and in regards to mr. dewey, his passion with music from michigan, richard dreyfuss said in mr. holland's opus, music is not about notes on a page. it's about having fun and passion. and that's what dewey had. which is missing today. today it's texting and -- nobody communicates. i think we're losing that. and what mr. norton is doing, god bless him. i worked with governor rockefeller and i met him and being in politics and part of that. and also the history of the roosevelt hotel is important. i was fortunate enough to work with phil d'antoni and we shot a scene from the 7-ups in that hotel. when i was in that hotel, you felt a part of history. and the waldorf astoria had -- has a hidden train station underground, that teddy roosevelt used to come in, because of him being in a wheelchair, they didn't want to photograph him. so you're all doing a great job and god bless dewey for what he did, because those were the times when people were close. it was an intimate working situation. today people are tweeting and it's very -- it's very distant. >> thanks, stuart. >> caller: we in t

smith if mr. dewey had won the 1944 election, what would his policy as far as ending the war have been? >> 1944, did you say? >> caller: yes. >> i think it's a fair question, but, i think if you look at the calendar and you see where the armies were in january of 1945, i think at that point the nazi defeat was only a question of time. the larger question, of course, for example, yalta, how dewey might have conducted diplomacy differently if it had been him meeting churchill and stalin. >> what about the atomic bomb? do you think dewey would have done that? >> it's hard for me to believe that any president, after we'd spent $2 billion to do this thing, knowing that if he didn't use the bomb and if the war were prolonged, quite frankly, it would lead to impeachment. what was the point of -- i think this retrospective argument over truman and whether it was moral to use the bomb and so forth and so on, it's hard to believe any american president not taking advantage of the opportunity to end the war that t

dewey the navy realized the president would be coming back much more often. they hired the premier interior decorator from miami beach, and so the house reflects the remodel of 1949. mr. lassi temp r made no communication with the president, he made something that would be acceptable to the guests that would come to the president and he picked colors popular at the time. green walls, taupe, grays, red. the house, of course, had 20 years of admirals living in it from 1953 to 1974 so many of the things that had been done for truman were discarded. it was our task to restore the house as it was. and, of course, although we had the records of what was bought, they didn't necessarily tell us who it was from. so we found this fabric on the drapes and couch. it turned out to be a waverally print. none of his knew that. we found it on e-bay. the paintings on the wall, i had been led to believe were stolen until one day we found a notation that they had been loaned by the naval academy. the naval academy had no idea what i was talking about, and so finally we found the list of collection numbers from the truman library, we approached the naval academy for the paintings and th

dewey was the prosecutor from new york who overrated himself. we often have new yorkers come out and say they are going to win, especially when they have a legal background. taft was mr. republican, people had heard of him before. taft was a name. that was not particularly new. herbert hoover was a wonderful man. he was getting in the way of the progress of the party because he kept wanting to run again. this time was probably past. what was exciting about willkie was he went to hear herbert hoover and they could not believe that harbor hoover would hog the nomination. in that way, willie was a grass roots. he, himself, was not of the grass. he was chosen by people who were voting against the party. the other names were "the parti." willkie came in as somebody different, not what we expected. >> he retired and an exciting man. i think for many people, it was none of the above. it was the perfect atmosphere for an outsider who promises and looks very different from the standard of the late 1930's. >> what was the state of the democratic party, amity shlaes, and franklin roosevelt and his support in 1940, eight years after the new deal at a time when most residents wou

smith if mr. dewey had won the 1944 election, what would his policy as far as ending the war have been? >> 1944, did you say? >> caller: yes. >> i think it's a fair question, but, i think if you look at the calendar and you see where the armies were in january of 1945, i think at that point the nazi defeat was only a question of time. the larger question, of course, for example, yalta, how dewey might have conducted diplomacy differently if it had been him meeting churchill and stalin. >> what about the atomic bomb? do you think dewey would have done that? >> it's hard for me to believe that any president, after we'd spent $2 billion to do this thing, knowing that if he didn't use the bomb and if the war were prolonged, quite frankly, it would lead to impeachment. what was the point of -- i think this retrospective argument over truman and whether it was moral to use the bomb and so forth and so on, it's hard to believe any american president not taking advantage of the opportunity to end the war that t