20th century, decided his papers would be imported for scholars, and he established his home at hyde parkhis estate, as a home for the fdr presidential library, which became even more important as world war ii became another major event in the history of the united states and the world. but these paper were of major historical significance because they actually shaped the world in the late 20th century, and his domestic policies are still shaping the world of the 21st century. so this was a sort of quite unusual move, deciding that these papers would be completely open and have a specific place to be seen. and for a while, fdr actually worked in his presidential library. his office can still be seen there behind plexiglas now, but this was a very unusual thing. there may have been other reasons involved, and that could be something like in england where you have these tremendous estates of great families who can no longer afford to keep them up or taxes were an issue, so they were donated to the national trust to make them public places. this is a little bit different in that the library

roosevelt started the culture of the tradition, with his beautiful situation in hyde park.ot all presidents wanted libraries. coolidge knew they were coming. he thought the government is spending money on former presidents, that's not right. the president shouldn't be on the -- from the government and the coolidge foundation built up a private-sector version of his library. wilson and tr, same thing. not under the federal umbrella because coolidge wouldn't have liked that, but they had nonprofit privately funded by small donors institutions. there is some question, some controversy about whether these libraries are worth the millions. a lot of us think they are but a lot of us have respect for those presidents who might have funded in another way. host: the 15 official presidential libraries overseen by the national archives are the herbert hoover library, franklin d roosevelt, harry s truman, dwight d. eisenhower, john f. kennedy, lbj, richard nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, ronald reagan, george bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, and now the donald j. tru

and here is fdr and eleanor i, think in hyde park. [inaudible] you can see the outline of the races on his withered legs here. very complicated relationship, right? both women aspired to deep influence in their husbands administrations, arguably mary had less than she would have liked, and eleanor had quite a bit of influence. >> yeah, i think, you know when, we first started talking about the preparation for the office, and that franklin roosevelt was a little bit of a callow, check this young man. he was handsome, he was rich, everything came his way. two things happened to him to turn him into the man that he became as president. one of those is polio. clearly, it gave him empathy for those who struggled in life, because he struggled in life. and i really do think that had a profound effect on his whole attitude about the new deal and taking care of people who couldn't take care of themselves. but the others clearly eleanor. i think he clearly recognized in that 19 year old woman that he met that you know, if you see pictures of he

and here is fdr and eleanor, i think, in hyde park. roosevelt you can see the outline of the braces on his withered legs here. very complicated relationship, right. both women aspire to deep influence and mary had less than what she would like and eleanor had quite a bit of influence. >> when we first started uctaing about their preparation for the office and i mentioned franklin roosevelt was handsome, rich and everything came his way. two things happened to him to turn him into the man he became as president. one was polio. gave him empathy for those who struggled in life because he struggled in life. and i really do think that had a profound effect on his whole attitude about the new deal and taking care of people who couldn't take care of themselves. but the other is clearly eleanor. i think he recognized in that 19-year-old woman that he met, you know, you see pictures of her when she's 19 she is actually quite a beautiful young woman and i think he fell in love with her and in many ways remained in love with her lucy rutherford n

i have read so much about hyde park and would definitely like to get up there to see that.ly -- i live in florida and in palm beach is where the kennedys used to spend time in the winters. there is a place that is being restored in the lake worth lagoon that was a bunker that was built for kennedy should there be any problem or disaster and now there is a group trying to restore the bunker on peanut island in the lake worth lagoon. if you could comment about this i would appreciate it. host: thank you for the call. guest: interesting that i did not know this. truman had a set of secondary white house in key west florida. i wish i could help you about grant. there is no library that i know of for grant. the most retroactive is back to hoover although you can visit -- amity shlaes was talking about calvin coolidge's home in vermont which is a small exhibition about his life. but it is not a presidential library that we are talking about here which is i think exploded and the post-world war ii era and has become more and more gargantuan in its presidential presentation. host:

another comment, i have read so much about hyde park, and i would definitely like to get up there toee that. and most recently -- i live in florida, and to the south, in the palm beaches, where the kennedys used to spend some time in the winters, there is a place that is being restored in the lake worth lagoon that was a bunker that was built for kennedy, should there be any kind of problem or disaster, and now there is a group that is trying to restore the bunker on a place called peanut island there. if you could comment about some of this, i would appreciate it. host: thanks for the call. from fort pierce, florida. guest: it is interesting, truman had a secondary white house in key west, florida, which is actually still there and gives tours. but i did not know about the kennedy situation. i wish i could help you about grant. i don't -- there is no library that i know of of grant. the libraries, the most for they have become -- most retroactive they have become is going back to hoover. i understand amity shlaes was talking about this a little while ago, you can visit calvin coolid

998 news conferences in 12 years two a week generally and not just in in the white house, but it hyde park at warm springs. on destroyers returning from the summit meetings in casablanca or yalta when he was truly exalted exalted. he was well he was exhausted but an exalted and unbelievable reparte there were transcripts of every press conference and they are great fun to read especially the moments before he actually gavels people into order and he teases the people in the in the front row and clearly he had a good relationship with them. and he enjoyed it. i mean, he really enjoyed press conferences and here's a big difference between 19th century and 21st century. and that is he would be talking about an event and say now now this is off the record boys, and of course they were all boys and then he'd give away some state secret of sorrow what we're going to do this or that he says, but don't print that and they didn't imagine that today. in fact the roosevelt press conference were ostensibly. automatically off the record unless he said okay, you can have that and they were all race out

my trips to alexandria and hyde park left my head spinning.eid. >> all right, so tell me about this pms show that you guys did. >> yeah, pms. the pure monate show. it was a sketch comedy show. the first season was in 2003. >> hello, chaps. welcome to my ranch. have you ever been hunting before? >> yeah, sure, we go hunting all the time. >> the general sense in the country was that people weren't talking about thins and that there were many elephants in many rooms and so on. and so it was very... >> so there was no such show and this was a groundbreaking show? >> yeah, exactly. this was the first time we made fun of apartheid tv. >> right, this is the first apartheid sketch. >> right, the first. >> this summer when masses

roosevelt started the culture of the tradition, with his beautiful situation in hyde park. not all presidents wanted libraries. coolidge knew they were coming. he thought the government is spending money on former presidents, that's not right. the president shouldn't be on the -- from the government and the coolidge foundation built up a private-sector version of his library. wilson and tr, same thing. not under the federal umbrella because coolidge wouldn't have liked that, but they had nonprofit privately funded by small donors institutions. there is some question, some controversy about whether these libraries are worth the millions. a lot of us think they are but a lot of us have respect for those presidents who might have funded in another way. host: the 15 official presidential libraries overseen by the national archives are the herbert hoover library, franklin d roosevelt, harry s truman, dwight d. eisenhower, john f. kennedy, lbj, richard nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, ronald reagan, george bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, and now the donald j. t

question fdr and thomas dewey both hailed from duchess county new york fdr from hyde park and dewey from little town called pauling, which is only about two miles from the, connecticut. border beautiful spot, it's still a beautiful spot and it was a little thomas's. sort of development old thomas who's a forgotten name today, but who wasn't in some ways to cronkite of his day. he was an even more than that. he was a world traveler who brought movies. he created the myth of lawrence of arabia, for example, and he did i think for 40 years. he did a nightly news broadcast which in the last i'm teen years he broadcast from his studio next to his home. pauling new york i whenever he was radio, not television radio. yeah exactly radio. and although but he was a familiar face had dozens of books ghost written for him. was it was? one of the most famous men alive in his time in today's is is utterly forgotten go back to your books that name them all. i mean so that we can get that on the record. well, we'll say there were two local books, but that doing an 82 hoover and 84 the harvard century 86

>> that is one of the criteria along with others.re there's only for hyde park criteria. >> but it'sected they do not have to be a 50 percent incarceration rate of their sentence. >> in instances like that we have the discretion but they're easily at the higher level review if the staff and institution feel it is appropriate outside of the cares act we have procedures in place to review cases like that. >> mister manafort andmister colin to your knowledge did not have 50 percent of their sentence, is that correct ? >> i'm not going to talk about individual specific cases congressman but we have procedures in place and a committee that reviews that i can go through that process if you'd like. >> i would appreciate it if you can provide this in writing if you're not going to discuss it on the individuals released under the 50 percent rule. let me ask you what are you doing to prevent more covid debts in the bop facility? >> congresswoman we been in lockstep with the cep and other entities from day one. we're doing the same thing everyone in the world is doing, where learning how to mit

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