indeed, it was 75 years ago this month that franklin roosevelt announced his court packing plan, which is subject of much of my booker and i will talk in a moment. but the clash between roosevelt and hughes at a critical time in american history i think is, it's a great story and it's an important one. also it raises questions that were important 75 years ago, and are important today. one being whether justice, concerts, of the supreme court can import the popular. alternatively whether a poverty progressive president can try to bend the courts to his political policies. and those are questions and issues that are the same today as they were 75 years ago. first, let me tell you a little bit about roosevelt and hughes, who were remarkable leaders of the 20th century. they had a great deal in common. both were born in new york. both were only children to doting parents. both were ivy league educated. roosevelt went to harvard and hughes went to brown. both were two-term reform governors of new york. so that was what they had in common. now, they had a good deal that they did not have in

but that was franklin roosevelts great strength. he was always ready with another plan. >> a great improviser. >> yeah. >> you're right franklin roosevelt's great ins sprugs, the notion government might play a positive role in improving the lives of its citizens, but you also go on to say he never defined the boundaries of benevolent intervention in either the economy or in individual lives, and isn't that still where liberals are wrestling today to define the boundaries of government in their intervention? >> i think they're wrestling with the consequences of having failed to define them. i think there were certain boundaries that people would have felt comfortable with, and liberals went beyond them and i do blame liberals particularly in the '70s for failing to understand that they were no longer acting liberally anymore. they were merely redistributing the spoils of the system amongst various groups. the political scientist ted lowi called it and liberals turned on one another. feminists turned onblacks, on gay, on white working

and then about franklin roosevelt. he's commanding a global power, a completely different undertaking at least in many of its parts. and he also built that broad base of very able leaders. putting republicans into the major positions early in the war, secretary of war, secretary of the navy, working across party lines in that regard. also doing the other great -- combining the other strengths of leadership that washington had done, but in a different key, in another era, in a different framework. now the question is what next? we can see that people took inspiration from lincoln for that same period of about 60 years that had worked for washington. and then there's a wonderful book by bill luchtenberg on the shadow of fdr at least to ronald reagan. even reagan turning against the new deal, but embracing that style of leadership on the explicit example of franklin roosevelt. and now what today? what for us? and we look at this country and find many great leaders in every field. we find great leaders in american universi

so franklin roosevelt created the national resource planning board to read they were supposed to take ideas for after the war to run the american economy. roosevelt picked this up and the state of the union speech of 1944 he talked about the economic bill of rights. the economic bill of rights, and i quote from parts of it include bear right to a useful clean new narrative job. the right of every family to a decent home. the right to a good education, the right to adequate medical care. these become new rights described as the economic bill of rights. sometimes he called it the second bill of rights and they roll off the tongue so nicely. don't we all want decent homes? the right to a good education, the right to a useful and remember to of job. roosevelt issued visas and they become the plan for after world war ii. when the world is over then these rights can be given for. if you think about it, if anita has the right to av remember to the job, then someone here has an obligation to provide the job. if i have the right to a decent home, taxpayers have an obligation to provide that ho

so franklin roosevelt created the national resource planning board to read they were supposed to take ideas for after the war to run the american economy. roosevelt picked this up and the state of the union speech of 1944 he talked about the economic bill of rights. the economic bill of rights, and i quote from parts of it include bear right to a useful clean new narrative job. the right of every family to a decent home. the right to a good education, the right to adequate medical care. these become new rights described as the economic bill of rights. sometimes he called it the second bill of rights and they roll off the tongue so nicely. don't we all want decent homes? the right to a good education, the right to a useful and remember to of job. roosevelt issued visas and they become the plan for after world war ii. when the world is over then these rights can be given for. if you think about it, if anita has the right to av remember to the job, then someone here has an obligation to provide the job. if i have the right to a decent home, taxpayers have an obligation to provide that ho

i would say franklin roosevelt would be another. all of these men they were, i think, one can say, that, washington was a little to the right of center. franklin roosevelt said he was a little left of center. i think, franklin, abraham lincoln was right down the middle. but all governed from the center. they really governed. and they tried to govern in ways that would engage a great diversity in their -- in -- in their country. lun c lincoln was different than wash work he was born into a democracy. he became a party man. washington hated parties. he believed in, a nation, washington's thinking was not precisely national. even as it became -- continental. he centered i think more on the great republic. than on an idea of -- of nationalism. but these men shared those same ways of, having, a set of values without an ideology. of having a large purpose without fixed and structured plans. of the sort that -- became too rigid and constraining. of working -- closely with the people, but reserving their own leadership. most of all, the cap

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franklin roosevelt was a mystery in his own papers. i would say that that is true of a number of presidents. they are people who -- >> they're complex. >> go ahead, julie. >> i agree with you, i think they're very complex and they're driven and they're extraordinary. they -- >> would your mother have said the same thing about your father? >> no, i think he, i think he was more -- >> your father? no way. >> no? i thought, well, he was such a great family man. i mean, the way i knew him. i don't know. you mean like politically he wasn't as noble. he never spanked. >> people with that kind of drive develop a sense of what they're going to be rather early in life. the thing that makes me smile a little bit listening to julie is julie wrote this wonderful book and one of the collections that she breaks in that book is an amazing cache of letters that richard nixon wrote pat nixon from the south pacific in '43, '44 and '45. he's not telling her in these letters that he's going to go out and become president, i don't know what he's telling he

and franklin roosevelt -- roosevelt's solution was to pack the court. let's get some more people on the court. and then, we'll -- we'll get the majority in favor of the new deal. and another challenge is the warren court and more recenty -- the united citizens where corporations, no limits on campaign contributions. so that -- the super pacs now, some times, outpace the regular campaign life and my point is that -- that if i were teaching the constitution i would think it very important historically to come against and explain and discuss those points where the constitution was really challenged. and part of that would be -- the drama to -- to getting a new -- amendment. so, i just think, i think the students who had -- who would get excited about the challenges. >> all right. all right. thank you. >> so i liked rosie's suggestion that we could -- rosemary's suggestion that we could ask students what they think abut a constitutional convention. i have gone around the, you know, to classrooms, as young as -- first graders and one question i have asked th

i was a teenager when the franklin roosevelt's new deal got started. early on, a bunch of new deal legislation got slammed down by the supreme court. franklin roosevelt's solution was to pack the courts. let's get more people on the court. then we will get the majority in favor of the new deal. another challenge is the war in court and more recently the united citizens have corporations and no limits on campaign contributions so that the super pacs sometimes outpace the regular campaign money and my point is that if i were teaching the constitution, i would think it very important historically to come against and explain and discuss those points where the constitution was really challenged. part of that would be the drama to getting a new amendment. and so i think the students would get excited about the challenges. >> thank you. >> i liked rosy's suggestion that we could ask student what is they think about a constitutional convention. i have gone around to classrooms as young as first graders and one question i asked is a jefferson-like question. wha

he disliked most of the new deal and loathed franklin roosevelt. he said after franklin roosevelt's death it is my duty to go on hating him. his famous 1941 essay in "life," "the american century" was a call to reshape the world on the american model. he wrote "we are the inheriters of all the great principles of western civilization. above all justice, the love of truth, the ideal of charity. it now becomes our time to be the powerhouse from which the ideals spread throughout the world and do the mysterious work of lifting the life of mankind from the level of the beast to what the sulness called a little lower than the angels luce had an almost proprietary view of china, the land of his birth and spent much of his adult life supporting and idolizing chiang kai-shek, denying the incompetence of the regime and insisting that the united states commit itself to defeating the japanese and then the communists in china. one of his most famous journalists, theodore h. white, then a young "time" correspondent in china and for a time a friend and admirer o

>> my father noted this about franklin roosevelt. it was an admiring comment he made. here we are at the lyndon johnson library. julie is here, a former student. i send students to the johnson library every semester. i know the institution. i know what a great one it is. and the great story told here. presidents are sort of mysterious in a lot of ways, and this is more obvious in certain libraries than it might be in others. what my father said with admiration is franklin roosevelt was completely unscrutable. he was a mystery in his poun papers. that is true of a number of presidents. there are people who -- >> they're very complex. >> go ahead. >> i agree with you. i think they're very complex and they're driven and they're extraordinary. >> no, i think he was more normal. >> your father? >> no? i thought he was such a great family man. the way i knew him. politically maybe. i don't know. never spanked. i wouldn't do that. >> i think these people have -- people with that kind of drive develop a sense of what they're going to be rather early in life. and the thing that

then i think mr obama would have done or would do the same thing franklin roosevelt was elected in one nine hundred thirty two as a center of the road democrat rather like mr obama he came in talking about balancing budgets and all of the rest he came here about giving incentives to private employers to hire within a year and a half of taking office he goes on the radio and he says the private sector has not hired the people we now have tens of millions of unemployed the unemployment rate in the winter of one nine hundred thirty three thirty four was twenty five percent three times what it is today and he said ok if the private sector isn't going to do it i'm going to do it and when he was asked how dare you he said there is no option he said look around you the cia old a congress of industrial organizations was organizing tens of millions of american workers it was the unionization drive we had never had before in american history and we've never had it since seizing occupy wall street isn't big enough that's right well it's not big enough it's not cohesive enough it hasn't cracked en

even though i was born in 1962, i miss franklin roosevelt. and i -- and i also say this as an aside, my first political memory was 1968, going to the polls, wearing proudly my hubert humphrey button. my dad was a union member. the union got out the vote in michigan and carried the vote for humphrey. to me, that's -- that's great tragedy. yeah? >> your book you briefly identified that the seed that these revolts grew from was called -- i think you call it in loco parentis. i wonder if you could amplify those two. >> in loco parentis basically means the university supersedes the president. it's hard to believe how much control the university had over its student body. you had separate male and female dormitories. up do the very day in the 1980s. if you were visiting a girlfriend or boyfriend, you had to have the dormitory room open. you had dorm mothers, keeping law and order in the dormitory, two feet on the floor at all times if you're sitting on a bed. curfews. and many universities maintained the right to actually inspect off-campus student

you know the wpa the new deal is 75-years-old as of yesterday, march 4, 1933 is one franklin roosevelt was inaugurated president of the united states. all that time, yet we have today program in the wpa that suddenly seems fresh and new because once again we are talking about infrastructure, the need for economic stimulus, and that is the kind of thing the wpa did. i'm going to talk about all that and read a little bit. so let me first read from a prolonged a little bit but will give you the framework in which the wpa came to exist. the human toll of the great depression is the 1930's is almost impossible for us to fathom today. when franklin roosevelt took office in 1933 as many as 15 million people, workers in the united states had no jobs, had no jobs and no hopes of finding one's. the desolation knew no boundaries. the skilled and unskilled still on the bread lines waiting for their turn in soup kitchens. when they were evicted from their homes the build in prague two shacks to house their families until the police came and knocked them down. when roosevelt took over the reins of g

it is called fight for american liberalism from franklin roosevelt to barack obama.">> if by a liberal they need someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who cares about the welfare of the people, the health, the housing, their schools, their jobs, dhar civil rights and their civil liberties, someone who believes we can break through the stereo types, if that's what they mean by a liberal, then i'm proud to say i'm a liberal. [ applause ] >> hey, lowell welcome. >> i'm a first time watcher. i just got current tv and i'm loving your show. >> thank you. first-time girl watcher. awesome. >> you bet ya. you guys have a chat room or anything? >> yes, we do. just go to current.com and you'll find where it says live chat. >> please chat away. >> thank you i'm going there right now. >> all right. please talk among ps yourselves we'll be back. 45 minutes after the hour, back with the remaining moments of the "stephanie miller show." >> are you thinking what i'm thinking? >> all the time bitch. >> miller -- it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ i don't just talk about poli

when some real severe restraints were put on the banks by franklin roosevelt we never went more than fifteen years without a major national crash and major banking crisis or a major major crash and then we went forty fifty years without one from from thirty five until until reagan's deregulation and a yeah yeah but it was not really functioning well because franklin roosevelt did some good things he improved things definitely but he didn't go far enough and he had the ability to do that because there was a thing called the chicago plan which had been proposed but we actually had brilliant economists in this country back in those who were arguing we should nationalize the fed yes and the federal reserve banks and that's the first part of their argument the second part of their argument just as critical because just nationalizing doesn't work we know that from the bank of england the second part of their argument was. no more money creation no more fractional reserve banking they ended it for the bank let's clarify that's not so much correct if i'm wrong not so much no more money creat

thank you when it comes to taxing the rich franklin roosevelt was right nineteen thirty six and president obama and vice president biden are right in two thousand and twelve i will not leave this election is going to come down to a simple question should the wealthiest are paying their fair share in taxes again or should working people continue to shoulder the burden of trickle down austerity measures that have been dumped on a since reagan most americans it's a very easy answer unfortunately most americans voices are about to be drowned out by billions of dollars in corporate cash in this coming election thanks to the supreme court's citizens united decision so what do we the people need to know to fight back heading into the election season. one of the best people to talk to on this issue is a man who's committed his life to activism and building grassroots movements in jones joins me now from our los angeles studio he's the author of the new book rebuild the dream and jones welcome back. glad to put be back and glad to be talking to you about the fact the book is now a bestseller and p

instead of a vase a fair government of calvin coolidge, we had acted as governor of franklin roosevelt. so you have that kind of army of federal workers who can go in place, save lives, save property. and so, the difference comes from the fact that we learn from 27, but also we have a very different philosophy of government in place. i think about 2011, we had flood levels on the ohio river and that were in some places comparable to 1937, but we didn't have mass evacuations. we didn't have that kind of damage that we had in 37. and that's because of the floodwalls that were put in place after 1937. it's also because there is now a series of reservoirs upstream where the ohio begins, its tributaries begin, they can anytime of flood hold back water, retain water and keep it from adding to the flood. and so really a modern ohio valley since 1937, towns as they are, the river as it is, the flood protection as it is, it all comes from this depression era incident. >> up next on book tv, james scurlock, author of "king larry" recounts the life of larry hillblom. he disappeared in 1995 off th

he once said meeting franklin roosevelt was like opening a bottle of champagne, and roosevelt told churchill she was glad they lived in the same decade so there was a respect. tertial came to visit and astonishing and was big news in america. churchill came to america several days before christmas in 1941. stay at the white house, didn't state the british embassy's, lived in the west wing to the estimate the night before anybody knew he was there. it's been exactly, and left london by the blackout train and then took a herring flight or ship across the atlantic and then flee from boston to washington all top-secret come only people on the need to know basis knew about this and all of a sudden there's churchill and washington and this is big news. he was a hugely popular figure in america as he remains today. but there was one funny story that churchill got up early dating and was in his birthday suit and the president opened his door to the suite in the white house and churchill -- they were both surprised. >> audience? >> everybody knows 1941. there we go. i know, this is ancient history >>

>> my father noted this about franklin roosevelt. it was an admiring comment. here we are at the lyn don johnson library. she is a former student. i know this institution and what a great one it is. what my father said -- was completely -- he was a mystery in his own papers. i would say that is true of a number of presidents. >> they are very complex. >> they are complex. >> they are driven and extraordinary. >> no, i think he -- i think he w was. >> he was a great family man. i don't know. >> look at it this way. >> politically he wasn't as noble buzz his family was. >> one of the collections she brings in the book is an maizing cache of letters that nixson wrote from the south pacific in 1943, 44, and 45. if he is not telling her that he's going become president in these letters, i don't know what he is telling her. he was not captain of the football team. he exuded an extraordinary sense of himself. i am sure linda and lucy have stories or something that relatives -- a man of extraordinary drive. my grandfather, my father told the story in 1938 or 9. they we

represent as view of america's role in the world in the tradition of democratic leaders like franklin roosevelt and harry truman, john f. kennedy, scoop jackson. in my experience with him, joe lieberman is a statesman who takes positions on every important national issue, because he believes they best serve our country's interests and values. so thank you, joe, for your introduction, and more importantly, thank you for your example. i'm privileged to serve with you. i want to thank brookings for this opportunity. i wanted to contribute today a few thoughts of the current debate over america's role in the world, and in this the 21st century and i wanted to give this speech today to share with you my ompgss of someone who has a longtime interest in foreign policy but now finds him in the role of foreign policymaker. i'm always cautious about generalizations in politics. but until very recently the general perception was that american conservatism believed in robust and muscular foreign policy. that was certainly the hallmark of the foreign policies of both president bushs and of president reagan.

even franklin roosevelt fell but the census in 1940 occupation president of united states. >>> to find a future presidents to 29 year-old ronald reagan and still an actor. >>> anyone can search the 3.9 million pages released for the first time on line and 1940 census data are has not come belatedly is the county residents to find the district by which census takers group people an alphabetical listing is being compiled but won't be available for another six to nine months. >>> so that they decide when to put up the senses? >>> it was arbitrary after the 1870 census was released in 1942 the census bureau and the national archives agreed to stick to that schedule. and wait 72 years for the details of each census to be released. >>> in the mason cbs news and york. >>> kentucky and kansas will have a talent for you coming up. o'donnell live in new orleans. it was an animated. >>> the game was over the party designer in new orleans. did we cannot cut and the crowd, >>> never know. >>> but there he is that is what's going on? did with a good thing about nonsense it continues on myself in 213