roosevelt ignored the idea, but roosevelt enjoyed listening to all of donovan's ideas. he was really open to it. donovan was kind of its part by thinking out of the box. and roosevelt from his early days as a young man was always intrigued with espionage and spying. in fact, donovan thought he was a real spy all a long. so for example, one of the ideas standard level tested was fitting that with incendiary devices. and they thought they dropped the bats over tokyo, the bats would fly into the eaves of the paper and wood houses. the incendiary device would go off it would burn down all the houses in tokyo. this was action and i did governor roosevelt picked up from somebody. she passed it onto front of it he thought his prequel and pass it on to donovan. so stanley lovell and his men got out there or some desert, i've forgotten where, and fitted these bats with these incendiary devices, dropping out of a plane. the poor things sunk like a stone. the idea didn't work. but donovan was going to try anything. in addition to being the father of american -- modern american esp

well, because you have to remember that when she was of roosevelt before she became a roosevelt.er uncle was teddy roosevelt, president of the united states at the turn of the century. some say franklin just followed teddy's career. she had seen teddy's wife presided in the white house, mainly as the hostess. she just didn't want to do it. ice battista want to sit in the white house imports cheap. now, she would, perhaps, like to been a closer revised their husbands and she was. other she certainly give him the benefit of her idea, she never hesitated to offer opinions that he might or might not accept. so, frank and was elected. she went and said, not going to have much to do. can i take care of your mail to iraq actually, that was rather commonly done by political lives in those days. harry truman's life and works his office and taken care of his mail. the vice president's wife also in his office helping to take care of the mail. that wasn't an unusual request. what do you think franklin said? no. of course not. that is mrs. job. he was referring to his personal secretary. in f

roosevelt ignored the idea, but roosevelt enjoyed listening to all of donovan's ideas. he was really open to. donovan was kind of a spark plug for thinking outside of the box, and roosevelt, from his early days as a young man was intrigued with espionage and spying. for example, one of the ideas stanley tested was fitting bats, you know, in the eves of houses with inside yarr devices, and they thought they'd drop the bats over tokyo, they fly into the eves of the houses, and the device goes off own burns down the houses no tokyo. this is an idea eleanor roosevelt picked up from somebody, passed it on to franklin, and he passed it to donovan. stanley and the men got out there over some desert, i can't remember where, but fitted bats with this device and dropped them out of a plane. the poor things sunk like a stone. the idea didn't work, but donovan was willing to try anything. in addition to being the father of modern american espionage and special operations command in tampa, florida, there's portraits of donovan there, and one in his uniform, and the uniforms, they co

so we begin with roosevelt. as you have heard theodore roosevelt approaches true americanism negatively in terms of three anantithe sees. it is supposed to narrow local and parochial attachments. it is opposed to overbroad attachments, cosmopolitanism, it is opposed both for immigrants and electoral politics to ethnically or religiously hyphenated identities. in a word, we should all regard ourselves and one another simply and unqualifyingly as americans but what is the positive content of american identity and attachment? what exactly according to roosevelt, does true americanism consist of? what are to use his terms its common spirit, convictions and purposes? so who would like to begin? if you're shy i'll just call on you. robbie? >> amy if americanism is a question of spirit, conviction and purpose as roosevelt said, then i certainly agree with that. then the question is, what's the conviction? from the conviction, we should get a sense of the spirit and the purpose. and the conviction, i think we draw from

[laughter] but somehow you remember eleanor roosevelt what -- roosevelt. what do you recall about her? >> impressive speaker. i have to recall looking back, and, you know, to me she came across as rather dowdy, but i'm sure at the time she didn't. >> well, we will talk about that and, certainly, next week i know with maureen beasley you'll be talking about her book on eleanor roosevelt, and it was my pleasure to serve as a reviewer for that book, so you will be in for a real treat to hear from maureen and also to read her book. but keep that thought about eleanor roosevelt because we're going to compare and contrast jacqueline kennedy. other first ladies? your first impression, your first memory of a first lady. yes. >> well, mine is still eleanor roosevelt. i was, i was born in washington shortly before the new deal. my mother was a newspaper reporter, she covered eleanor roosevelt, she was a friend of eleanor roosevelt's. i got invited to white house parties. >> wonderful. wonderful. so if -- we had someone here in the audience who was based in washingto

. >> eleanor roosevelt when i was a child. >> eleanor roosevelt when you were a teeny, tiny child. >> barely crawling. >> with just an infant. somehow you remember eleanor roosevelt. what do you recall about her? >> impressive speaker. i have to recall looking back and so, you know, to me she came across as rather dowdy, but i'm sure at the time she didn't. >> well, we will talk about that and, certainly, next week i know with maureen beasley you'll be talking with her about eleanor roosevelt, and it was my to serve as a reviewer, so you will be in for a real treat. keep that thought about the impressive speaking abilities of eleanor roosevelt and of her fashions pause we're going to -- because we're going to compare and contrast jacqueline kennedy. other memories, your first memory of a first lady. yes. >> well, mine is eleanor roosevelt. i was born in washington shortly before the new deal was. my mother was a newspaper reporter, she covered eleanor roosevelt. she was a friend of eleanor roosevelt. i got invited to white house parties. >> wonderful. wonderful. so we have someone her

teddy roosevelt was a big environmentalist. so teddy roosevelt comes back.he decides to run against taft in the primaries but the primaries are not binding in 1912. and so, taft gets the nomination in 1912 and people of roach teddy roosevelt about running on a third party ticket. he says i will do it, but if you can raise money. to big-money men come along. he raises several million dollars and he kicks off his campaign by using the expression, my hat is in the ring, coined by teddy roosevelt and he runs as a bull moose progressive. now, he ends up -- he gets a high percent of the vote than any other third-party candidate. he gets close to 20% of the vote. taft is 22% and because of the split in the republican party, woodrow wilson becomes president with 43% of the vote. so one of the ironies of roosevelt is that one of the things he objects to about taft, he can't hold the party together but at the same time by roosevelt running he splits

we begin with roosevelt. as you have heard, theodore roosevelt approach is true americanism negatively in terms of three antipathies. it is supposed to narrow, local and parochial institutions or attachments. it is opposed to over-broad global attachments, cosmopolitanism. it is a post -- as opposed to immigrants and local politics to ethical or religiously hyphenated identities. we should regard ourselves as americans. what is the positive content of american identity and attachment? what exactly, according to roosevelt, does true americanism consist of? what are, to use his terms, it's common spirit, convictions, and purposes? who would like to begin? if you are shy, i will just call on you. [laughter] robbie. >> amy, if the words of roosevelt are true i agree with that. what is the conviction? we should get a sense of the spirit and the purpose. the conviction, i think, we draw from the declaration of independence the captors it's a perfectly. it does not appear in the parts of the speech that we were give

her mother covered eleanor roosevelt. this lady was invited to parties with eleanor roosevelt. this is a wonderful thing about speaking in washington d.c. because you have everyone here has a story, an interesting story. i must say i've given this talk very -- fairly frequently. i asked this very question, who is the first lady can remember and a nice lady and a friend raised her hand and said mrs. calvin coolidge. i said, we have a winner. no one has yet topped that for going back any farther. other more recent first ladies? anybody want to offer that is your first memory? yes. >> i remember thinking how goofy looking mamie ivan howser -- mamie eisenhower was. >> will talk about the looks, comparing and contrasting that mamie eisenhower was the immediate predecessor to jacqueline kennedy. again if we can move on, tell me who is your favorite first lady? if you have already spoken you are not allowed to speak again. this is how the supreme court france's conferences. you are not allowed to give two opinions on a case that you are deciding until everyone has been allowed to give

roosevelt. the total actually in town has increased less than forty billion dollars in nineteen thirty three but two hundred and three billion dollars to nineteen parties seven greatest in all the history of the world. better bet that ben spread to iowa people because it's because of the democratic party defeated the people get a fair share of a base scott walker in wisconsin just flipped out right and in one hundred fifty six this is what the republican party's platform under the leadership of delight eisenhower said about labor workers have benefited by the progress which has been made in carrying out the programs and principles set forth in the one nine hundred fifty two republican platform all workers again and unions have grown in strength and responsibility and have increased their membership by two millions this is the republican platform keep in mind furthermore the process of free collective bargaining has been strengthened by the insistence of this administration that labor and managem

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 made us not lead them into a mood which will raise grave and formidable difficulties in the future. super bowl britain was aiming to see germany destroy your odds on the other hand it wanted the soviet union weakened as much as possible i need a real concern with the bobby appearance of a new arrival on the consulate. 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 news to the eastern front to repulse the soviet offensive. prize an hour's known to have asked general simpson whether u.s. troops could take berlin farms i was lost as he expected in that case and the same sense that he expected some thirty thousand jesuits asked or eisenhower said that wouldn'

so platte wants to get rid of teddy roosevelt.tion of 1900 is around the corner, and he approaches mckinley who's running on the republican ticket and wants him to take teddy roosevelt on the ticket, take him off his hands. now, mckinley is wary, but he realizes that there's a progressive movement that is coming up, and many republicans are progressive. he's more of a conservative. but he feels with teddy roosevelt on the ticket as a progressive that it would give good balance to the ticket. so he accepts roads svelte onto -- roosevelt onto the ticket. and then in 1901 at an education position in buffalo, mckinley is shot. and teddy roosevelt becomes president of the united states. now, he finishes up the first term, the mckinley term we'll call it, and he decides to run on his own in 1904. and he makes the promise that he will not run again, he'd just be a two-term president. and this was in keeping with the traditions set by george washington. for a president -- no president up until then had run for more than two terms. so almo

should be it cost a lot of money kick the nazis but and yes all it took was two presidents after roosevelt to bring our debt back down to reasonable levels so how they do it how did truman and eisenhower reign in our debt was a bank for the conservative fiscal policies that ron kirk is touting no we didn't cut our way to fiscal prosperity like republicans they want you to believe we grew and spent our way to prosperity. coming out of the great depression franklin roosevelt tore down a decade of so-called conservative policies that unleashed the roaring twenty's bubble economy and then led to the stock market crash nine hundred twenty nine roosevelt immediately jacked up the top income tax rate to keep rich people from gambling with their excess money and to pay for a new deal to put working class americans back to work under his watch the top income tax rate went from twenty five percent in one thousand thirty one are way up to ninety four percent by the end of world war two and through that throughout the truman and eisenhower administrations that top tax rate stayed at around ninety one

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]. >> welcome to town. it is nice to have you here. >> good to be here. i want to start right in about this book, um by having you read us, this letter that your brother wrote to you when he was at the university of pennsylvania and you were the younger sister that starts right down there. remind us roughly what the year was. >> the year was 1965. the moral of this story is never have a younger sister who never throws away a piece of paper. i discovered this lett

>> my favorite chapter turned out to be the eleanor roosevelt and franklin roosevelt. it was complicated. he had his girlfriend living in a bedroom next to him. she had her girlfriend living next to her in the white house together. the american public did not know any of this. franklin's girlfriend turned out to be essential to helping these two figures become the great heroes of american history who led us through the great depression and the second world war. a central piece of their story is the extramarital relationship and important piece that had long ignored. >> host: let me hear your favorite chapter. let's hear from a caller in alabama. you presidents, first ladies and their lovers changed the course of american history". >> caller: thank you for your work. one of your buddies we harrelson, in that movie, online:plays a big part in his life. how much does it play in yours? >> guest: you say online:? >> host: that was his questions. >> guest: we have a web site but i never go on it. it plays no role in my life at all. much more material is available now because

so, wilson wins the election, and that is it for roosevelt. he died in 1919, but he is considered -- if you look at polls that historians take about great president, he is up there. he is in the top five so he was a great resident during his first few terms in office and i think he runs in 1912 mainly for ego reasons. he can't stand to be out of the limelight. let me make another point about the third-party. one of the things we find about third parties is that during the 19th century, ideas tend to it and -- animate third parties and then they go out and get candidates. what happens in the 20th century probably because of the growth of the media, public radio, television, the ease of transportation, personalities become dominant. if you think of third hearty candidates you think of nader, you think of wallace come calmly come a think up a row in the thick of teddy roosevelt. these are all dynamic individuals. and the third-party in the 20th century because of these individuals and the issue becomes, a part of it but they don't dominate. >> ne

roosevelt was constantly doing what every one trying to help our l.a. great britain out -- there was a series of events that occurred, but go back and read the great freedom speech of franklin roosevelt, or the atlantic charter agreement between churchill and roosevelt up in newfoundland -- he said the cornerstone of the alliance is giving aid to britain at the right time. there is a whole group of the events that occurred leading up to pearl harbor. we did have an understanding of just how evil the third reich in germany was, and how dangerous japan's militarism had become. by the time pearl harbor came around, roosevelt and the country were ready to act. but roosevelt had to educate the public to get ready for the big board. host: september 1, 1939, is the day that nazi germany invaded poland. william i. ohio. good morning, william. william, you with us? caller: can you hear me? host: we sure can. caller: ok, i visited about five years ago the memorial. beautiful. it is all inspiring. -- awe inspiring. i am sad come in a way, that many of the fellows

roosevelt was constantly doing what every one trying to help our l.a. great britain out -- there was a series of events that occurred, but go back and read the great freedom speech of franklin roosevelt, or the atlantic charter agreement between churchill and roosevelt up in newfoundland -- he said the cornerstone of the alliance is giving aid to britain at the right time. there is a whole group of the events that occurred leading up to pearl harbor. we did have an understanding of just how evil the third reich in germany was, and how dangerous japan's militarism had become. by the time pearl harbor came around, roosevelt and the country were ready to act. but roosevelt had to educate the public to get ready for the big board. host: september 1, 1939, is the day that nazi germany invaded poland. william i. ohio. good morning, william. william, you with us? caller: can you hear me? host: we sure can. caller: ok, i visited about five years ago the memorial. beautiful. it is all inspiring. -- awe inspiring. i am sad come in a way, that many of the fellows

and that even includes eleanor roosevelt's discourse. and so i believe that as a public communicator she was a great success. as i say, she was very careful about what she said and how she said it. and this brings me to the last topic that i'd like to discuss with you this afternoon before we have a chance to chat. and that is the campaign of 1992. in 1988, barbara bush's role was not the same as 92. her popularity proved -- improved immensely in the white house. so in 88 she did give some speeches. she certainly spoke to groups, but 1992 again was different ballgame. the president had experience a precipitous drop in his popularity. at the height of the persian gulf war i think his approval ratings were in the high '80s. by the time to 1992 campaign began that were probably around the '40s. in 1992 did not begin well, and this is also kind of great barbara bush story. they had gone to japan to talk to the japanese who i know i very much in our minds right now, about trade agreements. and the afternoon that they were there, the first aft

according to the then president franklin roosevelt a date that launched f.d.r.'s calls for production of hundreds of thousands each of planes tanks and guns over a few years to fight the war factories were converted and the nation got the job done. a sight unseen in response to today's challenges i think that right now the country is in a state of paralysis and we keep saying somebody else is going to step up to it the people who are coming in to build things for the japanese and germans over the decades the challenges may change but the country has always faced new ones these are extraordinary times and we an extraordinary challenge the question fifty years after kennedy said those words is if a country can still rise to meet them. right lauren lyster r.t. washington d.c. . earlier i spoke to arthur m. professor emeritus of economics at university of massachusetts richard well i asked him if the country can rise up to meet these challenges and why not here's part of the conversation but i think it's a long history it has to do with an inability to recognise that

roosevelt on d-day, june 6, 1944. and, mr. speaker, with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back.

for the first time, he met theodore roosevelt. roosevelt dragged him to the smithsonian to show off glass cases full of american indian art facts. he later wrote, i never got over the wonder of a people having driving their originals honestly believe they were a godly little new england community setting examples to brutal mankind. of the five countries the united states invaded and or acquired in 1898, hawaii is the only one that became a state. that said, i have come to understand that even though hawaii has been a state since 1959 and an american territory since 1898, a small, but defient network of activists question the legality of both developments and do not consider themselves to be americans at all which is pretty easy to pick up on when they march past you down the main drag of honolulu on the 50th anniversary of statehood carrying signs that say "we are not americans." [laughter] so -- [applause] oh, thank you. [applause] so if you have questions, a microphone carrier will -- [laughter] will find you. >> i know you ment

teddy roosevelt has never won the race. poor guy. jonathan sanchez flops. and walked four batters in the first. reloaded the bases in the second inning. rick ankiel finally made him pay. just over the reach of mike fanteno. and just one run was given up. and backup catcher eli whiteside gets the giants on the board with the third with the first homerun of the season for him. nice to see. the solo shot to left. that one is gone there. 7th inning. bases loaded for audrey huff. and this guy gets a chance to

that even includes eleanor roosevelt. so, i believe that as a public communique she was a great success. as i say, she was very careful about what she said and how she said it. this press me to the last topic that i would like to discuss with you this afternoon before we have a chance to chat. that is the campaign of 1992. in 1988 barbara bush's role was not the same as '92. her popularity grew immensely in the white house. so in 88 she gave some speeches. she certainly spoke to groups. 1992, again, was a different ball game. the president had experienced a precipitous drop in his popularity. at the height of the persian gulf war i think his approval ratings were in the high 80's. by time the '92 campaign began there were probably around the 40's. 1992 did not begin well. this is also another great barbara bush story. they had gone to japan to talk to the japanese who i know are very much in our minds right now , about trade agreements. the afternoon that they were there, the first afternoon, just as a social event, it to

you know after world war two president franklin roosevelt made a promise to our soldiers he said if you went out there and risk your life to protect our nation and this nation will never forget about you for the rest of your life any time you need a hand we'll be there for you because you were there for us when we needed you the most the g.i. bill was passed and promised our returning soldiers a free education four years of college living expenses all completely paid for it promised them low interest loans for mortgages and help start small businesses they promised them weekly allowances of twenty bucks or two hundred dollars in today's money to get back on their feet and find work and the g.i. bill made sure that anyone who was wounded would be taken care of nursed back to health rehabilitated into the work force in america if possible all free of cost ten years after the war more than ten million veterans after world war two more than ten million veterans went to school college on the g.i. bill and with the tools of higher education they found great jobs settled and started families a

the roosevelt room is the room in the in the west wing and if somebody were to see these curtains eric cantor the house majority leader yesterday put out a statement praising president bush and kind of throwing in a little mention of obama at the end i mean palin is the most extreme example but it's just taking this to its logical conclusion which is to you know not credit obama for something that he did on his watch and to try to you know put it on bush and i think a lot of it as as you're sort of mentioned was to try to. balance these enhanced interrogation like torture i mean it's like with reagan they say he brought down the soviet union the so he fell on george herbert walker bush was administration right i mean somehow everybody in america has amnesia about that right and these you know that the pieces of intelligence some were collected you know in two thousand fourteen thousand five but the bigger policy questions you know the cia the agents were doing their job under whatever president would matter to them but the bigger policy questions of how are you resourcing you know are

. >> tell me about teddy roosevelt as a third-party candidate. >> okay, well teddy roosevelt was born in new york, born in new york city in 1859. his father was a wealthy businessman in the roosevelt family. there were two branches of the family. the other branch is where franklin roosevelt came from. and he is also a philanthropist. he is interested in helping the poor. he is a big contributor to causes for the poor. his mother interestingly is a southern belle from the plantation aristocracy from roswell, georgia. there is a big plantation called hola call. that is where she was born and that is where they remarried. she supposedly is the model for scarlett o'hara in gone with the wind. martha her name was. back in those days upper-class people did not get into politics. it was considered dirty and disreputable let's teddy roosevelt developed an interest in the political system. he becomes a state legislator in new york state. he goes to washington and becomes an assistant secretary of the navy during the spanish-american war in 19 -- and organized the regiment and becomes a nationa

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 was constantly doing what every one trying to help our l.a.tain out -- there was a series of events that occurred, but go back and read the great freedom speech of franklin roosevelt, or the atlantic charter agreement between churchill and roosevelt up in newfoundland -- he said the cornerstone of the alliance is giving aid to britain at the right time. there is a whole group of the events that occurred leading up to pearl harbor. we did have an understanding of just how evil the third reich in germany was, and how dangerous japan's militarism had become. by the time pearl harbor came around, roosevelt and the country were ready to act. but roosevelt had to educate the public to get ready for the big board. host: september 1, 1939, is the day that nazi germany invaded poland. william i. ohio. good morning, william. william, you with us? caller: can you hear me? host: we sure can. caller: ok, i visited about five years ago the memorial. beautiful. it is all inspiring. -- awe inspiring. i am sad come in a way, that many of the fellows i would li

it was supposed to be a short popular biography about theodore roosevelt. but after he'd wrote--been writing for four years, they realized he had a three-volume life here, and so that was just volume one. and while i was helping him type that manuscript, i said, 'who's this lady that he eventually married?' who was his second wife, edith. and he said, 'oh, nothing's known about her.' so i said, 'well, she intrigues me.' so i went to the library; i did a bit of research. there wasn't much of--known about her. and so i wrote a proposal, and a publisher was interested in it, so i got a contract straight away. and i wrote the book on edith roosevelt, which took her right until her death. and, of course, edmund's book ended when tr became president. c-span: both of you have the same publisher? >> guest: at that time, it was coward-mccann, which was a subsidiary of putnam. c-span: but now... >> guest: but now we're both at random house. c-span: both the same publisher, both writers... >> guest: yeah. c-span: ... living and working at the same time in the same hou

our panel this morning will use theodore roosevelt's s.a.sidering -- essay as the point of departure for considering the meaning and significance of an americanism today. they have all read the essay. many of you have probably not. to make it possible for those here and those watching on c- span to follow the composition and help to prime the panel's pump, we will give the theodore roosevelt the first words, as leon will read excerpts from the estate. -- essay. >> i will not try to impersonate -- [laughter] but i will try to read it with some gusto. "we americans have great problems to solve, threatening evils to fight, many deeds to do, if as we hope and believe we have the wisdom, strength, courage, and a virtue to do it. yet there is one quality we must bring to the solution of every problem -- that is an intense and fervid americanism. we should never be successful over the dangers that confront us, we shall never achieve a true greatness nor achieved a lofty ideal which the founders and preservers of our mighty federal republic have sai