franklin roosevelt. well, by the time convention starts and they devote all kinds of ink, the newspapers that are run hearst and also the magazines they send out, damon runyon to interview to land. and now there's their oil and water, though. damon runyon is from colorado. mr. time square. and and one of the questions he asks is, do you stand on prohibition? you know because kansas still had prohibition and landed actually i don't know if landed dances around that but but the damon runyon knows what he has to do for mr. hearst and he really dances around it so. the delegates are there the delegates are there by the time the convention arises. and and land and land and gets the nod. so we've got land and. he's our establishment, the republican party nominee. yeah. then you've got what turns out to be a sort of array of people, a variety of ideas or program amps that promote old pensions, everything from that to well. and till unfortunately, when he was assassinated or depending on how your narrative of th

he was not franklin roosevelt's first, second, or even his third choice. harry truman has supported roosevelt's so-called court packing plan. that was the end of the day litmus test. roosevelt said, we'll, if everyone can get along with senator truman, he can be on the ticket. he did not oppose the judicial reform plan. truman became president so suddenly. he uses this first nomination is a chance to seek some political unity. not just in washington, but in america as a whole. americans were than allowed to openly say that there should be republican or democratic nominee. >> one of the things that i really like about the book is that the truman court story is great. there's also these little bits of history that are dropped in. sometimes relevant, sometimes they're sidebars. look at how much has changed, how much has not changed. one of the things it comes to mind with burton was that you are writing a book. truman and burton shared a belief that the government had threats. that was even at the expense of individual liberties. was that a common thing at the

he nominated franklin roosevelt to the court of appeals. it was seen to this day and accurately so the second most important federal court in the united states. and then world war ii breaks out, franklin roosevelt says i need you. frankly vincent is here to get off the bench and participate more actively in the war effort. world war i america's involvement when the war ended just as vincent had finished basic training. he felt like he had missed out or world war i. so we wanted to contribute now in his later years in world war ii and a more direct manner. so he left his lifetime appointment with tenure in the pension and everything that comes with it agreed to become a cabinet member for franklin roosevelt hopscotch two different jobs. they stopped holding confirmation hearings for did stop holding votes for vincent. the white house but that nomination shoot down an office of emergency management. nominate for treasury secretary gets the most votes. they all knew him, they had voted on him so many times and said this is a matter of course f

this is the franklin roosevelt that we're used to. so he he manages to rebound and he wins an unprecedented fourth term as president in november. so one of the campaigns that we've talked about is over. he's been reelected, but in the wake of that election, he begins to focus on something else. could you talk a bit about that, david? the thing to keep in mind, you know, as we get to the point where he's been reelected in 1944, there was a great deal of uncertainty. again, this is one of the things that's so interesting about the final months of his life. the allies were finally success following, breaking out from the normandy landings in late july 1944, and all of a sudden they swept across france. they took the city of paris, they got into belgium, they got into southern holland. and there was a great deal of expectation that the war would be over by christmas. people were just euphoric about this seeming collapse of the german army and rapid advance of the allies, and then all of a sudden they kind of hit a stone wall. the germans

and this is a picture of young franklin roosevelt at harvard. which he graduated with less than honors, but he contributed. lincoln, i will say, oh we said that he learned by a little. 's only when you are schooling all together. lincoln famously said that if they knew reading writing and -- by the rule of three they were looked on in the neighborhood is somewhat of a genius. a wizard. roosevelt was very formal, move to leadership. greg, tell us about where's about schooling. more than i have. >> well, i think one critical difference between the two is that lincoln was so desperate for learning. he called for. it he craved. it whenever he could find the book he treated it as a precious object, it meant so much to. him roosevelt of course had every opportunity. one commonality is that he was what we would call today home schooled, until he was 14. and then he would have to go to preparatory school, which at the time was the top prep school for the well to do. where he studied under endicott peapod e, and if there is a connection in terms of his l

i mean, i think franklin roosevelt was delighted as he would have did say to have his new uncle teddy giveaway the bride but as soon as theodore roosevelt entered the room the entire wedding party turned to him and the bride and groomer left standing pretty much alone on the other side of the house and and someone once quipped. well, you know theodore he has to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral so and the baby at every christian the baby in every christening, right? and the only day that the roosevelts could get married by the way was march 17th, because that was saint patrick's day and tr was going to be the grand. well, not the grand marshal but be in the grandstand you can't just do a wedding a family wedding on a trip from from new york. well, here's another thing that's worth comparing. and talking about in terms of both these leaders and that is that they are both tested. with what you might call surprise attacks that launched wars both interestingly have come under questioning by some people in the 20th and 21st century did. either of them know it wa

most often though the press argued they supportedon isolationism but they believe franklin roosevelt uld use the war to seize dictatorial control they believed roosevelt wanted to aid hitler's enemies not because he feared for u.n. security and not because he sympathize with the victims of fascist aggression. he believed the war would give him the opportunity to seize total control of the government ands cancel elections and start his own dynasty. let me give you a couple of examples. mccormick for instance argued before the war began in europe. roosevelt was engaged in a conspiracy to drive the country into war and gave his independence day speech in which he used the word conspirators for conspiracy four times in one sentence to explain roosevelt school which he said was to quote rap the constitution in terrorism and communism of russia. after the war began in europe the first patterson mccormick press argued against aiding the british and even argued that roosevelt wanted to help the british and the dictatorship that would presumably come with water. here for example is the hearst

if you visit spurring would house, you see the bedrooms, there is a large franklin roosevelt bedroom.at the other end of the hall there is a large sarah roosevelt bedroom. in between there is a closet where eleanor slept. and the physical arrangement says a lot about what was happening there. of course, harold, who lives in the house she built for them can tell you more about that as well. >> i try to go home at night. but i dwell there. we don't even have an illiberal bedroom. we have a franklin bedroom and a serb edge room, where i worked. my office is in her bedroom. for everything we, know eleanor either slept in whatever child's room was available because the child was away, or during roosevelt's recovery she slept on the floor of his bedroom and administer to him in ways that must be inspired by love. that was very difficult to care for him in the early they. i would say sarah and franklin were in love with the same person, franklin. she was devoted, totally devoted to him. and not always nice to eleanor. but she drove eleanor out of that house. that house that i work in. she ma

i want to begin by talking about the press reaction to franklin roosevelt quarantine speech in 1937. this was in the context of spanish civil war and the bombing in the battle of shanghai the japanese attacks on chinese civilians and in october of 1937 roosevelt went to chicago and gave this famous speech where he said innocent nations needed to be quarantined against what he called the epidemic of world lawlessness. and after he gave this major policy address he found himself attacked in the press as it dangerous warmonger. thee chicago tribune which was owned by the steadfast eaisolationist robert for includ the real danger to the united states came not from abroad from hostile foreign nations but from the president at home. in the tribune editorialize quotee america is told it has in enemies when none attack. it is told that has responsibilities where none exists. we can keep out of war by not by going out to meet halfway. editorials and curse the group's attribute roosevelt was following woodrow wilson's fallacious reasoning. instead of assuring america of peace, roosevelt was pu

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often though the prosperians argued that they supported isolationism because they believe that franklin roosevelt would use the war to seize dictatorial control and become an american caesar. they believe that roosevelt wanted to aid hitler's enemies not because he feared for us security not because he sympathized with a victims of fascist aggression, but because he believed that a war would give him the opportunity to seize total control of the government and democracy cancel elections and start his own dynasty. so let me give you a couple of examples mccormick for instance argued even before the war began in europe. the roosevelt was engaged in a conspiracy to drag the country into war he gave an independence day speech in 1939 and what she used the words conspirators or conspirator conspiracy four times in one sentence. to explain roosevelt's goal, which he said was to quote scrap the constitution and supplant it with the terrorism and communism of russia. now after the war began in europe the hearst patterson mccormick, press argued against aiding the british. and even argue that roosevelt ag

the one who notice was franklin roosevelt. after the fall of france, the british people face the very real danger of a nazi invasion. there's long been a debate of how seriously hitler contemplated such a move. it is true he delayed for a long time, but that's probably because he always thought that a peace initiative would be coming from london, the same ph and message of that lord halifax wanted to send. but it didn't. in the aftermath of the dunkirk evacuation, a german invasion would have been possible. in southern england, there was only one fully equipped army division, which is canadian, by the way. in may, the war department had set up a local defense force, as a last line of defense if britain was invaded. these men, which churchill renamed the guard. when he couldn't give him at the time, were actual weapons with which to fight. those weapons did come, along with uniforms, giving rise to the popular nickname for these units, -- army. it would be a mistake to dismiss nazi four invasions of britain as a pipe dream. the

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in mid august churchill took a the step of crossing the atlantic to meet with franklin roosevelt. who came up from maine on his own cruiser, the augusta. to meet off the coast of newfoundland. this was not their first meeting. they met 25 years ago in 1918. when fdr was there is a young assistant secretary to the navy. churchill did not remember the meeting and fdr did. he felt the churchill had been very dismissive. called him a real stinker. so this next meeting was going to be crucial. it was important for both men that they get on. and churchill took the step crossing a the u-boat infested waters to make it to the coast of canada. on a new british battleship, hms prince of wales. his bodyguard said he was so excited he was like a little schoolboy. the two men met for four days. and this gathering also allowed the meeting of their military chiefs. in particular, those two men standing over churchill's left shoulder, the american army chief of staff george c. marshall in the then chief of the imperial general staff, field marshal sir drawn dill. these two men, the american war s

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he immediately phoned franklin roosevelt. no mean feat at that time. where fdr confirmed the news and said to churchill we are all in the same boat now. we tend to forget about the attack on pearl harbor we tend to forget that it was non-isolated incident as i pointed out this morning. we also tend to forget that the aim of all of these attacks on hong kong on the philippines on the singapore was to allow the japanese to take control of the dutch east indies and the oil that could be found there. as soon as churchill heard the news he decided that he would go to washington. i should say here that there are conspiracy stories it still circulate to this day that fdr and even churchill himself had knowledge about these attacks and that simply doesn't a comport with the evidence if anything these two men the last two things these men wanted was a war in the pacific in asia with the japanese their main focus was hitler and german and europe. when churchill went to bed that night he later wrote that he slept the sleep of the saved and the thankful. but in fa

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when harry truman becomes president, however, taking over for franklin roosevelt, a democrat, just as roosevelt was, he taps this republican, former president had she either hoover, to do -- president herbert hoover precisely what he had done in world war i, to feed a war-torn region and ensure that they got food as that part of the world healed itself from the ravages of war. he then puts hoover on committees to make sure that we're spending federal dollars wisely and hoover almost single-handedly saves you millions and billions of dollars by reorganizing departments in the federal government. hoover was forever grateful, peter, to harry truman for bringing him back into public service, and the two formed a very unlikely, but very deep friendship when they both left the white house. they were friends for the balance of their lives. and again, it shows in so many ways the best of what it is to be an american. we need to remember those things in a divided america today. host: together back to harry truman as well, he left washington in 1953, but he did not have secret service protectio

and in that summit was shared the danger we shared by franklin roosevelt later during the war fdr wrote to churchill that the war would be decided in the atlantic. if you are wrote hitler lost this battle he cannot win anywhere in the world. the problem for both men was that to protect the allied convoys not only had german u-boat technology and tactics improved, but from the summer of 1940 they faced the additional problem that the german now had you both bases in occupied france. these bases allowed the you both the range much further across the atlantic indeed even into the gulf of mexico and and at the same time they were at a disadvantage. they didn't have during the great war during the great war both the british and american navies after the americans got into the war. anyway used bases in southern ireland. this was the reason that churchill had insisted on those tree ports. you can see the three that were in the irish free state. they don't show belfast on here in northern ireland, but in an astonishing act of ill-time act of appeasement in 1938, chamberlain had returned the tre

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by 1932, the election of franklin roosevelt, that number was up to 18.4 million. there were some presidential radio addresses during the 1920s. calvin coolidge actually had a pretty good voice for radio. herbert hoover did some speaking on the radio. but really when we think about presidents and the electronic media, we're thinking about franklin d. roosevelt. and roosevelt is famous for the so-called fireside chats. an or not thing to know though -- an important thing to know about the fireside chats, a lot of people think he did them every week. no. no, no. he did them on essential occasions. there weren't as many fireside chats as people think there were. roosevelt had a really good voice for if radio, and and e understood that with the tireside chat you didn't -- fireside chat you didn't talk the same way as you did when you were to rating to a large -- orating to a large are crowd. people would get turned off way that. fdr understood that's not the way you talk on the radio. he also used radio effectively on certain special occasions. and some of his major sp