he loved franklin roosevelt. he actually survived franklin roosevelt. i think he, i think he thought of franklin roosevelt as his kind of like a naughty nephew that he indulged. but it's a kind of interesting thing. and, of course, in the 1920 roosevelt was the vice presidential nominee. on the democratic ticket, he was a strong supporter of wilson's, of course, by then wilson had become an internationalist as we now think of him, promoting democracy abroad, the 14-point program for the reinvention of europe as a kind of american-style democratic community. um, fdr was a strong supporter of that after the war, after, i mean, after the election which the democrats lost. america lapsed into a kind of isolationism, but franklin roosevelt was very active in the founding of the council on foreign relations in new york which was a gathering of kind of -- actually, it was a kind of republican organization. it was very much dominated by henry stimson and william howard taft and some of the other republican elder statesmen. probably would have had theodore roose

small wonder then that he turned to franklin roosevelt as a focus of examination. in 1971 professor burns won the pulitzer prize and the national book award for his landmark study of fdr, roosevelt soldier of freedom. he is also the author of the acclaimed companion book, roosevelt the lion and the fox. together with another of our guests, susan dunn professor burns also co-authored the three roosevelts, leaders who transformed america and the 2004 biography of george george washington. professor burns' 1978 book "leadership" is still considered the seminal work in the field of leadership studies and the theory of transformational leadership has been the basis for more than 400 doctorow dissertations. what he has written about he is also lived. professor burns served as a combat historian in the pacific theater from 1943 to 1946 and he was awarded the bronze star and four battle stars. user democratic nominee for the first congressional district of massachusetts in 1958 and was also a delegate to four democratic national conventions. a member of the american academy

[applause] >> and now more of booktv's all-day live coverage from the 2011 roosevelt reading festival hosted by the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in the hyde park, new york. coming up in just a moment, mario dinunzio examines fdr's new deal legislation. it's booktv live from the roosevelt reading festival. .. used of all presidential libraries and this year's group of authors reflect the wide variety of research done here. we are delighted to highlight these works in book talks throughout the year especially at our annual reading festival. let me quickly go over the format for the concurrent sessions. at the top of each hour procession begins with a 30 minute of her talk followed by ten minute question and answer period. than the authors move to the tables in the lobby next to the nubile store where you can purchase your books and have the authors sign them. at the top of the next hour the process repeats itself. let me ask everyone who has a cellphone or other electronic device please turn it off or put the rigor off. there was an incident earlier today involving my cellphone so i a

the third revolution, led by franklin roosevelt, ranks i believe with those of washington and lincoln in the profound changes that worked in the lives of so many americans. aimed to fulfil that third ideal of the revolution, fraternity. the roosevelt revolution raised the proletariat into the middle class and we calibrated the material standards by which americans could expect to live. the american experience, the american democratic ideal called for communal, fraternal action to provide for the general welfare. american historical experience always combined individual efforts with neighborly cooperation for the common good. we often think of american development in terms of rugged individualism and indeed individualism was important especially in the earliest days of colonial america. if you word a rugged, tough be personal strong individual you probably died. but think of those days of nineteenth century america. bond -- bar and raising was the neighborly operation. removing huge sums from farmland. there was a rugged individualism that was consistent fraternal cooperation. otherwis

the research room to distract myself, and i came across a set of finding aids for writing by franklin roosevelt. i never thought of fdr as much of writer, not compared to the doctor roosevelt or woodrow wilson or various world leaders, such as winston churchill or lenin. before i could think more about the question, there came my boxes, and so i put away the thought in the back of my health but fast forward several months. in the meantime, i dropped my dissertation, taken a leave of absence from school and started work at the legal assistance as a law firm. at one point the editor0s a journal, invited know write an article about franklin roosevelt for the journal. i didn't want to use my abandoned disdissertation and had little time for research. so i thought i would take up franklin roosevelt's write to see what he had written before he was president. so i ordered copies of the article from the fining aids of fdr's writings, especially from the 1920s when he was in private life and trying to recover and had used writing as a kind of therapy for himself. when i read the airlines discovered to m

roosevelt home. inside, a warm living room, a big thick shouldered man sat writing by the fire. franklin d. oosevelt's pencil glided across the pages of yellow legal paper. quote, i am certain that my fellow americans expected that in my presidency, i would address them with a candor and a decision which they present the present situation of our nation and tells. the fire hissed and crackled. the large hand with a stick fingers moved rapidly across the paper and wrote, the people of the united states want direct, vigorous action. they have made me the instrumene instrument of their wishes. he scratched out humble because he realized there was no time for humility. during the next two days, frightening reports continued to reach hyde park. piece by piece, the nations credit structure was becoming paralyzed. crisis was in the air. but it was a strange numbing crisis, striking federally and the western cities and then in the south a thousand miles away. it was worse than an invading army. it was everywhere and nowhere, for it was in the minds of men. it was fear, but at hide bark, the next pres

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i am the museum curator at the franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum. wait a second. i would like to welcome you to the eighth annual roosevelt reading festival. i would like to welcome c-span's booktv which is broadcasting this program this morning. franklin roosevelt planned for the roosevelt library to become the premier research institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. the research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries and this year's group of others reflects a wide variety of research done here. we are delighted to highlight these others's works at botox for route the year, especially at this hour annual meeting festival. let me quickly go over the format for the festival's current sessions. at the top of each hour a session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a ten minute question and answer period and authors move on to the tables in the library where you can purchase your books and have the author's son them. of the top of the next hour the process repeats itself. now is my pleasure to introduce todd moy

president to be elected with unemployment at or above the current level to be reelected was franklin roosevelt his second term and everybody understood the great depression was going on in herbert hoover caused and you know what are other nations doing with their banks that were not doing here in the u.s. what are the lessons that we should learn. well the key thing that has gone on in sweden for instance which the washington post just reported on is the rockstar economy it's great innovation job growth it's got a balanced budget they put on some serious capital controls on their banks and not allowing their banks to lend our at the rates that our banks have been wending out is that to say they require a bigger capital reserve in a bank or for banking go a lend out they also demand better standards for look for better loans that are guaranteed by the taxpayers that's the exact opposite of what we've done here in the united states we've simply bailed out our banking system without any strings attached in britain you see a situation which if an american president proposed this he would be accuse

roosevel franklin roosevelt was a complicated man, ande kept secrets from, you know, the rest of his staff and he didn't let donovan in on everything he was doing. but he liked donovan, he liked the fact he was a spark plug for ideas and thought outside the box. donovan never had that kind of relationship with harry truman. there was just bad chemmary between them, they were never going to get along. >> charlie: how did you come to know him. >> i was a young lawyer in his law firm, it was a great law firm and when i was working as a young associate should in the library, and the general came in around midnight and he said to me young man, i'm debating tomorrow whether or not the demoatic party has been good for the country in the last few years. and donavan was a conservative republican with the young man says i'm a democratic and i'll tell you what he's going to say. we worked that night together and went to the debate together and i stayed with him essentially for the rest of his life. >> charlie: how long was that. >> six years. >> ch

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but franklin roosevelt also loved a good fight. in april 1938 when things were turning sour for him, "the new york times" reported that the president's dutch was up, referring to his famous temper. the man of charm could also be a ferocious opponent. just remember the campaign speech he gave in 1936 before the 1936 election in madison square garden. referring to the wealthy financial barons and economic royalists, he said: they are unanimous in their hate for me, and i welcome their hatred. can you imagine president obama saying anything that bellicose and confrontational? and in that same speech roosevelt repeated the militant refrain: for all these things we have only just begun to fight. and if there was any doubt about his readiness to fight, to improve working conditions, end child labor, help farmers, homeowners and the unemployed, he repeated a few months later: we gave warnings last november that we had only just begun to fight. did some people really believe we department mean it? -- we didn't mean it? well, i meant it. no

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telephone and local political campaign against the nra worked to the degree that congress pressured franklin roosevelt to create an administrative review board for the nra or congress was going to do it so roosevelt decided to do it. it was the simpler and safer course. someone needs to head this review commission and he tapped clarence darrow thinking that darrow who has made a career on the left was sympathetic to the new deal which struggled to help out the forgotten man and once darrow was in there and there were some problems but it is okay. the problem is you can never be certain of what every is going to do. he issued a report after report condemning the nra. his law partner edgar lee masters wrote to franklin roosevelt and said this is a huge mistake. you don't want darrow. as only a poet can put it and i will probably get it wrong, he is going to saying the nra which will die and that is exactly what happened. masters was right. others things he said in the letter were not right. maybe oversold the case. but darrow did fanged the nra and give birth to what scholars call the second new deal. b

. >> welcome back to booktv's live coverage of the 2011 roosevelt reading festival from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum. up next, susan dunn's efforts to exchange the democratic party. [inaudible conversations] .. >> and this year's group of authors reflect the wide variety of research done here. we are delighted to highlight our researchers' work at book talks throughout the year, and especially with this, our annual reading festival. before we get to our speaker, i want to quickly go over a few housekeeping matters. first, if you have cell phones or pagers turn them off or turn them to vibrate. also, after our speakers talk, we will move out next to the new deal store where you can purchase your books and have the authors sign them. and i would like to acknowledge the presence of our friends from c-span who are here today. we appreciate, as always, their support and participation and the good work they do at bringing the festival into the homes of those who are not able to come to hyde park in person. and now it is my pleasure to introduce our speaker this

politician within two years was within the few years was taking us to war in europe franklin roosevelt doctor. dr new deal became franklin roosevelt dr win the war after world war two happened harry truman acquired a progressive president. wrote wound up taking us to war in korea and his domestic programs were consumed. by by the war lyndon johnson sitting on my first job was not his press like a peer. i was responsible for much of the domestic policy civil rights environmental message economic policy and all of that and suddenly with the escalation of the war in vietnam in one thousand nine hundred sixty i saw all those hopeful possibilities consumed by it by the growing ravenous may ends of the military for more and more money and more and more troops and i saw all our hopes for bringing about a great society disappeared of the quagmire of vietnam it was a very sad time a grave. for those who lost their lives both americans and the the enemies but it also represented a turning away from the possibilities of building a better society at home. if. you very well said if we could move ba

now of course, eleanor roosevelt drew from franklin roosevelt. obviously, she built her whole career on being mrs. roosevelt. of course, she helped franklin, too, politically. but you notice in this slide which shows eleanor and franklin shortly after their marriage in 1905 there's somebody in the middle there. who is that? sarah, franklin's indomitable mother. and look, franklin and sarah are looking at each other, and eleanor's kind of to the side, isn't she? and that started the way it was in their marriage. now, i think most of us know the story that sarah controlled the family pursestrings. and, actually, she tried to tell eleanor who was quite young, she was only 20 when she was married, what to do and even to the point of trying to sur plant her as a mother for eleanor's five children. of course, eleanor had a sixth child who died in infancy. but mama definitely was an influence there. now, we know eleanor and franklin lived increasingly separate lives after she discovered his romance with lucy mercer after world war i, but they stayed toge

franklin d. roosevelt himself wanted to get this into the war. the two of them worked hand-in-hand to do everything that they could serve bring the united states into the war. they had a special relationship. they had no incentive to lie to each other. in fact all of the incentives or to work closely with one another to get a sense of the war. >> host: politically while leaders find it easier to lie to their own public? >> guest: actually quite simple. easiest align when there is trust between two people or to groups. and in international politics there is not so much trust between any two states. one leader dealing with another leader, in most cases, not much trust and therefore it is kind of hard to live because the other side is distrustful. but when you're dealing with your own public, in most cases public's tend to trust their leaders. they think that their leaders are looking out for their own good. and we look at the president of the united states we think he is trying to protect us. international politics is a rough-and-tumble business, a

it in the society that we have come to make and it's time to change it is this inspired by franklin roosevelt's second bill rhodes i would say that it is it's bad and it's. well in its entirety but we're what we're trying to do is explain to our fellow nurses so that they can get the word out and talk to other people and say there is hope we were very inspired by what happened in madison we have been saying for some time it's time for people to take it to the streets it's the only thing that seems to be working you know we need statesmen nowadays we don't just need politicians and so the only way to start a movement is that somebody do it so we kind of took off from madison we found that people were very hungry for the message of you're right it is wall street stop that's where the money is it's not that we're broke the money is there to help us to heal us to make society the way it should be before we can't recognize our world anymore are you advocating for a return to securities transfer excise tax the tax that we had from the thirty five and sixty yes we are every time starkers border soldie

barack obama then will face his own test and that is because he choose to govern in the way that franklin roosevelt or lyndon johnson would have well the amazing thing is that this might open up that opportunity for i think frankly he had that opportunity the first six months of his presidency he did not use it and then the moment was gone the political capital was gone and it probably won't reappear until after he's reelected assuming he is or if this kind of crisis they argue about how there is a there's a historical reference point here a gentleman named bill clinton when when they got into that shutdown the government moment bill clinton won that fight and it actually gave him quite a bit of space for a number of months i'm not going to suggest that he used it as well as as i would like him to use i pushed. after. the acid moments come and a president either seizes them or he becomes a kind of a second tier president not one of those great leaders but one of those ones that you know we kids have to memorize their names you know it's very interesting to consider how this is just very quickly the

. >> you are looking at section number 2 and it consists of franklin roosevelt, mother theresa and chiefer: those pieces will be unveiled on september 6. the mess subject resolving conflict. >> peaceful means in discussion, bringing everyone to the conversation is what this is about. >> reporter: sponsors are celebrating because oakland is home to this project. >> that perseverance, vision, tenacity, greatness is within all of us in the city. >> reporter: it is set to be finished next year. john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we set up a special section for you, including an interview with the art eston www.ktvu.com. >> why a network is making an amallagy and the mayor goes to washington, what she will be forced to do if the white house doesn't come up with money for oakland. >>> peanuts could be a problem, what other foods are a danger for children with allergies and why researchers say it's a growing problem. >>> nbc today expanded on its apology for omitting the words "under god" during the "pledge of allegiance" during the ostopen -- during the u.s. open. after an immediate furor,

like that ofmism, franklin roosevelt, linked him to the deepest chord of the american spirit.ctically speaking, that optimism kept his focus firmly on the future and on the past. it brought him especially close to young people. that is no small feat for america's oldest president. it also enabled him to compromise because he believed that if his ideas could prevail over time, if he could get more time to convince people in the can see what was coming, the future could be better than the past. as long as he could get the 80%, he could advance in the right direction. finally, reagan never stop learning and growing. he had four to six careers depending on how you count. that was very unusual in his time. it will be customary for young people today. his first run for elected office was when he was 55 years old. when he became governor, he had just turned 56. his first run for the presidency was when he was 57. he finally became president as he was turning 70. from as journey took him small town in the midwest all the way to the red square in moscow where he concluded the cold war

no president since franklin roosevelt was reelected with unemployment high than 7.2% what can the president do? >> he can argue reasonably -- >> over the last three months alone we've added 3 million private sector jobs. over the past 14 months we added for than 2 million private sector jobs. >> reporter: surrogates and supporters say >> we continue to be in the right track. >>. >> reporter: you know what that sounds like -- >> things moving forward in this country. the economy is moving forward. >> reporter: we know what happened to him ♪ >> reporter: which is why president obama is always careful not to oversell, trying not to seem out of touch. >> it's like if you had a bad illness, if you got hit by a truck, you know, it's going to take a while for you to mend. >> reporter: but now it may have to mend on its own, because, practically speaking, there is even much less the president can do, with the political wars over the debt, there is no chance for another stimulus, no more bank bailouts, there are no federal jobs to offer. and with interest rates at or near zero, the fed can't do anyt

during world war ii, i don't care who franklin roosevelt as had as a girlfriend. stop the nazis.now. win the war. that's what you care about. all this other stuff, as i said, is such a waste of time. we're not asking -- we never asked anyone to marry bill clinton during all of that. it was no one else's business. no one else's. and the fact of the matter is that the country was hurt not because of what he did, though that was immoral and wrong, et cetera. but the country got hurt because we spent two years making an issue of it instead of saying, i'm not married to bill clinton. that's not my business. >> it comes down i guess to trust, doesn't it? if someone like barack obama who is so the personification of a happily -- family man. if he turned out to have an affair, it would be pretty devastating to his image and could cost him an election, couldn't it? >> i understand it has political consequences. and i understand that. but in terms of what is right or wrong or what matters or not, none of this matters. you could, for example, be -- make very smart decisions about political

cleveland, theodore roosevelt, william howard taft, woodrow wilson, coolidge, hoo r hoover, franklin roosevelt -- >> break, break. >> no, truman, eisenhower. >> cooper, you're gone. anderson cooper with ac 360. very close. >> thanks, rainman. >>> good evening. we begin keeping them honest. a strange saga or congressman anthony weiner and what may or may not be an intimate photo of him that came up on twitter. was the photograph of a crotch shot in boxers sent from his twitter account and addressed to a seattle area college student in fact him? >> have you ever taken a picture like this of yourself? >> i can tell you this that there are -- i have photographs, i don't know what photographs are out there in the world of me. i don't know what things have been manipulated and doctored and we're going to try to find out what happened. >> we'll play more of the interview with the congressman shortly in two parts. he did tell "the new york times," he could not say if he was the person in the picture, in other words, not ruling it out. he does, however, flatly deny sending it. he says his account was h

signing the letter to franklin delano roosevelt,a reconstructed set piece photo of the 1939 warning toroosevelt from einstein about the dangerous possibilities of others developing nuclear weapons. einstein and his wife elsa in pasadena during one of his visits to the california institute of technology. in 1945, almost overnight, einstein became the conscience of the world. he wrote, spoke and broadcast throughout the last ten years of his life. einstein and several famous american physicists gathered in princeton, new jersey to launch an appeal for $a million to educate americans on implications of nuclear fission. portrait of albert einstein, 1879 to 1955. 76 years of age. that's a lot in those photographs that we can cue off and discuss, but before we do that, did einstein make any commercial endorsements to allow his likeness to be used for marketing purposesthat you are aware of? alice? by the way, alice, i should point out that you've done the quotable einstein? you also have a volume here of albert einstein's letters to and from children. tell us about@that a little bit. >> well

no president since franklin delanor roosevelt has been reelected when unemployment was above 7.2%. >> barack obama has failed the american people. >> reporter: while the gop field is filling out, it is the candidates who haven't yet declared getting all the attention. >> i apologize if i stepped on any of that pr that mitt romney needed or wanted that day. >> reporter: sarah palin apologized sunday after her bus tour pulled in to new hampshire the same day mitt romney launched his bid. but palin made no excuses for comments she made about paul revere. she said his midnight ride was meant as a warning for both american colonists and british. >> you realize you messed up about paul revere, don't you? >> i didn't mess up. part of his ride was to warn the british that we're already there, that you're not going to succeed. >> reporter: the former alaska governor has still not said whether she'll run for president and write a new chapter in american history. while historians suggest that palin did get it wrong in her version of revere's ride, her supporters say the reaction to it just point

herbert hoover once said franklin roosevelt was a chameleon on plaid.were able to do that because they did not have television, this kind of exposure that the president now has. it is very different. host: factor in the supreme court case. guest: the new york times was vindicated in publishing the pentagon papers. host: lansing, kansas, you are next. wayne, independent line. caller: it saddens me deeply that the american people have never learned lesson -- go to war, try to make peace -- this cycle is killing the american people. the only way to stop this is a volunteer basis for the country just says, "enough. -- where the country says, "enough. we cannot take anymore." i am a retired officer. i saw my friends lose legs, lose families. it is up to the american people to say, we, the people, have had enough. it's time to quit. guest: i think you make a good point. one chairman philosopher said the only thing we learn from history is that -- german philosopher said the only thing we learn from history is that we never learn. there was a book published by

roosevelt rating festival. for the next seven hours we will have author presentations from the franklin d. oosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park new york. here is a look at our schedule. coming up in a few minutes todd moye on the tuskegee airmen of world war ii. in about an hour weekly standard literary editor philip terzian presents his book "architects of power" subaid. and about two hours, we will take a break from her coverage from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum to show you an event from the atlantic history cent.

>> the chapter turned out to be the eleanor roosevelt/franklin roosevelt white house. he had his girlfriend living next to him, she had her girlfriend, lorena hickok, living next to her in the white house. the american public didn't, obviously, know anything about this. the fascinating thing about the story is that the girlfriends turned out to be essential to helping these two figures become the great heros of american history who led us through the great depression and the second world war. it's an essential piece of their story, these extramarital relationships. and it's an important piece which has been long ignored by historians. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> this june on "in depth," the balance between security and liberty, the difficulties of a climate change treaty, and the limits of international law. your questions for author and university of chicago law professor eric posner. his books include law and social norms and the perils of global legalism, and he'll take your calls, e-mails and treats. live sunday, june 5th, on c

i do think for the historical record i think it's worth pointing out in 1932 in pittsburgh franklin roosevelt gave a famous speech calling for cutting spending and balanced budgets. herbert hoover wasn't alone in that. but -- >> david, you're absolutely right. and i -- but i think that the important thing is we learned a lot. i assume we learned a lot during the 19 30z, '40s, '50s. i mean, even richard nixon said we're all keynesians now. and to go back to the 1920s, pre all of that learning, is absolutely -- i mean, it's just extraordinary. >> look, we've got to move on and -- >> but can i say one thing briefly, eliot? >> of course. >> and that is i don't think we're hearing from the president either about ways to create jobs. the larry summers column that was in the "financial times" yesterday saying that we're in danger of stumbling into a lost decade was important. it really broke with the white house. it echoed some of the things that bob reich has been saying here the last couple of weeks. and that is the administration needs to look to ways to create jobs and not sit here thinking this

constitution and anti-slavery and civil war and the progress of reform movement and the new deal and franklin roosevelt very ambitious plans for the second deliberates at the end of the second world war, he writes as an insider somebody who has spent a lot of time thinking about american history that distinguishes him from people from american politics and it does seem to me that there was something to be said for looking critically and carefully at the use he makes of history when making arguments as a partisan elected politician. part of what interested me to talk to his teachers and people who had worked with him is how uniformly they confirmed to my sense this is someone from the time he was first a freshman in college took seriously the relation between ideas and political action. he has said many times the most important course his he took was the first and second year at occidental an american intellectual history and european intellectual history and chose to study political theory to know how ideas translate into politics? if that is his own conception and and the way he sees american politics

f.d.i.c the groundwork that was laid for the boom that is the american century created by franklin delano roosevelt as a reaction to the banks or in the one nine hundred twenty s. position limits on commodity futures another containment margin limits on commodity futures another containment and all of these things and commodity futures modernization act being screwed introduced in year two thousand scrapping much of the containment these are the elements that open. up the floodgates of toxic derivative trading and the alien like exposure to the global economy from the monsters of derivatives like the blank lines of the jamie diamonds so we're going to look at one little other headline that this is also a poppy feral research firm to and this is from newsweek mad as hell they're angry that fuel the arab spring is now boiling over in europe could club wielding protesters be in america's future too the answer of course is in the picture you see in this newsweek article and that is people with images of jamie dimon the head of the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan chase the biggest bank in america one of the bigge