j. edgar hoover look to the other way when they broke up, there's a famous incident marlon brando was packing arms for israel and crates marked oranges but decibels or fruits and they were putting arms in the crates and the fbi busted and hoover said let it go through. and looked the other way. we're not going to stop them. we know it is illegal but let them go through. >> i believe eleanor roosevelt was very sympathetic to the jews and even tried to influence franklin roosevelt. did she have any role in this era of with truman? >> she was a u.n. delegate and one of two or three delegates who were against what was going on in the u.n. is was described with the state department. i would say she did play a very important role and also was close to truman. he really did listen to her and was influenced by her. her position is if you want a new u.n. to succeed how can you turn against partition when that was what the world voted for? that was our position. >> on the other hand publicly she was supposed to be chairman, during this period that the state department is engineering a big conspiracy to

j. edgar hoover that he wrote an open letter to howard which he released to the press which he called howard'sarges baseless. this letter was the topic of editorials and nearly every black newspaper in the country which praised dr. howard and was a topic in virtually all the leading white newspapers in the south which condemned him. he was public enemy number one. 1956 dr. howard moved to chicago where he made his mark as a prominent surgeon on the south side. he had a ready medical practice from a lot of people he had known in mississippi and knew of him. played an important role in the emerging independent movement against the the daily machine. he was one of the organizers and donors to the chicago league of negro voters in the late 1950s. it wasn't always successful. he ran for congress as a republican in 1958 against dawson. and it did not turn out well for him but it was a campaign where a lot of people who were involved, later became quite prominent in the independent movement were involved in. continued to be -- play a role in civil rights in the 1960s. he was the chicago chair of a sp

j. edgar hoover invented it as a young man, the ictuent. everybody gets one page with their wanted picture and at the bottom, when they were captured. at the time that i was on the 10 most wanted list, angela davis, 2 young women, we had six of the ten most wanted, you go from bank robber to bank robber, then you have these students and young activists, then you go back to bank robbers. >> host: paul in princeton, new jersey, you are on with bernardine dohrn and bill ayers. >> defense spending is 19% of the federal budget, not 57%. but for mr. ayers, the bomb that went off in the town house, that was intended for for dicks, it was un mail bomb meant to go off at a dance at fort dix. why not come clean about it to dlly? leat did you have to do with that bomb? y wthe book discusses that's length. the fact is that the people who hatw the whistle on what they were up to in the town house was a loss and it was something we peod very hard to work away from. that was a terrible, terrible decision by the people who were there. fortunately it didn't

j. edgar hoover invested it to the present and everybody gets one page with the wanted picture and at them it says when they were capturedded and at the time i was on the list, angela davis, h. rap brown, two young women from bran dies, and six of the ten most wanted so you go through bank robber, bank robber, thick-nicked guy and have all that's students and young activityists and then you go back to bank robber. >> host: paul in new jersey, your on with bernadine and bail bill ayers. >> caller: to straighten out, defense spending little 19% but not 57% of the federal budget. mr. aer, the bomb went went off, mail bomb meant to go off at a dance. come clean about it. what did you have to do with the book? >> guest: the question of coming clean. the book discusses that at length. >> guest: new morning discusses it. >> guest: the fact is that the people who blew the whistle on what they were up to in the townhouse was us. and it was something that we tried very hard to -- you know, to work away from. so, yes, that was a terrible, terrible decision by the people who were there. fortunately i

j. edgar hoover looked the other when they broke up and raided -- there was a famous incident when marlon brando was packing arms for israel but vegetables and foodstuff and they were putting arms in the crates and the fbi busted a whole -- and hoover said let it go throughúu and looked the oth way. we're not going to stop them and we know it's illegal but let it go through. >> we'll have two more question questions. >> i believe eleanor roosevelt was very sympathetic to the jews and even tried to influence franklin roosevelt. did she have any role in this era with truman? >> she did. she was a u.n. delegate and one of two or three u.n. delegates who were against what was going on in the u.n. as ron described with the state department. so i would say that she did play a very important role and she was also close to truman. truman really did listen to her and was influenced by her. and her position was, if you want the new u.n. to succeed, how can you turn against partition when this is what the had voted for her. and she really did push this with truman. >> on the other hand, publicly she