he supported roosevelt for reelection in 1940, which is all roosevelt wanted the way roosevelt did notfire as he should have. he retired and got an interview through the battle of. anybody we give to britain is wasted, turn away. and then, she went to hollywood. he was invited by jack warner to speak at the studio about the future of films. the film come is going to do if they could export to europe. but instead of talking about that, she lashed out at an audience that is almost all jewish. he lashed out at them and say stop making anti-hitler films. unless you stop taking anti-german, anti-hitler, anti-nazi films, you're going to cause the next work. boys are going to be killed, blood will be spilled and there'll be the worst outbreak of anti-semitism in this world ever seen because everybody is going to blame everybody in this country is going to blame the jew's. by 1940, he was a total absolute pariah. nobody wanted to touch him. if you wanted, he could have a chilling the america first community, signed up with lindbergh. but he didn't want to do that because he knew if he did that

she demanded much from roosevelt and roosevelt gave it to him and named him the first ambassador, the first irish catholic ambassador to the port of saint james to great britain and was one of the worst decisions that roosevelt had ever made but he somehow believed he could keep kennedy in check, but he couldn't. he couldn't. kennedy was to men when he talked to his children he was a cheerleader, she was on optimist -- he was an optimist in the relationship into the 20th century, she was a having made his pile of money, he was convinced that it was going to be taken from him. he was convinced that democracy and capitalism would be taken from the united states. if the end united states entered the war, entered world war ii on behalf of the british. nothing was more important to him than making sure that there was no war and then keeping the united states out of the war and he did everything he possibly could. he violated critical. he didn't follow orders. he met secretly with german diplomats to be that he was convinced that as a businessman, she knew how to negotiate a deal, and that

he supported roosevelt for re-election in 1940 which is all roosevelt wanted from him and why roosevelt did not fire him as he should have. he retired, and he kept blabbing away. he gave an interview in boston in which he said the british are finished. and this is during the battle of britain. the british are finished. any money we give the british is, you know, is wasted, it's thrown away. and then he went to hollywood. he was invited by jack warner to speak at the studio about the future of films, what was film going to do -- what were the film companies going to do if they couldn't export, right, to europe? but instead of talking about that, he lashed out at an audience that was almost all jewish. he lashed out at them, and he said you guys unless you stop making anti-hitler films, the great dictator -- charlie chaplin's great dictator -- unless you stop making anti-german, anti-hitler, anti-nazi films, you are going to cause the next war. millions of american boys are going to be killed, blood will be spilled, and there will be the worst outbreak of anti-semitism this world has ever

these details are important but who knows of course if roosevelt roosevelt -- and stalin as you knowhimself through the heads of the french communist party told the american communists in april 1945, get ready for the class were to continue in effect. don't believe that peaceful coexistence is really going to last. around the same time as roosevelt is dying actually. did you want to chime in on that? >> guest: u.s. specific questions about the french and you want to do with that first? >> host: the larger question. >> guest: not a cent historian but looking at world war ii in a different aspect than i ever did as a young person when it was victory at sea. what i'm talking about is i would not downplay the british empire. that's the biggest empire of all. we are a coming power and so is russia because they grow during the war. don't forget they armed themselves and they remake themselves. it's an extraordinary story of migration reconstruction and dedication to the people in the losses of the soviets, whether it's 22 or 27 million whether stalin kills, doesn't matter. the ideas the wh

eleanor roosevelt was furious with him. every one of the roosevelt kids was furious. they were huge wallless supporters, wallace had all the blacks and progressives and there was a fight between the consecutives in the party, which still today in the democratic party, but in the southern segregationists in there but it's that kind of fight. so, roosevelt didn't have the gumption to fight. he didn't have the strength. he said to wallace, publicly at the convention, if i were a delegate, i would vote for henry wallace, which he would have, but it's tragic, as we say in the documentary, it's tragic he didn't have the strength to fight at that opinion for wallace. >> i sense in your opening question you were pointing to the forces of history, and i see marxist, leninist side of things. and in the sense that wallace would have opposed and the forces were not in his favor and the forces were ultimately between this capitalism versus communist ideology would clash and that would be the end, and that was the subject of the february '46 speech that stalin made that was misinte

i am glad you read that book about eleanor roosevelt, but even eleanor roosevelt, are was surprised how strongly she advocated for the inclusion of sold for rights in the u.n. declaration because i expected the u.s. stance to be more focused on individual rights or what we consider negative writes, freedom from oppression and controlled by the state but both roosevelts were absolutely crucial in including these social rights in the declaration of -- that didn't resonate here. it didn't resonate and there were also organized groups that worked to oppose the acceptance of such rights such as the medical profession. there was a specific campaign to prevent the u.s. from accepting economic and social rights in the 90s that was run by conservative groups. i think there is a lot of ideological resistance to assist -- social rights and also -- those have combined. less than fertile ground for social rights. >> my questions ends with knowledge of individual resistance to health-care which i grew up in germany so it's hard for me to understand why people even if they have ellises or family membe

roosevelt record. how could that be? roosevelt was inaugurated four times. well, we already know obama was inaugurated twice. the inauguration in january this year falls on sunday, so there will be a private ceremony on sunday, there will take the oath then. public on the next day january january 201st, his fourth. that is what happens when inauguration day falls on sunday here is eisenhower on january january 20th 1957 which was sunday, private ceremony. inaugural address, very old picture. this is from 1865. this is abraham lincoln's second inauguration. a very famous speech they're in which he said with malice toward none and charity for all. 1933 franklin d. roosevelt, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. john f. kennedy in 1961, ask not what your country can do for you, as good you can do for your country. then the departure of the old presidents. here is george w. bush departing the scene on the back of the capitol four years ago flying off a helicopter looking back at the capitol. and as a luncheon. obama's luncheon for years ago. then the r

and they have no idea what role the british are playing but roosevelt did, and roosevelt was very, very critical of the british empire has was his vice president from 41 to 45, henry wallace. they want to bring it to the could dismantle the british empire, the french empire, the portuguese, they were very anticolonial. they encourage them and give them a did. it gets us involved in vietnam and in a lot of turmoil that we are going to leave her face. but the other questions you were raising we don't know if there would have been a clash between the americans and the soviets. we had a different interests but we had a very good alliance, and april 23rd, the crucial meeting they both make the point and now we have the soviets and the good wartime allies they also delivered more than the had promised. and so the but were confident that there could be postwar friendship. eisenhower was sure at the point that there would be post war friends and he didn't think it was about that until august 6, 1945 when he got the word of the atomic bombing. so eisenhower felt strongly. and roosevelt have felt

roosevelt's record. how can that be? roosevelt was inaugurated four times. we already know obama was inaugurated. the inauguration in january this year falls on sunday said there will be a private ceremony on sunday and the next day january january 21st. that's what happens when inauguration day falls on sunday. here's eisenhower on january 25th 1967 which was a sunday private ceremony. the inaugural address there's a very old picture this is from 1865. this is abraham lincoln's second inauguration and a very famous speech there in which he said with charity for all franklin d. roosevelt the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. john f. kennedy in 1961, ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. in the departure of the old president. here's george w. bush departing the scene on the back of the capitol for years ago flying off in a helicopter looking back at the capitol. then there's a luncheon, obama's luncheon for years ago. and then to return to the white house. after that this is the first time that a first lady e

roosevelt the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. john f. kennedy in 1961 ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. in the departure of the old president hears george w. bush departing the scene on the back of the capitol for years ago flying off in a helicopter looking back at the capitol, and there's a luncheon, obama's luncheon for years ago and then return to the white house after that it's the first time a first lady ever drove back to the white house with the president in 1909 with william howard taft and the obama's what part of the distance. jimmy carter and rosalynn carter walked the entire distance in 1977 from the capitol back to the white house. in the inaugural parade that will take place the reviewing is always set up in the white house there's the white house in the background and is a classic inaugural parade and the capitol is in the background with the bands marching. in 1953 famous cowboy named monty montana lassoed dwight eisenhower with his permission. [laughter] in the afternoon of

teddy roosevelt's an interesting example. he got war out of his system by charging up san juan hill as a young man. he was the ultimate war lover. nobody loved war more than teddy roosevelt. he was almost completely crazy about it, but he got it out of his system by doing it himself. and when he became president, you know, he talked about speak softly but carry a big stick, the great white fleet and he believed in power, but he was not desperate to rush into a war because he had already proved himself. >> which then leads us to what we see today and what is coming out of the wars that we're in today. obviously president obama's history, his story is not over yet. evan, you were talking about presidents driven by a high-minded ideology. what is president obama's as he tries to draw down yet goes in with these firm strikes? >> he just wants to get out. all this talk about nation building and helping afghanistan become a real country, they're not talking about that now. they just want out. they don't want to have al qaeda over t

franklin roosevelt is telling marshall we have to fight somewhere, it is an election year. and churchill pushed back in 1942 and 1943 and finally the norm normandy invasion came and he took a lot of heat from roosevelt, stalin, so i would like sir winston to have the opportunity to tell me in his own words the story behind the story. in his memoirs he avoids the squabbles, doesn't even mention it. but the alliance was perched on the cliff several times. host: what would he have been like to be around? guest: if you worked for him you would get a mercurial, sometimes generous, sometimes overbearing, sometimes almost cruel boss who, he didn't know how to apologize, which men of his age and class, they are not going to apologize to a young private secretary or typist. and he had a way of sort of turning the tables and his version of a apology would be to say i'm a very kind man and you are doing a very good job today but the issue was never settled. he always had to get the last word in. one night going through white hall a german bomb fell. he should not have been out at all.

chambers, the roosevelt administration as early as 1939. roosevelt administration through diplomatic reporting from moscow in 1944-45 which he also felt to have been -- both men found themselves isolated from many contemporaries, even ostracized for having gone out on limbs but kennan's came quickly and less painfully than that of whittaker chambers. neither took satisfaction in vindication. self congratulations for both men, most atypically in the modern age was almost impossible. that is remarkable of the 20th century. one reason for this was religious faith which became deeper for both of these men as they aged but that faith resided in the city of god, not the city of man, hence that phase, minimal expectation beyond bearing witness accomplished in his life. and the capacity, and leave the little country, the united "% states, survive in a sinister "% world. both were at the same time dedicated american patriots whose only acts of witness eliminated the country's path to survival through this horrible century. the despair was so deep th

and here it is, a present from roosevelt to churchill in his 70th birthday. what exactly is it. >> these are lines by abraham lincoln that roosevelt will sent churchill for his 70th birthday and a wonderful inscription where he has written at the bottom for winston on his birthday, i would go even to-- to within him again. >> and church sill someone who lived by his pen. his whole career is underpinned by writing. >> he actually rarely put pen to paper himself. so what is the significance of this typewriter you have in the exhi business. >> are you absolutely write. churchill favorite method of working was by dictation. and this is what was then a state of the art silence typewriter, so that his secretaries could take down this torrent of words without disturbing his flow. >> and that there looks like the nobel prize. >> absolutely. this is churchill's nobel prize for literature. awarded for the totality of his written and spoken words. so we couldn't hope for a better center piece for an exhi business which is about the power of words. >> i think one of the

he roosevelt to declare war and begged for 50 destroyers. >> sean: and roosevelt wanted to get in but was fighting a lot of pressure at home. >> the isolationists, the republican party for the most part, mccormick's newspaper in chicago, after world war i and since george, washington, left office saying no foreign anteinglements did not want any alliance. >> sean: so pearl harbor happens, churchill makes the trip ayos the pond. tell us about that christmas, that time. that moment. obviously the country is in chaos, turmoil. and we just heard churchill at the white house. >> i think it was the bleakest christmas around the world since the days of the plague. i mean this was hong kong fell on christmas day. >> sean: the world was really at risk in world war ii of falling. germany was on the move. you know, we had now we are fighting the japanese. we are now involved in world war ii. it was pretty perilous and in the bombing of britain, why don't you describe the courage that churchill showed his fellow countrymen? >> it was remarkable in that he shouldn't have gone out nights with his c

for that, he put it forward for roosevelt and stalin most definitively. i would like to hear him tell me in his own words. in his memoirs, 10 years later writing these, he avoids writing about the squabbles'. he does not even mention them. but the lion is pushed from the cliffs several times. >> what would he be like to be around? >> if you worked for him, he would get a mercurial, sometimes generous, sometimes overbearing, sometimes almost cruel boss. he did not know how to apologize. which men of his age and class they are not going to apologize to a young private secretary typist. they had a way of turning the tables. his version of an apology would be to say "you are doing a very good job today." the issue is never settled. he always had to get the last word on an. one night, going through -- he should not have been out at all. his bodyguard pushed him into a doorway. a couple of men were actually wounded. and he said "thompson, don't do that." he said, "sir, you should not be doing this. this is dangerous." and churchill said "i am only doing this be

roosevelt goes on the radio and says hello, of americans suffering from depression. here is what i am going to do. i am going to create a social security system. we never had that before. every one of you who has done a lifetime of work and is 65 years of age or older, i am going to give you money for the rest of your life. every week or month i am going to give you money. people couldn't believe it. try to think. old people were in deep trouble. there were no pension in those days. they had nothing. if they had anything, kids had no money to help their elderly and were caught in a horrific squeeze of sacrificing their own parents versus their own kids and all of that. terrible situation. and another great idea. it is called unemployment compensation. if you lost a job through no fault of your own i will give you a check every week for a couple years. then the third one, almost a quote. if the private sector of the united states cannot provide work to the tens of millions of americans who want and need it, there is no alternative. the most natural thing in the world,

roosevelt likes that. that's good civil/military discourse. it's not being chummy, it is exploring your assumptionings and surfacing your differences and examining them. a big mistake going into iraq was when general shinseki said we need more troops, everybody said, basically, you know, shut up. instead of saying why do you think that? as it happens, i think shinseki was actually wrong. he pissed off iraqis and created an insurgency, probably getting it twice as fast. but civil/military discourse, the quality of it, jim dubik emphasized to we, you've got to look at both sides. are they honest with each other, are they open with each other, do they really delve into differences deeply and think about them. for example, assumption going into vietnam, at some point the communists have a breaking point that we will reach before our breaking point. turned out it was wrong. 1991, we give saddam hussein a good thumping, he'll fall from power. actually it turns out saddam hussein thought he won the '91 war, we now know after the cabinet tapes. the sa

five years later in january 11, in a in a state of the union address, roosevelt spoke to the american people about the war and especially the piece the allies plan to establish after fascism. he said the one supreme object is for the future can be summed up in one word, security. that means not only physical security which provides safety from attacks by aggressors, and it's also economic security and social security. the individual political right upon which the united states had been built, was not argued, were necessary, but not sufficient to carry t. true freedom and security. fdr announced an economic liberates, which is sometimes called the second bill of rights. it included the right to a job and a living wage, direct housing, education and security in old age and their right to adequate medical care in the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. so we cannot fdr mishearing florence greenberg speech, we here at kos and his second bill of rights. the idea of economic and social rights is an essential supplement to political right started as far back as the french revolutio

taken on this path and that they are setting an example for how to help us bring forward eleanor roosevelt's work and make it continually relevant to the world today. i would love to have you here from kevin curr, the principal of balboa and oxy trejos, sr. to explain what it is to them. thank you so much. >> good evening commissioners. superintendent. you know, we live in kind of a high-stakes world in high schools. whether it's the california standards test, ap testing, sat. these are very important parts of just kind of growing up as a student now in our kind of complex world. but it's nice on occasion to kind of step back, and remind us of what life is really all about. and this idea of really teaching kids that human rights is not just something that lives in a far-off, distant land, but something that they need to shepherd themselves and protect in their own communities. so i couldn't be more proud of the work we do in regards to the universal declaration of human rights. i cordially invite you, a little less than 350 days from now, to attend our next assembly. it was really an incredi

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. >> was that in the company, the era of teddy roosevelt and his lament over the overcivilized men inthe famous speech he gave? >> right in the strenuous life. in that period, 19th century turning into the 20th century as roosevelt's roughriders were going up san juan hill and pursuing the spanish american war there's an effort to buff jesus up essentially, emphasize his scenes where he kicks the money changers out of the temple or where he's a carpenter and he's buff and got strong muscles and that sort of thing and that was an effort to bring men back in the churches, there were very few at that time and there was an effort to attract them. >> we won't try to summarize the various permutations of the image of jesus in your book, but one of the funer aspects of it is your portrayal or your backgrounding of the laughing jesus. correct? >> yes. >> what was that? >> well,, you know, i think this is where the friendly mr. rogers jesus sort of ends up is the jesus who laughs. >> who produced the laughing jesus? >> well, there was a couple efforts to do it. there was a fellow called hubert

the teddy roosevelt point and we're going to have to go through the harding coolidge hoover or are we a be maybe the beginning of the hoover point if we're drawing parallels here if we're trying parallels i'm afraid i would say we're at the teddy roosevelt point i think that this is going to be a very very long political process and a long intellectual process you know i think that part of the difficulty that progressives that liberals have in grappling with what's happening in the world economy right now is i think they are able to ask the questions but they don't have persuasive answers yet it's really striking to me the extent to which the liberal agenda the progressive agenda is really a rehashing of the nine hundred fifty s. and i'm not saying i disagree with that and i'm certainly not saying i have something better to offer but when i look back on the historical experience what is very striking is the way the progressive came up with something entirely new yeah well well well and we'll dig deeper into that in just a moment more of tonight's conversations with great minds the chr

which roosevelt told t"new york times" and congress. he said we gave them junk and we get six or seven caribbean naval bases from the empire. at one point that summer i believe churchill wrote a letter and asked roosevelt to declare war. that is how desperate he was. and so after a few brandies in t the co vilville diaries churchi says they want to us bleed to death and pick up everything that is left for free. at one point they were thinking around the dipper table of having everyone in england melt their wedding rings because it might raise $8 million or $10 million of gold and use that to buy american goods because it was all cash and carry, to shame the americans. they didn't do that. host: how much did winston churchill expect japan to get into the war? guest: one of the things, in doing this, i had to lock at what is he interested in? what is in his head. try to place churchill in his tim times. he was interested in norway, sumatra, not japan, not the pacific. his knowledge of the geography, the politics, the military situati situ

roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. >> thanks a lot. get back to you in seven days. >>> all right. 'tis the season for gifts. abc2 is a proud sponsor of the kindertime toy drive. >> wyatt everhart is collecting giflts in the lobby, one of the many locations you can drop off gifts. >> i consider myself chief toy collector. i've got my good friend squiggle. lisa hinkle, you're the director of operations, squiggle's manager as well. talk about your involvement. this is year number two. >> we are so excited to be involved with pete and the toy drive. it really gives us a chance to be very active. we do more than collect toys. we show those children how we can support other children. we include it as part of our curriculum. we feel like we have a wide reach. it's not just our children and sell le brie family but everybody in the community. >> you have 20 locations and people can find them. >> we're in harford county, baltimore county, prince george's county, even as far as bear, delaware. if you're looking to give a toy, we have a location. >> we appreciate your involvement again this y

so she continually prodded franklin roosevelt to do something. so he decided that he would, um, have one of these new destroyer escorts be manned by an african-american crew. white officers, but an african-american crew. they went off in the battle of the atlantic, did some heroic things and, in fact, they were recommended -- the crew was recommended for a navy commendation by their white captain. well, the navy didn't want these people in the first place, and so they decided they weren't going to give them the commendation. so the commendation was not given to the surviving crew members until almost 50 years later. president clinton, actually, was the person that gave them the award. if you look at this ship and you think about it, you think over 200 people in the space of 35 feet wide and 200 feet -- 300 feet long, it's pretty, pretty tight accommodation cans. and if you look here in the bunk room, you'll see that there really respect enough bunks for -- aren't enough bunks for all the people. so it was a tough situation, especially they would

thank you to captain ferrigno and roosevelt middle school for hosting and thank you to those who areidents who came out this evening to be with us and to let us know what is on your mind. because that is what it's all about. so thank you. i have been on the police commission for a little over two years now. previously served on the ethics commission in san francisco. my day job is that of a business contracts mediator. i also on the board of law center to prevent gun violence. i have lived in san francisco most of my life and have raised my son here. thank you very much. >> and i am commissioner mazzucco. i'm a native san franciscan and my mother-in-law lives in the richmond district. i have raised my children in this city. my day job i an attorney, but for 19 years i was an assistant district attorney and also an assistant united states attorney. so i was in law enforcement for 19 years before going into private practice. and i played football at sacred heart high school with your lieutenant over in the corner. >> dr. joe marshall, and i am the co-founder and executive director of t

shift in this country because there have been too few voices speaking up for the philosophy that roosevelt articulated for the philosophy that dwight d. eisenhower so ably put into place i'm sure you read for example the one hundred fifty six republican party platform which in which brags that eisenhower put two million more people on social security and increased its benefits which boasted that union membership was off by several million during the first his first term i think we had a consensus in this country for many years and i think we got lazy about defending it while the right and corporations got very very busy undermining it so i think that what happened is that we haven't been making the case forcefully or i take you know about the government as employer of last resort about the effectiveness of social security and medicare and about expanding the social contract behind these programs rather than constantly working to erode it or at best to defend it and one of the other things the seemed to change with the new deal was prior to that both during the ruhr and twenty's the harding

the original idea was franklin roosevelt in 1940, he recommended that these vessels be built to deal with the continuing presence of the nazi u-boats in world war ii on the north public. and winston churchill warned roosevelt in america that, basically, something had to be done to stop hitler's u-boats in the war before, as he said it, america -- the sea would become america's cage. .. this ship is the u. s s slater, built in the tampa shipyard, 563 destroyer escorts built. 17 shipyards all across the country. it actually came late in the game like a lot of them, 1944. they did a few escort's back and forth across the atlantic. one interesting thing the slater did do, the elite nazi submarine, the only you boat captured by the americans in world war ii was captured by a destroyer escort. they got a treasure trove of confidential documents, half a ton from this you boat, one of the torpedoes was loaded on to the slater and brought back to america for study along with the all-important enigma machine. that was the code breaking machine and is actually was very useful because it came on

after the attack, president franklin delano roosevelt stated that this day, december the seventh is a day that will live in infamy, and it has. we gathered to remember that attack on pearl arbor -- pearl harbor and remember and honor all of those who served in world war two. it is my pleasure today to represent the friends of the national world war ii memorial. it is an organization that is dedicated to ensuring that we always remember the greatest generation and their service, valor, and sacrifice. all those who supported on the home front -- we worked closely and proudly with the national parks service and the department of defense to bring event like this throughout the year and throughout the summer. this memorial is a very sacred cut -- a sacred place where we come to visit, to remember, to reflect, and to commemorate the defining moments of world war two -- world war ii , and to honor those who served on the battlefront and the home front and the families that were left behind. this memorial honors the more than 16 million men and women who served in our armed forces during worl

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after the attack, president franklin roosevelt stated this day, december 7, as a day which will live in infamy. and it has. we gather to remember that attack on pearl harbor and honor those who received the blow of that first strike. and also remember and honor all those who served in world war ii. it is my pleasure today to represent the friends of the national world war ii memorial. an organization dedicated to ensuring that we always remember the greatest generation and their service, valor, and sacrifice. all those who supported on the home front. to achieve this, we worked very closely and proudly with the national parks service and with the department of defense to bring a events like this throughout the year and concerts' throughout the summer. this memorial is a very sacred place. where we come to visit, to remember, to reflect, and commemorate the defining moments of world war ii. and to honor those who served both on the battlefront and on the home front. and the families left behind. this memorial honors the more than 16 million men and women who served in our armed forces

franklin roosevelt was having affairs. franklin roosevelt had two very long-term affairs. one with missy lehand ,-com,-com ma his personal aide and secretary and cook and dresser-rand undress her apparently too. what if we found out about fdr's misbehavior and what if we threw fdr out of office as the economy was recovering? all the way back to the french and indian war, very young george washington was writing romantic letters to a woman who was not mrs. washington. her name was sally terry fairfax, very attractive, older, sophisticated woman. what if washington letters have become public during the french and indian war or the revolutionary war? but just petraeus' e-mails became public and what if we got rid of george washington? bill clinton is not the first and not the worst in petraeus is not the first for the worse. in there ,-com,-com ma done that and there's a long history in infected pains me to say that even abraham lincoln visited a prostitute. i know, say it isn't so, right? but it happened. the details are sketchy and there's not a lot of letters written about