the day after franklin roosevelt died, truman became president and he told a group of reporters, if you ever pray, pray for me now. when they told me yesterday what had happened, i felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. we should all feel that way. a lot is on our shoulders. so, if you ever pray, let's pray for each other. republicans, for democrats, and democrats for republicans. [ applause ] and i don't mean pray for a conversion.

it ran its course in the 1930s and '40s in the hands of franklin roosevelt.we have an opportunity now to link the desk that have used to make radio address toss an radio that was used in the white house and would have been the kind of radios that people had around the country and part of what life in the white house was like for the first family beyond its formality. >> so we've moved over from the white house as office to the white house as home and it's been that ever since it's opened, it's one of its inherent jobs is to provide the president and president's family with a place to live while the president is in office. here we have a radio, this is a pretty standard 1941 issue tabletop radio made by the emerson company. it was one of a dozen or so that were purchased for the private quarters rooms at the white house. they weren't the first radios to exist in the white house but this is the earliest one that has survived in our collection. a lot of the more technological things weren't treated as historical objects as readily as the furniture was and so rad

and the same is true of roosevelt, of franklin roosevelt, of john kennedy, of lyndon johnson, of, perhaps prematurely of jimmy carter. >> but we'll have an obama resurgence, let's assume. because there's always a resurgence of interest in approval, but for now he has failed to meet the probably unrealistic expectations of people who saw in him whatever they wanted to see back then. >> yeah, and i don't fault him for that. >> you don't fault him at all for that? >> oh, i've got a few things i'd fault him for. >> name them. i want to hear it. let me see the bill of particulars. >> well, they began on the day of his inauguration. >> okay. >> i was -- his inaugural address was too rosy. what he needed to do was to say how terrible things were, just how bad they were. the speech was too much of a -- played that down too much and it was a kind of uplift. >> right. >> franklin d. roosevelt was lucky. the depression had gone on for three years. >> right. >> when he became president. but obama ended up getting ownership of that bad economy. >> correct. >> totally not his fault, but he didn't lay t

the day after franklin roosevelt died, truman became president and he told a group of reporters, if you ever pray, pray for me now. when they told me yesterday what had happened, i felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me. we should all feel that way. a lot is on our shoulders. so if you ever pray, let's pray for each other. republicans, for democrats, and emocrats for republicans. and i don't mean pray for a conversion, all right. pray for a deeper understanding because when you're up here, you see it so clearly. wherever you come from, whatever you believe, we are all in the same boat. i never thought i'd be speaker. but early in my life, i wanted to serve this house. i thought this place was exhilarating because here, you can make a difference. if you had a good idea, if you worked hard, you could make it happen. you could improve people's lives. to me, the house of representatives represents what's best of america. the boundless opportunity to do ood. but let's be frank. the house is broken. we're not solving problems, we're adding to them. and i am not in

we toured the center with curator william all man who shows us the desk franklin roosevelt used whilebroadca broadcasting his fireside chats and recreational items such as radios and bowling balls for the first families. >> my name is john stand witch and i am the lisa son to the white house and i'd like to we will come you to the white house visitor's center which is located a short walk away from the white house itself. for anyone going on a white house tour it will help them understand what they're seeing and bring much more context and meaning to their visit to the white house. for those who can't go on a white house tour this is really an experience in its own right as well. so you are here in the white house visitor's center which is theme at clee based around five different themes to understand the white house story. it is a home, so it's obviously home to the first family, it is an office for the president, it also, too, is a stage that we as a nation, we celebrate great events there, obviously state arrivals, events as well take place there like the white house easter egg rol

volume 5 is franklin roosevelt, the book is called a traitor to his class because reagan goes from left to right, roosevelt goes from right to left. he was seen as a traitor to the patrician class in which he was born and reagan is volume 6, why reagan? there were other people who would have taken on this period of history, while ronald reagan? >> when i started the series i had no intention at all that it would mostly be biographies of presidents. it turned out that way because presidents are very handy if your goal is to tell the story of american history. if you choose industrialists, a writer, an artist, then you wonder pretty far from that individual's like to get to the big stories of american history. presidents fill that need pretty well. so when i came to reagan it was almost certain it was going to be a president. i needed someone who met two four important criteria for me, one was this person had to be an adult by 1945. the practice i had developed was to step my next character under the stage as an adult at the time of the death of my previous characters so andrew jackson wa

leahy: not only employers, laughter] you have the threat from franklin roosevelt. i have to assume that president roosevelt knew it would never happen, but -- what was the expression? the supreme court reads the papers, and then suddenly started changing. there was this sense that we all come from this privileged class, we have to take care of ours. i thought that, if you are a supreme court justice, or u.s. senator, you are supposed to take care of everybody. obviously, they were not. that is a distinct improvement. but it also showed the same members of the supreme court who said, we cannot do anything but this. they thought, we may get replaced if they expand the court, and they suddenly say, oh, those ideas of protecting employees? of course, they are ok. host: one of the cases that was on our list was the youngstown deal. harry truman was set to rights by the supreme court. there is a big debate in congress over executive power now. i wonder what you think of the supreme court's role in this checks and balances system about making decisions with second of powe

in the meantime, the soviet union was taking a terrible pounding on the eastern want, and so franklin roosevelt and winston churchill realized they had to do something to meet joseph stalin fleeting for a second front, but it would not be in france. we decided we would land in north africa. so we tell the story of this north african farmhouse we are standing and that decision and its consequences. -- problem we will face is can our troops, green young citizen soldiers, fight the battle hardened nazi army and win? we are now entering the north african gallery here at the museum. behind me over here is our weapons case. featured are handguns, rifles, shotguns, mortars, other weapons that we will use to fight in europe. in one grandhis rifle, which became the standard rifle for infantrymen in the united states army. we also have the in 11 a1 pistol in this case. it was designed by john browning, and it will become the standard issue very popular pistol that will be issued to many u.s. army personnel. in the museum, we tried to build in environmental challenges that the u.s. faced, our forces faced

susan: that let's listen to franklin roosevelt in 1937 complaining about the supreme court in a firesidet. roosevelt: as improperly the court has said itself up as a third house of congress. as one ofgislature the justices has called it will stop reading into the constitution words and applications which are not there and which were never intended to be there. reached therefore, we the point of a nation where we much take action to save the constitution from the court. and the court from itself. susan: and what was that action? to ask the court. he tried to pass a statute where the numbers would be increased and he could appoint justices until the justices retired. a huge majority. he could've gotten a constitutional amendment to the new deal said. but he chose not to do that. did this instead. there were leaving chairs and committees who were not friendly to this court-packing scheme. a viewer said the so-called lochner era came to an end in the court itself. withn 1937, what happened bearish? -- hotel versus parish? kens: it rejects the notion of liberty of contract. oftalks about the

but it's a funny thing, they used to say about franklin roosevelt, he always played cards, and always sign a check because he knew no one would ever cash it. they want the check. "franklin delano roosevelt, owes me 27 bucks." but this guy knows that you'll -- like, i'm telling you the story! >> seth: yeah, it's great. >> if he had sent a regular christmas card with him and ivanka and the kids and you know. >> seth: you woulnd't have saved that. but, did you save it? >> i didn't -- oh, yeah i got it somewhere. >> seth: yeah, the one that he signed. >> oh, yeah. it's very smart, you know? >> seth: i'm gonna start doing that. i think that's the best power move. [ laughter ] >> do you know what he likes? this is trump. it's so trump. one time -- when he married melania, who's gorgeous obviousy. and said to him, 'you've married the most beautiful person in the world." person in the world. not girl, or woman, but person. person. i got the gold ring. i married the most beautiful and that's trump. he goes for the top. >> seth: i certainly am enjoying watching him. >> you don't think he's gonn

president franklin roosevelt created the national ar chives in 1934, he also created the presidential library system. libraries start with the hoover in west branch iowa and go to the george w. bush in dallas texas. they contain more than 780 million pages of text chul materials, 625,000 museum and electronic records. we started collecting electronic records during the reagan administration between reagan and bush, 42 million e-mail messages 210 million in bush 43 and we just cently passed the 1 billion mark for the obama white house. on his first day in office, president obama issued an open government directive which declare my administration is committed to create openness in government. we will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation and collaboration. this idea of open government is embedded in the mission of the national archives, our work is built on the belief that citizens have the right to see, examine and learn from those records. five years ago, president obama signed an executive order entitled classified natio

ira member of adults in talking about franklin roosevelt like he was a socialist. that is the most conservative idea. imagine if somebody propose that in washington dc. that would be considered paul ryan or someone like that, not on the left. how do you fix it? the same way we fixed it in the 1980's. you have to get people together from both parties. the simple way of doing this is to raise the cap for higher income people. and to moderately, over an extended. iod ofe -- extended per time raise the retirement age. protect and preserve it for those who have it. this would be going forward, for every month -- you have taken a month for every year, over time you would phase it in. that would bring about solvency for social security, just as it did in the 1980's. the bigger challenge is medicare and medicaid -- medicaid. they are growing at a rate that is three times the rate of all of the other spending. the power of compounding ultimately will consume everything else. today, or yesterday i proposed a way to deal with medicaid, which was to get it out of the hands was

roosevelt. >> i'm sorry. could you speak up a little bit? >> franklin delano roosevelt. i wonder what his role was. >> his role? franklin -- f.d.r.'s role at the time, he was 34 years old. he was every bit the aristocrat himself. he had gone to the academy where truby davidson had also gone and a number of the other members of this flying group. he inches older than the members of the flying club but he was the assistant secretary of the navy in charge of preparedness at the time. so he was actively going around to colleges and universities and trying to encourage young men to get involved in the navy. and so he knew about these kids at yale and was encouraging to them in a way that the secretary of the navy at the time was not. although he had no power to make them an official part of the navy, which had been their desire. but he was very encouraging. and after the war wrote about how important their role had been in stopping the german u boats. and then once he became president in -- and when world war ii broke out, he called a number of them back to service. most of th

i don't blame president franklin roosevelt for pearl harbor either. that doesn't mean you didn't try to learn lessons from the pearl harbor attack. >> good to have you on. >> thanks for inviting us. >> thanks. >>> up next, the other great foreign policy debate that keeps cropping up on the campaign trial, iraq. i have a fascinating interview that i did with the former british prime minister. i asked blare about his regrets over the war. he actually has a few. in a work, work, work world... take time for sunday. just know that your truck... has a little thing for monday. and ca"super food?" is that recommend sya real thing?cedar? it's a great school, but is it the right one for her? is this really any better than the one you got last year? if we consolidate suppliers, what's the savings there? so should we go with the 467 horsepower? ...or is a 423 enough? good question. you ask a lot of good questions... i think we should move you into our new fund. sure... ok. but are you asking enough about how your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles sc

the day after franklin roosevelt died, truman became president, and he told a group of reporters if you ever pray, pray for me now. when they told me yesterday what had happened, i felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me. we should all feel that way. a lot is on our shoulders. so if you ever pray, let's pray for each other. republicans for democrats and democrats for republicans. [ applause ] >> i don't mean pray for a conversion. pray for a deeper understanding because when you are up here, you see it so clearly. wherever you come from we are all in the same boat. i never thought i would be speaker, but early in my life, i wanted to serve this house. i thought this place was excel rating because here you can make a difference. if you had a good idea, if you worked hard, you could make it happen. you could improve people's lives. to me the house of representatives represents what's best of america. the boundless opportunity to do good. let's be frank. the house is broken. we're not solving problems. we're adding to them. i am not interested in laying blame. w

: if you go to the bathroom at the white house, you can see some of the original maps that franklin d roosevelt used, both in europe, and the pacific battles that we were fighting. what does this tell you about how he viewed the world? i mentioned a geopolitical chess came that he was playing. he was very analytical and looking at the world through that prism. guest: i think people say that the specialty about rosa is he views the world as three-dimensional, which sounds silly, but from a military tactical perspective, that is very important. prior to the second world war, there were led wars that were fought on land, sea wars fought on sea, but the thing that change was the idea of air. roosevelt could see the importance of the airplane and how that changed military strategy, and also how change geography. that is how the polar region, which also mattered for flyovers of th europe. host: can you talk about the mineral advantages that it had. guest: one of the most significant things was a mineral called highlight, which was lyte, which wasy ligh used to melt aluminum. the only place in the wor

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

>> guest: that's a phrase that i borrowed with an acknowledgment from franklin roosevelt and my favorite of his speeches was his acceptance speech in 1936 in philadelphia as i recall, to live 1936 and talking about the economic -- and out of this industrial order it was fairly predictable that an economic werder lists would arise to try to take control. these economic werder lists tell us, he went after them. it was big-money fat-cats who crash the economy in 29 and two fought fdr throughout his presidency and the big-money fat-cats were crashing our economy. >> host: thom hartmann in the book "rebooting the american dream" the meth a simple but were rich are heavily taxed economies prosper and wages for working people steadily rise. when taxes for the rich archive working people suffer and economies turned into -- >> guest: if you look at the time in the united states when the middle class was the most prosperous and this is the thing, we measure prosperity in the united states we tend to look at big numbers like the gdp or the stock market. those are not the numbers we should look at i

unconstitutional rgnvc1st 7 c as1 remember robert jackson was attorney-general of the united states under franklin roosevelt and even he said it was unconstitutional and what particular a troubles him is the decision for the space like of loaded gun to be used for the government and the future to take away liberties in wartime and i think that is what we have seen since september 11. >>host: another dark chapter in the supreme court history as you tell if it was the first 35 years of the 20th century period that professor is often called the of what in our era. how did the court golan? >> from the late 19th century the supreme court declared unconstitutional over 200 federal, state, and local laws that were designed to protect workers and consumers. congress passed a law that prohibited the shipment of goods made by child labor. it wasn't even that protected it prohibited children under 14 from being used and for children over 14 they could not work more than 10 hours a day or $60 a week congress did not prohibit child labor but just said if they are used the goods cannot be shipped with interstate commerce

with frank sinatra to surround himself with stars at the time after a while there was talk of franklin roosevelt to his connections to organized crime so kennedy backed away from sinatra but he did have popularity for those that fell he was a celebrity from the beginning to fit in perfectly with the culture of the united states. the only picture i think the existence of body and to jack with marilyn monroe after their 11 rose sang to him before his president you may have seen clips where she has saved her coach and a dress she had to be selling into wicked it gave the notion he was a celebrity president because he was part of mass culture but he was very good to enhance his celebrity that way and his conferences were popular as he showed what it and exuberance and wasn't afraid to take questions, stood up to reporters and used schumer so this was an important part of his presidency. he was not above using his family. when jackie was a way he would but the photographers take pictures of him and the kids that they would use to show he is a family man with children. he had trouble in his marriage h

franklin roosevelt, but ms. theodore roosevelt. ms.nslover: so there really wouldn't have been a huge opportunity. mr. seale: that's a really interesting question. ms. swain: jack cutton wants to know, what was bess truman's pet issue? ms. anslover: don't believe they had any pets. ms. swain: no, no, "pet issue." mr. seale: i don't think she had one. ms. swain: favorite issue? so she had no causes? ms. anslover: no, i don't think so. well, actually, i take that back. she was interested in health care. she believed -- she urged harry to increase funding to, i think, the national institute for health, some sort of research foundation, and you can look at the numbers in his second term. that budget does go up. mr. seale: well, he proposed universal health care. ms. anslover: he did. and one of the reasons he was so unpopular. yeah, a liberal program. i want to tell you about a book, and it's my lead-in to the question about the best truman portrait, but this book has been published by our partners in this series, the white house historica

the first american president he met was franklin roosevelt. it is an incredible life story. he becomes a major political figure of the 20th century, somebody who play the role in world affairs throughout the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's until his death in 1981. >> victim by talking of the second world war and the don of the cold war, and how the had occupied. cato about thcan you talk aboute context of iran during that time , what was happening? roham: iran was the first battleground of the cold war. the first issue was iran. stalin had occupied the north of iran, and despite its commitment to leave iran after the end of the war, the soviet union did withdraw. it created a cold war crisis, drawing in the night it states truman administration. this was a formative experience for the shaw, for a generation of iranians who realize that the policy of neutrality was not enough to defend iran. iran had to look to a third power to preserve its independence and sovereignty .gainst the imperial ambitions in the 1930's iran had looked to germany to play that role. a whole generation of

the day after franklin roosevelt died, truman became president and he told a group of reporters, if you ever pray, pray for me now. when they told me yesterday what had happened, i felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. we should all feel that way. a lot is on our shoulders. so, if you ever pray, let's pray for each other. republicans, for democrats, and democrats for republicans. [ applause ] and i don't mean pray for a conversion. pray for a deeper understanding because when you're up here, you see it so clearly. wherever you come from, whatever you believe, we are all in the same boat. i never thought i'd be speaker. but early in my life, i wanted to serve this house. i thought this place was exhilarating, because here you can make a difference. if you had a good idea, if you worked hard, you could make it happen. you could improve people's lives. to me, the house of representatives represents what's best of america. the boundless opportunity to do go good. but let's be frank. the house is broken. we're not solving problems. we're adding to them. and i am

the day after franklin roosevelt died, truman became president, and he told a group of reporters, if you ever pray, pray for me now. when they told me yesterday what had happened, i felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. we should all feel that way. a lot is on our shoulders. so if you ever pray, let's pray for each other; republicans, for democrats, and democrats for republicans. [applause] and i don't mean pray for a conversion. [laughter] all right? pray for a deeper understanding. because when you're up here, you see it so clearly. wherever you come from, whatever you believe, we are all in the same boat. i never thought i'd be speaker, but early in my life i wanted to serve the house. i thought this place was exhilarating, because here you can make a difference. if you had a good idea, if you worked hard, you could make it happen. you could improve people's lives. to me, the house of representatives represents what's best of america, the boundless opportunity to do good. but let's be frank, the house is broken. we're not solving problems, we're addin

the day after franklin roosevelt died truman became president and he told a group of reporters, if your pray, pray for me now. when they told me yesterday what had happened, i felt like the moon, the stars, and all of the planets had fallen on me. >> paul ryan there as we takes over an important job. the speaker of the lower house of the u.s. congress. that's the legislative body of the united states of america. kimberly halkett is with us. he is going to need all of the prayers he can get, because what he faces the challenge of how to be -- how to present a more united lower house of the congress, right? and face that dead lock which has plagued congress over the last year or so. >> reporter: sami you are absolutely right. we have to remember the reason there is even this nomination election process is because there is a group of republicans that are sort of further right known as the freedom caucus that forced out the previous speaker that you saw paul ryan acknowledging there, speaker john boehner. so he is going to have to work to try to bring those republicans that don't necessari

♪ cory: american automakers have been dreaming about self driving cars since the days of franklin delano rooseveltately, silicon valley looks like it is close to making that dream into reality. google and tesla have been leaving detroit in the dust. we take a closer look at what general motors will do to tighten the race. keith, first of all, terrific story. i encourage everybody to check it out. you get a sense that gm sees itself as an innovator, a company that knows how to build cars better than anyone. guest: they are trying to live in both worlds, showing that they are veterans and experts are car building. as i interviewed mark royce, he used the word disrupt 14 times. he is trying to speak the language of the valley. cory: that sounds irritating, actually. guest: they are certainly in a race with google and tesla and apple. what they are trying to do is be an innovator in driverless cars when the share at the moment is with google. cory: google -- i was down there a couple months ago and they took the presentation secretary around and gave him a ride in a self driving car. what is it about

she married her distant cousin, franklin roosevelt in 1905, and eleanor transformed the role of the first lady, and travel the country to see the misery of the depression firsthand and openly expressed her personal views at press conferences and in a daily newspaper column. calling her husband's death in 1945 and she soldiered on, an advocate for the united nations and other causes. it edna rosenberg ward m. ruro to pose this question to her in 1954. >> why do you work so hard? >> what else would i do ?i live alone, and my children are all busy and have lives of their own. i wouldn't wanted them to be worrying about mother having nothing to do. >> charles: no one ever had reason to worry that eleanor roosevelt would have nothing to do. we worked tirelessly almost to the very day of her death in 1962 at the age of 78. >> announcer: this portion of "sunday morning" is sponsored by pacific loaf, for life insurance, annuities and invests, choose pacific life, >> the president takes on tough questions tonight on sick minutes. 60 minutes. these are lionfish. there's plenty in the atlantic. spea

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