this was roosevelt's view. i suspect that this could be president obama's view from time to time as well. so he could look strategically how to get that point across. yes, back there. please wait for the microphone. >> [inaudible question] who brought these cases against the new deal? >> it would not surprise you. who brought the health care cases against the president's health care? generally people who are critics of the statute who may be politically opposed to the administration in power. that certainly was so during the new deal. there were a number of cases brought by those, some of whom have been a very active party in the republican party. against the new deal legislation. not entirely, but many of the cases were brought by those who are critical of the new deal. >> [inaudible question] >> what particular statutes were struck down? as we said, one was the national recovery demonstration, which was the major statute about the industrial recovery act. that was a very broad-based statute to try to deal wit

roosevelt along time. i have a chilling after the reelection things might change and sure enough, the first cabinet meeting after the 4040 election one roosevelt and safely elected the seats have been gained in california coming and then we work on getting the japanese out of the internment camp so some of it is a civil liberties issue for sure but there are political advantages to roosevelt to choose this and they thought they ought to put the japanese in camps it wasn't just roosevelt but they are suggesting there were many that said no let's not do this and some said let's do and roosevelt said yeah i think i will sign the exit of order. let's put them in there and then he took political the vantage of this and then lifted the restrictions when he was safely be elected. >> we will take one last question here. >> i just want to ask a couple of questions. one is the 90% plus corporate tax of excess profits was that applied across the board to the companies or the progress of corporate tax system. >> reall

with roosevelt on many issues. they are different kind of people, very different presidents but on this issue truman is ready to go along with all of this. a true man comes in, the economic planners are wanting to institute -- they think the war is going to go on until 1946. germany's course surrenders and 45. it appears will go on for a long time. truman didn't know about the atomic bomb when he became president. that's one of the shocks. roosevelt never informed him as being developed. in fact and of the odd things is the day truman became president he didn't know he had an atomic bomb, but stalin did. one of the ironies of history, the russians knew we hadn't, the president of the united states did not. happily secretary of war stemson told that to truman early in his presidency, so now he knew and when he made the decision to use it on japan in august, congress had a session. it takes most of america by surprise. august 6th, an atomic bomb on hiroshima august 6, nagasaki. congress is out of session and the war

with roosevelt on many issues. they are different kind of people, very different presidents but on this issue truman is ready to go along with all of this. a true man comes in, the economic planners are wanting to institute -- they think the war is going to go on until 1946. germany's course surrenders and 45. it appears will go on for a long time. truman didn't know about the atomic bomb when he became president. that's one of the shocks. roosevelt never informed him as being developed. in fact and of the odd things is the day truman became president he didn't know he had an atomic bomb, but stalin did. one of the ironies of history, the russians knew we hadn't, the president of the united states did not. happily secretary of war stemson told that to truman early in his presidency, so now he knew and when he made the decision to use it on japan in august, congress had a session. it takes most of america by surprise. august 6th, an atomic bomb on hiroshima august 6, nagasaki. congress is out of session and the war

two years ago roosevelt was named one of the worst schools in the state. but in its first year in the sig program, roosevelt has had a 14% jump in its four-year graduation rate. attendance is up. test scores are up. and discipline issues are down. but just as telling, just as important, roosevelt's educators have fostered a new belief among students about what's possible for them. the arts, for example, are thriving, and so is the school's drama program. last summer the students performed a play at the international thesbian festival in nebraska. a first for a public school from portland. and to make sure they could all make the trip, the drama director took out a second mortgage on her home. that's remarkable, remarkable commitment, but we have to give her some help and i'm going to figure out how to do that. in cities like st. louis and portland, maine, local unions are looking to improve and strength school turnaround efforts. they're looking for new professional development for staff. a final barrier to turning around schools is that parents are suppos

roosevelt along time. i have a chilling after the reelection things might change and sure enough, the first cabinet meeting after the 4040 election one roosevelt and safely elected the seats have been gained in california coming and then we work on getting the japanese out of the internment camp so some of it is a civil liberties issue for sure but there are political advantages to roosevelt to choose this and they thought they ought to put the japanese in camps it wasn't just roosevelt but they are suggesting there were many that said no let's not do this and some said let's do and roosevelt said yeah i think i will sign the exit of order. let's put them in there and then he took political the vantage of this and then lifted the restrictions when he was safely be elected. >> we will take one last question here. >> i just want to ask a couple of questions. one is the 90% plus corporate tax of excess profits was that applied across the board to the companies or the progress of corporate tax system. >> reall

and edith roosevelt -- and theodore roosevelt wanted it to evoke its sort of colonial roots and so it's a very federal, formal white house. the beautiful pillars. the great entryway. the new grand staircase that she put in. it also helps to bolster -- the roosevelts brought in the imperial presidency, a much more regal, formal worldwide presidency. this is when america really moves into the greater world as a power. and this white house was built to command respect for that and to show the power of that presidency. and mrs. roosevelt was in charge of the decoration of that white house. >> and she added a first ladies portrait gallery? >> she did. she consolidated the portraits of the first ladies. commissioned hers to be added to it and established a first ladies portrait gallery on the ground floor of the white house. >> politically, policywise, what is she known for? >> she's a first lady that steps away from policy. certainly is someone that can restrain her husband, and i'm sure had words to say for her husband, to her husband, an opinion. but she keeps very private with him. she ha

roosevelt along time. i have a chilling after the reelection things might change and sure enough, the first cabinet meeting after the 4040 election one roosevelt and safely elected the seats have been gained in california coming and then we work on getting the japanese out of the internment camp so some of it is a civil liberties issue for sure but there are political advantages to roosevelt to choose this and they thought they ought to put the japanese in camps it wasn't just roosevelt but they are suggesting there were many that said no let's not do this and some said let's do and roosevelt said yeah i think i will sign the exit of order. let's put them in there and then he took political the vantage of this and then lifted the restrictions when he was safely be elected. >> we will take one last question here. >> i just want to ask a couple of questions. one is the 90% plus corporate tax of excess profits was that applied across the board to the companies or the progress of corporate tax system. >> reall

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

so far this former inmate roosevelt is making good on his word.tified the leader of a $20,000 a day narcotics ring on the city's west side. >> we got good security. who's secure? >> everybody. >> it's an impossible neighborhood. they've got guys on both ends with binoculars watching police. if they don't know you, you don't get served there. if somebody on that block doesn't bring you, you're not going to get served. >> they need roos vet to tell them who is coming and going with the payloads of money. >> where we stash it, all they do is çwatch. >> doing reconnaissance with roosevelt the next day. >> our informant will be calling out realtime information to sandman and gleason. they are 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 to on the block. if he leaves there, maybe we'll follow him to a couple of different places and we're done. >> our guy is sitting on the block. >> had a guy on t

but that was franklin roosevelts great strength. he was always ready with another plan. >> a great improviser. >> yeah. >> you're right franklin roosevelt's great ins sprugs, the notion government might play a positive role in improving the lives of its citizens, but you also go on to say he never defined the boundaries of benevolent intervention in either the economy or in individual lives, and isn't that still where liberals are wrestling today to define the boundaries of government in their intervention? >> i think they're wrestling with the consequences of having failed to define them. i think there were certain boundaries that people would have felt comfortable with, and liberals went beyond them and i do blame liberals particularly in the '70s for failing to understand that they were no longer acting liberally anymore. they were merely redistributing the spoils of the system amongst various groups. the political scientist ted lowi called it and liberals turned on one another. feminists turned onblacks, on gay, on white working

and then roosevelt started to negotiate. and he committed to put the force and weight of his office behind the effort to secure jobs for qualified negros. and he left by proposing they create a committee, which didn't sound too good at first, but they managed to hammer out an agreement in which this committee, the fair employment practices committee created by the executive order, would actually have the power to discipline companies who discriminated in defense contracts. so, in this moment, in this key moment, this march on washington most certainly did make a difference. but it came at the cost of canceling it. once it was signed, on june 25th, randolph proceeded to fly to the meeting of the national association for color people and announce that the march was off. a call was made out on the radio stations that touched most african-americans, and they called off the march, the negro march on washington. this march would prove to be extraordinarily effective, it used the rhetoric of citizenship, it used an international --

so, then roosevelt decided that he had to meet with them. but this was the only way they were going to get action. and he did. and it was quite a meeting. it was an historic meeting. not only the president was there but the secretaries of the war and the navy, all the major officials involved with the defense program and a. philip randolph and walter white, the president of the national association for colored people. even with this sense of gathering all these important, busy people in june, in late june of 1941, those of you who know military history well, will know that this is a period in which the nazi government is in the process of planning to break their pact with the soviet union and is on the brink of invading the soviet union, this is a period in which poland is under -- it has just fallen. this is a crucial moment in the war. and all these men are called into the office to meet with these two men. and roosevelt starts by trying to tell stories and jokes. and randolph has to interrupt them and say, you know, we're here to talk abo

in 1938 he persuaded president roosevelt to give treasury significant authority over military purchasingicies two years ahead of the lenden program and he used this authority to help arm our allies and to help prepare the nation for war. he was instrumental in the effort to stock pile and ramp up production of war materials and crucially he enabled the united kingdom and france to purchase american aircraft often over the objections of the war department and isolationists in congress. now, later in the war news of the mass murder of european jews came to the attention of a small group of men at treasury. j joe sigh josiabubois and the chief of foreign funds control uncovered mounting evident that state department officials were systematically undermining efforts to save jews in europe. these state officials were delays licenses necessary to provide financial support to relief organizations across europe, licenses that would have enabled the rescue of hundreds of thousands of jews. they were denying visas to refugees and they were blocking the spread of information about the holocaust. th

then roosevelt says -- okay, let's undress. we are going. so they -- he said for the honor of france, i took off my clothes. but then he kept his lavender gloves on. and roosevelt said to him why did you keep your gloves on. he said we might meet ladies on the other side. >> speaking of that, roosevelt had all the animals as well. like mrs. coolidge did, too. talking about earlier with the story that the little boys brought their little pony upstai upstairs. >> exactly right. >> because that -- the animals are also a great comfort to you in the paths you have. >> did millie really sleep in between you and your husband zm. >> are you kidding? where else would she sleep? we now have two little i itty-bitty dogs. >> was it fun to write the book? >> yes. i must say, the white house photographers really helped me. we would have -- schedule a day to go to the red room and hope nobody saw us because -- dogs are not allow order the furniture. we placed her beautifully in the room. she lounged in the red room. she -- thefabulous about helpin. that wa

you know the wpa the new deal is 75-years-old as of yesterday, march 4, 1933 is one franklin roosevelt was inaugurated president of the united states. all that time, yet we have today program in the wpa that suddenly seems fresh and new because once again we are talking about infrastructure, the need for economic stimulus, and that is the kind of thing the wpa did. i'm going to talk about all that and read a little bit. so let me first read from a prolonged a little bit but will give you the framework in which the wpa came to exist. the human toll of the great depression is the 1930's is almost impossible for us to fathom today. when franklin roosevelt took office in 1933 as many as 15 million people, workers in the united states had no jobs, had no jobs and no hopes of finding one's. the desolation knew no boundaries. the skilled and unskilled still on the bread lines waiting for their turn in soup kitchens. when they were evicted from their homes the build in prague two shacks to house their families until the police came and knocked them down. when roosevelt took over the reins of g

you mentioned grant and teddy roosevelt restorations. and lastly, the fireplace in front of which lincoln sat is now here in gettysburg at the eisenhower farm. tossed out during the grant administration. and given to the ieisenhowers. >> private property given to the white house. well, the eisenhowers were interested in the history of the white house. and that exhibit celebrates the 50th anniversary of the white house historical association founded during the kennedy administration. mrs. kennedy began her renovation to make the white house look like something, look historical, and in so doing found that the historical society has gone on and has a tremendous educational program. and i might say, a journal which i added, which you can sign up for anytime you want to. it's the only subscription the association has. thank you for bringing that up. that's a very important, very select exhibit there at the renwing. >> thank you for your presentation. my question is, since the white house is made out of a sandstone, permeable sandstone, i don'

i would say franklin roosevelt would be another. all of these men they were, i think, one can say, that, washington was a little to the right of center. franklin roosevelt said he was a little left of center. i think, franklin, abraham lincoln was right down the middle. but all governed from the center. they really governed. and they tried to govern in ways that would engage a great diversity in their -- in -- in their country. lun c lincoln was different than wash work he was born into a democracy. he became a party man. washington hated parties. he believed in, a nation, washington's thinking was not precisely national. even as it became -- continental. he centered i think more on the great republic. than on an idea of -- of nationalism. but these men shared those same ways of, having, a set of values without an ideology. of having a large purpose without fixed and structured plans. of the sort that -- became too rigid and constraining. of working -- closely with the people, but reserving their own leadership. most of all, the cap

and then about franklin roosevelt. he's commanding a global power, a completely different undertaking at least in many of its parts. and he also built that broad base of very able leaders. putting republicans into the major positions early in the war, secretary of war, secretary of the navy, working across party lines in that regard. also doing the other great -- combining the other strengths of leadership that washington had done, but in a different key, in another era, in a different framework. now the question is what next? we can see that people took inspiration from lincoln for that same period of about 60 years that had worked for washington. and then there's a wonderful book by bill luchtenberg on the shadow of fdr at least to ronald reagan. even reagan turning against the new deal, but embracing that style of leadership on the explicit example of franklin roosevelt. and now what today? what for us? and we look at this country and find many great leaders in every field. we find great leaders in american universi

even though i was born in 1962, i miss franklin roosevelt. and i -- and i also say this as an aside, my first political memory was 1968, going to the polls, wearing proudly my hubert humphrey button. my dad was a union member. the union got out the vote in michigan and carried the vote for humphrey. to me, that's -- that's great tragedy. yeah? >> your book you briefly identified that the seed that these revolts grew from was called -- i think you call it in loco parentis. i wonder if you could amplify those two. >> in loco parentis basically means the university supersedes the president. it's hard to believe how much control the university had over its student body. you had separate male and female dormitories. up do the very day in the 1980s. if you were visiting a girlfriend or boyfriend, you had to have the dormitory room open. you had dorm mothers, keeping law and order in the dormitory, two feet on the floor at all times if you're sitting on a bed. curfews. and many universities maintained the right to actually inspect off-campus student

president obama -- this is not a political time when roosevelt lived in. the labor movements are not as strong. today there was a story about the tea party move -- losing its mojo. we're seeing overreach that has led people to this tipping point moment where millions of people have said enough. the obscene inequality in this country colliding with downward mobility that people feel in their gut, they see it among their family and friends. that has led to this moment where there is the possibility of space. organizers can move into it. we could see some real change. it will not come about through just one leader. >> it helps to have a leader who is effective. >> in traveling with the book, i am reminded about what candidate obamas said when he said i am a were shocked -- rorshack. people bring to him their views of the country, their anger and pain. feel he has done what he could in a system where you have a republican party that was determined to take him down. they did not want to govern with him. my sense is that he wanted to bring a different kind of po

the dining room was enlarged by theodore roosevelt. the statue of jefferson had been placed there by james k. polk. grant removed it when he did the landscape over in 1873. but polk wanted some symbol to define himself with expansion. so he put jefferson on the front lawn. and mrs. polk, who was a shrewd gal, she got a picture of cortez and hung it in the blue room. so she saw little jimmy polk as cortez and not jefferson then. this is the lawn over which the people -- they leapt over the fence that last speech lincoln made, and there were several thousand people there. the greenhouse was a very popular feature of the white house for about 40 years. it was torn down in 1902. or moved. part of it was moved. it was not the same one. 24 one was wooden, and this one burned about five years after lincoln's time. but here you see nicolet greeting plains indians and some ladies there and probably the agents, indian agents. these are the contents of the earlier orangery. and those are sasanquas which were very popular in the white house. and t

the dining room was enlarged by roosevelt.north lawn again the statue of jefferson was placed there by polk. but he wanted a symbol to identify himself with expansion. so he put jefferson on the front lawn. mrs. polk is a shrewd gal. she saw him as cortez and not jefferson then. this is the lawn, in the last speech that lincoln made and there were several thousand people there. the greenhouse, a very popular feature of the white house, it was torn down in 1902 and part of it was moved. it was not this same one. this one wooden and this one burned. here you see them greeting indians and ladies there. and the agents, these are the contents of the earlier and those were popular in the white house. they used to take them out and put them in the halls. this was the best place to take pictures. all winter long this was a retreat for the family. the lawn in the back, what they did was they brought sheep in, and it was one of the perks of the gardner to take the money and they went in and the fire engine was brought out and they green

that's something new and different. >> first of all, roosevelt did... word medial measures were before the court at the time roosevelt was criticized in the court. secondly randy barnett is my good friend but he misquoted the president. i don't think he said it was improper, he said it was unprecedented and there are almost no precedents that i can think of of a supreme court striking down a... the major domestic legislative accomplishment of this sitting president. even the new deal confrontation involved relatively peripheral medial measures or, in the case of the national industrial recovery act, a measure that was about to expire. rightly or wrongly i think the president had it about... whether the court is right or wrong the president had it about right. this would be unprecedented or close to unprecedented. >> brown: now you brought up the broader politization. the president certainly has been criticized by some, and you just made the argument, the court has been taken a lot of hits for being overly political. i'll cite one of many. maureen dowd i

>> guest: hoover set the table for roosevelt, and i believe that president bush set the table in his last 18 months for this substantial power grab by barack obama. at the end of the day what is fundamentally challenging about the obama administration and their effort to expand the power of the federal government, and the executive branch within the federal government, is that the president has taken what has been a casual tendency by past presidents and he has put muscle on the bone. he has done it at alarming speed, and in an alarming scale. so that you see not only his use of -- i'll give you an example. in 2009, "newsweek" magazine had a cover store. the cover story was that we are all socialist now. well, the heck we are. but what "newsweek" magazine was talking about was that president obama had reversed what had been done in the clinton gingrich years to balance the budget, to actually end -- reform welfare, and we were moving back very rapidly in the first year of the obama administration to an expanded welfare state. and so it's -- this represents a clash of world views, and

it was successful to achieve what roosevelt and doolittle and others hoped. it demonstrated we weren't going to lie down and take it. we could strike back and had the capability of striking back. >> a big part of my life, what i am and how i am and feel about things, i think lives are affected by the experiences i had. >> seven decades ago. bob barnard, fox 5 news. >>> the weekend is here and the dependents temperatures look like they are cooperating. >> we didn't have the wind and all the clouds. mostly full sunshine, temperatures up into the 60s. look at that. that's a good looking tower camera. i would say the cathedral out there and this is what awaits you. if you're going to be headed out this evening, real nice temperatures will cool off into the 50s after the sunsets. it will get chilly, but not talking nearly as cold as it's been. easy for me to say, the last couple of mornings. really nice weekend. spotty shower is possible now. tomorrow evening and into tomorrow night. we'll talk about that and show it on future cast in a second. warmest day of the

roosevelt then decided to see what would happen if he made some concessions. he had an executive office. he had a memorandum issued that said defense contractors really shouldn't discriminate. but it really wasn't right. it wasn't the right policy. this had no force but it was sort of an advisory memo. he did this. then he sent his wife eleanor up to new york where the march was being organized and had her meet with the

he, roosevelt then decided to see what happened if he made some concessions. he had an executive office, he had a memorandum issued that said that defense contractors really shouldn't