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. and, you know, not only to be the children's parties at the white house but then bragged about it in newspaper stories afterwards. [laughter] >> it is somewhat embarrassing, i think. [laughter] >> a lot of my acquaintances with mrs. roosevelt was just reading the my day columns which as a young person, i thought were pretty boring and often didn't notice looking back at them that there's a sentence with a barb in it. like, for example, if she was -- if she was discussing the subject of cardinal spelman. so, you know, there are things i didn't understand at the time and, you know, it was just a nice boring nice lady that takes up a lot of time but i certainly admired the things she did. at one point i actually -- when i was in high school, i actually got to spend a week with her. my mother somehow arranged that i should spend my spring break in new york. and i got on a train. i went up to new york. i guess i was met by some family, spent a couple days in the apartment over washington s

mrs. roosevelt in her office from arnold constable. i think this was a financially advantageous arrangement for both the store and eleanor. 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 that person too well in thissic sure, but we -- in this picture. but we get some idea perhaps of the way she kind of hid herself from, um, public view when eleanor was in the white house. but she was definitely there assisting eleanor in transforming the role of first lady. the first road svelte administration. okay. here we see eleanor, and then we see this woman sort of in the background there? okay. that eat lorena hickok. lou rain that hickok had been the top woman political writer for the associated press in new york. and she was assigned to the roosevelt campaign train in the length of 1933 -- in the election of 1932, and 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

fact that her father and maybe the whole family were not fans of any of roosevelt's social or economic policies. but i did hear mrs. bush at one point talk about the fact that her mother had detested eleanor roosevelt. she thought that she was a busy body. she was running around, around the country. until she met her and then she really did reverse her opinion. and i think that over time, maybe barbara bush also reversed her opinion but i remember the comment as well. yes, ma'am. >> was it difficult for first lady bush to deal we are husband's failures, did she comment about her son george bush as president and his successes or failures? >> she said also nothing for publication. i do know from things from what she said that she was concerned about our involvement in iraq. and had real concerns about us going in and what was going to happen. but beyond that, she really hasn't said very much about his presidency. you all may remember there was that one incident early in his presidency where -- this is george w. bush was eating a pretzel, and he started to choke on it and she said that was pay back for having critici

mr. rose welcome you got to do something. this is unconscionable. and rooseveltross the desk and goes, do you know what, norman? i'm a damn fine better politician than you are. i know these people, and people are doing good work down the and it's just going to take some time. and norman was saying can't wait. in a way this is, this is what the response of some pacifists would say. you can't wait. you can't let this go on. that was his response to what was going on in the south. ultimately, you know, things did change and it did take a lot of time, but you could say like, maybe when the social climate for economic climate would allow roosevelt or the national guard to way things. maybe you need to wait third sheet -- 30 years. >> one of the things that fdr's own social conscience was awakened when eleanor brought him to new york to come and in so far as he was able to project, those values domestically, how do you, where do you come out on the issue of the limits of politics but the demands of justice? because no one would argue now that, because of the failures o

roosevelt. >> still have that chance next week. if you want to compare her to mrs. kennedy, let's do. >> your statement about children and the white house. from the first two years of the roosevelt administration she had two grandchildren in the white house. >> she had many grandchildren, and there are wonderful photos of her and fdr and the white house surrounded by at least a dozen of them. i should also say to you that i have no pleasure this past december of dining in beecher wrote beach appear in the hotel george. was with a colleague. i said, uc that sentiment became an. i said, you know, that looks like one of franklin roosevelt's grandchildren. my friend quite understandably said how would you know what one of franklin delano roosevelt grandchildren looks like. i said i have seen this one on c-span. i saw him on c-span two years ago. my colleague was too embarrassed to go up to this man. i of course, showing no embarrassment or shame go up to this man is having dinner it turns out with his daughter and say, are you frightened residents grandson. he says to me

mr. chairman for your private carters and restraint. franklin roosevelt, and lyndon johnson, you left them off the books and i think that was an act of generosity. the notion that the problems we are facing are a problem of with the efforts begun by fdr and continued under lbj and some others, that is because of the current problem, that is a very hard one for me to understand. apparently, these terrible efforts by roosevelt and johnson, who put a set of policies in place that helped middle class people as they got old took a very long time to take affect. this did not begin to blow up until fairly recently. the chairman said. the great recession was a contributing factor. here is where we differ in our analysis. we did very well in the 90s, even though this congress raised the marginal tax rate on the wealthiest people in the country. we had some of the best economic years that we had. raising the marginal rate from 36%-39% had no negative economic effect. they continue their economic productivity. the problem is that he was here as an appointee of presi

mr. president, the procedure the n.m.b. used for these elections went you know changed for 75 years. boards appointed by democratic presidents roosevelt, truman, johnson, carter and clinton all agreed with that process. that the house bill is only attempting to restore. in fact, the n.m.b. appointed by president carter unanimously ruled that it did not have authority to administratively change the form of the n.m.b.'s ballot use in representation elections and such a change if appropriate can only be made by congress. that just makes sense. yet today we have an administration bent on greasing the rails in favor of the unions and a democratic senate all too willing to go along with it. they are so willing, mr. president, that they have opted to stall passage of the f.a.a. reauthorization just to prevent congress from restoring a system that served the nation and the airline industry well for decades. this is another example of the administration sheik its true colors. rather than provide certainty to travelers, the transportation industry and airports, they are holding up a long-term f.a.a. reauthorization in order to benefit their uni

mr. miller: we've heard the same arguments about this we heard a century ago, a century ago, when theodore roosevelt pushed for pure food law the meat packers said, do you want government to take away your right to buy meat? do you want government to take away your freedoto buy beef from diseased animals or spoiled beef and the american people said, yeah, that's exactly what we want. we want to know what we're getting. and americans want to know what they're getting in financial products too. do they want to lose the freedom to get a subprime loan when they qualified for a prime loan? yes, they do. do they want to have a credit card to note what they're getting on the credit card? yes, they do. they want to know that there's somebody with their interests at heart who is reading all that fine print that the banks -- banks' lawyers wrote to be good for the banks, profitable for the banks and let the consumer have no idea what's in that little print in the legalese. yes, they want someone, a strong agency, reading that fine print with their interest at heart in saying, no, you can't do that. you can't

mr. speaker, there was a time when the republican party were known as defenders of the environment, it was a republican president, toad teddy roosevelt, who inaugurated the national forest service and who worked to conserve 230 million acres of americanland including the grand canyon which is now put at risk. he called the canyon, and i quote, a national wonder, which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. leave it as it is, he said, you cannot improve on it. the ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it, end quote. ment richard nixon brought life to the environmental protection agency. another president, josh bush senior expanded the clean air act even further to protect americans' health. and yet, today, republican majority brings us an interior appropriations bill which undoes all of this good work, which endanger american families threatens to do permanent damage to the environment. i urge my colleagues in the majority ks return to your roots to once again put the american people before the interests of polluters and to oppose this disastrous legislation. i yield back the balance of my tim

mr. miller: we've heard the same arguments about this we heard a century ago, a century ago, when theodore roosevelt pushed for pure food law the meat packers said, do you want government to take away your right to buy meat? do you want government to take away your freedom to buy beef from diseased animals or spoiled beef and the american people said, yeah, that's exactly what we want. we want to know what we're getting. and americans want to know what they're getting in financial products too. do they want to lose the freedom to get a subprime loan when they qualified for a prime loan? yes, they do. do they want to have a credit card to note what they're getting on the credit card? yes, they do. they want to know that there's somebody with their interests at heart who is reading all that fine print that the banks -- banks' lawyers wrote to be good for the banks, profitable for the banks and let the consumer have no idea what's in that little print in the legalese. yes, they want someone, a strong agency, reading that fine print with their interest at heart in saying, no, you can't do that. you can'

mr. miller: we've heard the same arguments about this we heard a century ago, a century ago, when theodore roosevelt pushed for pure food law the meat packers said, do you want government to take away your right to buy meat? do you want government to take away your freedom to buy beef from diseased animals or spoiled beef and the american people said, yeah, that's exactly what we want. we want to know what we're getting. and americans want to know what they're getting in financial products too. do they want to lose the freedom to get a subprime loan when they qualified for a prime loan? yes, they do. do they want to have a credit card to note what they're getting on the credit card? yes, they do. they want to know that there's somebody with their interests at heart who is reading all that fine print that the banks -- banks' lawyers wrote to be good for the banks, profitable for the banks and let the consumer have no idea what's in that little print in the legalese. yes, they want someone, a strong agency, reading that fine print with their interest at heart in saying, no, you can't do that. you can'

roosevelt and a long line of bipartisan conservation leaders while it also endangers public health. a republican majority claims to be concerned about spending, but this reckless bill would impose billions of dollars, mr. chairman, of health care costs on americans by increasing the incidents of asthma, emphysema, heart attacks and even premature deaths. this environmental bill will increase health care costs by up to $539 billion, according to the congressional research service. since medicare, medicaid and chip are responsible for 33.9% of total health care costs, this republican bill will cost taxpayers some $179 billion more. in addition, it will cause more than 60,000 premature deaths. 20 million lost days of work. and 36,800 additional heart attacks in america. this bill eliminates funding for critical land conservation priorities, completely defunding the forest legacy program. it defunds the chesapeake bay restoration program. it blocks environmental protection agency implementation of public health standards for particulat, lead and greenhouse gas emissions. it repeals clean water act standards to protect streams from mountain top removal. it imperils the collegeliness of drinking water by un

mr. speaker, never was there a greater provocation or clearer moral justification for war than the japanese attack on pearl harbor. never was there a more activist president than franklin roosevelt. yet within 24 hours of that attack, president roosevelt appeared before a joint session of congress in this very hall. he clearly recognized that as commander in chief, his authority only extended to ordering "that all measures be taken for our defense." he recognized that under the constitution, anything more, even in this most historic i tack required an act of congress, which he sought and obtained. the unprovoked attack on libya was not authorized by this congress and it's accordingly unconstitutional and illegal. indeed, two weeks ago, the house considered a resolution authorizing a war with libya, and it rejected that measure by nearly a 3-1 margin. it then considered a second measure to authorize acts of war against libya just short of actual combat, including refueling tankers on their way to targets, the identification and selection of targets, operational support, operational planning. it rejected that measure as well. the precedent being established right now by the presid