so it was used just briefly by john roosevelt. >> what did you know about -- excuse me -- about kennedy's health and what was just rumor and so on? >> it was rumor, yeah. nothing -- it was kind of interesting story. we were surprised also when johnson was nominated to be vice president. the first word we got of it was from a minister, presbyterian minister and everything, but he was also the chaplain of the senate. somehow he got word and he called and said it was going to be johnson. and -- >> when you say we decided not to use the health issue, do you remember talking to nixon about the health issue? >> yeah. he didn't want to use it. >> his reason? >> that was unfair. he thought it was -- we shouldn't be talking about health or religion. there was a lot of problems on religion early on in which a famous minister from new york -- you remember his name? >> norman vincent peal? >> yeah. brought the issue in and we had to back it up. the publisher in new hampshire, manchester, new hampshire, bill lobe, made an issue of it and i denied it and said we weren't going to use it. and he wrote an

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roosevelt surrounded himself with a slew of trusted a visors and emissaries. their names? some of them were wild bill donovan, avril harriman, james marshall, john gilbert winen and eleanor roosevelt, i want to thank the entire fdr staff for inviting me to participate today. i'm greatly honored to be here. i also offer my thanks to our panelists. i had wonderful conversations with each one of them as i prepared for today, and they were very generous in sharing their time and expertise. thank you. what will they share with you? you'll understand, by the time we finish in two hours, how fdr tried to stay out of world war ii and how he felt one of the best ways to do that was to keep britain in world war ii. you'll hear why winston churchill was relieved, not happy, but relieved, when the bombs started to fall at pearl harbor. you'll learn how eleanor roosevelt became the most prominent first lady in history, and how her personal staff indeed influenced the world. and we'll introduce you to the man fdr called, and i'm quoting, my secret legs. we do have ground rules. i will introduce each speaker who will then offer about a ten-minute opening state

us back to the economic inequality we saw in this country before theodore roosevelt, franklin roosevelt, john by the way, who never challenged the major parts of the new deal. he'd take us back to the days when the few did very, very well and the rest of us did not do very well. but i'll tell you something. it is absolutely right that if you get greater income equality, you get greater prosperity. you know, look at the clinton years. we had higher marginal tax rates. we created millions of additional jobs. full employment. and we had a surplus. so i think that argument is pretty sound on policy grounds and political grounds. >> bob, you ran the candidate against romney in '94, senator kennedy. you beat him in '94. how would you beat him now? >> well, first of all, i had an extraordinary candidate, and i think obama is an extraordinary candidate, too. two things happened in that race. one, the bain capital issue emerged. people found out about what romney had really done. in those days, al, he was saying he had created 10,000 jobs. that suddenly ballooned to 100,000 jobs. >> so bain is not new

that was part of the secret of success for roosevelt, for john f. kennedy, for ronald reagan. a number of presidents fall in that category. but you have others would left their peeves be known, johnson, richard nixon, certainly they fell into that category. president obama, and i say the chicago style because it partly comes from that chicago background where you never let a slight go unanswered. >>neil: donald trump builds a career and became a billionaire out of that and it can work in your favor. i say with the fox thing that the white house is, if you can allow that we could be petty, we the media can pounce on little things, i tend to expect more in my president, republican or democrat. but having said that, where does to go? if the president is annoyed and he sees an excerpt from the book that the governor wrote that he thinks was wildly unfair if not outright wrong what is wrong with taking up with her in what otherwise would be a plight -- polite meet-and-greet. >>guest: there are right and wrong way dozen -- ways to do it. it was too much in public and he gave the gov

roosevelt had a secret spy agency he didn't tell donovan about until donovan got into forming the coi. it was actually an organization set up by john, franklin carter who set up a secret unit for roosevelt. >> donovan eventually sends roosevelt over the entire war and something like 4,500 memos, report, intelligence studies. the question is did roosevelt ever have time to read all of them? some people say that he didn't because he had wrote a few comments on most of donovan's reports. a lot of it was important strategic intelligence. one time he sent him a note that verbals the head of nazi propaganda was put on broadcast calling roosevelt a clicken putter who is german slang for door to door salesman. it turns out roosevelt did read most of donovan's reports. at least that's my view. he was really confined to his desk for much of the day unless the secret service came in and moved him so he had a lot of time to read what donovan was telling him. so i think he should be given more credit for digesting what donovan's vast organization provided. [ applause ] >> thank you, doug. our next speaker is mr. thomas parish. mr. parish has tw

the roosevelt two prong effort was the first of john's other ridings and editings.ment, he chaired controversial university -- he was known as the go to guy for difficult tasks. he did not administer just here. he was selected to harvard corporation, forbes still well that some of his colleagues wanted him to stand. that is the measure of the man. reinforced in his autobiography, a life in history. nonetheless i believe john's greatest sway in a near lifelong role he played as a teacher, mentor, colleague and friend. these are qualities that can shine in the academy but are not special to it. you find them in the military, as john did. in government, in business, everywhere. they are four distinct worlds. being great in one does not confer greatness in others. john achieved greatness in all four all time. he was a great human being. if john was your friend then he was your teacher, your mentor, your colleague for all your life no matter what you did or where you were and remarkably another side of his greatness, his friendship was just as helpful outside the academy

franklin roosevelt was rich. john kennedy was rich, they never would have said this. they understood the needs and travails and the hopes of people. he seemed entirely disconnected from it. maybe that is because of his years of experience at bain, where in a lot of cold-blooded ways, they laid people off, took away their health insurance, did all sort of other things to turn a profit for themselves. he thinks he will explain baby saying -- bain by explaining we had some success. what about the companies that failed, even if they got a federal bail out, what about the companies where the workers lost their jobs, they went down and romney and his partners made tens of millions of dollars. there is a new poll out showing that even republicans are beginning to worry about that, up to about 34% disapproval of his business record. that tells you it will be a very powerful issue in the general election. >> i think it gives the american people a snapshot of romney's business experience in that he's dealing with millions that he would actually come out and not realize how call

john sen. so he comes to roosevelt. he has to pull the iras off of johnson so they could continue to be his man in texas then put them on moses annenberg to make sure they go to prison so fdr did call both of those off. dealing with the executive branch it could be powerful. >> where you both united in the way you viewed economic relations or the lack of with united states and japan leading up through world war ii? how surprised do you believe the united states was with the attack on pearl harbor? >> i think we were pretty united with our view and i did the majority of the work so i will answer first. we do think in we point* out in the early pages 1933 met even before inaugurated, he talks with two of his advisers and they are a big new dealers part of the brain trust part columbia professors with the government directed economy and of course, those directing the economy should be intellectuals. and fdr mentions that he has always favored china and thinks the war with japan may work sooner better than later so why not?

. >> teddy roosevelt, john kennedy. >> barack obama -- >> fdr, one other point here, newt gingrich couldnot revealed. >> through the foundation. so you could go after him on that if you were mitt romney but you can't if you haven't released your own tax returns. >> ramesh we're getting some things we can talk about on the exit polls but can't talk about anything that characterizes the race. a few things to let people know about. the percentage of republicans is lower participation, 71% of those that went to the polls today call themselves a republican, 26% independent. in 2008 it was 80 to 18. part of that is more independents maybe four years participated in the primary. >> and there was more going on in both parties at that time. the interesting numbers of course in addition to who wins and by how much. we'll want to see how evangelicals vote. >> and what the split is. that's something we're waiting on because it does characterize the race. >> andrea mitchell, one other nugget, two-thirds of those who went to the polls say the debates were either the most important issue or one of the

john kennedy was a wealthy man. franklin roosevelt was wealthy. teddy was wealthy, we had wealthy presidents. >> he said the important thing, did not inherit my wealth. people are under the impression he was born with a silver spoon. i did not inherit my wealth. >> john kennedy inherited his wealth and didn't have to say it. >> times have changed because when john kennedy was president there was not occupy wall street going on. >> okay. you win. >> yeah! did everyone hear that. >> i want to play you one of the attack ads mitt romney played after south carolina interestingly not through a pack, as he had done before but through himself. let's watch this. >> gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the scandal ridden agency that helped create the crisis. >> i offered advice as historian. >> really? >> and then quit in disgrace and then cashed in as insider. if he wins, this man would be very happy. >> i approved this message. i'm mitt romney. >> attack ads have always been around in american politics. the danger, if these guys keep getting nastier and

values of the enlightenment as articulated by john walk in john jock rousseau and even arguably thomas hobbes and certainly by franklin roosevelt. benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson and james madison we seem to have forgotten how to win wars consistent with those kinds of values with those and lightman values but george washington understood this at the battle of trenton for example he'd captured a thousand has sions these were german mercenaries base and he ordered his troops to treat them in accordance with the values that this new nation it was not yet even a nation actually was fighting for then the battle of princeton washington sent this order to his troops in regard to how to treat british prisoners of war he said treat them with humanity and let them have no reason to complain of our copy in the brutal example of the british army and their treatment of our unfortunate brother and who fall into their hands is the fact the matter is the british army when they took american soldiers as prisoners they would torture them many of them died being tortured they would indefinitely detain them they could they kept them in in

roosevelt kitty. and it's and it was a joke there did john rockefeller's appear from a big way out here and really a shiny little you like. the while. the great depression led to a revolution called the new deal why has this great depression or small depression not yet lead to a revolution or is it possible that we voted for one in two thousand and eight and we said we didn't get it yet you know and that's why we got so many because look two things what first of all is that the right got there first with the most money and they set up a fake populist movement and they did a real good job. mimicking the real deal you talk about the libertarians that you have on your show they did let's have it till they did a really good deal building a fake mass movement a fake populist movement and then the other side of the coin is that look the democrats totally dropped the ball they let the victory of two thousand and eight slip right through their fingers there's just no there's no doubt about it this was a populist moment and their idea was to do you know clinton to you know it to triangulate come to some kind of gr

john connolly is eight on the list, 1980. former texas senator phil gramm in 1996. below that, six, teddy roosevelt in 1912 with the bull moose party. and fred thompson in 2008. the former tennessee senator and "law & order" star entered the primary. but it never seemed his heart was in it. number four, rudy giuliani also in the 2008 race, the former mayor of new york. rick perry gets the number three spot. and the top ten presidential candidate flameouts. two, ed muskie in 1972. and gary hart in 1988. this is jim in newberry. what part of the state is newberry in? >> caller: good morning, what was your question? >> what part of the state is it in? >> caller: we're in the back country, the central part of the state. >> what are your leanings in saturday's primary. >> caller: thank you for the question and the opportunity to speak a moment to you. i voted a week ago for mitt. i think we have two winners here and two losers. i need to say that. mitt or newt are both good. rick has yet to learn how to be a diplomat. you have to be diplomatic in politics. he was very mean looking last night, i think. a

after all, john adams is president between church rushing 10 and thomas jefferson. harry truman between you and clint roosevelt and. all are accounted figures, and history at a new icon who humanized history. and he is also celebrated the human stories behind great event that the building of the panama canal, the brooklyn bridge and also a historic tragedies like the johnstown flood. david mccullough is our season chronicler. his latest book is the greater journey, americans in paris. the 19th century story of americans turning back across the atlantic to discover the science, the art and learning of the old world, even at a time when other americans were churning physically to this specifics to discover national resources, national beauty of challenges of the american frontier. america was opening up a new world physically in the west while in reaching itself culturally and intellectually in the great city of lights and the journey eastward across the sea. ladies and gentlemen, david mccullough came into my office two days after the first national book festival to say how important it was to continue to do th

eastern on book tv on c-span2, john roberts on beaumont's literary culture and the challenges of running an independent bookstore. also jay lee thompson on teddy roosevelt's post presidential expeditionings to africa and europe and on american history tv sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, january 11th, 1901, the lucas gusher at spindletop hill changed the economy of texas and helped usher in the petroleum age. and with the oil came the rough necks and with the rough necks advice. tour the dixie hotel on crockett street,ec

c-span2, book bazaar owner john roberts on beaumont's literary culture and the challenges of running an independent bookstore. also, beaumont author jay lee thompson on teddy roosevelt's year-long post-presidential expedition to africa and europe. and on american history tv on c-span3, sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, january 11th, 1901. the lucas gusher at spindletop hill changed the economy of texas and helped usher in the petroleum age. and with the oil came the roughnecks. and with the roughnecks, life. the dixie hotel and infamous brothel on crockett street, decades of gambling, prostitution and other crime thrived until a 1960 james commission crackdown. beaumont, texas. next weekend on c-span2 and 3. the first civil rights legislation since reconstruction was enacted while president dwight d. eisenhower was in the white house. and now some 50 years after ike left the oval office, thurgood marshall jr. was among those who gathered at the eisenhower presidential library to consider his civil rights legacy and the groundwork that preceded the civil rights movement of the 1960s. this discussion is about 90 minutes. >> well, will the real dwight eisenhower please stand

roosevelt administration. she will also have tutorials with an economist that you might have heard of whose name is john kenneth gal bright. sowe so eleanor argues repeatedly that we must tell the country why weir fighting the war because we will lose the war before we will win it, and the great lesson of world war i is that we won the war, but we lost the peace. so she embraces the four freedoms with a life and risking fervor. there are assassination attempts on eleanor roosevelt's life during the home front in the second world war. i do not make threats. i do not need hate mail and this is the time when she will be assembling the largest fbi file in american history, and a symbol of j. edgar hoover who hated her, who wanted to strip her of her citizenship who sent her to go live with her people in liberia. so, eleanor, in many ways, and eleanor speaks her mind in the way general marshall speaks her mind and also like general marshall. there are times when she will -- there's no other word for it, just shut up. and nowhere is this more clear than in the issue of internment. now my great friend doug robinson an

. >> john heilemann, americans didn't care that ted -- or that jack kennedy was rich. they didn't care that roosevelty was rich in '04. but mitt romney has given the obama team so many buzz words, swiss bank account, cayman islands -- >> taxes. >> i like firing people. 14%. let the market bottom out. pink slips, i know what it's like -- you could go on and on. he has set himself up for a november killing. >> he's the 1%. >> he's painted -- i've said it before on the show. a combination of gordon gekko and ritchie rich. it's a bad image. the thing that david axelrod is hitting on here, the focus on him -- the tax issue is not remotely past romney at this point. this tax issue may be past him in florida. but, you know, why mitt romney has not released more than these past two years of these tax returns. what is in those ten years of tax returns that he has not released that he gave over to the mccain campaign in 2008 that are on the shelf that he hasn't turned in. how much -- >> i'm going to be argumentative. but i think it's a fair question to ask. why would they care that -- >> hold on a second. why

john roberts on beaumont's literary culture and the challenges of running an independent bookstore. beaumont author j. lee thompson on teddy roosevelt's yearlong presidential expedition to africa and europe. on american history tv on c-span3 january 11th, 1901, the lucas gusher change the economy of texas and helped usher in the petroleum age. with the oil came the roughnecks and vice. through the dixie hotel. and infamous brothel on buckets tree. decades of gambling and other crimes thrived until 1960 james commission. obama, tx next weekend on c-span2 and 3. >> c-span donated the book's cover on book notes to george mason university located just outside washington d.c.. the university is currently cataloguing the collection at the fed will climb very. book notes. an hour long interview program hosted by brian lamb from 1889 to 2004. john zealous, university librarian shows us the collection entitled beyond the book. >> in the mind of brian this book is the genesis. by reading this book he decided he wanted to interview the author and that gave him the idea that -- of book notes. it would be worthwhile for him and to read a lot of bo

roosevelt worth $125 million. the kennedy family wait for it worth about a billion dollars. jfk lived entirely off his trust fund. johnerry worth about $300 million when ran for president in 2004. many who go into public service are rich folk. you can decide if mitt romney is insensitive. consider this. the capitalistic system in this country is based on freedom. freedom to earn as much as you can provided you do it honestly. do some americans have unfair advantages? of course, they do. and some folks don't like that, demanding more income equality from the frippet pric free ente system. the more the feds try to create so called social justice the more debt piles up leaving to outcries of tax the rich further. as we pointed out monday, the top 1% in this country now pay 37% of the total income tax yet the president believes that is not their fair share. he and the democratic party want even more. mitt romney has been far too passive in the face of personal attacks on his wealth. he should release his tax returns and vigorously defend the system that has enriched him. if he doesn't, he will not become president. and th

john kerry, do you undercut the electability? >> i guess, but it would be smarter if he stuck to issues. some of our greatest presidents spoke french. both rooseveltske mandarin. we used to kind of like it if presidents were educated. this ignorance that a professor like gingrich is running on, it's embarrassing. he could point out spending one up in massachusetts under romney, taxes went up. fees went up. these are things that would really bother republican primary voters. >> you look at the metrics of all the polls and there's just a rash of polling out there. like 55% of the public says their number one issue is the economy. everything else is in single digits. i guarantee you that many having a problem with a candidate speaking french is 0.0.07 somewhere. >> governor romney was leading in our new national poll with a decent margin. also on health care. in a republican primary, if there's one vulnerability you thought they would be hammering at, it would be mandate. >> it does not and we could go back to the tape here. i said health care will be an issue. not the issue. what people care about is they want to know what the future of health care i