mrs. roosevelt with two hands eased it back to the white house. and had meeting with cabinet wives to compare social schedules to make sure that nothing was competing with the white house's social agenda. >> what was the impact of all of that? >> mrs. roosevelt had a control over washington that i think some of the more recent, prior first ladies, had not. she formalized things. she had a definite code of behavior and if you did not follow her code of behavior, you really didn't exist in her washington. and she did bring a power and a grandeur back to the entertaining. the visible side of the white house, that bolsters theodore roosevelt's forays into international politics and to bring power back to the presidency. >> lady bird johnson. >> lady bird johnson is -- i have to say, i'm from texas, lady bird johnson is one of my favorite first ladies. she is the first first lady to announce her own political -- not political agenda, but her own inaugural agenda. she announces during -- leading up to the 1965 inauguration, she goes public with what is

mrs. roosevelt wanted time. so she decided what things she was going to delegate to someone else. and so she has a social secretary who takes care of press. huge press interest in her family. they're great cover material and great photographs. she didn't like that prying of the press but knew she would have to accommodate them. so she and her social secretary would release certain pictures, posed pictures. you can't do stories. you can't come in and take pictures. we will release information and we will release photographs. she sort of had the first press secretary. >> i was going to say, is that the first time that that happened? >> yes. this is the really the first time even something approaching a formal press secretary's office for the first lady. she debt galegates a lot of houd duties. she caters the food. she doesn't have the white house doing food for large event. she has the chief ushers take care of household arrangements. she knows what's going on. she approves everything. she has other people handling a lot of detail work. she concentrates on putting the white house ba

mr. roosevelt condemned as fools those "professional" feminists who labeled wives and mothers at home as pair site women. parasite women. the homekeeping woman was not a parasite on society. she is society. roosevelt also pointed to easy divorce as a foe of the family. calling it a bane nation, a curse to society, a menace to the home and insightment to married unhappiness and to immorality. the multiplication of divorces in america, he concluded, meant that some principle of evil was at work. of greater importance, roosevelt craft add positive philosophy of family life. he regularly emphasized the centrality of the child rich family to american existence as the cell of society. it is in the life of the family upon which in the last analysis the whole welfare of the nation rests. the nation is nothing but the aggregate of the families within its borders. moreover, a nation existed only as its sons and daughters thought of life not as something concerned only with the selfish em necessariens of the individual, but as a link in the great chain of creation and pausation. a chain forged by th

mrs. roosevelt took two hands to ease it back into the white house. they discuss social security o schedules to make sure nothing was conflicting with the white house's particular social agenda. >> what was the impact of all that? >> she had control over washington that i think some of the more recent had not. she formalized the thing and had a definite code of behavior. if you didn't follow it, you didn't exist in her washington. she did bring a power and grandeur back to the entertainment and the visible side of the white house that bolsters theodore roosevelt into international politics and bring power back to the presidency. >> lady bird johnson. >> lady bird johnson, i'm from texas and she is one of my favorite first ladies. she is the first first lady to announce her own inaugural agenda. she announces during up to the 1965 inauguration, she goes public with her agenda for her time as first lady and will concentrate on beautification or environmentalism. she was not thrilled with that word, but it was a doable word. she was going to concentrate

mrs. roosevelt used to drive around in her car and she would take ameal yeah for rides. i think there's a story that ameal yeah said it's more dangerous driving with you than flying. and she wrote thinking of amelia earhart. today, we meet at a time when the challenges are not so dire despite what you might hear on cable television or talk radio. but these are still difficult days for many americans. after a long decade of war, terrorism and recession, there are some who are asking whether we still have what it takes to lead. and like that earlier generation, we, too, could use some of ameal yeah's spirit spp that feeling that if we just hold on together this generation of americans like generations before have the talent, the ingenuity, the grace and the grit to emerge greater than ever and to take themselves and to take them to even new and higher heights. we can be as optimistic and even audacious as amelia earhart, we can be defined not by the limits that hold us shutdown by the opportunities that are ahead. so i'm thrilled to invite scientists engineers, our aviator

mr. teddy roosevelt, then assistant secretary of navy, was not uninvolved. >> i mean, they were lunatics is you don't have to be a lunatic to believe so much of this. the idea that the guys that did it will just go in and lay waste to cuba. coming, part of the book, one of the things i insist on, one of the arguments, the reason i talk about this argument from political economy is because my point is as i say, i will say again that we're all sort of implicated, look at our standard of living in a world of gross disparity, that takes force, right? guantÁnamo is essential to american nation making. nation making come anybody can even hours with our vaunted principles which i like isn't pretty. i say that where there's this talk of a fall from grace, i say that's not what nationbuilding is about. presumes growth and expansion. the great african-american credit, some of my last book at the turn of the 20th century was looking at world war i and the race for colonies and things. and he said company, he was a proponent of democracy. they want after america's be included as those other people c

this is not franklin roosevelt 's dream nor is it mr. gutfeld's treadmill dream of world peace. >> it is not on a treadmill. >> and it is not world peace. >> the answer to the question would have been yes. >> i told you don't bring my political views into it. >> liz, you said all of these people do is sit around and have meetings and issue meeting proclamations. >> it it is hard work to find ways to blame everything on easy re. israel. not fair to say all i do is sit around. >> make sure to issue a proclamation about that. >> we are all 1 percenters. i think this story is stupid. as bill eluded to, international standards are meaning less. you can't equate the cost of living in different areas, so what is the point of comparing different incomes in different countries. >> i am on camera. face time. i should put that to my clips. >> lastly, greg, you mentioned st. patrick's day is on saturday which means an explosion of vomit. >> yes. >> there is a in you study out of baylor university that shows that no matter what day of the week it fal

mr. cohen? >> david cohen. picking up on javitz and ancestors, even if theodore roosevelt is a distant ancestor to president obama, there's an effort at making him an ancestor. and so i wonder if you could all comment on another missed opportunity which is theodore roosevelt laid the basis for dealing with the abuses of money and politics and apart from rhetorical flourishes all of which i share about citizens united, where is the emphasis on finding ways of changing the system so the missed opportunity is in dealing with some of the political democracy deficits that we have from money and politics? >> just very briefly, everybody is talking about what wasn't in the speech and the omissions they cared about. that was the omission that really struck me. is because t.r. had such strong language about this in the original speech. in citizens united in some ways is a repudiation of a system that started when t.r. was president back in the -- when we passed tillman act. i think in 1907. so that there was i thought an opportunity for him to address this concern, which also by the way is a concern of occupy wall street.

mr. zimmerman seek medical attention? >> that evidence is going to come out when the case is litigated. >> litigated. roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. >>> officials at william penn high in new castle del aware granted a request by students who wanted to hold a silent demonstration in honor of trayvon martin. the superintendent would allow hoodies saying it was a teachable moment for students but students had to conduct themselves properly . the attorney for the soldier accused of killing 17 afghanistan civilians claims the government is hiding evidence. members of the defense team he says were told they couldn't talk to witnesss in the hospital and found out the witnesses had been released. brown says the u.s. government has not turned over files to lawyers defending staff sergeant robert bails. maryland added 8000 jobs in february. the 6th month the state created jobs. the unemployment rate here is holding steady at 6.5% , the lowest level in three years. >>> extensive report in to working conditions a at chinese tech manufacturer found excessive jove time, up paid waynes and salaries that don't cover basic liv

mr. henry rabe and it is a thank you letter signed by the assistant secretary of the navy, franklin roosevelt. and along with this letter was a check that says it is for binoculars. it was a dollar. he gave these artifacts to his grandson when he was 13 years old, said don't ever cash this check, don't ever lose this letter because it is going to be more valuable than the dollar. so he kept it from the time he was 13, and it stimulated an interest in wanting to collect the autographs of major american patriots. the other 20th century autograph is one that has a picture, the aus graph is actually on the picture. john f. kennedy and his wife, jacqueline, and it is inscribed to someone named brenda crane. i did some research, found there was a physician, dr. paul crane, who was an interpreter, worked for president kennedy as well as president johnson doing some interpretation that he was able to get this autograph on the kennedys. this is also fairly rare. it is not a great photo, you can see it has been folded, but it is a wonderful picture. another one that's very interesting that was particul

mr. president, you have done what generations of great and -- great men and women have tried to do. republicans and democrats. they have tried before. everybody knows the story starting with teddy roosevelt. they tried. they were really bold leaders. mr. president, they fell short. you have turned, mr. president, the right of every american to have access to decent health care in to reality for the first time in american history. [applause] is the president, i have gotten to know you. if you want me to stop because i am embarrassing you. i am not going to stop because you have delivered on a promise he made to all americans when we moved into this building. mr. president, you are to repeat myself, literally about to make history. our children and grandchildren will grow up knowing that a man named barack obama put the final girder in the framework for a social network in this country to provide the single most important element of what people need and that is access to good health. [applause] and every american, from this day forward, will be treated with simple fairness and basic justice. look, the classes -- the class a poet once said that the greatest wealth is health. the greatest we

mr. henry rab in san antonio, texas, in february of 1919. and it's a "thank you" letter and signed by the assistant secretary of the navy, franklin roosevelt. along with this letter was a check that says it's for binoculars and it's a check for $1. one point zero zero. he was the grandfather of a collector of these artifacts. and he gave it to his grandson when he was 13 years old. and he said, don't ever cash this check and don't ever lose this because it's going to be more valuable than the dollar. so he kept it from the time he was 13 and it stimulated an interest in wanting to collect autographs of major american patriots. the other 20th century autograph is one that has a picture. the autograph is on the picture and it's john f. kennedy and his wife, jacquelyn. and it's inscribed to this as probably around 1960. and it's inscribed to someone named brenda crane. i did some research and discovered there was a physician named dr. paul crane, who was an interpreter and worked for president kennedy as well as president johnson, doing some interpretation that he was able to get this autograph from the kennedys. this is also fairly rare. it's

mr. president, you gave us beer, now give us water. [laughter] rooseveltturned to an aide and said, the beer was the easy part. [laughter] they did try a lot of things. they built this so-of called shelter belt which is basically two lines of trees going from the dakotas all the way down to texas, to the mexican border. and they planted rows of trees, more than 200 million trees. the wind would not blow as hard, and it would not lift the soil up, so they sent out legions of workers to plant -- and you can still see some of these trees standing. some of them were not really drought tolerant, you know, you don't plant douglas firs in the middle of the great plains. [laughter] so that was one thing. and it largely failed, you just see the legacy. if you ever see a line of old trees in the midwest with, that's what that is. roosevelt, they said i'm going to continue with the shelter belt project. the other thing, and jimmy knows this better than anyone, i think, on this panel is the legacy of so-called farm price support. when they started with these, you know

mr. rove outlined in his article today in the wall street journal, republicans aren't going to fall for this. they're not going argue, i would imagine they won't against the wisdom of teddy roosevelt's new nationalism and they're going to go after his agenda whether it's on health care, stimulus or other things like that. the other thing that's interesting about the speech obama gave, there wasn't any big policy change in what he outlined. he has now taken his new foundation idea which is is an investment in education, science and research, tax reform, financial regulation and he also talked about the wisdom of the financial reform and in georgetown 2009. he's taken that same agenda and put the rhetoric of fairness. and that's how he's defending it. >> this is not a radical agenda. and the biggest -- and the charges of class warfa cf1 o rhetoric has to match action and it has to be authentic. i'm not sure most americans would be aware of some of the themes outlined in the speech and they'll continue to push the fair shot and fair share which sounds good to many different levels and will probably work, but i don't think it will define a whole new era of politics away the way new nati

this week that achievement comes when its members all strive, as president roosevelt said, not to compete but to cooperate. mr. president, would the chair announce the business of the day. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. under the previous order, there will now be a period of morning business until 11:00 a.m. with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each, with the time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees, with the majority controlling the first half-hour and the republicans controlling the second half-hour. mr. reid: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. blumenthal: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut is recognized. mr. blumenthal: thank you. i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. consumer protection has been a priority for me throughout my career, as i know it has been for the presiding officer. both he and i

roosevelt is trying to accomplish. >> good morning, alice. my question is to mrs. smith. entify a few of your salience changes that created transformation in your school? >> i will take you back to me the presentation. we have done some things that roosevelt we're doing out the district. one of those is finding academic priorities students. putting a special law emphasis on tracking kids in ninth grade. we have an academy. we are tracking students being on track to graduate. having the program and of credit. the predicts there graduation than if they were not on track. we are doing everything we can to make sure that occurs. that is specific. then the instructional coaching and the work among teachers. i would say that is a huge piece of the collaborative problem solving that teachers are doing. intense and powerful. >> my question is about parent involvement and of that was part of your strategy as well. he mentioned family engagement tonight. i am wondering what those look like as well as if you used community-based organizations to help you? >> yes, we do. we have used