i c-span with a country that franklin roosevelt loved. let me think there franklin d roosevelt library and museum for this kind invitation. and in a larger sense for creating this wonderful annual roosevelt reading festival. as bill noted, i did write for the former president george h. w. bush in the white house. i've also spoken at the baseball hall of fame and museum in cooperstown. but for me, this is as quintessential as american privilege. to speak at the library and museum of the leading american president of the 20th century. also among the greatest since america's birth. at one time or another, almost every american will express a view on two institutions that are ours, franklin roosevelt did. my book, the president's in the past time the history of baseball the white house is the first to explore -- after all, a father the day before father's day am told, may not know the color of his children's eyes. but he can explain why he feels a certain president to be a boom or a bus. aunt maude, you remember her. long ago forgot her favori

because sarah roosevelt built that building as a duplex. she would live in half of it and franklin and eleanor lived in the other half. and there was connecting doors on various levels so that sarah could pop into their section whenever she wanted to unannounced, which made eleanor roosevelt not happy. she wrote about this townhouse. and you can kind of read between the lines where she just mentioned that, you know, it wasn't a great thing where sarah was living right next to them and she decorated their part of the townhouse, and so forth. and i would imagine that she was not happy to be in a wing of this house where sarah could also open the doorway from her bedroom into eleanor roosevelt's bedroom, or early on franklin and eleanor roosevelt's shared bedroom, whenever she wanted to. when she moved into this section of the house, she moved all the furniture out of the room where franklin roosevelt was born into this room. and then the birth room, as we call it, was then used as a guest room. so this then became, in essence, the master bedroom to the house. and then after sarah die

the director here at the franklin roosevelt presidential library museum. welcome to the 15th annual roosevelt reading festival. it's been a great day so far. [applause] i wanted thank you all for coming. how many of your members, raise your hand. look at that. your membership allows us to do programs like this. we have one of our trustees, dr. la mesa, who has been a strong supporter of the library for many years. thank you. we're lucky not to have a former you're here, cynthia cook. [applause] cynthia held with renovation and restoration of the exhibit and was a real force in helping modernize the library here. one of our key goals is to try to connect with the researchers who actually use the archives here. almost everyone who has spoken today has used the national archives in washington for our archives here and hyde park. it is important to see that these are living resources. these are things put away that they use everyday. over over a thousand researchers come here to hyde park to use their archives last year and probably 10,000 have access to materi

announcer: recently, the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library in hyde park, new york debuted a unique film collection, and joining us on the phone to talk about is -- talk about it is library director paul sparrow. what is the missy lehand film collection? paul: missy lehand was an assistant to franklin roosevelt starting in 1920 and was with him for more than 20 years and was a close friend of the family as well. she actually lived in the white house when he was president. she became intrigued with film cameras. she had a film camera, and she would film a number of these informal picnics, events, and lunches, and then also part of this collection were films from other people who gave home movies to her that were included in her collection. she had a stroke in 1941 and left the white house and took a lot of her possessions with her and died several years later, so they did not become an initial collection when the library when -- when the library was created. her grand-nieces made the decision to donate the films, since then

bush, andrew jackson and franklin d. roosevelt. live coverage from the white house historical association conference with representatives from presidential sites across the country will get under way wednesday morning at 9:00 eastern.

and franklin roosevelt was very good at this. he used campaigns and pictures for elections but campaigning, too. when people look back, especially richard nixon, he looked back at that election, that's what he believed. and it cultivated this belief that television and mimmage matter more than anything else. >> ronald reagan implemented the weekly address and also he said he knew when to stay on stage and leave the daj when it came to his presidency. >> ronald reagan was really f e fazinating because he understood how to read the audience and connect with them. it's not just performance. i think it's speaking the same langua language. i think in those two capacities, both his performance but also just knowing what stories might resonate because he understood popular culture and how it might work. >> former president nixon has sent a letter to donald trump urging him to run for public office. so there is a connection between donald trump and richard nixon? >> yes. and one of the things people do not know about richard nixon and th

influence was very strong on this large bird of grandchildren and franklin delano roosevelt loved quoting his grandfather and china trader warned delano the second when it came to business and politics. in 1936, franklin delano roosevelt had one a very difficult reelection battle for his second term. everyone had told him it was impossible, he faced tremendous odds from the republican establishment who he had declared about his opposition he said i welcome their hatred and after he won in a landslide, his secretary of the treasury, henry morgan paul junior visited him at hyde park and the hyde park estate was filled with the mem mementos from his grandfather's chinese business endeavors. you had chinese porcelains and silk wall things, a lot of things were moved from the delano family is date on the west side of the river to the hyde park estate on the east side of the river and henry said mr. president, how did you pull this off. franklin delano roosevelt who had built a model of the clipper ship surprise and was an avid model builder and loved ships said i never let my right hand know w

, he correctly in my opinion puts franklin roosevelt as one of the top presidents with washington and lincoln no. president has faced the kind of dilemma franklin roosevelt did in both having to respond to the worst economic history and attack on pearl harbor and having to win over four years a two-front war, one in pacific and one in atlantic, no one faced that kind of a challenge, roosevelt was great skill, was a heroic figure in both personal life and his political life and reshaped america, boy, is this a recent updated version of who franklin roosevelt was and very much worth reading. this book called the unwinding by george packard i really recommend to people who want to understand the economic unsettlement that produced donald trump, why so many midwest, rust belt industrialized cities in the past, why were they so upset, the impact of human lives, the extraordinary stress caused by the loss of a job and economic dislocation for the whole family is brilliantly and in number of places including youngstown, ohio, you cannot read the book and understand the forces, the economic f

she married franklin roosevelt in 1905. his grandfather had been dead for several years, but his grandfather delano influence was very strong with this large brood of grandchildren and franklin delano roosevelt while loved quote in his grandfather and china trader warned delano the second, when he came to business and politics in 1936, frank and eleanor roosevelt had won a very difficult reelection battle or his second term. everyone told him what was impossible any face tremendous odds from a republican establishment who he was declared about his opposition, i welcome their hatred and after he won in a landslide his secretary of the treasury or in re morgenthau junior visited him at hyde park and the hyde park estate was filled with mementos from his grandfather's chinese endeavors. you had chinese porcelain, soquel hangs, a lot of stuff that had been moved from the delano or family estate on the west side of the river to the hyde park on the east side of the river. henry said mr. president, how did you pull this off. fran

>> i think that franklin roosevelt was really successful, in using radio. but notably motion pictures, too. deploying it to connect directly to his voters. and i think that's really the key to success, is how to use new media to advance your agenda, to perhaps promote your personality and what you will bring to the office on the campaign trail. but then to also think about using new technology as a tool, a publicity tool to promote a particular governing agenda. so it doesn't just have to be a campaign factor. and franklin roosevelt was he very good at this he used motion pictures and radio to win elections, but also to govern. john kennedy stands out to me as well. the 1960 election is very transformative. not because his showbiz strategy definitely won him the presidency. but when people look back especially richard nixon, he looked back at that election, that's what he believed. and it cultivated this belief that television and image matter more than anything else. >> ronald reagan implemented the weekly radio address, later went to video. and famously h

partly through just the fact that franklin roosevelt had had a little white house.our particular case, president truman was at everglades city dedicating the everglades national park in december of 1947, and the press corps started yelling at the president, are you going to return to florida? he responded by saying, of coarse i am coming back, -- of course i am coming back i have a , little white house in key west. the house at that time was painted gray. the navy took this as a clear indication the president was returning so they painted the building all white. it is no longer navy grey, it is all white for the little white house. i would like to welcome you to the harry s truman little white house. it is florida's official presidential museum and has been used by seven american presidents. it is camp david south. the little white was built as the navy commander's home in 1890. it served a number of various commanders over almost a 100 year span, but it was slightly interrupted by presidents taft, franklin roosevelt, harry truman, dwight eisenhower, john kennedy, t

bush, thomas jefferson and franklin d roosevelt. live coverage from the white house historical conference with representatives from across the country will get underway wednesday morning at nine eastern. >>> an interview about the stonemasons who built the white house. we talk with historian william seale for about a half an hour. >> white house historian bill seale, it's called a white house of stone. you have written so many books about the white house. why this project about the stone at the white house? >> the one thing that hasn't been addressed is what is left of the white house. it is sacred historically. what is left and how did it get there. that is why this book was written. >> before we get into the story of the stone we have to back up and talk about the location. how did the white house end up in this spot in washington d.c.? >> it was part of the city plan, that george washington approved. it calls for a palace five times the size of this. and the sellers were dog. they were making bricks out of clay. washington reloca

and that winter franklin roosevelt and his team of advisors would have to answer those questions.r so i would like to discuss today the two crucial plans that roosevelt and his extraordinaryv team devised to answer thoseise questions the year before the attack on pearl harbor. the first plan was a crucial statement from america's priorities in case the nation entered war. and that to provide that with armaments. at the same time transforming to it was called the arsenal of democracy. republin opp and then to defeat is opponent wilkie and to become the first american president to serve the third term in the white house.cn with all the campaigning and speeches.act, heas so t that many people in washington n they feared he was really noty n engaged in a a terrible world crisis. fortunately roosevelt wasdviser. surrounded by a a brilliant team of advisors secretary of warr henry stimson and secretary of the navy frame not -- frank knox and chief of operations admiral stark. they admitted it could be trying to work with the commander-in-chief that stimson wrote in his diary.low a and they

political spying ends from 1920s to 1936 when franklin roosevelt requests it be resumed. what we'll see here is government surveillance. it doesn't target one particularly group. though historically it's not always nor is it simply one particular political party or ideology. franklin roosevelt request it be initiated in 1936 and it will be lead by our man up here, j. edgar hoover, appointed head of the bureau of investigation, the age of 29, younger than i am. hover helped put together the list to round one a vast swath of people but he managed to state the political fall out of that. sort of the blade came down on the heads of a few people higher up than him and the bureau rebonded within that decade. hoover tried to emphasize the bureaus role as a crime fighting organization. he emphasizes this and knows how to work them in his favor. the bureaus reputation rebounds. fdr, concerned about soviet spies and concerned about fascists. there's several groups that emerge after hitler's rise to power. immediately after hitler invades poland they're authorized to investigate esp

. >> president franklin d roosevelt died in matching 35. if you go to hyde park, historians will tell us that he never thought the television would take off. he thought the rate would always speaking. i mentioned that not only because of the importance of radio to fdr in particular, but in the 1940's in the u.s. professor byrnes: i think that the is widely knology is first master of radio in politics. herbert hoover knew it was there. but he was not able to exploit that. fdr was. what is interesting to me is by 1939, roosevelt also understood he could not do it by himself. we think of politics and radio in the 1930's and we think fdr. we think fireside chats. in this debate, roosevelt knew he could not be on the radio all the time. he had learned by that point his ability to go on the radio and talk to the nation was political capital he had to spend very carefully. one of the things i have found in my research, even before world war ii started in europe, roosevelt would speak to other .eople he contacted others -- would you meet with some

the way i came to this book is many years ago i became aware of a fishing trip that franklin roosevelt talked 760 miles northwest of here in the canadian shield country. in later years when i was working back rooms and supporting various national security discussions and negotiations which is always contentious and demanding. from time to time i would wonder about the fishing trip. washington was literally the global capital. how could he leave. at a critical point going forward when i retired i traced the thread and it led to some interesting places. beginning in 1943, three pivotal battles now, they were going on the offensive. they had differing national circumstances britain and the united states favored different strategies the big thing is they didn't trust each other. the resentment and stain had built up over 20 years since world war i. it made it hard for both countries to trust the other. that's a lesson for the time. it cannot be restored just by flicking a switch. even with both parties are facing in excess central strip threat. the americans are also struggling with their

it is unclear how much franklin roosevelt. how much his attorney general, people high up in the government knew about the extent of what hoover would do. those no record of that particular meeting and what was said in it. roosevelt has bigger fish to fry in some sense. not knowing what's coming down the road. he's got an economic depression that continues to grind along. he'll have the war to deal with. even prior to the united states' entry. but there's no sense that fdr opposed hoover's intel work urt. hoover renews this, his renewal of investigative activities. is authorized outside the courts. he goes outside of congress to get legislative approval. congress is very suspicious of the bureau of investigation being created in the first place, concerned about creating a secret state police force. horn warned fdr that haters will twist the truth. so fdr the resumption of political spying. fdr supports hoover's suggestion which does not come to pass, to have every person in america fingerprinted. the newest technology at the mom

it is unclear how much is franklin roosevelt, the attorney general, people high in the government, knew about the extent of what hoover would do. there is no record of that particular meeting and what was said in it. roosevelt has bigger fish to fry, in some sense. he has an economic depression that continues to grind along. he will ultimately have the war to deal with. that is a looming specter, the renewed war in europe. but there is no sense that fdr opposed hoover's intel work, either. hoover renews this. his renewal of investigative activities is authorized outside the courts. he discourages roosevelt's administration from going to congress for approval. he is sure they won't get it. congress is suspicious of the bureau of investigation being created in the first place. concerned about creating a secret police force. hoover warns fdr that haters will twist the truth. so fdr resumes political spine without congressional approval. fdr supports hoover's resolution, which ultimately does not come to pass, to get every american in the country fingerprinted. that was the newest technolog

franklin roosevelt was the founder of the modern west conference and daily briefing. they could not quote him directly. he was the most highly paid that round in american history. the clips are almost impenetrable because they are trying to quote the president without quoting the president. the fascinating thing was that fdr had a marvelous relationship with working reporters because they were working-class guys. it was like the front page. the publisher-- the publishers hated him because they were the guys with money. reporters were benefiting from it so there was-- fdr understood it and understood the power of imagery. he liked watching newsreels of himself. orson welles came to see. he understood this in a way -- it was why he was elected four times. >> i hear you talking about this and i am reflect on what you said how in the country started for decades the press was all about opinions. it was a driving force of the media. then we went through this period of trying to be fair and active. that was the time that i came into the press and it was what i was told. . yo

it is unclear how much franklin roosevelt how much his attorney general people high up in the government knew about the extent of what hoover would do. there's no record of that particular meaning and what exactly was said in it. roosevelt has bigger fish to try in some sense not knowing what's coming down the road, he has an economic depression that continues to grind along. he will ultimately have the war to deal with but even prior to the u.s. the looming inspector of a looming war in europe, but there is no sense that fdr opposed hoover's intel work, either. hoover renews this, his renewal the of investigative activities is authorized outside the courts. he discourages roosevelt's administration from going to congress to get approval. congress had been suspicious of the bureau of investigation being created in the first place. hoover warns fdr that haters will twist the truth and so fdr proves political spying the resumption of political spying without congressional approval. fdr supports hoover's suggestion which ultimately does not come to pass to have every person in america finge

franklin roosevelt was very good at this. he used motion pictures and radio to win elections, but also to govern. john kennedy stands out to me as well, the 1960 election is very transformative not because it is -- not because his showbiz strategy definitely won the presidency, but when people look back, especially recognizing, it would back at that election and that's what he believed. and it calls me to this belief that television and image mattered more than anything else. >> ronald reagan implemented the weekly radio address that later went to video and also he said he knew when to stay on the stage and when to leave the stage during his eight years in the presidency. can you talk about that? prof. brownell: ronald reagan is really fascinating because he was groomed in the hollywood studio system. he understood how to read an audience. he understood how to connect them are very common story. -- connect them through a very common story. it's not just his performance, i think speaking the same language that in a way could t

when sarah roosevelt built a townhouse for franklin and eleanor roosevelt as a christmas , that place had connecting doors from one apartment to the next. sarah roosevelt the fed building as a duplex. there was connecting doors on various levels so sarah tip pop into the section whenever she wanted to. she wrote about this townhouse and you could read between the lines where she just mentioned it wasn't a great thing or sarah was living right next to them. was notimagine that she happy to be in a wing of this house for sarah could also open the way from her bedroom to .leanor's letter when she moved into this section she moved all of wereurniture from the room franklin was born into this room. this became the master bedroom to the house and after sarah died, she left a note that she wanted to have furniture kobach into the room were fdr was born. this then they came more of the guest bedroom after that point. away andsevelt passed they say after she died, a giant oak tree fell over on the property. that is kind of the end of the important part of the story. hard sir died, it was becau

andrew jackson, thomas jefferson, and franklin roosevelt. coverage from the conference with representatives from sites across the country will get underway wednesday morning at 9:00 eastern. >>> much of the white house design has roots. lydia tederick was joined by rufus bird to talk about design similarities. it was part of a daylong symposium hosted by the white house historical association. >> i'm dr. curtis sandberg at the national center for white house history and we spent the morning considering 200 years we have examined the role of scottish stonemasons and have seen the roads emerging back there. is now time to address decorative arts and we are incredibly fortunate to have 2. we have rufus bird who is the surveyor of queens works of art. the royal collection trust has lots of things but it looks after the royal collection which is, frankly, on the website one of the most important art collections on earth. rufus will place the fine art connections and we've had lydia tederick, the white house curator on the phone he's going to eval

franklin roosevelt basically was the founder of the modern press conference. the daily briefing. e they couldn't quote him directly. he was ncthe most highly paid background briefer in american history. he would come in. if you read the new york times clips. they are almost impenetratable. they are d trying to quote the s president without quoting the president. the sad thing about that fdr had this marvelous trelationsh with the working reporter or because they were working class guys. people were but basically they were like the front paid, the play. the publishers hated roosevelt because they were the guys with money paying hethe taxes that f was imposing axand the reporter were benefiting and so there was this inherent tension and fdr understood it and loved it.r he understood the power of imagery. he was .like watching a newsree of himself saying that was the e garbo in me. orson wells came to see him and said you and i are the two best actors in america. he understood this in a way that -- he was elected four times. >> i hear you ttalking about this and i'm reflecting on wh

president franklin roosevelt sat down his understanding, his vision of political history. they struggled for primacy. regardless of what it was called at any particular moment and the party believed in the wisdom and efficacy of the will of the great majority of. it doesn't matter if he's talking about the republican party after the civil war or the democrats in some period one represents the great majority and the other represents the minority. it's a party system in which edified so between the view and the many and the small minority of wealth. halladay out of the great majority would be split into and offered a choice between nytimes technocrats on the side and resentful billionaires on the other. you get the great majority back together and they would be unstoppable. they succeeded by pretending to be the air of populist path acting out this role as a reformer who detested the powerful and cared about working class people and now it is the turn of the democrats to take -- away from them. they may have to fire their consultants and stand up to the donors and they will

announcer: the franklin d. roosevelt residential library did your a unique film collection and joining us on the phone is library director paul sparrow. -- was an assistant to franco roosevelt starting in 1920 and was with him for more than 20 years and was a close friend of the family as well. she lived in the white house when he was president and she became intrigued with film cameras. she would film a number of these at formal pictures and events and luncheons. -- picnics and events and luncheons. movies to herme included in her collection. she had a stroke in 1941 and left the white house and took possessions with her and died several years later it did not become part of the initial library collects with the library was created. her grand nieces decided to donate these films to a library last year and since then we have been going back to the original film, had them transferred and restored and now we are starting to make them available to the public and so this is the first time we have put this whole collection of

. >> recently, the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library in hyde park, new york debuted a unique film collection, and joining us on the phone to talk about is library director paul sparrow. what is the missy lehand film collection? paul: missy lehand was an assistant to franklin roosevelt starting in 1920 and was with him for more than 20 years and was a close friend of the family as well. she actually lived in the white house when he was president. she became intrigued with film cameras. she had a film camera, and she would film a numbe t

>> i think that franklin roosevelt was really successful and he was using radio. but motion picture as well, i think that is really the key to success. how to use new media to advance your agenda? to promote your personality. and what you will bring to the office on the campaign trail. that is also to think about using new technology as a tool. a publicity tool to promote a particularly -- a particular governing agenda. nixon was very good at this. he used radio to win elections. but also to govern. john kennedy stands out to me as well. the 96 election is very transformative. not because his showbiz strategy definitely won him the presidency, but when he looked back at that election, that is what he believed. cultivated a belief that television and image measured more than anything else. >> ronald reagan implemented the radio address the later went to video. and he said that he knew when to go on the stage and went to leave the stage during his 8 years in the presidency. can you talk about that? >> ronald reagan is really fascinating because he was groomed in the

bush, thomas jefferson and franklin roosevelt. live coverage from the white house historical association's conference with representatives from presidential sites across the country. we'll get under way wednesday morning at 9:00 eastern. >>> former white house executive pastry chef roland mesnier worked for five presidents. he's retired now but was invited to talk about the presidential site summit taking place in washington, d.c. it's an hour and ten minutes. >> good afternoon. hi, everybody. i've been coming around saying hi to you, if i got up to the stage i needed a round of applause. [ applause ] and the reason is i creamed my foot about six weeks ago and this is my first outing and first walking up steps and only for roland mesnier would i climb steps. so on behalf of the white house historical association, welcome to the 2018 presidential site summit. i'm an stock, president of the board. and i'm chair of the retail committee so here's my plug. any time this week, stop by our shops and bye-buy, buy, buy. you knew i would ha

partly through the fact that franklin roosevelt had had a little white house.n our case, president truman was at everglades city in december of 1947. the press corps started yelling at the president, are you going to return to florida? he responded by saying, of course, i have a little white house key west. -- in key west. it was painted gray, the navy took that as an indication that the president was returning they painted it all white. it is no longer navy grey. i would like to welcome you to the little white house. it is florida's official presidential museum. it has been used by seven american presidents. it was built as the navy commanders home back in 1890. it served a number of various commanders over almost 100 years. it was slightly interrupted by andidents taft and truman eisenhower and kennedy and jimmy carter. the department of defense. we seem to have a continuum through american history. largestlding was the building on the naval base. it was 9000 square feet. assequently, it was built the commander's home. by 1911, he realized things were getting

bush, thomas jefferson and franklin d. roosevelt. live coverage from the historical associations from presidential sites across the country begins wednesday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >>> springwood estate in hyde park, new york is the birthplace and resting place of franklin roosevelt. we'll tour this home north of new york city and hear the private stories of a very public man. >> this was home. this was where his heart always was. he once said to his friend and neighbors, my heart has always been here and always will be. and it was. this is whe

franklin roosevelt aligns himself with economic internationalism. aligns himself with economic elites who were invested in international trade and international investment. we tend to think of roosevelt as being famous for his speech in which he calls out the captains of industry. and describes them as being the new -- of the 20th century, but he was closely aligned with wall street bankers, there were several banks that supported his campaign throughout the 1930s. why? because roosevelt was aligned to international trade in international avast -- investment. republicans were quite aware of that, some agreed with that, most famously wendell wilkie, do we, also was online with that same approach. the internationalist wing of the upper publican party was also aligned with some of those same economic interests. robert knapp, he aligned himself with midwest manufacturing interest. those interest were extremely trepidation us about the idea that they would face economic competition from abroad, based on lower wages and closer access to resources. so when

franklin roosevelt aligns himself with economic internationalists. he aligns himself with economic elites who are invested in international trade and international investment. we tend to think of roosevelt as being famous for his speech in which he calls out the captains of industry and describes them as being the new robert barrens of the 20th century, but roosevelt was closely aligned with wall street bankers. there were several banks that supported his campaigns throughout the 1930s. why? because roosevelt was aligning toward international investment. republicans were aware. some agreed with that. the internationalist wing of the republican party was also aligned with some of the same economic interests. robert taft, the senator from ohio was not. he aligned himself with midwest manufacturing interests. those interests were extremely trep das trep dashs about what they would face. when roosevelt begins to move forward with the economic agenda in the 1930s. sorry about this. by passing the 1934 reciprocal trade agreement, the republican party splits

pearl harbor wrote what we are forgetting is september 309 is two two and a quarter years of franklin roosevelt is the possibility that fascism would win going through the fall of czechoslovakia and the fall of poland in france and that all happened before pearl harbor. the job wasn't to do propaganda in light of the mobilization efforts. his goal was to convey information as a former reporter to write so people could understand and his job was to tell the american public about the national globalization for national defense. roosevelt declared a limited state of emergency september 309 so under the cover with billions of dollars that the billions of dollars that roosevelt asked congress to allocate for armament, it was his job to to the people what he was doing and why he was doing it. and what interesting looking back at propaganda from bureaucracy to the the unspoken acceptance of certain things go back to 19th-century america there 19th century america there were no bureaucracies except the post office but the state department but there was no public relations by those agencies instead memb

robert dowd's as well so if you want a good one volume, this is a recent updated version of who franklin roosevelt was, and very much worth reading. this book called "the unwinding" by george packer. recommend for people who want to understand the economic unsettlement that produced donald trump why were so many midwest, rust belt, industrialized cities of the past -- why were they so upset? the hollowing out, the impact on human lives, the extraordinary stress caused be the loss of a job and the economic dislocation for the whole family is brilliantly recounted in the book called "the unwinding" and high lyings a number of plays, including youngstown, ohio, for example, and you can't not read this book and not understand the forces, the economic forces that led to the political forces that led to the election outcome of 2016. i really recommend this book. this book called "this gulf afire is the story of the earthquake and tsunami that hit lisbon, portugal. it was not that long ago next late 18th century, and there was an earthquake that devastated lisbon, and then it was followed by a tsunami fr

the way i came to this, many years ago i became aware of a fishing trip, franklin roosevelt taught 760 miles northwest of here, up in the canadian shield country and in later years when i was working in back rooms supporting national discussions and negotiations which is always a contentious and demanding process from time to time, i wondered about that fishing trip. literally the global capital for allies running the war in that time. how could he lead in a critical point in deciding how to go forward, so it led so very interesting places as i hope you will agree. so some background, the beginning of 1943 saw the allies at a very important turning point. in three pivotal battles midway, they had beaten off the threat of defeat in 1942, now they were going on the offensive against and the big challenge for the americans and the british was how best to win in europe. they had different national circumstances and different goals for how the war should end and britain and the united states favored different strategies, a more basic problem was that they did not trust each other. the bagga

the governess process. >> susan says, you go back to franklin roosevelt not only did the reporters not write about his disability. he was paralyzed by polio when he was 38, 39 years old. he recovered from that but never regained the use of his legs. the press entered into a conspiracy within itself. the veterans when they saw a new photographer taking pictures of the leg braces would slap the camera and say, we don't take pictures of the president like that. and after that the reporters regretted it. they felt they should have let the people know. they understand access works two ways. when the white house staff and a president talk to the media they not only give information out but they also learn what we're doing. you don't get much of that with the trump presidency now. they don't really care much what we're doing. they just are constantly streaming out out twitter always on the offensive. >> we were talking about the relationship between roosevelt and the press and pictures and illustrations and a very famous picture of lbj walking the grounds with a group of reporters. and there