so they were friends with franklin roosevelt, and roosevelt, of course, used them both. and of course, they went on to serve president eisenhower and kennedy and so on. one of the things a reader has to do is drop a belief about democrats in one -- [inaudible] and republicans being another. because their idea of progressivism is about as liberal as you get in the 1920s and '30s. there was a right-wing that makes today's tea party look like a bunch of gentle -- [inaudible] it's different time. that's what fascinated me. was trying to get inside their heads. >> is there anything today commemorating the houses where they lived? do we still know where some of the places are? >> we know where that are. were. most of them are gone. the house of truth still exists on 19th street. it's being rehabbed by its current owners. it's going to be kind of a new seem. >> thank you very much for your time. >> we now have secular norm instead of theological norm that govern our acceptance or rejection of the ways in which a god of gods or god escaladed can speak to people and what impact o

during the war, he was franklin roosevelt's legs. roosevelt sent hopkins to england to russia, casablanca, he was involved in all wartime conflict. he was the president's post at pfizer. a very sick man, he was a social worker but preferred the company of a rich and the wellborn. hung out at a harem, he and his wife lived in the white house. didn't like it particular lead. they moved out and took a house in georgetown in 1943 but harry went -- after the president died in april of 1942, carry on his last mission with president truman, after that, got the best present of his life after that. he lived in new york and died at the age of 55 living in new york. >> what made you choose him? >> the most telling adviser there ever was. full contact, terribly funny, sarcastic. i ran into him writing an earlier book and he used his elbows in a bureaucratic fashion to elbow a particular guy out of the way. he was sinister. he was a very good insider. roosevelt loved him. he had total access, a unique kind of situation. >> what was his most -- if

>> guest: it comes out of franklin roosevelt's character, which is a reliance on a--an almost overwhelming charm. roosevelt could charm almost anybody, and he thought that he could charm joe stalin by being utterly--utterly respectful and admiring and not questioning anything that stalin did, underrating the hard pragmatism of a joe stalin. c-span: did that hurt us in the negotiations? >> guest: well, it hur--it hurt us to the extent--for example, the story i just told about the katyn forest, that we--we are not letting the american people know the--that the monstrousness of stalin is not all that different from that of--of adolf hitler. but in--in the end, i--i--i don't accept the charge that--that roosevelt gave the store away at yalta, which is a common conclusion of--of many who discuss this era. he was too forgiving and too accommodating to stalin. i do--but i--i don't think he--he gave anything away that created our--our post-war confrontation with the soviets. c-span: did you learn anything about his relationship with winston churchill that you hadn't known in the past? >> guest: it

one given by herbert hoover on constitution day in 1935 in one given by franklin roosevelt on constitution day in 1937 so two years apart. it's just a classic comparison and contrast. roosevelt begins his speech by pointing out that the constitution opens with the expression, we the people. and he said so, this reminds us that the constitution is a peep olds document. it's not a lawyer's document, to people's document. it was done by the people and for the people and what that means is according to roosevelt when the constitution gets antiquated and a little out of date and he was giving us a 150 year constitution we the people can fix that. we can take it over and change that in any way we want and accommodate it to today. if we need regulation and people ask if that's unconstitutional we shouldn't have to worry about that. you will remember he tried to pac the supreme court to get more judges on their to quit slowing down his centralization and regulation agenda, unsuccessfully it turned out that he finally got enough judges to go along to begin the cycle of increased regulation and the

found great speeches one given by herbert hoover on the constitution in 1935 and one given by franklin roosevelt on the constitution of 1937 surtout years apart. it's just a classic compare and contrast. roosevelt begins by pointing out that the constitution opens with the expression we the people. he said this reminds us the constitution is the people's document. it's not a lawyer's document it is a people's document done by the people and for the people and what that means is according to roosevelt when the constitution gets a little antiquated a little out of date getting this on the 150th. they changed that in any way they want and accommodate. people ask if that is unconstitutional. we shouldn't have to worry about that. the of the decentralization and regulation agenda but he finally got enough to go along to begin the cycle of increased regulation and the regimentation if you look back at the new deal there were no constitutional amendments that were a part of this new deal revolution. the constitution says this is how you are supposed to change it. you are supposed to change it by passin

franklin roosevelt. he goes on -- but in perhaps every home in the united states, sad and anxious thoughts will be continually with the millions of our loved ones who are suffering hardships and misery and who are risking their very lives to preserve for us and for all mankind the fruits of his teachings and the foundations of civilization itself. the christmas spirit lives tonight in the bitter cold of the frontlines in europe and in the heat of the jungles and swamps of burma and the pacific islands, even the roar of our bombers and fighters in the air and the guns of our ships at sea will not drown out the message of christmas which come to the earts of our fighting men. president roosevelt goes on, the tide of battle is turned but slowly, but inexorably, against those who sought to destroy civilization. we pray this day may come soon, we pray until then god will protect our gallant men and women in the uniforms of the united nations, that he will receive into his infinite grace those who make their s

roosevelt insisted on not sharing the same bed with franklin roosevelt. at that time, mrs. osevelt chose a bedroom right next to this room. it has a doorway coming right in this was an area where she could. be by herself. it was a bit of a private space for her. the furniture in this room was used by mrs. roosevelt, one of the few areas where she could get some privacy. when mrs. roosevelt was in hyde park and franklin was also here, it was a given they would both asleep here in the house. if for some reason franklin was not in hyde park, mrs. roosevelt here on her own would choose to spend her time a couple of short miles away. in this direction, we have the entrance of sarah roosevelt.'s bedroom. her bed room is sandwiched between sarah's and her husband's just like in her life she was sandwiched between them. >> a little bit of talk about her mother-in-law. what was sarah roosevelt alike? >> first of all, franklin was her only child. he had a half brother. sarah could be very domineering. she was overly protective in a good way. he used to go play and go birdwatching. it

franklin go. for some reason sara roosevelt, the mother who was very devoted and very ambitious went to c. daniels just before christmas 1918. we don't know why. i have the feeling she went to persuade him to let franklin do his job. he did go back and take care of things and went over at the same time as woodrow wilson he went to negotiating a treaty of peace. on the first trip back to sign papers he came back with the roosevelt so they had won social opportunity to be with him and his new wife. wilson's first wife had died shortly after he became president. he buried again, a socially ambitious lady who may have fostered several minutes as much as wilson can't one of the british hall on foyers when to around to joking saying do you know, what edith did when woodrow wilson proposed to her? in his answer was she fell at of bet. that got back to her. the result was edith and woodrow became great enemies of franklin and any stories you hear about the friendship or admiration was turned off that this actually happened roosevelt remained friendly and to the deputy who had passed around the goss

you're the inevitable successor to franklin roosevelt. and as it turns out, harry truman finds him in a role like andrew johnson after the american civil war. somebody who is dropped into this natural succession, and -- >> unfortunately we could probably go for another hour. we all have 150 questions. we have one minute left. you get 15 seconds and we'll give our panelists 45. >> okay. this is for david. do you recall personally speaking with your grandfather about the norman -- normandy invasion, particularly about its potential for failure. >> jean edward smith's help on this. from a grandchild's perspective, world war ii was a subject that he left alone. as my father put it 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. if you think of all the lives that depended on the decisions that were made then, and this reflected in the character of the eisenhower library and the roosevelt library. this

persico feels is an overlooked aspect of franklin roosevelt's world war ii leadership his involvement in intelligence and espionage operations. he talks about the level information president roosevelt had about the coming fate of the air -- and the attack on pearl harbor. this is about an hour. c-span: joseph e. persico, author of "roosevelt's secret war: fdr and world war ii espionage," when did you get the idea for this book? >> guest: brian, i was a kid growing up during the roosevelt era. he's always been a hero of mine i wondered how i would be able someday to write a book about franklin roosevelt. i couldn't imagine there was anything that hadn't been said. i pulled up on the internet the catalog of the library of congress and i went through it line by line and there were something like 600 books on franklin d. roosevelt. and i thought, 'it's a--it's all said. but i've written a great deal about intelligence and maybe i could combine the two,' and there was nothing in this list of 600 books in the catalog about fdr and intelligence. my--my reaction was, 'joe, you are either bril

franklin roosevelt loved to come and visit theodore roosevelt. they were friendly. eanor, of course, was edith and theodore's niece. t.r. used to read her poetry. they were quite friendly. when eleanor and franklin married, theodore gave her away, acting the part of her father. edith signed their marriage license. >> edith offered for them to be married in the white house. >> i would say that theodore was devoted to eleanor and loved franklin in the beginning. by the 1920's, ted roosevelt has political ambition. some people accused him of being involved with the teapot dome scandal. it turns out it is really not fair. eleanor drove a car with a teapot on top of it to embarrass her cousin. that created bitter feelings for a while. edith remained somewhat friendly towards eleanor. >> we have a question about the destroying of her letters. what do the historians say about the missing records? do we miss the intimate t.r. and edith because of this? >> i think we know a lot about that. of course, you want to know more. we have a good record of what the relationship was li

franklin roosevelt wrote a lot of letters as well. clinton is one example that tried to stay in touch. one other quick. he was really whetted to polling. he a number of pollsters during the time in office. he was whetted to polling. he came up with the idea of polling where he should go. most americans kept it a secret, of course. most felt that the president should go a national park. names sense. clinton went west to the grand canyon and hated it. he's not an outdoor guy. swatting flies, they had a tough time finding pictures to make it look like he was having a good time. after he was re-elected he never went back to the national park. he went to martha's vineyard. he loved it. the amenities, the beach, all the stars and entertainers. he admired were paying attention to him as the president. so it was an interesting insight in to clinton. but he did try to stay in touch. i think i credit him for that. ronald reagan. there's a lot of chris schism for being isolate and too much in the pocket of the wealthy and compings and so on. but

so in that sense, franklin roosevelt made a big difference. >> foreign policy and 20th century presidential leadership, later today at 7:30 p.m. eastern. part of american history tv. this weekend on c-span3. >> elizabeth bradley and lauren taylor are next on booktv. the two authors question why compare to all other industrialized nations americans spend more and receive less from our health care system. this is about one hour and 10 minutes. >> hi, everybody, and welcome. so, welcome to the special event hosted by the institution for social and policy studies new health care center. we are here to have a conversation about elizabeth bradley and volunteers asked what her new book, "the american health care paradox." there's no shortage of health care in the news right now. we've got democrats furiously defending the affordable care act. we would allrg

and it is important to understand that his ideas about universal health care were founded in franklin roosevelt's four freedoms it was roosevelt who began to talk about access to health care as really needed right germany had you know as a health care since the ninety's and other business scandinavian countries too but when roosevelt put those four freedoms forward in nine hundred forty one and then eleanor roosevelt came forward is the chair of the committee that developed the universal declaration of human rights this was a formative period in mandela's life and it is not coincidental that when the universal declaration of human rights was honored at its fiftieth anniversary it was nelson mandela who went and gave a great address to the united nations in which he broke at length about that right to health care so adam why would republicans suggest that we don't have a right to health care i don't understand it's. been on your show before tom when you asked me that exact exact same question i can't tell you why they would i think that in this day and age there should be a right of every person t

franklin roosevelt served of course for 12, but three of them of course never got to the second term. lincoln was assassinated. mckinley was assassinated, and nixon was forced to resign. obama will be just the 14th president to have served eight years when he gets through his second term. but it's the second term curse. would we be sitting here talking in this way about kennedy if he had had a second term? i doubt it. he would have been a significant president but he would have also run into difficulty. what would you do about vietnam? it would depend the usual second term difficulties in the sense he was a lame duck. obama is struggling now i think it's no secret to say that, and i think kennedy would've struggled, too, in a second term. of course, we will never know. this is all pure speculation but kennedy of course games -- comes down to us now, it's an open book. you can write anything on it you want because he was martyred, killed at the age of 46, only 1000 days in the white house. he would've found he had a sense of the ironic. he would've found, had seen the irony in the fact

>> well, i will say that that actually is an interesting point because, after all, franklin roosevelt had been governor of new york, so he had that sense of how you run a big organization. and a big state. and eisenhower had run the military. but then you look at senator kennedy, he really didn't have any background in running a big operation, and obama -- also a senator -- comes in with very little preparation. and he's engulfed by this incredible storm on the economy. i mean, i think he's gotten us out of the worst recession since the great depression. that alone is quite an accomplishment. so i think, i would agree that his second term is stymied and that at best he can present an agenda which he probably understands will never be, never come into being unless the democrats retake congress, the house in the next congressional election. but at the very least, he can leave a legacy for future be presidents to look back on and say, well, obama wasn't able to complete it there, but we can do it in the future. >> in the introduction that's reprinted in the series of biographies that art

amelia heard about it, she sent a blistering telegram--it was just before the 1936 election, franklin roosevelt's second-term election. and amelia earhart sent a blistering telegram to eleanor roosevelt saying that--that if franklin fired gene vidal, she wasn't going to go on--she wasn't going to campaign. aside from all the other things that she disapproved and it was a bad thing to do, she said, 'and furthermore, i'm not campaigning for franklin if this goes through.' so within 48 hours, franklin roosevelt was having lunch with eugene vidal's boss at the department of commerce, because the bureau of air commerce was at--was a subdepartment in the department of-of commerce, and--and--and he changed his mind. and--and within 48 hours, am--amelia is--is sending another telegram to miss--to eleanor roosevelt saying, 'thanks very much. appreciate your help.' c-span: what was the date that they took off and where did they-which way did they head? because you talk about the--you know, the title of your book, "east to the dawn." >> guest: "east to the dawn." they originally took off from california and

president franklin roosevelt fix that by raising the top tax rate on the rich back up to over ninety percent which led to more than forty years of stability and prosperity rich people left their money in their companies and only took thirty times what their employees did is pay after all take more you just pay more taxes economy boom middle class prospered then came reagan he dropped the top tax rate back down to twenty eight percent leading within a year of the worst recession since the great depression followed by the savings and loans crisis. bill clinton took the top income tax rate back up to thirty nine percent and presto the economy boom but then bush jr came into office cut it back down again and we got another crash and lots of unemployment simple point effect four times since nine hundred thirteen we've had big tax cuts on the rich to lead to major crashes the other two would lead to stagnation for working people all of them made the rich a lot richer. and when taxes have gone up as author larry by our points out since nine hundred fifty we have had five tax increases on th

bridges but but in particular the like high speed bread bought broadband a small areas when franklin roosevelt did the rural or electrification ministration and then the world to laughlin administration under you the truman or eisenhower both of those dramatically increased the number of small businesses were started because it was the business infrastructure of the telephone system that expanded i mean aren't there things that we could be doing with that money that would help business and i think that's a terrible idea i mean you had the tennessee valley project which we still couldn't get rid of years later and got into this huge boondoggle still couldn't get rid of it capitalism hasn't failed the free market hasn't. what's failed is a capitalism or a free market being refereed with high government infusion and obviously all the sudden now it's going to be insurance for unemployment insurance for health care the government's going to be the employer of last resort you just couldn't see a bigger government and sort of complex coming around people's lives from cradle to grave bad thing when th

as franklin roosevelt was on tv at that time in 1939, rca and nbc broadcast baseball games. you can only imagine what they looked like on this. it was perfected technology as i knew in the 50s, and, of course, we know now with wide screen tvs, but you can see the case. this is an art decco-type design. he designed all sorts of thicks, lunch counters, restaurants in new york, art decco was very big in the 1930s, 1940s. had a short wave radio in it, had various controls, and now here you're seeing this model at the smithsonian that we acquired later from an rca executive who owned this in the 1930s. there's -- up fortunately, it does not work today. >> 5,000 built? >> not many. there was a little watch. they went for, at the time, 600 bucks a piece. in the 1930s, that was a lot of money. very few people could afford it. you had television broadcast in new york and then los angeles, and in world war ii, you had six or seven cities doing television. again, very, very limited. television does not take off until the late 1940s after world war ii, in the 1950s when my parents watch

i found that the franklin roosevelt library in hyde park, new york, for example a detailed account written by the atlanta funeral home director who had prepared franklin roosevelt body for burial and the president died at warm springs georgia on april 12, 1945. the document is as powerful in his minivan as it is clinical. after several hours spent injecting six bottles of embalming fluid into the president's veins and arteries, this partition summer arthur prettyman, the president's balloting handed him a call and then had called the president's hair just told. john updike once said that world war ii was the 20th century's central myth. he called it a tale of stories. angles are infinite and his central figures never fail to amaze us with their size, and astra talladega. theatrical day our. i believe the narrative historians tru calling is to bring back the dead. i try to do that not only with the outside familiar with the eisenhower's patents of the war, but also others who are thus familiar a generous ted roosevelt junior emotion triscuit junior. even amid the clash of army groups, my ey

and they were franklin roosevelt, eleanor roosevelt, the greatest taper columnists.ix frankfurter. the dulles brothers. most people don't make the connection between all of these people. yet they were very much involved in the league of nations formation, its collapse and ultimately the united nations. it all began right here in dupont circle. >> so did their social interaction kind of start their political relationships? or was it the other way around quite >> they were what was called progressives. not what we call progress is. these were theodore roosevelt progressives. they came to washington to help them. then it stayed with woodrow wilson and get involved in world war i. and then in and out for the next two years. so there are really wanted more by their political beliefs and in fact they all hung out at one particular house, a boarding house where they stayed up all night and argued politics and cheese curls and danced, did all the things young people do. >> , and more about franklin roosevelt democrat coming to washington to assist teddy roosevelt republican.

>> he was a central figure in the administration of franklin roosevelt, president franklin roosevelt. he went to the white house for 3-1/2 years. he was the president's closest

it happens to franklin roosevelt in 1930 a. 1938. in recent years, george bush experienced it in 2006. 1998, inton did not in large part because it was a perception that there was a backlash against the impeachment attempt. by and large, the sixth year is a year that the party in power dreads. right now i have no doubt the democrats are looking at the senate majority and worrying about whether they will be able to keep that. host: on twitter-- tom is on our line for independents. you are on with richard norton smith. caller: obama took on policies of bush. there are so many problems here in this country, and the rich are making the poor even poorer, and the rich are running with the money and nobody is doing anything about it because they are putting money in their pockets. also, so the outsourcing of jobs was the worst thing anyone could have done. and 9/11 was an inside job. host: that is tom calling from illinois. we will go to joann now, from maryland, on our line for republicans. good morning. caller: as i am watching, i'm heari

these are movements that get going in the 1930s after franklin roosevelt's election. there is this huge ideological battle going on, essentially, throughout the 1930s. whether he is completely behind it or not, hoover is on one side of it and franklin roosevelt gets to be on the other. there are people in between who have their own movements who use the radio to promote it. >> just to give you a topline glimpse of how much the country changed during years of the great depression, in terms of unemployment, unemployment was 3.2% in 1929. by 1933, it was 24.9%. the dow jones industrial average in 1929.ng at 381 by july of 1932, it had hit bottom at 41. so, how did the hoover's, particularly lou hoover, use the white house when they realized the severity of the situation facing society? >> her big cause was volunteerism and getting people to pitch in to help. particularly people who were not impacted by the depression. she was involved in the girl scouts and 4-h clubs. she was involved in agricultural communities where they were still having success with the economy. they

this is franklin roosevelt, january 20, 1945. this is part of his last inaugural address. and as i finish with this, let -- may i say, madam speaker, that i know all of us here in the house and the senate, no matter what our persuasions, have the same very best wishes as franklin roosevelt had for our american troops, our men and women in uniform today, just as those wishes were made 68 years ago. this was 1945. roosevelt said, as i stand here today, having taken the solemn oath of office, in the presence of my fellow countrymen, in the presence of god, i know that it is america's purpose that we shall not fail. the almighty gods that blessed our land in many ways. he has given our people stout hearts, strong arms with which to strike mighty blows for freedom and truth. he has given to our country a faith which has become the hope of all people in an anguished world. roosevelt finishes, president franklin roosevelt finishes by , ing, so we pray to him now for the vision to see our way clearly, to see the way that leads to a better life for ourselves and for all our fellow

they were franklin roosevelt's appointments. a justice from alabama, justice jackson, justice douglas, they -- and justice frankfurter. they were all appointed by one president within the space of a few years. it was a particular thing that he hoped his justices would do. but then it turned out that these justices were serving years and years and years and different cases come before them that have nothing to do with the reasons that franklin roosevelt appointed them. they go in all kinds of and different directions. they develop all kinds of andthey develop all kinds of different theories about how to interpret the constitution. unfortunately in the case of , those four, they develop real animosity between themselves. i believe it was justice frankfurter who said about justice douglas that he was the second most evil man he had met his life. leading everyone to think, who was the first? [laughter] but i'm really happy to say, i am really happy to say that this court is nothing like that. it was really a joy to come into the ins

so even with all of the egislation that franklin roosevelt was able to get congress to pass, that in and of improve id not help to the economy until things changed very radically. >> our thanks to emily and to dunlap for being our guest on the story of lou henry hoover. and our thanks to the white house historical association for their help throughout the series. >> tuesday, 9:00 p.m., first adies features the life of eleanor roosevelt. a constant traveller, it was who gave the nation's first radio address to people.ican she held regular news conferences for female reporters only. she spoke on what have of the new deal policies. promoted heifer causes, living wage, and civil rights. she was the first first lady to address a national political first to and the write a daily syndicated column. us tuesday, 9:00 p.m. eastern as we learn more about eleanor roosevelt. the new s returns in year with the five most recent reagan dies from nancy nights,lle obama monday live, 9:00 eastern on c-span. >> if you're a high school student, make a five-to-seven video and include c-span programming fo

. >> reporter: frank remembers when franklin roosevelt began president. frank remembers fdrs voice on the radio. >> he talked every sunday night. if you were listening to it and looked out the window you wouldn't see anybody. the streets would be clean of pedestrians. he would begin with a very warm -- my friend. and he would warm up very quickly. he was a wonderful man. >> as fdrstarted the economy again, he saw action in the pacific. when the war was over he married his neighborhood sweetheart and they are still married today. is there optimism of the new century. >> if you look back in history there's those who have a dreadful look of things. but things always pan out some way. >> reporter: people say you are old when you stop accepting change. by that measure, frank isn't old yet. >>> we'll tell you the role alcatraz prison played against the gangsters who ran the booze trade. >>> tonight on a second look we're taking a look back at the prohibition years. and we met a man who never knew his father and found out that his father had been a police office

when franklin roosevelt came into office in 1933, won the election of 332, inaugurated march of 3 # 3, when he came into office, there was an occupy movement. there were people on the front lob of the white house down to the river. this was 1933, and they said, we can't wait until 1940 to get our hundred dollar bonus. we need the money now because we are broke, and so, you know, fdr came into office in the middle of a massive ownership movement, and i think that it was one of the major things that motivated him to change. how did this change come about? how did it happen that we forgot the lessons of the 1930s? we know how to make banks stable from the george washington administration to the franklin roosevelt administration, the united states had never gone more than a panic, never more than 15 years, but from 1933 until 2007, we had no major banking panics. why was that? because in 1933 they passed the glass stege l act, regulated banks and turnedded it into a nice boring profession, a part of the ged. the fire economy, finance, insurance, and real estate was, seven, eight, nine, te

so even with all of the legislation that franklin roosevelt was able to get congress to pass, that in and of itself did not help to improve the economy until things changed very radically. >> our thanks to emily and to annette dunlap for being our guest on the story of lou henry hoover. and our thanks to the white house historical association for their help throughout the series. >> next week watch more programs from our first ladies series including highlights from season two midweek. each night at 9:00 eastern here on c-span. in just a few weeks our series returns live with programs on the five most recent first ladies beginning with nancy reagan monday night starting anuary 13. >> we're offing a book on first ladies for $12:95. and our website has more about the first ladies including a special section welcome to the white house produced by our partner the white house historical association about life in the executive mansion during the tenure of each of the first ladies. find out more at cspan.org/firstladies. >> tonight on c-span a discussion on gender, race and the growing incar

>> caller: yes, he mentioned franklin roosevelt. franklin roosevelt didn't get us out of an economic recession. the economic recession, we didn't get out of bed until the second world war actually. the united states was a power that made things instead of the service economy. when we started exporting all these jobs overseas that is when the middle class started to dissolve. >> host: okay. >> guest: actually if you look back at the 30s and into the 40s, what roosevelt did was to stabilize the economy kept the crisis from careening even more out of control. we were really coming out of it in 1937 and 1938 and then getting back to tom's point roosevelt the advice of his treasury secretary and put the brakes on prematurely. it sent us back towards a recession and william is right rate than the second world war pulled us out of the rut it was that set of policies. i want to add to something that tom said. i think it's a mistake to talk about the tea party is it that some organized entity or you have lots of people who march in lockstep.

they include franklin roosevelt's social security, the rollout of medicare and medicaid under presidentohnson, richard nixon, supplemental security income. all of those had botched rollouts in the beginning. does this suggest, bob, that we could see this debacle really turn around for the obama administration? >> well, that is, of course, the fondest hope of the democrats who face an election in 2014. but yes, there have been botched rollouts throughout the history at least recent history starting, as you pointed out, with the social security. but the difference was they did not involve computers to the extent that they do now. the simple fact of the matter is i think you will agree every time that i.t. makes an improvement, the i.t. people make an improvement, or have a start-up, there are going to be problems. and this one, of course, had huge consequences. it remains to be seen whether this will extend throughout the year which, of course, could have implications for the election, as we just mentioned. if so, then i think you could start calling the obama presidency the obama lame-du

and franklin roosevelt cheating on eleanor roosevelt in 1917. the rich have their prerogatives and they take them. >> one of our viewers on facebook i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks -- asked, how did mrs. harding respond to rumors of harding's wandering eyes? >> that's an interesting question. we'll have some debate about the extra marital relationships harding had. he had an affair with carrie phillips. old friends. they were both -- the phillips and hardings were all related in a connected way in ohio. and what happens over time is warring falls in love with carrie and florence finds out about this. sometime between 1905, when florence gets sick for the first time, and 1911, she discover this is affair. they were still friends, they were still vacationing together. your caller asks how was this happening? and how did florence react to this? well, not very happily. in fact, she asked him to consider divorce. but warren refused. he knew he needed her, partly for the reasons i alluded to, for his career and other ways. he a

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president franklin d. roosevelt described it as a, quote: a dirty jewish trick, unquote. >> guest: uh-huh. c-span: franklin roosevelt talk like that? >> guest: yes. it's in the record. c-span: more than once? >> guest: yes. ah, that i don't know. but, of course, there have been all kinds of books written in recent years about how roosevelt for a very long time ignored what was happening to the jews this germany -- in germany, did not take it seriously. this has been amply documented over and over again that he is simply didn't seem to feel that it was important. of course, we did not realize the full scope of the holocaust million after the war was over -- until after the war was over. c-span: where'd you get that quote though? is that something new you found somewhere? >> guest: it's probably in something i read. it probably is harrison calz bury's -- salisbury's book, but i've written every single book ever written about "the new york times." i think it's been in print, and i think it's probably harrison salisbury

i think franklin roosevelt was right you know this man is not a free man if you're hungry or not free if your job was the by i don't care what the budget. about i don't know where you don't eat and if. person is so pathetic that by age sixty five they haven't saved a god darn nickel they are not entitled to anything from the government it's pathetic the young people are being burdened paying eight percent of their wages to support this hideous system that should have been done away with years ago if you do away with the system what you will do is increase savings because people will go back to like we were before social security wanted to place will feel the iraqi people actually died from hunger in michigan and freezing to death and when i got to understand elderly the retirement age was sixty five that's it that's probably the equivalent of ninety today they have the r i thought it was a scam that's why he did it not not a lot of security was that i am back it's true no is not true and we had a serious problem with elderly poverty we still have a serious problem but what's so scary

he mentioned franklin roosevelt. franklin roosevelt did not get us out of the recession.id not get out of that until after the second world war, actually. when the united states was a power that made things instead of a service economy -- and we started exporting all of these jobs overseas, that is one people, when the middle-class attitude is all of. host: ok. guest: let me just -- if you and thek at the 1930's 1940,'s what roosevelt did was stabilize the economy and cap recession from spiraling out of control. he took the advice of his treasury secretary and put the brakes on prematurely. it sent us back toward a recession, and william is right, then the second world war pulled us out of it, but it is that set of politics -- policies. said, to add to what tom i think it is a mistake to refer to the tea party as some group of people that march in lockstep. you have a movement. the extreme parts are the tactical once -- policy extremes -- the notion that you blow up government, not that you just won a leaner and meaner government, but that all government is destructive, u

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their argument really hasn't changed all that much since the johnson administration or even the franklin roosevelt administration for that matter the government programs make people poor people specifically. lazy dependent and do nothing to keep them out of poverty now the flip side of this of course for the conservatives is that rich people need more incentives they need more tax cuts but what the conservatives this is turns out this is where the conservatives are really really wrong according to a new study out of columbia university by the washington post programs such as food stamps and unemployment insurance have made significant progress in easing the plight of the poor in the half century since the launch of the war on poverty in fact the safety net helped reduce the percentage of americans in poverty from twenty six percent nine hundred sixty seven to sixteen percent in two thousand and twelve studies of the all authors also found that there that if there were no safety net things would be a lot worse for america's poor according to their research without taking into account the role of go

went from you know over thirty percent down to about twelve percent in four years i mean for franklin roosevelt solved the great depression in in fairly short order and fairly dramatic fashion simply by saying the government will be the employer of last resort what's wrong with that why was it you think that the first one is that we gave that a go i mean the stimulus the students the trees are still there that dam is still there ari a you know on that and the t.v. a there is still there but the obama stimulus even the president admitted the shovel ready jobs were not quite a shovel ready as he into space that meant he was the money was slow to get out i mean i know everybody seemed a graph of of what obama's advisor said the unemployment rate would cap out at if the stimulus were passed and then the law of shooting above that i was a part of the reason why it's the economy is continuing to to get better or to stabilize at a point where the hemorrhaging is because those show shovel ready jobs were ready then they're ready to years later so the stimulus the obama stimulus has been stretched out o