millions voted for roosevelt and hoped. in the four months before inauguration, the depression grew deeper. in march 1933, roosevelt was the leader of a nation with 1/4 of its work force unemployed. something had to be done. so first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes the... rosina tucker remembers the hope returning. uh, you remember his saying, "there's nothing to fear but fear itself." he had his fireside talks... and, uh... uh, the people listened to them all over the united states. they made it a point to have nothing to do during those fireside talks. they sort of... it seemed to me a sacred time, uh, as if a father was talking to his children who were afraid. it was in that period of despair that roosevelt did one great thing. he experimented. if this didn't work, try something else. this nation is asking for action and action now! march 1933 was the bottom of the depression. slowly the economy inched upwar

it was lucy mercer in fact, not eleanor roosevelt at nen 45. separately. it's been said that you have roosevelt was lesbian and that is also brought up a an assertion by you. are you sure of all thi data? >> i'm fairly confident. you know there was a eleanor roosevelt written b blaven cook and she was the evidence thattel by sexual orientation if no a lesbian one. >> letters >> based largeor upi. she was a wire reporter. and she began covering her when she was still in new york and later continued into the white house and in in the white house >> which came first? mercer the alleged by you roosevelt, or hick ocnating part of the early life i'm interested in perhaps doing something more on, prab book in and of itself, going a separate house which was the roosevelt family estate and lived with two other women in this house at a marriage and in fact fdr referred to the house as the honeymoon cottage and the love nest. happy living with these tw years. in her separate house at the family estate. >> that doesn't necessarily mean there was a karnal relationship

president roosevelt sent food parcels. a case of plum brandy, tangerines came from lisbon and smithfield hams from an american and buyer and thousands of cigars from all over the world. churchill worried about the effect of rationing on the people's energy levels, diet, more routes, spirit, worried about everything, no detail was too trivial. for example he worried british bees would not get enough sugar to get through the winter, sugar was then rationed. when he was asked by staff what they should do about providing fish he declared his policy to be, quote, but most fish. worried the supply of salt and vinegar remain stable important for chips for french fries as we call them, i do hope you will read my book, it is full of photos with new information about the wit and wisdom of winston churchill. there is a very funny story in there about plumber's which is too complicated to tell you about here. i hope i bring to light the two sides of this great man, the effort he put into getting adopted and policies to be in his count

roosevelt, he's got to be way up there. not only the phrases day of infamy, iffy, 937 he gives a press conference, and he's talking about the supreme court, and he said some of the decisions of this supreme court are, if you ask me, fair i -- they're iffy. and the next day the lead in the papers was not what he had said about the supreme court, but it was, in fact, the president created a word today, "iffy." and for five or six years anytime a columnist said pardon me if i use the president's word, but this is an iffy preposition. and the fact that he could just use this piece of slang. and, of course, slang gets them in trouble. woodrow wilson is a great slangster, and one of the things -- there are editorials. he'd say let's get a move on, and he'd use gal instead of girl. almost like tin pan alley's kind of slang. and he was really lambasted in the papers for the use of slang. and, you know, he would come up with these aphorisms, a man's leafage depends on his rootage. you know? [laughter] and the guardians of the langua

during the great depression, franklin roosevelt was having affairs. franklin roosevelt had two very long-term affairs, one with missy he hand marguerite, his personal aide and secretary and cook and dresser -- and undresser, apparently, too. [laughter] what if we found out about fdr's miswaiver, and what -- misbehavior, and what if we threw him out of office or demanded his resignation as the economy was recovering? all the way back to the french and indian war. a very young george washington was writing very romantic letters to a woman who was not mrs. washington. her name was sally fairfax, a very attractive, older, sophisticated neighbor. what if washington's letters had become public during the french and indian war or the revolutionary war? much as petraeus' e-mails became public? and what if we got rid of george washington? so bill clinton's not the first and not the worst. petraeus is not the first and not the worst. been there, done that, there's a long history of it. in fact, it pains me to say that even abraham lincoln -- [laughter] visited

as economists made estimates, roosevelt and churchill met. meeting in 1940 is known for the atlantic charter of rights for free people. it was also the culmination of months of bargaining over what war materials the u.s. would supply. roosevelt asked the army, navy, and air force to estimate the costs of an all-out war. their total for the next two years--$150 billion, almost double the 1939 gross national product. nathan next evaluated the military's production needs. he started by breaking out the key sectors from the national income and production accounts. we knew steel would be a limiting factor for tanks, ships, and big guns. how much steel was involved in these? we translated airplanes mainly into aluminum because you couldn't build airplanes without aluminum. we translated ammunition into copper. we had the key elements. we realized very soon we were going to build factories to process more steel than we had. you'd have fabricating plants that weren't being used. more serious, you wouldn't have any end products. you'd have wheels over

he picnicked with roosevelt at hyde park. he picnicked on the banks of the brian with his genitals, and on the north african desert. he established his own picnicked rituals, and enthusiastically seeing old indian army generals and citing verses that could only be recited at picnics. much has been written about him and alcohol. some of them are true, some of them are exaggerated. i go into detail about churchill's drinking habits. he had been told many have said that he was a drunk. he did consume more alcohol than some, but not a great deal more than the standards of his contemporaries. it did not affect him or his work. he drank a small amount of whiskey with soda, no ice, and a glass about this big. staff called it mouthwash. he drank a half bottle of champagne, a different size and we know, smaller half bottles today, as well as a brandy or two. let's talk about champagne. his favorite drink. we are not sure when he discovered that champagne, but he preferred rosÉ to all the others. his favorite vintage was from 1928. [in

. >> franklin delano roosevelt was the 32nd president of the united states. >> fdr is someone who totallyhanged the face of this country, totally changed the direction of this country. >> roosevelt was elected and re-elected an incredible four times. the fdr memorial has four rooms, one for each of his terms in office. when he became president in 1933, our country was suffering the worst financial crisis in our history -- the great depression. statues of soup lines and dust bowl farmers illustrate those hard times. but why the man listening to a radio? >> there was no television then. how did you communicate? the president communicated via radio. >> fdr's way with words gave people hope in those dark days of the depression. carved on the memorial's walls are some of his most famous quotes. for example, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." >> if you give time and you really soak in and pay attention to what is being said in those statements, they're very powerful statements. >> something else that makes a very powerful statement is the memorial's use of water. what does the wat

roosevelt's discussed.ut the british gas loved as sugarless ration of bread except for churchill who did not like his chicken asked about. one quick word about churchill's coat about it at all coach for the churchill family in the 1930s ended with the churchill into downing street and stayed with the family until 1953. when churchill was again prime minister she was a superb and unflappable cloak. she never churchill liked and she cut it for him, i mrs. nesbitt. despite the bombing of london and the ritchie implant and gas, she took her churchill called that her world. churchill was a defective knockoff of the tree. his mother zacarias attic and new york have been a much admired society hostess in london. she was famous for writing on political enemies to dinner and reading that as to facilitate discussion. churchill once praised his mother by saying she had left no cutlet uncooked. churchill must've learned early on how to manage generic for its own purposes. in the book i describe how he deploys his atten

by then roosevelt considers it in the beginning of the 1930 -- franklin roosevelt considers it in the beginning of the 1930's. the obvious choice is to raise more money with the income tax but a lot of people say that as the wrong idea, " we should do is create a new national sales tax. there are a lot of proposals out there that get a long way to the process to create a true national sales tax. a treasury official added 1940's said -- treasury officials aid in the 1940's income tax critics have almost always wanted a sales tax instead, or a consumption tax and the. -- or a consumption tax instead. congress really abandons or scales back in revenue sold as working well. there was no compelling reason to make these changes. maybe it would have been good for the economy or have spurred growth by congress as i usually act on that kind of suggestion. congress tends to do major tax reform only when they have to, not when they should. there has never been a have to that has produced a consumption tax. >> we have a website where we have asked people to send in their tax reform comments. peop

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

especially roosevelt, he was a let's get them go bully. and here was coolidge, prisssi and cold and not giving out favorites. so he looked as though he had been weaned on a pickle. he was from new england. farmers don't talk a lot or waive their arms about because a cow might kick them. and it was temp mental of temperament. he was a shy person. butted the a political person. he knew if he didn't talk a lot people would stop talking. and a political leader is bombarded with q. and his silence was his way of not giving in to special interest. >> go back again to the college experience. you say he learned to like to speak. how did that come in and did he ever get in a fraternity? >> he got in a fraternity at the end, very end of senior year and it was a new one on campus. and he was proud. he wrote a let tore his father. the letters are beautiful. they were published and they are hard to find. i hope we can publish them again. he wrote his father. his father wasn't rich but wasn't totally poor. an important person in his town. i need the can

president roosevelt. he was the first president i can rememberhcane helped elderly people who did not have anything. i think he started social security. he had a disability, but it did not stop him from being the best president we ever had and never will. host: what would your parents etc. this question? >> they would've said the same thing if they were alive, i believe. >> is this a president you talked about with your parents? the firsts, he's president i remember. i think i was in grade school when he passed away. host: remember your parents talking about him around the dinner table? caller: yes, in the dinner table abandon the cotton fields dinnerhouma, louisiana -- around the dinner table and in the cotton fields of houma, louisiana. host: are you retired? caller: i am retired, i am in my 70's. host: minneapolis. caller: my favorite is fdr, mainly because my father worked for the ccc camp. at that time they got $30 a month and and they sent $25 home to the farms and kept most of the farm's going. the

roosevelt proved there is the money. it's just a question of whether you have the political will and support to go get it. and when people listen to me explain this history, and it's always amazing to me how many americans kind of never got that part -- >> don't know it. >> but when i do that, and they say, "well, that's a very risky thing for a politician to do, support the mass of people by taxing the rich, unthinkable." and then i remind them, roosevelt is the most popular and successful president in american history. nobody had ever been elected four times in a row before that. and it was so upsetting to the republicans that after mr. roosevelt died, they pushed that law through that gives us a term limit of two presidential terms. so it wasn't the end of his political career. it made him the most powerful and popular president we've ever had. there must be a lesson here somewhere. >> well, it was one of the few times in history in which the political elite and a few financial elite formed an alliance for the people.

problems over the keyboard teddy roosevelt bridge, the chain bridge, the anacostia bridge. u.s. park police are not working any early problems. in maryland, outer loop, georgia avenue, travel lanes are open. out of kensington, connecticut avenue, cost to a good start down to the beltway. around the beltway passed pennsylvania avenue towards the john hanson highway and the wilson bridge here. back to you. >> thank you. good news all around. 37 degrees now. >> the first lady opening up about what inspired her to get a new hairstyle. what she said. >> and on "katie" today, an interview with the legendary music executive clive davis. of what he says about the death of one of his biggest stars, whitney houston, and his reveal about his sexu >> when it comes to the will baby watch, it is a big day. >> the duchess of cambridge will appear at a charity event in britain. she will make a visit to hope house to hear the stories of women suffering from substance abuse. it's part of kate middleton's charity. >> things are hitting a high note for black eyed peas singer fergie. she and her hus

roosevelt was not thrilled with the arrangement. she said that she put it winston kept franklin up too late. winston kept everybody up late. it wasn't just the president he was doing that too. .. so i was glad you put that there, but i kind of wish it was earlier. but that was good. >> it's an important chapter. it showed a part of churchill's character that was very important. many other people of commented or got any other questions? >> churchill was known for being a poor money manager. all of the food that he thought, did you find bills that he actually paid for everything? he was kind of famous for not being -- and various other things in his life. >> i don't know about the suits but most of the bills i've seen, and i've seen many of them, are stamped paid. for instance well all of the important dinners that he had for his son's 21st birthday's, they were paid. i i am not clear and that's an interesting question. i'm not clear when the dinner was and when the bill was paid so you bring up an interesting point. but they are all

roosevelt organization, michael copps echoed franklin roosevelts cautions several years ago.ing news and information infrastructure that digs more deeply, gathers facts before shutting opinions, and the fourth expression to the many voices of this nation's wondrous diversity may be our greatest calling no. our country confronts challenges with of liability and in some ways is reminiscent of the 1930's. the national imperative is every american be empowered with the news and information is essential for knowledgeable decision making. without that the challenges go misunderstood, unattended, and resolved. when our media, press, and journalism catch cold, democracy ketches ammonia. dr. gear deal prescribing strong cures for the challenges of this time, not only the restorative medicine of reform in hours. that is a sample of the eloquence we are about to hear. michael copps holds a ph.d. in history from the university of north carolina, began teaching at while lee university in new orleans, served as chief of staff to senator ernest hollings for over a decade, was appointed assi

roosevelt leftwich joins us with more on how police were able to track down the suspect. >> reporter: the suspect's name has not been released. it's a crime that had people feeling sorry forted -- for the children. county police spent the day collecting evidence on well haven circle. a woman was murdered here. it's news that has stunned neighbors who say they were awakened last night by a large explosion. >> i hear that big, big sound. it was a bomb and i was in the living room and i went to my balcony and i see a lot of people running around. i see the helicopter. >> the helicopters flying overhead. then i went back to slee. i heard the helicopter through -- flying over head again. i saw the police cars outside. >> reporter: that explosion was a county tactical team knocking down the door. when police got there, no one answered and they could hear someone inside. the team came and knocked down the door. inside they found the stabbed body of kathy hagel inside with two toddlers. >> there were two small children inside the home, probably three and under and one was her natural child. o

one was eleanor roosevelt, and the other was the duchess of windsor. [laughter] and i can even buy nine or 10, had had quite enough of eleanor roosevelt. and so i chose the duchess of windsor, and i brought it home, and my mother asked me what i was doing, and i said well, i'm writing this book report on the duchess of windsor's biography because she's an admirable woman. and my mother got incensed. and she said, admirable? what did she ever do in her life except marry somebody she shouldn't have? [laughter] so i learned the lesson, and i took the books back and turned it in, and, of course, did the inevitable eleanor roosevelt. but i sort of got imprinted i think very early on, you use biography as a way of exploring that which you, that which was my. and my mother was right, to keep me from the duchess of windsor. i think that we're all very lucky that it didn't start writing biographies earlier because i probably would have produced the definitive biography of hopalong cassidy. [laughter] when i was six, going even further back, whenever they wanted

roosevelt declined to shoot the bear himself saying the act would be unsportsman like.ion bears sold and meant to imply under the out door image of roosevelt was a sensitive interior. i never knew that. wow. the first bear went on sale today, february 15th, 110 years ago. amazing stuff. still to come tonight, my two cents more on mayor bloomberg. the man's out of control. move over, ann. there's a new fashionista in town. we talk to the designers at new york fashion week. look at that. i sat in her seat. she's going to be mad. ♪ gerri: behind the runway in new york fashion week to see what the hottest designers have to say about high fashion in the toug ♪ gerri: in fashion tonight, new york fashion week, two of the world's fashion power houses give me the inside scoop on their collections and whether high fashion is making a comeback. so tell me the inspiration for the show? it's gorgeous. >> thank you. it's the alfred hitchcock stills over the years. gerri:ed with actresses in mind? >> we watched them, particular ball gown like grace kelly in a sweater and skirt, and t

platas roosevelt said whiskey on the table and spittoon on the side. -- roosevelt said whiskey on the table and spittoon on the side. they were rough people but women idolized him. one of the first record its beaches was his dedication to the tomb of the unknown soldier. it is perfectly beautiful, that baritone voice. there were problems with florence. >> some many of the white house family members -- so many of the white house family members have been vilified for reasons that our political sometimes. people resented the fact that florence was a good manager and ran her husband's newspaper, ran his campaign -- and i argue that people might have not liked it but they respected her. they might have talked behind her back but then they did that with a lot of people. they did that to mary todd lincoln. it was not just a twentieth century thing, it is something you find through out. they talked about jackie kennedy. it is interesting to the kinds of things that happen. politics, as you know, it's ugly. i am going to tell the truth -- they talk about michelle obama. "she does not look like

. >> we then bump into roosevelt and peng, and lucky for my character, roosevelt has a car that -- thatany things go wrong after that. >> it's my duty to tell you you are one step away from total...social...suicide. >> but i thought the script was really funny. and there's lots of action. and it's really adventurous, and there's some romance, and there are so many great aspects to it. >> now on blu-ray and dvd, "fun size" is jam-packed with special features. >> playback! >> the blu-ray includes lots of behind-the-scenes footage... >> i can't believe i actually thought you found my brother. >> ...plus, deleted scenes and a hilarious gag reel. >> ♪ tonight [ laughter ] >> i have this. >> go! [ engine turns over ] >> aah! [ electricity crackling ] [ all screaming ] >> i did not have it. >> but you can have it. rated pg-13, "fun size" is available now. for "teen kids news," i'm katie. >> that's all for this week. thanks for joining us. >> we'll see you next time with more "teen kids news." >> here's a shout-out to pr newswire for including "teen kids news" on their big screen in times squar

teddy roosevelt's letter, ronald reagan to nancy, you're life itself. valentine's, a peek at the private world of our presidents. hi, i'm chris matthews and welcome to the show. with us today "time's" joe klein, cnn gloria borger, "new york times" elisabeth bumiller and "the washington post," david ignatius. first up, president obama will face congress tuesday night and try to drive a wedge between the country and his hard right opponents. look at the cloud of the most used words in the last 50 years of the state of the union addresses, number one word in 50 years, "more." presidents for five decades have used the state of the union to call for more. so what's "more" mean to president obama and will he present an optimistic view of our union as most presidents have? >> i can report to you that the state of this old but youthful union is good. >> i'm pleased to report the state of our union is stronger than a year ago and growing stronger each day. >> my fellow americans, the state of our union is strong. >> tonight the state of our union is strong and t

teddy roosevelt's letter, ronald reagan to nancy, you're life itself. valentine's, a peek at the private world of our presidents. hi, i'm chris matthews and welcome to the show. with us today "time's" joe klein, cnn gloria borger, "new york times" elisabeth bumiller and "the washington post," david ignatius. first up, president obama will face congress tuesday night and try to drive a wedge between the country and his hard right opponents. look at the cloud of the most used words in the last 50 years of the state of the union addresses, number one word in 50 years, "more." presidents for five decades have used the state of the

eleanor roosevelt. she is traveling and raising money, building the profile of the movement. alan their roosevelt, the head of highlander, she meets them. he said, you told her she was going to get a renovated, right? eleanor is aware if somebody stands up for civil rights in 1955. the picture in the book, there is a major civil rights rally here, fund-raiser organized by ella baker, in madison square garden. the picture also includes the woman who desegregates the driver's seat of the alabama briefly before she is kicked out for the ride that ensues when she desegregates the university. it is a beautiful picture right before the big demonstration, rally here in new york. >> how did rosa parks fit into the black power movement? >> she moved to detroit in 1957 and her activism continues, in terms of working against and challenging racism of this new home town, the jim crow no.. jobs, housing, police brutality. she is extremely active. everything that she had been committed to is now growing with this mov

and teddy roosevelt never played sports until he was a grown up. >> that's true.me so mad at that guy. how many kids got kid with towels in locker rooms because of teddy roosevelt. >> john: thank you so much for coming on the show again. >> thanks, john. >> john: it's lindsey graham's world. we all just live in it. my panel talks about that coming up next. and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. [ male announcer ] along with support chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. it put me at ease that you could smoke on the first week. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood hostility, agitation depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these stop taking chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of depression or other mental health problems which could get worse while taking chantix. don't take chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these stop taking chant

. >> we then bump into roosevelt and peng, and lucky for my character, roosevelt has a car that -- thato wrong after that. >> it's my duty to tell you you are one step away from total...social...suicide. >> but i thought the script was really funny. and there's lots of action. and it's really adventurous, and there's some romance, and

franklin roosevelt suggested a job should be a right not a privilege and that the best welfare program was a job and you know that if the if capitalism was going to fail if the private sector if the if the so-called free market was not able to provide jobs to people then it was the obligation of government to step in and do so and he actually did that with the with the c.c.c. the new deal and brought us out of the great depression thereby what are your thoughts on saying that again the argument that the m.m.t. folks make that you know one of their principle arguments that government should as part of life liberty the pursuit of happiness should be the right to a job in the government should be the employer of last resort i completely concur with that and actually it's it's a very good policy what we're trying to do is create a situation whereby you have a pool if you like of shovel ready labor that's ready to go back into the private sector because it's been given the chance to continue to work in the interim period you don't want to have these people on the dole for a long period of t