roosevelt? but, roosevelt had no one. his secretary of state, john hay, had just died.e new secretary of state does not appointed yet. secretary of war taft was a complete a yes man who went along with this secret treaty and kept it secret, until he died, and there was nobody to pull the reins from theodore roosevelt because he drove america's future into the ditch in asia. >> one of our questioners as a lot of information on the league of nations and they talk about back in 1917 to 1919, the united states and the united kingdom refutes in spite of the japanese alliance during world war i to endorse deppan's proposal for racial equality as a covenant of the leak. do you think this may have led to japan's mistrust in the west and the western racial supremacy my that been a fact for pre-world war two japan? >> the answer is yes. japan was very upset about that and walked out of the league of nations as a result, but that is all i am going to say because that is 1917. my book ends in 1905, and i don't want to get into it. i am aware of the league of nations situations but

roosevelt was vice president.he corrupt people in albany did not like having roosevelt so he went and placed on the vice-presidency. mckinley is assassinated. he's not dead yet. roosevelt is hiking. the secret service goes and get him and brings him back down. they think mckinley is going to day but after a day they think he may go through it but seven days later the secret service goes to get him and the president is dead. it takes roosevelt another 36 hours to get to buffalo where he is sworn in as our youngest president. now, he says later in his autobiography, he doesn't say it at the time, remember, he's leader of the republican party. i wanted to transform the republican party, as he says, into a, quote, fairly radical progressive party. that's the exact quote. fairly, radical, progressive party. he doesn't tell the country that but he says it in his diary and to do that he needs gifford pinchot. one of his three homes where he grew up had 27 turrets and about half a dozen fireplaces. he grows up in this cas

the first was against russia at port arthur during the administration of president theodore roosevelt. theodore roosevelt book that the japanese sneak attack against the russians, which the russians and much of the world condemned, and theodore roosevelt wrote secretly to his son, i was there early well pleased with the japanese victory because the japs are playing our game. what game? what was roosevelt game here and what was the game that he was saying that japan was playing in cahoots with the america of? i wanted to know. theodore roosevelt was awarded the nobel peace prize for actions that he took in the summer of 1905 during this imperial cruise. he was awarded the peace prize

roosevelt god eight appointments, which is fine. you will always get a majority. if one party wins the presidency three consecutive times, it will wind up with the majority in the supreme court or at least we have got 220 years of american history, and that is all it is hell for that period of time. many of my colleagues in constitutional law and all of the generation that taught me believe that the court-packing plan was a seminal aspect of the supreme court behavior and that the concern always is that an unchecked supreme court will go crazy in fighting popular will. and i think when you focus on one event and won the event only you can come off that way but it is wrong. the supreme court has been quite good in following to popular will as expressed by politicians and that one defense just dance out like a sore thumb. they give the more modern one. in the late 1990's, the supreme court invalidated 30 federal statutes. that is a record for a five or six year period, and somebody could say well they are standing to forge a majority rule but there is a slight diffe

warned about her charm before she came to washington, president roosevelt had determined not to be vamped by her. that was one of his favorite words. he arranged to have her sit at some distance from hand during conferences and took great pleasure to teases wife eleanor who win she first met madame in a hospital in new york, had told him how vulnerable and sweet she seemed. later eleanor changed her mind. she talked a very well about democracy, eleanor would say, but she does not know how to live it. this may be a good place to fill you in on the other members of the family family, mainly siblings. the two eldest were girls one had a head for business and a passion for money. and the family beauty was an idealist who married the george washington of china. when he died a few years later, he became a communist. after that was the eldest brother, a brilliant economist and then too younger brothers but they did not figure heavily in the chinese power structure. of the most famous was me laying which was china's face to the world during the middle of the 20th century but she was as well known

jorge's called the angel of queens, the superman of roosevelt avenue.is my hero because one day he rolled a window down and asked, are you hungry? >> i'm school bus driver. one day, i see these guys standing in the street. i saw them and say, why these guys doing here? i stop and i ask them. he says, the day laborers spend the whole day on the corner hoping to get a job. says, if we have a job, we got money to eat. if not, we don't eat nothing today. so i say, okay. wait for me tomorrow here and i'm going to bring something to eat. i get up at like 5:15 in the morning. getting on my bus around 6:30. i finish my work around 5:00. be back home around 6:00. and i start my second job. ♪ this is a family operation. justin! la pasta, por favor. the beginning, friend of mine, he donated a lot of bread, and then later i got more donations. the food start to come in big and big. little, little by little, the whole inside of the house is getting smaller, smaller. now i have six refrigerators in my house. today, we're going to cook chicken, rice and beans. we're g

. >> a brilliant book about the roosevelt white house. we've been having one of our usual dinner conversations without our work. i.e., neither of us listening to gleek carefully to what the other one was saying. when alan told me about the time during world war ii when trantwo's thing at the white house, although there were phones and call bells in her room, when she wanted something, she would always go to her door, opened it, clap your hands loudly like this, and expect the servants to appear here this was the way they called the coolies in shanghai, but you can just imagine how this went over in the ultra- democratic roosevelt white house. why, i wondered, would such a highly intelligent woman looking for american money to arm her country do anything so counterproductive. i was going to find out. first thing i discovered in writing about madame chang is that it required a full new approach to research. famous westerners often make provision for the reputation they leave behind them. and european royals know that they have to pay for th

roosevelt, october 6, 1935. he said, quote, we cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation without reckoning with the place the bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the republic. where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its reseptember -- precepts we have obtained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity. again, franklin roosevelt, 1935. 1943. president hoover and the joint state -- in a joint statement with former first ladies, mrs. coolidge, mrs. roosevelt, mrs. taft, mrs. harrison and mrs. cleveland gave this statement, quote, the whole inspiration for our civiluation springs from the teachings of christ and the lessons of the prophets. to read the bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of american life. harry truman, our 33rd president, 1952, said this, quote, the basis of our pill of rights comes from the teachings we get from exodus and st. matthew from isaiah and st. paul. i don't think we emphasize that enough these days. if we don't have a

franklin roosevelt, who was president for 12 years and passed away at the beginning of his fourth terme was at his high." for about 500 days. people tend to forget this. in not only wenth home to hyde park more than president bush went to his ranch in texas, he also went to warm springs, ga. which is the retreat he went to for the treatment of polio. if you put that in the number, those records are difficult to pin down, franklin rest of both -- franklin roosevelt was a way more than any other president. host: does he get the kind of criticism other presidents have gotten. he went away during wartime. the second world war and he is going off to warm springs and hyde park. diddy get the kind of criticism that other presidents have gotten? guest: he got some of a bid not nearly as much as today. people in those days gave support to the president because of the endless world crises, particularly in the war years. it was not the same media scrutiny. present roosevelt could get away from the white house with having -- without having an entourage reporters. he was out on a yacht or a boat or

franklin roosevelt's polio gave him a different degree. >> i have always felt that his embassy was naturalbecause like so many -- his empathy was natural. he knew what it was like to be damaged. he had tremendous identification of sympathy and a desire to improve the lives of those who had been damaged. do you agree with that? >> absolutely. he tells interesting stories about lbj and the fact that lbj had offered -- or bobby had offered to go and negotiate the vietnamese situation for lbj. had he done that, teddy says he would have then been so caught up in the peacemaking process that he would not have run for the primaries. he would not have been killed, possibly. on the other hand, he gives lbj much more credit than one would have imagined he would have for the extraordinary domestic achievements. he said it closest to fdr is lbj. lbj always like teddy. he understood him. the one thing that is fun, even though he has nice things to say about lbj and even reagan, and clinton had magnetism, carter does not expecescape. he says that carter baffled me. in 1976, he claimed that he won withou

franklin roosevelt's polio gave him a different degree. >> i have always felt that his embassy was naturalbecause like so many -- his empathy was natural. he knew what it was like to be damaged. he had tremendous identification of sympathy and a desire to improve the lives of those who had been damaged. do you agree with that? >> absolutely. he tells interesting stories about lbj and the fact that lbj had offered -- or bobby had offered to go and negotiate the vietnamese situation for lbj. had he done that, teddy says he would have then been so caught up in the peacemaking process that he would not have run for the primaries. he would not have been killed, possibly. on the other hand, he gives lbj much more credit than one would have imagined he would have for the extraordinary domestic achievements. he said it closest to fdr is lbj. lbj always like teddy. he understood him. the one thing that is fun, even though he has nice things to say about lbj and even reagan, and clinton had magnetism, carter does not expecescape. he says that carter baffled me. in 1976, he claimed that he won withou

franklin and teddy roosevelt backed up their words with deeds. what obama needs to do is to demand anti-trust laws be applied to the biggest banks and they be broken up so no bank is too big to fail and also the glass stiegle act be rez recollected. that separated investment banking from commercial banking and it should be resurrected. >> larry, britain has announced 50% tax on bank bonuses over 25,000 pounds. think we ought to do something like that? >> of course not. we ought not be meddling into what private businesses pay their executives any more than we should be in the housing business. micromanagement by government that can't even run a lemonade stand that got us into this problem in the first place. you know, secretary reich suggests that it's a good thing that we somehow not let banks be a certain size. when something gets to be a certain size and becomes awkward and unmanageable it's going to collapse of its own weight. we ought to step back and allow it to happen. >> larry: penn jillett, you agree with that? >> being too big to fail i

with that watch, actually, president roosevelt with the letter and a picture. even i did not see that letter, and nobody told me what it contains. [laughter] so that looks really like a child, watch very beautiful. so i kept it sends them. occasionally, a sense yo have been damaged, that is also hospitalized. but now still, works. is still works perfectly. this time, i did not bring it. but last year, as you already mentioned, when they're received the congressional gold medal, because of emotion, the watch was given to me by famous president roosevelt, so i kept that watch in my pocket. so at the time, receiving the congressional gold medal, in the gold watch in my pocket. receiving a from the american president. america, the greatest democratic country. and the american weapons, military forces, of course, is for some people ceres. but the real greatness of america is your principles. in any cost, he must preserve these principles. that is important. thank you very much. [applause] >> his holiness has inspired and charmed us put our closing remarks of the off

roosevelt identified the four freedoms. the freedom of religion, the freedom of speech, the freedom from want and the freedom from fear. it is that last freedom that franklin roosevelt talked about in december of 1941 that is deserving of our attention at these closing minutes. whatever else one may argue about the specifics of this bill it is that fear that so many of our fellow citizens have over whether or not they will be confronted with a health care crisis and have the resources to address it and the ability to have a doctor, a physician, a health care provider, a hospital to provide them with that kind of help when they need it. that fear is not just for those who are without health care, even for those who have health care insurance. that fear persists. this evening, more than anything else, beyond the specifics of the legislation in front of us is our desire to address that freedom, that freedom from fear that was addressed so eloquently almost 70 years ago. so this evening we attempt anyway to begin that journey o

if you look at teddy roosevelt, he did several things to get everything back on track. the first thing he did was a blocked all these big co'as and corporate leaders. guest: one thing that he was saying that i very much agree with is that we are seeing a lot of delight and obstruction on the floor of the united states. senate. we could not get votes on the republican or democratic amendments because there are some that decided to make the health reform debate simply a partisan-political exercise. that is something that has to come to an end. hopefully, this legislation will pass. majority leader harry reid is doing everything he can to move this along. there is a session going on this weekend. it will go late into the night. i am hopeful that we will see legislation passed relatively quickly. host: alabama, on our democrats line, go ahead. caller: the reason we are in this mess is because we allow insurance companies and medical suppliers to fund campaigns of politicians. we can amend the constitution. that is why women have the right to vote. it is more than 40 million

franklin roosevelt had a different vision. he thought that if workers throughout their work life paid a little bit of money each week into a fund, they could be insured that there would be a check waiting for them at retirement that would allow them independence and dignity. he prevailed and senators stood up in that era of the 1930's and gave him the votes that were needed to change our nation when it came to the way we treat the elderly. those on the other side of the aisle, the republicans, were skeptical, they were fearful of government, fearful of a new program. they argued that we were headed down a path we would regret, echoes of many arguments we are hearing today in opposition to health care reform. and when their time came later, even as recently as a few years ago, they tried to dramatically change and rewrite the social security program. they called for privatizing it, saying we would be much better off if the social security trust fund were actually in the stock market. thank goodness the wisdom of america rejecte

ever since teddy roosevelt first call for reform in 1912, seven presidents, democrats and republicanske, have taken up the cause of reform. time and time again, such efforts have been blocked by special interest lobbyists would have perpetuated the status quo that works better for the insurance industry than it does for the american people. with passage of reform bills in both the house and senate, we are now finally poised to deliver on the promise of real, meaningful health insurance reform that will bring additional security and stability to the american people. the reform bill that passed the senate this morning, like the house bill, includes the toughest measures ever taken to hold the insurance industry accountable. insurance companies will no longer be able to deny you covered on the basis of. a pre- existing of able longer be able to drop your coverage when you get sick. no longer will be you paying on limited amounts out of your pocket for the procedures you need and you will be able to appeal decisions by insurance companies to an independent party for when this legislation

and in the 20th century america, especially after the ascension of franklin delano roosevelt, the closest counterpart to these forces was the democratic party. conversely, the political right seemed to represent an american version of a conservative forces in europe which had always opposed equal rights for jews. it made perfect sense then for jews to align themselves with the left and to keep their distance from the right, where they were in any case unwelcome. but then something momentous happened. that began to rub his political commitments to the sense they had always made. this momentous event was the six day war of 1967. to be sure, even before 1967, and the decades following the end of world war ii, jews are themselves getting more and more out of political step with the other white members of the roosevelt coalition. the attachments of these non-jewish ethnic religious groups to the democrats were steadily declining in direct proportion to the improvement in the economic and social conditions. but not the jews your the substantial majority of whom kept on voting for the democratic

we're standing with those who have blazed the trail ahead of us from roosevelt to our good friend ted kennedy. we're standing with millions of american families who have been forced into bankruptcy is to cover the cost of healthcare. we stand with small business owners who cannot afford health insurance for their employees. we stand with americans suffering from diseases like cancer and diabetes and all of those who have been discriminated against or denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. today, we make history for them and every american who has fallen victim to are broken health care system. i want to thank him for the way he has navigated the waters. this will be a day that we will look back upon as senators and are very proud of what we have accomplished. we're very happy to see people getting health care. we're happy to see health care costs being much more under control. this is why we came here. this is very historic and important. thank you. >> let me also think senator reid. this christmas eve, i can think of a better gift that the united states senate could give

teddy roosevelt thought it would be a mistake he thought it would be a mistake because he didn't want to see the constant acreation in a few very wealthy families of the wealth of this country. abolishing the estate tax will add billions and billions to our deficit, as will happen next year if we do not pass this bill. while a small number of wealthy families would benefit, the growth of our economy as a whole would suffer. so would vital programs on which millions of americans rely. the estate tax also sets a limit on the concentration of inherited wealth from generation to generation. that's what teddy roosevelt, republican president, in the early part of last century, thought was appropriate in american policy which at a time when this country's middle class is already struggling would make the contrast even starker. that's why advocates of a dialic -- dynamic economy have supported a -- an estate tax for generations. when first propose estate tax, teddy roosevelt said, a man owes something to the couldn't rip but because he owes something to the government. bill gates recently arg

[applause] as a country, we are not as young, and perhaps not as innocent, as we were when roosevelt was president. yet we are still heirs to a noble struggle for freedom. now, we must summon all of our might and moral suasion to meet the challenges of a new age. in the end of our security and leadership does not come solar -- solely from the strength of office. it derives from our people, from the workers and businesses who will rebuild our economy, from the entrepreneurs and researchers will pioneer new industries, from the teachers who will educate our children and the service of those who work in our communities at home, from the diplomats and peace corps volunteers to spread hold abroad, and from the men and in uniform who are part of an unbroken line of sacrifice that has made government of the people, by the people, and for the people in reality on this earth. -- a reality on this earth. [applause] this vast and diverse citizenry will not always agree on every issue, nor should we, but i also know that we as a country cannot sustain our leadership, nor navigate this momentous

franklin roosevelt, who was president for 12 years and passed away at the beginning of his fourth termwas at his high." for about 500 days. people tend to forget this. in not only wenth home to hyde park more than president bush went to his ranch in texas, he also went to warm springs, ga. which is the retreat he went to for the treatment of polio. if you put that in the number, those records are difficult to pin down, franklin rest of both -- franklin roosevelt was a way more than any other president. host: does he get the kind of criticism other presidents have gotten. he went away during wartime. the second world war and he is going off to warm springs and hyde park. diddy get the kind of criticism that other presidents have gotten? guest: he got some of a bid not nearly as much as today. people in those days gave support to the president because of the endless world crises, particularly in the war years. it was not the same media scrutiny. present roosevelt could get away from the white house with having -- without having an entourage reporters. he was out on a yacht or a boat or a

some think that i'm talking about franklin roosevelt, i'm talking about theodore roosevelt. the filibuster we have seen here now and it's been going on for weeks it about defenders of the status quo. each must make a choice in this body, fear or hope. stick with the broken status quo or embrace bold change with all of its uncertainties. now the other side's saying, well, what about this? and what's going to happe happe? you know, mr. president, i keep talking about this bill we're as iaswe'repassing. it's not like the 10 commandments written in stone. so there are uncertainties in the future. the future is uncertain. but what we can do is lay down a good start towards bringing people into a health insurance system. stopping some of the most horrible practices of the health insurance industry. moving us towards a more health care system rather than a sick care system. so, yeah, there are uncertainties. but we know one thing, the certainty of the status quo leads to too many people not having any kind of health care whatsoever. leads to people dying younger than they should be

roosevelt and the antitrust. i urge people to go back and read the same arguments. the gentleman from texas, mr. neugebauer, said the federal reserve will decide you're too big to fail and you'll be ok. rock, wrong, wrong. we the idea that an a financial entity, we heard about dell and american airlines, they are not covered urn this bill. dell and american airlines are total red herrings. what we have here is the ability of a group of existing regulators, not the federal reserve, to decide a particular institution is so big and overleveraged it's a danger. they don't get designated and then carried around. coordinate with that is a restriction on what they do. they are not told, you're too big to fail, go out and make more money. they're told, you're too big to fail, you're is big if you fail -- cut your capital. stop selling credit default swaps. there's a real difference between the bills. their bill is small because it does nothing to retard the kind of activity that got us in trouble. it does not stop overle

then in a historic meeting with president roosevelt, president roosevelt acknowledged the validity of the struggle, but then he said something prophetic. he said, make me do it. and amazingly randolph after a period of time assembled a huge number of people to march on washington and as they got ready to march, word came from the white house that the president would accede to his demand and gave an executive order banning racial discrimination in the government and in the factories. . that's been told many times over. i'm indebted to the chairman of the ways and means committee, randolph worked out of new york, i'm hopeful that chairman rangel may have met him and knew him as well. so mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time and urge support for the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize plsmed smith: i support house resolution 150, which recognizes asa philip randolph for his lifelong leadership and work

those are the words of teddy roosevelt as he expected the nobel peace prize on.st: he helped concoct rationale for the invasion of iraq. this is standard boilerplate stuff. you can flash that more than four decades in washington. we heard the same kind of rhetoric from those trying to justify the escalation of war in vietnam. when you hear the lyndon johnson tapes on the phones such as those aired on bill moyer's show a couple weeks ago you hear leaders on the hill saying privately, even pleading with the president not simply to get carried away with the militarism. as one leader from the appropriations committee pleads with the president now -- yet there's something in this repeated compulsion, president bent on war who insists, no, we are the smart guys, the best and brightest. we will do a ride. host: norm solomon, the author of "or made easy." and this ismark, a reporter. caller: good morning. i want to talk about the fact that when president obama was running, running for office, he said that he felt the war in afghanistan was the right war to fight. he made

roosevelt but he did inherit a whole lot of mess and i think he legitimately tried to do the best heirst of all, jimmy carter could not --ç within 10 days he was already in a hammerlock fight with congress although he had a bigger majority than obama has today. obama's people have probably more experience if you looked at the staff with congress than any previous administration. i do see someone similarity with ronald reagan which is an interesting one. .ç >> ronald reagan could deal with his conservative base without acceding to their demands all the time. >> the difference in the first year is he had a very narrow agenda which i think is very shrewd and clever. obama has gone to a very broad agenda. he has had problems because of that. >> if you look at jimmy carter, he can being anti-washington and realized he was suddenly washington and triple legislature as he might treat the last georgia legislature which is not what you want to do. host: we're joined from cleveland, ohio, good morning. caller:x6 you might want to look at the commission on 9/11 part we are going by the model

roosevelt identified the four freedoms.m of religion, the freedom of speech, the freedom from want and the freedom from fear. it is that last freedom that franklin roosevelt talked about in december of 1941 that is deserving of our attention at these closing minutes. whatever else one may argue about the specifics of this bill it is that fear that so many of our fellow citizens have over whether or not they will be confronted with a health care crisis and have the resources to address it and the ability to have a doctor, a physician, a health care provider, a hospital to provide them with that kind of help when they need it. that fear is not just for those who are without health care, even for those who have health care insurance. that fear persists. this evening, more than anything else, beyond the specifics of the legislation in front of us is our desire to address that freedom, that freedom from fear that was addressed so eloquently almost 70 years ago. so this evening we attempt anyway to begin that journey of eliminati

alluding congresses and presidents going back to theodore roosevelt.ds on the other side defends the status quo. they want us to vote our fears. fear, fear. everything you hear seems on the other side is fear. be afraid. well it's not going to work this time. because what the american people want is not fear. they want hope. they want to hope that they will have a health care that they need when they have to have it at a price that is affordable. they want to have a piece of my insecurity of knowing that their children, if they have a pre-existing condition, will be covered by health insurance. they want to have the peace of mind to know if they lose a job, they don't lose their health insurance. the american people want to hope and the security of knowing that if they get ill, they will not be dropped by their insurance. they want the hope with the security to know that they aren't just one illness away from bankruptcy. we are the only country in the world, the only one, where people can go bankrupt because they all a medical bill. no other country wo

you know, before social security was debated, president roosevelt laid out the changes in society and the reasons why we needed social security legislation before the congress. he said that -- and i quote -- "security was obtained in the early days through the interdependence of members of families upon each others and of the families within a small community upon each other. the complexities, he went on to say, of great communities and of organized industry make less real these simple means of security. therefore, we are compelled to employ the active interests of the nation as a whole through government in order to encourage a greater security for each individual who composes it. that's what he said about social security. that's why we needed social security and why we realize today that without social security, more than half of our seniors in this country would be living in poverty. more than half if the voices then in opposition would have succeeded. and then the debate began. there is no mention of death panels, but there were those republicans who raised similar straw men to th

roosevelt, john f. kennedy and ronald reagan. america's ideals and the world's ideas.not only in the heart and minds of our countrymen, but in the hearts and minds of millions of the world's people, in both free and oppressed who look to us for leadership. obama's ideals for a large extent with the ideals that underpin the activities of the nobel committee throughout 108 year history. to strengthen international institutions as much as possible. to reduce the importance of arms and open a the nuclear armaments altogether. to promote dialogue and negotiation, and in the last few years, take protective measures to meet the climate threat. looking at the history of the nobel peace prize, we have several examples of awards to persons or institutions that have achieved from the mental agreements or are the result that have stood the test of history. we will find at least as many efforts that have gone to those that tried to bring about from the changes in international politics, but the result was still unclear at the time when they received their awards. the prize game whe

i recently listened to a wonderful lecture on the book on franklin roosevelt.bout changes in the news media. everything is moving to talk tv. fox news is just talk, talk, talk. in this nbc is talk, talk, talk. -- msnbc is talk, talk, talk. talk is cheap, investigative reporting is expensive. >> thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> for a dvd copy of this program, call the number on your screen. for free transcripts or give us comments on the program, visit us at qanda.org. >> next on c-span, the portrait unveiling for former senator trent lott and the u.s. capitol. at 8:00 eastern, interviews with supreme court justices antonin scalia and ruth later ginsburg -- bader ginsburg. >> later on c-span, a look ahead at the future with vladimir prudent and his call-in show. -- putin and his call-in show. the creator avi segway and co- creator of guitar hero. >> mr. lott was joined by former president bill clinton, former house speaker newt gingrich, and senate majority le

with that watch, actually, president roosevelt with the letter and a picture., i have a keen attraction to this watch, not of that letter [laughter] you see, even i did not see that letter, and nobody told me what it contains. [laughter] so that looks really like a child, watch very beautiful. so i kept it sends them. occasionally, a sense yo have been damaged, that is also hospitalized. but now still, works. is still works perfectly. this time, i did not bring it. but last year, as you already mentioned, when they're received the congressional gold medal, because of emotion, the watch was given to me by famous president roosevelt, so i kept that watch in my pocket. so at the time, receiving the congressional gold medal, in the gold watch in my pocket. receiving a from the american president. america, the greatest democratic country. and the american weapons, military forces, of course, is for some people ceres. but the real greatness of america is your principles. in any cost, he must preserve these principles. that is important. thank you very much. [applause

you want to go back to teddy roosevelt and harry truman and every president since then. but right now we've had a specific effort going. we began in the finance committee a year and a half ago, the summer a year ago where we assembled over at the library of congress and we had an entire day of a forum, during which time we had republicans and democrats. we listened as a committee to experts from across the country about how to do health care. subsequent to that, we began hearings, constant hearings. and then at the beginning of this year, 11 months ago, we began what we hoped would be a bipartisan process. no chairman in the 25 years i've been here and working here has ever reached out as much as i watched chairman max baucus reach out in an effort to try to get a bipartisan effort. how many senators from the other side came to the table? for the entire summer, three months were taken up with the so-called gang of six, six senators -- three republicans and three democrats. unfortunately, several of the republicans had already walked away because they didn't like somethin

we're standing with those who have blazed the trail ahead of us from roosevelt to our good friend ted kennedy. we're standing with millions of american families who have been forced into bankruptcy is to cover the cost of healthcare. we stand with small business owners who cannot afford health insurance for their employees. we stand with americans suffering from diseases like cancer and diabetes and all of those who have been discriminated against or denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. today, we make history for them and every american who has fallen victim to are broken health care system. i want to thank him for the way he has navigated the waters. this will be a day that we will look back upon as senators and are very proud of what we have accomplished. we're very happy to see people getting health care. we're happy to see health care costs being much more under control. this is why we came here. this is very historic and important. thank you. >> let me also think senator reid. this christmas eve, i can think of a better gift that the united states senate could give

he said yes, we have to do this and is associated with mark roosevelt. i think it was 93 it was pushed through. that was the date and you see the results -- and xander saucy wrote the language arts. you add all of these people who are allies of core knowledge and the antiestablishment views and they prevailed in massachusetts because of the expertise of the politicians. [inaudible] >> last question. all the way in the back. shout out for me. >> gas i was wondering, given the decline of the wide college admission is still escapade and if not more so than it's ever been. and the other question i had was one thing you'd elected to mention with technological literacy and it seems to me just interacted with younger people and occasionally as they have a much greater proficiency in that area than most of us older people ever had and probably still do. >> consonants are the first thing to go when you get old. and i'm sorry i missed -- >> the first thing i mentioned is why given this decline is college admission still as competitive if not more so than it's ever

ever since teddy roosevelt first call for reform in 1912, the president's, democrats and republicans alike, have taken up the cause. time and time again, such efforts have been fought by special interest lobbyists who want the status quo which does more for the insurance company than the american people, but with passage of reform bill and the house and senate, we're poised to deliver on the promise of meaningful health insurance reform that will bring additional security and stability to the american people. the reform bill the past and the senate this morning, like the house vote, includes the toughest measures ever taken to hold the insurance industry accountable. insurance companies will no longer be able to deny you coverage on the basis of a pre- existing issue in -- condition. they will no longer be able to drop coverage in case you get sick regan the longer will you be able to pay out of your own car for the treatment needed. you will be able to richard no longer will you be able to pay out of your own pocket for the treatment needed. families will save on their premiums. bus

those are the words of teddy roosevelt as he expected the nobel peace prize on.d concoct rationale for the invasion of iraq. this is standard boilerplate stuff. you can flash that more than four decades in washington. we heard the same kind of rhetoric from those trying to justify the escalation of war in vietnam. when you hear the lyndon johnson tapes on the phones such as those aired on bill moyer's show a couple weeks ago you hear leaders on the hill saying privately, even pleading with the president not simply to get carried away with the militarism. as one leader from the appropriations committee pleads with the president now -- yet there's something in this repeated compulsion, president bent on war who insists, no, we are the smart guys, the best and brightest. we will do a ride. host: norm solomon, the author of "or made easy." and this ismark, a reporter. caller: good morning. i want to talk about the fact that when president obama was running, running for office, he said that he felt the war in afghanistan was the right war to fight. he made it very cle

a telephone call came to roosevelt from president reagan 's deputy chief of staff. >> my call.ay and said, mrs. reagan feels, and i feel that we must shut blair house down. mike was a disturbed as was mrs. reagan when she heard that a chandelier had fallen on a bed. the tunisian president was in residence. the boiler had blown uppe. and that was enough. it was not looking very good. before the restoration, the money had to be approved by the government every year. i was summoned to congress because they did not want to flaunt it. senator and abnebner said to med not understand why you have to spend all the money just to do over a new house. he said, why don't you just tear it down and build a new house? i said, over my dead body. finely worked around this. i was grateful to the senator who was able to really get it through. there was an interesting stipulation of the bill. the money was to be used for bricks and mortar but not 1 cent could be allocated. what could that mean? we had to raise it. >> in 1988, blair house reopen. congress had appropriated $8.6 billion for the infra

and the 20th century president who was most like jackson's rival, henry clay, was franklin roosevelt.they were both great patriots. they hated each other, but loved america. they had nothing but the greatest designs for america's future. clay believes in the concentration of power in washington. whereas jackson believes the power should beÑi spread out amg the people as much as possible. in those days they would talk about strict construction. all the democrats were in favor of strict constitution. that is a republican phrase today. small government is a government phrase. >> we should really throw out the labels. what was the moment that led you to write a book about james polk? >> i love that question because it gives me an opportunity to note that this was not my idea. the idea came from my editorçó o is legendary in publishing circles as someone who loves and narrative history and his passion for american history. he asked me during a discussion i was having comment she said we will come up something -- what do you know about this mexican war? i said i love politics. give me a cou

as in teddy roosevelt's time we seek protection against the hazards of sickness. of necessity we seek a system uniquely adapted to the american use. and recognizing the daunting task still ahead of us, we pledge ourselves to work unceasingly to get the job done. in the years since teddy roosevelt, some of our nation's greatest leaders signed up for this job. but at the same time we have never faced a greater need to get the job done then we do today. why is that? well, basically because health care costs are skyrocketing out of control. everyday american businesses are forced to cut benefits for their workers, cut benefits to remain competitive in the global marketplace. every 30 seconds, another american files for medical bankruptcy. just think of that, every 32nd another american files for the medical bankruptcy and every year 1.5 billion families lose their homes because of health care costs. our system is in crisis. we have and historic need. we have an opportunity to enact groundbreaking reform that will finally reign in the growth of health care costs and he

franklin roosevelt came into office with huge majorities. he had huge majorities in the senate and the house and the court was not in a popular position. it was blocking all of his reforms. he came up with the court packing plan that allowed him to appoint new justices on the court in order to get a court that would rule in his favor. even with his popularity, the country rose up against it and the plan did not get off the ground. the importance of having the court as an independent check of the other branches. >> today, with all of the visibility of the two other branches, the court is less known by the public than the other two branches. i would like to have you talk a bit about what people should understand about the will of this court -- the boalt -- the role of this court. >> they do not elect us. if they do not like what we are doing, it is more or less to bad totoo bad. the need to understand that when we reach a decision, it is based on the law and not a policy preference. if we reach an environmental decision that comes out in favor

of the project was initiated through propaganda for roosevelt's new deal but expanded to create a democratic picture of the royal united states that of the size those who did the work of farming rather than the voters of the great plantations of mississippi and california. their air several paradox in her life including the fact that this quintessential city girl ended up working for the department of agriculture. never even had envisioned a far when she was hired. of my favor of a paradox is the way it to turn around a typical story of women's emancipation. the usual story start with a woman who is dependent on her husband who gradually works are way into her profess fined -- profession getting a job and getting a job of her own but lang did it in reverse. she had the opportunity to become a great photographer when she read a second husband back its support her on his salary from the and persevere california and relieve tour of the responsibility of the large family and it was large. when we put the two families together she had two children of her own and four stepchildren for keira. first

identifying with people who had suffered and who were locked out, almost in the way that franklin roosevelt's polio gave him a different degree. >> i have always felt that his embassy was natural, because like so many -- his empathy was natural. he knew what it was like to be damaged. he had tremendous identification of sympathy and a desire to improve the lives of those who had been damaged. do you agree with that? >> absolutely. he tells interesting stories about lbj and the fact that lbj had offered -- or bobby had offered to go and negotiate the vietnamese situation for lbj. had he done that, teddy says he would have then been so caught up in the peacemaking process that he would not have run for the primaries. he would not have been killed, possibly. on the other hand, he gives lbj much more credit than one would have imagined he would have for the extraordinary domestic achievements. he said it closest to fdr is lbj. lbj always like teddy. he understood him. the one thing that is fun, even though he has nice things to say about lbj and even reagan, and clinton had magnetism, carter does

always running of the family name so he was going to change his name from teddy kennedy to teddy roosevelt >> because he was born on february 22nd, jack his older brother wanted to call him george washington kennedy. >> before we close out, we have some questions from the audience. let's bring this to today. you first met barack obama in 1997 as a young cent -- young senator from illinois, the only member of the legislature not indicted. [laughter] do you think that any part of senator kennedy's endorsement of barack obama for president was rooted in the possibility that he heard his brother's voice in barack obama? >> that is an interesting question. i am from massachusetts and we have had our problem in this sphere. thank god for louisiana. for the sake of us all. a wonderful state. there were many people i knew as kids or young adults who had worked for bobby kennedy's campaign who ended up supporting barack obama and heard this kind of the a sense of jfk in a cerebral part of him and some of the rfk in the more passionate part of him. it different people who were out of the kennedy tra

even the roosevelt administration, which oversaw the most dramatic expansion of federal power in our nation's history, would not go as far as the legislation before us today wants to go, or would go. should this legislation become law, there would be nothing that the federal government could not do. nothing. congress would be remaking the constitution in its image rather than abiding by the constitution's limits as liberty requires. there must come a time when we say that the political ends cannot justify the constitutional means. that the constitution and the liberty it protects are more important than we wonderful members of congress are. that time is now, and that is why i will vote to sustain this constitutional point of order. and i want to personally thank and congratulate the distinguished senator from nevada for his work on this issue, for his work on the committee, because he was one of the more energetic and more capable people on the committee in raising some of these very important issues like this constitutional set of issues that we've been discussing over this short pe

at the white house eleanor roosevelt preparing for a four will lunch with her husband and 30 guest. at the last minute the president sent word he could not attend. he received a message from a wide as said air raid on pearl harbor. this is not a drill. >> united states of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval air forces of the empire of japan. >> at 7:55 a.m. sunday morning japanese planes had dropped on battleship row where u.s. warships were lined up making a hard to miss target. by the time the plane's left much of the pacific fleet had been crippled or some. more than 2,000 people were dead. >> december 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy. >> one day after the attack it was president roosevelt's request congress declared war on japan and three days later germany and italy declare war on the united states. america found itself by teeing a war in the two parts of the world the atlantic and the pacific for the first battles were gramm and american soldiers took a terrible pounding in the pacific. >> it was scorching hot and corpses were piled everywhere. nigh