the world wants roosevelt, roosevelt, roosevelt, roosevelt.in an hour, order was restored but everything was anticlimactic. the next day, roosevelt's name was put in nomination, an ailing old senator glass nominated jim folly and if you rest the words that could hardly be heard over the scrape and shuffle. occasional boos and catcalls. impatiently the convention waited while they were nominated, seconded and given sad little demonstrations. the only ballots was the first, roosevelt 946, farley 72 -- 61, tidings nine, whole five. then they rolled roosevelt's nomination by acclamation two-way roar of ayes. late at night on thursday the president addressed the convention from hyde park. it is with a very full heart that they speak tonight. i must confess that i do so with exceeding. >> as i find myself in a conflict between deep personal desire for retirement on the one hand and that quiet in visible thing called conscience on the other. lying awake as they have on many nights, i have asked myself whether i have the right as commander in chief of

he loved franklin roosevelt. he actually survived franklin roosevelt. i think he, i think he thought of franklin roosevelt as his kind of like a naughty nephew that he indulged. but it's a kind of interesting thing. and, of course, in the 1920 roosevelt was the vice presidential nominee. on the democratic ticket, he was a strong supporter of wilson's, of course, by then wilson had become an internationalist as we now think of him, promoting democracy abroad, the 14-point program for the reinvention of europe as a kind of american-style democratic community. um, fdr was a strong supporter of that after the war, after, i mean, after the election which the democrats lost. america lapsed into a kind of isolationism, but franklin roosevelt was very active in the founding of the council on foreign relations in new york which was a gathering of kind of -- actually, it was a kind of republican organization. it was very much dominated by henry stimson and william howard taft and some of the other republican elder statesmen. probably would have had theodore roose

roosevelt in the third american revolution argues that roosevelt avenue the achievements resulted in a revolutionary change in american life which ranks with the work of washington and lincoln, thus the third revolution. it was a revolution that grew not by chance through pragmatic political response to the crisis of the great depression but rather it resulted from a longstanding and well developed political ideology and embedded religious convictions. the 18th-century enlightenment phrase adopted but never fulfilled by the french revolution was liberty, equality and fraternity. roosevelt's revolution worked to achieve the third of these ideals of just government which emerged from the thinking of the enlightenment but which matured and america. all three of these ideals have been part of the american democratic experience, washington's revolution focused on liberty for the americans. liberty from the british and the establishment of democratic liberties. lincoln's revolutions that the course toward genuine equality. franklin roosevelt's revolution emphasized as never before the impo

roosevelt. who got your granddaddy an old age pension? roosevelt. all right, children, now, who made you? [laughter] after a moment of silence, one little boy asserts stoutly, god. whereupon a barefoot boy leaps up in the back row and yells, throw that sorry republican out of here. [laughter] now, the whole idea of ejecting conservatives from the democratic party was very much out of character for roosevelt. because he'd always been a charmer who showered people with his personal mag anytism and charisma -- magnetism and charisma, not with his bile. he was known for cajoling and persuading people of both parties to support his legislation. he prided himself on knowing how to work with friends and adversaries alike. while he was governor of new york, he once explained that he had to work with people he neither liked, nor trusted. but it was necessary to do so in order to reach his ultimate goal. roosevelt was an expert in tacking with the wind. as president he lavished his talents for flattery, wheedling, horse trading, even his talent for deception

she was eleanor roosevelt roosevelt. her uncle was teddy roosevelt who was president of the united states, of course, at the turn of the century. and some say franklin just followed teddy's career. and she had seen teddy's wife preside in the white house mainly as a hostess, and she just didn't want to do that. she said i just don't want to sit in the white house and pour tea. um, now, she would have perhaps liked to have been a closer adviser to her husband than she was. although she certainly gave him the benefit of her ideas. she never hesitated to offer opinions, but he might or might not accept them. so when franklin was elected, she went to franklin, and she said i'm not going to have very much to do as first lady, could i take care of your mail for you? actually, that was rather commonly done by political wives in those days. harry truman's wife had worked in his office and taken care of his mail, and the vice president, vice president garner's wife also had been in his office and helped take care of the mail. so

he took roosevelt more seriously. as a havard man reed understood the threat to football differently. he knew that elliott still wanted to eliminate the game and within weeks of meeting roosevelt came to fear eliot was on the verge of success at havard. this almost certainly would have encouraged havard to drop the sport and other colleges to do the same. they were all looking to havard for leadership. this would have endangered the future of foot wall and america reed thought. so at the end of the 1905 season read plotted with a group of reform minded colleagues to form an organization that today we know of as the ncaa. the approved a set of sweeping rule changes to reduce football's violence. in committee meetings reed outmaneuvered camp and receive critical received critical behind-the-scenes support from roosevelt. that off-season football experience an extreme makeover. the yardage necessary for first down increase from five yards to 10. the rulemakers also created a neutral zone at the line of scrimmage limited

the loss frustrated roosevelt. in a letter to his mother the next day he didn't say whether he enjoyed himself, the future president knowingly a football future popularity with couldn't anticipate their role he would play in the game's future, but he did give voice to the frustration we all know in the agony of defeat. i'm sorry to say we were beaten, he wrote to his mother, principally because the opponent's paid very foul. in a moment i will talk more about teddy roosevelt and what he did to save football but i would like to see why football matters but to me personally, both to americans generally. i met my wife on the way to a football game in ann arbor. we walked from our dorm across campus to michigan stadium. my first clear memory of her. we didn't start dating until basketball season, but our bond was formed out of a mutual love. my romance with college football actually goes back further with my father teaching me how to sing hail to the victors, and when we talk about the carter era we were not referring

the entire roosevelt era. the research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the presidential libraries and this year's group of others reflects a wide variety of research done here. we are delighted to highlight these others's works at botox for route the year, especially at this hour annual meeting festival. let me quickly go over the format for the festival's current sessions. at the top of each hour a session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a ten minute question and answer period and authors move on to the tables in the library where you can purchase your books and have the author's son them. of the top of the next hour the process repeats itself. now is my pleasure to introduce todd moye who is sitting to my right. todd moye has been associate professor of history of the university of north texas and director of that university's history program. todd moye will be speaking today about his new book "freedom flyer: the tuskegee airmen of world war ii". a narrative history of the mos

roosevelt. the commanding officer at freeman field his boss was general hunter. he always felt he was under attack by african-americans and hated it. he explain the chain of command in the air force, general arnold got his from general marshall he got his from the secretary and he got his from mrs. roosevelt. these people hate the civilian pressure coming down on their heads forcing them to desegregate but had it not been for this they would have served in the pacific. a long answer to your short question. >>ur is that in your book? >> absolutely. >> we are a lot of time. [applause] >> thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] >> todd moye, associate history professor of the university of north texas and his book "freedom flyer: the tuskegee airmen of world war ii". coming up in 15 minutes philip terzian will discuss his latest publication "architects of power: roosevelt, eisenhower, and the american century". more of booktv's live coverage from the 2011 roosevelt reading festival hosted by

roosevelt? excellent question. my next project is on eleanor roosevelt and world world war i. when i started writing on fdr i planned to have a chapter on eleanor to see how other people saw japanese americans. but she woulds so important and so interesting she was going to take over the entire book, and so i decided that i would -- had better let her go for the time being, and so in the meantime, i've been assembling stuff. the story of eleanor roosevelt and japanese americans, very briefly, is a story of dissidence. it's a story of eleanor roosevelt trying to find ways to push her husband against -- to dissuade him from removing japanese americans, then to help japanese americans, she approved emergency funds from her account with the american friend service committee nor emergency programs for the japanese american evacuees. she asked to visit a camp, and in 1942 this was forbidden, but in 1943 she actually visited the gila river camp. i wrote to a number of japanese americans who had been to gila river to ask for their stories of mrs. roosevelt's visit. the first thing the

and that led@roosevelt to form a@committee.ittee would then assemble in the manhattan project. now as i read einstein, he's very careful to say i didn't do any of at. he didn't. he wasn't invoed in the project directly but he planted the seeds in roosevelt to get with it and get on with atomic power for military use because others were gonna do it. >> he was afraid -- >> isn't thattrue? >> yes. >> he was afraid the germans might be able to develop a weon, but i don't think he knew exactly what kind of a weapon -- >> one thing he did not understand and he says that. he did not understand the chain reaction. chain reaction was brought into being by the four scientists who werewho? >> talking about oppenheimer, salard. is was then transferred to los alamos. >> the original four were fermie, text ellah and they form roosevelt's committee. then they participated with the manhattan project? ot on >> certainly salard did not. sk. e was considered a security so he was kept out of los alamos. ramie was heavily involved. if i could@just

it was an extraordinary time because roosevelt fought with him.he soiers were fighting in the first world war. those who were sighting by hi side came to see him and would talk to me during all those hours. so i really ha a whole new picture of donovan as the soldier at the site of father duffy and winning the congress must not of -- and to see intelligence for warfare and go to the spanish civil war to the art in each open yeah and would follow what the germs were doing so he was on roosevelt's side. so those years were very useful to me to get a fuller picture of the general. >> charlie: finally, how was your fdr project coming. >> oh, thank you. it's extraordinary. we're halfway through the construction. it's going to be completed in september 20 -- >> charlie: you got all the money you need. >> not all. $68 million and only 6 million to go. >> charlie: congratulations. good to have you. >> thank you. >> charlie: a book called the spy master who created the oss and modern american espionage. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned

and roosevelt was very careful to emphasize over and over again as he spoke about the war aims. um, mostly during the war as something that the soldiers deserved to come home to. and they did, in fact, receive that with the servicemen's reea justment act of 1944. but it was also promised as a larger goal of the war and, in fact, was delivered in many ways although, you know, that story's more complicated than what i've just suggested. >> why do you say that? >> well, because the way in which the affluent society came about did not flow directly from roosevelt's plans. muffin of the new deal -- much of the new deal had been dismantled by 1943, public works, work relief, planning. much of what survived was transformed by war. labor arbitration becames the heart which was not the case in the heydey of the late 1930s. so the state that underwrote that affluence and global power in the american century was a hybrid of what survived the new deal and what was forged in the second world war and then the agencies that were erected to carry on the cold war. >> james sparrow, you teach her

roosevelt had a special relationship before. in fact, the special relationship was very intense in the year before pearl harbor because winston churchill wanted the united states to get involved in world war two very much. franklin d. roosevelt himself wanted to get this into the war. the two of them worked hand-in-hand to do everything that they could serve bring the united states into the war. they had a special relationship. they had no incentive to lie to each other. in fact all of the incentives or to work closely with one another to get a sense of the war. >> host: politically while leaders find it easier to lie to their own public? >> guest: actually quite simple. easiest align when there is trust between two people or to groups. and in international politics there is not so much trust between any two states. one leader dealing with another leader, in most cases, not much trust and therefore it is kind of hard to live because the other side is distrustful. but when you're dealing with your own public, in most cases public

so much for being with us tonight it's great to nature more than sixty five years ago president roosevelt unveiled a second bill of rights that all americans should be entitled to he said that those new rights including the right to a job with a fair wage the right to food and clothing and recreation the right for every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living the right of every businessman large and small to be free from domination by them and i believe at home or abroad i'm using roosevelt's language here the right of every family to a decent home the right to adequate health care the right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age sickness accident and unemployment and the right to a good education unfortunately after all this time it seems like roosevelt's second bill of rights is becoming harder and harder to attain and that's why it's important to show up tomorrow and march with national races united democrats of america to breathe new life into a second bill of rights. after the break a daily take on why am

roosevelt asked for a new check but it never arrived.a hold of jet blue. the mistake was fixed and a new check was sent right out, all for $436.70. >> i stayed on them, but to no avail. i didn't get my money. >> until he contacted 7 on your side. >> clearly jet blue was trying to refund the money, it just couldn't seem to get the job done and we helped cut through the red tape. and now the roosevelts, junior and senior, will be getting together next month. now if you have a consumer problem, let me know about it. go to abc7.com and click 7 on your side. >> coming up next, the ultimate look at the career of pablo picasso and one thread that ties his work together from beginning to end. hello! these are our ocean spray sparkling juice drinks in cranberry and pomegranate blueberry. they have bubbles and come in these really cool cans. it's real fruit juice, crisp sparkling water, and no added sugar. comes in diet, too. it's refreshing, tasty -- the whole family will love it. you want one? i'll wait a bit. all right. mmm. refreshing. real ju

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. >> this little guy here, roosevelt, jr. ready to fly jet blue to oakland and visit his dad, roosevelt senior. the flight was cancelled. here is the ticket showing that. >> i couldn't reschedule because there was a time he was coming, he would have had to return to school. so it wouldn't make no sense come to two days and go back. >> so roosevelt, sr. figured he would get his refund. he had paid in cash but he was told he would have to wait for the refund while a check was sent to his home. >> i paid cash and i have to wait over two months for a refund. >> it was only supposed to take two weeks but things did not go smoothly. the check was sent, but to the wrong street address. it was sent to stonehenge rather than stone gate. he asked for a new check but never arrived. so he contacted 7 on your side and we got a hold of jet blue. the mistake was fixed a and new check was sent out, all for $436.70. >> i didn't get my money. >> until he contacted 7 on your side. >> clearly jet blue was trying to refund the money but couldn't

this little guy here, roosevelt port jr.as in new jersey ready to flight jet blue to oakland and visit his dad. the bad weather hit and the flight was cancelled. here's the ticket showing that. >> i couldn't reschedule because the time he was coming it would have been up. he had to return to school so it would have made no sense to come for two days and go back. >> the visit was moved to july. so roosevelt senior figured he would go back and get a refund. he paid in cash but was told he would have to wait for the refund while a check was prepared and sent to his home. >> to me this is ridiculous. i went in and i paid cash and i have to wait over two months for a refund? >> it was only supposed to take two weeks. but things did not go smoothly. the check was sent, but to the wrong street address. it was sent to stone hinge rather than stone gate. roosevelt asked for a new check but it never arrived. roosevelt eventually contacted 7 on your side and we got a hold of jet blue. the mistake was fixed and a new check was sent righ

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his law partner edgar lee masters wrote to franklin roosevelt and said this is a huge mistake. you don't want darrow. as only a poet can put it and i will probably get it wrong, he is going to saying the nra which will die and that is exactly what happened. masters was right. others things he said in the letter were not right. maybe oversold the case. but darrow did fanged the nra and give birth to what scholars call the second new deal. but darrow is not a libertarian. he believed government had an important role. in improving the lives of working people. context is very important. his experience with the federal government going back to the 1880s was one in which there was trouble or a fight over working people, which side of the federal government to come in on. they send in the national guard and start shooting workers and the strike is over. everyone went back to work. darrow witnessed how the federal government was and that always an ally of average people. when he saw the new deal perhaps creating cartels answered industries like the auto industry he was wary of that. th

a month later president roosevelt gave a state of the union address. and which he laid out u.s. arms production goals were going into a major war fighting on two fronts in asia and europe. he said we're going to produce forty five thousand tanks sixty thousand planes a few thousand ships and people couldn't relate to those numbers i mean we were still going to crush it mode economy at the time. but in the end we exceeded every one of those production goals and what roosevelt and this colleagues realized when they were laying out these goals was that at that time the largest concentration of industrial power in the world was in the u.s. automobile industry so after state of the union address writing out these extraordinary arms production goals unlike any the world would see me totally overwhelmed anything the germans or japanese and done up until that and cold in the leaders of the old will be a ministry and said because you guys represent such a large share of our productive capacity we're going to rely heavily on you without this reach these arms production goals and said well

one thousand nine hundred eighty nine triggering a worldwide great depression but franklin delano roosevelt turned it all around and turned the economy around too thanks to government spending and government regulations f.d.r. showed us all what government is capable of when it has the trust of the people but today even though our country's in the same boat that it was in in one nine hundred thirty two or that close to it president obama and the democrats have been unsuccessful at restoring the good name of government and convincing the american people that government can actually do something that it can be a good force it's a simple idea we do have a market economy to put in a private business but when those businesses get there or get knocked on their butt as they did in twenty nine as they did in two thousand and eight then someone needs to step up and be the spender and employer of last resort and that's the government without the help of the government over the last three years a double dip recession recession is now a promise in fact a double dip is a misnomer the vast majority of us

the constitution to say how many justices have to be on the court but jefferson failed franklin roosevelt failed and the supreme court's powers are still unchecked as jefferson noted back in eighteen twenty one the legislative or executive functionaries act unconstitutionally they are responsible to the people in their elected capacity the exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough i know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves america does not belong to kings she belongs to the people it's time for congress and our president to step up and put the supreme court back on equal footing with the rest would be other two branches of government and he to pass a law endangered ishall review take that power away from the supreme court and restore the vision that our founding fathers ad of america a nation where five unelected guys in black robes couldn't make or kill the laws of the land. as the big picture first night for more information on the stories we covered visit our website. also check out our you tube pages that he did with

roosevelt leftwich with a symbol of survival. a treat for you today. >> reporter: it's a symbol of survival and symbol of well, gawking. a rubbernecker's dream. it's not everyday you get to see a 120-foot plane flying down the highway and hundreds of folks didn't want to miss a thing. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: it's the reason why reporters have jobs. curiosity. folks who drive for miles, bring lawn chairs and sit or stand by the highway for hours just for the sheer joy of saying i've seen it. the it being the miracle on the hudson plane. you remember that. the u.s. airplane that hit the flock of geese, went into the hudson, the hero pilot. that ain't nothing until you see that same plane on the back of a flatbed. >> it was like a train. if you had never seen a train wreck or anything like that. it's the same thing. or a boat. they said queen mary was coming down the delaware one time. we missed it by a few hours. >> reporter: so he's not going to miss this one. neither are the duncans. they caught a glimpse of the plane. they

roosevelt always believed that if the u.s. was to contain japanese expansion they would need to command strategic island bases across the pacific. the basic strategy first of all i tell you for the spotless secretary of anything and i decided the best time for selection for the five states are set up a series calling him all his ships and holiday a polling station cod and spam up a separate class for their stuff except the batman that madness records that. the japanese conscripted over forty one hundred korean slave laborers to build up a show's defenses as well as a small airstrip. they sent in over twenty six hundred crack japanese imperial marines to defender. massive fortifications were built including giant pill boxes some over seven hundred feet in height ten large eight inch gun emplacements field artillery and anti-aircraft guns. the war in the pacific was commanded by two key figures general douglas macarthur and admiral nimitz. after the japanese lost the battle for guadalcanal in the south pacific macarthur and his

devised for the late nineteenth century roosevelt always believed that if the u.s. was to contain japanese expansion they would need to command strategic island bases across the pacific. let me think strategy a list of all i can look up look to getting and i decided the best course of action for the five states are set up here calling and calling actually calling a polling station odds are against the mother must never let her think the stumbling block and in fact that. it's right or that. the japanese conscripted over forty one hundred korean slave laborers to build up a show's defenses as well as a small their strip. they sent in over twenty six hundred cracked japanese imperial marines to defend her. massive fortifications were built including giant pill boxes some over seven hundred feet in height ten large eight inch gun emplacements field artillery and anti-aircraft guns. the war in the pacific was commanded by two key figures general douglas macarthur and admiral nimitz. after the japanese lost the battle for guadalcanal in the south pacific macarthur and his

which led roosevelt to hand of a lively sense of fun. when hall was not around here would quietly mock his speech impediments. if he was referring to his trade treaties he would refer to them as is played to ease. apollo and the top three guys in the state department all had a healthy, if not outright hatred and distaste for jews. one referred to them openly and readily as cakes. without -- dies himself expressed a certain amount of anti-semitism. one release startling dispatched back in the state department he complains that he had too many shoes and a staff. to many jews on his staff which was impairing his ability to deal with the nazi regime. particularly his receptionist who was absent the lower of the nazi picture. this woman sitting at the entry as last -- nazi officials consider. firstly, i think it is just amazing. so you have katie complaining about too many jews on his staff. also one very strange conversation. there are too formal meetings he has. at the second one he actually tries to find common ground with heather on the s

roosevelt.an event that his estate in new york, new deal veterans and in the carter the democratic party grandies gathered to pay a mosque to their leader. one of them had seen fit to follow another course. it was the republican who headed minister to them the worst defeats in american history. that was president ronald reagan. [applause] ronald reagan, as was his way, seamlessly and easily and gracefully made his way among the fdr tributes. understandably, some of the democratic politicians and others present were nonplussed by the presence of their greatest adversary. the speaker of the house come to theal -- the speaker of house, tip o'neill, was larger than life in many ways. he was an old style irishman. he grumbled to an acquaintance, "what is he doing here?" the clintons responded that he did vote for fdr four times. -- the acquaintance responded that he did vote for fdr four times. like fdr, reagan has become an american icon. he has become larger than the political movements that he bro