mrs. roosevelt would enjoy a certain freedom. toring relative to our public speaking was very important because very shy eleanor roosevelt was a little intimidated by public speaking. she was suddenly realize she had the ability to conquer that fear through the tutoring and she would realize the power of public speaking. and in this case, the power was that a cap franklin roosevelt's image alive to the american public until he addresses the democratic convention in 1924. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i'm speaking to you tonight at a very serious moment in our history. the cabinet is convening and the leaders of congress are meeting with the president. and army department and navy officials have been with the president all afternoon. the japanese ambassador was talking to the president at the airships that japan's were bombing our citizens in hawaii and the philippines, sinking one of our transports loaded with lumber on its way to why you. by tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a full report and be ready f

were laid out,s and it was important because roosevelt and mrs. did not have a close relationship until the polio came into the story and louis h owe was with franklin roosevelt sent 1910, when he started his political career. they would encourage franklin in the sense against the wishes of franklin's mother, sarah. felt because franken contracted polio and thinking of the resources of the family, that franklin could very easily live his life at springwood in the role of a gentleman just a keeper -- estate keeper. mrs. roosevelt would encourage the opposite and motivate franklin. mrs. howe would tutor roosevelt and her public speaking in teacher her how to put emphasis on certain words, how to control her very interesting time that sometimes went a little high-pitched. soon mrs. mrs. roosevelt would be comfortable with her public speaking and realize the power of that ability. some might think it was a bit self-serving of mrs. roosevelt, because when you think of the doubling estate keeper, his wife would also be confined to the estate. mrs. roosev

mrs. roosevelt's that is somewhat interesting in its addiction and it shows how mrs. osevelt referred her laundry to be delivered by household staff. folded and placed upon her bed. she would place it throughout the cottage. on close examination of the laundry, it reveals it is all monogrammed. we have mrs. roosevelt's monogram on the main towels. we also have nancy's monogram on some of the linens. some of the linens are jointly monogrammed with the initials e. e.m.n. that was pretty consistent. when i look to this room, it just surprises me that a lady who was born into wealth, that married into wealth, and generated wealth in her lifetime would live in such a simple fashion. the bed is surely not an elaborate bed for a woman who was 5'11" tall. she had a simple lifestyle. it stands out. this is eleanor roosevelt's sleeping porch. it is a very important area here. this is where mrs. roosevelt would come in the evening at approximately 11:00 after saying good night to her guests. it was a private space for her. the little scottish terrier dog that is so famous with an

mr. roosevelt." i don't think he expected to be a navy man at theariage, the other son by his first marriage. he didn't want to be away during his declining years. so you refuse the idea that roosevelt -- young russell should go to annapolis and become a navy man. early on, roosevelt had no big ambitions about becoming president or anything else that the sewer. his father was one of the few democratic roosevelt. the roosevelts were basically teddy roosevelt republicans. his father was a donor to the democratic party. and when young fdr was four or five years old, he was taken by his father to the white house to meet grover cleveland, who was the first democratic president since before the civil war. the previous democratic president, not one anyone could've been proud of was james buchanan. in any case, grover cleveland three greeted the young franklin. he said i have one wish for you, little man, that you never become president of the united states. he was beset by all kinds of political troubles an

mr. roosevelt". he was no longer young, no longer in political office and no one would have realized ten months later he would have the capacity -- catastrophe of his polio attack which crippled his leg but turned out not to cripple his career but that is another story and i think i will leave it there and if you have any questions i will be glad to take them on. [applause] >> i hope you will appreciate how extraordinary it is to hear someone speak without an hour without any notes and that was really well done. [applause] >> those of you who have questions please come up over here and line up at the microphone and speak clearly so the c-span can pick up your question and stanley weintraub will answer questions. >> thank you. i look forward to reading the book. as you pointed out young fdr was under the hierarchy of three heavyweight isolationists, what was it about his upbringing or anything else that led him to be international if not isolationist? >> young franklin was internationalist partly beca

mrs. roosevelt's bed is somewhat interesting in its addiction and , and it showson how mrs. elt referred her laundry to be delivered by household staff. folded and placed upon her bed. she would place it throughout the cottage. on close examination of the laundry, it reveals it is all monogrammed. we have mrs. roosevelt's monogram on the main towels. we also have nancy's monogram on some of the linens. some of the linens are jointly monogrammed with the initials e.m.n. elinor marion nancy. that was pretty consistent. when i look to this room, it just surprises me that a lady who was born into wealth, that married into wealth, and generated wealth in her lifetime would live in such a simple fashion. the bed is surely not an elaborate bed for a woman who was 5'11" tall. she had a simple lifestyle. it stands out. this is eleanor roosevelt's sleeping porch. it is a very important area here. this is where mrs. roosevelt would come in the evening at approximately 11:00 after saying good night to her guests. it was a private space for her. the little scottish terrier dog that is so

mrs. roosevelt knew this and could not bear it. both roosevelts were very prudish.eekly the cabinet wives met with her to discuss various matters of concern in the administration. names came up. [laughter] if a man and a woman were misbehaving, the first lady sent an aide to call first on the man advising him that if the affair did not stop he and the woman would not be allowed at the white house. before diplomat rejection from the entertainment ceremonies, she seems to have had her way. except with one man. charlie shonbron was about 30 and he was a direct descendent of lafayette. lafayette the diplomatic always had a lafayette in it and charlie was born here and from here and he was the legal adviser to the french embassy. he was in fact a cousin to lars anderson distantly. some of the family had married in cincinnati. blonde headed and youthful at 30 he was today what we describe as a womanizer. to say the least. he pursued women with no shame. poems flowers candy all were in his repertoire. even alice roosevelt was one time the object of his ardor and she confes

mr. roosevelt was resting up stairs and would like to speak to her for a second. she ran up and found him sitting near his bed and he stretched his arms wide and he said i didn't. so that was 1924. that speech put fdr back on the political map to the democratic officials of new york state for the quickly realized that once again, they might have a hot commodity on their hands of the began to ask roosevelt his chief assistant can he run? is he going to be built to run for office again? consistently for many months they said no he is not ready. he will be ready that he has to build himself back out. as a matter of fact he was not ready. there was a delicate dance they had to play for several years saying soon but not yet. not yet, but soon. he discovered the mineral pools at georgia she made famous where he started the rehabilitation center. the warm waters allowed him to work on his exercises for hours at the time and he did recover more strength and control. this went on until 1928. now he lost the nomination fight in 1924 and now he was the favorite. and he won t

mr. roosevelt was resting upstairs and would like to speak to her for a moment. she ran up and found fdr sitting up in his bed. he stretched his arms wide and said, marion, i did it. so that was 1924. that speech put fdr back on the political map. democratic officials in new york state very quickly realized that once again they might have a hot commodity on their hands, and they began to ask roosevelt and especially his chief assistant, louie howe, can he run? is this guy going to be able to run for office again? fdr and howe consistently, for many months, said, no, he's not ready. he will be ready, but he has to build himself back up. and, in fact, he was not ready. it was a delicate dance that fdr and howe had to play for several years here saying soon but not yet. not yet, but soon. roosevelt discovered the mineral pools down at warm springs, georgia, which he made famous and where he started a polio rehabilitation center. the warm waters there allowed him to work on his exercises for hours at a time, and he did recover more strength and control in his legs. a

mrs. roosevelt's said why aren't there more women in the united states? we are privileged, why are there not more of leaders? when i was going back through to figure out how every talk about where every are today, we have to be willing to act like eleanor roosevelt to it, asks the difficult questions. the questions that maybe a little bit embarrassing but are there to engage in a direction that perhaps the president was not thinking about when he entered in the conversation. today i want to talk about those difficult questions leadership and other things i care very much about with research specifically than to also sexual harassment and a less rigid of a topic that is not covered very much. but think about where every are today in terms of women leadership. maybe 20 years ago. to women and 20 years later with the most recent election, there are 20 women in the u.s. senate. that is progress and how the conversation might have been different in the chambers of there were 20 women rather than the two that were there , 20 years ago at the senate judiciary co

mrs. roosevelt says to president kennedy, why aren't there more women leaders in the united states? i mean we are a privileged country. we are educated women. why aren't there more leaders? and it occurred to me when i was going back through just trying to figure out how we are going to talk about where we are todao be willing to do is to ask like eleanor roosevelroosevel t did, the difficult questions. the questions that you know may be a little bit embarrassing for some people to try to answer, but really are there to sort of engage and move us in a direction that are haps the president wasn't even thinking about going when he entered the room and entered into that conversation. so today i want to talk a little bit about what those difficult questions are that are going to move us from where we are today. i want to talk a little bit about women's leadership. i want to talk about some of the things that i care very much about which happen to be research but also research specifically in health and medicine, and then i do want to talk a little bit about harassmenharassmen t and i wa

mr. jefferson. but jackson's credo of opportunity, kennedy's ethic of responsibility, civic responsibility, roosevelt's thirst for innovation. and my first job is where i learned all this, that those principles really worked. and that was in the war on poverty. i had the greatest job ever. sargent shriver didn't trust the bureaucrats telling him what was going on around the country, so he hired young reporters to go around the country and write about these, what was happening in his programs. long new york magazine-type pieces. i happened to be hostly in the south -- mostly in the south where the civil rights movement and the war on poverty were really joined during that period, so i knew everybody in the civil rights movement. i met ginger in camden, alabama, when she was working for the

mr. cannon's views in the opening statement. kind of reminded me of franklin roosevelt, you know, being against corporatism, especially fascism that seems to be rampant in today's government. and i'm just going to keep an open mind on his group and be interested to what they have to say. i just think that the republicans would be making a real good move in not being as mean and against so many things, and for an inclusive to as many people as possible. i think it's a tragedy that we lost a great senator like dick lugar. and it's time to come you know, get these key bill is out of office. i'll let it go from there. thank you so much for letting me speak. >> guest: i think one of the points that the caller was making, there is a frustration in the country with the idea the

mr. speaker. famously franklin delano roosevelt we have nothing to fear but fear itself. that's not true here, and sadly the last speaker is entitled to his opinion but the facts did not bear out his conclusions. the truth is that actual interviews and depositions taken of the highest ranking people that helped develop this website, both public and private, shows there was no end-to-end testing. it did not meet the spirit of any definition of a secure website. in fact, the highest ranking person, theresa fryer, on september 20, was unwilling to recommend this site go active and said under oath that if it had been within her authority to stop it she would have. it is very clear, even from the white house's statements in the last few days, that they claim to have mitigated or have a plan to mitigate significant security risk. the american people need to understand a plan to mitigate means they have not mitigated security risk. this is the situation we're in in which no private sector company, including target, would go live with a system that has known failures and unknown

mr. president, for understanding that. even as theodore roosevelt said, the man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantage from the mere existence of government. that is true. wealth inequality must be fixed and it must be fixed now. in the u.s. income and equality has been rising steadily over the past four decades, reaching levels not seen since the late 1920's. the president has signed an executive order which i congratulate him on, to understand that you cannot live on below $10 an hour, and it needs to be more. that is investing in the american way. that is generating the jobs of from-- jobs that they come the ability of these individuals to spend their dollars. more jobs are created. so tonight i don't want it to be retrenching. i don't want us to be overwhelmed with this myth of debt and deficit. so much so that we cannot invest in the education of our children. we can't fix the horrible situation of individuals not having access to higher education. and who in their right mind would continue

mr. gates did not serve. quote, probably the best politician as president since franklin roosevelt, unquote. george w. bush, committed. barack obama, courageous. >>> question, is secretary gates right about nixon? was he truly america's strangest president? or do you think that belongs to warren harding, who-- >> nothing strange about warren harding. he was right up front. but look, richard nixon, john, came back from the dead, created a new majority, won 49 states, extraordinarily talented, knowledgeable individual, had flaws and made mistakes. i wouldn't consider him strange. but he had some character flaws. >> i think it would have been -- it belongs to warren harding, the distinction. he used confiscated booze during prohibition to keep his white house poker parties fueled. only ran for president -- [ laughter ] >> only ran for president because his wife florence pushed him into it. and he got caught in a world class scandal, like the tea pot dome looting of oil reserves. >> i think he was also the one that said he wanted to vote for sufferrage because he was worried women would outlaw booze. [ la

none other than lucille ball standing across from eleanor roosevelt as tonight another first lady marks a milestone. >> happy birthday, mrs and lucille ball, that's not a bad birthday gift. "good morning america" first thing in the morning. see you tomorrow. good night. >>> we are following breaking news after a water rescue in the bay. we'll take you there live for a breaking news update. >>> a rare dry winter stretches on in california. how it burned the bay area today. >> in less than 24 hours, the niners take on the seahawks. we talk to the fans who are taking over seattle for the nfc championship game. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. >>> good evening. i'm ama daetz. four people were pulled from the ago.in a water rescue an hour john alston is live from san francisco with the breaking details. jon? >> three good samaritans saved a woman's life after she fell in the water off of torpedo pier. authorities say the woman in heir 30s, touri from taiwan, was taking pictures, backing up, fell off the pier into the water. she was in the water a short period of time. three people jumped into the water, including a former lifegua

mr. speaker. famously franklin delano roosevelt we have nothing to fear but fear itself. that's not true here, and sadly the last speaker is entitled to his opinion but the facts did not bear out his conclusions. the truth is that actual interviews and depositions taken of the highest ranking people that helped develop this website, both public and private, shows there was no end-to-end testing. it did not meet the spirit of any definition of a secure website. in fact, the highest ranking person, theresa fryer, on september 20, was unwilling to recommend this site go active and said under oath that if it had been within her authority to stop it she would have. it is very clear, even from the white house's statements in the last few days, that they claim to have mitigated or have a plan to mitigate significant security risk. the american people need to understand a plan to mitigate means they have not mitigated security risk. this is the situation we're in in which no private sector company, including target, would go live with a system that has known failures and unknown

mr. jefferson, but jackson's credo of opportunity, kennedy's ethic of responsibility, civic responsibility, roosevelt's thirst for innovation, and my first job is where i learned all this, that those principles really worked. there was a war on poverty, greatest job ever. they didn't trust bureaucrats telling him what was going on around the country, so 4e -- he hired young reporters, i was out of graduate school of journalism to go around the country and write about these -- what was happening in the programs, and long "new york times" type pieces. he sent me to a lot of places, mostly in the south where civil rights movements and war on poverty were joined during that period. i knew everybody in the civil rights movement. i met ginger in alabama working for the fclc trying to teach 4-year-old kids how to say their name. think about it. one of the poorest counties in the country where when the fclc went in to wilcox county, camden, alabama in 1965, not one black was registered to vote. imagine that. president obama could not have voted in the county. i just want to tell you the story of the two jesses

mr. in the opening statement. kind of reminded me of franklin roosevelt, you know? being against corporatism, especially spread tear that lism and fascism seems to be rampant in today's government. just going to keep an open mind on his group and be interested to what they have to say. think that the republicans would be making a not being as in mean and against so many things and inclusive to as many people as possible. we ink it's a tragedy that lost a great senator like dick you and it's time to, know, get these tea billies out of office. and i'll let it go from there. so much for letting me speak. >> mr. cannon? that one of the points that the caller was was that there is a frustration in the country with that the republicans to, or eem to be talking conservators, don't seem to be talking to working americans. a campaign and up creator" comes up more often in your commercials american, you know you have a slight problem in who speaking to. d i think that we've lost sight of the fact that when when who built the country, it's not only the the workingss, it's clas

mr. vishnu. he is in the 12 grade at eleanor roosevelt high school in greenville, maryland.poken testimony is limited to five minutes. after which members of the committee will have five minutes to ask your questions. the testimony will be included in record. i network unites our first witness. -- i now recognize our first witness. likes thank you. thank you members of the committee. i am a little different than most of the other kids for two reasons. , noteing i'm legally blind fully blind and not fully cited. cut in the middle. i am not actually going into a s.t.e.m. career. it has definitely changed a lot and encouraged a lot of things for me. just being a part of first. i cannot see one of two ways sports. you are an immediate target for dodgeball. i was always the first one out when i tried. games were hard. lots of other activities were difficult. i first heard about first through a friend of mine who was on the team enters sister was as well. they have been doing it for a wild. the way she talked about it it seem like such a great atmosphere and a good opportunity. i

mr. cannon's views in the opening statement. it reminded me of franklin rooseveltbeing against corporatism and fascism that seems to be a rampant. i will keep an open mind on his group and be interested in what they have to say. areink that the republicans making a real good move and not being as mean and against so many things and for and inclusive to as many people as possible. i think it is a tragedy that we lost a great senator like dick luger. et these teab guest: i think one of the points making is that there is a frustration in the with the idea the be blicans don't seem to alking -- or conservatives -- don't seem to be talking to working americans. the you have a campaign and erm job creator comes up more often in your commercials than working american, you know you a slight problem in who you are speaking to. sight ofhat we've lost the fact that when we talk about notbuilt the country, it is only the industrial class, it is the working class that helped america the great country that it is and helped build the institutions, economic and jamaicit unique.ake

mr. president, so disillusioned and so down in your new yorker interview what happened with hope and change? it seems now you wanted to be abe lincoln and rooseveltpectful. and as soon as i'm respectful obama haters will hate me. that's the interesting thing about this interview. as soon as i'm respectful, my questions are going to be tough people who hate him. that's what i'm trying to get rid of here. >> i just wrote a fox news latino piece. ask if he is sorry that he didn't bomb assad in syria. >> now we are getting warmer. here is geraldo, everybody. there we go. come right back, pinheads of the week and chris christie fat jokes. gutfeld and mcguirk moments away. [ male announcer ] e new new york is open. open to innovation. open to ambition. open to boldids. that's why n york has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and ows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. i know, it's a lot to take in. that's why i've conducted this compreh

mr. president, so disillusioned and so down in your new yorker interview what happened with hope and change? it seems now you wanted to be abe lincoln and rooseveltespectful. and as soon as i'm respectful obama haters will hate me. that's the interesting thing about this interview. as soon as i'm respectful, my questions are going to be tough people who hate him. that's what i'm trying to get rid of here. >> i just wrote a fox news latino piece. ask if he is sorry that he didn't bomb assad in syria. >> now we are getting warmer. here is geraldo, everybody. there we go. come right back, pinheads of the week and chris christie fat jokes. gutfeld and mcguirk moments away. he flu is a really big deal. with aches, fever and chills- there's no such thing as a little flu. so why treat it like it's a little cold? there's something that works differently than over-the-counter remedies. prescription tamiflu attacks the flu virus at its source. so call your doctor right away. tamiflu treats the flu in people 2 weeks and older whose flu symptoms started within the last two days. before taking tamiflu tell your doctor if you're pregnant, nursing, have serious

roosevelt. but she was a role model. and lady bird johnson was a very good friend and a role model for mrs.ord. >> the ford presidency was 865 days but this was a difficult time in our country's history. we chose a few events of the ford years beginning with the pardon of richard nixon. in 1976 the country celebrated buy centennial. rising inflation was the hall mark of his years in office. and the vietman war ended with the fall of saigon and you remember the scenes of the helicopters leaving the embassy as the city fell. >> history accelerated in those two and a half years and all of it by no means pleasant. >> just a couple of months after they came into office mrs. ford discovered she had breast cancer. >> this was the indelible moment she first impressed herself on the american people or maybe the whole ford family. it is really hard 40 years late tore conceive of the degree to which people didn't talk about this disease. i mean euphemisms were employed. even obituaries people didn't die of cancer, they died of a wasting illness. what mrs. ford did was to bring this out into the open a

mr. chairman, as a student of history, talk about the role of the president. during the great depression, we had franklin rooseveltdoing fireside chats. explainer in chief. giving a sense of comfort in the chaos. do we have that in 2008? my sense is that the american people -- there is still confusion. we are paying the consequences even today. >> it was a big challenge to explain what was going on. know, at the federal reserve, we try to do it. we did not always succeed, i am sure. i give president bush a lot of credit. leeway to me of and to secretary paulson to do a we felt was right. he supported us throughout the process. i remember him going on television and giving a speech about the tarp. that must've been very difficult for him, given his political predilections and the cost of that from the political side. it was difficult. was a challenge throughout the process. i would not put it on the president or anyone else. all of us who are involved in role andymaking had a a responsibility to explain as best we could. , whenas a time -- i came i came to the fed, i was interested in increasing the transparency of

mr. chairman, as a student of history, talk about the role of the president during the great depression, we had franklin roosevelt'seside chats, explaining chief, making sense and comfort out of the chaos. if we had that in 2008, my sense is the american people, mean streets, wall street, a great deal of confusion and we are paying the consequences of it even today. >> it is a big challenge to explain what was going on. at the federal reserve we tried to do it. we didn't always succeed i am sure. president bush, and i give president bush a lot of credit, he gave a lot of leeway to me and secretary paulson to do what we thought was right, he supported us throughout the process. i remember him going on television and giving a speech about t.a.r.p. which must have been very difficult for him given his political predilections and the cost of that from the political side. it was difficult. it was difficult. communication was a challenge throughout this whole process but i wouldn't put it on the president or anyone else. all of us who were involved in the policymaking had a role and a responsibility to explain as best we

mr. clyburn: thank you, very much. the poverty rate in the richest ountry on earth was 19%. the great society legislation, the continuation of president roosevelt's new deal, and president harry truman's fair deal, launched a plethora of programs and priorities to serve and protect the neediest and the most vulnerable among us. at the time president johnson cautioned that the war on poverty would be long and difficult. t by 1973, only nine years later, the poverty rate had been brought down to 11%. we were definitely winning the war on poverty. unfortunately many politicians found success, created myths about the poor -- creating myths about the poor and invented fan thoms like the so-called welfare queen. they poplarized in narrative that the war on poverty was not worth fighting. but nothing could be further from the truth. for example, medicare and medicaid, both war on poverty initiatives, have made a tremendous difference in the health and security of older americans and all americans of modest means. for these two very successful anti-poverty programs when they were initiated, the poverty rate among seniors was over 30%. today the poverty r

mr. chairman, as a student of history, talking about the role of the president. during the great depression we had franklin rooseveltrt out of the chaos. did we have that in 2008? because my sense is the american people, main street, wall street, still a great deal of confusion, and i think we're paying the consequences of it even today. >> well, it was a big challenge to explain what was going on. and at the federal reserve we tried to do it. we didn't always succeed, i'm sure. president bush, i give president bush actually a lot of credit. he gave a lot of leeway to me and to secretary paulson to do what we thought was right. he supported us throughout the process. i remember him going on television and giving a speech about the t.a.r.p. which must have been very difficult for him given his political lechs and the cost of that from the political side. so it was difficult and it was difficult. mmuns a challenge throughout this whole process. but i wouldn't put it on the president or anyone else. i mean, i think all of us who are involved in the policy making had a role and had a responsibility to explain as best we