across from the white house in lafayette park, the men, women and children who franklin roosevelt served so well watch in tearful silence. ♪ ♪ then, just before the brief, private white house rights president roosevelt's casket rests in the historic east room. here, 80 years before, leigh -- -- lay abraham lincoln. now, home again, to the garden of his family home in hyde park, new york, comes president roosevelt. here in the old and lovely hudson river estate, which several years ago he bequeathed to the people of the united states, the mortal remains of a man who has known no parallel in our time will rest forever. ♪ [playing taps] [gunshots] ♪ >> the nation and the world more and with mrs. roosevelt and her family. -- mourn with mrs. roosevelt and her family. ♪ harry s truman, president of the united states, distinguished senator from the state of missouri for 10 years and vice president since the last national election, mr. truman brings to his new high office and understanding of the gigantic american war effort second only to that of the late president roosevelt. climaxing a long r

franklin roosevelt, born to wealth, and harry truman one-time farm boy, were united on that and everyld aim. as the nation's plunged into morning by president roosevelt's death, here he s truman becomes president, the seventh american vice president to assume the office under similar circumstances. president truman takes over his duties and announces the san francisco conference will go ahead as schedule and receives the nation's military leaders. more secretary simpson, army chief of staff marshall, and fleet admiral king. ♪ james f byrnes, the roosevelt a who took part in the crimea conference, the secretary of state, the british foreign secretary and ambassador halifax also visit to the president. arriving to address a joint session of congress, president truman receives thunderous applause. he pledges to carry forward the work of franklin roosevelt. president truman: with great humility, i call upon all americans to help me keep our nation united in defense of those ideals which have been so eloquently proclaimed by franklin roosevelt. [applause] i want, in turn, to assure my fell

from warm springs, georgia the mortal remains of franklin delano roosevelt began the long trip home. slowly, the long, black funeral train rolled up from the south and then down pennsylvania avenue to the beat of drums, the president was born for the last time to the executive mansion that for 12 years had been his official home. the passing of fdr from the american scene came as a personal shock to the nation. people wept openly, unashamed of their grief. drawn by six white horses, the flag draped caisson was wrought to the main entrance of the white house, carried into the great east room where 80 years ago, almost to the day, the body of abraham lincoln had also laid in state. at hyde park, his ancestral home the guns of west point cadets rang down the final curtain on the man best known around the world as fdr. [gunshots] to measure something of his greatness, we turn black -- we turn back the clock to franklin roosevelt as a young man making his first political campaign, to a time when at only 28 years of age, he was elected new york state senator and brought the republican mach

sunday night at eight :00 author susan butler on president franklin roosevelt and soviet leader joseph stalin allies during world war ii and their unexpected partnership e.on the war. tonight at 8:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span3 university of virginia's virginia murray on how civil war veterans reunions have changed on the reconstruction era to present. american history tv is live from appomattox court house national historic park commemorating the 150th anniversary of the confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. each week, american history tv's "reel america" brings archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. >> from his beloved second-home in georgia, the body of franklin delano roosevelt moved on the first stages of its journey to his final resting place. scores of sufferers sorrowfully bid farewell to their great friend and benefactor. the president's dog follows his beloved master. aboard a special train beginning the 20 four-hour trip to washington, the 31st president of the united states leaves warm springs forever. all along the 700-mile

called in 1928 to the state capitol in albany, franklin roosevelt was elected governor of new york. with al smith, his old friend, the happy warrior at his side, he threw himself into the fight as a champion for the common man. with james a farley swinging the gavel, the die was cast. a country mired in the more us depression wanted a new president. called to accept the nomination, his wife and son -- who knew it then, but this was the beginning of an era unparalleled in american history. fdr's appearance in chicago stadium was the beginning of a series of spectacular personal triumphs. his first words were fearless and prophetic. president roosevelt: i am prepared under my constitutional duty to deliver what a stricken world may require. these measures or such other measures as the congress may build out of this experience and wisdom, i shall seek within my constitutional authority to bring to speed it up. but in the event congress should fail to take one of these two clauses, in the event the national emergency is still critical, i shall not invade the clear force of duty that wil

franklin roosevelt didn't get it. postcode chapter two, theodore roosevelt a strenuous life was ex-president standout is the biggest stars ever to occupy the white house in modern times. teddy roosevelt, fdr, jfk, ronald reagan, bill clinton and barack obama. >> guest: to have this aura, the certain charisma, inability to connect with american values. the value is dependent upon a time in my people wanted from the president. president franklin roosevelt with optimization. president theodore roosevelt distant cousin was the notion of baker and powerful interest. it goes on and on. they also had a sense of an aura about them. they seem to understand that americans have gone through a series of phases in finding a president. today a president needs to be an entertainer companies to be part of the culture in the sense of keeping people interested and the president understand that. least effective presidents don't or are unable to act on it. there are other presidents i talk about in the books in the book written on celebri

she approached president franklin roosevelt and first lady eleanor roosevelt with the idea of using women to fly america's military aircraft should women be needed. at the time they word, they did think it was a great idea so in december 7, 1941 pearl harbor was attacked by japan so men immediately enlisted, were sent off the european and pacific fronts from america and at that time by 1942, america was experiencing a severe shortage of male combat pilots over north africa and so thinking back to jackie cochran's proposition of a woman flying these military aircraft, general henry hap arnold took her up on her offer and the women air force service pilots was formed. >> when i got out of high school, i started taking flying lessons and this was in piper cubs where the instructor sits in the front and the student in the back. one day when i had had perhaps nine hours of flying he told me to pull over on the tarmac when i landed and he started getting out of the airplane and he told me it was time for me to take it around by myself. so he closed the door and i took off. and he said "watch me

across from the white house in lafayette park, the men, women and children who franklin roosevelt servedwell watch in tearful silence. ♪

he did not know franklin roosevelt. franklin roosevelt paid him no attention whatever none. had no interest in him. it was all right for truman to be his running mate because the political bosses met one steamy july night at the white house and said for t president truman was the manhe. he said if that is what you want, fine with me. he would have preferred james bird or -- or henry wallace. but it was not that way. and then came the 1946 election. congressional election. and the republicans swept the country. and truman cambee back, president truman came back from having gone out to independence to vote symbolic election vote on his part, but he took it seriously. and he got to union station in washington and only one member of his official family, white house family or cabinet, or congress came to the station to greet him. and that was dean anderson. of course, truman never, ever forgot that. a friend does not forget. he got off the train alone reading, carrying a book. i've tried for years to find out what book he was caring but with no luck. but that moment when he was a

. >> from his beloved second-home in georgia, the body of franklin delano roosevelt moved on the first stages of its journey to his final resting place. scores of sufferers sorrowfully bid farewell to their great friend and benefactor. the president's dog follows his beloved master. aboard a special train beginning the 20 four-hour trip to washington, the 31st president of the united states leaves warm springs forever. all along the 700-mile route people gather to honor president roosevelt and his ideals. slowly, the train backs in the union station in the united aids capital, awaited by a military guard of honor and members of the late, great chief executive's family. with justice burns and secretary wallace, harry s truman heads the assembly of the nation's leaders. on the steel artillery caison, escorted by representatives of every trench of the nation's armed forces, the casket passes grief stricken throngs of people en route from the station to the white house -- on the steel artillery caison. warplanes pay a final tribute to the commander-in-chief, and officers and men of the mig

the president franklin roosevelt was called court packing.but the key to remember is for you to take a long period of time by et 95 to 1936 the supreme court could unconstitutional all of these laws designed to protect society. so during the many periods that you discussed failed to protect minorities against the oppression by popular majorities the problem seems to be the office of the supreme court putting the will of the democratic majorities all of whom are in each of the law protecting consumers and protecting children subjected to horrible working conditions. when should a court stand up to popular majorities command when should step back and be sure to them? >> the basic question thinking about the constitution when do we want the court to defer to the political process and stop the political process that is the key difference between liberals and conservatives on the court. on tuesday june 25, 2013 the supreme court had a key provision of five conservative justices in the majority before the the justice and david this justice ended th

what was franklin delano roosevelt's answer to the needs of older americans? many young people were untrained, uneducated, and unemployable. how could they get a place at the economic starting line? welfare reform. after 60 years of guaranteeing benefits to welfare recipients, the federal government wants them to go to work. has the new policy succeeded? we are the richest most prosperous nation on earth. yet, in the midst of plenty, great disparities in wealth. "reducing poverty: what have we done?" with the help of economic analyst richard gill we'll investigate that question on this edition of "economics u$a." i'm david schoumacher. there have always been people left out of the american dream -- the young, the old the ill, the untrained. and those who've just lost out in a competitive economy which has losers as well as winners. today we take it for granted that the government has a role to play in reducing poverty and we argue only about how and how much. but before food stamps and public housing before government aid to the elderly what happened when the

she approached president franklin roosevelt with the idea of using women to fly america's military aircrafthould women be needed. at the time they weren't but they did think it was a great idea. in december 7, 1941 pearl harbor was attacked by japan. so men immediately enlisted and were sent off to the european and pacific front from america. and at that time by 1942 america was experiencing a shortage of male combat pilots over north africa. so thinking back to the proposition about women flying the military aircraft general henry arnold commanding general of the army air forces took her up on her offer. so the women air force service pilots was formed. >> when i got out of high school i started taking flying lessons. and this was where the instructor sits in the front and the student in the back. one day when i had perhaps nine hours of flying he told me to pull over on the tarmac when i landed and he started getting out of the airplane. he told me it was time for me to take it around by myself. so he closed the door and i took off. and he said watch me from the ground and i will let you

been at the top for as long as any political figure throughout the 20th century and including franklin roosevelt and richard nixon and loads of other ones. so you have a fixed image after all that time. it's tough to change. and if you try, you better try toward what you really are. i heard the word humble used about in the preface to the announcement. i don't associate humility with either clinton or for that matter with top politicians if either party. that's a tough one to sell. >> that was the 35-year-old new campaign manager who has a clinton world in some matters. and the mem though tho that tal being humble, what did it predict? >> very little of that will happen because the stakes are so high in politics. the real politics are the opposite of academic politics. stakes are high in real poll pick politics and low this cad hick politics 7. >> always good to have your insight. thank you.>> always good to hav insight. thank you. >>> a rish shan jet accused of enter septembering an u.s. airplane. well tell you what happened. i love making sunday dinners. but when my back hurt, cooking all day.

. >> host: this was when franklin roosevelt was giving a news conference. >> guest: right. if you step on a white reporters toes will be a riot. ultimately they would not let them come in. the bottom line this happened 70 years ago and it just boggles my mind. we work so closely to one another no space so closely and to think that where i stand now they cannot let. fast-forward to today and you we will always have a difference of opinion. some might be racial others may be a difference of opinion. i think we're trying to do better. i think that we as a group that's one thing. professionals. some people may harbor some notion. but. but i have had some incidents happen that i question. it's not worth freddie. >> host: april ryan you do something many reporters don't. at the end at the end of your book you conclude with your explanation of how you have graded the three presidents you have covered and why. i don't want to be a spoiler on how the book turns out. you covered bill clinton george w. bush and barack obama three modern-day presidents who that two times each. none 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

this is president franklin roosevelt. roosevelt will be on hand to dedicate the eternal light peace memorial on july 3, 1938. what is his dedication speech ringing of? patriotism. patriotism of whom? america. this is more underscoring that point with roosevelt saying, and honoring the confederate veterans, we are going to do what? >> [indiscernible] jennifer murray: because they are all americans. if you look to the right of the obelisk, you see the two people unveiling the american flag. one is a union veteran and one is a confederate veteran. the inscription on the bottom of the monument, this is what it looks like today, the inscription says "peace eternal in a nation united." reconciliation through the 20th century, still deliberately ignoring the war's causes and consequences. that gives us the 75 years. jump forward with me to 100 years, which takes us to the civil war centennial. this is where america has an opportunity to provide a fuller, more accurate civil war narrative. what is going on in the united states in

the project itself was killed off by republican congresspeople and all of franklin roosevelt's enterprises. it was killed off in 1941 1942. during those years she worked like a trooper. she may have been disabled, but she was a very strong woman. she was traveling through the nature areas of california appeared 120 degrees in the shade. she was sleepy and cheap hotels on or very small, $3 a day u.s. government per diem. she discovered she was happier than ever doing this work. she liked it so much more. i think her studio portrait photography had begun to seem that it wasn't helping her grow as a photographer. she was very good at it. in fact if you look at that famous painting, what you see and it is true all of her so-called documentary work, she was always a portrait photographer. she did something very unusual. she had all of the skills of making photographs of people that were flattering, that sort of thin hand to people's identities and respect and dignity and she turned the same high towards the poor. that was shocking and i think that one famous photograph viewers back because you

americans are tired of the irs and our tax system and sunday night at 8:00 author susan butler on franklin roosevelt and josef stalin, allies during world war ii and their unexpected partnership beyond the war. tonight at 8:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span three, the university of virginia college professor on why veterans reunions have changed from reconstruction your to present and sunday afternoon at 1:00, american history is live from appomattox courthouse memorial park commemorating the 150th anniversary of the confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. the national museum of african american history and culture is currently under construction the national mall is expected to open in 2016 and it has hosted several event since 2008. people can bring in family artifacts and talk to curators about how to best preserve them. we talked to museum staff at the event and washington, d.c. >> my name is esther washington, the director of education. we are here today with with our save our african-american treasures program where we invite the public to bring three objects and we have

the question was first answered with franklin roosevelt's new deal. fdr acted quickly.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 depressi

get ready to raise a glass because today is national beer day on this day in 1933, president franklin roosevelt took the first step in stopping prohibition today beer is still the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage. a look at stories coming up on "action news" at 4:00. a new plan to treat drug overdoses. we'll break down and call it a model for the rest of the world to follow. that will do it for "action news" at noon don't forget "action news" at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. for the entire "action news" team i'm sara bloomquist have a great afternoon. and i'm arnold palmer, professional golfer. know what we have in common? we talked to our doctors about treatment with xarelto®. me, when i had a blood clot in my leg that could have traveled to my lungs. that's why i took xarelto®, too. xarelto® is proven to treat and help reduce the risk of dvt and pe blood clots. i took xarelto® for afib... an irregular heartbeat that can lead to a stroke from a blood clot. xarelto® is proven to reduce the risk of stroke in people with afib, not caused by a heart valve problem. hey, well i'm glad we got together.

americans are tired of the irs and our tax system and sunday night at 8:00, author susan butler on franklin rooseveltand soviet leader joseph stalin. saturday night at 8:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span3 on lectures in history. university of virginia college of wise professor jennifer murray on several war veteran reunions have changed from the reconstruction era to present. >>> american history tv visited longwood university in virginia for a ceremony on the closing of the civil war in 1865. the program was co-hosted by university and appomattox courthouse national historical park. ron wilson talks about the terms of the surrender. this is about an hour. >> thank you. it's indeed a pleasure to be here. i think this is the 16th seminar. i think we owe a debt of gratitude to longwood university and to dr. coles and patrick schroder and you ought to give them all a round of applause.

americans are tired of the irs and our tax system and sunday night at 8:00, author susan butler on franklin rooseveltand soviet leader joseph stalin. saturday night at 8:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span3 on lectures in history. university of virginia college of wise professor jennifer murray on several war veteran reunions have changed from the reconstruction era to present. >>> american history tv visited longwood university in virginia for a ceremony on the closing of the civil war in 1865. the program was co-hosted by university and

americans are tired of the irs and our tax system and sunday night at 8:00, author susan butler on franklin rooseveltand soviet leader joseph stalin. saturday night at 8:00 easter

on april 12, 1945, only three months after his unprecedented fourth inauguration, president franklin rooseveltile visiting his little white house in warm springs, georgia. up next, an 11 minute u.s. government news real covering the funeral and president harry truman's address to congress. the film was recently restored. ♪ >> from his beloved second home in warm springs, georgia some of the body of franklin delano roosevelt moves on its first stages of its journey to its final resting place. suffering from infantile paralysis, they

did john kerry and franklin roosevelt? it was a different era. politics and the web have made politics in my view too much a sense of personality driven, as opposed to getting up and telling people what you intend to do as president. no i vividly remember being in new hampshire when pat buchanan was talking to one poor soul on a freezing street, somewhere in manchester, surrounded by maybe a hundred reporters. it is inevitably inevitably, i think phoney. >> you know, there's also the question of, who controls the message. if reporters had had a crack at hillary, certainly someone who you have said she had declined to answer back in 2012 when a congressional committee asked her about did you use a private e-mail everybodier is when you were secretary of state? at the same time you say candidates -- a lot of candidates have done this, but not usually in the first week of a rollout, when you say hey, folks, here i am running for president. >> look i think the campaign was trying to figure out a way not to make her seem like the kate mckinnon caricat

essentially it was an iteration of franklin roosevelt's 1939 state of the union address on the worldy for international piece. the religion was the foundation for the democratic piece because in religious society tolerance and pluralism were necessary for democracy and in turn to piece both domestic and international. there are other instances. mostly from mostly from his 1st two years, the other most famous example is his nobel peace prize acceptance speech in oslo which a lot of commentators nicknamed the good negro policy. and as time went on the religious presence in american foreign-policy became to fade and eventually all but disappeared. the ambivalence of the speech is indicative of obama's overall ambivalence certainly when it came to the application of religious principles to american foreign-policy. it is nicknamed the good neighbor policy because it is where he is pushing realism as a way to justify the waging of the war on terror he says people like martin luther king and gandhi would not have had an answer to hitler or bin laden, and sometimes we have to wage war in ord

andrew mellon and franklin roosevelt hated each other's guts. sion. roosevelt blamed mellon for the depression, mellon thought roosevelt was an opportunist who didn't know the first thing about anything. we hear today about the irs being used for political purposes. we are rank amateurs on fat. andrew mellon started that process and the 1920s when he turned the irs on his enemies. roosevelt returned the favor, he indicated mellon for tax evasion. mellon be the charges and won and at the end there is a confrontation between two giants on dec. 31 1936 and the white house, a prologue of the novel. 90% of what you are going to read in the prologue actually happened. i got to entertain you. it is a little more to their feud then was released their but most of the was true and this is when the national gallery of art was born. andrew mellon is the one who gave $8 million to the united states and he wanted the national gallery of art. he supervised the building, he was very hands-on died eight months later but left specific instructions on how things wo

return -- tax reform says that americans are tired of the irs and susan butler on president franklin roosevelt and the unexpected partnership beyond the war. sunday night at 8:00 o'clock eastern on lectures and history, university of virginia professor jennifer murray on how veterans reunions have changed and sunday afternoon at 1:00 o'clock live. >> pres. obama president obama welcomed more than 100 students from 30 states recently. some of the projects on display include an automatic page turner and the carbon dioxide powered battery all kemal part of the white house effort to boost interest in stem education. this is about 50 minutes. >> hello. good to see you. good to see you. yes. good to know where you are from. >> i'm from denver colorado. >> what grade. >> a junior in high school. >> a junior, going through the sat application process. busy year but not too busy for these projects. >> so all right. if you look carefully is a very important to science. they tell us all sorts of things. right now because there are more than 350,000 species of flora and fauna on the planet we're trying to

will you have people like franklin roosevelt and winston churchill. and also this is a century of civil rights where women and blacks and colonial people all get their own individual rights. and ghandi. and martin luther king jr. as part of that. and finally. if you think that it was a century of science and technology took us to the moon and took us to the transistor and everything else. einstein, his fingerprints are on it. we ended up going with einstein and the one thing that in ways cut against churchill as much as i a meyer him. he was on the wrong side of history whether it came to the colonial rights and the rights of everything from blacks and women. and his clash with ghandi was a legion and in the in. the side of history was towards more individual and civil rights and many poweringment and hurt churchill was the head of every gamech when it came to fighting communist. and naziism. and he sort of is caught behind on that one. so when we look at history, we will admire the strengths of great people. and we also have to look at hey where did

then goes to work for franklin roosevelt.harlie: everyone wants to be loved by their mother and have their father think they are proud. david: even george marshall at the end of his life, said to his relative, to think my father would be proud of me? he did not know. charlie: abraham lincoln. lyndon johnson. david: there is a contrast. in my mind, lincoln was adam one and adam two. deeply humble and deeply good. had a capacity for rising above hatred. he is a moral exemplar to beat all. the second inaugural is a testament to humility. lyndon johnson was something of a monster. he could say, i have achieved a lot. charlie: can you easily say it was not necessary to be however you define a monster in order to achieve what he achieved. it may have benefited people as much as frances perkins. david: when someone, like the people we cover, who are involved in scandal, it is because of something broken inside. the scandal never emerges out of nothing. their watergate will come. if you ignore your adam two, your watergate will come.

is the year the agency went from just nature parks over to historical, cultural sites under franklin roosevelt. for many years, it was in area of the theater, a lincoln museum covering artifacts of lincoln's life, his legacy. in the 1960's from 1964-19 68 it was restored back to its 1865 appearances you see it today. the official first play reopened on lincoln's birthday, february 12, 1968. as you all know, the national park service as a working relationship with our partners ford's theater society, private nonprofit. it's certainly very unique as a historical entity. in mexico right interesting. while we rangers and staff interpret the historic significance for our visitors, our partners bring it to life as a working theater and in recognition of lincoln's own legacy. the faÇade here, what sexy original would include the front faÇade structurally and the roof attic, and everything else, about 90% of the interior was redone in the 1960's. this building to the right here this is where our national park service office is. that is where we work out of. this originally would have been the star sal

. >> host: this is when franklin roosevelt's conference. >> ultimately the bottom line in happened 70 years ago. it boggles the mind. then to work so closely from where i stand now you'll always of a difference of opinion. summer just the difference of opinion. that we as a group that is one thing. o id it could not be a better is not worth fighting over. >> host: given to with some don't do to conclude with the explanation of how you have created the three presidents that you have covered provide not want to be a spoiler a large you covered bill clinton to georgia bush ever rock obama three a modern-day president's nine of them float. >> but there is the pace - - a piece of race relations but nobody has the letter a greater. president clinton is the reigning champion on diversity. why? >> guest: he has had the most confirmed african-americans marshalls, a judge's, excuse me, not judges. barack obama is the grand champ bomb that. but cabinet persons they work hard with diversity there. pledges could because another group of people that were not at the table there were african american

our tax system and sunday night at 8:00, author susan butler on franklin roosevelt and soviet leader joseph stalin. saturday night at 8:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span3 on lectures in history. university of virginia college of wise professor jennifer murray on several war veteran reunions have changed from the reconstruction era to present. >>> american history tv visited longwood university in virginia for a ceremony on the closing of the civil war in 1865. the program was co-hosted by university and appomattox courthouse national historical park. ron wilson talks about the terms of the surrender. this is about an hour. >> thank you. it's indeed a pleasure to be here. i think this is the 16th seminar. i think we owe a debt of gratitude to longwood university and to dr. coles and patrick schroder and you ought to give them all a round of applause. [ applause ] how many of you, and there are quite a few of you, have been to the mcclain house at appomattox courthouse? that makes things rather easy for me. it's time for lunch i believe. one thing that's probably not generall

n president franklin roosevelt and joseph stalin, allies during world war ii and their part aniship -- partnership beyond the war. and on c-span3 on lectures and history, university of virginia college of wise professor jennifer murray on how civil war veterans have changed from present. and we are live from appomattox courthouse national historic park commemorating the 150th anniversary of the confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a sem seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865 it. was co-hosted by the university and the appomattox courthouse national historic park. next author mark bradley talks about the fighting in north carolina during the last months of the civil war. this is about an hour. >> thank you, david. can everyone hear me okay? >> yes. >> all right. well, we have watched the armies of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersberg, to the surrender at appomattox courthouse, now i'm going to make a detour. we're going to make a sha

susan butler on president franklin roosevelt and soviet leader joseph stalin, allies during world war ii and their unexpected partnership beyond the war. saturday night at :00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3, lectures in history university of virginia jennifer murray on how civil war veterans and their reunions have changed from the reconstruction era to present. sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m., american history tv is live from appomattox courthouse national memorial park, considering -- commemorating the 100 and 50th anniversary of the confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. announcer: as candidates start announcing runs for the presidency in 2016 some are announcing of predicting an announcement by hillary clinton. a source with knowledge of hillary clinton has confirmed that she was officially announcer 2016 presidential head on saturday or sunday. that is followed by campaign travel. a spokesperson for her campaign team did not immediately respond to requests for comment. polls show are well ahead of her likely rivals. she has leased office space for headq

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

and it revolves around andrew mellon and franklin roosevelt. andrew mellon was secretary of treasury in the 1920s through three different presidents. that's quite amazing by the way, to get three separate presidents to choose you as their secretary of treasury. how he managed to do that, no one really knows but i hypothesize a little bit in the novel about that, about how that might have happened. andrew mellon and franklin roosevelt hated each other's guts. they despised one another with a passion. roosevelt blamed mellon for the depression mellon thought roosevelt was an opportunist who didn't know anything about anything. we're rank amateurs on that. andrew mellon started that process in the 1920s when he turned the irs on his enemies. well, roosevelt returned the favor, he indicted mellon for tax evasion. [laughter] he beat the charges and won so at the end there's this confrontation between these two giants on december 31, 1936, in the white house, it is the prologue of the novel. 90% of what you're going to read in that prologue actually

the irs and our tax system and sunday night at 8:00 p.m., author susan butler on president franklin roosevelt and joseph stalin, allies during world war ii and their part aniship -- partnership beyond the war. and on c-span3 on lectures and history, university of virginia college of wise professor jennifer murray on how civil war veterans have changed from present. and we are live from appomattox courthouse national historic park commemorating the 150th anniversary of the confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a sem seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865 it. was co-hosted by the university and the appomattox courthouse national historic park. next author mark bradley talks about the fighting in north carolina during the last months of the civil war. this is about an hour. >> thank you, david. can everyone hear me okay? >> yes. >> all right. well, we have watched the armies of grant and lee moving across the virginia landscape from the siege of petersberg, to the surrender at appomatto

we are a nation of immigrants that franklin roosevelt once told the daughters of the american revolution to their chagrin. the point is every generation complains about the next generation coming in. in the 19th century that the know nothing party which didn't want the irish catholics and within a century we had an irish catholic president. this capacity to assimilate and give people opportunities to use talent is one of our great strengths. australia does say canada does that and so forth but of the large developed countries in europe, russia and so forth they don't have that capacity. japan put the same problem. >> one last question right here. she got the microphone right behind you. >> , o'donnell i work in international affairs and now i'm teaching in berlin. as you go through your analysis of china, very systematically the aspects to the aspects of attack him you could apply the issues to the united states. one of the elements people would've thought about this way. what struck me is could you talk briefly about applying the same categories and analysis to europe if anything there'

the irs and our tax system and sunday night at 8:00 p.m., author susan butler on president franklin roosevelt and joseph stalin, allies during world war ii and their part aniship -- partnership beyond the war. and on c-span3 on lectures and history, university of virginia college of wise professor jennifer murray on how civil war veterans have changed from present. and we are live from appomattox courthouse national historic park commemorating the 150th anniversary of the confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. >>> american history tv recently visited longwood university in farmville, virginia for a sem seminar on the closing of the civil war in 1865 it. was co-hosted by the university and the appomattox courthouse national historic park. next author mark bradley talks

franklin roosevelt also ousted republican opponent in the midst of economic crisis the bleak of the 20th century come in in the face of the worldwide instability. yet in 1933 americans clamor in the federal government to intervene in the suffering they faced. from the left to the right the religious leaders celebrated the handoff of the social welfare from the church to the state and they heralded of the new deal as the realization of their own reform efforts. 76 years later when obama took office the religious organizations instead operate as private administrators of public welfare funds. they were on federal support for international relief and anti-poverty efforts since the 1950s. after bill clinton signed off on the charitable choice provision of 1996 welfare reforms the religious organizations claimed in even more direct role in public welfare. by the time of obama's inauguration, christian organizations simultaneously controlled and denounced federal support for those in need. contemporary arguments about the relative effectiveness of federal and voluntary agencies tend to build o

and this presidency of franklin roosevelt in the china mÉnage.and then we have the egyptian journalist arguing for a sexual revolution in the middle east and after that the expounding of japanese-americans held in internment camps in the book "them to me." watch for these authors in the near future. .. he thinks you have please double check to make sure it is actually off. with that i am very pleased to introduce the founding dean of the university of california school of law which the six short years as one of the finest law schools in the country. a prolific scholar a

and sunday night at 8:00, author susan butler on franklin roosevelt and joseph stalin allies during world war ii and their unexpected partnership be on the war. and tonight at 8:00 eastern on "american history tv," a university of virginia college professor on how server war veterans unions -- reunions have changed. and sunday afternoon at 1:00, "american history tv" is live from appomattox, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> up next, a discussion with former members of president nixon's former security staff. topics include vietnam, the paris peace accords, and relations with china. the national archives cohosted this event with the richard nixon foundation as part of the nixon legacy forum's. it is almost two hours. >> good morning. i am here to welcome you on behalf of the nixon foundation. it is a wonderful partnership. david is res

church's committee's most important findings were that lisa mentioned. 6 administrations from franklin roosevelt and richard nix only. four democrats and two republicans. they all abused their secret powers. but cheney understood the idea of presidential meetings, not being a secret. not being just a collection of people that just had the same views. when he was achieve of staff to president ford fought mightily to have conflicting views from the administration that would be presented before a decision was made. when he became vice president. he had a different view of how presidential meetings should be organized. and they would be best if there was just himself and george bush. that is well-known. something that is not known and for the first time is published in the book is that in the decent from the iran-contra report he said that a wise white house should make sure not to have excessive secrecy. and more importantly than that, a wise white house should have what he called democratic persuasion so that if you had a difficult issue of national security or of foreign policy you will publicly