standard of the late 1930's. >> what was the state of the democratic party, amity shlaes, and franklin rooseveltnd his support in 1940, eight years after the new deal at a time when most presidents would step down? >> roosevelt's victory -- 46 out of 48 states in the preceding election -- was so hard to get past. even as the party was beginning to get past it, this idea of having a third term -- the war was coming closer. war in 1940 had already been declared in europe. germans had invaded poland and britain. all of a sudden, roosevelt was -- just when you say there roosevelt could not run again, roosevelt was a navalpresident. he was good at war. they knew that. they knew that he served the secretary of the navy. he might be a good war leader. all of a sudden, people were tongue tied and did not protest against roosevelt. still, it was quite amazing. >> professor madison, the headlines in the summer of 1940 with willkie as the republican nominee, hitler moving to france and declaring victory. the big question, is great britain next? juxtapose the politics of 1940 and the looming clouds of war i

franklin roosevelt, 1932, was running for his first term as president. donovan ended up running as much against roosevelt as he did against lieutenant governor lehman, roosevelt's lieutenant governor who is running for governor. said some nasty things about roosevelt on the campaign trail. at one point he accused fdr of being quote, crafty. back then that was fighting words. kind of mild today. another time he accused roosevelt of being a quote, hyde park figure because roosevelt on the campaign trail claimed he was just a simple farmer am hyde park and donovan said that was a bunch of bunk. roosevelt, for his part, took a shot at donovan. had surrogates do. eleanor got on the campaign trail and started criticizing him during the election. donovan lost that election. turned out he was a horrible campaigner. if he was here talking to you in a small group he could turn on that irish charm and he would have you've totally wrapped into what he was saying. before a large group though, he was a wooden stick figure, just terrible as a campaigner. in fact, his li

he was not the patriot and america and and did not like franklin roosevelt's and he did not like charles lindbergh but there are many people who think of it as a right wing isolationist but by december 6 the america first movement been on the women are the left door the right the democratic nominee was a member and so was herbert hoover and comings in the communist activist for about the american first movement actually made plans to open in campaign office is in every congressional district to support the most isolationist candidate running for office with a republican nor democrat and never many members of his own party who were strident isolationist. >> on that issue the mineworkers were isolationist but you indicate prior to that college campuses? >> there was some academics. it is interesting that along the coast and the city's among the intellectual class is coming there was more interest in helping churchill and great britain but that is because they were more democratic. they knew where fdr was. but then if you go down the middle of the country, it was more isolationist. >> you m

franklin roosevelt used the medium of the fireside chat to great advantage. in the clips that you see, it is all roosevelt speaking. there is a certain emotional density -- intensity. from the audience's. of view, you cannot help but note that this is a person that has done -- that has connected to the audience and responded to them. "we have nothing to fear but fear itself." i suppose it is an upper class, elite accent, but everybody in these clips seem as if they all came out with the same unspeaking a voice. >> not my guy. >> hubert humphrey. i will tell you why. when i was covering the white house for the baltimore sun -- i was covering bill clinton -- people said how eloquent bill clinton was. i get back to my office and i did not have a very good quote. i call william lee miller and said, " is bill clinton eloquent?" he said, "presidential eloquence was put in place by lincoln." heber humphrey never made it to the white house -- hubert humphrey never made it to the white house. william lee said the way you measured eloquence at that time was a person sai

>> my favorite chapter turned out to be the eleanor roosevelt and franklin roosevelt. it was complicated. he had his girlfriend in a bed room next to him and she had her girlfriend living next to her. the american public didn't know any of this. that is the thing about the story. franklin's girlfriend turned out to the essentials to helping these figures become the great heroes of american history who led us through the great depression and the second world war. the central piece of their stories extramarital relationships and an important piece which was long ignored by historians. >> let me take a caller. let's hear from a caller in auburn, alabama. we discuss "1 nation under sex". >> caller: thank you for our old good work. one of your buddies, woody harrelson who plays you in that movie, online porn plays a big part in his life. how much does it play in your? >> you say online porn? >> host: that was his question. >> guest: we have a web site. it is not relevant in my life at all. it is true that much more material is available now because of the internet that was

he did not like franklin roosevelt. can roosevelt from all accounts did not like charles lindbergh. but there were many people that were involved in the american first movement, people think of as some kind of right wing isolationist operation. but as a matter of fact, by descender, the america first movement is a very respected political institution in that there were men and women on the left and the right involved. walt disney was a member. house that was a democratic nominee in 1928 was a member, and so was herbert hoover. labor, e.e. cummings, lowell thomas, the commonest activist was a member of the country. american first move was a politically potent that they were actually making plans to open up a campaign office and every congressional district for 1942 to support the most isolationist candidate running for office whether the republican and democrat, and there were many members of roosevelt own democratic party it was strident isolationists. >> on that issue, too, the united mine workers were isolationists. >

churchill once said that meeting franklin roosevelt was like opening a bottle of champagne, and roosevelt once told churchill he was glad they live inside the same decade, so there was a respect. churchill came to visit, it was astonishing, and it was big news in america. churchill came to america several days before christmas in 1941, stayed at the white house, didn't stay at the british embassy, lived in the west wing -- >> the night before anybody knew he was here. >> exactly. left london by blacked-out train and then took a harrowing flight -- or took a ship across the atlantic, landed in boston, then flew from boston to washington. all top secret, never was in the press, only people on a need-to-know basis knew about in the and then all of a sudden here's churchill in washington. and this was big news. winston churchill was a hugely popular figure in america as he remains today. but there was one funny story is that churchill was up early bathing and was in his birthday suit, and the president opened his door to his suite in the white house, and churchill -- [laughter] >> in the alto

he persuaded franklin roosevelt to make the race. although smith lost by a narrow vote, roosevelt was elected to his first term as governor. already roosevelt was the leading favorite for the nomination. the leading opponent, none other than his old friend al smith. >> franklin d. roosevelt, having received more than 2/3 of all the delegates, i proclaim him the nominee of this convention for president of the united states. >> you have nominated me and i know it and i am here to thank you for the honor. i pledge myself to a new deal for the american people. >> and back live in the new york constituent assembly chamber. beverly gage, how did we get from 1928 f.d.r. calling al smith the happy warrior and nominating him to the 1932 election? >> well, they had been allies before, both coming up through the same new york democratic party. a couple of things happened between 1928 and 1932, some of which are very personal and some of which are on a grand scale. the most important thing that happened is of course that we entered the depressio

yet i read an article in 1937 where the economist said binkley tecum basically franklin roosevelt saved capitalism, and this has happened several times throughout history when you see teddy roosevelt did this and franklin roosevelt and others where at moments of tremendous instability which actually is an inherent in capitalism because you do have wealthy class created inevitably which is not a bad thing. oftentimes though it is a disparity that is really great or if we go through the boom and bust period which happens with capitalism as you get more risk and build up assets and you have the wealthy out there sort of speculating there is the housing boom here or the tech bohm and you will have the boom and bust and when the middle class, the majority of people in the country are becoming desperate, when there is no safety net and you see the government has to step in oftentimes the country has been good at creating the stability that capitalism needs to survive and flourish. if you allow the disparity to increase and you don't have jobs and you don't have opportunity, not equal the outc

and yet i read an article in 1937 where the economists said, basically, franklin roosevelt saved capitalism. and this has happened several times throughout our history when you see teddy roosevelt did this and franklin roosevelt and others, where at moments of tremendous instability which, actually, is inherent in capitalism because you do have a wealthy class created inevitably which is not a bad thing. could be a very good thing. but oftentimes if the disparity gets really great or if we go through the boom and bust periods which happens with capitalism, you know, as you get more risk and you build up assets and you've got, you know, the wealthy out there sort of speculating whether it's a housing boom here or tech boom there, and you'll have the booms and busts. and when the middle class, lower classes, the majority of people in this country are -- become desperate, when there is no safety net and you see the government have to step in, oftentimes this country has been very good at creating the stability that capitalism needs to survive and flourish. if you allow the disparity to increas

guess that means america has a long list of so-called socialist presidents teddy roosevelt franklin roosevelt harry truman eisenhower john kennedy lyndon johnson rich. nixon gerry ford should i continue simply put conservatives today try to paint our greatest accomplishments as a nation over the last hundred years as socialist that's very clear. coming up in tonight's daily take why would a bunch of rich bad kids be pushing their own candidate into a presidential election and why would the media treated as anything other than just that. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it's already been made who can you trust no one who is imbue it with a global machinery to see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. so sometimes you know what you know and sometimes you know what you don't know and sometimes as the fires and theater says everything you know is wrong and. you know you're right. to make. sure. you know when you go is. if you think that modern medicines are

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franklin roosevelt was moved by later movements. lyndon johnson had the civil rights movement. i think we begin with that. this book comes out at a moment when the country sees the power and possibility of occupy, 99%, and how that has shifted. it is still evolving. it has shifted the center of political gravity of our dialogue. the issue has been off the radar for so long. >> roosevelt surfed and harnessed those movements. he used them to get legislation passed to initiate programs. obama is still getting on his wet suit. to read the essay she wrote in 2008, there was a sense of exhibits -- exuberance. you say that hope is not optimism that expects things to turn out well. it seems like he confused those two things. >> i will come back to what i write about in the book. the expectations were so great and high. go back to 2008. the back to the election and year when we are fortunate region were fortunate enough to be living with debates that were not cruel reality shows. every week, there were debates among the democratic candidates. barack obama embodied change. it seemed he b

including franklin roosevelt? >> hard to think of one. courage" in 1964, at least half of his days on earth were spent in physical pain. and if that's the truth i think more than franklin was a, absolutely. >> you must have been thinking about arthur's questions as you are researching this book, and he was a friend of all of ours. were the questions he didn't ask that you wish that he had? >> everything is always 2020, in hindsight, 47 years later. caroline mentioned. in those days most historians would not have thought to ask her a lot about her own experience. a first lady in those days, even knowing a historians such as arthur schlesinger, there is less of her and also for the purpose of the oral history basically to talk about president kennedy. but caroline and i have discussed this, too. there are things that since we know what happened later on we sure wish he would have asked, what present in the my to did in vietnam, other issues that were not so important during 1964, that in retrospect we think are now very important. >> it see

no american since franklin roosevelt has won a second term with unemployment above 7.2%. the current rate is 8.6%. and few economists expect it to fall significantly before next year's election. can you admit to any mistakes that you've made? >> oh, i think i've, you know, probably once a day i look back and i say -- >> reporter: name a couple. >> i think that when i first came into office, you know, we made a decision not to scare the american people with how bad the economy might get. but i think i could have done a better job preparing the american people to let them know, this is going to be a long haul. this is not your typical recession. >> reporter: he cites his tense dealings with congress as another. >> i think when it comes to dealing with congress, you know, of late i've said, i'm not going to wait for congress, i'm going to go ahead and do whatever i have in my executive power. i think there were types in my first couple of years i kept on sitting there trying to see if we can get -- we could negotiate some sort of compromise. and there just was a lot of refus

the 8000-pound gorilla was to ensure of his health. -- franklin roosevelt and's help. -- franklin roosevelt's health. we now know that f.d.r. was dying in the fall of 1944. but it was not something that you could possibly touch. and the other was the award with pearl harbor and there's speculation as to what if anything the president might have known? and i i think your dad would have some fairly good views on -- fairly pronounced views on the subject. >> that's correct. well, there was -- not ironclad but presumptive proof that we have broken the japanese code before pearl harbor and did nothing about it. and that was once spread at the time and in fact, i think in the book roosevelt set the colonel up from washington to see him during the company. -- during the campaign. he said i just you're not going to mention this because there are police who use the same code which is and cost lives. he sucked it up and never did mention. >> but, it is a logical assumption that general marshall would not have acted on his own. >> that's my assumption. >> yes. >> james, in los angeles? >> yeah, i'm a --

but franklin roosevelt was the president. he represented the united states of america have more time. and my parents, i never want my new would look to him as the leader of our country. it was enormously important for young man. >> and you were so taken the stevenson and what he said that a sin that has some influence over the fact that he ran for congress at the age of 29, very dark horse 1962. most people don't run for congress utterly. at least they did in those days. as he said, is younger than it is nowadays. what moved you to get answers to? >> well, i was the longest of long shots. i had been away from my home district for a decade. i've done for your sick college cometh reenactors in the navy and then worked in washing 10 for two congressmen. one from ohio one from michigan. i've never met a congressman before in my life and then i'd come to chicago, home. and suddenly out of the blue, a woman who was a congresswoman, who had succeeded her husband and they had occupied the congressional district from 1932 until 1960.

it was the day president franklin roosevelt claimed would live in infamy. more than 2400 people killed in that surprise attack. in tonight's education alert, the state has put more teeth in the policy requirement for student-athletes. the new policy will affect students in all 24 maryland school systems. >> the past a clear requirement is pretty much a standard, but there were only a handful of maryland's school systems allowing to play below that level. it is an attempt to create a level playing field in the classroom. the board of education voted to recommend to state lawmakers, revise academic standards for student athletes. >> is a very important part, but the main thing you go to school for is to graduate. you have to keep your eye on that goal. >> the changes are expected to be adopted by maryland's school systems. students need a 2.0 grade point average or equivalent to participate. there is more at home -- the level of what students are what living -- towards graduation. >> ec average, the student can policy average, they should spend more time look

and jeff shesol, author of the book "supreme power: franklin roosevelt vs. the supreme court." marcia, starting with you. how are these cases alike and how are they different? >> well, they're different because they involve either different laws or different provisions within the constitution. they're alike because they all have to do, if you step back from them, with the proper role of the different branches of government as well as the relationship between the federal government and state governments. if you boil it down simply they all have to do with power. who should exercise it properly under the constitution. >> ifill: in your experience covering the court, how unusual is it for all three branches of government to get supreme court review like this? >> i don't think it's unusual at all. but i think what's unusual about these three cases is the potential political ramifications they may have for the upcoming election. as well as issues that people really care about and could have an impact on individuals' lives. >> ifill: let's talk about that, jeff. how big a political i

so president bush was as much in the dark as franklin roosevelt was about the impending attack. >> thisntry paid a terrible cost in the war, but the war revived a dying wandering and meandering america. >> yes. >> it made me say that you are almost saying it's a good thing. >> i think it was a good in some ways. i think it was good for the people behind the iron curtain because we become an internationalist power. before december 7th, 1941, we were an isolationist power. everything changes. we rebuild europe. we rebuild japan after world war ii. we put military bases around the world. we become the global leader in the fight against soviet communism, which results in the veenlt destruction. >> -- eventual destruction. >> right. we had national goals before. the creation of the constitution in the country manifest, destiny, the opening up of the the west. those had all been national goals. by 1941, we had no national goal because we were still staggering through the great depression. the war gives america a new purpose. >> now, as you read through this book and you do get a sense of sort

. >>> today is the 70th anniversary of what president franklin roosevelt called a day that would live in infamy city. japanese bombed the militarily ships in pearl harbor. that led to the u.s. entering world war ii. there are several ceremonies to mark the day. this morning there is a pearl harbor remembrance. that starts at 8:00 this morning and concludes with a reflying at 10:00. this san francisco events above the uss hornet includes talks about a man that saw it. there is a ceremony to light the beacon on top of mount diablo. >>> 4:52 is the time. if you consider buying a new car, you may want to hear this. a new safety report released this morning. the vehicle being called the safest. >>> occupy protest at benicia high school. what christmas decorations have to do with it. >>> welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news. i want to take you live to the foot of market street. you can see a huge police presence in riot gear. overnight a few hours ago they rated the sf -- they raided the sf camp. paul chambers is at the foot of market street. he tells us within the last ten minut

. >> the words of president franklin roosevelt on this the 70th and verry of the japanese -- anniversary of the japanese attack on pearl harbor. we lost 24 pun hundred -- 2400 people and that officially got the united states involved in world war ii. the last ship in the fight is here within we are -- where we find sherrie johnson with a kedcation and memorial. >> reporter: we are at pier 5 in downtown baltimore. look behind us. this is what we are going to be talking about later this afternoon. a special ceremony recognizing the 25th anniversary of the decommissioning of the coast guard cutter that has been displayed as a new seal and memorial since 1987. it's one of the fighting ships in pearl harbor. during the japanese attack on this day in 1941, the crew manned the cutters antiaircraft guns after receiving word of the surprise attack. that museum staff will host the event come up at noon today with an additional special heritage award presentation. and this morning, i have chris joining me live, the executive director with the historic ships of baltimore. thanks so much for joining

articulated by john walk in john jack rousseau and even arguably thomas hobbes and certainly by franklin roosevelt. benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson and james madison we seem to have forgotten how to win wars consistent with those kinds of values with those and lightman values but george washington understood this at the battle of trenton for example he'd captured a thousand has sions these were german mercenaries base and he ordered his troops to treat them in accordance with the values that this new nation it was not yet even a nation actually was fighting for then the battle of princeton washington sent this order to his troops in regard to how to treat british prisoners of war he said treat them with humanity and let them have no reason to complain of our copy in the brutal example of the british army and their treatment of our unfortunate brother and who have fallen into their hands is the fact the matter is the british army when they took american soldiers as prisoners they would torture them many of them died being tortured they would indefinitely detain them they could they kept them

ask democrats to name a favorite, and you'll often hear franklin roosevelt. fdr had charisma, but he also tried to stack the supreme court. yet after the failures of herbert hoover, americans embraced his new deal. 2012 will not be the year of bipartisanship. that's okay. americans are not campfire girls sitting cross-legged, arm-and- arm and singing "kumbaya." we've got tough choices. we can handle tough rhetoric. playing nice and doing nothing doesn't work in kindergarten, and it certainly doesn't work for a 236-year old country. i'm todd buchholz. >> susie: 1,400 hours, over 16 states, and $281 million in payouts. that's this season's crop of almost three dozen college football bowls. tonight's "beyond the scoreboard" looks at whether there are too many bowl games. here's rick horrow of horrow sports ventures. >> reporter: i'm here at the belt bowl in charlotte, north carolina, one of 35 bowls that cynics say is way too many. they miss the point for four reasons. one, it gives 70 schools a moment in the sun. significant recruiting, alumni donation, admissi

first president since franklin roosevelt to do that. the pace and scope of those challenges will pick up in the second term. the only any obama has is that maybe the team that killed osama bin laden, that is not foreign policy. that is something 99.99% of the american people would have done if they could have given that order. the president's weakness on foreign policy is now coming to the fore, better later than never as a campaign issue. i think it's terribly we elect a real commander in chief next november. >> mark: if you were in beijing, moscow, tehran, you would be figuring a second term and you would pretty much of the run of the planet or at least your region? >> that, or if you are worried that maybe obama is not going to get a second term, that argues to make your challenges now to take advantage of the weakness. that is why i think the debate on the republican side is so important and candidate like ron paul whose foreign policy which is anything worse than the obama administration apparently leading in iowa, it gives me grea

now, this is the opposite of world war ii, where franklin roosevelt told the supreme court through the attorney general that the 14 german saboteurs that had been picked up in u.s. would be tried by military tribunal and executed, and that he would not tolerate a writ of habeas corpus as commander in chief. so you have this real problem that since 1958, when the warren court asserted by itself that the supreme court was supreme over the president and the congress, you've had a fundamental assault on our liberties by the courts. you have an increasingly arrogant judiciary. the question is, is there anything we the american people can do? the standard answer has been, eventually, we'll appoint good judges. i think that's inadequate. the constitution promises a balance of the judicial branch, the executive branch and the legislative branch. the federalist papers say specifically the weakest of the three branches is the judiciary. jefferson abolishes 18 out of 35 federal judges. >> schieffer: they had just been created. >> and they've been appointed. he abolishes them. over half of all the

. >> reporter: he cited examples of past presidents-- franklin roosevelt and abraham lincoln among them-- ignoring court rulings in the interest of the nation and suggested it might happen again under a gingrich presidency. the remarks furthered those he made on "face the nation" on sunday. >> we've had rulings that outlawed school prayer, rulings that outlawed the cross, rulings that outlawed the ten commandments. we've had a steady secular drive to radicalize the this country away from its core beliefs. >> reporter: as a remedy, gingrich suggested federal judges be subpoenaed to go before congress and explain any controversial rulings. how would you enforce that? would you send the capitol police down to arrest them >> if you had to. or you'd instruct the justice department to send the u.s. marshal. >> reporter: but that view would seem to conflict with the constitution and its separation of powers doctrine that says all three branches of government are equal and not subject to any other branch. gingrich's views on this and a number of other subjects have alarmed some republican party

forcing him to meet with his primary advisers before he made decisions because they recalled the franklin roosevelt decisions , he made and the way you wanted to commend it did not like that, president truman was created -- was pleased with the national security council was created by law as part of the national security act of 1947, but he did not want it to constrain him. he said the president is president. there is no committee and making american policy. therefore, wendy -- when it came time to have a meeting he could be in the meeting and invite all the senior piece of -- people were basically a handful of people, and then they had another of subsequent meetings that he just decided not to go to. so he would demonstrate his independence. it was only when the korean war broke out the germans started to meet regularly with the nsc. eisenhower considered it rather differently. eisenhower also was very much president and he saw himself as the decision maker, but he placed a much higher value on a regular weekly meetings of this high-level committee. the f to sweat every key was in town there was i

president by forcing him to meet with his cilluffo advisors before his made decisions because franklin roosevelt made decisions the way he wanted to and they didn't like that. now president truman was pleased with the national security council was created us law. it's part of the act of 47 but he wanted to constrain him. he said there is no committee. we are not the cabinet system therefore when it came time to have a meeting he convened the meeting and invite all the people basically handful of people, defense etc., and then they had a number of sets said clint meetings he decided not to go to so jefferson demonstrate his independence, there's always when the korean war broke out at the started to meet regularly with the nsc. eisenhower also was a three much president and saw himself as the decision maker but he placed in much higher value on a regular weekly meetings with this committee. so he convened just about every weekend was in town there was a national security and they would typically consider this policy papers which the been living. it yugoslavia or somewhere and then there would be

about teddy roosevelt theodore roosevelt the republican roosevelt not the democratic roosevelt franklin roosevelt abroad was the the new deal out of the great depression but teddy roosevelt who brought us the square deal and you know he was president from one thousand one in one thousand eight and then ran for president again as in the bull moose party as a progressive and the present the united states that i was calling out the republican teddy roosevelt theodore roosevelt and saying that that was an example of how the one percent was beaten back one hundred years ago and how we can do the same today in fact president obama even went on to say that the ideology of the one percent today is one of the things that's destroying america he was one of the first speeches frankly that has ever been given by at least by a president well here's here's the next clip. a certain crowd in washington who for the last few decades have said let's respond to this economic challenge with the same old to the market will take care of everything that sells and that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. but here is th

a finalist for the pulitzer prize begins the trader to his class, radical presidency of franklin delano roosevelt and first american called life and times of benjamin franklin in 2000. twenty-four books. he has presented eight times here. he is a passed texas award winner at this festival at he has not one but two book said the festival this year. if you can't get enough of him now come back tomorrow and that book is the murder--the love of j mansfield along with the book we are discussing today. to agree back planet:how the dollar conquered the world and threatened civilization as we know it. sounds horrible. maybe it is. what i would like to start off with today is each of our authors talk about their books for a few minutes and i will ask a few soft ball questions and leave the hardball questions to you guys and give you a prompt to have people queue up to ask those questions and keep those questions going on as long as we can before you go out to buy their books. can you tell me about that? >> why that? why do we have that? one of the questions i asked when writing the book is what is that? o

transformative progressive president arguably and american history certainly up there with franklin roosevelt that was teddy roosevelt now with the words in the rhetoric aren't exactly matching up as i as i said when i wrote about it. populism is a mode of action it's not a form of speech but still we've seen this big change and that's directly i think attributable to the occupy wall street movement which in just two months as change the the whole dialogue so how do we get congress to change we keep the pressure on with things like occupier almost and frankly we do have these kinds of tactics that get the banks attention because you know there's a it's a very to say that if you've got wall street concerns you'll get the politicians attention and i think it's time to bring the fight to those areas sent to new levels well it certainly will be interesting to watch especially as we watch that debate that discussion sort of change forums with all the g.o.p. candidates trying to give their views on the economy it's an interesting and exciting time here in this country i think you're following the c

many wonderful book written about franklin roosevelt, eleanor roosevelt, the cabinet earthquake the warartment, what was going on with the gems in that period but never a from the perspective of the american people ultimatelying the ones asked to make the sacrifice. that is what i try i had to a much accomplish. >> the morning of december 7th, isolation of america was at peace, december 8th, internationalist america was at war and became forever an altered country. the defining moniker of the country majority moving from an isolationist point of view. >> yeah. we go -- that is really the bright line, december 7th, between the america of the past and the america of the future. you know, from the time of washington, 'cause he in his farewell -- >> it was not a state that was attacked. think about it to this day, we look back on it hawaii is a state, it was attacked this is sort of a -- >> it was a territory. >> this is kind of a remote territory. >>> a good point because very few people in america on december 7th could find hawaii on a map. there were people who thought hawaii was off of

franklin d. roosevelt said these words on december 24, 1933, because he believed the christian religion, not to be a hate religion, as so many are now saying, so many are trying to persecute. franklin d. roosevelt said this, this year -- and it is important to understand this is in a terrible time of depression. roosevelt said, this year marks a greater national understanding of the significance in our modern lives of the teaching of him, and he capitalized him, whose birth we celebrate. to more and more of us the words, quote, thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself-, unquote, is taking on a meaning and purposes in our daily lives. may the practice of that high ideal grow in us all in the year to come. i give you and send you one and all, old and young a merry christmas and a truly happy new year. and so for now and for always, god bless us, everyone. the words of franklin roosevelt. roosevelt also said this in 1941, just two weeks exactly after the horror of pearl harbor's sneak attack. franklin roosevel