eleanor and franklin roosevelt held he was a segregationist. crucially aides helped each other's letter overcome, suggesting that one did not exist. roosevelt replied again with my dear judge, he said he was responding personally not officially, and became known as the green light letter. fdr stated, i honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going. there will be fewer people unemployed, and everybody will work longer hours and harder than ever before and that means they ought to have a chance for recreation and for taking their minds off their work even more than before. baseball, he continued, provides a recreation which does not last over two hours or two hours and a half, and which can be got. low-cost. as for the players themselves, i know you agree with me and individual players of active military or naval age should go without question into the services, even if the actual quality of the teams is lowered, the president continued, by the greater use of older players, this will not dampen the popularity of the sp

in this wing of the house there's franklin roosevelt's bedroom, eleanor roosevelt's bedroom and sara roosevelt's bedroom and they're all connected by doors. so they could walk into any room whenever they wanted just by opening a door. when sara roosevelt built a townhouse for franklin and eleanor roosevelt as a christmas gift she added -- she had it built in 1906 in new york city, that place had connecting doors from one apartment to the next because sara roosevelt built that building as a due flex. she would live in half of it and franklin and eleanor roosevelt lived in the other half. and there was connecting doors on various levels so that sara could pop into their section whenever she wanted to unannounced which made eleanor roosevelt not happy. she wrote about this townhouse and you could kind of read between the lines, where she just mentioned that it wasn't a great thing where sara 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 the -- of this house where sara could also ope

roosevelt? paul: yes, missy lehand appears in a number of the videos, including scenes with franklin both at the white house and at his home here in hyde park, and there are fun scenes that are home movies of missy that do not have the roosevelts at all where she is traveling with her sister and they are going around the country, and you can tell they really had a good time. these are people who enjoyed life. because of missy's position, many of the official photographs, she always looks very serious. she is the president's secretary. you can easily get a perception of her as a very reserved and serious person. when you see these home movies, you get the sense that she was a lot of fun, she was vivacious, and of course she was a very powerful woman. she controlled access to the president. she was not given a lot of respect. there was a lot of sexism back then. even today, a lot of historians do not fully acknowledge the remarkable role she played with the roosevelts. we do have correspondence from ambassadors, and powerful people, contacting missy saying, "listen, i really need to see the presid

and governor cox, a man who would figure largely in wendell's life, a young franklin roosevelt, ran in 1920 on the democrat ticket to save the league as well as to save the accomplishments of the new freedom. and, of course, they failed. we had normalcy with harding. but that was the first convention that wendell attended working for harvey firestone. that relationship soon soured, and he went to another law firm and attracted a great deal of attention as a stellar advocate. so much so that as he joined boards, one board -- ohio power and light -- attracted the attention of a figure who should loom large in america for his accomplishments, but i'm afraid as the only decommissioned power plant in illinois bearing his name. he was the founder of something that became commonwealth and southern, perhaps the third largest -- >> you're referring to samuel unsel. >> no. no, no. >> okay. >> there is, in fact, a confusion there. this was commonwealth and southern, but the point is that there's the good utilities man magnate, and there's the, there is the one to be reproached. but just to put we

franklin roosevelt signing an executive order 9066 to join the japanese-american simply because he thought they may be a security threat. but pushing on. that last example is joe mccarthy. i don't know if this will resonate. so it's kind of funny. and not an interesting senator looking for a national issue in 1950. harry truman got rid of most of the home. then to buy anti-communism the the way they might buy a car. lincoln's first day in virginia. the reign of terror of four years. lincoln's birthday february. late 54 parenthetically as well. to august 9, 1974. this isn't the way the history unfolds. but for almost 48 months joe mccarthy terrorized the united states of america. through the manipulation of the media at a time of transition and he did it promising to make america on peak again. those press conferences seeking a communist in des moines. headlines all over the country senator seeks read des moines. he did not have time to check. and in the morning papers closed at midnight to say the red in des moines is eluding me i am redoubling my efforts. lashes across america i redoublin

franklin roosevelt had declared a limited state of emergency. in september of 39. and so, under the cover of the limited state of emergency in the billions of dollars the roosevelt asked congress to allocate for armaments, it was horton's job to explain to the american people what he was doing and why he was doing it. what is interesting looking back at the issue of propaganda from bureaucracy, there seemed to be a kind of an unspoken acceptance of certain things. in other words, if you go back to 19th century america could a 19th century america there were no bureaucracies except the post office. there were units of government of course does the state department, agriculture department and so on, treasury department. but there is no public relations by those agencies. that, members of congress believes that they were the contract, the intermediaries between the citizens, voters, constituents and federal government. so, there was little public relations by agencies come eventually along comes fdr and fdr says the people have a right to know what government is doing

franklin roosevelt has a physical problem. how did that come about?> he's up at camp - - and he doesn't feel well one morning. he goes out and exercises all day and he comes home so tired he can't even take off his bathing suit. he goes to bed. within 48 hours, he was paralyzed from the waist down. haven't gotten polio. years of striving would follow him. it changed his life. no question. when he was in a wheelchair in the early days and they told him the only chance he really had was to strengthen his upper body. so he would asked to be taken out of the wheelchair put on the library floor so he could crawl around the floor so that his bat would get stronger. then he decided to crawl up the stairs and he would hoist himself one at a time holding onto the banister. sweat pouring down his face. eleanor said the actual everything was when he made it to the top, they would celebrate as of the mountain had climbed. she realized when these wounds were celebrated, he began to get his joy in life back again. it had been a terrible depression when he got not o

but as franklin roosevelt once said, problems created by man can be solved by man.there are ways of thinking about how to make our system better. but it certainly is not a good time in my lifetime to see the broken washington the way it is. >> it makes one wistful really to listen to you. tell us about the incredible story of lincoln's renown, how it even reached to siberia. you have a beautiful anecdote about that. >> lincoln dreamed from the time he was young of doing something that would stand the test of time, that would be remembered. he was in a near-suicidal depression when he came out and said i've not yet done anything to make any human being remember that i have lived. but even lincoln could never have dreamed of the story that tolstoy told, the great russian writer told a story to a new york reporter at the turn of the century that he'd just come back from a remote area of the caucasus. a group of wild barbarians who'd never left that part of russia, they were so excited to have tolstoy in their midst they asked him to tell stories of the great men of his

steve: president franklin d. roosevelt died in 1945. if you travel to hyde park and take the tour, the historians will say president roosevelt never thought television was going to take off. he thought the radio was always going to be king. i mention that because of the importance radio played for fdr in particular, but also its importance in the 1930's and 1940's in the u.s. prof. byrnes: one of the things about fdr -- i think that is natural. because he was widely acknowledged as the first master of radio in politics. he is the one who really understood its true potential. everyone knew it was there. herbert hoover in 1929 was talking about its potential, but he wasn't able to exploit that. fdr was, and fdr understood the power of radio better than anyone else in his time. what is interesting about what i am looking at and researching is that by 1939, roosevelt also understood that 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 c

brother, had an epilepsy as a child, became an alcoholic died young, so teddy roosevelt became like a father to eleanor, but in franklin loved teddy roosevelt. so, all three of. the become this wonderful circumstancal fdr grows up in a wealthy setting. the only child of his father's marriage with his mother. but it's buie alcoholic setting in -- bucolic setting in hyde park but nick thought he would be president of the united states. >> guest: certainly not fdr. teddy roosevelt and fdr were the center of their parent's love which gave them a certain confidence. with teddy roosevelt he was not only the sir of miss father's and mother's love but the other siblings made him he story of the life because he would tell their stories and they would sit around and he would organize their games. and so to fdr was the center otherwise his parents' life. in fact teddy so wanted to be the center of everybody's life that his daughter said he wanted to be the baby at the baptism, the bride at the wedding and the corpse at the funeral. so, fdr had that same sense, i think, of being adored as a child but he -- and he had any book the

when we have franklin roosevelt's proposing social democracy in this country. this country achieving a de facto social democracy for certain kinds of people in the northern states. i think the suburbs of kansas city that i grew up in in the 60s and 70s. the standard of living was not all that different for white collar people and blue-collar people it wasn't because we legislated it that way. it's because things like unions were strong. has largely disappeared in this country. it is worse today than it has ever been. it gets worse and worse all the time. it's tragic and it's awful. hi tom, thank you so much for all your work. what you just said reminded me of the eisenhower farewell address in 1961. and if you reread that you have that per mount --dash my profound sense of thinking about the future and people beyond yourself. in the very same year that they publish the image with that event. it talks about unreality. there is an event. the whole thing is a pseudo- event now. i will read the article about trump and been elected. i feel like i have a tin hat on.

a wonderful letter that year from young franklin roosevelt to a friend talking and fdrover's virtues,eeing, he is a wonder. hoover was not interested in being a sacrificial lamb. enough about politics to know that in 1920, it was a republican year. anyway, he allowed his name to be entered in the california primary against hiram johnson, a military isolationist. the result was a mixed bag. he got enough votes to won't johnson and make sure johnson would not be nominated, but not enough votes to impress the professionals. remember, that was the famous smoke-filled room convention cabal met andr came up with harding. hoover was never a regular republican, again, he was a supporter of the bull moose third party. closest thing the to a modern parallel would be colin powell, say, in the 1990's .r early 2000's someone that should of made the party proud to have is a member -- have as a member but the base would have shied away from. brian: how big did he win by? over 6.5he won big, million votes. numbers beneath the were portents of the future. al smith i think is held in higher regard than

roosevelt's brother elliott was the father eleanor. so eleanor's uncle is teddy. he had epilepsy became an alcoholic and idea. and franklin lovee teddy roosevelt. >> and growing up in a wealthy setting but with hyde park but if anybody thought he will be president of the unitedn state? >> certainly not fdr. and to be at the center of their parents live to give them a certain confidence. but the other siblings to make them the center of their life. to tell them stories and sit around. and in fact he so wanted to be this. everybody's life that his daughter said wanted to be the baby at the baptism and the pride at the wedding and the corpse of the funeral and with this library but he learned in a different way he would like to listen to his motherto read. he loves stamps. it was his way to have the evidence her mother said you're not listening to me he said i would be ashamed of myself if i can do two things at the same time. but he was not a regular student. at harvard or columbia that oliver wendell holmes him much later. then to be born with optimistic temperament. but with much smarter and had a great intellect. so then

there was a wonderful letter from 1920 from young franklin roosevelt to a friend talking about hoover's virtues, and fdr agreeing, saying, he certainly is a wonder. hoover was not interested in being a sacrificial lamb. he knew enough about politics to know that in 1920, it was a republican year. so anyway, he allowed his name to be entered in the california primary against hiram johnson, a senator who was a military -- militants -- militant isolationist. the result was a mixed bag. he got enough votes to won't johnson and make sure johnson would not be nominated, but not enough votes to impress the professionals. and remember, that was the famous smoke-filled room convention where a senator cabal according to legend met and by process of elimination came up with warren harding. but the fact was hoover was never a regular republican. he was a supporter of the bull moose third party. in the 1920's, the closest thing to a modern parallel would be colin powell, say, in the 1990's or early 2000's. someone who should have made the party proud to have as a member , by whom the base would have

there is a letter from young franklin roosevelt to a friend who had urged hoover's virtues.al fdr agreeing, saying certainly is a wonder. you know, no one would the better -- be better. hoover was not interested in being a sacrificial lamb. knew enough about politics to know that in 1920, it was a republican year, so anyway, he allowed his name to be entered into the california primary against johnson, a senator who was an isolationist. the result was a mixed bag. he had enough votes to really sure thatson and make johnson would not be nominated, but not enough votes to impress the professionals. that was the famous convention wearing a senatorial cabal, according to legend, met, and by process of elimination came up with warren harding. hoover was never a regular republican. he had been a supporter of the bull moose, third-party, that in the -- you know, 1920's, the closest thing to a modern, a parallel, would be colin powell in the 1990's or early, you know, post 2000. someone who, frankly, should toe made the party proud have as a member, but when the base -- whom the bas

i'm going to put in ronald reagan, harry truman, franklin roosevelt and teddy roosevelt. i will tell youwhat they thought of him . they knew about his battle with indians . [inaudible] they said in times of trouble when i'm looking for leadership, i read jackson. morning with lincoln, how do i stop the division of our country. how did fdr get his country ready for war. he went to the hermitage, crippled and insisted on walking up the steps of the hermitage. you wanted to steal jackson so if he's these are great americans on i hope we all see they were great americans. they saw something great in jackson and that's why bring out in the paperback. >> we go to littleton colorado, comments with brian kilmeade. >> caller: i just want to say i love your book and the brian, do you talk much about the pirates in your book? >> guest: thomas jefferson and the pirates, one of two is actually i talk about the pirates with andrew jackson. there was a key moment where he was as you know with the british, he needed his army to be abandoned but there were good guys and they were like mob

franklin roosevelt had to juggle us into world war ii. he once said i'm a juggler. i never let my left hand know what my right hand is doing. but that's the nature of power. that's the nature of reality in a fallen world. i think that we will look back for a long time today and we should, but john mccain would also want us to look forward. i think this is a very dramatic, very carefully orchestrated message to the country, not that these days are gone forever but that this is what we must do, this is who we must be if we're going to survive our present crises. one of the things about senator mccain and bob dole and again president bush, is these were men who looked forward. they knew that losing an election was not the worst day they would ever had because they got shot down out of the sky or lost an arm in italy or were captured in hanoi. they had a sense of perspective and proportion and i think they would want us to share that and realize that winning a news cycle, winning a twitter battle, is not what public service is ultimately about. >> i want to go back to s

franklin roosevelt was stolen. it at a reporter who oppose foreign policy during the war two, that roosevelt awarded him an iron cross, a metal you give to nazi soldiers. a of the journalists had that same reaction they were appalled. nixon was not the first to go after the press. i was struck listening to nixon's tapes, how varied his approach to the press was. he bullied journalists, he attacked them, he railed against the press in late-night bull sessions in the oval office. he also flatter journalists. he courted them. he curried favor. his press strategy was far from one-dimensional. his administration also helped advance the most successful calendar to the object to the ideal that had been so powerful. conservative criticism of liberal media bias. conservative activists had been challenging the idea of objectivity for quite some time. in the 1940's and 50's, conservatives were arguing that the media were bias, they were not actually objective and objectivity was a mask a used to disguise liberal bias. that wa

mike pence who could be the longest serving president other than franklin roosevelt in american historywere he to succeed and then get two terms. ten-year mike pence presidency. >> describe his legislative record in the public offices he's held and been elected to. have they been that dramatic in conservative agenda that you outlined and liberals fear? >> he's voted for every conservative bill that comes along. relates to reproductive rights, gun control, taxation, you name it. and 12 years in congress never authored single successful bill with. never that interested in lawmaking but in appealing to the emotions of the christian right. he became a favorite of the tea party. one of his first speeches on the house floor was about creationism, how the science of evolution is in fact not true and god created the earth in seven days. antiscience when it comes to climate change, one of these fellows who went around crying about voter fraud, even headed president's voter fraud committee, which found no voter fraud. >> in the 2016 election. >> and he tried to suppress black votes in indiana. he

anti-vaif ri movement under president lincoln and the progressive movement under teddy and franklin rooseveltand so it is time for the citizens to understand that it is a two-way street for the leadership, the citizens and the leadership. >> and so as nup other than george schultz remind ed me the other day, that he is the first republican to care about the environment and the wilderness a areas. so thank you so much, doris, and another great book ide leadership in turbulent times." and we appreciate it. we appreciate your wisdom. >> thank you very much. >>> and hitting home. how the democratic groups are using the kavanaugh groups to target vulnerable senators. the inside scoop of the midterms coming up next on "andrea mitchell reports" coming up next on msnbc. when i found you in my dna, i learned where my strength comes from. my name is courtney mckinney, and this is my ancestrydna story. now with 2 times more geographic detail than other dna tests. order your kit at ancestrydna.com i saw my leg did not look right. i landed. i was just finishing a ride. i felt this awful pain in my chest.

and he issued, i think, 1007 executive orders which is the second highest number until franklin roosevelt who did a third term, part of a fourth and a depression and a world war and a dust bowl and all kinds of things. actually, when you get down to it, t.r.'s seven years were pretty uneventful in terms of great presidents. and great presidents, okay, he's one of the four. an interesting point of that is, okay, sometimes it's not what you know, but who you know. and one of t.r.'s big supporters in the progressive party, progressive party official in the connecticut and and later a big poobah in the coup clucks can is a -- ku klux klan is a guy who carves mount rushmore. t.r. is one of his heroes and personal friends. so if you're wondering maybe he doesn't fit, he fits, you know? borglam always wants to carve some big thing of roosevelt. when roosevelt dies, he wants to carve him in an equestrian relief giant on the palisades in new jersey so you'd be crossing the george washington bridge, you'd see t.r. on a big horse going out every day. but that didn't happen. but, yes, so t.r., those

cruel time and again history has proven that the only deterrent to evil an atrocity is what franklin roosevelt once called the righteous might of the united states and its allies a power that perversely could be threatened by the i.c.c. as vague definition of aggression crimes thus we see paradoxically that the dangers of the international criminal court stem from both its potential strength and its manifest weakness. fourth the international criminal court is superfluous given that the message to q.s. judicial systems already hold american citizens to the highest legal and ethical standards u.s. service members in the field must operate fully in accordance with the laws of armed conflict when violations of law do occur the united states takes appropriate and swift action to hold perpetrators accountable we are a democratic nation with the most robust system of investigation accountability and transparency in the world we believe in the rule of law and we uphold it we don't need the i.c.c. to tell us our duty or second guess our decisions i.c.c. proponents argue that robust domestic judicial s

it was franklin roosevelt who was passionate about records that we actually created the -- he signedhe legislation that created the national archives. the charters that carla is referring to had been in the custody of the state department and then at the library of congress. when the archives building was built, a beautiful tabernacle was created for the declaration of independence. doors opened in 1935, but the librarian of congress refused to release the declaration. [laughter] >> and i've held that against you ever since. [laughter] >> i wasn't born yet but i knew this was going to happen. >> it wasn't until harry truman came into office that he kind of laid down the law with the new librarian of congress that they really needed to deliver that document where it belongs. so as carla describes it, it was a really military ceremony with tanks and military people lining the steps of the -- and she claims -- she always describes it as a grab for the declaration. [laughter] >> literally -- >> it was a transfer of the document to its rightful place. >> and we have photographs, photograp

aggression saying quote history is prob proven that the only deterrent to evil in atrocity is what franklin roosevelt once called the righteous might of the united states and its allies now if he even attempted to legitimize past acts of u.s. aggression using the examples of the military raid to kill osama bin ladin and a recent airstrikes against the syrian government which both baucus on and syria viewed as a violations of national sovereignty bolton also gave many special shout outs to its quote friend and ally pledging to protect israel from international probes as well saying that it's quote unexceptable to probe the actions of such a quote liberal and democratic nation and here is the icing on the cake bolton also known announced the closure of the office of the palestinian liberation office in d.c. now amnesty international has already chimed in as and has told the us to support not impede the i.c.c. investigation saying quote a resuming attacks against the court sends a dangerous signal that the us is hostile to human rights and the rule of law but for some important background the u.s. signe

franklin roosevelt agreed with that. yes? i think we need to get rid of those unions and if people are doing the job, they need to be held accountable like they would be in the private sector. used to be we attracted people in the public sector to take lower salaries they would have job security and these great benefits when they retire. now they're making more than people in the private sector on average so that justification has disappeared . i'm a supporter of private-sector unions. i think they're good. i'm not a supporter of public unions, they should be abolished. >> there was a supreme court ruling have any impact on that? >> that will help a lot and there's also, hhs came out with a ruling just last week that said, it's a proposed rule that came out that said that state unions can't take medicare funds or medicaid funds from the people who perform home healthcare services. believeit or not, that's a multimillion dollar it to the unions . because they've been taking, they've been getting these home healthcare workers w

franklin roosevelt basically he was the founder of the modern press conference, the daily briefing. but they couldn't quote him directly. he was the most highly paid background briefer in history. if you read the "new york times" clips, they're almost impenetrable because they're trying to quote the president without quoting the president. the fascinating thing about that was fdr had this marvelous relationship with the working reporters because they were working class guys then. there were a few arthur crock, some people were but it was like the front page, the play. the publishers hated roosevelt because they were the guys with money, they were paying the taxes that fdr was imposing. the reporters were benefitting from the taxes. so there was this inherent tension. and fdr understood it, he loved it. and he understood the power of imagery. he was watching a newsreel of himself and said that was the garbo in me. orson wells came to see him once and he said, orson we're two of the best actors in america. he understood this. which is why he was elected four times. >> i hear you talki

franklin roosevelt was very much friendly with the reporters who covered him, but was very much at odds with the owners of the newspapers and the editorial writers. i'm sure ron and mike understand how different that is, but even roosevelt who is thought of as a guy who got very great press, sometimes what he would do is if he didn't like a reporter's story, he would call the reporters into his office and he from the story, and one time he had a reporter stand in the corner with a dunce cap on and the reporter did it. >> that would be a tough thing to go home after. what did you do today, daddy, at work? stood with a dunce cap in the president -- >> what about this notion of accountability, then? >> well, the accountability -- you know, the american public wants to know a lot of things all the time. we can't provide them with everything, but we try to give them a window into the thinking and the operations of the white house. the presidents want to keep as much information back as possible, we want to get as much information that we think the american public wants. one of the things tha

are you asked if you are descended from franklin roosevelt much? >> i don't get that much. i get, did i know tr? which i find insulting since he died in 1920, but these younger kids, they never know. [laughter] >> teddy roosevelt took a trip to africa. and then down the amazon. he decided he was going to commit suicide, but he got ill. you decided to take the same trip. why did you decide to do that? >> let me correct the suicide thing. he told somebody years later, whenever he went on an adventure like this, and he went on many, he always took enough morphine with him to kill himself. the reason he did that, if he felt he was so sick that it threatened the other people on the trip that he would take it and so other people could get out. he said, the only time i ever thought about that was the amazon trip. i didn't take it. because i was with my son. i knew he would take me out dead or alive. and it was marginally easier to take me out alive. [laughter] >> you were the head of the teddy roosevelt association? >> yes. >> how many descendents are there at this point? >> t.r.,

franklin roosevelt, the white house, washington, to sidney hillman.education of the people who do the jobs of this land. >> it is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for winning a lasting peace, and the establishment of an american standard of living higher than ever known before. narrator: the man dies, but the dream endures. , so toave accepted speak, a second bill of whites under which -- second bill of which a new prosperity can be established for all regardless thetation or race or creed, right to art enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation, the right to adequate protection from the fears of old age, sickness, unemployment. finally, the right to a good education. all of these rights spell security. narrator: the clock ticks away the inexorable hours. the days vanish like wild birds. the sky announces a new season. pinned up on the drawing board our plans for the destruction of pianos and violins. lightning flashes among the constellations, and yet the human spark burns on. the clouds,s above and y

says roosevelt, how many people, what percentage of people ask if you're related to teddy roosevelt or franklin>> all of them. >> 100%? do you ask if you get a discount? [laughter] >> with the name roosevelt, you so for example, when i was younger in new york, most of the cab drivers were democrats. and so when they found out my name one way or another, they would start talking about fdr and i would nod appreciatively and so on. [laughter] so it worked both ways. >> can i ask about your grandfather? your grandfather died when you were 15. you wrote a book about your experiences with him. what was he like in person? was he a simple talking person, very direct as we know, or more complicated? >> no, he was simple and direct. you had to be careful, though, when you were his grandchild. early on in my life, he came to visit us -- >> are you the only grandchild? >> no, i am the oldest. there are three others. three younger brothers. he stayed down the street at the carlisle hotel, got up at the crack of dawn every morning, went for a quick walk, grabbed as many newspapers as he could find, let himse

depression but it was illustrative of the larger thing about world war i, many famous individuals, franklin roosevelt, george patton, herbert hoover, really cut their teeth in world war i and will have a larger impact on the u.s. in world war ii. this is a great item as well. number -- this is some paper dolls that were sent in an roughly 1915, you see the one with the stars & stripes. this is just tying into -- we often think of the war as european. but you can see american had relief and we were trying to raise money for the troops that were struggling under threat of the war internationally. particularly in the near east which is part of the globe that was severely altered by the war. and attempts by western powers to reshape it in the image they wanted. is worth noting that what are we doing and north africa. before the war starts, america was right, number 17th and 20th in the world, far from reality of the kind of american military that we know today. so we had the national security league. these are items from that and you can see in this particular graphic, the american military was the tinie

. ♪ franklin roosevelt, the white house, washington, to sidney hillman. " dear sydney, i can think ofn american standard of living higher than ever known before. narrator: the man dies, but the dream endures. ♪ >> we have accepted, so to speak, a second bill of rights under which a new basis of prosperity can be established for all, regardless of station, race or creed. to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation. the right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemployment. and finally, the right to a good education. all of these rights spell security. ♪ narrator: the clock ticks away the inexorable hours. over the horizon, the days vanish like wild birds. the sky announces a new season. pinned up on the drawing board are plans for the destruction of pianos and violins. lightning flashes among the constellations, and yet the human spark burns on. thunder rolls above the clouds, and yet the small, persistent voice of a man prevails. i looked age of 83, back to see the changes that had taken place. i remembered that wh

know, the democratic party of andrew jackson, how does that compare to the democratic party of franklin roosevelt, and how does that compare to trump? jonathan: very good question. the interpretation of jackson through the years has changed a lot. a lot of progressive historians in the 20th century, the most famous arthur schlesinger junior, interpreted jackson as a forerunner to the progressive to control theg power of rich, wealthy capitalist groups at the expense of common people. the main difference between jackson and fdr was the jackson opposed to strong central government. jackson believed a smaller government and laissez-faire was the best way to combat corporate, elite interests, and that corporate, elite interests actually used the power of the government to acquire the power. so there's a major difference. but a lot of historians in the 20th century interpreted jackson is a forerunner to that movement . how would you rank him among american presidents? jonathan: if you are talking about the most consequential american president, he would have to be in the top five in terms of impact on

time and again, history has proven that the only deterrent to evil and atrocity is what franklin roosevelt once called the righteous might of the united states and its allies. a power that perversely could be threatened by the icc's vague definition of aggression crimes. we see paradoxically that the dangers of the international criminal court stem from both its manifest weakness. -- its potential strength and its manifest weakness. fourth, the international criminal court is superfluous given that domestic u.s. judicial systems already hold america citizens to the highest legal and ethical standards. u.s. servicemembers in the field must operate fully in accordance with the laws of armed conflict. when violations of the law do occur, the united states takes appropriate and swift action to hold perpetrators accountable. we are a democratic nation with the most robust system of investigation, accountable ability, and transparency in the world. we believe in the rule of law. and we uphold it. we do not need the icc to tell us our duty, or second-guess our decisions. icc proponents argue robu

he was not kept in the loop by franklin roosevelt, who was in failing health. he had only two meetings with roosevelt when he was vice president between january and april, 1945. those were mostly social calls. very little of substance was discussed. so, truman did not have a deep background in foreign affairs to begin with, but he was a quick study and a hard worker. he learned very quickly. but truman, i think, also wanted and needed the soviets help in the war in japan. he wrote that in his diaries that are published on our website. you can see the diaries and his writings. he really is interested in enlisting the soviet unions help in the war against japan. even when he finds out that the atomic tests were noose -- were successful in the new mexico desert, he wants to report that to the soviets. that is interesting. you might want to keep that close to the vest. but he did report it. i think he was holding out hope that he could get the soviets help in japan and that the atomic bomb may not be enough alone to accomplish our ends. >> given that the manhattan

we aspire to be something and that's why what we heard today it were speeches that franklin roosevelt that abraham lincoln and john f kennedy and ronald regan could have identified with and that was john mccain's gift to us. because he didn't want people untears from how he selected the eulogies. he wanted to reaffirm those values that inspired his life. and he chose two men who could do so powerfully. george w. bush and barack obama and they did today. >> i want to say amen, brother. i feel like you just took me to church, tim. but it was so powerful to watch the service because it was just one of those moments. i mean really the service in itself was a moment i felt like in this country. but it was so striking the mesening in contrast to what we've seen in our political dialogue and just society right now, the divisiveness we have. of course president trump was not there. how unusual, how unprecedented is it for the sitting president not to be invited to the funeral of a member of his own party? >> well, i think i want to dwell today on the unprecedented nature of two presidents fro

you write lyndon johnson and abraham lincoln and franklin roosevelt know that people were more easilythan in other way. >> i think what happened here in the whole hurricane situation, is that what you want as a president is to gain control of the narrative. and by losing his temper, because he got angry at new signs of maria that were on the television again, and the criticisms of how well he did, he lashes out at the figures of how many people have died, so that becomes the story instead of florence, in preparing for florence. suppose he had gone on the air and said i made mistakes during maria. like when president kennedy acknowledged the bay of pigs and said we made a mistake. and as a result he lost the most important thing for a leader in a time of crisis is to exhibit empathy toward the people who are being hurt and to talk to those people at this time who are still being hurt in puerto rico about how many people died versus how many people lost people, their families, they have lost their wherewithal. it doesn't make any sense, that ambition was to relitigate the story, he thin

is it inevitable that at that time, teddy roosevelt came to power, franklin roosevelt, and today donald trump. >> the time creates an opportunity for a great leader to come around. think of what lincoln had to face when he comes into office and this country is already split apart. and yet he was the right leader for that time, patient and persistent and merciful and merciless. teddy roosevelt comes at a time when the industrial revolution has shaken the economy. more so than today. there is a fear that capitalism isn't going to be able to exist and what does he do, he introduces a square deal. he is a fighting character but the square deal was for the rich and the poor. fdr comes in at the height of the depression. and because he came in at his own depression, paralysis because of polio. and he had that confident optimism that he could project onto the country at large. lbj comes in when the civil rights movements comes. so they open an opportunity for these people but unless you can deal with t hoover was there when the depression was there. and buichanans he was unable to deal with it