it's franklin roosevelt. and he has my support. d they had a famous dinner together, just the two of them the night before roosevelt was inaugurated for the third time. roosevelt sent a handwritten math edge to churchville via wilkie who was then on his way to london. wilkie was so moved by what he saw that he came back and testified very passionately and very effectively for land lease and fdr never forgot it. he said we never could have had when you spin lambasting the united states the great arsenal of democracy during world war ii. made huge difference. and he probably wrote his chances for the 1944 nomination and not at loan because virtually every republican leader in the country urged him not to do it. winston churchill of course a very key role here. they only met once at a dinner in london in 1918 or a world war i. churchill never remember the encounter. roosevelt never forgot that churchill never remember the encounter. [laughter] that roosevelt -- churchill escorting roosevelt area heavily during this period in order to g

what would you ask of franklin roosevelt? >> i guess of franklin roosevelt it may well be empowered as i just went to the holocaust museum today, i would want to ask you when you think back, is there more you could have done, i understand once world war ii once world war ii have been, hitler close for a per, but is there more you could've done to bring more jewish refugees to the country before that moment. [applause] >> what would u.s. eleanor roosevelt? >> i think what i would ask eleanor, in fact it happened when i was working on the boat. they were so many times what i felt there what i thought they were such love between eleanor and franklin in as such hurt because he had had an affair so many years before. i would ask her again, just forget that affair. i know he loves you. i would talk to her when i would write the book could just tell her, just remember you are so much better than any other women in his life. just absorbed the fact that you are eleanor and just be closer to him because he was boldly in those years and

the social security act was signed into law by president franklin roosevelt in 1935. after several supreme court cases affirmed its constitutionality, the first benefit payments are made in 1937. ♪ >> our story begins with a young lady named margaret oliver. she is working for you. she is working for four out of every five americans. margaret oliver is your representative at the social security administration. her job is to tell you what your rights are and make sure you understand what social security means to you and you receive the money you are entitled to promptly when it is due. just as she is helping these people and scores like them every day. the story of margaret oliver's work and your social security goes back a long way. when this was a portrait of the future. when they reached old age, they found themselves lacking the means to meet even their barest needs and they were forced to become wards of public charity. denied the dignity of a happy security, their declining years became a period of hopeless waiting. alone, these people could not work out the pict

in a desperate move british prime minister winston churchill to a man he met only once, franklin roosevelt. f.d.r. was reluctant to get involved in another european war. >> f.d.r. did arrange for aide to be given to great britain. it was very much under the table and within the constraints of the neutrality act of 1937. >> they were carrying passengers or freight to countries wart. f.d.r. found a way around it and introduced a new concept, lend lease. >> this is warships that figure in the historic trade that united states has made with britain. the ships will aid britain. >> it was a master stroke on the part of f.d.r. without united states support england would have fallen. it's a slam dunk, no brainer. the merchant marines had been destroyed. >> they developed and modernized the merchant marine. it would promote u.s. commerce and in times of war serve as a naval auxillary. >> shipyards were the answer. valued at only a million and a half dollars each liberty ships were 440 feet long and could carry 10,000 tons of cargo at 11 knots. bernard was a native new yorker when he first set eyes

to demonstrate with this house, the corps brought to him the same documents that he'd shown franklin roosevelt. truman read them and ordered a structural investigation from the corps. and the resulting death sentence predictably, the corps said the house must be torn down and reconstructed. the widowed eleanor roosevelt moved out from the second and third floors sending 13 van loads of possessions furnishings, pictures, thousands of books, models of ships and more back to hyde park. president truman faced a family quarters only sparsely finished and they witnessed structural problems far more at a nearly empty house. and it was truman who said it was just worn down by living. most of the fault went to -- not to age but human quick fixes. the culprits were many through 150 years. mckim, for example, enlarging the state dining room in haste suspended the extended ceiling with iron tie rods anchored in the the old wooden timbers in the attic. and president coolidge tore off the attic level demanding it be done quickly as they all do. used steel and heavy concrete block terminating the tie rods of

[franklin roosevelt] december 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy. united states of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of japan. pearl harbor was a surprise, but america had expected war for some time. as german armies swept across europe, america began to build up its military. many adult americans remembered the hardships caused by inflation during the unregulated economy of world war i. the cost of living then spiraled up more than 100%. every worker and resource was precious. military and civilian needs competed with no referee but the price system so prices shot higher. as another and potentially greater war approached president roosevelt prepared to initiate price controls. but the job of planning and controlling the economy was anything but easy. the roosevelt administration chose john kenneth galbraith for the job. we had a couple of dozen people and the task of taking charge of all the prices in the economy. in my more mature years, i would have been appalled. at that time i thought the right

told the last best hope of architecture and it would take on the mantel and still remains as franklin roosevelt urged the great arnell of democracy and today today it is that ronald reagan offers us the shining city upon the hill america the history of that great land is the history of opportunity and promise it is a history of freedom itself and thought it's history thought our history that opportunity that promise, that freedom those have been preserved those have been defended by the young men and women sailors and marines who sail far from our shores who sacrifice and gladly sacrifice so we hear in america may continue to enjoy those freedoms we cherish so deeply who are those heross standing in ranks before us they come from all walks of life from every corner of the country from the mountainous country side surrounding the hometown of idaho falls as to the quiet long island ham let where our traffic control men kevin first raised his right hand and swore that most slum oath to support and defend the constitution of the united states from madison, wisconsin a thousand miles from the sea ye

the question was first answered with franklin roosevelt's new deal. fdr acted quickly.r again would farmers see such a torrent of legislation passed for their benefit. for the first time, there was a national program to raise farm income by guaranteeing minimum prices for farm goods. president roosevelt could not have envisioned that over the years, the formulas determining who receives farm subsidies would evolve in such a manner that it's corporate agri-businesses who are receiving the farm subsidies, not the small, struggling family farmers that president roosevelt envisioned in the 1930s. at that point in time, we had a significant percentage of the population that was directly engaged in agriculture, so the subsidies were focused on sustaining a very large percentage of the population. over time, we have seen that population in agriculture dwindle down, but the notion that you need to protect that food supply has always been there. schoumacher: by the mid-1990s, with a booming economy and high agricultural prices, congress decided it was time to wean farmers from d

first small role on broadway in 1958, in "sunrise at campobello," a play based on president franklin roosevelt'sstruggle with polio, an old problem came back to haunt him. >> i was playing a houseboy and i had a scene. i came into eleanor roosevelt. i said, "mrs. roosevelt, supper is served." well, i got as far as "mrs." we're often hung on the m word, the mama word or whatever you wanna call it, us stutterers. i think the audience knew what was happening. it was... it was a play. they bought tickets. and i'm up there acting. and i can't talk. my line was simple, "mrs. roosevelt, supper is served." and i exited. and that's the last time it's ever happened to me. >> reporter: it may surprise you that jones, with undoubtedly one of the most recognizable voices in the world... >> this is cnn. >> reporter: ...says he still struggles with stutter to this day. but it hasn't held him back on stage, film, or television. jones has won three emmy awards, an honorary academy award and two tony awards for his stage performances in the "great white hope" about a black boxer, and for august wilson's play" fen

russell building in 1933, about the thomas frank roosevelt's inauguration -- about the time of franklin roosevelt'snauguration. he talked about seeing mitchell walking by himself to union station. the man was all by himself leaving. that led to pecora carrying on an extensive and careful investigation into wall street banks and brokerages. he was not a senator. he was the chief counsel. often this is called the pecora investigation. it is the only investigation known for a staff person rather than for the chairman of the committee. it's mis-identified sometimes as the pecora commission. there was no commission. it was a committee, the banking committee of the senate. that was very important because the senators were also anticipating a questioning and listening to witnesses. that led to some of the most significant financial legislation that congress has ever passed. it really helped not only to get out of the depression but also to shore up the american economy and the financial system for the next 60 years. it's major legislation that stayed on the books, including the glass-steagall banking act,

franklin roosevelt passed a series of neutrality acts to keep us from the conflict in europe. president roosevelt aided the allies, prepared the country for war even in direct conflict with the statues. i can roosevelt was right and it would have been better for the country and world if we had entered world war ii earlier. i would contrast to buchanan who responded to the wars the way bruce laid out which is let congress decide. the president is there to execute congress' policies. i think that has led to the worst problems in foreign policy. i am not arguing the president's power has to be large and great at all times. it depends on the circumstances. i think president nixon is someone who tried to execute presidential power when the times were not calling for it. let's look at the constitution itself. why is this the case? i think bruce talked about directly about constitutional text but i assume this argument is based on the declare war. congress as the power to declare and i would assume bruce says only one congress has decided can the country go to war and then the presid

. >> 55-year-old douglas mcarthur led the inaugural parade leading franklin delanor roosevelt in 1954. after the bonus march disaster, the first lady and the press viewed mcarthur with suspicion. and things didn't improve when he sued columnist drew pearson to the tune of $1.75 million. >> and at that time, they became apparent in pearson. they were intrigued by a bunch of letters and came to him and said either you drop the suit or we're going to counter sue and put her on the stand. >> mcarthur paid his former mistress 1$15,000 not to take te stand. the public was fascinated with the colorful general. what f.d.r. really needed was to help put america to work. >> mcarthur definitely thought of roosevelt as an intellectual equal. >> mcarthur mobilized 275,000 citizens from 47 states. they were put to work in a civilian conservation corps. but inside the army, morale was dwindling. mcarthur was furious when the private salary was cut to $17.85 a month and only 16,000 soldiers stood combat ready. >>> emperor hito and his war lords were in the pacific. douglas' own friend knew his fledgl

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secretary -- franklin roosevelt secretary of state for ten years abraded japan, and sell to japan for what it had done in china. building up the u.s. fleet or from fortifying manila and kuala and so as lincoln would put it, the war came. we have known very little from that in our time. in fact, what we have been doing ever since much of the cold war has been to redouble our commitments while reducing our forces. you may have noticed that there was some trouble in ukraine to nine. well, that follows from the fact of ukraine has disarmed. why has ukraine disarmed? the united states government under both democratic and republican ministrations prevailed upon ukraine to give up the world's third largest stock of nuclear weapons. how? well, buy a guaranteed from the united states. well, it was not exactly well worded but it was interpreted by everyone as a guarantee of ukraine's independence and territorial integrity by the united states of america. now, of course, the united states of america watches as ukraine is being gently torn apart by the russian president. and i emphasize gently be

i mean, the legacy of franklin roosevelt and that generation is, actually, all around us. we walk on it, we travel on it, we benefit from innumerable ways, we lick postage stamps there in the post office, we look at murals on the wall. i get kind of excited about it. when i went out, when i set out to write this book on the fight for the four freedoms, i mean, i guess all authors go through the same thing. you go in with certain ideas and understandings, and you find out you didn't even know half the story. and i didn't know half the story. hell, i didn't know three-quarters of the story when i set out, but i knew there was something missing in the way in which we were celebrating the greatest generation. when i was writing "the four freedoms," it was like i was in a ping-pong tournament where i was reading about the past and hearing the present. so in many ways, i actually, i'm readily going to confess and admit that i wrote my book not just as a historian, but also as a historical and even a political advocate. i wanted americans to remember, okay, where we had been, wha

in 1935, franklin d roosevelt put his signature on the social security act. >> the social security measure at least some protections to 30 million of our citizens who will redirect benefits to unemployment compensation through old-age pensions for the protection of children and ill health. >> 15 years later, congress passed a new social security law is a law designed to meet today's needs, signed by president truman in 1950. they give social security a new meaning for you. today, this is the portrait of a future, a picture which social security helps make possible. most american families are now able to ensure for themselves and income that is guaranteed for life. it is provided not by charity or relief, but by federal old-age and survivors insurance, it insurance that is bought and paid for. here is how it works. old-age and survivors insurance is earned by most of us goes most jobs are now covered by the social security act. after working about 1.5 years, you become insured for the next year and a half. from then on, you are insured for additional year for each six months that you work.

that hadk it is true look, franklin roosevelt or john f.edy or lyndon johnson, have you ever committed adultery? they would have said no. it would have lied. maybe we would have considered that disqualifying insufficiency of character. most americans consider all of them to have been pretty good presidents on balance. >> are we different today in terms of these ideas because of twitter, social media? >> that makes it harder. >> everything gets out. >> and taken out of context. whatever you have said that you didn't mean to say becomes the one-timed you missed the, issues around the world. erry said to me talking about his experience in vietnam, he said we are not worst things we've ever done in our lives. there is a tendency to think that we are. i mentioned that in the book. i think it is one of the core and we arethe boat not actually, not all of us, the worst moments of our lives. we have constructed a system by which that is exactly what you wore and how you were judged. >> it is it likely to change? >> not all at once. i am always an o

we gather in the homes of roosevelt and franklin's mother sarah. many of us that watched the monumental series in the last week would probably agree that fdr would be fascinated by both sides of tonight's conversation. our interviewer is sam ten in house at "the new york times" whose political insight i've admired ever since the paths first crossed as an editor at "the new york times" op-ed page and later as an editor remarkably of the book review and the sunday weekend review. as you probably know he established himself as a gifted student of modern politics with his biography of whittaker chambers and then his book on the death of conservatism. we look forward to what he says he is doing inching along his biography of william f. buckley. our spotlight tonight focuses on jonathan a former political correspondent for "newsweek" where he covered national politics including john kerry's presidential campaign and in 2004 the hillary clinton campaign in 2008. there's hardly there is hardly a modern political figure he hasn't profiled. bill and hillary,

biden, because mum's the word, the democrats have decided that franklin delano roosevelt, one of his cardinal achievements--the 1938 federal minimum wage law--was never to be discussed in this campaign. elizabeth warren is not allowed to discuss it. joe biden is not allowed to discussed it. george miller doesn't discuss it publicly. he put in a bill under our stress just for pro forma. never had a press conference. nancy pelosi doesn't discuss it. richard trumka of the afl doesn't discuss it. and the minimum wage today adjusted for inflation, as i mentioned, would put tens of billions of dollars at ten bucks an hour--tens of billions of dollars in people's hands to jump-start for the recessionary economy. biden could have skewered ryan, and he was muzzled because obama doesn't want to discuss this because he might be accused of being against small business, who he's given 18 tax breaks by his own admission on the first debate. 18 tax breaks, and 2/3 of all low-income workers are employed by 50 large corporations, like wal-mart and mcdonald's, whose ceos get an average of $10 million

against. 12 presidents and down including barack obama since our last undeniably great one, franklin roosevelt, the alignment of capability, presidential greatness, simply have not come together three undeniably great ones. lincoln washington and roosevelt, all had it. i'm not talking about manageable crises, hot inescapable crisis and that's the reason we don't want another great one because in our political system the founders even though they wanted an energetic powerful one, separated powers and the only thing that lib rates domesticates the process, leads to cooperate and creates a measure of acquiescence which gets the public to follow is a nation-encumbering process, creates an individual who has culture and capacity, i don't think that alignment has appeared and the truth is do we want it to appear, do we want another profound crisis? >> right because that's what you say, in order to have that rare great president we'd have to be in a situation that was so risky and dangerous we wouldn't want the circumstances to be there for that to happen. >> right. and i'm arguing that the frame of

. >> they reference the great comment that was made about franklin roosevelt, that he had a second-classntellect and a first-class temperament. that does not mean they are stupid. they said that's true but truman, eisenhower, and reagan. all people who get high votes for being very successful presidents. what does that say to you? >> in that kind of job, you have a lot flying at you, and you have to be able to handle it all on and even keel. it's important to be passionate and have great feelings. what is more important in the job of commander-in-chief is to have the even temperament that you can juggle all the balls at once without losing your mind, keeping your tool, not getting ahead of yourself, and making sure you have the right kind of .ttitude -- keeping your cool you don't want to make rash emotional decisions. >> doesn't that describe barack obama, what you just said? he's not rash, he seems to be a calm and reasonable guy. he thinks about it too long, like the afghan policy, not that he doesn't rush into things. in your criticism about syria is that he should have done more ear

when franklin roosevelt made the longest walk of his presidency.up until that night in a way that is unimaginable, the media had contrived the fact of the president's polio from the country. every photograph showed fdr standing, invited that winston churchill to join him from attacks that hms prince of wales. roosevelt was determined literally to rise. supported by his son on one side, by a naval officer and the author, he made a slow way across the prince of wales asset then struck out. what happened next was the most imaginable demonstration of what einstein was speaking peoples together. it happened to be sunday morning. and so the crews were paraded for a religious service. they carried roosevelt and the crew of hms prince of wales. they had chosen meticulously tanager derating that the chaplain gave from the pope. came from joshua one. i will not fail strong and of good courage. and afterwards, churchill burst out and made the same language, the same ideals. and when he said the same ideals, he wasn't making simply a generalization about being

all the decisions fall heavily on the presidencies of abraham and franklin roosevelt.americans in the 19th century popped relevant. george washington's job as a brigadier general is not appropriate for us to use here, and early 19th century americans were held deeply in theaters in time of war. the way they sought did think about the nature of executive power. they couldn't believe that the role of the president could rally the troops with the public at large. in other words, it wasn't the president's job to go out and campaign personally the war he was trying to wage. madison had seen john adams try to do something very similar at the end of the 1719s. if you go on to read, john edwards absolutely far exceeded the priorities of what was legitimate executive expectation at that time. these concerns of madison took greater restraint during the war rather than the dangers of going to excess. >> now, that might be a. with all these failures the historians talk about, there were some. it deny lose the war, either. the british cannot and that did not achieve their. myles su

franklin roosevelt who pop liesed all of this during world war ii, he hired a guy, a famous ship builder and said this is the number of ships i want you to over see and make sure they get built, and kaiser came in and that was done. >> hiring a ship building guy in order to get more ships built, that seems right on the nose. there is criticism that this guy is not a doctor and this is a medical matter, and is subject matter direct personal expertise always what presidents go for? >> president nixon in 1973 in the time of the energy crisis appointed william simon as our first energy czar, and simon was a very tough manager and knew nothing about energy, and he was a bond trader on wall street, but it does help to have some technical expertise, and not even ron would argue he has that background and what he does have is a lot of government experience and the ability to knock heads together on behalf of the president to get things done, and the other thing is, one thing that could be very important during the next number of months is he is going to have to say a lot of things in public that

franklin roosevelt signed it into law.trying to see in the minds of americans 150 years ago is challenging task. the soldiers of the union and confederate armies underwent an asiane time of public as -- of politicization. politics was central to the development of soldier morale, unit organization, unit cohesion, officer quality, fighting style, and the nature of the evolving relationship between the military and the home front. politics began the war, and ultimately political decisions were responsible for the lives of america's citizen soldiers. after three years of slaughter, they demanded the right to vote. almost 80% voted for lincoln. the men who did the fighting voted by a far larger majority than the folks at home to finish the job they started. they had a good understanding of politics and knew that voting for lincoln meant continuing the war. they voted their loyalty to the causes of union and abolition with ballots, many of which were figuratively marked in blood. thank you. [applause] >> we have time for questi

we are a country franklin roosevelt and teddy roosevelt and a cannot of l.b.j. and johnson as well. we believe to provide for those that need help. we went through a deep recession. everyone understands that, and that recession was caused in large part, john, in my judgment and i think factually this is true, that recession was caused in large part by greed, and the greed of wall street and the greed of those who want more and more for themselves and don't want to pay the workers a fair share. we've seen the decline of labor in this country. that's another big problem. republicans are opposed to organized labor by and large, and organized labor in my judgment is what gives average working people a chance to collectively get together and fight for their share of the american pie. there are big differences between the two parties, and i think the american people understand that. just one statistic. recent polls, in fact the most recent poll i'm aware of says that 70% of the people in this country believe that the minimum wage should be increased to $10.10 an hour, and nearly every rep

the legacy of franklin roosevelt and that generation is actually we walk on it, we travel on that.we benefit in innumerable ways. we postage stamps in the office. we look at girls on the wall. when i set out this book has affected the four freedoms, i guess all of us go through the same thing. you go in with certain ideas and understanding any sign that you are completely wrong or you didn't even know half the story. i didn't even know three quarters of the story. but i knew there was something missing in the ways in which we were celebrating. when i was writing the book fight for the four freedoms, i was in a ping-pong where i was reading about the past in hearing the president. in many ways i admit that i wrote my book not just as an historian, but a political advocate. i want americans to remember where we had been, what are parents and generations accomplished and how it is now under siege and the question for us is what are we going to do about it? i'm convinced all four are under siege. if you think of freedom, speech and expression, citizens united threatens for average citi

without theodore or franklin roosevelt this country's economy would have been meaner, coarser, more oligarchial a less passionate and more prosperous society. week to week, barack obama has been blamed for what he inherited. there's no question, i agree with david completely, that the action to confront the economic crisis, the financial crisis he inherited saved this economy, and the fact that the united states economy has created more jobs than all of europe and the developed world and japan since that time is an accomplishment. but at the same time, the economy growing is not likely shared. between 2010 and 2013, 90% of americans saw their actual income go down, the bottom 90%. the top 10%, that was all the growth. the median family income is lower by actual dollars than in 1989. so this is something that started long before barack obama got there. but that's the reason i think people feel bad. you can look at the big numbers and they look terrific, but when people -- you have three inches of water in your cellular and somebody says, look, there's only an inch and a half there now, isn't it

there have only been three truly great presidents, george washington, abraham lincoln, and franklin rooseveltd that americans should stop searching for another one. we spoke at mount vernon, home of george washington. aaron miller thank you for joining us. >> pleasure margaret. >> warner: now you write here that americans need to get over their obsession or you call it an addiction in the search for great president. why? what if you search for something you can't have? that's the predicament we're in. we've created a sense of expectation in a job that's already somewhat already impossible. let's say it's implausible, given the nature and the complexity of the presidency, the terrifying con i thin contit politics, so many factors out of our control and we want to turn the president into a combination of harrison ford in air force one and superman. and the reality is we can't have presidents like that anymore. that's the real issue. we have to stop pining for the presidents, the great trance -- transformative ones because those won't come back, seems to me, and let the presidents be good and st

the social security act was signed into law by president franklin roosevelt in 1935. after several supreme court cases affirmed its constitutionality, the first benefit payments are made in 1937.

. >> i do go to the store. [ laughter ] some people explained to me franklin roosevelt is not the presidentust got the word. >> seth: oh, i'm so sorry. that must be so tough to hear. >> a shock. i voted for him. [ laughter ] >> seth: oh, no. you -- is it -- is it exciting for you to go back to old characters? for me, it's exciting to read characters i, you know, i read in later books or sort of earlier books. but now it's -- do you have a relationship with your characters where it's exciting to let them, like revisit them, make them talk again? >> yes -- but don't believe any writer that says their characters do things that they didn't plan. that's disengenuous hoohah. [ light laughter ] what really happened is they got to a point where they had dramatic options and they chose one or the other. take the character kay lake from "perfidia." >> seth: mm-hmm. >> i'm deeply in love with her and i created her. so it's either narcissism or owninism because i'm sane. >> seth: mm-hmm. okay. [ light laughter ] >> they don't talk to me, these characters. i'm having a conversation with you and it's 241

franklin roosevelt made columbus day a federal holiday in the 1930s.han half of the states plus d.c. officially recognize it on that level. we want to say congratulations to today's winner, shannon smith. happy monday to you. we'll be right back. helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. to avoid long term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision, or any allergic reactions like rash, hives, swelling of the lips, tongue or throat, or difficulty breathing or swallowing, stop taking cialis and get medical help right

>> that ad is not -- look, let me just say this, the greatest hero of the democratic party franklin roosevelta wheelchair, so we respect anyone with any disability. it's about his character. it's about greg abbott's character. >> come on. you don't really believe that ad is appropriate, donna. >> i am looking at -- look, i'm not talking about the wheelchair. the point she's making, it's a fair point about greg abbott's record of saying to others that they shouldn't get the same treatment that he received. look, i'm saying that i would not have used that wheelchair but the fact that greg abbott is in a wheelchair, that is -- he has been in a wheelchair in an ad, so i'm not saying that this -- >> matt, there's got to be something in between. >> well, living in austin, texas, i'm going to have to vote in this race so i have watched a lot of these ads. to me there's always three signs a campaign is in great peril and about to lose, first is when the campaign starts saying we're not taking in account all the turnout models. we're going to change the turnout. the second when they say the only poll

well, i think it is true that, you know, had you asked, look, had you asked, franklin roosevelt or johnqualifying and insufficiency of character but i think most americans consider all of them to have been pretty good presidents on balance, if not great ones. >> rose: are we different today in terms of all of these ideas because of twitter, social media and facebook and all of that? >> that makes itie that complicates. >> rose: because everything gets out. >> yes, i talk about it in the book and everything gets taken out of context and whatever you said you didn't mean to say becomes the one time you misspeak it shoots around the world before you get to the next event. bob kerry john kerry said to me in the context of his experience in vietnam and how it played out politically later, he said we are not the worst things we have ever done in our lives and there is a tendency to think that we are and i mention that again in the book, because i think, i think it is one of the core lessons of this book i have written and the core lessons are the hard stories, none of us, including journalist