roosevelt, liberalism without apology. if there's a subtitle, it would be a nuance look add fdr60 years afterward. i intend to be provocative. for more than a generation, americans have been told that government is the problem, not the solution. on college campuses and think tanks across the country, libertarian scholars got the urge to remove government from our lives. this thinking has led to the privatization of vital government functions, the appointment to regulatory commissions, of members at odds with the regulations they are sworn to enforce, and the surrender of the government's management of military operations to profit seeking contractors. a look back at franklin d. roosevelt's time reveals how differently americans once viewed government's role, how much more optimistic they were, and how much they trusted the president. in the course of speaking about fdr, i'll take issue with the sunrise of romantism that engulfed them. after 1919, this was not a marriage in the conventional sense. it was a partnership. fran

three books about theodore roosevelt. he started off with a prologue new year's day 1907 at 11:00 precisely, the sound of trumpets echoes within the white house, and floats through open windows, out into the sunny morning. do you remember what knew you were in when you had to write those first words? p: >> it was a mood of complete despair because i have been trying to write without success. i read in the guinness book of world records that on that day teddy roosevelt shook more hands than any president. i thought i could see the book growing out of the deception, when he received the american people. and for months i researched the day, discovering to my amazement the dense and detail the newspaper records. i am sorry if this mass of detail and had to write a prologue in which the reader meets the president, as if the reader was in this line. and never wanted to take the stylistic liberty of saying you are there. i wanted it to be straight history. to develop the technique of writing a prologue in the third person which

the rise of theodore roosevelt, roosevelt rex, or knees door rex. and this latest book. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> the redesigned there you can view the programs, view the transcripts and find links to the blogs. book nothes.org. a helpful research tool and a great way to watch and enjoy the authors. >> tonight on prime minister's questions, british prime minister dade cameron talks about proposed spending cuts. after that republican governors talk about their approaches to governing and the fiscal challenges they'll be facing. also, remarks from former house speaker newt gingrich riven. >> after thanks giving, the house is expected to vote on sense souring congressman rangel which could result in a public reprimand. and congressional action in boats chambers is required to keep federal government operations running. that's because congress has not approved spending for the new fiscal year. the senate is also expected to resume work on a food safety measure expanding food and drug administration oversight and recall authority. live house coverage on c-span wit

it is about time >> three books on three or roosevelt. -- on theodore roosevelt. our guest was edmund morris and we thank you for being here ♪ >> for a dvd copy of this program, called a number on your screen. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at nanda.org. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> the book notes website contains hundreds of nonfiction authors. you can review the programs, review the programs, and use the database to find the author is blogs and web sites. booknotes.org is a great research tool. >> in yaupon "washington journal" a preview of an upcoming support -- supreme court case that could be a prelude to the amazon -- arizona immigration law. this morning on "washington journal" author richard wolfe talks about the obama white house in his latest book. also a discussion on nato and the demilitarization of europe with the american enterprise director. we will chat with the deputy administrator of the faa on

it was when roosevelt got started. almost immediately, the more than great realized the lengths he was willing to go. at the beginning, roosevelt didn't understand how far he was going to go. the dupont family and the ones that set up the american liberty league. that was successful because they have unlimited amounts of money. there were so popular, they were not able to stop it. they began to finance right-wing think tanks. they have been successful to the university of chicago economics department and notable fraud such as milton freed man. the idea of neoliberalism is there should be massive, selective tax cuts. margaret thatcher it is there is no alternative. of course that's absurd. there was an alternative. we have to connect the dots to understand what is going on today. i read the chronicle. so what i've done is put together a montage of the murder of public sector, which is going on everyday. in fact all of the public sector is in body shape. public libraries, parks from the municipal to the national level. o

here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. is over looks oslow harbor. they revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. they didn't get rid of it, they expanded it. just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. the new deal continues to live on there. thank you. [applause]. >> foreign language speaking. [applause]. >> foreign language speaking. [applause]. >> foreign language speaking.

here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. is over looks oslow harbor. they revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. they didn't get rid of it, they expanded it. just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. the new deal continues to live on there. thank you. [applause]. >> foreign language speaking. [applause]. >> foreign language speaking. [applause]. >> foreign language speaking. [applause]. >> foreign language speaking. w3 >> i am very happy to be here. i feel very honored to have been asked to interpret this poem and make it a song. it's funny because something like two days before he asked me to do this, i was thinking to myself, i wonder what it would be like to write a song to the poetry. the reason i love the poem tha

," the third of his books on theodore roosevelt, is just out. ron chernow, author of the massive new biography of george washington; bob woodward, who has yet another best seller with "obama's wars;" and arianna huffington, whose provocative new book is "third world america." then, i'll have a final thought on thanksgiving and why it is my favorite holiday. but first, four authors talk about then and now on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning again. edmund morris, ron chernow and bob woodward are in the studio with us. arianna huffington joins us from los angeles. welcome to all of you. bob and arianna write about the present; ron and edmund write about the past. bob, you write these books so full of inside information that the rest of us in journalism stand back in awe. how do you do it? how do you get people to tell you all this stuff? you talk about, in your new book how th

it shows roosevelt in his convertible. if you visit there, you could see he could drive using the upper part of his body. he's pointing to the plans of the hyde park. he was quite a passable architect. once he became president, he was able to build a lot more. even though henry loose was generally opposed to roosevelt. we ran a double page on his to show how the work he had done. i couldn't get it all on my standards. in the west, you would see without the new deal projects, the republican voting sun belt cities wouldn't exist. they were built at that time. so, it's as i say. there was at least a dozen agencies that left remnants. i am going to give you a primer on all of these. the premise was to put people to work. there were agencies that covered all of these. the land had been ruinned by a variety of things. this is one of the posters and these are archival photographs. this shows the ccc boys. many of them had been riding the rails. they were starving. they were illiterate. here they are in one of the camps, which wer

it was lucy mercer in fact, not eleanor roosevelt at nen 45. separately. it's been said that you have roosevelt was lesbian and that is also brought up a an assertion by you. are you sure of all thi data? >> i'm fairly confident. you know there was a eleanor roosevelt written b blaven cook and she was the evidence thattel by sexual orientation if no a lesbian one. >> letters >> based largeor upi. she was a wire reporter. and she began covering her when she was still in new york and later continued into the white house and in in the white house >> which came first? mercer the alleged by you roosevelt, or hick ocnating part of the early life i'm interested in perhaps doing something more on, prab book in and of itself, going a separate house which was the roosevelt family estate and lived with two other women in this house at a marriage and in fact fdr referred to the house as the honeymoon cottage and the love nest. happy living with these tw years. in her separate house at the family estate. >> that doesn't necessarily mean there was a karnal relationship

that was teddy roosevelt in 1984. and it's interesting to think that teddy roosevelt was the leading candidate for the gop nomination in 1920, but he died in 1819. if you lived in the nominated in 1920, you could see that the democrats under then server of party or the party that took off on a conservative direction. but of course that was not what happened. and the result after 1924 was the republican progressives gradually left the republican party and migrated to the democratic party. and democratic conservatives gradually migrate, like davis, gradually migrated to the republican party. finally, let me just leave you with a quote that's at the end of the book, where -- which we try to maybe give the book a little bit further than for today. often a national change of political course is justified because of economic emergency. the most severe emergencies of the past economic urgencies for 1920, 1932 and 1980. the conservative policies that were adopted after 1920 and after 1984 very different from the liberal polic

roosevelt to start the sultan berlin in a letter addressed to roosevelt on april first one thousand nine hundred five churchill wrote the following if the russians also take berlin it will not their impression that they have been the overwhelming contributor to our common victory unduly imprinted on their minds and make us not lead them into a mood which will raise grave and formidable difficulties in the future. britain was aiming to see germany destroyed on the other hand it wanted to the soviet union weakened as much as possible i mean by real concern was to the appearance of a new arrival on the concert of the. continued. in early april the ford most u.s. troops were about one hundred kilometers west of berlin there were almost no battle ready german armies facing them all of them had been moved to the eastern front to repulse the soviet offensive. horizon ours known to have asked general simpson whether u.s. troops could take berlin was lost as he expected in that case simpson said he expected some thirty thousand an. hour sadler that wouldn't do for us troops were to hold their pos

roosevelt's opponent in the 1940 campaign.sevelt sent him on the tour around the fronts in 1942, '43, came back and wrote the book called one world. at that point, it was the greatest nonfiction bell -- best seller in american history. in that book, what he argued essentially was the inside of every foreigner is an american waiting to emerge. they all want to be like us. we're so successful. when charles came to the united states in the fall of 1945 and met with harry truman, he wrote this diary how the american impulse is to believe that if only everybody would follow the american example, would subscribe to american ideas of governance, of democratic form, that the world would be a much happier place. he was a very, very astute leader. and i write about him in some detail in the book. he -- in some ways, i think he may have been the greatest leader out of world war ii. he had nothing, and yet -- and yet, he has such a commanding, -- he was such a commanding figure. and he was able at the end of the war to assume the leadersh

roosevelt. schlesinger was one of those who helped fashion this legend. in the age of roosevelt in which schlesinger presented this thesis, he discussed, quote, the coming of the republicans as though they were barbarians sacking rome. that's the perception that schlesinger put out there for the 1920s, and he was not alone in the widely-acclaimed book, "the pocket history of the united states," alan nevins and henry steele wrote that the isle isle -- idealism of the era was in the past, the passion for humanitarianism was in the future and the decade of the '20s was dull, bourgeois and ruthless. that doesn't sound very excite, and if you were a student back in those days and heard that, you probably never thought about much about studying the '20s. i certainly didn't and took all that at face value. but interestingly, this really began to change among historians. i think the biggest change was in the 1980s when reagan was elected. there was, among conservative intellectuals and economists, there was the rediscovery of tax cuts and what came to be known as

i think that if roosevelt hadn't. stolen would have agreed to the participation of the western allies forces in the assault on lin. as a kind of cool would prevent the allies from stopping him in the by. the soviet command to take a resolute action was set for april sixteenth stalin may have had yet another reason for wanting to take berlin without delay in early april the british prime minister ordered the drafting of operation unthinkable. the british military declassified documents relating to. what. received the. british. twenty nine pages. britain. a month before the war. by the british. on july first one thousand nine hundred forty seven british. were to deliver a crushing blow to the. say that russia should be forced to succumb to the we. could only be achieved. the occupation. of the country. for the resistance. some credit is certainly due to the british. they were clearly. the size of the western forces. that something was brewing. of the. top officials they were doing. son of a german anti-fascist had joine

this might sound familiar to you if you know the history of president roosevelt. he was paralyzed by polio on the threshold of a promising career. he came back and few americans knew how disabled he was. he learned compassion. he learned he could help other people of different races that he never met before. this is what we used his inheritance for. this lead to the polio vaccine. this is one person who reveres him. suzie. she was born with clubbed feet. it's now for spinal diseases. these were men put to work. you could go to a library and check out toys. these are three themes i identified. beauty, permanence. this is a minor's wife. she doesn't look like a dorothy lang photographer. i am sure she felt better. these are stair cases in new deal buildings. part of the idea, i think this is really an expression of the old arts and crafts movement, which elnor roosevelt was part it. this was a janitor, once he checked me out, he said, come on in, i have to show you something. there was a beautiful wood laid mosaic. this is a marble mosai c. this is at the national z

roosevelt. 1941, to the armed forces, as commander in chief, i take pleasure in commending the reading of the bible to all who serve in the armed forces of the united states. throughout the centuries men of many faiths and diverse origins have found in the ache red book -- the sacred book is capitalized -- words of wisdom, counsel, and inspiration. it is a fountain of strength and now as always an aid in attaining the highest aspirations of the human soul. very sincerely yours, franklin d. roosevelt. that's inscribed on the inside of the new testament that my uncle got going into world war ii that my aunt gave me. december 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the united states of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of japan. our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. with confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph so help us god. one other from r

roosevelt leftwich abc2 news. >>> thanks rosie. about 12,000 homes lost power in anne arundel county last  night. bge had trucks out to make the repairs today. most of the homes have had their power restored. the fire department responded to 18 calls since midnight to handle downed power lines and trees falling into homes, and some neighbors awoke to a lot of damage. >> trees uprooted, around the beach park. three trees entirely pushed over from the ground. taken from the ground by the root and knocked over. >> take a look at this. we want to show you damage in the nation's capitol. downed trees and wires blocked off some of the roads around washington and many customers there also left without power. >>> new jersey saw its share of damage downed trees and power lines sparked a fire. the lines caught fire apparently fueled by gas shooting up a ball of flames. a dozen trees were downed. 5,000 customers lost power in the northern and central part of the state. another 16,000 were in the dark in south jersey. >>> storm system did ma

roosevelt. /and jerry was one of those who helped fashion this legend.in the age of roosevelt in which slashings are prevented this the face, he discussed the becoming of the republicans is that they were barbarians sacking rome. fast the perception that/and or put out her put the 1920s. and he was not alone in the widely acclaimed book, the pocket history of few nights dates. allan nevins and henry steel columns you wrote that the idealism of the wilson and i was past. at the roosevelt and passion for humanitarianism was in the future in the decade of the twenties was still, bush was ruthless. that doesn't sound very exciting. and if you heard that come you never thought much about studying the twenties. i certainly didn't and took off at face value. but interestingly, this really began to change among historians i think the biggest changes in the 1980s with reagan was elected. there was among conservative intellectuals and economists that was the rediscovery of tax cuts and what came to be known as supply-side economics, the whole idea of smaller gover

he recalls the hunting expeditions in africa where theodore roosevelt and tt barnum and the decision later in life to stop hunting and create sanctuaries for animals to live and be studied. from the academy of natural sciences in philadelphia, this is just over 45 minutes. >> hello and good evening. que so much for being here and for that wonderful introduction. excuse me while -- i can't tell you how grateful i am to be here tonight at the academy of natural sciences and to see so many friendly faces. thank you so much for coming out tonight. i just can't believe it. i also want to assure any of you who might still be wondering know, there will not be an actual taxidermy demonstration in tonight's program. so apologies to any of you who are expecting. but i do have a i want to begin by telling you a story that took place 100 years ago at the top of mount kenya. it was here in june, 1910 my friend karl illegally found itself attracting a creature that would forever change his life. he was with a small party of god in this and reporters just a thousand feet beneath a glacier. the elev

here's a live picture of traffic in rosslyn, looks good across the roosevelt bridge and on 110.u. >>> new details in the breaking news from northeast washington. police are investigating a deadly overnight shooting. a man was shot in ahead in the park just after 3:00 a.m. and was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. gray suv was spotted leaving that area. police have not released any informations about the victim. >>> turning to the other the big this morning, a crucial passengers stranded at sea. >> they will wycombe under thailand and the will of hot food for the first time in days -- they will wake up action home on dry land and will have hot food. >> the vacation never really began. a litany of troubles unimaginable. the mexican riviera cruise. >> this is our first night and we have just gotten our meals. >> all the sudden everything started going dead. >> the fire went out and so did the electricity. the ship was adrift. the toilets were working again, bad.o the food when dent >> you cannot eat after smelling prodding milkman -- rotting mi lk. >> the nav