roosevelt house hunters, public policy institute, and, of course, the townhouse where eleanor and franklin roosevelt lived for the 25 years leading up to his inauguration as president in 1933. it's wonderful to welcome all of you in person. particularly wonderful to welcome. a hero of roosevelt house, one of our founding board of advisors members, the former lieutenant governor of new york, richard ravitch. so as as we near the 90th anniversary of the election that sent fdr from this house to the white house and the 90th anniversary of the first hundred days that one of our guests tonight has written about so definitively, what more appropriate place to house another important roosevelt book? what is more, a appropriate venue than 47 dash 49, a 65th street and jonathan norman's new book, becoming fdr, examines one of the most fraught periods of their residence here, the personal crisis that made fdr president his struggle with polio and how that fight forged his character and made possible his political rise as most audience members who've been here often know, this is the place where it happened. t

and heharedhat with franklin roosevelt. they were both wilsonian. so this lend doug up this photo for for me of the colorful of his secretaries i couldn't it in the book because ithe middle of the book there are eight pages of of color plates. but i couldn't color in the book just wherever wanted it. so you get to the color today hoover recognized he would not be remembered as a great president. i said that and so this is his epic and here he is he's finally finished it but he finished it on his near his birthday in august of 1964 just months before he died and here he is with his publisher. but you know, he wrote but this is why i decided do the book he only wrote 11 pages on his work. refugees, polish and finnish and he ignored this he had the success he had it with roosevelt. so i think the reason why is put this aside time was running. he wanted to deal with the national committee on food for the small democracies, which is a two where fight. he had two year fighting has with roosevelt over cross blockade policy so he ignores this but from my po

and in the book, too, i'm kind of franklin roosevelt. i'm kind of both as a man. i admire both of them. but never trusted the organization. and and he always relied on people he knew, regardless of of his position, that does make his administration sometimes a little on chaotic side more like lincoln his cabinet of rivals because roosevelt's cabinet rivals with each other but you he didn't trust cordell hall as much as he trusted sumner or he trusted ambassadors overseas so he would bypass people that were in particular heads to get what he wanted and relied on personal relationships. so the way they problems is very, very different. these two posters i would love to be seen in a photograph in a decent way, but then they're in the american friend service committee and ner been probably photographed at the end because of covid we were in a huy to get the book out in my publisher said. they're closed. they said,e'll go up philadelia and photograph these for you. but in fact time was running so it did not happen. but i think there are interesting and advocating that

the three princes -- presidents that interested me the most were one, franklin roosevelt because it was roosevelt who made the modern fbi. the new -- the fbi turned out to be a new deal alphabet agency. he pushed law enforcement in a big way and pushed hoover into political intelligence during the war. that was fascinating for me. then the last two presidents lyndon johnson and richard nixon were also fascinating because they had very long-term relationships with them. he lived on the same block as lyndon johnson from the 40's onward and had decades of relationships with nixon. then when they were in office they both cooperated and were at odds with one another in interesting ways. >> our guest is yale history professor beverly gage author of "g-man: j edgar hoover and d making of the american century." if you live in the central time zone 202-748-8201. mountain and pacific time zones. you can send professor gage a text message 202-748-8903. if you send a text please include your first name and your city. how many of those presidents wanted to fire hoover but he wasn't too politically p

activism and arrogance of the supreme court of that era, leading to his fight against his cousin franklin roosevelt over the new year. -- new deal. the significant backlash came from that court and its aftermath. the warren court made important strides for justice, freedom and democracy, with cases like round versus board of education. by the end it was so activists on so many fronts it created a political backlash. the conservative counterrevolution. we have been living through that backlash for decades. today, this court is misreading its moment and overreaching and the political backlash has begun. host: michael waldman here, tom joins us from nashville, our independent line. you are on with michael waldman of the brennan center and the author of the book "the super majority." caller: that was really good what you said about my favorite president. but i call about 50 years ago when they destroyed the national public school system. it was one of the best public school systems in the country is introduced forced busing throughout a metropolitan county. they made poor people come to where rich peop

but another economic breakthrough, but namsed by the white house of the biidenomics and like franklin roosevelt who provided electricity. every home in america, through its biden rural electrification act, will provide the internet to the most remote places in america, but in the long term in 2030 for 40 billion, and there are a lot of such places in the usa. still does not have access to high-speed internet. that is, not like watching movies on netflix, but writing letters to upload photos, but you have to pay a lot for such happiness. well, the internet is in order. i cry a lot. for this it is about 140 dollars a month internet in the us is just tin game and is at the level of the stone age, which is interesting to the largest internet service providers in the us who will lead the internet by chance sponsors. biden's previous presidential campaign, and now they will be able to tightly master the american lord isps roydniki internet they give a lot of money to politicians in the united states and you and do reproach? mostly democrats? yes, there these brizens or compress all these corporations

author of hoover versus roosevelt tells the political differences between herbert hoover and franklin rooseveltconfronting german aggression and humanitarian crises in poland and finland at the onset of world war ii. exploring the american story. watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide our watch online anytime c-span.org/history. >> sunda on q&a, historian and political contributing writer joshua zeitz author of lincoln's god talks about the impact that state that on america's 16th president. he contends as the young man abraham lincoln was skeptical of organized religion but later as president came to embrace the power of evangelical part of this is him both personally and politically. >> it was a problem for lincoln that he was seen as religious, so we learned to be tightlipped about this and we know as late as 1858 the local presbyterian minister in springfield, illinois, are one of the ministers in springfield who was the minister of the church where the lincoln's rented at you mostly in deference to married republicans, he was happily t

you franklin roosevelt's new deal, although not perfect, did make inroads. and so you know, there was a sense of loss when we're talking about a national loss. i think that one was truly national comparison to how people felt when lincoln passed away. but to get at the health issue and there's a there's a lot of controversy over this because it's unclear what fdr knew himself. it's unclear what eleanor knew herself. it seemed did not or didn't use or selectively chose not to know. and david warner, who wrote this chapter, i think does a really good job of thoughtfully trying to kind of piece together what were they aware of? what were they not of? and it seems like they knew he was, but maybe the doctors didn't indicate quite how bad it was. and this was before presidents had physicals and reported results. so the american people really didn't know. but it wasn't like they didn't know because there was this big cover up, i think is the conclusion that david draws. yeah. and how you know, another thing that a president has to do is not only choose a good vice

franklin roosevelt in politics he wrote in politics nothing happens by chance.omething happened, then it was meant to be. and what were these mysterious revolutionaries who did this? the great revolution, this grand coup, managed to destroy russia from the inside about who were the real creators the revolution about who provided this terrible factor of decay, which undermined the russian state and doomed russia to countless unprecedented suffering, was told by a person who knew these people very well and knew the whole situation that then developed in russia from the inside. this was grand duke alexander mikhailovich, a very interesting person. wrote. he these lines already, being in exile in the thirties is not under pressure. forerunners of the soviets or young bombers, but under the pressure of bearers of aristocratic generosity empire, the tsar managed to satisfy the needs of russian workers and peasants, the police would have coped with the terrorists, but it was completely vain to try to please, a numerous contender for the minister, a revolutionary record

can you talk a bit about the era of franklin roosevelt, what was happening then?ocaine has been used in a number of medications because it has the ability of restricting blood vessels. for example, franklin roosevelt had a lot of seen s problems and reports suggest one of the substances doctors recommended was a diluted substance that would be swabbed on the inside of each noseral to try and help increase oxygen flow and reduce any blockages he may or may not have had. >> what about, i mean back in the day opium and cocaine were used in a lot of pharmacies, for lack of a better word. they were used as the basis for a lot of medicine. can you talk about that and what was happening in the 18th and 19th centuries? >> absolutely. as you said opium was a common ingredient in a lot of different medications and one of the most frequent was something called laudanum, and this is something prescribed for pain tolerance if someone was ill or had trouble sleeping. for example, we know two first ladies in the 18th century died while their husbands were in the house, letitia t

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the atomic bomb, relations between washington and moscow then rapidly deteriorated, unlike franklin rooseveltruman. he was hostile to the ussr and his messages, in fact, were veiled by the threat behind an attempted nuclear blackmail. winson churchill watched and was struck by the calm reaction of stalin along with truman. they decided that stalin simply did not understand. what are we talking about, but they were wrong from the soviet intelligence. he knew in detail about the manhattan project and returning to moscow, stalin ordered to speed up soviet work on the creation of atomic weapons, americans believed that before the mid- fifties. it will not appear in our country, but the first test in the ussr was already carried out in the forty-ninth and the country received reliable protection against possible aggression, the usa on july 24, 1956 , the city of physicists was founded, dubna, the largest nuclear research center in our country , the name was given by the river dubna in the xii century. there was an ancient russian settlement here, but it disappeared during the mongol invasion. in o

and of course leading up to the fight between his cousin, franklin roosevelt and the supreme court over the new deal. and i would say that a third era when there was certainly a significant backlash came in the warren court era and actually in its aftermath. now, i think that the warren court played extraordinarily important strides in the justice and freedom of democracy in the country. like brown versus board of education. but by the end, it was so activists on so many fronts that it created a political backlash. a conservative counter revolution. legally. and we have been living through that backlash for decades. i think we are in a moment like that today, where this court is also miss reading the moment and overreaching. and the political backlash has already begun. >> michael walton here for this discussion. tom joins us from nashville and this is on our independence line. you are on with michael waldman, at the brennan center and the author of the book super majority of the supreme court, divided america. top, go ahead. >> mr. walden, that was pretty good what you just said about

it hooks up with franklin roosevelt's shelter. so roosevelt had that tunnel built for access to, the treasury department. but remember, he also the east wing, built in 1942. and that's the perfect time if you're building a structure to be also building something underneath it. so he actually has a bomb shelter made beneath the east wing to be closer he doesn't have to get to the treasury building and. truman now connects it between the west wing and that secure complex. so if the president is working in the west wing or the oval office, they have quick way to get to the bomb shelter and. you probably actually all seen it before. this is actually part of the presidential emergency operation center that was used on 911 by vice president -- cheney and several members of the bush cabinet. because, remember, for some time, we weren't quite sure where that last plane was heading towards. it certainly seemed like when turned in pennsylvania that it was coming to washington, dc wasn't going to the capitol, wasn't going to the white house.

laws for japanese-americans that was signed in 19 executive order 966 was signed in 1942 by franklin roosevelt. congress eventually held hearings knowing that this was a racial injustice. and in 1988, congress passed a civil rights act to grant reparations to japanese-american, and president reagan signed it. so that's a matter of 46 years. they finally tried to right this wrong. the report that you that was submitted to the board did fails all these efforts to try to help with reparations. and now it's more than 70 years, six, eight years and what is taking so long for san francisco . so i support having this office initiate it and started so that we can have some concrete proposals or concrete action in reply to the report that was presented. thank you. thanks so much, bill tamayo. i jennifer friedman call this on homelessness. also not prepared to speak, but just wanted to register coalition on homelessness support for reparations and you know, we see firsthand the impact of the legacy of slavery, the impact of racism, institutional racism on homelessness, both the disparate impact of evict

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nearly a century ago, franklin roosevelt's rural electrification act bringing electricity to millions of americans of rural america years ago, dwight eisenhower launched the interstate highway system with the largest infrastructure system to date and that's with bipartisan infrastructure law does. it grew air grandkids and kids only bigger and we announced our plan to bring affordable high-speed internet to end a decade of unaffordable and inaccessible internet to every home in america, every small business in america. [applause] it's no surprise we got some converse. people strenuously opposed voting against it when we had this going on. they said this would bankrupt america. a guy named super bowl from alabama -- tuberville who was supposed to legislation and here's what he said -- great to see alabama receive critical funds to boost ongoing broadband efforts. [applause] [laughter] we are replacing every single leadpipe in this country and putting our children's health back. 400,000 schools, 10 million homes. [applause] building bridges and getting -- upgrading our power grid. you c

now, let me tell you what my question to franklin roosevelt would have been and it would have been if you could do in your life over what would you do differently. and i think he would have said two things. the first thing he would have said is, i wouldn't have gone to bear mountain on july 27th, 1921, which is where he caught. and i think the second thing he would have said is that in 1937, he would listened to frances perkins because she told him that if he had sweetened the retirement packages for the supreme court justices, that he would have gotten some red sick nations, which is ultimately what happened. he would have avoided the entire court packing mess, which caused him huge problems if he had listened to frances perkins, then i think he would have agreed with that. also very interesting. you know, there's so many questions that i think historians would love to ask fdr because he was known for taking notes and for writing letters that laid out his views he's he's in many ways a mystery to historians trying to figure what motivated him. i've got to say there are a number of qu

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that is a higher percentage of the states that even in the four elections that franklin roosevelt wonvely. there are is no page for 260 electoral votes. and they can tip it one side or the other. and since that donald trump never got 47% of the vote, the odds are very high and he's a republican nominee, he will be the most at advantage. >> but people are tempted by it. voters are fickle. and they often say, if only there was another way, a third party. it is just the system that is preventing it from happening. for instance, rfk junior, he got 20% are in the polls. people are intrigued when someone breaks the mold. >> donald trump is not a popular incumbent right now. my friend jessie whiteman said let the people vote, we should abolish the electoral college. this is one of the ways it freezes into system that does not meet most americans where they are. i was listening to his comments earlier. when push comes to shove, there are issues that divide democrats and republican. i don't think joe mansion, who almost stopped the most important climate change legislation in this country is n

you go back to woodrow wilson and franklin roosevelt, it was disgusting.help of the new york times and the washington post and so forth. you see what is going on today. it is back. they not only want to silence people, they want to destroy people they disagree with. in some cases, prison them. the democrat party, they see silent or celebrating it. you've got to say yourself, how can people tolerate this from this party? i don't know if you are democrat or republican, i have had my friend don and he makes it clear i am a democrat but i am a liberal. i am not one of these guys. i am not one of these crazy guys. but the problem is, joe biden's. i don't want to hear about it. the most aggressive theoretical president in my view ever. your thoughts. >> your points about the first amendment and how it is being abused so badly here. we talk about the damage that these tactics cause. what we are to talk about also is the chilling effect that it has. what we don't even see about those people that are stopped from speaking freely because of the weaponization. people