mrs. roosevelt is it true you once said mr.ears. >> didn't put it white that way but i meant that he looked at life much the way he had 60 years ago. >> you do much cooking, mrs. roosevelt? >> no. i do very little cooking. i never have done much more than scrambled eggs on sunday night. >> remember you did that on pearl harbor sunday night. >> i did. nine the white house. >> i did it in the white house. >> of course, you don't require quite as much help in that kitchen as you do in the white house? >> no. this suits the number of people that are now apt to be in this apartment. >> mrs. roosevelt, you just recently are back from a trip around the world and i wanted to ask you if i might who was the most interesting individual you met in the course of that trip? >> oh, i think on the whole my most interesting person was president tur president tito. >> why of that in >> in yugoslavia on the way home. >> why do you feel he was the most interesting man, mrs. roosevelt? >> i felt he was a leader and you could feel that he was a lead

mr. roosevelt said as if it were the most natural thing in the world. there's no alternative, the government has to do it and i shall. and between 1934 and '61 depending how you count, he created somewhere between twelve and 20 million jobs in the united states. how did the federal pay for it? remember where we are today. there's no must be. iwe have to tell old people they have to wait for social security for a another few years. we can't are the garage collected that many times. have the truck come around once a month whether you need it or not. there's no money, there's no money, there's no money. that was a worse descrption, they had no money. of course they had money. they did the things. which was a lot of money. where did they get the money? the same place they did it today? they would have to tax the rich and the corporation. that's not a fanciful left-wing idea. it's a american historyial idea of the -- let me give you couple of numbers. the economist rick to temper our talk with numbers because it seems to be effective in getting people to bel

mr. roosevelt made it to her at the local stolen, he took himself to the union league club and bought a drink. and that was the problem. the crack down on sundays style online strip clubs could still serve in here service will enjoy himself at a private club like a hobbit club from the metropolitan club. the newspaper showing the contrast, emphasizing the contrast said that he sighed, which is where the tenements where, while roosevelt is at the harbor club from an eastside turn any room into a russian bath and even snatched the moisture and coolness from the overnight watermelon. i mean, they were just laying into them. who else could serve drinks on sunday suggests eating a meal in the hotel restaurant at the hotel at 10 rooms or more. roosevelt was typically defiant. he said he was merely enforcing a law and would be enforcing all the lies. he said, it is strewn i may never be heard again, but i will have kept my oval office. so he did get sent to him during this period. the newspapers dug up every forgotten law. there's a law against importing oysters in new york may to september. why did

mr. roosevelt said it is the most natural thing in the world.etween 1934 and 1931, depending on how you count, he filmed somewhere between 12 and 21 federal jobs. how do they get this? let me remind you. there is no money, we have to tell old people that we have to wait to get social security for another few years and we can't have the garbage collector that many times. et cetera, et cetera. there is no money, there is no money, there is no money. that was the worst depression. they had no money. of course, they had money. they did all of these things. where do they get their money. the same place where they could get it today. that is not a fanciful left-wing idea. that is a historical reality of how it was done. it seems to be effective in getting people to believe. so here is a number. first, 1943, it's the war. the president, roosevelt, he goes on the radio and says to the american people, it is impossible for me as a president to sleep at night. we pay our soldiers who are over there in japan fighting for this and not, $600, i believe, is r

mrs. wilson and eleanor roosevelt. seen by historians and many at the time as a cipher, he talked to her about everything and she gave a lot of views about personalities. jacqueline kennedy has demonstrated in a new book, ladybird johnson, betty ford, nancy reagan, barbara bush, laura bush, hillary clinton, michele obama in all sorts of ways. the trend here, closer to the current time. first ladies have a big influence on their husbands. >> host: what was mamie eisenhower's roll? >> guest: she said i went in eight years in the oval office four times. all four times i was invited. one way their marriage worked was they did not discuss nuclear weapons policy and there was a division of labor and that had quite a good marriage but did not rest on being political partners. >> host: did beth truman hate being first lady? >> guest: i think she protested too much a little bit. at the very beginning she went right back to independence and did not come back for a long time and was upsetting to her husband. she did not give pres

mrs. wilson, certainly eleanor roosevelt.s seen by historians and many at the time as a cipher beginning at christmas '45. he talked to her about just about everything, and she gave a lot of views especially about personalities. jacqueline kennedy as demonstrated, i think, in the new book that i was a part of certainly ladybird johnson. betty ford, nancy reagan, barbara bush, laura bush, hillary clinton, certainly. i think michelle obama in all sorts of ways. so i think what the trend here is that as we get closer and closer to the current time, first ladies have a big influence on their husbands. >> host: what was mamie eisenhower's role? >> guest: she said, she used to say i was invited -- in eight years i was in to value office, four times, all four times i was invited. one way their marriage worked was they really did not discuss, you know, nuclear weapons policy or, you know, she felt there was a division of labor, and they actually had quite a good marriage, but it did not rest on being political partners. >> host: did

mrs. wilson, certainly eleanor roosevelt.s seen by historians and many at the time as a cipher beginning at christmas '45. he talked to her about just about everything, and she gave a lot of views especially about personalities. jacqueline kennedy as demonstrated, i think, in the new book that i was a part of certainly ladybird johnson. betty ford, nancy reagan, barbara bush, laura bush, hillary clinton, certainly. i think michelle obama in all sorts of ways. so i think what the trend here is that as we get closer and closer to the current time, first ladies have a big influence on their husbands. >> host: what was mamie eisenhower's role? >> guest: she said, she used to say i was invited -- in eight years i was in to value office, four times, all four times i was invited. one way their marriage worked was they really did not discuss, you know, nuclear weapons policy or, you know, she felt there was a division of labor, and they actually had quite a good marriage, but it did not rest on being political partners. >> host: did

mr. roosevelt. i said really? franklin roosevelt was a -- he said no, theodore roosevelt.n i say, can i say it's wonderful to be back not only in new hampshire but with our fellow veterans and i want to tell you how proud i am of these two. they represent the state of new hampshire with honor and distinction in the congress of the united states. thank you all for being here. [applause] thank you. please remember the words of the late mayor daley of chicago who said a vote early and vote often. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thanks for serving, my friend. thank you. thank you. i will try to remember. [inaudible conversations] >> it's great to know you. thank you, my friend. >> there is a little nostalgia there. >> there you go young man, come right up here. >> how are you? speier got doe involved in politics. >> i'm very glad to meet you. that's very great, senator. >> thank you very much. thanks for serving. [laughter] >> thanks for serving. >> good to see you. >> are they going to take a pic

roosevelt. we are not merely running against mr. nixon. our past is not merely one of itemizing republican failure. the families forced from the farm do not need us to tell them of their plights. the miners and textile workers know the decision is before them in november. the old people without medical care, the families without a decent home, the parents of children without a decent school. they all know that it is time for change. [applause] we are not here to curse the darkness. we are here to light a candle. as winston churchill said, on taking office some 20 years ago, if we open between the present and past, we shall be in danger of losing the future. our concern must be with the future. the world is changing. the old era is ending. the old way will not do. a broad the ballots -- although the balance of power is shifting, new and more terrible weapons are coming into use. one-third of the world may be free but one-third is the victim of a cruel repression and the other third is rocked by poverty and hunger and disease. communist infl

mrs. roosevelt supposedly decided to come in and of that.k should be accommodated elsewhere. it so happens that when we came here at the invitation of president eisenhower blair house was temporarily out of commission. if so we stayed in the white house. i may say that neither the president nor i attempted to reserve the rest. this is now the fourth time i have had the honor of proposing a toast to the president of the united states. the very place where my father once proposed a toast to president roosevelt. no wonder i cannot feel a stranger here. the british have never felt america to be a foreign land. here we feel comfortable and among friends. it gives me great pleasure to welcome you and mrs. bush to london. member will landmarks to my rain . unlike the and states, the british head of state is not limited to two terms of four years. i have welcomed no fewer than seven of our. [indiscernible] the first u.s. president, woodrow wilson. the summer of 1918. america had been recycling and was to do so again in our need during the second wor

mr. smith is also written biographies for franklin eleanor roosevelt and ulysses s. grant. mr. university and after many years of spending time at the university of toronto and marshall university. finally, our moderator for this program will be jonathan yardley, pulitzer prize-winning critic for the "washington post." mr. yardley has been a fellow at harvard university and was awarded and anwar doctor of letter by george washington university in 1987. his most recent book, his second rating, a compilation of some of the most memorable reviews have noted and neglected books from the past. please join me in welcoming david and julie eisenhower, jean edward smith and jonathan yardley. [applause] >> thank you very much. can you hear me? >> no. >> no? okay. we don't have much time some going to ask our panel is to get right to. i'm going to ask first mr. smith and in the eisenhower's to tell you a little bit about the books they are here to talk about. >> thank you very much. eisenhower in war and peace deals with president eisenhower's to careers. first as general and then as pres

president roosevelt ride big her maryland avenue home as children played. >> little kids -- hello, mr. president. >> reporter: the kind of things they point out. personal memories and pivotal points in history. these tours reflect community sentiments about what's significant and worth note. >> people who live here now, lived here before, getting their stories and adding to it the history we researched. >> reporter: that pat collins, father had a doctor's office downstairs and soon to be a grocery store. >> you go to the bakery department, you'll be right about where my bedroom was. >> reporter: people seem to find themselves among this corridor. always managing to meld into something uniquely washington. >> the best times with each other. we loved each other. we were always playing together. it was really nice. >> just that's wonderful. >> it really is one of america's number one destinations. >> for news 4. >> i hope pat cleaned up his room by now. >> i don't know what he was doing baking bread in there. >> i want to see that picture again if we can cue it up at some point. >> good

the answer is eleanor roosevelt, she spoke at the 1940 democratic convention in ohio. mrs.ivered her historic speech from just a single page of notes. that isn't surprising, is it? we'll be right back live from charlotte. ♪ ♪ [ multiple sounds making melodic tune ] ♪ [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, every innovation, every solution, comes together for a single purpose -- to make the world a safer place. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. try the #1 gastroenterologist recommended probiotic. align. align naturally helps maintain digestive balance. ♪ ooh, baby, can i do for you today? ♪ try align today. ♪ ooh, baby, can i do for you today? ♪ music: "make someone happy" music: "make someone happy" ♪it's so important to make someone happy.♪ it's so important to make someone happy.♪ ♪make just one heart to heart you - you sing to♪ ♪one smile that cheers you ♪one face that lights when it nears you.♪ ♪and you will be happy too. >>> let's bring back our panel. michael steele, superficially the -- how the day one of the convention here went versus day one in ta

mr. franklin delano roosevelt almost four terms to take care of that mess. e still getting out of what the former president bush took us into and mr. romney offers nothing. mr. ryan is going around the country beating a dead horse. he offers mediscare instead of concise construction for medicare. they want to take your social security and all of your pension funds and union funds and everything else and put them into a brokerage and give them to a ceo on wall street so they can do it like if you went with your money to the casita. they want to gamble your money away. they don't offer anything for education, they want to get your college young persons tuition funding, they want to take away nasa, they want to cut pbs, they want to probably even take away c-span. >> they won't be able to do that final thing because we do not get public funding. but thank you for your telephone call. you are looking at pictures from the carolina fest, an event open to the public today which invites people in the charlotte area to come downtown and get a sense of what is happenin

roosevelt. we are not merely running against mr. nixon. our past is not merely one of itemizing republican failure. the families forced from the farm do not need us to tell them of their plights. the miners and textile workers know the decision is before them in november. the old people without medical care, the families without a decent home, the parents of children without a decent school. they all know that it is time for change. [applause] we are not here to curse the darkness. we are here to light a candle. as winston churchill said, on taking office some 20 years ago, if we open between the present and past, we shall be in danger of losing the future. our concern must be with the future. the world is changing. the old era is ending. the old way will not do. a broad the ballots -- although the balance of power is shifting, new and more terrible weapons are coming into use. one-third of the world may be free but one-third is the victim of a cruel repression and the other third is rocked by poverty and hunger and disease. communist infl

he has written much praised biographies for franklin del know roosevelt roosevelt and ulysses s. grant. mrith is a senior scholar at --s' spent time at the at toro. and our moderate you're will be jonathan yardley. he has been a feeman fellow at washington university. his most recent book, a compilation of the most memorable reviews of noted and neglected book from the past. please join me in welcoming david and julie eisenhower, jean edward smith, and jonathan yardley. [applause] ... first as a general and then as president. we are dealing with really one of the most underrated figures in american history both as a general and as president. one of the reasons for that is because eisenhower made everything he did look easy. you may recall those bumper stickers in the election of 56. ben hogan for president. if we are going to have a golfer, let's have a good one. [laughter] eisenhower was franklin roosevelt's first choice to command the d-day invasion. eisenhower had three amphibious landings under his belt at that time. he got along well with the british and was churchill. that was very i

mr. speaker, is protection for america's social safety net. let me start with a quote from president roosevelt, when he says every man, woman, and child is a partner. and in 2012, these words come to life when we see the more than -- that more than 58 million people rely on medicaid. that's a lot of people. 48 million rely on medicare. more than 61 million rely on social security. so with the idea in mind that everybody is included, everybody counts, everybody is contemplated in our american life, it's important to point out that as we move forward with this deal for all, or any deal that we might have, that it's important to maintain the social safety net, particularly in very difficult economic times if you slice medicaid, medicare, social security, you are going to literally be harming the interest in millions and millions of americans. therefore, key feature of any deal, any deal, is the preservation of benefits for the people who need them most, medicare, medicaid, social security. mr. speaker, the next slide, the next poster here is a poster that talks about how we need to move our natio

mr. smith who has interesting views on this. my view of it is to pose that question and the very interesting what what-if, to pose that question is like asking how franken roosevelt would have you the democratic party in the jimmy carter era. in other words, he's the same idea but is being carried forward under dirt different circumstances. in fact a very interesting speech that we studied at the university of pennsylvania is a speech that jimmy carter gave, famous beach. douglas brinkley is here and he is among the authors who has written the best book on present carter, the unfinished presidency. he gave a speech and the national speech and line that up to the franklin roosevelt first and not girl in 1933, the same values, the same arguments, the same everything with one exception. and that is the role of the american people. in 1933 the american people overwhelmingly ratifying the new deal in the 1970 and the american people have more or less abandoned the new deal and so what you see is a change in circumstances. i think that the gop right now and the vicissitudes have a lot to do with circumstance that i would say in this is going back to the 50s and the dep

roosevelt. that's how far back when they would turn this country. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that michael maderos and alexis florsak be granted floor privileges for the rest of today's proceedings. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. harkin: mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: thank you, mr. president. i would ask suspension of the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. stabenow: thank you very much. i first want to thank senator harkin as chair of the health, education, labor, and pensions committee and past chair of the agriculture committee for his words of concern regarding the house budget as it relates to agriculture. i share those concerns and want to thank you for speaking up on that. it's just one more reason to surface the farm bill and we need to get a farm bill done right now. let me just

mr. bennet: thank you, madam president. the overall sportsman's package from senator tester is also widely supported, ranging from the theodore roosevelt partnership to the boon and crockett club. the bill represents a bipartisan package of commonsense bills that will benefit our nation's sports men and women. i want to thank senator tester for his leadership on behalf of the west and urge a yes vote. madam president, i deeply appreciate your letting me come to the floor today to talk about -- to talk about this legislation, and i will simply close by saying that it is my fervent hope that once this election is over some 45 days from now, that we will come back to this chamber, republicans and democrats together, and work together to avoid surfing over this fiscal cliff that would be so damaging to this economy. and people at home know something that people here have not figured out, which is even if you believe that you were always right on your side or had a monopoly of wisdom on your side -- which i don't but some people seem to -- even if you believed it, we cannot accomplish this meaningful deficit reduction without doing it in a

mr. speaker, that our nation at one time didn't have the entire country on the electrical grid. there was a program called rural electric try fix, which was a program under the roosevelt administration where our nation decided where you would not have to leave the countryside and take advantage of electric lights, but we would wire the whole country, and we did. the new wiring, the new rural program is connecting all of america with high-speed wireless and this is a project we should embark on and it's worth and would help improve economic activity and revite lies communities and it would be a great thing. the american jobs act also included pathways back to work for americans looking for work. we have a serious unemployment problem and we see our friends on the republican side of the aisle shaking their fingers and criticizing, saying, where are the jobs. speaker boehner saying, where are the jobs? i think to myself, well, the jobs are in the american jobs act. can we take it up? can we vote on it? these are things we can do. one of the most innovative to the unemployment insurance program in 40 years is a program that says that as part of an extension of the unemplo