and so roosevelt said, "i do declare it." coyote: when roosevelt arrived in yellowstone he was in the middle of a national tour unprecedented in its ambition. 14,000 grueling miles. 25 states. 150 towns and cities. more than 200 speeches in the space of 8 weeks. from the day he left washington, he had been looking forward to some time off in yellowstone, and immediately upon his arrival he set off on horseback with the army's acting park superintendent as his host, leaving the rest of the presidential entourage behind including his staff, his secret service men his physician, and all the reporters covering the trip. "as far as the world at large is concerned," his private secretary told the press "the president will be lost." only john burroughs, the popular nature writer, was allowed to come along. the summer tourist season was still two months away, so roosevelt had yellowstone essentially to himself. he loved every minute of it. he delighted in seeing so many animals-- herds of mule deer anwhitetails and pronghorn antelope

all of a sudden, roosevelt was -- just when you say there roosevelt could not run again, roosevelt was navalpresident. he was good at war. they knew that. they knew that he served the secretary of the navy. he might be a good war leader. all of a sudden, people were tongue tied and did not protest against roosevelt. still, it was quite amazing. >> professor madison, the headlines in the summer of 1940 with willkie as the republican nominee, hitler moving to france and declaring victory. the big question, is great britain next? juxtapose the politics of 1940 and the looming clouds of war in 1940-1941. >> it worked very much to wendell willkie's advantage. >> france surrendered to the nazis a couple of days before the philadelphia convention began. that turned americans' attention very forcefully to this war in europe. they did not want to be a part of it. but they knew they needed a wartime leader. roosevelt looked a lot better in that context than did any of of the other republicans. >> we are coming to you from the rush county historical society in rushville, indiana, one of the homes

roosevelt ignored that idea, but roosevelt was open to everyone of donovan's ideas. roosevelt was a spy buff himself. he liked his entry. he liked the whole idea of espionage. so for example, one time donovan, i'm stanley lovell talked about the idea of getting bats, but that's the fly, how they were going to tie incendiary devices around the bats, okay? the idea was that you would fly over japan, drop the bats out, the bats would fly in to the paper and wood houses, and said the incendiary devices would set off and it would burn down japanese cities. okay? i'm not making this up. this really happened. terrific idea. eleanor roosevelt had heard about it. someone had written her she passed it onto critical. franco thought it was kind of cool, and gave it to donovan and he had stanley lovell check it out. so they got a plane, loaded up with a bunch of bats with incendiary devices tied around them. flew over somewhere in midwest, some desert area, dropped out the bats, guess what happened to the bats? they all sank like stones. the idea didn't work. but donovan was will

4th a 26 page memo that we found on the franklin roosevelt library. it goes into great detail about japanese espionage activities new york, all major military installations in the canals down and the hawaiian territory. >> great you stand on that longstanding question? >> no. i dug as far as i could. similar to september 11 that there were pieces to the puzzle scattered out but they had never been assembled and even so even if they had come and nobody would have come up with the idea of the japanese. to do the attack on pearl harbor december 7th. we knew the straws or if the wind. the roosevelt white house knew that but they were increasing the militaristic invading east china and manchuria and signed the pact with nazi germany and fascist italy which formed a mutual defense treaty to the swarm the axis powers the three principal axis powers. there have been more and more belligerent behavior on the part of the empire of japan. we were much jane very closely, not closely enough, but i want to read from the memo, page two, this is what we uncovered tha

he is the author of roosevelt's secret war. >> roosevelt pounds his desk and calling out the losses. this ship. that ship. so many aircraft. he is outraged. not only of the japanese but we weren't prepared for this attack. >> oliver: there are those who believe that roosevelt knew in advance that pearl harbor was going to be bombed? >> roosevelt had no desire to be in a war against japan. he told winston churchill at one point prior to pearl harbor that a war against japan was a war in the wrong place and the wrong en enemy and the wrong session. he wanted to fight alongside the british in defeating naziism. >> 6700 miles away the japanese were launching a war of aggression. japan was a nation ruled by an emperor. a tradition dating back centuries. the real power was held by the military war lords. throughout the 1930s japan was a rapidly growing industrial state, desperately in need of land and natural resources for its exploding population of nearly 65 million. the japanese government took what it needed by force. >> japan was very poor. it was a farm country. >> oliver: "war stori

the third volume of his theodore roosevelt is "colonel roosevelt" which covers a protracted and difficult at times painful period in theodore roosevelt's life when he missed the bully pulpit of the presidency and being the center of everybody's attention, was touring the world, suffered great personal loss. it is a dramatic story. nobody tells the story better and it is my pleasure to introduce mild friend edmund mosque. . [applause] >> that is completely untrue about me climbing the tree. i tried to go skidding back to ground level. after that incident which surprised me, a 55-year-old guy as i was then hugging this tree in a passion of protectiveness, i had never felt that way about a tree before and before that tended to agree with ronald reagan. if you have seen one redwood you have seen them all. but the sights and sounds of that buzz saw taken to this great country outside the house, just awoke something in me and next thing i know i am out there in my socks at 7:00 in the morning hugging the tree preventing destruction. of course i did not succeed. the tree actually belonged to the

he did not like franklin roosevelt.i can roosevelt from all accounts did not like charles lindbergh. but there were many people that were involved in the american first movement, people think of as some kind of right wing isolationist operation. but as a matter of fact, by descender, the america first movement is a very respected political institution in that there were men and women on the left and the right involved. walt disney was a member. house that was a democratic nominee in 1928 was a member, and so was herbert hoover. labor, e.e. cummings, lowell thomas, the commonest activist was a member of the country. american first move was a politically potent that they were actually making plans to open up a campaign office and every congressional district for 1942 to support the most isolationist candidate running for office whether the republican and democrat, and there were many members of roosevelt own democratic party it was strident isolationists. >> on that issue, too, the united mine workers were isolationists.

he is the author of roosevelt's secret war. >> roosevelt pounds his desk and calling out the losses. this ship. that ship. so many aircraft. he is outraged. not only of the japanese but we weren't prepared for this attack. >> oliver: there are those who believe that roosevelt knew in advance that pearl harbor was going to be bombed? >> roosevelt had no desire to be in a war against japan. he told winston churchill at one point prior to pearl harbor that a war against japan was a war in the wrong place and the wrong en enemy and the wrong session. he wanted to fight alongside the british in defeating naziism. >> 6700 miles away the japanese were launching a war of aggression. japan was a nation ruled by an emperor. a tradition dating back centuries. the real power was held by the military war lords. throughout the 1930s japan was a rapidly growing industrial state, desperately in need of land and natural resources for its exploding population of nearly 65 million. the japanese government took what it needed by force. >> japan was very poor. it was a farm country. >> oliver: "war stori

biographer edmund morris presents his book for roosevelt. they live to three blocks away from us on capitol hill in the late 1990s. i learned something very important and new from his own mouth this morning, that thanks to the efforts taken directly to don graham that the comic strip zippy was restored in the "washington post." you also may not know that is much a conservationist as his great subject, theodore roosevelt. and once many years ago there was a tree in front of their house on second street that the city of washington was determined to cut down. edman was so determined it not be cut down that he climbed a tree and wrapped his arms around it and said, should if you must this old gray head, but spare my favorite tree, he said. edman does not need an introduction. is now concluded after more than three decades work one of the monumental biographical studies in american literature, the third part of his theodore roosevelt is of course trend in which covers a protracted and difficult in times painful period in theodore roosevelt's life

i think it was not a bad idea to wrap himself in the mantle of teddy roosevelt.e's assuming a sort of progressive mantle and he ticked off some large and systemic problems that this country faces. the quibble i have with president obama, and i think some other people will have it too, is that the rhetoric is fine and identifying the problem is fine, but to use a football analogy, he sort of pushes it into the red zone and then tends to settle for a field goal. i know this wasn't a policy speech or anything, but i kept waiting when he was talking about politicians essentially who are on the take from special interests or bankers who are playing fast and loose with the rules. i was waiting for the so we're gonna do -- what? what are we going to do? it's not enough to just encourage people to be better. >> yeah, where are the teeth marks. anyway -- >> exactly. >> i expect some attitude from you on this as well. it seems to me that the president is saying he's almost talking against the wind here. i've never heard a president in bad times running against, let's face

they grew to become very fond of each other although churchill was more fond of roosevelt than roosevelt was of churchill. churchill once said that meeting franklin roosevelt was like opening a bottle of champagne, and roosevelt once told churchill he was glad they live inside the same decade, so there was a respect. churchill came to visit, it was astonishing, and it was big news in america. churchill came to america several days before christmas in 1941, stayed at the white house, didn't stay at the british embassy, lived in the west wing -- >> the night before anybody knew he was here. >> exactly. left london by blacked-out train and then took a harrowing flight -- or took a ship across the atlantic, landed in boston, then flew from boston to washington. all top secret, never was in the press, only people on a need-to-know basis knew about in the and then all of a sudden here's churchill in washington. and this was big news. winston churchill was a hugely popular figure in america as he remains today. but there was one funny story is that churchill was up early bathing and was in his

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so far, this informant, roosevelt, is making good on his word.identified a $20,000 a day narcotics ring on the east side. >> we got good security. he's secured. >> everybody. >> impossible neighborhood sit on. guys on both end watching for police. they don't know you don't get served. you're not going to get served. >> that means authorities need roosevelt on the block to tell them who's coming and going with the payloads of drugs and money. >> wherever his stash is at. all you got to do is watch. >> their first step, doing reconnaissance with roosevelt the next day. >> our informant is going to be calling out realtime information to sandman and gleezen. so they're going to be directing everybody where they need to go. >> their goal is to get an eye on the ring leader. >> all we're doing this morning is seeing what time he's leaving his house. who he's dropping off at the block. maybe we'll follow him to a couple of places and then we're done. >> our guy is down on the block. another guy on this corner right here. these guys are working for sure.

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because he doesn't like roosevelt? is it because he has actually changed his mind ease sees roosevelt enak the new deal? these are all sort of open questions about their relationship. >> now back to your calls on "the contenders." sheridan, arkansas. yes, my grandfather albert godwin was a county democrat chairman, a state senator and supporter of al smith. forare al smith's campaign president and dewey's campaigns for president. >> well, let's ask the former new york state assembly historian if he could do that in just a few minutes. >> oh, sure! dewey will be the subject of a future contenders i think in two weeks. >> there really is no comparison with dewey, the personalities couldn't be more different. they really couldn't be. first of all if smith is a democrat, dewey is a republican. smith is a progressive, pre-new deal campaigner. dewey takes over the reins in new york state after he beats the hand-picked successor of f.d.r. and al smith and he runs new york state during the new deal, and he is by all accounts s

roosevelt helped defeat them all. but despite those successes, there was still no federal law giving yellowstone's caretakers clear authority to protect its wildlife including its dwindling herd of wild buffalo. on march 13, 1894, two troopers out on patrol in yellowstone heard shots in the distance and hurried in that direction. [gunshot] soon they came across several buffalo carcasses. a man was hunched over one of them, so busily skinning it that he didn't realize the troopers were there until one of them was beside him with a drawn gun. the poacher was edgar howell and he had been methodically killing as many buffalos as he could, planning to haul out their heads for sale to a montana taxidermist. as luck would have it, a reporter named emerson hough on assignment for "forest and stream," was also in the park with a photographer to do an article about yellowstone in the winter. when the poacher bragged that the worst punishment he could receive for his crime was expulsion from the park and the loss of only 26 doll

teddy roosevelt talked about busting monopolies. he was called, as the president said in his speech, a socialist, a communist, and then turned out to be a hero, because in busting those monopolies, he created jobs for the american people. the president today laid out a roadmap and asked us, are we prepared and willing to sacrifice to get a better education, better opportunities for jobs and infrastructure, for the american people? by saying to those top 1%, many of whom are in agreement, but they have been taken hostage, themselves, by the republicans who use them as pawns to keep bush tax cuts that have done nothing to create jobs but only diminish the american people's opportunity for their genius and their job opportunities to grow. so the game is on. i will not in any way accept an extension of the bush tax cuts or a permanency of the bush tax cuts. we've got the payroll tax ready to go to save 160 million people over $300,000 and we have the unemployment insurance ready to go to invest in the american economy. >> congresswoman

perot and ted yes roosevelt in terms of their views -- teddy roosevelt in terms of their views and out looks and politics? who were some of the role models for ross perot? he seems to have -- he seems to have followed the mantra of william jennings brian, harry s. truman, the buck stops here. >> douglas brinkley has written a biography about teddy roosevelt. you'll take that question. >> when i got to talk to mr. perot he has two evergreen heroes and it's theodore roosevelt and winston churchill. and he takes a lot from them. we forget now that both of them were considered in t.r.'s case a damn cowboy when roosevelt became president, he was just -- mckinley was assassinated. and the republican party of mark hanna and the old mckinley machine didn't trust t.r. he was considered an iconoclast and individualist and the cowboy notion. ross perot, his father was a cotton broker. but also was a -- broke horses, went to cattle auctions, considered himself a bit of a texas cowboy. and everything about theodore roosevelt is impressed ross perot. and i think gave him courage, if t.r. can do a bu

theodore roosevelt the republican roosevelt not the democratic roosevelt franklin roosevelt abroad was the the new deal out of the great depression but teddy roosevelt who brought us the square deal and you know he was president from one thousand one in one thousand eight and then ran for president again as in the bull moose party as a progressive and the present the united states that i was calling out the republican teddy roosevelt theodore roosevelt and saying that that was an example of how the one percent was beaten back one hundred years ago and how we can do the same today in fact president obama even went on to say that the ideology of the one percent today is one of the things that's destroying america he was one of the first speeches frankly that has ever been given by at least by a president well here's here's the next clip. a certain crowd in washington who for the last few decades have said let's respond to this economic challenge with the same old to the market will take care of everything that sells and that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. but here is the problem.

that is what roosevelt advocated for.because rowvelt lost in 1912 called demagogue much like obama. >> bob: we need a right wing guy named -- >> dana: the "new york times" after the morning of teddy rosenvelt nationalism was called the new socialism. >> bob: can i use the research here to quote you? ronald reagan, accused ronald reagan offing a socialist, engaging in class warfare because he thought everybody should do their fair share. compare himself to reagan? is that comparing himself to reagan? >> eric: there is something different between teddy roosevelt and the obama comparison. right now, half the country doesn't pay taxes. the other half pays insane rates. back then, there was no federal -- >> dana: i agree if the white house press corps had not been reporting on it. >> bob: this is a silly discussion. can we put up the thing that obama did announce today that had substance to it? the new clock, the countdown to the -- there we go. the countdown to when the republicans will deny all americans who get a payroll ta

he will mention teddy roosevelt.here and that's why the president has selected this site. we want to welcome our viewers here. we have special coverage. i'm wolf blitzer along with gloria borger and jessica yellen is standing by. set the scene for us. what's the theory behind this address in kansas for the president today? >> reporter: this is the opportunity for the president and the white house to set the stage for the kind of economic message the president wants to define the campaign around and the economic themes going forward. he has, for many months, through the debt talks and even going back to his campaign in 2008, to some extent talked about opportunities in america. but we have increasingly heard about democratic party, the democratic base in particular, economic wealth in this country and the problems on the haves and have-nots and the shrinking middle class. for the president, this is a time and place for him to talk about what he believes are the right values as a nation to rectify those issues. but he'

megyn: how is that different from what roosevelt said?elt in 1910 was putting forward a very radical idea, concerned -- and that was the era of the sherman antitrust legislation of the as a matter of fact, in 1910 the economy was slowing down because the market had been hit by this trust busting mentality that swept the country under the roosevelt administration. the country was actually in the third year of a roosevelt administration because his hand-picked successor was william howard taft, and one of the anomalies in all of this, megyn, this president, apparently and his scissors from the sunday talk show hosts who had -- >> megyn: the apartment -- professor goodwin who suggested he should emulate teddy roosevelt and now he's making an announcement he's doing just that. >> i think that's a bully idea, as teddy would have said. the problem is, he didn't start three years ago. that would have been helpful. megyn: here's my question to you. the president is going to say the new theme will be everyone engage necessary fair play, everyo doe

roosevelt's new nationalism was labeled a "square deal." >> now for this roosevelt was called a radical, a socialist [laughter] even a communist. but today we are a richer nation and a stronger democracy because of what he fought for in his last campaign. and he 8 hour workday and minimum wage for women. [applause] insurance for the unemployed. and for the elderly. and those with disabilities. political reform. and progressive income tax. >> question, did president obama sound more like teddy roosevelt or hugo chavez? >> oh, my. >> socialist. >> he was no longer president, running against for president and he lost. so the idea that was a great idea for him to channel this speech, i think if -- it's hard to -- he keeps going to this -- and fairness to him is raising taxes on a certain segment of the population. i don't think that's really a popular idea. [everyone talking at once] >> worst speech by a modern american president since jimmy carter's speech. if you read that over and over, the last few decades we've done this wrong, the last few decades we've done that wrong. what is re arg

. >> president obama cnnels his inner teddy roosevelt and gives us a pview of his 2012 campaign. secretary of althnd h human seices overrules theda onn the after-r-sex appeal for young girls. if you are a republican money to be president, why must you seek the blessing of donald trump? >> a great honoror to have newt gingrich up there. amazing howow welhe is doing. captioned the national captioning institute --www.w.ncic.org-- >> lets start by acknowledging that poles cannot predict the future, esciallyn places like iowa and new hampshire. however, i feel compelled to notehat accordi to a recent poll, newt gingrich has double- digit leads over mitt romney in flororida, pennsylvania, and ohio. he is well ahead of romney in iowa and getting closer in new hampshire and with out in front in south carolina. this is making a lot of democrats -- but happiss. they might want to be careful what they wish for. it has some mainstream republicans riddled with anxie but newt gingrich says he will take a high road a matter what anybody says about him. >> i am going to stay positive. i am going

versus early roosevelt. as mark 60ed, there were phases to the guy. the early roosevelt, the one people like me who like, is a britain making sure competition was fair but pushing free market competition. the later roosevelt fell under a book by the name of herbert crowelly where the idea businesses become really big. we have to make a big government to counter-balance that power. that was a different phase of roosevelt and there are two different ways of looking at the economic problem then ask now and it's potentially a good debate. >> woodruff: one of the things the president was upset about yesterday was besides the payroll tax deduction, other was the opposition to the first head of the financial protection bureau. are the republicans justified in blocking this because they don't like the agency would be set up? >> no, they aren't. nobody disputes that richard can cordry is enormously qualified. he was a supreme court clerk for two different justicees, a very successful attorney general who won a $2 bil

where roosevelt delivered a controversial address more than a century ago. he then called for a major expansion in government, which drew a lot of harsh criticism, tr did, so the big question today is what can we expect president obama to call for. chris stirewalt is our digital politics editor and he's with us. they suggested that the president follow in the footsteps of teddy roosevelt and lo and behold he appears to be attempting to do exactly that. the place of the speech has direct parallels but it may cause a shiver down the spine of some tea party members. >> reporter: they are in line in terms of their theories about what government ought to do and what it ought to be in terms of the progressive movement. what teddy roosevelt did, remember this was right as he was leaving the republican party, he would form his own party the bull months party that would run against republican, william howard taft his successor and hand the election to progressive hero woodrow wilson. what teddy roosevelt was calling for as you a socialistic nationalism in which the g