that response initially actually came from former president herbert hoover. lots of people debate how conservative hoover was as a president and as the secretary of commerce in the 1920s. i am happy to talk about that issue today feed like that we are looking at him in the 1930s when he was shocked really by the excesses of the new deal. the 1930s the new deal was really the height of regressiveism 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 is a distinctive brand of modern american conservatism and in effect the new deal was our french revolution. the new deal 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 in our view we are still operating under the new deal paradigm today. we argue that politics, american economic policy today are essentially just a continuation of the new deal. this debate th

herbert hoover is a hero for essentially saving the belgian people from starvation as well as in other countries. one of the things hoover noticed during all that time in europe was that it was giving way to various forms of totalitarianism, socialism, communism eventually nazism and fascism and then he came back to this country. he was shocked because in the 1930s he thought roosevelt was voluntarily turning us over two forms of totalitarianism. in fact if you look at to cartoon icons of the 1930s if you will herbert hoover like to talk about the rugged individual and franklin roosevelt said no which really about the forgotten man. these are really two great cartoon icons of the 1930s. hoover argued america is about equality of opportunity and it's about individuals having the freedom to decide how they want to live their lives and to pursue that and so america is about equality of opportunity. franklin roosevelt said and this is actually a little shocking to me, he said straight out in the 1930s the equality of opportunity is dead in america. you can't get it anymore. so what we have

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

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

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 lived

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

herbert hoover and fdr, the portrayal of abraham lincoln and jfk's response to the nuclear arms race. watch tonight beginning 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 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 attu. now the veterans of the north african campaign had landed on sicily in a drive for the italian mainland. millions more were training in the united states. we were well on the road to the ultimate victory. ♪ ♪ >> 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 victory. an undisciplined and unequipped rabble, even though the cause be just, never won a war aga

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 linco

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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now, in 1932, there is republican incumbent president herbert hoover. he was running in 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 fair to say it was not the ideal environment for a president to get re-elected and president hoover did lose that 1932 race to fdr by a big margin. it is remembered as a massive blowout. and it was. 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 blowout we think the race was, the losing candidate still usually gets around 40%. in 1984, another big historic blowout, right? poor walter mondale, right? got his butt kicked by reagan. he won 41% of the vote against ronald reagan. in a race people probably remember as a much bigger blowout. in 1980, amid stagflation, jimmy car

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

and with donald trump at 40%, you know, herbert hoover didn't face the possibility of going to jail if he didn't get reinaugurated. so the fact that he's at this point where he's desperate and he has, you know, a strong plurality of supporters who probably won't accept as legitimate an election that happens by mail if the other guy wins, it's not as simple as the electoral college meeting in january and casting its votes for the person who wins their state. so we're in sort of a more uncharted territory. now, that said, most people just don't really follow politics day-to-day. they don't watch cnn. they don't watch msnbc and they have party loyalty and they heard the republicans are the good guys and the democrats are the bad guys. so there is that floor. barry goldwater had it, too. maybe he can shoot someone on fifth avenue and someone will pull the lever for the republicans because that's what they have always done. >> so i think these two are related in this way because i think about this, too, and i agree with you. i said this a lot on this show. we're in a democratic danger zone.

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

first on herbert hoover and on note woodrow wilson. hoover was secretary of commerce -- commerce. woodrow wilson, the point about whether he was serious about a third term in 1920. >> i just read the biography of calvin coolidge. wilson and wilson's crowd talked about a lot of things, but it was clear to the party that he could not be the next president. that is a little bit of a different category. we did not say roosevelt was secretary of the navy, we said he served the secretary of the navy, but we appreciate the caller. >> james is starting a snack from stanford, north carolina. >> i just wanted to comment -- in the fall of 1940, when the willkie did a whistle stop tour of florida. i happened to be a western union trainee in melbourne, florida. he was on the rear platform of the train. a crowd of 50 or 60 people have the opportunity to shake hands with wendell willkie. that was the comment i wanted to add. >> do you remember if you saw him on the whistle stop tour? what did you take when you saw him campaign? did he leave an impression? >> i was a kid at 18-years old. i was in

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. >> 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.

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a lot of herbert hoover's on the republican side. beremember what happenedthen . by not meeting the crisis head-on they created the great depression republicans did under hoover.let's hope our republican friends do the light andwon't make that same mistake again . and let me remind my republican colleagues when there's a crisis of this magnitude, the private sector cannot solve it. individuals alone even encouraging sacrifice are not powerful enough to beat it back . government is the only force large enough to staunch the bleeding and begin the healing of thenation . one of the main reasons holding things back, there are so many nrepublicans on the other side who do not believe the federal government even has a role to play. leader mcconnell has admitted not once, not twice, but four times that there is as many as 20 senate republicans will icvote against any relief package for theamerican people . those republicans who seem to be the tail that wags the dog , it's a pretty big tale of 20 votes. those republicans don't get. we know you like the private sector over

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it's unconceivable to me, it is like herbert hoover just to sit and watch. >> it is exactly like herbert hoover. and where they're at idealogically is absolutely stuck because they had this idea that because nancy pelosi proposed a bunch of things that they must be idealogically opposite. the problem is that without government intervention that the american private sector is going to be destroyed for a generation. and their ideology is preventing them from doing anything about it. when i talk to small businesses back home and large businesses back home, institutions, individuals, everybody back home, nobody is telling me, you know, i'm really worried about the national debt. i'm worried about the size and scope of the federal government. everybody understands this is an emergency and this is not the time to pinch pennies. the cares act, flawed as it was, did a number of very important things. all of those provisions in the cares act are either already expired or about to expire. and these guys are planning their august break. i just don't get it. and i just think that we're in a particul

and herbert hoover, as establish a committee and zoning. and it was made up of prominent segregationists. planners, who in the cities they came from, had designed racially designated zones. but now that the supreme court now prohibited it, they came up with economic zones, as a way to keep out african americans. and they published a pamphlet on zoning, that was distributed to every suburb in the country. every jurisdiction in the country, telling them which zones would exclude low income families. they didn't say they want to exclude african americans, and they were also said they were also concerned about it or irish and italian immigrants. but it's very similar to, we've had a recent discussion in this country about president trump's muslim ban. where the courts have said that on its face seemed and discriminatory, but president trump and his campaign, made somebody discriminatory statements, that we understand what this is really about. the same thing is true of the zoning pamphlets, and the zoning laws that we're talking about. in 1926

. >> so you've got joe biden invoking fdr, who took over after herbert hoover's presidency. parallel seems super obvious to anyone who knows about that -- >> sounds good to me. you're doing great. >> how did you see that? there's also that and the fact that we're talking about fdr, who he referred to being stricken by polio and one of the last pieces of video before joe biden spoke was from brayden harrington, the kid with the stutter who felt this kind of connection to joe biden. >> right, that's exactly right, and showing one huge quality of joe biden, which is absolutely essential to great leadership in the american presidency, and that is a sense of empathy. but i think you're absolutely right, joshua, because this is a crisis moment. this is like 1860, when we were on the verge of civil war over slavery. that enormous moral issue that presidents had shrunk from dealing with, or 1932, as biden said, a time of a great depression when people were saying maybe our economic system might not survive and the result may be our democracy might not survive. what does that sound l

we have herbert hoover on the other side. in terms of prosperity, of course, both of them are running in favor of prosperity. the problem for al smith is you had eight years of republican rule. first warren harding, followed by calvin coolidge. the republicans have a leg up on the prosperity front. you had the 1920's. it has been a boom decade for wall street and for large segments of the economy, although less for farmers and agriculture at that point. i think the darkest part of this election and the reason i said it really is one of the most vicious elections in american history is our third "p," the question of prejudice. al smith -- i think most americans today are more familiar with john kennedy as a catholic candidate. that caused a real stir even in the 1960's. a real set of questions about the presidency. al smith raised all of those questions much earlier in 1928. it had already been a decade that had been seized with a lot of questions about immigration, immigration reform, the rise of the ku klux klan. those come

herbert hoover and some of the conservatives said, don't spend any money and we had the great depression. we're fighting for people's needs. we need testing. we need our schools to open safely. we need to prevent firefighters and teachers and others from being laid off. that's what we're doing. this isn't a game. they're so wrapped up in their ideology. we hate government. well, i got to tell you something, the republican mantra, let the private sector do it alone just doesn't work when you have a huge recession and a huge healthcare crisis. >> i want to ask about election interference. the intelligence community put out a new warning friday about foreign election interference, china wants biden to win, russia is actively interfering now to help trump. iran is also looking for opportunities. i know you received classified briefings. does that public statement accurately reflect what's happening right now and what, if anything, can be done to counter the interference? >> first, i can't talk about what happened in the briefing. there are public reports and firms have said that russia is at

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the especially the lafayette square incident it's reminiscent to me of nothing so much is what herbert hoover did in 1932 when unemployed veterans came to washington and tamp down along in a costly and potomac river as intense and hoover sent the u.s. army to disperse them it was a deeply unpopular submit a military instrument and that's what trump has done so he has compounded all of these crisis. and he bears the burden of all of these his and the historical examples all run against him so i believe he will lose overwhelmingly and that will be the just people and he is attempting to fight it through desperate gambits right i have learned from you that abraham lincoln was america's 1st professional politician and that is one of the fascinating things about the set of books that you've written about his life and i'd just like to take lincoln as president away for a moment and look at president lincoln the campaign or if he were running in the unlikely historical match up against president trump what would lincoln be doing right now. he would be a master politician in dealing with trump in all

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