because scsin is not in as bad shape as illinois and the jersey and california. >> everybody understands that the pension andeahenit are not sustainable. and also they are unfair. all the governor is asking -- with this riots -- not riots, t e motrations are about -- is asking the public employee union to pay half of what the private sector people pay in contributing to health and pensions. half. and what happens? thtehe in madison kansas school for three days to demonstrate and to drag students out to demonstrations. >> it is not actually trha it is half of what most of us pay -- >> half of what the average is in wisconsin. as opped to 12%. >> charles was right about the unfunded pension liabilities -- they are notustainable >> they happen because th

annual day of remembrance takes place in communities across the nation to mark the day when franklin rooseveltigned the order which led to the incarceration of japanese americans on the gulf coast. they had their homes, possessions and their livelihoods taken away. >> we need to constantly remind america about this because they don't seem to know about it and the possibility of it happening again is always lurking in the shadows. >> reporter: some people who attended the event see -- say they see the same type of discrimination against muslim members. >> do i know you? >> what's wrong, point-eight million in its a thriller topped the box office this weekend. "unknown"." he a wakeness from a coma to find his wife claims she does not know him. >>> "i am number 4" debuted in second place. >>> well, gas prices have jumped more than a nickel over the past two weeks nationwide. the average price of a gallon of regular is 3.18. that's up from 5 sends from a couple of weeks ago. among all the surveyed cities, drivers in san francisco pay the most at 3.5 4 a gallon. >>> a doctor allegedly drunk made an

of remembrance takes place in communities across the nation to mark the day when president franklin rooseveltigned executive order 9066 which led to the incarceration of japanese americans on the west coast. thousands lived in camps for the duration of the war and had their homes, possessions and their lifely hood taken away. >> we need to constantly remind america about this because they don't seem to know about it and the possibility of it happening again is always in, lurking in the shadows. >> some people who attended the event say they see the same kind of discrimination against muslim americans today. japanese americans suffered during world war ii. >>> in other bay area headlines, san franciscoans may be as green as they think. according to a new sura lot of people are clueless when it comes to the recycling and composting lawings, department of environment officials say 1/3 of what is being tossed in the trash could actually be recycled or composted. one of the biggest trip-ups. plastics. pretty much all plastic except for plastic bags can be recycled. lunar new year a spring festival

franklin roosevelt. it is not like the private sector where you have management pushing back. not a fair fight. in the state, the union's controlling the legislature. it is not bargaining. they got what ever they wanted. >> one of the arguments against the government is if he had not given away tax breaks he would have had a surplus because wisconsin is not in as bad shape as illinois and the jersey and california. >> everybody understands that the pension and health benefits are not sustainable. and also they are unfair. all the governor is asking -- with this riots -- not riots, but the demonstrations are about -- is asking the public employee union to pay half of what the private sector people pay in contributing to health and pensions. half. and what happens? the teaches in madison kansas school for three days to demonstrate and to drag students out to demonstrations. >> it is not actually true that it is half of what most of us >> half of what the average is in wisconsin. 6% as opposed to 12%. >> charles was right about the unfunded pension liabilities -- they are not sus

the ship was use d as president franklin roosevelt's yacht until he died. more than a quarter million people have visited it since it opened as a historic landmark in 1995. >>> another landmark could be opening. the california hotel will be up for a meeting tonight to see if it will be kept as a national landmark or not. the meeting will be tonight at the motel at 6:30. >>> cheryl hurd tells us about a mistake that could be worth nearly $100,000. >> reporter: this book is worth lots and lots of money. the story is pretty amazing. it is about a book that contains a word that isn't there. don windle has loved books since he was 6 years old. 60 years later he's a book collector in san francisco. he now has in his hands the find of a lifetime. >> a man walks in the door one day with a book wrapped up in a piece of cloth that his own mother said it could be worth some money. >> reporter: windle took one look at the book and said -- >> do you know what you've got here? >> reporter: it is one of the rarest bibles printed by london's royal printers robert barker an

dramatic but i'd like to pay attention to one part in the nineteen forty five agreement between franklin roosevelt and it didn't suit on the aircraft carriers in the suit was. going to have to jump in here. because it is part of the program after a short break we'll continue our discussion on new trends in the arab middle east today with r.t. . if. you think. download the official party application to your high phone or i pod touch from the i.q. sam still. life on the go. video on demand r.t.s. mind bold colors and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the potty dot com. welcome back to crossfire computor look i'll remind you we're talking about new ways of dealing with the new middle east. but first let's see what russians think north african countries may achieve after their revolutions the social permanent in the middle east is changing the region many argue it will also change the world order however the transformation period is not yet over the public opinion agency look at us and also what can be the ultimate outcome of the public outrage in egypt thirty two percent said no progr

or not, and many didn't, presidential historian richard norton smith says reagan shattered franklin roosevelt'sa that power must inevitably flow to washington. >> our proposal is for a 10% across-the-board cut every year for three years in the tax rates. >> reporter: the reagan revolution cut taxes, though he later had to raise them. reduced spending on social programs, and increased the military budget. >> while he was doing these things, there were a lot of rocky hurdles to overcome. >> reporter: ed piece reagan's long time counselor and later attorney general says reagan's self-confidence helped his agenda. >> the way in which he provided the leadership, his cheerfulness, his optimism, his sense of humor. he was the same person if he was talking to one or two of us in the oval office or if he was talking to 10,000 people at a political rally. >> reporter: the movie actor turned politician was known as the great communicator. >> i want to report to you... >> reporter: but his last white house chief of staff says his boss was also a great compromiser. >> tip o'neill used to say of ronald reaga

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world war ii under franklin roosevelt and harry truman, liberalism absolutely dominated american culture. since then it has steadily declined whereas conservatism has reached ever higher plateaus until now we are 2-1 and i think we will outnumber them and the decline of liberalism continues much further they will be about as popular as the american nudist movement or prohibition party. people will look for years from the rnc this little quaint liberal movement and they will say what did they ones do? what did they once represent? my children will say they were much more popular than the nudists and had the good sense to keep their clothes on. >> guest: >> host: what does the handover refer to? >> guest: in 2006, and 2008 and before, george bush spent a lot of money. we were suffering a real hangover but it is interesting as i point out in the book, liberals from 94 until 2006, liberals were accused of being finished and being terrible trouble. in 2002, 2003 and 2004 it was the liberals who were all washed up. what happened -- >> host: cheryl rights why so many conservative organizations

the potomac was president franklin roosevelt's presidential yacht until his death in 1945.ector says they need $125,000 to get back on track but so far have only raised about $14,000. they lost half of their income because of cutbacks. >> menlo park city officials have a squirrel problem and nobody is laughing. they're taking this very seriously. but after starting a poisoning campaign, the public outrage is causing them to rethink their original plan. here's lisa amin gulezian. >> based on park in menlo park is a place where people and wildlife normally coexist. these are some of the animals found here, including the california ground squirrel. but these days you'd be hard-pressed to find any. that's because the city spent nearly $10,000 killing the squirrels by injecting poison into their burrows. the city started noticing the ground squirrels this summer after health officials mentioned burrowing squirrels could damage landfill caps. those caps stop methane gas from escaping and causing fire hazards. >> josÉ is a professional landscaper. >> it's not a nice thing to do bu

. >> president obama evoke the memory of franklin roosevelt and jchl john f.ennedy and urge businessess to do more to help the nation economy reboun rebound. he called on american executives to get in the game when he spoke to the u.s. chamber of commerce today. the chamber disagreed with with obama on several issues including the health care bill. but the president believes government and private firms share a responsibility to invest in america. >> i'm hoping that all of your thinking what you can do for america. ask yourselves what you can do to hire more american workers. what you can do to support the american economy and invest in this nation. >>reporter: the president also pointed to how fdr cooperation with corporate america help the u.s. win world war ii. and helped the middle class prosper afterward. >> president obama says the united states will welcome southern sued an to the international community in jul july. referendum shows 98 percent of resident of southern sudan voted for independent. people there had been cheering all day and all night. abo

the sweep stakes among scholars always locates washington, lincoln and franklin roosevelt as the three threatest. theodore roosevelt is coming up too, a bit. when you do popular polls, j.f.k. comes out way at the head, which is kind of interesting. it's a really tough question. because lincoln is a poet as well as a president. at the second inaugural, it's one of the most lyrical pieces of writing, and profound. and the civil war is a great crisis. my ultimate answer is the american revolution is a greater crisis. that we wouldn't have had the civil war if we hadn't won the american revolution. and that washington defines the presidency more than any other president before or since. he has the advantage again of becoming the president, but if you read the constitution, it spends very little time talking about what the president can do. it spends a lot of time talking about how to elect him and how to impeach him. but washington defines the office as nobody else before or since. i've made a point of arguing in earlier work that the founding fathers are a collective, that no single perso

i suspect, as i said, of franklin roosevelt i've come to see him as i don't know who else would have taken up the cause against -- [inaudible] as well as he did -- the nazis as well as he did, and i think he's to be respected for that. so my views have changed a bit, and my way of writing has changed a bit. i remember in "public nuisances" i was extremely critical of theodore white, teddy white, and i wrote a thunderous denunciation of him. and i've come to find that i think teddy white? teddy white in later years was a force of good for the world, and i apologize for what i've said. >> host: and you also list arthur schlessinger as one of your favorite authors. >> guest: yeah, you know, if you want the standard liberal view of america, you can do no better than read arthur schlesinger. arthur schlesinger was a wonderful, wonderful writer, and i kind of miss his passing and the passing of that whole generation that was made up of very thoughtful liberals. i'm not sure that they, that their heirs are living up to the great tradition that they established. >> host: you lived here in wa

of challenge in this country, and we produce add george washington and abraham lincoln and franklin roosevelt. the real question for the arab and muslim world is, in the end, leadership. about that i'm a little more pessimistic. for a moment it will take them very far. and this is about institutions that reflect to a greater degree than we have seen in the last hundred years there this. the the as operation and will of their public. it's a tall order but the arabs have made an extraordinary beginning. >> rose: i thank you for coming. you know what strikes me, having been in cairo and having traveled a lot in that region, as you know, it is what you suggested. it is the overcoming fear which has become a very contagious thing and which you have seen here are people who are willing to risk their life for an idea that they believe is larger than they life. and that idea gives and empowers them and it empowers other people as well. >> that's absolutely right. once you stretch the mind charlie, it cannot be stretched back. >> thank you for joining us. >> you're welcome. ♪ ♪ >> funding for charlie

i was in the naval academy when franklin roosevelt died. and harry truman became president. completely unknown. kind of taken by roosevelt just to throw a figleaf at some people who wanted to support. never did confide in harry truman. he was on the outside looking in. when roosevelt died i cried. because i had the prospect of my commanding officer, my commanding chief. later when i was in submarines i began to appreciate what harry truman stood for. i think he was honest. i doubt if he ever used a $0.03 stamp that he didn't pay for. he was under tremendous pressure from the same people that tried to prevent president johnson putting in place the civil rights act. he was under the pressure of dick russell and strom thurmond and many others. truman, already unpopular. he went out of office the most unpopular president in history. ordained commander in chief and all racial discrimination in military forces was over. that day. he was condemned severely by all his generals and admirals and overwhelmingly in the congress and by many other people in america. my life on the submari

president woodrow wilson appointed the secretory daniels in 1913 and his assistant was franklin roosevelt. with the war waging in europe, daniels became increasingly concerned about the preparation the needed to make to ensure that the u.s. navy could operate at the maximum efficiency if and when america entered the war. in early 1917, concerned about having enough men to man the ships, daniel asked his adviser about having enough navy. he said as the absence of the word of u.s. citizens allow him to enlist women in the navy and lift from those advisers daniels ordered the new u.s. navy to enlist women and the women floated to the recruiting stations and they signed up and they were sworn into the navy. the congress decided to change what they saw as the navy regulations and changed it back to the u.s. citizen. if the word meal in front of that. the single word of the united states official document. they are extremely important with the full rights to the citizenship to the men and women in the country the word u.s. citizen automatically includes women when the rights and privileges are

look, world war ii under franklin roosevelt and harry truman liberalism absolutely dominated american culture. since then it has steadily declined whereas liberalism -- whereas with conservativism has reached ever higher plateaus, higher, higher and higher. until now we outnumber liberals about 2 to 1, and i think we're going to outnumber them by more. if decline of liberalism continues much further, they'll be about as popular as the american nudist movement or the american prohibition party. and people will look in 40 years from now, and they'll see this little, quaint liberal movement, and they'll say, what did they once do? what did they once represent? and i'll say or my children will say, well, they were about -- they were much more popular than the nudists. and they had the good sense to keep their clothes on. >> host: what does the hangover refer to? >> guest: well, in, as i say in the book, in the '06 and '08 and before that george bush had spent a lot of money. and we were suffering a real hangover. but it's interesting that in, as i i point out in the book, liberals from ab

end of an era. 150 pounds of explosives brought down a building that was once a part of franklin elmore roosevelt'sublic housing policy. hundreds watched as a building that stood for 70 years was reduced to rubble in a matter of seconds. low income housing will be built in its place. >>> and, finally, in ohio, shirtless men and bikini clad women brave frigid conditions all for a good cause. more than 500 people ran and dove into lake erie to fundraise for the special olympics. organizers expect to raise more than $90,000, more than $90,000 than they took in last year. >>> now here is bill karims with the weather channel forecast. i know that you are just chomping at the bit to go out there and do something just like that. >> never. no. you'll find me jumping in the water in miami. that's about it. let's talk about what happened over the weekend. we saw snow in san francisco. we had snow at very low elevations outside of tucson, arizona, and it was a very cold weekend. temperatures this morning still chilly. 39 in vegas. the red carpet didn't look too bad last night. it was whoil, though. we're at 4

it's that franklin roosevelt in 1935 deliberately designed it that way. he said, he knew this isn't an insurance policy, but let's make it look like an insurance policy, and he said, and i quote, that's so no damn politician can ever take this away. and he was very right and very effect e. thank you very much, it's been a wonderful evening. [applause] >> h.w. brands is the author of several books including "the age of gold "and "the first american" which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in biography. he is a history professor at the university of texas. visit his web site, hwbrands.com. >> c-span's book, "abraham lincoln: great american historians and our 16th president," is the unique perspective from 56 journalists and writers from his early years as a lawyer to his presidency during one of our nation's most troubled times and his relevance today. and now for presidents' day and while supplies last, the publishers are offering the c-span viewers the hard cover edition of abraham lincoln for the special price of $5 plus shipping and handling. go to

i mean, my most fundamental rule is the remark in 1944 to franklin roosevelt that we are in an entirely new situation that cannot be resolved by war. in other words, nuclear weapons introduced a condition to the world where the solution to problems had to be diplomatic, it couldn't be the result of a successful war unless it was a war against a non-nuclear power. and even that, we found, would be compromised by those very alliances that i was talking about at the outset of this talk. that's my basic, fundamental principle about this whole issue. but this axiom, in a way, follows from that because deterrence operates on the principle that if you have nuclear weapons sufficiently guarded and protected and you are attacked by a country that has nuclear weapons or threatened to be, you can threaten in return to attack them, and that's a standoff because neither side wasn'ts to be destroyed. that's -- wants to be destroyed. that's not a victory. so, therefore, it followed, the commission felt, that as long as any country has nuclear weapons, others will seek to acquire them. that's the axiom

he says there was a financial crisis, possible depression, and i sure as heck was going to franklin roosevelt rather than hoover. the recession that bush inherited was his fault, and 9/11, and tech boom, and financial crisis, i think obviously did lead to it. but they weren't necessarily bush pushing those policies. the democrats strongly pushed more home ownership. there was a sense of pushing home ownership that was a good thing. it's giving them -- they are giving subsidies to poor people and some of the republicans there was the notion that we want to build up an ownership society. there was a bipartisan push for home ownership. obviously, it fizzled. >> historically, how much presidents leave office popular? >> we only really have data back to truman. because the gallop surveys go back that far. as i remember, two have something about 50% where they are popular on the way out the door. reagan and clinton. you can spent some time looking at those surveys. you see the motion is downward. >> obviously, kennedy was dfied on the departure. nobody wants to leave that way. it is tough for presi

he increased visibility far beyond any president before him them of franklin d. rooseveltacute awareness of the power of the white house. >> just below the south portico from where fdr addresses the nation is the entrance to the white house reserved for presidents, first ladies, and their guests. it leads into the first room and on basie, the diplomatic reception room. look it on the ground floor, it is beyond the bounds of public tours. it is made famous by fdr. >> never before since jamestown and plymouth rock -- >> fdr made the first of many fireside chats to the nation during his presidency. >> i want to tell you what has been done in the last few days and why it was done and what the next steps will be. >> mainly through radio but sometimes allowing the newsreel cameras in four portions of this chat. like so many of the rooms, it has had very uses over the years and the connections between different presidents and first ladies are many. originally a furnace room, in 1902, fdr's cousin theodore roosevelt turned it into the diplomatic reception room as part of his work

the ship served as franklin delano roosevelt's presidential yacht until he died in 1945. >> menlo parkfficials are taking a squirrel problem seriously. i should say officials are taking their squirrel problem seriously but after starting a poisoning campaign the public outrage is causing them to rethink their original plan. here's lisa amin gulezian. >> menlo park is a place where people and wildlife normally coexist. these are some of the animals found here, including the california ground squirrel. but these days you'd be hard-pressed to find any. that's because the city spent nearly $10,000 killing the squirrels by injecting poison into their burrows. the city started noticing the ground squirrels this summer after house officials mentioned burrowing squirrels could damage landfill caps. those caps stop methane gas from escaping and causing fire hazards. >> josÉ is a professional landscaper. >> it's not the nice thing to do but in the end you're just going to have so many it's going to be a real nuisance. >> the city didn't get public input and never posted warning signs. neither is

remember, republicans were responsible for amending the constitution after franklin roosevelt won four elections and republicans regained congress briefly, one of the first things they did was to amend the constitution so there would never be another frarving lynn roosevelt. it backfired because eisenhower who could probably have won a third term had he chosen to, ronald reagan could probably have won a third term in 1988, had he chosen to, in any event he said he looked forward to repealing the amendment. we know at least in principle he believed it was a mistake to preclude the possibility that if the people wanted to elect the president a third time. we had to believe, we have been through so many one-term presidents this would be a burning issue. host: did ronald reagan restore popular confidence or did he unintentionally foster an american exceptionalism bordering on hubris, affording license to spend and borrow without thought of the consequences?" guest: it is one way of defining the debate from here on in, in terms of his continuing impact. we know there is an impact. we see it

we had essentially figures like franklin roosevelt or the great henry wallace later in his own presidential campaign in 48 tarred and smeared for being so off communism. the last major political figure with the exception of george mcgovern to challenge the permanent war economy and the resources pumped into the huge defense industry, so we saw the liberal class provide channels or mechanisms within the power structure by which the grievances and injustices and suffering of working men and women could be redressed. that is the role of the liberal class, and it's why traditional power elites toller lit liberal institutions and the liberal class so they are not tone death to the suffering outside the power elite, but at the same time, they are used to discredit radical movements that challenge traditional structures and assumptions which is true today. the figure that self-identified liberal's hate the most is not glenn beck. norm chomsky shows the power elite and the way they serve the power elite. the danger is that when liberal institutions no longer function, when they call, then there's n

donna, as i'm sure you know, the heros of the labor movement, franklin roosevelt and fiorello laguardiaere's no place for union groups at all. 24 states deny entirely collective bargaining rights. all the governor wants to do is limit the collective bargaining to wages. what is draconian about that? >> what these workers would like. they've already given up fur furloughs, unpaid leave. they would like to have a voice at the table. they don't want the collective bargaining rights. the governor has cherry-picked what public workers he'll subject to this so-called removal of the collective bargaining rights. the firefighters and the police officers and others who supported him in his election bid, guess what? they don't have to worry about their collective bargaining rights. over 400,000 state and local employees have lost their jobs during the duration of the recession. they're willing -- what we have seen throughout the country, they're willing to come to the table to talk to the governors about reducing the budget deficits. not on the backs of working people. >> let me ask you, because

. >>> an historic ship at jack lemon square once used by franklin d roosevelt could be in danger of closingecutive director says the national historic landmark needs $106,000 by the end of april to keep the floating museum going. the port of oakland donates a berth for the 165-foot ship which was fdr's presidential yacht until his death in 1945. >>> from bad to worse for the u.s. postal service. the agency posted a $329 million loss in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. that's up from a loss of $297 million in the same period the year before. the postal service says its shaky financial situation is made even worse by a requirement that it make advance payments to cover expected healthcare costs for future retirees. >> parts of the country are experiencing more snow or waiting for it. and that includes memphis, tennessee known for the blues but not so much for snow. it started falling there at noon and by 5:00 this evening police had 200 calls for traffic accidents. in all about 400 inches of snow accumulated today. [ music ] >>> and we have had a nice dry break. it continues dry

. >>> an historic ship at jack lemon square once used by franklin d roosevelt could be in danger of closinge executive director says the national historic landmark needs $106,000 by the end of april to keep the floating museum going. the port of oakland donates a berth for the 165-foot ship which was fdr's presidential yacht until his death in 1945. >>> from bad to worse for the u.s. postal service. the agency posted a $329 million loss in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. that's up from a loss of $297 million in the same period the year before. the postal service says its shaky financial situation is made even worse by a requirement that it make advance payments to cover expected healthcare costs for future retirees. >> parts of the country are experiencing more snow or waiting for it. and that includes memphis, tennessee known for the blues but not so much for snow. it started falling there at noon and by 5:00 this evening police had 200 calls for traffic accidents. in all about 400 inches of snow accumulated today. [ music ] >>> and we have had a nice dry break. it continues

remember, republicans were responsible for amending the constitution after franklin roosevelt won fourctions and republicans regained congress briefly, one of the first things they did was to amend the constitution so there would never be another frarving lynn roosevelt. it backfired because eisenhower who could probably have won a third term had he chosen to, ronald reagan could probably have won a third term in 1988, had he chosen to, in any event he said he looked forward to repealing the amendment. we know at least in principle he believed it was a mistake to preclude the possibility that if the people wanted to elect the president a third time. we had to believe, we have been through so many one-term presidents this would be a burning issue. host: did ronald reagan restore popular confidence or did he unintentionally foster an american exceptionalism bordering on hubris, affording license to spend and borrow without thought of the consequences?" guest: it is one way of defining the debate from here on in, in terms of his continuing impact. we know there is an impact. we see it in

. >> franklin roosevelt did. >> here is a brief observation. my wife and i our grandparents of two children of a homosexual couple. they can screw up their children as well as heterosexual couples. that seems that marriage equality to me. you are asking a judge to make judgments. at the some of those differences cannot help but listen and lead to policy decisions. what do you think? >> way to attack a question on. >> i think the constitution provides a more limited combine in which the judges exercise their policy judgment. i think that is the essence of it. i think it needs to be rooted in tax. >> i think he does it in different areas. he is willing to have the judges. he supports the supreme court striking down finance laws. he wants the court to strike down laws. conservatives and liberals disagree about where. this is another difference. liberals do not hide that they want the courts to do this. concerts is written there doing something else. there is in a marriage -- conservatives pretend they are doing something else. there is faint modes

. >> when franklin roosevelt arrived in march, 1933, the yearshouse's 13was 130 old. chief executive before or since paid closer attention to physically transforming the buildings and grounds care than roosevelt, it's long as president. >> roosevelt revolutionized how we see the white house and its occupants. >> faced with the challenges of the great depression and world war ii, fdr expanded the role of the central government and along with that, increasing the size of the white house complex to what we see today. on one side, he adds on to the west wing, bringing it to its current size. inside, he had the new oval office build in a location that all presidents since have used. outside, he hired famous landscape architects to design the current look at the south grounds with his beautiful gardens and groves and historic trees. on the other side, he builds up the east wing to its size today. >> i wish very much i could be out there rolling eggs with all of you. i had my eggs for breakfast. >> we love the white house. -- he loved the white house. his work with the count

. >> when franklin roosevelt arrived for his first day in office of march of 1933, the white house is 133 years old and has been home to 30 presidents before him. but perhaps new chief executive before or since paid closer attention to physically transforming the building and grounds here that roosevelt, its longest resident. >> the fact is, the roosevelts, together revolutionized how we see the white house and its occupants. >> faced with the challenges of the great depression and world war two, fdr expands the role of the federal government and increases the size of the white house complex to what we see today. on one side, he adds on the west wing, bringing it to its current size. inside, he has a new oval office built in the location all presidents since have used. outside, he hired a famous landscape architect to design the current look of the south grounds. with its beautiful gardens and groves of historic trees. on the other side of the complex, he builds up the east wing to its size today. >> i wish very much i could beat out there rolling exit with all of you on the lawn. i h

. >> president obama invoked memories of franklin d roosevelt and john f kennedy.s share a responsibility to invest in america. >> i'm hoping all of you are thinking what you can do for america. ask yourselves what you can do to hire more american workers. what you can do to support the american economy and invest in this nation. >> the president pointed to how fdr's cooperation helped the u.s. win world war i skpismt helped middle class prosper. >> and now a pressure from customers intel agreed to resume shipping a computer chip with a billion dollar flaw in it. only for manufactures who promise not to use knit certain computer designs. the energy reports the price of gasoline reached $3.13 a gallon z several major acquisitions put wall street in a buying mood today. dow jones rose 69 points and s and p 500 gained eight. one announced today is the aol take over of the "huffington post" one of the top 10 online news sites. the founder gets $315 million and takes over management of all aol content. >>> the city of pitsberg has one of 18 redevelopment agencies in cal