mr. roosevelt. i am irish catholic. i was born know potsdam in upstate new york. my grandparent lehand, the grandparents from the lehand side ham over on what was known as a copper ship during the irish potato famine. so many people died on these ships, they're called coffin ships. my grand parents got married as deans and had a baby, daniel. and my grandfather, daniel lehand-- my great-grandfather was working on a church building in potsdam and a part fell on him and killed him. and my great-grandmother never remarried. and that's why my father was an unusual creature, the only child in an irish catholic family. i'm the youngest of four children i was born in potsdam in 18-- i gave away my age, 1896. when i was a very small child we moved to summerville, a city within the city of boston and that's where i grew up. i went to the public schools there, and my education was going along well until i was diagnosed with rheumatic fever and i went two years in bed recovering. i did not finish high school u

mrs. eleanor roosevelt arrives in paris.ne of the delegates from 58 countries converging on the french capital of the most critical session of the general assembly united nations history. >> eleanor roosevelt became a delegate to the united nations because once she left the white house, president truman decided that he wanted to do something that fdr had always planned on doing, which was to establish a united nations in the hope that an organization like that would prevent future wars. franklin and eleanor roosevelt had lived through two major wars, world war i and world war ii, and they wanted the future to be a peaceful one. president truman felt that eleanor roosevelt would be the perfect person to represent the united states at the organizing -- initial, organizing meeting of united nations. she was actually the only woman delegate from the u.s. she knew that none of the men were too happy to have her as a member of the delegation. she figured they were trying to find a spot for her were she could do the least damage. a

mrs. roosevelt's home and we are now entering her bedroom.nd this was a room she probably didn't use it a lot during the year, because she was traveling. when she was first lady, she traveled a huge amount of time. this was a time when airplane flight was fairly new, but she was a woman who likes to try new .nd unusual things she loved flying. in fact, even during the war years, mrs. roosevelt traveled overseas come at a time when it was pretty dangerous to be traveling overseas, but she wanted to study what people in europe were doing during wartime. she went into some not very safe areas in the pacific, because again, she wanted to report back to the president what was happening during the war. left theafter she white house, she was traveling on behalf of the united nations and even after she left the u.n., she was kind of a goodwill ambassador, talking about the u.n. and the importance of people supporting united nations. >> it is right that we should be gravely concerned with the facts that still separate us from each other with the probl

his parents were james and sarah delano roosevelt. mr. mes roosevelt had a wife before sarah named rebecca howland. she passed away in 1876. in 1880, mr. james married sarah delano. when he married sarah, he was 52 years old, and she was only 26 years old. she was half his age. james and sarah only had the one child, franklin delano roosevelt. when mr. james roosevelt bought this property in 1867, it was a 17 room farmhouse with about 110 acres of land and several outbuildings. he paid the price of what would be an expensive car these days, but back then it would have been a rather nice amount of money. he had a growing family, and he decided as early as 1907 that he was going to be, president of the united states one day -- going to become president of the united states one day. quite often, events would be held here such as when he announced he would run for vice president of the united states. the big announcement was held rate here. quite often he would bring, once he was president, main foreign dignitaries to his house. especially dur

mrs. roosevelt to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. >> it really was not until my grandmother 's funeral that i realized it really kind of hit me. that she was really a special person. and something of a elebrity. and seeing you know the president to ex-president, one future president and all sorts of ambassadors and other diplomatic people there. very important people. that had really dawned on me, my gosh! she really was important! we never thought of her in that way. we never viewed my grandmother. she was only a grandmother to us. and that is all she ever wanted to be to us. i was born in january 3 1942. my father was elliott. and elliott was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldest of the children. so my dad was, he kind of fell right in the middle and i think he always felt that he was the middle child. but you know, my uncles used to claim that he was my grandmother's favorite. not sure that was true but that is what they claimed anyway. my mother and father were divorced when i was only two years old. my time with my fa

mrs. roosevelt told her her father had had a drinking problem, that he was living with a woman who was not his wife, that in fact, he willed -- he'd had a few mistresses one with a child out of wedlock. he told he would to the keep him out on those basis and god must be more generous than us otherwise there was no hope for anyone. well, mrs. roosevelt told her friend that she was relieved and happy to hear that he thought so, that she had always loved her father and would like very much to see him again. well, what sort of person was elliott roosevelt that 67 years after his death, his daughter, at the conclusion of her own remarkable life, would be preoccupied with meeting him in the hereafter? what made his memory so compelling? well, most historians of the roosevelt family have taken a few of eleanor's similar to that similar of that of eleanor roosevelt's cousin, allison longworth. poor eleanor, she took everything, most of all herself tremendously seriously. this is alice longworth speaking. if only she'd allowed a little levity into her life. she had a miserable childhood, which i do

mrs. roosevelt. he cooperated in try to get the president back to normal finally he brought in doctors from the navy hospital the present eight every thing he was told simply because of the orders by the navy so to cut out all fried foods that was one directive from the doctor but typically the president will get what they get in the african-american staff is caught in the middle helping the president out. so i love the exchange sold is the was the wife of the president's longtime valet so she comes to the white house as a maid and often get a company resolved on a long trip but what was interesting about this the she had a big personality she would entertain the president with puppet showsy shows, and early version of the muppets called a suicide. [laughter] and the president would love them so she was a favoritet. and actually she would campaign for the president. so in 1936 she was on the stump in major cities this is from these baltimore african-american newspaper that said over 350 years to be a

mr. roosevelt died, mr. truman did not have the same attitude as roosevelt did. in april 1945. -- although, i give him credit for trying things. became one. he took it up for the first time. you know how skating is. he is no skater. i saw him in one of the scenes in the hockey ring. ,e formed an old man's league and they play. very popular in russia because they love hockey. he is not very good, and we had a little fun with it, but he did score a couple of goals. not know if that is competitive, but it was fun to watch. he speaks impeccable german and he learned a little bit of this language, that language, a little p&l. .- a little piano i think he works a lot. 16 years. 12 hours per day. he is pretty steady. when he left us at 1:00 in the morning, he would say he had another meeting to go to with the economic minister. i found him to be highly disciplined. i was worried about him. there is a scene in the first chapter where i am talking about reagan, comparing him to reagan. sort of asking him if he can .low down and enjoy his life delegate authority like reaga

mr. roosevelt died and we went into that untold history, mr. not have the same attitude toward the soviets as roosevelt. roosevelt saw a grand alliance. soviet union, britain, china, the united states. that grand alliance never materialized. he died in april 1945. although, i give him credit for trying things. i don't think he is a natural horseback rider, he became one. hockey, at the age of 61 or he 62, took it up for the first time. you know how skating is. he is no skater. i saw him in one of the scenes in the hockey ring. he formed an old man's league, they come together as retirees and they play. very popular in russia because they love hockey. he is not very good, and we had a little fun with it, but he did score a couple of goals. i do not know if that is competitive, but it was fun to watch. he speaks impeccable german and he learned a little bit of this language, that language, a little piano. he is a man who, i saw him, not much social life at all. i think he works a lot. 16 years. 12 hours per day. he is pretty steady. he left somet

mr. roosevelt died -- we went into that on untold history -- mr. truman didn't have the same attitude as roosevelt. roosevelt saw a grand alliance between the soviet union, britain, china and the united states. that grand alliance never materialized. he died in april of 45. >> rose: his sense of presence. >> yes, though i give him credit for trying things. i don't think he's a natural horseback rider. he became one. hockey at age 61 or 62, he took it up for the first time. he's no skater. i saw him in one scene in the film at the hockey rink. he formed an old man's league where they come together and play, very popular in russia because they love hockey. he's not very good. we had a little fun with it. he scored a couple of goals. i don't think you could say competitive hockey, but it was fun to watch. he speaks impeccable german. he learned a little bit of this language, that language. he learned a little piano. he's a man who -- i saw him, charlie, not much social life at all. i think he works a lot. i think he's -- you know, 16 years, 12 hours a

mr. roosevelt. but half of them were. and roosevelt was a good politician. with half of the businesses in his pockeet,e knew he could count on the c.i.o.o., the socialists, and the communists to kind of work something out, and here was the deal. "i'm gonna get the money from tthe coorporations and d the rich. i'm gonna help u on a scale you've never seen before. and in return, you're gonna stop talking about getting rid of capitalismsm. you're gonna mute that part of your message. you're gonna celebrate me as the guy who gives the mass of people something they never got b before." so, what did roosevelt do? three interesting things that i'll mention. one--he created the social security system. we never had that before. in the midst of a depression worse than today, when there's no money in the hands of the government--none is comingng in; it's really hard; e can't do anything--the president goes on the radio and announces that every american over 65 years of age who's had a lifetime of worork is now g ga get money fromom the govovernmet for the rest of h his

what aspect do you think roosevelt's death had won the cold war? mr. ompson: if roosevelt had lived even for another couple years, that somehow he would be able to get along with stalin. i think it's very unlikely. it was not possible to get stalin to agree that the countries of eastern europe, in which the soviet armies were already occupying, that they would really be free. i don't think it would not have been possible. that is a sad commentary, but i think it was a situation even beyond roosevelt's great optimism, great ability to get along with people. he knew the limits of stalin. he hoped for the best. i think he would have been miserably disappointed. i am sorry i can't give you a better answer. [laughter] >> i agree with you. that brings a conclusion to our history class today. i thank you all for coming a bit later today, for your great questions. if you have any further questions from today's lecture, email me. otherwise we will reconvene next thursday at our usual time. i hope you have a terrific week. let me know if you have any questions ab

mr. assistant president during roosevelt's third term. he knew about the atomic bomb. he was at yalta and he took shorthand -- he was skilled at shorthand, so he had the very best notes of the yalta , and trumanf anyone reaches out to burns and taps him as his secretary of state. he doesn't officially become secretary of state until july 1, but he is at truman's side constantly, and of course, he is the one that whispered in r that the soviets were breaking their agreement at yalta. burns has a very different view than simpson -- the opposite view in fact. mccoy,'s assistant, john reported after a conversation with burns -- this is a memo "burns wassimpson, quite radically opposed to any relation to stalin about cooperating on atomic energy." he wished to have the implied threat of the bomb in his pocket during conferences after the war duringactual quote was the conference he was to attend in london beginning on september 4. that is after the war. burns' pg the work, ress secretary walter brown writes in his diary that burns atomic bomb "might well put us in a positio

mr. wilson this morning. in december of 1943, president roosevelt authorized the ghost army unit. only two weeks later in january 1944, mr. wilson was on his way to camp morris, tennessee, to join the ghost army. who says the federal government can't move quickly when it wants to? mr. wilson trained there until may when his unit was shipped out of new york to liverpool, england. it was the largest convoy that at the time had ever crossed the atlantic ocean. from there mr. wilson and his team traveled more than any other unit. from england they went to france. they went to belgium. they went to holland. they went to luxemburg and they went to germany. mr. wilson and his comrades fought fearlessly through the war's end, members of the ghost army. in july of 1945, mr. wilson finally came home. however, while he came home safely, he couldn't even disclose, he couldn't even talk about even to his own family the honorable service unit that he was a part of. now, that's humbling to me to hear a man's sacrifice, to go through what he went through and not even be able to talk about it to hi

sims wrote theodore roosevelt and said, hey, mr. president. mr. resident, i know how much you love the navy, and i have this great idea for how we could be more combat effective. the folks in washington are not listening to it. so theodore roosevelt promptly made him director of target practice for the united states navy and within three years the navy had instituted this system of continuous aim firing all through the fleet with good results. and he held that post for seven years. inspector of target practice. all right, so all of this means what. flotilla tactics. your fleet is not only going to have a line of dreadnoughts or big battleships -- we will talk about what a dreadnought is. there will be a line of destroyers trying to protect you from the enemy's destroyers. have three or four you getor 10 -- how do a hold of all of these things. this is really the question as we roll into the 20th century. i think this is a subject that has not been written enough about. how did these guys work these things out? one of the things i know that they did

roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. mr. arrow talks about the papers and artifacts housed in the library and provides a rare look at fdr's personal book collection. this interview was conducted at the museum in president roosevelt's private study. brian: paul sparrow, director of the fdr library. what is this room, and what kind of history was made here? paul: this room is totally unique in the presidential library system because it was the only room actually used by a sitting president at a presidential library. he first started construction in 1938. he assumed he would leave office at the end of 1940, at the end of his second term as every president before him had. but because of the rising tensions in europe, the democratic party nominated him for a third term, and he was elected. so, when this library opened in june of 1941, he was still president of the united states, so this became the northern oval office. he was up here on many occasions. he entertained political leaders like winston churchill and did a lot of his me

roosevelt room. okay? thank you very much. thank you. >> mr.sident, you shared classified intelligence information with the russians -- >> thank you very much. >> mr. president, did you share classified intelligence with the russians? >> jimmy: look at that face. thank you, thank you. when he says thank you, it's almost like he doesn't mean thank you, you know? we are now living in a world of alternative facts. the president makes statements almost every day that aren't necessarily based in truth, which is frustrating to some people and confusing to others. especially young people. you know, we're raised to believe that the president tells the truth. case anymore. so to bring children up to date on the new american way, we took a cue from "schoolhouse rock." you remember "schoolhouse rock"? and hopefully this will explain how it all works now. >> the white house? so cool! but i wonder who that sad-looking fellow over there is. >> me? i'm a lie. >> a what? >> a lie. like when you don't tell the truth. >> i don't understand. >> let me try to expl

mrs. mccarthy always has tons of good books to read. which makes for a pretty good day at school. ♪ >>> good morning. jessica boyington with you watching the roads. checking in with the rooseveltd. looking good. directions north and southbound no reported problems. the road is a good drive. also watching construction. veine street expressway from broaded to schuylkill is open. not dealing with normal construction we see there. there is an obstruction in the road out in montgomery. just to the system reported there on keystone drive right around progress drive and 422 looks good. end here with drive times. eastbound from 29 to the schuylkill and eight minute trip average speeds into if 60s. update for the rest of the morning. when i come back, checks in with new jersey and the atlantic city expressway. >>> 20 minutes before 5:00. steam my start this morning. 80s in philadelphia. we're watching clouds already starting to move into the lehigh valley. we're seeing the first clouds, but we won't see showers develop until later this morning. and then this afternoon, there's a threat of severe storms. pretty quiet right now. doppler radar and the satellite shows it's dry to start wit

roosevelt who had special circumstances. then each cabinet member stepped forward to lavish this extraordinary, extraordinary praise, like, mr. president, you're the greatest human being i've ever met and it's just such an honor to work for you. was that staged? how did that come about? >> well, charlie, let me just say everybody in that room felt the same way and this is the way i feel. it is the greatest honor to serve this country and serve this president, and that's why we're all here. you have a lot of very successful people that came from business and government and other things. you know, we couldn't be prouder of the cabinet and we couldn't be prouder to sit here and work for the president. we all have the same job, which is grow the economy, make the world safe and make things better for americans. >> rose: are you concerned about what's happening in terms of the investigation in the russian probe and the fact that you have james comey making accusations against the president, you have the attorney general speaking today as we talk. others will be called to testify before the senate and house intelligence committees

wanted to test out an idea he wanted to have eleanor roosevelt talk about it first in column and speeches and if it created a big ruckus, it's the mrs., i can't control her, she does whatever she wants. they were very effective team and she was a media power house. people don't appreciate her impact, so she wrote a column every day for 20 years. six days a week. she had radio shows, she was on television after franklin died and after the war. she was a very, very influential person and helped those in needs. >> there's a picture of fdr in a wheelchair. i've got right behind me, i'm bumping, i'm going step back, you can explain it, one of the wheelchair that is sit in the office all of the time. you talk about the media and you say out there that we have only seen him in one of these in a public photo four times. >> correct. >> why did the media not show this? >> what's interesting about this is several things. you can tell it's not a traditional wheelchair, it's a kitchen chair with a couple of wheels on the back. the first life of fdr's life he was healthy, he didn't get polio till late 30's and he went into almost seclusion. he ha

wanted to test out id would have eleanor roosevelt talk about a person her column or one of her speeches. and if it created a big ruckus he could just say, that is my mrs., i cannot control her. she does whatever she wants. and if it was successful he would incorporate it into his policy.they were a very effective team. and she was a media powerhouse. he appreciated her impact. she wrote a column every day for 20 years. six days a week. she had radio shows, she was on television after franklin died. she was a very influential person and a voice that really spoke to helping those most in need. >> and museum part, there is a picture of fdr in a wheelchair. leave behind me i am bumping into it i will step back so you can explain this. this is one of the wheelchair that is in the office all the time. he talked about the media and you say that they only have seen him in one of these in a public photo four times. why? whether the media not show this? >> there are several interesting things. it is not a traditional wheelchair. this was built on a couple of bicycle wheels with wheels in the back. so the first half of his life, he was a very healthy dynamic per

mr. chairman. [ indiscernible conversation ] >>> this sunday, "q&a" is in hyde park, new york, at the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum, where we go inside for a rare look at fdr's personal office and collection of artifacts, with the museum's director. >> this library opened in june of 1941. he was still president of the united states. so this became essentially the northern oval office. fdr had an incredibly inqu kwis inquisitive mind. every book in here was selected by fdr to be in this room. this room is almost identical to the way it was on the day that fdr died. nothing has changed. >> watch "q&a" from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >>> sunday night on "after words," new america president and ceo ann marie slaughter examines global networking in the digital age in her book, "the chessboard & the web: strategies of connection in a networked world." she's interviewed by a former white house chief of staff in the obama administration. >> what would strike me was that we knew there was a world o

mr. investor, and expanding economic freedom and trade. with that, the committee stands adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this weekend on the tv on c-span two saturday at noon eastern from the franklin delano roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park new york, the annual roosevelt reading vessel featuring presentations about president roosevelt and roosevelt era politics. authors include steve and his book come down to pearl harbor: the 12 days to the attack, geraldine hawkins and her book elliott and eleanor roosevelt: the the story of the father and his daughter in the golden age. the gatekeeper, and the untold story of the partnership that defined the presidency. joseph and his book his final battle: the last months of bringing roosevelt. >> at 8:00 p.m. eastern a conversation with best-selling author gabe from his home in new york city. >> the books i published in the last couple years at the same kind of odd characters written by an 84-85 -year-old guy that the 24-25 -year-old guy was writing about when i was that age. >> he talked about his career over the past 60 years. his books include the kingdom and the power, unto the sons. >> i wanted to write about unknown people. the litt