and deadly the biggest surprise to me was the more i looked into franklin roosevelt early years the more i kept bumping into another roosevelt, theodore roosevelt. and they quickly became evident to me that the influence of the roosevelt on the young franklin which was generally overlooked in most for accounts of his life was profound and far reaching and a half to play an important part in the story of fdr and the navy that i want to tell. but i get ahead of myself. the story begins, like most stories, at the beginning. i would like to of service chapter one. a boy sits alone quietly reading a book. elsewhere in the house the familiar sounds of servants going about their daily chores are punctuated now and then by the column authoritative voice of his mother or father supervising the activities. the boy is oblivious to everything except the book in his hands. the time is somewhere in the early 1890's. the boy is franklin delano roosevelt. he is about ten or 11 years old. the bookie is reading represents something of a challenge. it is filled with unfamiliar technical terms, complicated

roosevelt had been elected to the state legislature, the new york legislature, as was franklin. and tr had become assistant secretary of the navy has now had fdr. all that was left was for fdr to become vice president because that is what happened to tr, teddy roosevelt after serving in the cabinet as assistant secretary of the navy and went on to become vice president and president of the united states. in 1916, roosevelt the secretary of the navy. he has been appointed to the record as the associate justice by president william howard taft. but he resigned in 1916 to become the republican candidate for president and he ran against woodrow wilson and a dreadful campaign he was the odds favor, but ultimately lost california by 4000 votes and therefore the election. he went to bed the night of the election thinking he had one. franklin roosevelt was said that wilson supporter went to bed thinking he's had one also. and the next morning the returns from the midwest and particularly california came in and it turned out that wilson one the election just rarely. roosevelt continued as

>> the book begins in 1916, and franklin roosevelt -- frank roosevelt, as he was known in those days, was an assistant secretary of the navy. walter lippmann and felix frankfurter and herbert hoover, who was probably at that point the best known and best loved progressive of his day -- everybody all gathered around dupont circle to live, to socialize, and one of the places they socialized was a bachelor's boarding house just off the circle. a rather shabby place where frankfurter and walter lippmann lives along with two other british diplomats who would later loom very large in our history. it was called the house of truth. it was called that by oliver wendell holmes, the supreme court justice, who was there sort of got father and sat at the head of the table, on these midget sort of got father and sat at the head of the table on these -- sort of godfather who sat at the head of the table, as people dance to the very sexy music called jazz. >> played on -- >> on victorrolas, yes indeed. >> but thought about this word progressive. there were communists, socialists, liberals, progressiv

after hoover, we needed franklin roosevelt. we are not merely running against mr. nixon. our past is not merely one of itemizing republican failure. the families forced from the farm do not need us to tell them of their plights. the miners and textile workers know the decision is before them in november. the old people without medical care, the families without a decent home, the parents of children without a decent school. they all know that it is time for change. [applause] we are not here to curse the darkness. we are here to light a candle. as winston churchill said, on taking office some 20 years ago, if we open between the present and past, we shall be in danger of losing the future. our concern must be with the future. the world is changing. the old era is ending. the old way will not do. a broad the ballots -- although the balance of power is shifting, new and more terrible weapons are coming into use. one-third of the world may be free but one-third is the victim of a cruel repression and the other third is rocked by poverty and hunger and disease. communist infl

. >> no from its wonderful roosevelt reading festival, hosted by the franklin the roosevelt presidential library and museum, john potter discusses his book, "the good war in american memory." >> spent the afternoon. it's a pleasure to be here and especially because it is the roosevelt library. i couldn't finish my book if i didn't have the roosevelt archives. and to help of great archivists who know where material is and are willing to help you find it. it took four years for americans to fight in world war ii. but they never have stopped talking about since 1945. so i predict and suspect the conversation is going to go on for many more years. that sort of interests me as a historian that we spend more time talking and curbing these events and events themselves. and so that particular question or that particular issue caused me to think about, think more about what americans understood about world war ii, how they understood, and how they understood it over time. i'm going to make a few general points and then i will sort of take your hopping and skipping through some memorials into some

it's a book on the presidency as a whole and which franklin roosevelt as the pivot. he is the actual center of the book. and in the larger book i examine the complex ways in which our national history can be understood as a struggle to live up to our highest principles while also maintaining a region car keys of class and race that allow for stability. in that history of these things are sharply contested during the roosevelt administration. the economy lay in ruins. african americans were making increasing demands for human rights. women were increasingly flexing their political muscles. emigrants were increasingly being incorporated into the -- all of these groups for integral to the coalition which continues to have an important influence on our politics. it was through roosevelt's rhetoric as much as three is actual policy that he crafted this coalition which is proven to be one of the most enduring, one of the most fractious and complicated international history. roosevelt's vision of the nation and the world of citizens within and was routed in a pluralist poli

, wasn't franklin roosevelt. franklin roosevelt could make those words sing, and harry truman, da, da, da, da, dark did not have that gravitas. the persona. also, he was the fella, as we explained earlier -- you're coming off a war. you're coming off a war and people recoil from the party in power, and he is the man who gets the blame pinned on him. you get that similar outbreak of strikes in 1945, 1946. amazing. you get that similar outburst of inflation, and there was the fear of things worse. they expected a full-blown depression after world war ii, as had occurred in world war i. everybody expected it. and that fear, the fear gets played into the political picture as well. so, the democrats go down in flames, almost -- you know, what's interesting -- >> host: the congressional elections. >> guest: yes. people talk about how the republicans in congress were so much more conservative than dewey going into the '48 election. they're more conservative than truman, because democrats in congress, almost all that is

this is part of this year's roosevelt reading festival of the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park new york. it's about 45 minutes. [applause] thank if you for the most generous introduction franklin roosevelt never spent a day in uniform and his entire life. prior to becoming president, however, even for he was stricken by polio he had a strong interest in military matters fax he would be able to attend the u.s. naval academy at annapolis the long separation from her only child. in 1912 president woodrow wilson named fdr as the assistant secretary of the navy which simultaneously the rules that meant a great deal to him expressed his love of the sea and his continuing interest in military matters. now, in 1917 the united states goes to war. fdr goes to see what your willson and tells him he wants to resign his post and he wants to be in uniform. wilson said know you're doing an important job where you are. when the united states is deeply involved in world war i, she's determined to get to the western front and against the resi

i've looked into these situations regarding franklin roosevelt and abraham lincoln. with some disdain. mr. roosevelt wasn't directly responsible for the death of 300,000 americans in world war ii, and mr. lincoln was directly responsible for the death of 6000 americans during his administration. i don't think of them as great men in this respect. [inaudible] an amendment was offered by congress by the president regarding slavery. >> guest: meaning you can? >> caller: hello? >> do you mean buchanan? >> caller: i understand it was president lincoln that signed it. march 2, 1861. and this was the amendment. quote, now and then it shall be made to the constitution which shall authorize or give the congress the power to abolish or anything with any state, that the domestic institutions there, including persons held for service under the laws of such state, end quote. would you speak to that? >> guest: sugared there was a lot of movement before the week before lincoln took the presidency very much with james buchanan. a part of this to find some compromise that would keep m

it was held in a baltimore saloon. 100 years later, franklin roosevelt was the first major party candidate to

franklin d. roosevelt's tradition is critically important here. >> gentlemen, i'm glad we managed to swathe our way through almost 100 years of american history here. i would love to continue this with you two but i can't tonight. maybe come back and we'll do it again very soon. it's been a lively debate and it has been a civilized debate. certainly after last night when my main guest, kelsey grammar, didn't even make it to the studio, i would like to thank you both for turning up at all. so thank you both very much. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> bye-bye. >>> this note, on tuesday next week i sit down with president clinton and ask him about the state of the economy, the state of the world. i will even ask him some of your questions. when we come back, new questions about who was behind the deadly attack on the u.s. embassy in libya. i will talk to the blind sheikh. >>> we have condemned in the strongest possible terms the violence that has erupted from these protests, and as i have said, the video t

i've looked into these situations regarding franklin roosevelt and abraham lincoln. th some disdain. mr. roosevelt wasn't directly responsible for the death of 300,000 americans in world war ii, and mr. lincoln was directly responsible for the death of 6000 americans during his administration. i don't think of them as great men in this respect. [inaudible] an amendment was offered by congress by the president regarding slavery. >> guest: meaning you can? >> caller: hello? >> do you mean buchanan? >> caller: i understand it was president lincoln that signed it. march 2, 1861. and this was the amendment. quote, now and then it shall be made to the constitution which shall authorize or give the congress the power to abolish or anything with any state, that the domestic institutions there, including persons held for service under the laws of such state, end quote. would you speak to that? >> guest: sugared there was a lot of movement before the week before lincoln took the presidency very much with james buchanan. a part of this to find some compromise that would keep mor

under generations since franklin roosevelt we followed a peace through strength policy. that america's strong place in the world, politically and economically around the world protect our interests. barack obama believes in with withdrawing american influence. he thinks we are too much in the world and the world would be in a better place in a declining america. i think that is prescription for zavlt in grand strategy and number of threats we face. >> greta: the number of countries to look up the policy. let's start with russia. president obama's reset with russia. how is he doing? >> it's been a failure across the board. he laughs about romney's remarks. they still have more nuclear weapons than anyone else in the world and fortunately al-qaeda doesn't have them yet. he has given on moscow on missile defense program he inherited has been gutted. he agreed to a strategic arms control treaty. he watched putin carry through on his intention to reestablish russian gemini without america standing up to it and we watched russia fly political cover for the nuclear weapons prog

franklin roosevelt. scored mid len thpo inst i mean maybe not for people today because he obviously is very popular cerinly with democrats, but for historians to choose a living president. >> they chose him as number ten of the20. e list just below ronald reagan. but it is interesting. the popular people put him in the middle of achievements. it was one of the top ten in the country, so they excludedeorge w. bush. toyeg they excluded george herbert walker bush who i personally thing they deserved more credit than they got. the popular vote excluded woodrow wilson. woodrow wson charted arican hiy t nea >> what do you make of the breakdown if you look at the list that's used democratic. out of ten, only three are republicans. >> yeah. i mean the people, four were republicans, but wi biand large you have toook at who the puican a yo a g warren harding who was always drunk and making love in a closet. corrupt. you've got herbert hoover, decent made who made a screw -u on the depression. andalvicoolidge. he g

. >> it was not known and was a a fan fan of franklin roosevelt as a a boy growings up but of the ths 1950's people thought he was thg republican because his boss was the founder workedt directly for july eisenhower and he personally love to the walter cronkite.toe the 20th anniversary of d-day they took cronkite to the beaches. there was a feeling he may have been a republican but the bill now more showed him to be a liberal and he came out publicly saying i am a man on the left and the a speh speech and in front of the liberal caucus will been from texas. h >> host: did our heardad stepped him? >> he doorstep down as theective anchor man and had played the center quite well just get like the doctor getting a demo surgery you don't care butmb owt when he voiced dissent on the be a mom war it was the see beginning of his all t t editorializing today we see cel that all the time.cons. that is a slippery slopeib also uc the birth of celebrities and television. he would go to a rally and everyboby rushed him wanted -- but not the senators. talter cronkite could not stand pompous people a

[applause] i know what kind of a dream franklin results -- franklin roosevelt and harry truman and heart -- and john kennedy would dream if they were here tonight. and i think that i know what kind of a dream you want to dream. tonight we of the democratic party confidently go before the people offering answers, not retreat. offering unity, not division. offering hope, not fear or samir. -- or smear. we do offer the people a choice. a choice of continuing on the courageous and compassionate course that has made this nation the strongest and the freest and the most prosperous and the most peaceful nation in the history of mankind. to those who have saw to divide us -- sought to divide us, they have only help to unite us. to those who would provoke us, we have turned the other cheek. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captions performed by national captioning institute] >> now arkansas governor bill clinton accepting the democratic nomination in 1992. this is the first campaign. before facing th bush he emerged against in the primary against brown, tsongus. his speec

and now i'm writing for story in chief franklin roosevelt, the ccc in wild america.looking out fdr and people like different pinchot in being darling help get 2 billion trees planted due to this youth corps in the 1930s to come riding about the fastball, saving of the everglades, olympic national park, king's canyon and many other iconic landscapes spent i don't mean to give anything away but we were chatting before this interview, he would tell them you spent seven hours with neil armstrong. >> i did. i grew up in ohio. i don't have time to get to detail but i got to be the official oral history for nasa right after the 9/11, and he doesn't like talking, mr. armstrong, so i was able to bernsen takes with him which i'm very proud of, justin rosenthal, an editor of "newsweek" briefly found out about it, and i wrote a little piece, a long piece actually in "newsweek" about neil armstrong. in my university, rice, which is filled with the 50th anniversary of john f. kennedy challenging america to go to the moon on the campus that i teach. and kennedy said we'd go to the

so what i'm going to do today is talk a little bit about franklin roosevelt's version of what it meant to be an american added particular moment in our national history. i did this a little bit earlier but i want to go back a little bit today in this talk and say that prior to roosevelt, presidents tended to be very hierarchical in the way they interested the nation. they were often very explicitly exclusionary. they were the people like immigrants or african-americans and sometimes women who didn't get to be citizens and who were are specifically located in presidential rhetoric near the bottom of the hierarchy of the nation and the nation was understood as hierarchical rs local for many presidents. for instance the south became the demon region and there are reasons for that, because they were building coalitions that depend on including people but also always on excluding people. one of roosevelt's great geniuses as president is that he almost never actively excluded people, but tended to base his notion of the nation on a very inclusive sense of what that meant. so that is what i'm

. >>> finally, in casting cosmetics, do you buy comedian bill murray playing franklin roosevelt.fter its recent festival debut, he's earned excellent debuts. >>> i saw jessica simpson's commercial, and a weight loss commercial that doesn't show your body doesn't -- >> it doesn't. it's not the before/after kind of thing. >> right. but it seems like an attempt to evade the obvious. >> it is, kind of. yeah. you wanted to show something. show the change. i don't -- >> and there's nothing to be ashamed of. maybe it's taking her a while. it takes most new moms a while. >> someone should get hassled. >> i think they're probably going to deal with that backlash. >>> this comes to us from wthr channel 13 eye witness news in indianapolis, indiana, where once again there was a one-man tribute to the victims of september 11th. every year since 9/11 jimmy has stood along a highway overpass waiving a gian american flag. he takes a day off of work to keep the solitary tribute going. he's proud of the fact the flag can be seen up to a mile away calling it a reminder of our greatness. he describe

. >> and the kind of bold persistent experimentation that franklin roosevelt pursued during the onlyworse than this one. and, by the way, those of us who carry on his party's legacy should remember that not every problem can be remedied with another government program or dictate from washington. >> reporter: the president listed goals in his speech, if not a detailed plan, to reduce the deficit by more than $4 trillion. create a million new manufacturing jobs by the end of 2016, double exports by the end of 2014, cut net oil imports in half by 2012. cut the growth of college tuition in half. recruit 100,000 math and science teachers over the next 10 years. train 2 million workers for jobs at community colleges. and a distinction he wants clear. >> i refuse to ask middle class families to give up their deductions for owning a home or raising their kids just to pay for another millionaire's tax cuts. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: the vice president said the country is getting better because of his job. >> because of the decision he has made and the incredible spend to the americ

. >>> do you mind bill murray playing franklin roosevelt? he's earned excellent reviews. know, with the whole jessica simpson commercial, not showing her body it shows there's something to be ashamed of. >> it doesn't show confident in what you are showing. you read into it. you want to see how it can work for you. >> for her to debut her progress on katy couric's show. she's a beautiful woman. she looks great. it takes time. >> she's just a curse on the cowboys. >> there's that. football fans will never forget her for that. >> i'm mara schiavocampo. stay tuned. "way too early" with willie geist starts right now. >>> violent anti-american protests break out in egypt and libya leaving a state department employee dead. the question is, what are the mobs protesting? we'll have a live report from richard engel in cairo. bill clinton takes to the campaign trail in florida on behalf of president obama with a tried and true message, we feel your pain. how powerful and persuasive is the two-headed presidential monster of clinton and obama? >> the yankees are looking like a team t

you are the inevitable successor of franklin roosevelt and as it turns out harry truman finds himself in a role like andrew johnson after the american civil for somebody who has been dropped into this natural succession. >> unfortunately we could probably go for another hour and we'll have 150 questions. we have one minute left. you get 15 seconds of it and we will give our panel is 45. >> david t. recall personally speaking with your grandfather about the normandy invasion in a particular beforehand is concerned about intentional failure or success. >> from a grandchild's perspective and he would know this from a larger perspective, world war ii was the subject that he left alone. as my father put at once, he would accept criticism on anything regarding his presidency but he could not really bring himself to revisit the controversies of world war ii i think because so much was at stake. when you think of all the lives that depended on the decisions that were made then, and this is reflected in the character of the eisenhower library and even the roosevelt library that covers world wa

require a common effort and shared responsibility and the bold, persistent experimentation franklin rooseveltursued during the only crisis worse than this one. >> you were critical of the president two years ago. he is changing nothing. why aren't you speaking up now? >> well, i wasn't so much critical of the president as i was of the voters who became part of the tea party. we saw the tea party tsunami occurred all over the country in which democrats were losing in double digit numbers. we lost four congressional seats. commentary about the country. >> you said the president was tone deaf and he wasn't listening to people in the states. >> well, the president is clearly listening now. i think we heard that loud and clear. he's always been listening. i think that what we heard at the convention this week from the president was an acknowledgement that progress hasn't been as fast as any of us would have liked, but we have to continue to move forward and certainly here in florida, we have seen tourism economy returned. our real estate market, which housing is really important in florida has cer

as lelizabeth warren, but along the lines of business, tried the bold experimenttation that franklin roosevelt pursued in the 1930's, i have no idea how this line could get into a speech. not something to appeal to independents, but it's a message that to the extent business is focused on it, it's going to be very scary, and creating uncertainty and we're going to get more of this for the jobs report. >> how should romney respond to the argument that bill clinton made that nobody could clean up this mess in four years. >> he should respond to that, we came out of the recession in 2009 and should have had a higher growth rate than 4%, not much better than 2%. 1. 1.5 in the last quarter and 8% unemployment for 43 months, you cannot split a president, a president for four years, from that economic record, it's impossible. >> paul: so you have to link it to obama's policies. we've got more to talk about. he's made his case for four more years, do we really know what a second term would look like? the obama agenda part two next. dry mouth may start off as an irritant. it'll cause cavities, bad brea

. >>> finally, in casting cosmetics, do you buy comedian bill murray playing franklin roosevelt? "hyde park on hudson" premiers later this year, but after its recent festival debut, murray has earned excellent debuts. i'm having a hard time picturing bill murray as fdr. >> i am, too, but i feel he can pull it off. >> it's not an obvious casting. >> you wouldn't expect that, no. if someone said cast fdr, go, i'm not sure who i'd pick. >> i don't think his name would be in the top ten. >> maybe can he fix social security after the role, with what to do. >> we need lots to help through that. >>> this comes to us from wthr in indianapolis, indiana, there was a one-man tribute to the victims of september 11th. every year since 9/11 jimmy has stood along a highway overpass waiving a giant american flag. he takes a day off from work to keep the solitary tribute going. he's proud of the fact the flag can be seen up to a mile away calling it a reminder of our greatness. he describes himself simply as a humble messenger. >>> i'm mara schiavocampo and this is "early today," just your first

franklin roosevelt himself, who was not able to walk, got off of his private train car in his wheelchaird go directly to a private elevator that would take him up and into his suite at the waldorf-astoria. >> roosevelt was president during world war ii. at the time, there was concern that grand central could be the target of sabotage. >> there's one area of the terminal which is very, very deep below the ground, where power was converted, electrical power was converted, for use by the trains, and it was such a sensitive area that it's very heavily protected. there was fear, at one point, that spies would be able to get in there, and one handful of sand thrown into any of that machinery would shut the entire railroad system down and cripple the city. so it was very, very carefully protected, and even to this day, the public is not allowed to go down there. >> don't worry, there's plenty to see in the public areas. to give us a greater appreciation for this historic building, frank took me on a walking tour. >> well, this is one of the great ramps that was the invention of the architects w

common effort and shared responsibility, and the kind of bold persistent experimentation that franklin roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one. >> i've worked with business leaders who are bringing jobs back to america, not because our workers make less pay, but because we make better products, because we work harder and smarter than anyone else. and after a decade of decline -- this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two-and-a-half years. and if we choose this path, we can create a million new manufacturing jobs in the next four years. you can make that happen. you can choose that future. >> question. how viable is president obama's manufacturing job creation claim? eleanor clift. >> well, he's done pretty well reviving manufacturing. it's not the manufacturing of old. does it require people with more sophisticated job skills, but he's also putting in place community college curriculum that will build this kind of workforce. this is, frankly, the clinton agenda, and clinton, i think, gave the finest speech at that time convention, where he re

franklin roosevelt's new deal offered help to those in need. the new frontier i see is not a set of promises. it is a set of challenges. it sums up not what i intend to offer to the american people what i intend to ask of them. it appeals to their pride. [applause] it appeals to our pride. not our security. a new frontier is here whether we seek it or not. beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war. problems of ignorance and prejudice. unanswered questions of poverty. it would be easier to shrink from the new frontier to look to the same mediocrity of the past, to be lulled by good intentions and high rhetoric and those who prefer that clause should not vote for me are the democratic party. but i believe that the times require imagination and courage and perseverance. i am asking each of you to be pioneers towards that new frontier. my call is to the young at heart. regardless of age, for the spirit regardless of party, to all respond to the call -- be strong and of good courage. be not afr

and this is interesting-- that he expects the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that franklin roosevelt pursued rsring the only crisis worse than this one. and, scott, he's going to ask the american people to rally around a set of goals for the country, goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security, and the deficit, and it appears that he's going to get into some detail, scott, e out those goals. and here's one thing that the obama campaign is glad about, scott, and that's that after two s ans and two conventions, and speechesy hundreds of speeches, that it is the president tonight who is going to have the last word. you know, i ran into veteran congressman james clyburn today, and asked him how he thought the president would do following that blockbuster speech by president clinton last night, owd he said, having grown up a baseball fan, that he has seen back-to-back home runs before. >> pelley: nancy, thank you. you might be wondering why the democrats have the last word. well, it's a sitting president's party's option to hold the last convention. the democrats had hope