so elite is just brought up franklin roosevelt. so david, why don't we you have a lovely line that she saw her marriage to franklin as an opportunity to quote spanish forever the bad story of her parents by putting virtue and virtuous husband in her own from now on wrote eleanor a certain kind of orthodox. goodness was my ideal and ambitions to talk about her meeting franklin roosevelt and their marriage and that marriage was like well franklin was her fifth cousin and they met on a train one summer day on a train going up river heat a hyde park and she to her grandmother's house at tivoli. where as alita has already referenced. there were blocks on the inside of her door to protect her from her uncles who had once been, you know, charming young men around town tennis champions and so forth now predatory alcoholics who were dangerous and scary and eleanor's life in her grandmother's house both at tivoli but in town as well where she lived during her coming out period and just after the at the time she met franklin was chaos. it was

he was part of the honor guard for franklin roosevelt's funeral the engine. he said he's used his magazine to bash the new deal and fdr for the rest of his life and he was part of the honor guard the second one. and by the way, this should be a movie is that serena and i we had a neighbor of ours down back in virginia by the name of -- snyder now -- snyder had a great story in and of self he was part of the only three year class of west point there was rushed out. into the war he flew of p-47s close air support for the dna invasion. he was he was shot down. he survived fortunately, but he was hid he was hidden in a belgian farmers of barn. and he was there for about three weeks before german patrols picked him up and he went into appear w camp and spent the duration of the war in the pierogi camp. before he left in gratitude he gave the belgian farmer's wife his silk parachute, which is silk was highly prized. flash forward now 50 60 years later. is that his -- wife. mary was great surfer of the internet. she's elderly but she's very proficient with a compute

thought we only had three presidents that washington lincoln and franklin roosevelt. that's what she thought and there was no explanation for succession when secession succession when he died. there was no explanation for well the vice president truman becomes president now, there's no explanation to hurt that she that she she's you know young teenager, but is that fdr when fdr died flags in moscow were hung at half staff is it was a world shaking event people just couldn't believe it and of course, you know his tragic too. i mean, obviously that's always tragic but he was only 63 years old, but he was carrying the burdens of the world. it was he was obviously strickland polio so that had to affect him healthwise and couldn't his circulation. was a good eater. he didn't eat healthy foods. he, you know ate a lot of butter and mud and bread and fatty foods and things like that. he had his fives what eleanor called his five seas, you know every afternoon or five o'clock. he would make himself, you know, none of martini, but old-fashioned or a manhattan those who was two

franklin roosevelt is turning in his grave. he would turn in his grave if somebody would have whisper to him how his party lost blue collar labor to donald trump. how did that happen white blue color white blue collar labor important? yes, the republicans have made the working class. so working class is not all white. in fact, it's getting less white over time. republicans have made inroads with black voters a tiny bit. it's still but like 90 to voters and latino voters, which is probably more even more concerning to democrats. but for the most part, you're right african americans still vote 90 plus percent latinos like 2-1, but white blue collar labor and important constituency feels and we can get into this whole debate about how it want. why did trump win was it racial antagonism class antagonism, but there are many white blue collar workers you feel abandoned by the democratic party and part of it is culture. i think a lot of those workers our church goers and feel like democratic party is secular party a lot of them also a

franklin roosevelt didn't do much for civil rights either, that the another theme in your book, this tension, but it does start to break because there were other progressive developments in the country as well that kind of, i guess these things they help each other, right, labor movement, as you mention, started to include blacks and others but by the time we reach the 1960s, we still have a many southern democrats who are, that's the hill they're going to die on. how has the democrat party with lyndon johnson as president finally get past that? >> one could argue never really did get past it. only got past it because -- >> at least to pass a couple pieces of legislation, 64 and '65. >> yeah, '64 and '65, democrats, huge majorities in both houses of congress. '64, i think only 30 republican senators or something like that. >> it helps. >> but also, voting republicans, a majority, but majority of republicans in the house and senate vote for the civil rights act and voting rights act, one thing people today point out is a large proportion of republicans voted for those two bills, the d

the colonel that ran the chicago tribune hated franklin roosevelt murdoch of his time.at the united states had broken japanese codes that had allowed us to prevail into decisive battle of midway. in 1938, you had neo nazis selling out madison square garden filled to the rafters with nazis standing with a george washington banner down madison square garden. look, we always had this in the united states. the strain of republicans that was dominant, the eisenhower strain, the ronald reagan strain represented a continuity, a consensus that stretched from ronald -- that stretched from franklin roosevelt with winston churchill in 1940 through harry truman, through john kennedy, through lyndon johnson, through jimmy carter, barack obama to donald trump who attacks what was the most successful military alliance in world history degrades it and fanaticizes who turns out to be the most dangerous person in the world, vladimir putin, second most potent nuclear arsenal and one of its largest militaries on this war of aggression against the ukrainian people. so look, that the republi

so all the stuff is going on in the background which then takes us to franklin roosevelt. they looked at him and they understood him then in the context of all these other things going on. there's no doubt that his campaign in 1932 got off to an ominous start. on the first set of ballots if the democratic national convention roosevelt received 666 6 votes. when i first read that in the fundamentalist magazine, i thought it was too good to be true like that that couldn't really be true and i went back and looked at the dnc records and sure enough. that was absolutely the case. so this this already set fundamentalists on edge believing that there's something weird going on here that's linking roosevelt to the antichrist. after the election then they began to view roosevelt in the same light as other totalitarian leaders. watch this program and thousands more at c-span.org/history. from washington the combined radio and television industry brings you a special report on the sauk polio vaccine the public health service of the department of health education and

the united states began to embrace trade in 1934, cordell hull, the secretary of state and franklin rooseveltall the way through really through the obama administration or at least the george w. bush administration the world's prosperity increased many times over. now people taken up the mantra trade is bad for blue-collar folks. they lose their jobs when they have to compete with lower priced labor and the whole premise of market-driven economics and the advantages of free trade have been lost in this political debate. charles: fred, your life really is a testament to the american dream. do you see, i mean, 600,000 employees around the world. do you see in our young people that willingness to serve like you did in the military or something else? and also the willingness to go out and start businesses? i know we had a spike in on entrepreneurship and i want it to keep going. do you think it will? >> i do and i think it will is because the internet and the ability to do assemble capital make the communications and the aggragation of potential investors and the venture capital business which we

as franklin roosevelt said again, we have an appointment with destiny.ent right now when we can go forward, make the changes that we need to make to have a peaceful and a just society, not only socially, but economically. i think that we can make it happen. and as we say in spanish, yes we can. yes i can. soledad: dolores, the nice to talk to you. thank you for joining me. still ahead, supreme court justice sonia sotomayor issues her opinion. justice sotomayor: we spend so much time concentrating on our differences that we forget the things that are the same for all of us. soledad: on what can help heal our divides. ♪ pepto bismol coats and soothes your stomach for fast relief and get the same fast relief in a delightful chew with pepto bismol chews. i just heard something amazing! one medication is approved to treat and prevent migraines. nurtec is the first and only option proven to treat and prevent migraines with one medication. onederful. one quick dissolve tablet can start fast and last. don't take if allergic to nurtec. the most common side effect

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and you know, i said at the top i grew up in hyde park new york, which is franklin delano roosevelt's hometown. i went to franklin delano roosevelt high school. my mascot was the president's half. the town is basically roosevelt based and you know, so for me writing this book in a lot of ways was informative as to parts of fdr's character that you know as a normal person who understands history not historian. i had sort of had known about and and this thing that you talk about jack is that basically franklin delano roosevelt. everyone said we need to close the camps federal government war department said, there's no reason to keep the camps open and this was in early 1944 people been saying it for years almost as soon as the camps opened the there was absolutely whatever, you know, little trickle of military necessity people that originally thought was had completely vanished the japanese were not going to attack the west coast. but roosevelt says while i'm running for real action, and why don't we put off this decision until after the first week of november and we'll see if i win ree

and you know, i said at the top i grew up in hyde park new york, which is franklin delano roosevelt's hometown. i went to franklin delano roosevelt high school. my mascot was the president's half. the town is basically roosevelt based and you know, so for me writing this book in a lot of ways was informative as to parts of fdr's character that you know as a normal person who understands history not historian. i had sort of had known about and and this thing that you talk about jack is that basically franklin delano roosevelt. everyone said we need to close the camps federal government war department said, there's no reason to keep the camps open and this was in early 1944 people been saying it for years almost as soon as the camps opened the there was absolutely whatever, you know, little trickle of military necessity people that originally thought was had completely vanished the japanese were not going to attack the west coast. but roosevelt says while i'm running for real action, and why don't we put off this decision until after the first week of november and we'll see if i win ree

so all the stuff is going on in the background which then takes us to franklin roosevelt. they looked at him and they understood him then in the context of all these other things going on. there's no doubt that his campaign in 1932 got off to an ominous start. on the first set of ballots if the democratic national convention roosevelt received 666-66 votes. when i first read that in a fundamentalist magazine, i thought it was too good to be true like that that couldn't really be true and i went back and looked at the dnc records and sure enough. that was absolutely the case. so this this already set fundamentalists on edge believing that there's something weird going on here that's linking roosevelt to the antichrist. after the election then they began to view roosevelt in the same light as other totalitarian leaders. watch this program and thousands more at c-span.org/history. weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feast every saturday american history tv documents america's story and on sundays book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors funding for c

the united states president franklin roosevelt extended a formal invitation for all european nations. to return to the united states in 1940 to continue celebrating the next season of the ongoing new york world's fair. his invitation said quote the continuing hope of the nation's must be that they will increasingly understand each other. and the new york world's fair is one of the many channels by which this continuing conception of peace may be known. end quote and yet on that same september day that the war broke out the ongoing new york world's fair saw record attendance numbers. it had sort of become a de facto gathering ground for those who wished for comfort or solace. or maybe just those who wanted to revisit the world as it existed just the previous day. a world not plunged into a catastrophic war. a world of hope for the future the following day on september 2nd the new york times headlines said that europe's turmoil was reflected at the fair. they wrote quote. with bombs bursting over poland yesterday the impact of general war that seemed to threaten europe finally broke wit

it was an especially exciting moment because franklin roosevelt, the president of the united states was going to be there to officially open the fair. here's a newsreel from that moment. >> america's world of tomorrow is ready for its formal debut, monument to showmanship and industry, 58 nations, crowds pouring from subways, trains, buses and cars, half a million strong and for 40,000 invited guests, the moment has come. president roosevelt, speaks in a cause of peace. >> i here by dedicate the world's fair, the new york world's fair of 1939 and i declare it open to all mankind. >> should have mentioned before, it started, it's an old video clip and depending on the speed of internet connection, video might be a bit choppy but audio should come through fine. but right from that very moment, this fair was already opening a window on the future. the world of tomorrow, because roosevelt's speech was broadcast on a brand new invention that was being debuted for the first time at the fair. television. roosevelt's speech launched the very first scheduled television broadcast tv station in am

on the eve of franklin roosevelt's inauguration in early 1933 again, that's very hard to imagine today. the national unemployment rate about 25% we're going to see in a moment. if you lived in cities, the unemployment rate is probably going to be higher maybe as high as a third. maybe 33 34% on employment. and what is it today? just by way of contrasts. i think i heard the other day a couple days ago unemployment dipped below. five percent so if you're part of that below 5% obviously, that's an important problem for you, but most americans don't really worry about this, but imagine with that higher rate in the 1930s, obviously a problem another way of looking at that same statistic. it's not just about individuals who have no income. it's basically going to be about families that have no income. topic and the way you need to think about that is the key the time is adult male heads of households because middle class. married women in america do not yet work outside the home. it was simply well not economically necessary. it was not socially acceptable. and i think in your reading for fr

japanese attack of pearl harbor on december 7th 1941, no one in congress heckled president franklin roosevelt when he spoke to an emergency seven session of the full congress the day after pearl harbor, where 2403 members of the american military were killed in one day. no one blamed the president for that. no one jumped up to yell at president roosevelt to say he should have done more to protect the military personnel at pearl harbor. but that is exactly, exactly, what lauren boebert would have done. joining us now is representative jimmy gomez, democrat of california. representative gomez, first of all, what was it like for you to be back in the house gallery for the first time since january six when you were fearing for your life there we >> it was triggering, my heart started racing right away, i started talking to some of my colleagues and i mentioned to them that this was a difficult moment for me because it was the first time since january six when i was laying on the ground texting my loved ones to tell them that i was with police and trying to make it out. so for me, it was an event

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next year japan sneak attack on pearl harbor forcing president franklin roosevelt to declare war. >> a date which will live in infamy with the unfounding determination of our people. we will gain the inevitable triumph so help us god. >> 1948 soviet quest to starve out western berlin in a divided german capital thwarted by american aide airlift and punctuated by the courageous visit from president john f. kennedy. in 1963, he made it clear america will back down. >> in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is -- more than 20 years later 1987 the cold war hanging on by a thread. president ronald reagan challenging his soviet counterpart in this iconic moment. >> if you see peace, if you seek prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization, come leer to this gate. gorbachev teared down this wall in 2001 unimaginable right here in american soil september 11th george w. bush rising to the occasion exuding this strength our nation needed. >> i can hear you. ♪ ♪ i can hear you, the rest of the world hears you and the people who knocked these buildings down

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