in her 80s she traveled to give a talk to hadasa. she won a medal for her work. he was certainly not anti-semitic although from time to time he could talk loosely given the anti-semitism that was so rooif during the 1930s and 40s. >> michael: yours isn't the first book on the subject. many have taken a more accuser to tone. why is your book more forgiving? >> i think the problem with books like that and many others is they tend to read history backwards. in light of what we know today, and believe today, rather than attempting to recover the contemporary meaning of history at the time and that's where our book differs from other books on fdr and the jews. we're not uncritical but present an balanced view, which shows at times fdr truly did not do what he could for persecuted jews, but at other times he was very active for developing measures for rescuing jewish ref few gees. of course he did not do everything possible. but he was far better for the jews than his political opposition at home which was isolationalist, opposed to america entering the wars and he did