the debate between herbert huber -- herbert hoover and frank and roosevelt played the groundwork for today's conservative movement. the hoover institution hosted this event in november 2013. >> it is my pleasure to introduce david davenport. [applause] >> thank you. it's great to be with you today. this is somewhat familiar territory to me. long ago i worked in senator bob dole's office which i suppose dates me. and this is a newer building then my time. the hallowed halls and something about the work that you do so thank you for taking a break to be here today. you are brave to come and listen to me in particular. in an earlier career i was an attorney which is a group known not only for its brevity of speech and now for a long time i've been an academic which is a group not known for its clarity of speech so as i said you are brave to come on a friday to hear what i have to say. i thought i would begin with the 2012 election and as i'm sure you are aware after that election many people proclaimed the death of modern american absolutism. one commentator said the titanic is sinking r

came from former president herbert hoover. lots of people debate how conservative hoover was as a president and secretary of commerce in 1920's, i'm happy to talk about that in the q&a if you like, but we are looking at him in the 1930's when he was shocked by the excesses of the new deal. the new deal was really the height of progressivism and we argue in this book that just as edmund burke, the english political philosopher began modern conservatism as a response to the french revolution, we think there's a distinctive rand of modern american conservatism. in effect, the new deal was our french revolution. it changed politics, changed governance, and so responding to our own french revolution, herbert hoover starts, we think to stake out the case for modern american conservatism. if you think about it, and our view, we are operating under the new deal paradigm today. we argue that politics, american domestic policy, economic policy today are just continuations of the new deal. this debate that started 80 years ago between pr

but herbert hoover had other ideas. can you talk about why he decided to become a republican. >> he grew up in a quaker community which had supported lincoln because of their abolition sentiments. john brown visited west branch. and hoover actually had registered as a republican but because he had lived abroad for most of his adult life with his mining career, people didn't know his political affiliation. and so he had to write to roosevelt to indicate, you know, that he was -- his tribe was the republican tribe and he considered himself theodore roosevelt, a progressive republican. >> the 1920 presidential race, franklin roosevelt was the vice presidential candidate on the democratic side and the democrats lots and harding became president. hoover became an important part of both the harding and the coolidge administrations while fdr ended up getting polio and disappearing for many years. during that period, he was secretary of commerce and actually was quite big on government regulation. talk about his role as commerc

sus and -- herbert. he got out of the military and went on to be pioneering network tv, producers and directors. he was haunted by what he had seen there. he was trying for years to get permission to get access to this footage, which was kept in the military archives for so long. it was never allowed. in the late 1970's he happened to attend a u.n. exhibit of the photos from hiroshima and saw an image, basically a still from this footage. he told the organizer, i shot back, or my team fought that -- shot that footage. , this is footage i shot back in 1945, 1946. that led to the japanese to investigate. they found that the color footage was declassified at the national archives two years earlier but no one knew about it. as if it had not been declassified. so the japanese then launched a massive movement called "the 10 foot campaign." you donate a certain amount of money and you have about 10 feet of footage. getting all the relative footage back in japan and started these films in the early 1980's. the f

first herbert hoover and fdr, the prattle cooler relations between roosevelt and kennedy family, thed civil rights. watch tonight. beginning at eight eastern. and american history tv this weekend every weekend on c-span three. c-span is unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events. you can watch all of c-span's public affairs programming on television, online or it listen on our free radio app. be part of the national conversation through sees fans daily washington journal program, or through our social media feeds. c-span, created by americas cable television companies as a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. but welcome down home with the roosevelts. i am paul sparrow, director of the presidential library and museum of franklin roosevelt. and join by the director of the herbert hoover presidential museum. >> hi, i am john shorts, director of the herbert hoover presidential library and museum. >> we are here today to talk about one of the most remarkable transitions in american history, the presidentia

i'm the director of the herbert hoover presidential museum in iowa. >> we're here today to talk about one of the most remarkable transitions in american history, the presidential election of 1932, hoover and roosevelt, their long relationship of prior to and after their presidencies. this was a period of incredible trauma for the united states with the great depression. of course the two of them had known each other for quite some time. during world war i roosevelt was the assistant secretary of navy under woodrow wilson. >> herbert hoover was the head of the u.s. food administration. the food administration had to essentially provide food to the soldiers and hoover was able to provide the necessary food by getting americans to voluntarily reduce consumption by 15%. and he did this by appealing to the american house wives to sign cards where they would hooverize. that meant every day of the week you gave up a certain essential component, meat, wheat, sugar, fats. and so you had meatless mondays and wheatless wednesdays. hoover was able to use that a stop gap before the farmers could i

and herbert sussan spoke before it. i then became good friends with herbert sussan.t a magazine called "nuclear times." the first article ever about this suppressed footage. and then it became a mini come i guess you could say, a mini sensation. documentary filmmakers then started to use it. everyone knew about it. thanks to herbert sussan and the japanese, the footage finally emerged after 35 years. >> how -- have you seen the japanese documentaries using this footage -- greg: yes, i have. >> how would you compare it to american works? greg: well, they did a very interesting thing. they -- from the very start -- this was a big, new project in the news in japan, as you can imagine, covered as this incredible finding. and so the press covered this. and they located some of the people who were shown in this footage. in fact, a couple of them i met myself years later in japan. so they tracked down some of the people shown in the original footage, and then they would show the original footage and talk to the person in 1980 about how they felt about it, or, you know, the

so, thanks to herbert and the japanese, the footage finally emerged after 35 years.t: have you seen the japanese documentaries using this footage, and could you compare it to american --? guest: they did interesting things. from the very start. was a big, new project in japan, as you can imagine. it was covered is this incredible finding -- as this incredible finding. the press covered this. they located some of the people who were shown in this footage. in fact, a couple of them i met myself years later in japan. they tracked down some of the people shown in the original footage and they would kind of show the original footage and then talk to the person in 1980 about how they felt about it or the story behind it. that is pretty much how they handled it. they did kind of a before and after treatment in most cases. host: do you know if president truman or other policy leaders ever saw these films? guest: i do not really. top-secretlassified, at the start, and they kind of remained there. they got shuffled two different military repositories, but as far as i know, no

herbert hoover was the head of the u.s. food administration. it had to essentially provide food to the soldiers going to europe and hoover was able to provide the necessary food by getting americans to voluntarily reduce consumption by 15%. he did this by appealing to american housewives to sign pledge cards where they would hooverize, which meant every day of the week, you gave up a certain essential component. meat, wheat, sugar, fat. you had meatless mondays and wheatless wednesdays. hoover was able to use that as a stopgap for growing the foodstuffs were required. paul: fdr was very impressed with the work hoover had done. franklin roosevelt was trying to convince hoover to become a democrat. there was some sense of maybe we can get him as part of our party but hoover had other ideas. can you talk about why he stayed a republican? thomas: he grew up in a quaker community which had supported lincoln because of their abolitionist sentiments. john brown is that it west branch. hoover actually had registered as a republican, but because he live

and herbert sussen spoke before.it and i became good friends with him, and i edited a magazine called nuclear times, the first article about this. suppressed footage. then it became i guess a mini sensation, documentary. filmmakers then started to use it everyone knew about it, and so it's thanks to herbert sussen and the japanese that the footage finally emerged after 35 years. >> have you seen the japanese documentary using this footage. and how would you compare to american works. >> well they did an interesting thing, from the very start they you know this was a big project in the news in japan a big project. as you can imagine it covered this incredible finding. so the press covered this, and they located some of the people who were shown in this footage. in fact a couple of them i met myself years later. so they track down some of the people shown in the original footage, and they would show the original footage and then talked to the person in 1980, about how they felt about it. or the story behind it. and tha

now, we had a fine police and andl have him, herbert jenkins -- in herbert police, who trained his beforeon, to bring civil rights to the four. was traininghief his officers and patrolman in the rights of citizens. so i guess we have been a lucky city, but we have worked at it, and we have worked together at this, and we have not been unaware of the problem. >> you have lived with this problem for a long time. atlanta, are the negro aspirations here a reflection of something going on in american society, or just the city? >> i think it is something in american society. looking at it across the span of about 35 years in the city, we were going along, making progress. indeed, we have done most of the things in atlanta before the great outbursts of sit ins and demonstrations, but it seemed to me that what happened in birmingham, alabama, the police dogs and several days of brutality there, and television enabling people all over this country to see what was going on, newspapers writing about it, this really seemed to me to change the pattern almost overnight. lincoln's was in proclamation en

first, herbert hoover and fdr, the relationships between the roosevelt and kennedy families, and jfk's response to the nuclear arms race and civil rights. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern. enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend on c-span 3. >> the enemy had come far and fast. reaching out to conquer a world. his split screen offensives were a thing of the past. ♪ the united states army was by now very much in the war. with combat experience divisions in north africa, the jungle covered islands of the pacific. the aleutians where they had wiped out the japanese on ato. now the blooded veterans of the north african campaign had landed on sicily and the drive for the italian mainland. ♪ millions more were training in the united states. we were well on the road to the ultimate victory. the snow sthoets ♪ >> in 1940, our army numbered a little more than a quarter of a million men. three years later, in 1943, it numbered almost 7 million and would continue to grow to 8 million. but numbers alone do not make an efficient fighting force capable of winning the final victor

first herbert hoover and fdr. and the portrayal of abraham lincoln at fords theater and jfk's response to the nuclear arms race and siflt righcivil r. enjoy it tonight and every weeke weekend. ♪ >>> 24 wthis was the europe of . the nazi blitzkrieg had overwhelmed france, holland, belgi belgium, denmark, energy way. russian armies were in desperate retreat. italian and german forces were menacing egypt. their objective, to defeat an opposing british army and dominate all north africa. and there was a bloody quest over china. only one was stirl nll not at w. the united states. it was a sunday afternoon in 1941 and the statue of liberty towered over new york harbor as if she were the last symbol of freedom left to the crumbling fr free world. afternoon in new york. early morning in hawaii. and another great harbor where american ships were dockside. planes stood idle when suddenly without warning, ♪ >> the immediate japanese military objective was no knock out united states naval and air power in the pacific at a sin

>> it's a long story, but one of the handful of men who took part in this project was herbert sussmanhe got out of the military and went on to be one of the pioneering network tv producers and directors. he was haunted by what he saw there so he tried for years to get permission to get at this footage, which was kept in the military archives for so long. he was never allowed. late 1970's he attended that u.n. exhibit of photos from image,ma and saw an basically a still from this footage and he told the organizer "i shot that, or my team shot that." he said" what are you talking about?" he said again quote this is footage i shot back in night -- he said again quote this is this isi -- he said " footage i shot back in 19 for " this is said footage i shot back in 1946." it had not been declassified. they launched what was called the 10 foot campaign. they ended up getting all the relevant footage back in japan and made films in the early 1980's. the first time i was exposed to this was in new york in 1982 when that first japanese documentary was shown. -- herberts in spoke sussman spoke.

on tuesday, herbert hoover and fdr. the political relationship between the roosevelt and kennedy families, the portrayal of abraham lincoln at ford's theater, and jfk's response to the nuclear arms race and civil rights. watch beginning at eight eastern. enjoy american history tv this weekend every weekend on c-span three. >> this was the year up of 1941. the nazi blitzkrieg had overwhelmed france, holland, belgium, denmark, norway, and luxembourg. russian armies were in desperate retreat. the german air force was raining death and destruction on england. combined italian and german forces were menacing. >> their objective? to defeat an opposing british army and dominate all our forces. in asia, japanese air and ground forces were driving forward in their funding conquest of china. he only one of the world's major powers was still not we at war, the united states. it was a sunday afternoon in december 19, 41. the statue of liberty towered serenely over new york harbor. she where the last symbol of freedom left in the cr

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herbert hoover was the head of the u.s. food administration. the food administration had to essentially provide food to the soldiers going to europe. hoover was able to provide the necessary food by getting americans to voluntarily reduce consumption by 15%. and he did this by appealing to american housewives, to sign lunch cards, where they would hooverize. to hooverize, that meant you gave up a certain essential component. meet, wheat, sugar, fats. so you had meatless mondays, meatless wednesdays. hoover was able to use that as a stopgap before the farmers could increase their production, in growing the necessary food stuff that were required. >> and of course, fdr was a big fan of hoover, he was very impressed with the work he had done. they were both in the same administration, franklin roosevelt was trying to convince hoover to become a democrat. there was some sense of, maybe you could be a part of our party. but hoover had other ideas. can you talk about why he's state republican? >> he grew up in that community, which had supported linc

on tuesday, herbert hoover and fdr. the political relationship between the roosevelts and kennedy families. the portrayal of abraham lincoln at forward theater. and jfk's response to the nuclear arms race and civil rights. watch beginning at eight eastern. enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend on c-span three. the presidents. available in paperback, hardcover and e-book. from public affairs presents biographies of every president. inspired by conversations with noted historians about the leadership skills that make for a successful presidency. in this presidential election year, as americans decide who should lead our country, this collection offers perspectives into the lives and events that force each president's leadership style. to learn more about our presidents and the books features a historian since, visits c-span .org's slash the presidents. available in paperback hardcover and now e-book. we are over books are sold. by winter, 1942, one year after pearl harbor. our army fighting forces were bui

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in 1932 herbert hover was running for re-election in the midst of the great depression. there were food lines across the country. thousands upon thousands of americans living in shammy towns named after the president which are called hoovervilles. we did not have the modern welfare state so people were literally starving to death. it is not the ideal environment for a president to get re-elected. and president hoover did lose that race to fdr by a big margin. it is remembered as a massive blow-out. but look at this. with shantytowns named after him, hoover still got 40% of the vote. 40%. and that is the thing to remember. no matter how much of a blow-out we think the race was, the losing candidate still usually gets around 40%. in 1984, another big historic event. he won 41% of the vote against ronald reagan. in 1980, amid stagflation, jimmy carter who we also remember as running amidst profound national crisis, he got 41% of the vote. that's the thing. if you run for president in a two party system with two candidates, two major candidates, you pretty much start at 40%.

first, herbert hoover and fdr, the political relationships between the roosevelt and kennedy families, the portrayal of abraham lincoln at ford's theater and jfk's response to the nuclear arms race and civil rights. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern. enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend on c-span3 the. why >> the enemy had come far and fast. reaching out to conquer a world. but his blitzkrieg offensive were thing of the past. the united states army was by now very much in the war. with combat experience divisions in north africa, the jungle covered islands of the pacific, the illusions where they had wiped out the japanese on can took. now the numbered a little more than a quarter of 1 million man. three years later, and 1943, it numbered almost 7 million and would continue to grow to 8 million. but numbers alone do not make an efficient fighting force capable of winning the final victory. an undisciplined and anna quipped rabble, even though the cosby just, never won a war against trained and well disciplined, well armed and well at force. thanks to the intensi

when he ran against herbert hoover, herbert hoover seemed like a man who had no connection with what people were suffering. and here was a man who had really suffered physically and could identify with whatever problem somebody was suffering. all right. so obviously roosevelt being in albany as governor of new york, then of course occupying the white house, suddenly he is extremely busy. and he has no time to really pay attention to his foundation down in warm springs. so he appoints basil o'connor to take charge of it. and they hire a public relations man. they hire someone to take charge of fundraising and create this incredible foundation. and the first fundraising events were what? that basically used roosevelt effectively? what were those first events? >> the birthday balls? >> birthday balls, right. what was a birthday ball? >> weren't they just like big parties or fundraisers basically on his birthday. drive in a bunch of dimes. prof. mcmillen: not dimes yet. we're still into the balls the still into the fancy balls. >> driving a lot of of money for the foundation. prof. mcmil

he defeated herbert hoover.hat were the republicans looking for and why was your grandfather the person they chose? >> nobody else had run for a third term before, going back to the time of george washington. when washington stepped down, no one had even dreamed of running for a third term for the presidency. when roosevelt announced that he did, it changed the whole dynamic of what was out there. certainly looking at europe, world war ii, the nazis were going over to northern europe. it certainly opened up a time in which the republicans said, "what do we do?" >> it was the republican party that had herbert hoover who was hoping the party would come back to him. u.s. senator thomas dewey of new york. u.s. senator taft from ohio -- mr. republican. this was a convention in philadelphia that went for six ballots. >> nobody had come from the business side. nobody had come from, how do we create jobs in the country? nobody was actually doing that except for wendell willkie. he certainly rose up and had an electric p

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herbert hoover was a wonderful man. he was getting in the way of the progress of the party because he kept wanting to run again. this time was probably past. what was excited about -- what was exciting about willkie was he went to hear herbert hoover and they could not believe that harbor hoover would hog the nomination. in that way, willie was a grass roots. he, himself, was not of the grass. he was chosen by people who were voting against the party. the other names were "the parti." willkie came in as somebody different, not what we expected. >> he retired and an exciting man. i think for many people, it was none of the above. it was the perfect atmosphere for an outsider who promises and looks very different from the standard of the late 1930's. >> what was the state of the democratic party, amity shlaes, and franklin roosevelt and his support in 1940, eight years after the new deal at a time when most residents would step down? >> roosevelt's victory -- 46 out of 48 states in the preceding election -- was so hard to

some are solutions serious imax guys are here safety herbert you know in a month in which we were meant to have the 2 party conventions officially nominated donald trump for the republican and joe biden for the democrats the pen demick has thrown the election to even more chaos than usual so joining us is greg palast a journalist author of many books including his latest out now skyrocketing up all the bestseller lists it's called outro stole 2020. again he has written to the u.s. saying it is highly concerned about washington sanctioning companies working on the north stream to pipeline project with russia. their opinion considers that their. of sanctions is illegal under international law at the same time their opinion continues to higher value just in time to unity the common foreign and security goals are shared which increases the impact of sanctions we welcome the look on this issues department of state is updating the public guidance for katz authorities to include north stream to the 2nd line of turk stream to this action puts investments or other activities that are related to

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but i'm dead the kaiser report summer solution series i'm max kaiser here stacy herbert you know in a moment in which we were meant to have the 2 party conventions officially nominated donald trump for the republican and joe biden for the democrats the pen demick has thrown the election and even more chaos than usual so joining us is greg palast journalist author of many books including as the latest out now skyrocketing up all the bestseller lists it's called how trope stole 2020 stacie the title itself greg palast how trunk stole 2020 not sound too good for anybody who is hoping that biden when all the polls at the moment anyway suggest that biden is indeed going to win so how are you saying that my still holds moles ok yes well of course hillary clinton was wiping the floor with donald trump in the polls in july of 2016 in fact if i remember the day before the election the morning of the election miss n.b.c. saying no way no pass to 270 for donald trump who's in the white house president clinton. oh not president cliff ok. forget the polls stole the election now my book is not a pr

but i'm dead the kaiser report summer solution series i'm max kaiser here stacy herbert you know in a month and what we were meant to have the 2 party conventions officially nominated donald trump for the republican and joe biden for the democrats the pen demick has thrown the election into even more chaos than usual so joining us is greg palast journalist author of many books including as the latest out now skyrocketing up all the bestseller lists it's called how trope stole 2020 stacie the title itself greg palast how trunk stole 2020 not sound too good for anybody who is hoping that biden when all the polls at the moment anyway suggest that biden is indeed going to win so how are you saying that my still holds moles ok yes well of course hillary clinton was wiping the floor with donald trump in the polls in july of 2016 in texas i remember the day before the election the morning of the election in this n.b.c. saying no way no pass to 270 for donald trump who's in the white house president clinton. oh not president cliff ok. forget the polls stole the election now my book is not a p

summer solutions series imax guys are here with stacy herbert you know in a month in which we were meant to have the 2 party conventions officially nominated donald trump for the republican and joe biden for the democrats the 10 demick has thrown the election and even more chaos than usual so joining us is greg palast journalist author of many books including as the latest out now skyrocketing up all the bestseller lists it's called troll stole 2020. welcome back to crossfire things are considered i'm peter lavelle discussing the recovery of the economy. ok me i'm kind of to go back to you because i think you know done a number of programs on this particular topic just looking at it from different trajectories and i think one of the most probably the most common denominator in all of these programs i've been doing on this topic is that it is the government doing too little or is it doing too much ok the end it seems to me that everybody has a very strong opinion about that we can only use the same numbers and we can you know look at unemployment we can look at debt but then it's always n

their view is supported by the labor secretary of the naacp, herbert hill, an outspoken critic of the movement. >> the contribution madison avenue has made to the negro revolt i think is an inadvertent one, and that is they have so dramatized some of the fantasy of the american scene that they made the negro acutely aware he was not part of that scene. >> they eat meat and drive automobiles and buy the products sponsored on radio and television, yet, i have never seen a negro on a commercial, nor a television program, nor have i heard a negro used on a commercial on radio. we do not have special advertising campaigns for the negro community. the negro purchasers, the negro housewife should be part of the major advertising campaign, not the separate one developed for the negro radio station. the negro family, especially the negro youngsters, who consistently watches the television screen, cannot but have a great sense of unreality after a while because he is never there. in the commercial, nor in the future program, nor in the movie. it is the invisible man. the people who run madison

. >> i am director of the roosevelt and herbert hoover presidential museums. >> are here to talk aboutble transitions in american history, the presidential election of 1932, and hoover and roosevelt, their long relationship before and after their presidencies. this was a period of incredible trauma for the united states, the great depression.

herbert hoover and fdr, the portrayal of abraham lincoln and jfk's response to the nuclear arms race.inning at 8:00 eastern. enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend on c-span3. >> the enemy had come far and fast. reaching out to conquer a world. but his offensives were a

in the early thirty's arsenal coach herbert chapman was incredibly successful with his more defensive w m system. no one could beat arsenal at that time. they probably thought they had found the perfect text. but back then people also thought telegrams were the hardest communication the book would ever see. the permit and the w m system were also the most common formations in the 1st world cups and then came behind gary us. the pro english were stunned when they lost 63 at home against the hungary a national team in 1053. 0 was the last one was a technical twist hungary sent a forward under hitler could he simply drop back a little this completely confused england's man marking zonal marking hadn't been invented yet i believe it could be scored 3 golds at the 1st false 9 in football history what's cool with that and this is now highly relevant again at your own clubs liverpool for example. they made a decisive change before last season to 433 remain in place but for minas role changed dramatically again and again the nominal center forward dropped back like it back in the day while se

first, herbert hoover and fdr, the political relationships between the roosevelt and kennedy families theater and jfk's response to the nuclear arms race and civil rights. watch tonight. beginning at 8:00 eastern. enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend on c-span3. the presidents, available in paperback, hardcover and e-book from public affairs. presents biographies of every president inspired by conversations with noted historians about the leadership skills that make for a successful presidency. in this presidential election year, as americans decide who should lead our country, this collection offers perspective into the lives and events that forged each presidents leadership style. to learn more about all our presidents and books featured historians visit c-span.org slash the president. available in paperback, hardcover an e-books, wherever books are sold. >> by winter 1942, one year after pearl harbor, our army fighting forces were building up fast and being deployed around the world. troops were in new