franklin roosevelt himself was accused of being jewish. people talked about president rosenfeld or rosenberg and he had a wonderful response. i'm not jewish, but the jewish people are wonderful and i wouldn't mind if i was. >> host: was the consensus among fdr regarding the jews? >> guest: at the time there was an absolute consensus. the jews were the strongest supporters are president of the united states. jews were very important donors to the democratic party and jews revered franklin delano roosevelt understood he did everything possible and we can talk about that to help persecuted supplement here. he was vastly better than any other world leader, including winston churchill, who talked a lot, but didn't do anything for the jews and was not even after the horrors of the concentration camps revealed continue to revere franklin roosevelt. his severe criticisms of policy towards someone didn't emerge until critical books are written in the late 1960s. >> host: professor allan lichtman, was there an opportunity to change or to effect was

he truly believed we had to save england and he didn't care if it was franklin roosevelt's policy or was going to support it. >> let me ask you about the feelings at the times. did you have people yelling at each other at this time? people when they went to big rallies, america first rallies, nobody realized, screaming we will not go to war. we're being pushed into the war. we had jewish people, and a lot of people worried about what is going on and scared to death. they had begun to do it, and neither the long naives and all the stuff, and it had been evidenced it was heading toward genocide. >> there was enormous divisiveness in this country and it reminds me very much today. those angry days, these angry days. the country deeply divided politically. >> if we hadn't been attacked by the japanese in december of '41, would we have gone to war? >> that's a really good question. i'm not sure we would have gone to war immediately. i think we would have been drawn into the war eventually. >> how about if germany hadn't declared war on us? would we declare war on them? >> i don't think so

and he didn't care if it was franklin roosevelt's policy or not.going to support it. >> let me ask you about the feeling at the time. did you have people who really were yelling at each other at this time, people that really -- these big rallies, american first rallies, nobody realizes it today. before pearl harbor, people screaming, we will not go to war. we're being pushed into war. on the other hand, jewish people perhaps especially, people worried, liberals, scared to death of what hitler was up to. he'd begun to do it. made the long knives and everything. it has already been evidenced he was heading toward real -- what do you call it, genocide. >> there was e nor r moonormous divisiveness in this country. it reminds me of today, "these angry days." >> if we hadn't been attacked by the japanese in december of '41 would we have gone to war? >> that's a really good question. i'm not sure we would have gone to war immediately. i think we would have been drawn into the war eventually. >> how about if germany hadn't declared war on us? would we have

and so franklin roosevelt have franklin roosevelt had a meeting in the oval office as an activist duringthe depression if you listened to their grievances and demands for change and he said i agree with everything you just said. now go out and make me do it. create the conditions that make it easy for progressive liberal allies of yours to pass these laws. i think that's a lesson that obama is learning right now. that he learned from the first four years of his presidency, when he didn't encourage active movements, even during the health care debate, but now in his inauguration speech, he said we can't do this from the white house. we can do this from inside. we need the outside. that's why we're talking about seneca falls and selma and stonewall it and so we will see whether on the gun control issue, on the immigrant rights issue, on the issues for climate change whether the movements around the country really build up to a point where president obama will say like roosevelt, go out and make me do it, create the political climate of protests and fear of rebellion that will make it possi

during the great depression, franklin roosevelt was having affairs. frank lip roosevelt had two very -- franklin roosevelt had two very long-term affairs. one with his personal aide and secretary and cook and dresser -- undress or, apparently, too -- what if we threw fdr out of office or demanded his resignation as the economy was recovering? all the way back to the french and indian war, a very young george washington was writing very romantic letters to a woman who was not mrs. washington. her name was sally fairfax, a very attractive, older, sophisticated neighbor. what if washington's letters had become public during the french and indian war or the revolutionary war? much as petraeus with' e-mails became public. and what if we got rid of george washington? so neither -- bill clinton's not the first and not the worst, petraeus is not the first and not the worst. been there, done that, there's a long history of it. in fact, it pains me to say that even abraham lincoln visited a prostitute. i know, say it isn't so, right? but it happened. now, there

social security happened because of franklin roosevelt.n't think you can anyone anyone in congress back then responsible for social security. civil rights and voting rights act in '64 and '65 were because lindon johnson took the southern democrats and others literally by the ears and said, you will vote for this. people want it. h is right, end of story. go up there and vote for it. and obama, president obama, i really think he just has to get his game on here and start kicking some butt because the people will be behind him if he does. >> even though the republicans have shown no willingness to negotiate with him on anything else, you think this has to be an effort he's got to make? >> absolutely. i think -- i don't want our side to be constantly whining and complaining, oh, it's the republicans. hey, we're in charge. we're the majority of the can country. the majority of the can country believes just about everything we believe in on the left if you are on the left or a liberal. majority of the country does not want us invading other cou

if the private sector -- and here i'm paraphrasing franklin roosevelt in the '30s.the private sector either cannot or will not provide the work for millions of americans who want the work, then it's the job of the government to do it because no one else is. and if i were president, i would follow roosevelt and immediately create and fill millions, millions -- i'm talking 15 to 20 million jobs in the united states right away. number two, i would make it would some have called a "green new deal," that is the major thing these people would be doing would be to deal with the environmental crisis that we have, to change the way we use energy. for example ,just to give one, to give us the proper mass transportation system that advanced countries in other parts of the world already have that we ought to have. millions of people could go to work producing that system and give us a way to move our goods and move our people around the society using less oil and gas with less damage of injury and death the way our car-driven system has, with less pollution of our environment.

in 193 franklin roosevelt with approval rating of 60% lost 72 seats in the house. what he's trying to do is extremely difficult. so the charm offensive is part of making barack obama seem warm and cuddly again, which is tough for him. >> kim, so the attacks and the scare tactics and everything we've been hearing for the past three weeks up until this week, they didn't do so well in the polls, they led to his drop in the polls. is that why we see the charm offensive this week? >> well, i think that's part of it. he's got to do more now to finish his public image. the thing on the bully pulpit. he got caught in that, why aren't you in washington working with republicans. here is what the white house sees. they see that this is a win for them either way. the goal of this outreach is to divide republicans, to get some of them, peel some of them off and get them on board with his tax hikes and this will make the republicans look as though they're not united on the issues and figures if that fails and he doesn't do it, he can say, look, i tried and look at those obstruct

it in we can get through it and on the other side capitalism can work again it really i mean franklin roosevelt said his job is to save capitalism for myself he did it. after the break the supreme court's twenty ten citizens united decision give corporations free rein to manipulate elections by his time we took money out of politics one petitioner in the white house words petition board thinks that making lawmakers display donor names on their suits will do the trick if they're going to really work as cross and peter's just. a potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston properly or today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more. significant and there's still a lot of snow out here and a good place for snowball fight. piece and it is going to be pretty incredible today there and even record snowfall throughout what's been like you'll be slow to be driving lessons to them urgency if you are exceptions.

recollection is that the rural electrification administration in as i recall the the roosevelt franklin roosevelt administration and the roll to law from the administration was called i think was that during truman or eisenhower did was that also f.d.r. did that i mean both cases basically the government came in and said private corporations you are not willing to run these long lines out into people's farms because it's not profitable so either we're going to run them or we're going to force you to run them and pay for them and i don't recall which it was can you tell us those stories and is that the model that you're suggesting for for broadband at the same thing happened in electricity so roosevelt had a f.d.r. had a great history in warm springs georgia and knew that not having electricity there was causing it that the quality of life to be a lot lower and so he made sure that cooperatives across the cultural regions of the united states were supported subsidized benefited and forced equal level of electrification across the country that's what needs to happen now. with high speed internet ac

it in we can get through it and on the other side capitalism can work again it really i mean franklin roosevelt said his job was to save capitalism from itself he did it. after the break the supreme court's twenty ten citizens united decision to give corporations free rein to manipulate elections by paying his time we took money out of politics one petitioner in the white house words petition board thinks that making lawmakers display donor names on their suits will do the trick if they're going to really work as cross and peterson just. let me let me i want to know we're going to let me ask you a question from. here on this network is what we're having the pain we have our knives out if. the truth is this time to spend staying there again you're in a situation where b. and i don't even talk about the surveillance we. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. here is mitt

. >> reid and know if franklin roosevelt ever heard of the call for health care as a right because even though he endorse the conference, he chose to go on vacation, a cruise. probably will deserved the three years earlier if tear refused to include medical coverage with the social security act because he did not want to antagonize the american medical profession. he did send a message of support to the conference but then the outbreak of world war to force the president's attention elsewhere. five years later january 11, 1944 in the "state of the union" address roosevelt spoke to the american people about the war and especially the peace to establish after fascism that the one supreme objective can be summed up in one word, a security. not only physical security from aggressors but also economic security and social security. the individual political rights were necessary but not sufficient to guarantee true security then announced the economic belgrade's as some call the second bill of rights, included the right to a job and a living wage, housing, education, se curity in old age, get

it in the 1930's obviously franklin roosevelt, the new deal, the progress of congress, the grass roots labor movement and protest movements of the time pushed the system to be more progressive. and it passed social security. even at the time, the business community, conservatives said this is a socialist and radical idea that will ruin the economy. so it was still considered a radical idea, but it was, nevertheless, now law. about a year go the poll was done of tea party members -- about 50 percent of all the tea party members that they polled said that congress and the business community should not mess with social security. it up the social security was sacrosanct. how did this idea of social security go from being a socialist radical idea hundred years ago to something that today even right wing tea party members feel is so embedded in our society as part of our mainstream that it should not be that does not mean there are not some conservative business people that want to reduce social security benefits, but almost all americans agree that social security is something that we need.

president franklin roosevelt: "this national gallery and the collections it contains..." narrator: the raphaels in the national gallery were joined by another painting by the artist, the portrait of bindo altoviti, purchased by chain store magnate samuel kress. on berenson's recommendation, kress bought the portrait from a european museum. today, it is generally accepted as a work by the master's hand. it was not only nostalgia for the past which led american collectors to pursue raphael, nor was it merely rivalry with each other. these collectors shared a sense of cultural responsibility. the raphaels, once in private hands, are now all in public museums where they can be seen and enjoyed by the american people. ( music ) ( music ) narrator: the east buiing of the national gallery of art in washing d.c.-- built to relieve the heavily- burdened facilities of the original gallery, to house temporary exhibitions, and to serve as a center for advanced study in the visual arts. within these walls, visitors to our nation's capital are drawn in to a very special place where mon

i can go back to franklin roosevelt and the earliest days of his administration.ht and day, they say, can't happen again, they say. but i'd only remind you of this, it's happening right now, again, and they used to say, it could never happen again. the latest now from what's going on in cyprus to greg. >> the bank behind me is one reason why people here in cyprus are so upset. it was supposed to open today and it didn't. in fact the government decided to delay the re-opening of all banks here until at least thursday. by thursday, folks here will have had no access to banks, online banking, electronic transfers, for nearly two weeks. atms are working, if they have cash, and that is rare. the limit on withdrawals? 100 euros, $130. the reason for the delay, officials want to have restrictions in place. they're trying to prevent a run on the banks. that could still happen. all across the area there were protests, several thousand students were out. they're worried about their future. part of the bailout of the near bankrupt country worked out between cyprus and the eu

i wrote a book about franklin roosevelt a few years ago and he didn't believe in protecting these programsed in amber. you can't touch them at all. all that he believed is you can't put them in the stock market the way bush and paul rbi and people like that. obama doesn't want to do that. does he want to make some small changes that will protect them as the babyboomers retire and you have this huge load of retirees? yes. that's the right thing for him to do. and i think it is important for people lou are behind him to give a little leeway in making these rational changes. >> always a pleasure. thank you. >> happy easter. coming up, pope france i marking his first good friday as leader of the catholic church. he is at it again. another break from tradition. we'll get to that story. here are some of the things we thought you should know. former congresswoman gabby giffords and her husband mark kelly will give the commencement address at bart college on may 25th. it is located north of new york city. they said in a release that giffords will be receiving an honorary doctorate of humane letter

the only president who came close to that total was franklin roosevelt who served three terms. >>> longtimesman don young has come under fire for this comment. listen -- >> my father had a ranch. we used to have 50 to 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes. you know, it takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. it's all done by machine. >> since saying that he apologized that saying he didn't mean to be disrespectful but members of his own party have been hammering him over the slur. house speaker john boehner said congressman young's remarks were offensive and beneath the dignity of the office he holds. i don't care why he said it, there's no excuse. let's talk about this. joining me now is amy holmes anchor of real news, on the blaze. good morning. >> good morning. >> and jason johnson, he's with me now, professor of political science and chief political correspondent for politics35.com. amy, is this an overreaction at this point, condemning this comment by a congressman who has been around the block a few times? >> i don't think it's an overreaction. i think it's totally appropriate for repu

rather in the way franklin roosevelt ha mastered radio or john kennedy mastered television. john paul ii created an icon, a platonic ideal, really, of that. and i think one of the things that was striking about the moment, the announcement was he did seem slightly awkward, but it was an awkwardness that seemed to communicate an essence that needed communication. >> bruni: it has to have a fetching humility to it consistent with his personal biography. >> it did. >> and an authenticity which, in this climate, is -- you sort of counterprogram. so there's an argument that if he's not particularly smooth that might actually be even more effective. >> it could be, sure. you mentioned pope john paul, which i'm glad you did. one of the distinguishing facets of his years was in the end we saw him whither and die on a public stage. we've now had a pope who's the first one to retire in many, many centuries because of physical frailty, he says. our new pope is 76 years old. do you think fit gave the cardinals voting on this pause? is that something that surprises you in terms of how vi

franklin roosevelt was the president at the time. today we are in a somewhat better situation but still there's a lot of pain, a lot of unemployment and a lot of families in desperate situations. back in the 1930's franklin delano roosevelt put forth his new deal and he articulated at least a part of it with what i call the test. and he said, the test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those o have much, it is rather we provide enough for those who have little. that's a value statement. that's a statement about how he saw the role of government. and i agree with him. , we ought to today harken back to what franklin d. roosevelt said in the 1930's. the test of our progress, the test of our progress. what are we to do? are we to follow policies that would enrich the wealthy even more? and we have one such proposal before us. it's the ryan republican budget. and it would slash the top tax rate from 39% to 25% and add another quarter of a million dollars of income annually to $1 who are making over million a year.

i wouldn't compare it to franklin roosevelt packing the supreme court, but in a certain trivial way,really bugs a lot of people. this is not the mommy state, the daddy state whatever you want to call it. why should anybody in public have a right to tell me how large a coke i can drink? >> the mayor and i -- >> do you agree with that? >> i don't support the soda ban. now, that said, i want to congratulate the mayor. he's done more to fight obesity probably than anybody in any city anywhere. but i worry if you tell people you can't have that, they're going to go get two of them. when we passed the smoking ban which i was the lead sponsor of the health committee chair. that was about your smoke not getting to hurt me as opposed to this which is a personal decision. >> i agree. your principle would be stop people from waving guns around or having guns because they can kill people. but my question is, i really like bloomberg, i think he's really smart. but i think this 16-ounce thing took away from some of his credibility with something far more important, which is guns. do you agree? >>

franklin roosevelt railed against the budget deficits of herbert hoover, for example. but if you look one level lower at the polling data, you also see that with a single exception of spending on international affairs, foreign aid, single exception, americans oppose every single thing that might reduce the deficit. any tax you name, any piece of spending other than fortune aid. foreign aid. and the plurality of americans and typically the majority of americans is against it. so it's a strong lip service aversion to deficit, and the response to this crisis did blow up the deficit to levels that we never imagined possible. and that certainly didn't do it any good. and then, finally, most controversially -- and i'm sure the president of the united states doesn't agree with this -- but in my view, it wasn't just that he didn't focus like a laser beam on the economy. remember the old bill clinton strategy, saying in 1992 when the economy was nowhere near as bad as the one barack obama inherited, he was doing so many things at once. i mean, give him credit. he accomplished a

. >> the thing that's really caused him trouble, i wouldn't compare to franklin roosevelt packing the this 16 ounce thing really bugs a lot of people. this is not the mommy state, why should anyone be able to decide how much coke i drink. do you agree with me? >> i don't support the soda ban. but i worry that if you tell people you can't have that, they are going to get two of them. when we passed the smoking ban, which i was the lead sponsor of as lead county chair, that was about your smoke not getting to hurt me as opposed to this which is a personal decision. >> i agree. your principle would be stop waving guns around because they could hurt people. >> exactly. >> i like bloomberg, i think he's really smart. i think this took away some of his credibility from something far more important, which is guns. people are going to remember him about the 16 ounce guy. of course he wants to take away our guns. >> he's had big ideas that he puts out there. that's a credit to him. not just in new york but across the country, i don't think you can touch him on that. it's incredibly important.

was elected to congress, it was in a period when presidential power was at its peak because franklin roosevelt was president. but the peak of presidential power was when abraham lincoln was president. and i hope if you haven't had a chance to see the movie "lincoln" that you will, because i think i it's quite inspiring. after lincoln was assassinated, congress became very, very powerful. and woodrow wilson was a professor of political science at that time, and it was before he became president of princeton and governor of new jersey and then president. and he wrote a book called "congressional government." and and he called the committees and the committee chairmen lord proprietors. so ironically, when he became president and t.r. was president and fdr was president, it was the president that was so powerful. so he got to rewrite his book, i guess, in his head at least. mr. mills was elected in 1938 to congress at the peak of presidential power. and he had so many interesting stories about president roosevelt. one was he went down to talk to roosevelt and, actually, roosevelt had asked his cha

you know, franklin roosevelt had members of congress in every day.shington had dinner with them every single week. so the branches of government are supposed to be in very constant consultations with one another. we don't live in a parliamentary system where one party just rams it right through. they have to work -- >> stop attacking my background of where i was born, but, gene, isn't there some disordered about the decorum here? because it strikes me that if the president of the united states invites you to come to the white house and you've been elected to serve the nation, then there is some obligation on you to do that and yet somehow that's been inverted. now the burden's always on the president to go and visit them in the house and in their various -- does that not strike you as up-ending the correct order? >> well, it does strike me as odd, and not the way i would understand things to be. there is a magic to the white house. there is a majesty to the presidency. and i thought the rule was if the president of the united states invites you to hi

. >>> franklin roosevelt was starting his second term the last time there was nobody in the booth ongate bridge. all right. 5:39 now. time for a check on the weather. >> good morning, lisa. >>> good morning. live doppler 7 hd starting out with plenty of cloud cover and the possibility of a shower exists throughout not only the day today but into tomorrow. right now dry skies and, in fact, kind of bright out there. the moon is up. the clouds are obscuring the full moon. temperatures are very mild especially in the north bay where numbers are in the mid 40s but everywhere else even from the airport down through san carlos, mountain view, and livermore we are just about a degree to three degrees warmer. as you head on out this morning 40s and 50s with mostly cloudy conditions. the chance of a shower lingers throughout the day today. the evening, few peeks of sun here and there. should allow temperatures to climb into the mid and upper 60s in parts of the bay and then tonight will be another mild evening. tomorrow looks like another weak disturbance wants to visit us for a continued chan

president franklin delano roosevelt sent a telegram calling for last-ditch efforts to avoid war. the message arrived in tokyo around noon on december 7th japan time, but it was not delivered to u.s. ambassador to japan joseph drew until about ten and a half hours later. the ambassador asked the foreign minister to allow him to see the emperor to hand over the telegram. the requested meeting did not take place and the attack began around 3:30 a.m. december 8th japan time. the newly disclosed document shows that after japan's surrender, allied forces investigated the delay. they interrogated japanese foreign ministry officials who were in charge of telegrams. the investigators insisted the war could have been avoided if the telegram had been handed to the emperor. they allege that he must have read it. a professor emeritus says the japanese imperial army must have deliberately delayed the letter's delivery. >> translator: i think the military, especially the army, was afraid that if the emperor read it, he might decide to delay the start of war or even avoid it. >> he says the u.s.

met anyone who transformed the nation in that way except for maybe you know well i never met franklin roosevelt but that would be the equivalent he was the f.d.r. of latin america louise and i were in in venezuela and. a coup happened i mean literally while we were there we we left the country affected her advised to leave the country. last a couple of days what what was it this was why i don't i don't recall the year frankly it was it was two thousand and two april two thousand and two chavez was kidnapped he was kidnapped by some rogue military elements and the head of the chamber of commerce so when you talk about a corporate takeover this is probably the ultimate case of the head of the chamber of commerce who's also an oil industry lawyer for u.s. corporations u.s. oil companies and some his cronies and it was it was almost like some weird notion a play because they held a big inaugural ball in the presidential palace while they were holding the president who was elected by a wide margin they're holding. that president hostage the united states ambassador came down to the inaugural ball an

recollection is that the rural electrification administration in as i recall the the roosevelt franklin roosevelt administration and the roll to law from the administration was called i think was that during truman or eisenhower did was that also f.d.r. did that i mean both cases basically the government came in and said private corporations you are not willing to run these long lines out into people's farms because it's not profitable so either we're going to run them or we're going to force you to run them and pay for them and i don't recall which it was can you tell us those stories and is that the model you're suggesting for for broadband at the same thing happened in electricity so roosevelt had a f.d.r. had a great history in warm springs georgia and knew that not having electricity there was causing it that the quality of life to be a lot lower and so he made sure that cooperatives across the cultural regions of the united states were supported subsidized benefited and forced equal level of electrification across the country that's what needs to happen now with high speed internet access i

rediscovering the roots of modern conservatism, which were in the critique of executive power under franklin rooseveltnson. traditional conservatism goes right back to the '30s when modern conservatism was born in reaction against the new deal has been congressionally oriented and a deep suspicion going back as far as the american revolution against executive prerogatives and george iii, deep suspicion of executive power generally. >> but it did reveal a big split right now inside the the republican party. >> absolutely. >> you saw lindsey graham and john mccain. i want to show a little bit of that. one exchange they had where rand paul was talking about the possibility that a president might have, for instance, taken out jane fonda. >> no one will ever forget jane fonda swiveling around in north vietnamese armored guns and it was despicable. that's one thing if you want to try her for treason but are you going to just drop a drone hellfire missile on jane fonda. >> to somehow allege or infer that the president of the united states is going to kill somebody like jane fonda or someone who disagrees wit

franklin roosevelt was one of my heroes. just -- heallenge, was challenged, just like obama was challenged about obamacare. it turned out many of the -- critics loved social security, medicare, a whole bunch of the programs that were put in place. in my closing, i just want to say, i want us to get to a point where elected officials, once elected, serve the public's good. i want them to serve that good and represent their people without having to be tainted by how much money they can raise. when i ran for congress, i had a total of four dollars in the bank. i was making and $11,000 salary. the congressional salary was $44,000 at the time. i thought that was more money than i could ever imagine seeing. it seems to me we've got to get to the point where average ordinary people give a season of their life to public service, have an opportunity to step forward, run for public office, and your not overwhelmed simply brothers whooch have billions of dollars can buy their way into elections. one final point, this last election, the

and franklin roosevelt was one of my heroes and he was a challenge just like obama's been challenged about obama care and it turned out that any of the critics love social security and love medicare, love a whole bunch of the programs that were put in place. i think in my closing i just want to say, i want us to get to a point where elected officials, once elected, serve the public's good. and i want them to serve that good and represent their people without having to be tainted by how much money they can raise. when i ran for congress, i had a total of $400 in the bank. i was making an $11,000 salary. when i got to washington, the congressional salary at that time was $44,000. i thought that was more money than i would ever imagine seeing. it seems to me we've got to get to the point where average ordinary people give a season of their life to public service, have an opportunity to step forward, run for public office, and arnt overwhelmed simply because the coke broth whorse have billions of dollars -- dollars of money can buy their way into elections. and finally this final point.

take the lead nine hundred thirty nine hundred thirty eight was a recession that was caused by franklin roosevelt doing what the republicans demanded and you know that in one thousand nine hundred seventy back the new deal and i kind of throws had traces in one thousand thirty eight and we have a judge today and it had nothing to do with the minimum wage and it had to do with republican policies being followed by president roosevelt come up i mean there's a you have a job in this we have we have missed the part of labor here is that we lose jobs they don't raises the bar of labor does not say that the department of labor does not say that absolutely and no but nobody has ever demonstrated that there is no correlation you look at his imperial evidence that i subscribe to that says we do lose jobs but tom the bigger issue here is let's create an environment where we can create jobs i don't want our workers to make nine dollars an hour and we're trying to create the sort of jobs that we lost in this country many years ago for good reasons we don't want bangladesh type of jobs in this country we want

his was a former assistant secretary of state, an adviser to president franklin d. roosevelt, the acting secretary general of the united nations' founding conference in san francisco and recently named president of the carnegie endowment for international peace. he emphatically denied chambers delegation. and a great deal more than the reputations of these two men was a stake. if his was in the sense and anti communism and those closely associated with it, like richard nixon, a prominent member of the congressional investigating committee would be dealt a devastating blow. if he was guilty then anti communism would occupy a prominent part of the political landscape and a spokesman would become a national leader. furthermore, they each represented one side in the epic struggle of the cold war. one man symbolized the philosophy of freedom. western civilization. the other, the etiology of totalitarianism and marxism and leninism. both left and right understood that america and the world was at a critical point in history. consider the major political events that transpired betwe

of the inherited regime going back to teddy roosevelt and woodrow wilson continuing through franklin roosevelt and frankly richard nixon who is responsible for a good part of the domestic policy apparatus of the country. they are realistic. they are not liable by the liberals wanting, you know, wanting to socialize activities. it's a joke. the understand that the demographic forces at work and health care cost increases will make programs that day and most americans think absolutely essential, unstable and weekend overtime, so they are fully willing to engage in those negotiations. whenever i see a press report republicans say no new taxes and our entitlement programs i say which democrats? the present isn't saying it, the leadership of the parties are not saying it to be a they are perfectly prepared. so everyone understands if you are serious about deficits and debt you don't begin your program and as paul ryan has with major new tax cuts and then imagine how you are going to sort of put that together in the end, that is a fundamental different. they are protective and therefore the permanen

jeff kennedy, sr., was asked to attend on behalf of president franklin roosevelt.of the most intriguing discussions about the next pope is the possibility of an american choice. new york's cardinal tomimothy dolan has been mentioned and he's been charming the people of rome this week. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> it's 8:25. time for some news headlines. the claim of child abuse at a preschool in pleasanton. a teacher allegedly tied up a 2- year-old girl for refusing to take a nap. the teacher at center pointed christian preschool allegedly bound the child's wrists and ankles with masking tape, then took a picture and last week, that person who no longer works there showed the picture to staff members. a pastor at the school called it deplorable and said all children, quote, deserve to be respected. >>> a special mass for the election of a pope is happening right now at st. mary's cathedral in san francisco. this as roman catholic cardinals continue to meet at the vatican. the san francisco archbishop aske

franklin roosevelt brought his adversary on the team and tended up being the united nations but thate wendell wilkie's baby. the president might have missed an opportunity with mitt romney to have somebody who would have partnered with him. he is still a young man and he wants to do stuff. >> shannon: do you think that is passed now? >> this president has not shown that he is interested in building those kinds of bridges. he is is interested and we saw a spate of articles around the sequestration. he is thinking about kicking republicans out of the house, not building bridges with mitt romney. >> shannon: there is a lot of looking back at what could have been done differently in the campaign. toward the end they thought they were going to wen. covering them in virginia they had crowds turning out 10,000 and 15,000. here is what ann romney had to say about the enthusiasm and maybe they misjudged things. >> i think they had a better ground game. we had the passion coming from our side and i don't think we were as aware of the passion coming from the other side. i think we were a little

. >> daily flashback to this day in 1933 when that now famous line was uttered by franklin delano rooseveltin for chuck todd, who went off to interview former governor jeb bush. turning to the big story of the day, the sequester blame game. the start of those budget cuts have not improved the chances of a deal. the president seems to be counting on public pressure to force the gop to reverse its position on the cuts. but speaker boehner says he's not feeling it and neither are his rank and file. >> there's not one member of our caucus who said one word to me that was critical of the fact that we lowered taxes for 99.1% of the american people. i'm here to lead the fight against out of control spending, and i'm going to lead that fight as speaker of the house. >> ben smith is the editor-in-chief of buzzfeed. and erroll lewis. let's start with the white house strategy, because this has been the president's strategy for a number of weeks if not months now to try and get folks worked up. it hasn't worked yet. why and the white house going to think it's going to work over the next few months. >>