mrs. roosevelt in her outfit. now, i think this was a financially advantageous arrangement for both, the store and eleanor. ah, but now we get to the person who was much more of an influence on her as she transforms the role of first lady than earl miller. we can't see this person too well in this picture, but we get some idea perhaps of the way she kind of hid herself from public view when eleanor was in the white house. but she was definitely there assisting eleanor in transforming the role of first lady of the first roosevelt administration. okay. here we see eleanor, and then we see this woman sort of in the background there. okay, that's lorena hickok. lorena hickok had been the top women's political writer for the associated press in new york, and she was assigned to the roosevelt campaign train in the election of 1932. and the campaign train went all over the united states, and eleanor was there, of course, to stand by franklin's side and smile when he gave speeches, you know, the role of the political wife

mrs. roosevelt was in tuskegee in 1939 or 1940 for a board meeting of the roosevelt fund. she was on the board of directors of the fund responsible for doing lots of things, mainly building schools for african-american children in rural areas. she had been to tuskegee several times because of her interest in infantile paralysis research. what people don't tend to remember is they had to do that research at tuskegee because it didn't allow blacks. she had been there several times. she knew about the work dr. carver was doing and when she got there she did hear about this training program that tuskegee institute had going on, civilian program for its students. chief anderson was the chief instructor pilot and when she visited the facility she asked if chief anderson could take her for a plane ride. there was a famous picture taken of the two of them along with louis jackson who was another instructor pilot who appeared in black newspapers all over the country. she wrote a couple of columns about it. it provided very important publicity for the project and momentum for the pr

mrs. roosevelt? excellent question. my next project is on eleanor roosevelt and world world war i. when i started writing on fdr i planned to have a chapter on eleanor to see how other people saw japanese americans. but she woulds so important and so interesting she was going to take over the entire book, and so i decided that i would -- had better let her go for the time being, and so in the meantime, i've been assembling stuff. the story of eleanor roosevelt and japanese americans, very briefly, is a story of dissidence. it's a story of eleanor roosevelt trying to find ways to push her husband against -- to dissuade him from removing japanese americans, then to help japanese americans, she approved emergency funds from her account with the american friend service committee nor emergency programs for the japanese american evacuees. she asked to visit a camp, and in 1942 this was forbidden, but in 1943 she actually visited the gila river camp. i wrote to a number of japanese americans who had been to gila river to ask for their stories of mrs. roosevelt's visit. the first thing the

mrs. roosevelt. these people hate the civilian pressure coming down on their heads forcing them to desegregate but had it not been for this they would have served in the pacific. a long answer to your short question. >>ur is that in your book? >> absolutely. >> we are a lot of time. [applause] >> thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] >> todd moye, associate history professor of the university of north texas and his book "freedom flyer: the tuskegee airmen of world war ii". coming up in 15 minutes philip terzian will discuss his latest publication "architects of power: roosevelt, eisenhower, and the american century". more of booktv's live coverage from the 2011 roosevelt reading festival hosted by the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york, after this break. >> part of this book group is an imprint that is rather unique in publishing circles. it publishes 12 books a >> part of this book group is 12 it is the imprint that is rather unique in publishing ci

earnestly went up to governor curley and said, well did you have a strong memory of president roosevelt, mr curley? he said yes, what a. [laughter] he also mentioned to me once that i think he overheard a member of congress saying to another member of congress, fdr is his own worst enemy and the other member of congress replied not as long as i'm alive. [laughter] so that was another side of this. i think we have run to the end of our time. all i can say is you can see why jim burns is one of the great founding fathers not only a roosevelt scholarship that of american political science and historical writing in this country and all i can say is thank god for williams college for bringing us all together. thank you all for being here. [applause] [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you overcoming and let's give one more hand to our guests, susan dunn, michael beschloss and james macgregor burns. [applause] the we'll see you all next year at the ninth annual reading festival. have a good evening. >> spirits of just men is charles thompson's new book. mr. thompson, what's your book about?

mr. terzian to the roosevelt reading festival. [applause] >> thank you, herman. and good morning, and i'm honored and delighted to be here. i -- at the roosevelt reading festival. i don't live around here, so i don't get to visit the roosevelt library very often, but every time i do and every time i visit the house i'm always reminded of henry morgan thaw who was fdr's neighbor here in duchess county and probably knew him as much as anyone and said that roosevelt had a thickly-forested interior which meant that roosevelt was a very rather enigmatic, um, distant, almost secretive man in many ways. but i've always felt that when you visit the house, especially, and walk around and look at it, you get as close as you'll ever get to appreciating franklin roosevelt as a human being and where he came from and what he was and how he became what he did become. and i'm delighted to be here, too, at the roosevelt library which is the first of the great president -- we often forget that franklin roosevelt invented the whole concept of presidential libraries. it was his idea

mr. donovan in the latter years of his life. >> he was franklin roosevelt's top spy master, and he was introducing the united states into a form of warfare, covert warfare, espionage, propaganda, psychological operations. things that conventional admirals and generals found deeply disturbing, they found his ideas deeply disturbing. >> charlie: afghanistan and the founding of oss when we continue. if you've had a coke in the last 20 years, ( screams ) you've had a hand in giving college scholarships... and support to thousands of our nation's... most promising students. ♪ ( coca-cola 5-note mnemonic ) every story needs a hero we can all root for. who beats the odds d cos out on top. but this isn't just hollywood storyline. it's happening every day, all across america. every time a storefront opens. or the midnight oil is burned. or when someone chases a dream, not just a dollar. they are small business owners. so if you wanna root for a real hero, support small business. shop small. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> president oba

know in that sense i think you look at mr obama and what the democrats are attempting to do and you couldn't say against the context of what someone like roosevelt did you know fifty seventy years ago in which america faced a comparable kind of crisis of this magnitude we haven't done this before america has since said. the great depression have gone through a period smaller fiscal crisis is in which you know we've been able to recover in a fairly comfortable way that gave people a sense of optimism in a sense of hope we're witnessing today and this is what i believe is a structural realignment of the economic nature of this country work people are fearful of is the fact that they're going to be at the short end of the stick most people and you see this most clearly articulated by people in the tea party movement are scared to death they know that the traditional privileges that went to them are disappearing but they have very little control over the sort of the future of the economy of this country there's no big future in most people's eyes there's just holding on to what you heard of and hoping for the best so i mean i think that's the discon

mr. george. he seemed to come right out of central casting. al seated on the platform was a young attorney named lawrence camp whom roosevelt was going to endorse. so there sat george on the platform not displaying any emotion. walter george, in fact, was not a diehard reactionary or an outspoken adversary of the president. in 1933 he'd supported virtually all of fdr's proposals including the national industrial recovery act, tva, agricultural adjustment act. later he voted for social security, the national labor relations act and other new deal measures. and during the 1936 presidential campaign george had backed roosevelt all the way. but during fdr's second term he cast votes against some key administration bills including housing bills, court reform, executive reorganization and the wages and hours bill. roosevelt began his talk by discussing the achievements of the rural electrify case administration. it was one of the great new deal successes. before it the free market economy had left much of rural america literally in the dark. then fdr spoke about coming to georgia for the first time 14 years ago in search of a pool of warm water where

the center for american progress, the heritage foundation, the roosevelt institute -- all of them saying, we need to get this debt down. mr. president, here's where we're headed, according to the congressional budget office. this is not the gross debt. this is the publicly held defnlts it's headed for 233% of the gross domestic product if we pail to act. if instead we adopt the commission proposal, you can see we'd actually work the debt do down, the publicly held debt, to 30% of g.d.p. mr. president, every part of the budget has to be scrutinized and has to generate savings. here's what's happened to defense spending since 1997. it has gone straight up from $254 billion a year to $688 billion a year. mr. president, secretary of defense gates said this. "... the budget of the pentagon almost doubled during the last decade. but our capabilities didn't particularly expand. a lot of that money went into infrastructure and overhead and, frankly, i think a culture that had an open checkbook." mr. president, i think he got it right. and when we look at this growing debt, where did it come from? "the washington post" just had th

mr. garamendi: thank you. i strongly object to this bill. in his second inaugural address, franklin delano roosevelt laid out i think a very good test for us, it was the test for this nation at one of its most desperate periods. we too find ourselves in a difficult situation, we do have a big deficit and we need to make some tough choices and today as we debate this piece of legislation we are indeed making choices and we are being tested. we're being tested about our values, we're being tested about what we think is important. franklin delano roosevelt suggested this be the test, the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much , it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ponder those words and apply those words to what we are debating and what we will soon vote for or against on this floor. the test of our progress. add more to the abundance of those who have much we've discussed here many times in the last couple of hours, the options that are given to us on tax policy, continuing to provide subsidies to the wealthiest industry in the