mrs. roosevelt with two hands eased it back to the white house. and had meetings with cabinet wives to compare social schedules to make sure that nothing was impeding or competing with the white house's particular social agenda. >> so what was the impact of all of that? >> mrs. roosevelt had a control over washington that i think some of the more recent, prior first ladies, had not. she formalized things. she had a definite code of behavior and if you did not follow her code of behavior, you didn't really exist in her washington. and she did bring a power and a grandeur back to the entertaining. the visible side of the white house that bolsters theodore roosevelt's forays into international politics and to bring power back to the presidency. >> lady bird johnson. i have to say, i am from texas. lady bird johnson is one of my favorite first ladies. she is the first first lady to announce her own political -- not political agenda, but her own inaugural agenda. she announces during -- leading up to the 1965 inauguration, she goes public with what is

mrs. roosevelt, i think you will agree that a good many people hated your husband. they even hated you. >> many do still. >> reporter: after the jfk assassinations. >> was there anything that the secret service could have done to keep that from happening? >> reporter: his interview subjects knew the tough questions would come and yet they would answer. roslyn carter after her husband lost to ronald reagan. >> i think this president made us comfortable with your predators. >> that's not very nice, what you are saying. >> but it's the way i feel and i think it's true. >> reporter: years later, this tense back and forth with nancy reagan. >> what was your husband's role? >> nothing. i mean -- >> he was president of the united states. >> it was what -- i don't know enough about iran-contra. to talk to you intel jenltly about it. >> you're going to be in japan and i'm told it's a $2 million -- >> they're getting two of us. >> it's going to be a well recompensed two weeks. >> it is for everybody who goes there. which you probably know. and you really didn't need that ques

mrs. roosevelt i think that you will agree that a good man knee people hated your husband. even hated you. >> crazy. >> how many blacks are there on your top ten? >> i couldn't honestly answer you. >> during the iran hostage crisis in 1979 mike wallace looked the ayatollah khomeini in the eye and said this. >> president sadam of egypt a devoutly religious man said that what you are doing now is quote a disgrace to islam. he called you imam, for give me, his words, not mine, a lunatic. >> wallace born in massachusetts in 1918 myron wallace he held a variety of other news and entertainment jobs before becoming a full-time newsman for cbs. he made that decision after one of his children here is killed in a mountain climbing accident. >> after we lost peter i said, i can't hide behind that any more. what i am going to do is in the memory of your brother your older brother peter i am going to do something that i am proud of doing and he would be proud to have me do. >> that was wallace being interviewed by his son, our fox colleague and host of fox news sunday, chris wallace in

mrs. roosevelt, i think that you will agree that a good many people hated your husband. they even hated you. >> wallace had also explored acting, hosted a game show, and appeared in commercials. decided to devote his career to journalism after the death of his son in 1962. a way to honor his son's memory. he was hired by cbs news in 1963 as a correspondent. five years later cbs launched "60 minutes" with mike wallace as one of its primary correspondents. >> there's been so much talk in recent years of style and charisma. no one suggests you or humphrey have much of it. have you given no thought to this aspect of campaigning and of leading? >> during the watergate scandal, wallace won recognition for his interrogation of white house staffers, including this interview with nixon's right-hand man john ehrlichman. >> perjury. plans to audit tax returns. bogus opinion polls. plans to firebomb a building. conspiracy to obstruct justice. all of this by the law and order administration of richard nixon. >> is there a question in there somewhere? >> audiences began to tune in to

mr. roosevelt. it will be about president roosevelt as assistant secretary of the navy in world war i. i hope then that i will turn to something else if i'm still up to it. are there other questions? yes. >> would you think explains the difference of the treatment of japan as opposed to on the mainland and the west? >> it was a terrible thing. we incarcerated the japanese on the west coast. we sent them to concentration camps, called -- very likely -- relocation camps treated thing that we could not take a chance of security on the west coast because there were so many japanese living there or they had to give up their property, they had to give up their schooling -- they were sent to places like utah and montana and idaho in two very weak circumstances in concentration camps. there were never any problems with the loyalty of the japanese. eventually, the young japanese from the camps were allowed to leave the camps to enlist in the army, and they became one of the bravest forces we had in the army. they were never allowed to go to the pacific, because it was thought that you could not

roosevelt tried to figure out what the threat was. he turned to randolph and said how many people do you plan to bring. and randolph said in his deep voice, 100,000, mr. president. and roosevelt turned to walter wright who he trusted more, and asked walter, how many people really will march? tell me the really story. white replied that he expected no less than 100,000. they stared at each other. and then roosevelt started to negotiate. and he committed to put the force and weight of his office behind the effort to secure jobs for qualified negros. and he left by proposing they create a committee, which didn't sound too good at first, but they managed to hammer out an agreement in which this committee, the fair employment practices committee created by the executive order, would actually have the power to discipline companies who discriminated in defense contracts. so, in this moment, in this key moment, this march on washington most certainly did make a difference. but it came at the cost of canceling it. once it was signed, on june 25th, randolph proceeded to fly to the meeting of the national association for color people and announce that the march

mr. roosevelt. it will be about president roosevelt as assistant secretary of the navy in world war i. i hope then that i will turn to something else if i'm still up to it. are there other questions? yes. >> would you think explains the difference of the treatment of japan as opposed to on the mainland and the west? >> it was a terrible thing. we incarcerated the japanese on the west coast. we sent them to concentration camps, called -- very likely -- relocation camps treated thing that we could not take a chance of security on the west coast because there were so many japanese living there or they had to give up their property, they had to give up their schooling -- they were sent to places like utah and montana and idaho in two very weak circumstances in concentration camps. there were never any problems with the loyalty of the japanese. eventually, the young japanese from the camps were allowed to leave the camps to enlist in the army, and they became one of the bravest forces we had in the army. they were never allowed to go to the pacific, because it was thought that you could not

theodore roosevelt, taking an entirely different point of view, was able to convince congress to fund a restation of the house. that magic word has sweetened the idea with congress from garfield to mrs. kennedy. what roosevelt wanted as a clear symbol of the modern international presidency that had emerged from the spanish war. he got a very careful restoration of the outside with the victorian additions, some of which i'll show you, torn away. inside he got a total modernization. there's been only one improved the architecture of the building. that was in 1947. in 1948 a campaign button read, "harry, why did you build that balcony for dewey?" well, plooid after himmediately election that year truman undertook on the direction of the army corps of engineers again, to rebuild the white house. he insisted it was a restoration. and he personally protected the original walls from abuse, insisting that they be saved. a new white house was built inside of them. those floors lincoln had tried went to fort myers to landfill. truman was no antiquarian, but he deeply believed that the president should remain in the white house. and when the work was finished, he ordered that the room where li

theodore roosevelt, taking an entirely different point of view, was able to convince congress to fund a restoration of the house. that magic word has sweetened the idea with congress from garfield to mrs. kennedy. what roosevelt wanted was a clear symbol of the modern international presidency that had emerged from the spanish war. he got a very careful restoration of the outside with the victorian additions, some of which i'll show you, torn away. inside, he got a total modernization. there's been only one change of substance since then, and that was president truman's balcony on the south side. angered at virginia congressman howard w. smith for removing an appropriation that would have doubled the west wing, truman took $16,000 in household funds, the allowance for the household, and built his balcony. this required nothing from congress, not a penny. and it affirmed the president -- that the president alone had real authority over the white house, which of course he does. truman insisted that he had improved the architecture of the building. that was in 1947. in 1948, a campaign button read, "harry, why did you build that balcony for dewey?" when immediately after his election that

kinds of support that for example was gathered to push franklin roosevelt to changes politics in the one nine hundred thirty s. then i think mr obama would have done or would do the same thing franklin roosevelt was elected in one nine hundred thirty two as a center of the road democrat rather like mr obama he came in talking about balancing budgets and all of the rest he came here about giving incentives to private employers to hire within a year and a half of taking office he goes on the radio and he says the private sector has not hired the people we now have tens of millions of unemployed the unemployment rate in the winter of one nine hundred thirty three thirty four was twenty five percent three times what it is today and he said ok if the private sector isn't going to do it i'm going to do it and when he was asked how dare you he said there is no option he said look around you the cia old a congress of industrial organizations was organizing tens of millions of american workers it was the unionization drive we had never had before in american history and we've never had it since seizing occupy wall street isn't big eno

mrs. hoover and her staff considered the public outcry over president teddy roosevelt's invitation to booker t. washington to the white house. so it was decided that rather than having one large tea for everyone, first lady hoover would have several teas. they had five in all. at the first four, there were approximately 180 to 200 persons in attendance. then the final tea of 15 persons was the one in which mrs. depriest was invited. there were several different lists of drafts of guests who were to come, and the final draft shows mrs. hoover's sister, her secretaries, supporters of her husband's from different representatives. an invitation was sent to mrs. depriest on june 5th, the date of the fourth tea. it was emphasized to be very confidential about this and to caution the messenger from refraining giving any information about it. the event was pleasant and held in the green room of the white house. however, afterwards there was a storm of criticism in the press mostly from the south and also some state legislatures issued resolutions of condemnation. for today there are 1,000 letters on

. >> speaking of that, roosevelt had all the animals as well. like mrs. coolidge did, too. talking about earlier with the story that the little boys brought their little pony upstai upstairs. >> exactly right. >> because that -- the animals are also a great comfort to you in the paths you have. >> did millie really sleep in between you and your husband zm. >> are you kidding? where else would she sleep? we now have two little i itty-bitty dogs. >> was it fun to write the book? >> yes. i must say, the white house photographers really helped me. we would have -- schedule a day to go to the red room and hope nobody saw us because -- dogs are not allow order the furniture. we placed her beautifully in the room. she lounged in the red room. she -- thefabulous about helpin. that was very much fun. she made over a million dollars for charity. as george says, i worked all my life, got the highest job maybe in the world and my dog made more money than me. >> there is a very touching moment when, of course, fdr's dog -- eleanor then took the dog over. and the dog was so used to hail

finally, he really -- it became pretty heated and he finally told franklin roosevelt mr. president, i have to inform you that most of the leaders of the pacific fleet do not have confidence in you to lead the navy, and fdr didn't do anything at that precise moment but he wouldn't act on what was said, and he finally fdr was reelected the next month november of 1942 and right after he fires joe richardson so i don't know that a movie is ever going into the life of the admiral or not, but he is backed in the united states on the day of pearl harbor' attack and he's sitting their getting all that news and he knows i warned them over a year ago and still haven't. >> did fdr acknowledge any limits on constitutional limits on the power of commander in chief during world war ii? you mentioned the internment of the japanese and i also have read historical accounts when he said the military tribunals to try the nazis out tours that some of the historical accounts that i've read said that he's let it be known to back channels if the supreme court tries to challenge my authority to

in 1902, president theodore roosevelt was able to convince congress to fund a restoration of the house. that magic word was sweetened by mrs. kennedy. he got a very careful restoration of the outside with a victorian addition. inside he got a total modernization. there has been one change of b substance and that was the balan balcony on the south side. truman took $16,000 and built the balcony. truman insisted that he would like to improve the architecture of the building. a new white house was built inside of them. those floors lincoln had tried went to landfill. he deeply believed that the president should remain in the white house. when the work was finished, he ordered that the room that lincoln's office had been in be used. truman was loyal to those walls. he was walking around with hershey one day and they were about to chip a window and carry in a bull doze ser and a dump truck. and he said stop. he insisted that those be taken down. they were taken down and rebuilt and dug with cellars. he was serious about those walls. i have studied and written about the winehouse for years. i concluded that what you would want f

finally, he really -- it became pretty heated and he finally told franklin roosevelt mr. president, i have to inform you that most of the leaders of the pacific fleet do not have confidence in you to lead the navy, and fdr didn't do anything at that precise moment but he wouldn't act on what was said, and he finally fdr was reelected the next month november of 1942 and right after he fires joe richardson so i don't know that a movie is ever going into the life of the admiral or not, but he is backed in the united states on the day of pearl harbor' attack and he's sitting their getting all that news and he knows i warned them over a year ago and still haven't. >> did fdr acknowledge any limits on constitutional limits on the power of commander in chief during world war ii? you mentioned the internment of the japanese and i also have read historical accounts when he said the military tribunals to try the nazis out tours that some of the historical accounts that i've read said that he's let it be known to back channels if the supreme court tries to challenge my authority to

mr. jefferson with a wreath laying ceremony at the jefferson memorial and here's a little fact for you. it was president franklin roosevelt that dedicated the memorial back on this date in 1943, the 200th anniversary of thomas jefferson's birth. >>> titanic split open by a burg, her side ripped over as -- berg, her side ripped open like a can opener, just one of the headlines of the sinking of the titanic. it happened 100 years ago this weekend, april, 1912, and as the newspaper saying goes you can read all about it, the museum marking the anniversary with a special exhibit and showcasing the front pages of the titanic in cases that line the museum on pennsylvania in northwest. >> one of the big points of interest is initially the newspapers got it terribly wrong, indicated that all of the passengers had survived. everybody was going to be all right and we know obviously in hindsight that that's not true, the vast majority of the passengers were not saved. >> the special exhibit runs through next friday. >>> next tuesday space shuttle discovery will arrive at its permanent home, the smithsonian's center. the historic ship

mr. klukowski about the book "resurgent." you can watch that any future weeks on book tv on c-span2. ken blackwell, in your book, "the blueprint," you compare presidents bush and obama to president hoover and roosevelt what is that analogy? >> hoover set the table for roosevelt, and i believe that president bush set the table in his last 18 months for this substantial power grab by barack obama. at the end of the day, what is fundamentally challenging about the obama administration and their effort to expand the power of the federal government and the executive branch within the federal government is that the president has taken what has been a casual tendency by past presidents, and he is the muscle on the phone. he hasn't done it at alarming speed and in an alarming scale. so that you see not only his choice of czars, but i'll give you an example. in 2009, "newsweek" magazine had a cover story. the cover story was that we are all socialists now. well, the heck we are. but what "newsweek" magazine was talking about was that president obama had reversed what had been done in the clinton-gingrich years to balance the budget, to actually reform welfare and we were moving back very rapidly in the first

mr meekin said just want to keep the money and that is very very. a lot has changed since the one nine hundred thirty three when franklin roosevelt told us that we have nothing to fear but fear itself and that we get out of the republican great depression through the power of compassion and cooperation we now have politicians who use fear and hatred as political tools first after flying around the country in air force one after nine eleven george bush finally decided to really scare the hell out of all of us in his state of the union address a few months later time and distance from the events of september the eleventh will not make a safe unless we act on its lessons america is no longer protected by advanced oceans. we are protected from attack only by vigorous action of brawn and increased vigilance at home our president basically told us that only going to war and a massive security state would keep us safe and the way to be afraid constantly what followed was a decade of shock and awe bunker busting bombs depleted uranium drone strikes and kill squads or follower military occupations middle east instability torture war crimes this is where bush

roosevelt. the north lawn again the statue of jefferson was placed there by polk. but he wanted a symbol to identify himself with expansion. so he put jefferson on the front lawn. mrsk is a shrewd gal. she saw him as cortez and not jefferson then. this is the lawn, in the last speech that lincoln made and there were several thousand people there. the greenhouse, a very popular feature of the white house, it was torn down in 1902 and part of it was moved. it was not this same one. this one wooden and this one burned. here you see them greeting indians and ladies there. and the agents, these are the contents of the earlier and those were popular in the white house. they used to take them out and put them in the halls. this was the best place to take pictures. all winter long this was a retreat for the family. the lawn in the back, what they did was they brought sheep in, and it was one of the perks of the gardner to take the money and they went in and the fire engine was brought out and they greened it up. and they had two rollers and they would flatten it out. and linton used to go into the blue room behind that and he would close the shoutters and h would lion the

mr. bam become's friction with the court is nothing new. having publicly scolded the justices in the 2010 "state of the union" address, posture that seems to closely mirror franklin roosevelt'sstration with the supreme court. after the justices issued decision limiting ambitious government programs he crafted in the 1930s, he threatened to add six new seat to the court, packing it with justices who share his ideology. >> i will appoint justices who will not override the judgment of the congress on legislative policy. >> reporter: the court packing scheme never materialized. it was roosevelt's successor harry s. truman who exhibited the deference more common among u.s. presidents. 1952, hours before steelworkers were said to strike across the u.s., truman nationalized the industry. fight that went all the way to the supreme court. before the court had ruled a reporter asked truman if he would accept the court's decision. he replied of course i would. of course i would. the reporter continued, well then, as far as you are concerned the system of checks and balances goes on unimpeded. truman plied unimpeded. i have no ambition to be a dictator. truman ultimately lost that battl

mr. gri hall have spak i rise in strong opposition to the foxx amendment and in strong support of the antiquities act. follows in the -- following in the footsteps of need dore roosevelt and franklin roosevelt, 16 presidents, eight republicans and eight depps have used the antiquities act to designate approximately 130 national monuments. in most recent history, president george w. bush used the antiquities act to designate the largest national monument in history. most recently, president obama used the act to preserve an enormously important road in virginia. these special places may have been lost to development or destruction had the 59th congress not authorized presidents to use the antiquities act to move quickly to protect federal lands and this is worth repeating. the antiquities act allows designation of national monoyumes on federal land only. this is already owned by the federal government and to claim there is some kind of land grant going on is totally false. or national monuments are valuable. popular tourism that serve as powerful economic engines. they studied 17 large national monuments in 11 western states and found positive impacts to local economie

mr. davies. before the break i asked who was the first u.s. president to receive full-time secret service protection? the answer, theodore roosevelt a shout out to donald of montreal, one of those wo tweeted me the right answer. >>> president obama and mitt romney locked in a dead heat in the battle for the white house. the biggest concern for voters, the economy, and the worse it looks the higher romney's numbers go. so is the gop quietly rooting for a bad economy and is that campaign strategy fair game? cnn contributor maria cardona and republican strategist ana navarro joining me. let's start with you, are republicans purposely bad-mouthing the economy to make them look bad? >> sometimes they are and they need to be very careful with that, because the last thing they need to be seen especially by middle-class families who are really struggling to get by is that they are talking down the economy. i hope that's not the case, but the more that they go out there and bash this president and his economic policies when, in fact, there have been -- there has been more than 25 straight months of private sector job creation, more than 4.

also president lincoln, president roosevelt who tried unsuccessfully to attack the court in 1937. compare this to history. guest: yeah, but see, mr. friedman is missing the point. the point is not that the court is immune to criticism. of course the president can criticize the court but those actions that they're talking about were general criticisms of the court. they were criticisms after a case had been decided. here, we're in a situation where the president's lawyers are before the court arguing a case where a decision has not yet been made and the president basically interferes with that and injects himself into it by criticizing the court before the case is finished and before a decision has been rendered. host: let's go to james calling in on the republican line from springfield, missouri. good morning. caller: good morning, good morning. i think -- i just watched your last show, i think a lot of it is just showing the core issues at hand in america today in politics. i think simply the core issues are the politicians, government, call them whoever you want, congressmen, senators, people, they forgot who they serve. they w