the swift franklin roosevelt said on that day. our constitution is so simple to code that it is possible to use extraordinary need by changes in emphasis and arrangements without loss of essential form. that is a deeply ambiguous sentence. and then he floated with weapons extraconstitutional proposal. it may be unprecedented demand may cause for a temporary departure from procedures should congress not act decisively. i should not evade the clear course of duty that will confront me. i should ask her the one remaining crisis, not executive power to wage a war against the emergency is greatest power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by foreign bureau. for me the greatest thing about the new deal is that step was never taken. the united states never did suspend congress. congress can't do an increase legislative prerogative, even during the 100 days, the legislature deal with the economic emergency through ordinary legislation however novel and far-reaching. there is never a state of exception in the united states

compared roosevelt with? >> guest: the leader of their revolution you did not last. >> what happened to him? >> he was quickly dispatched and a voice from the inside with the plan for washington and and writing letters. >> host: a month before taunt -- congress? >> guest: he read into the congressional record and all hell broke loose. the press covering was a 24/7 news event and eventually he came to testify. and with the show trial. and that she was railroaded into oblivion. i found a quite fascinating says also that same year and same season another man came to washington in 1934 whitaker chambers. the most famous of the ex-communist american ex-communist to lead the party of the courier, organizer and came to washington in 1934 to organize and had in the agriculture department but they knew they had to get into the main line to be the influential department. >> host: did he become disillusioned? more compelled and starts naming names? >> discussing how it was done and the irony is that whitaker chambers te

roosevelt rely on him. for example to give you an idea when they came for the first conference that went on for weeks, they did a breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. this was a semiotic presidency. now, i've studied the record. he's a very controversial figure because we have new information about him. i do believe that he was a conscious asset. it doesn't mean he had a membership card, it doesn't mean that he was necessarily getting signals translated into his year. i don't mean in that fashion that he was an agent of influence. harry hopkins was the source 19. >> you believe that? >> it is of the late air force historian who really did the work. i've read his thesis on this. it is sort of like an 99.9 possibility that the agent 19 is harry hopkins and that he was a member of the three, roosevelt, churchill at which discussions for the gate of the normandy invasion came out. >> guest: crucial information. but there is more to it than that and the thing that interests me, harry hopkins in the spring of 1

roosevelt and he had a special bond. roosevelt relied on him. for example, to give you an idea of his access, when winston churchill came to washington in december of 1941 for the very first wartime conference which went on for weeks, harry hopkins, franklin roosevelt and winston churchill ate breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. this was a tight, symbiotic presidency. and, indeed, he was often called the co-president. now, i have studied the record on ari hopkins -- harry hopkins, and he's a very controversial figure post-the nona archives, post-soviet because we have new information about him. i do believe he was a conscious soviet asset. that doesn't mean he was a member of the communist party, doesn't mean he was fessly getting signals transmitted into his ear. i don't mean acting in that fashion, but he was an agent of influence. >> host: well, who is source 19? >> guest: well, harry hopkins is source 19. >> host: you believe that? >> >> guest: it's the research of a late historian who really did skull work. it is sort of like a 99.9% pos

he actually ran much of american foreign policy through roosevelt he had a special bond a and roosevelt relied on him. to give you an idea when winston churchill came in december 1941 for the first war conference that went on for weeks, harry hopkins, franklin roosevelt and winston churchill eight breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. this was a tight symbiotic presidency and he was often called the co-president. i've studied harry hopkins and he's a controversial figure post-soviet because we have new information about him. i do believe he was a conscious soviet aspect. that doesn't mean he wasn't a member of the communist party getting signals transmitted. i don't mean acting on that sort of fashion that he was an agent of influence. harry hopkins was source 14. my research of edward mark, the historian who did work i've read his thesis on this it is a possibility that the agent was one of the members between the three. roosevelt, churchill and agent 19 and which discussions for the date of the normandy invasion cannot. a crucial information for stalin but there's more to it than tha

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 relatiship am

what did frank when roosevelt do?he got together his rich friends that he came from and the heads of the biggest american corporations and he said, listen to me, gentlemen. nowadays you had to say gentlemen and ladies -- in those days, it had not happened yet. i am going to tell you something you are going to have to understand. we've got two choices. we can stiff arm all of these angry workers, socialists and communists. we can't ignore their demands we do something for the people of this country. but if we do, they are going to try to make a revolution here, and i am not sure they won't pull it off. and you can't be sure, either, he said, looking them right in the face. he said, i have a plan. of money, youlot corporations, you rich people -- you give me a lot of money, i am talking big money. and i am going to use it to really help the mass of the american people. i will go to those unions and socialists and communists and i will say i will do something for the mass of people in this crisis. toone condition -- you

but hap arnold was impressed because roosevelt believed in air power. and by the end of the war, around described f.d.r. as the father of the u.s. air force. not himself, although he built the air force. he described roosevelt as the father of that air force. >> schieffer: how did he deal with his commanders? >> he was very personal with them. for example, pat was in all kinds of trouble for slapping g.i.s in slis sicily. roosevelt brought him into his office, heaped praise on him. he was the same with eisenhower. he had an interesting relationship with george marshall. george marshall was the man he leaned on not just as his command of the army but in almost every decision he tried to first name george marshall because f.d.r. had that very warm, inviting personality and marshall chilled him on that. so he remained to the end of the war general marshall whereas ike was "ike." george was "patton." >> schieffer: and marshall always called eisenhower "eisenhower." he was a very formal man. what about the relationship between churchill and f.d.r.? >> well,

once i determined that the biggest decision tins between taft and roosevelt was not that roosevelt was progressive while taft was conservative, but rather that taft had never understood how to position himself with the public, then i was drawn to another set of characters in my story. the muckraking press. the journalists who pressured the conservative congress whose complex partnership with teddy roosevelt ai sured -- assured his success. and when i found that the most brilliant gatt kerring of these investigative reporters were all in one magazine, mclure's magazine, i knew i had the story i wanted to tell. ida tarbell, considered the most famous woman of her age, lincoln steffens, whose autobiography is still taught in journalism classes, ray baker praised as the greatest reporter of his era. and their editor, sam mcclure, is a larger than life figure. his restless enthusiasm and manic energy infused the magazine's atmosphere with a touch of genius even as he suffered from periodic nervous break downes. together these celebrated journalists produced exposes of no knoplys, fraudulent

roosevelt. in my own case i know my mother and father when they learned of mr. roosevelt's death. and commemorating the debt by setting seven days. and this date has never been corrected. and the argument about mr. roosevelt that were written about him, it is true he didn't do much to save the jews but he did more than anybody else and that is ridiculous because everybody else did zero. and mr. roosevelt did very little aside from st. louis. the captain of that ship, not a jew but a german. and once they were allowed, went to the coast of miami. people can still see the lights shining in miami and the government refused to let them in. everybody knew what was going on in the european theater. no question about it. these people were turned around. and this was in belgium and portugal and other countries which affect, most of them in concentration camps, over 230, almost a thousand, which did save them. million of them. as far as the other guy i remember clearly because i was in the army at the time was mr. truman. mr. truman, 100% correct, and something of the first order, it was t

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

milton friedman a guy he's a monetarist he's a money printer so to go back and say well it's the roosevelt like stick to it of ness is really again duplicity on the part of ben bernanke he picks a policy i mean this is classic. duplicity on the part of wall street or what people call selective amnesia where he'll remember certain things if it supports his current theory but they'll forget everything else that doesn't support his current theory that could change at any minute so anyway they're praising the sacred meat. i need to is up seventy percent since the was elected in december so it's up it's up it's up now of course the yen was at seventy seven to the dollar back in november it's now at one hundred and one hundred two to the dollar so it's crashed by thirty two percent so accounted for half of the rise in the nikkei but of course the slate authors do not mention the whole situation with the japanese government bonds which are limited down almost every single day but the japanese bond market is fukushima so you have japanese bond market like atomic reactors melting melting down so yo

on roosevelt, though, the ultimate judgment we came up with is this.ct for the jews, but he was far better for the jews than his isolationist political opposition at home. it's always easier to be a political opponent. and he was better for the jews than any other world leader including winston churchill who spoke big and did little. and he was better mostly than subsequent presidents. that's the bottom line. >> fascinating stuff. alan, thank you. >> my pleasure. >>> up next, the boy scouts change i policy on gay scouts. capehart's commentary on that talker and what it says about how far we have and haven't come, next. [ female announcer ] doctors trust calcium plus vitamin d to support strong bones. and the brand most recommended by... my doctor. my gynecologist. my pharmacist. citracal. citracal. [ female announcer ] you trust your doctor. doctors trust citracal. i love to golf. ♪ [ grunts ] yowza! that's why i eat belvita at breakfast. it's made with delicious ingredients and carefully baked to release steady energy that lasts... we are golfing now,

what was franklin delano roosevelt's answer to the needs of older americans? too many young people were untrained, uneducated, and unemployable. how could they get a place at the economic starting line? welfare reform. after 60 years of guaranteeing benefits to welfare recipients, the federal government wants them to go to work. has the new policy succeeded? we are the richest, most prosperous nation on earth.

i was privileged to run along the principle at roosevelt and our director or rec and park we did a 5 k. i did have a question as we finished the finish line am i really faster than a sixth grader and unfortunately, the answer is no that's a face group before about it was fun and i want to thank you four demonstrating the achievement go hand in hand. i would encourage all our community to get healthy that you and last but not at least i know wore in that time of year so i want to say two last words. go warriors. have a great ejecting >> item c recommendations that accommodations. thank you president norton i want to ask the following guests to come forward we're going to - (calling names) come forward please. what i'd like to do as they come forward is read we've partnered a new place to learn for san francisco from ankles 14 to 22 who have moderate disabilities. i as well as several folks had the opportunity to cut the rib on that was an emotional extremely grafting experience. i'd like to invite president norton and we would like to present the certify and ask i so say a if you word

. >> and then i have a new one on roosevelt, teddy roosevelt. i'm a big fan of theodore roosevelt ask the reform movement and just his energy and his style. and also i've got one that deals, i think, mainly with his time down in south america. so it should be, should be interesting. >> let us know what you're reading this summer. tweet us @booktv, post it on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@ c-span.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. beginning at 7 p.m. eastern, justice sonia sotomayor gives the arthur miller freedom to write lecture. then at 8:30, booktv sits down with thomas sowell. at 9 on "after words," olympia snowe talks about her book, "fighting for common ground," with guest host ab stoddard of the hill. at 10 p.m. eastern, nathaniel philbrick on "bunker hill," and we continue at 11 with james zogbi. that all happens tonight on c-span2's book f. booktv. >> booktv continues with nancy rubin stuart. ms. stuart recounts the lives of revolutionary era women. peggy shipman and l

so what they were doing, what roosevelt was proposing and what wilson was very effective in doing waspushing for a program that got things under control but so this is what was known as the progressive period and progressive legislation, exerts the role of the federal government in controlling and directing the economy in various directions. and then both of them also of course, the need for a major new role for the united states and the world. and roosevelt pushed very hard for that, and woodrow wilson of course had a very important role in designing america's place in the world and is responsible for maintaining peace around the world. and that is the thing off the government think about the league of nations in world war i. so this is a real transformation that took place in the early 20th century at which theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson were really partners in which although they were rivals. they were also partners in working in a similar kind of direction. entrance of domestic, probably the most important single thing that wilson did was to create the federal reserve syste

president roosevelt was determined not to make the mistakes that president wilson made after world war. one in particular not securing republican support for the league of nations so new hampshire had a republican senator we're going to fulfill my marrying battle and president roosevelt thought well if i can help this isolationists arles toby when his campaign cama a convert to the cause as it were support the new international monetary grima and convert some of his republican colleagues and you know that's exactly what happened . but this happened in one nine hundred forty four and by war today and intel nine hundred forty five so why did this gathering take place for a post war two economy before the war even ended well president roosevelt in particular was not interested in international monetary fairs was very interested in sending a political message to the enemy axis powers that it was the united states and the allies who had the compelling post-war vision actually believed that this would help bring the war to a successful earlier conclusion. there are also some major political

president roosevelt was determined not to make the mistakes that president wilson made after world war one in particular not securing republican support for the league of nations so new hampshire had a republican senator charles tobey who was going to be in a difficult primary battle and president roosevelt thought well if i can help this isolationist charles toby when his primary campaign he might become a convert to the cause as it were support the new international monetary agreement and convert some of his republican colleagues and you know that's exactly what happened. but this happened in one nine hundred forty four and by war today and telling one thousand and forty five so why did this gathering take place for a post war two economy before it even ended well president roosevelt in particular was not interested in international monetary fairs was very interested in sending a political message to the enemy axis powers that it was the united states and the allies who had the compelling postwar vision he actually believed that this would help bring the war to successful earlier con

president roosevelt was determined not to make the mistakes that president wilson made after world war one in particular not securing republican support for the league of nations so new hampshire had a republican senator charles toby who was going to be in a difficult primary battle and president roosevelt thought well if i can help this isolationist charles toby when his primary campaign he might become a convert to the cause as it were support a new international monetary agreement and convert some of his republican colleagues and you know that's exactly what happened. but this happened in one nine hundred forty four and by aborted and then telling one thousand and forty five so why did this gathering take place for a post war two economy before the war even ended well president roosevelt in particular was not interested in international monetary fairs was very interested in send. a political message to the enemy axis powers that it was the united states and the allies who had the compelling postwar vision he actually believed that this would help bring the war to a successful earlie

and lindbergh said, well, roosevelt won't let me. and they said, well, why does roosevelt need to know? and so he went to the pacific as a civilian consultant wearing a military uniform without any insignia, and he flew. he flew on a number of missions, was almost shot down, shot down one japanese zero. and in the course of this time over there he also, again, improved a number of new airplanes. and from all accounts he was never happier. i mean, you know, this is where he really belonged. and his wife once said those five months that he spent in the pacific were the happiest, was the happiest time in his life. i don't know, i suspect that roosevelt did find out eventually that he was over there. but all of the military people that he flew with turned, looked the other way, you know? it was never, there were never stories about him flying. it was very hush hush. but he did have an impact on, a small impact on, certainly, on the flying in the pacific. i think we have time for one more question if anybody has a question or a comment. o

but what roosevelt and wilson were doing was responding to industrialization and urbanization. the country was getting thicker and more investor-owned people were unhappy with the domination of the country by his business. so what roosevelt was proposing and wilson was the fact that doing was to push to bring it under control. this is the progressive area, the progressive legislation with the role the federal government in various directions. both of them saw the need for a major role for the united states in the world that roosevelt pushed very hard for that and woodrow wilson had a very important role in defining america's place in the world and its responsibility for maintaining peace around the world and that's something we'll think of when they think about the league of nations. so this is a real transformation that took place in early 20th century. they are really partisan ally. they also are partners working in a similar direction. in terms of domestic issues, the most important single thing wilson did was to create the federal reserves, which was to create a banking sys

he doesn't have to wait until the administration of franklin delano roosevelt. it is interesting to note that pull. very much understood republican politics of going out and talking to people because he had to. he started as a city councilman and worked his way up and there's not a change of corruption associated with him, none of the sort of thing we expect of people who are machine politicians in our day. don't know if that helps. the gentleman in the back. >> my question relates to his economic and budget cutting policies. coolidge was well known for using the veto to get rid of pork barrel spending. many could look at it as an example of where republican politicians should go today. many have said theircumstances are entirely different now than they were in the 1920s. would it be possible to have a president who is a ruthless budget cutters like coolidge was today? >> here is where i part company with my friend who wrote a good book on coolidge as well. i believe that coolidge's budget cutting policies and fiscal policies were the fruits of more serious thin

guest: one of her sons was in theodore roosevelt's cabinet. and another son was in woodrow wilson's cabinet. as administrator. she died right at the very beginning, a year into world war i. and she was actually herself doing a work on -- as a volunteer with the red cross in pasadena. when she died. but there's some suggestion that she decided to go from republican to progressive to slightly democratic because president wilson gave her son a job in the cabinet. host: on that note, we will say thank you. we've talked about the fact that you've spent your historical career focusing on first ladies. as we close here lots of first ladies ahead of us, how did you get interested and why do you think it's interesting for people to learn about first ladies? >> because they have a natural influence on the thinking of their husbands. and their intelligence and their wisdom and sometimes their ability to even see sort of a larger picture that they, the husbands themselves, can't. was for so many years neglected. you know, they were always just sort of wri

incumbent president, she supports the roosevelt. she comes out at an appearance in los angeles. host: tawney in pleasantville, n.y. i ever one of the books read was "destiny of the somelic," and there were money facts, but the three that are brought to my attention tonight where abraham lincoln's involvement in three presidential assassinations, not necessarily involved but being in the area. you showed an artist's sketch that carried garfield to the house where he passed away. i'm wondering if you can tell the story of how the car got there. lastly, there is a part in the park, andn presidents they might have to make it 8 president's part now that president obama have visited. why have so many presidents gone to the jersey shore? it was fashionable. the salt air was thought to be recuperative period in order to reach of the house, they have to lay an exit track so the strength to go right up to the house. thet: he mentioned all presidents. during the years of the carter administration, these are the first ladies who were brought --

i am a big fan of theodore roosevelt. with his energy and style and one that deals mainly with his time in south america. that should be interesting >> joining us on booktv is dr. thomas sowell from stanford university, your most recent book "intellectuals and race" how do you define an intellectual? >> someone whose work for end product or ideas whose validation is through consensus rather than any particular established procedure like a chemist but not be an intellectual because there are objective rules by which to judge or a mathematician or engineer but if you are the deconstruction as it is just of the others likely you are doing. >>host: it doesn't matter about popular opinion? >>guest: no. >>host: why not? >>guest: because the whole career and self-esteem comes from their peers, so it doesn't matter they are out of step. >>host: are you an intellectual? >>guest: i suppose you would have to say that. since my work ends with ideas and people like them or don't like them, that is the way it is. >>host: you talk about

roosevelt left a pretty thin paper trail. how do you go about researching something like this? >> richard brightman is a great historian of the holocaust, i'm an american and presidential historian, and we had to scour manuscripts all over the country, because you have to find out about fdr through other sources, through people who knew him well. and as the reviewer in the "new york times" put it we did a mountain of research. >> michael: i can only imagine. most guys would rather have a beer with lebron james. i would rather have a beer with len kasper. thanks so much. hi i'm terry and i have diabetic nerve pain. it's hard to describe because you have a numbness but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot. it was progressively getting worse, and at that point, i knew i had to do something. once i started taking the lyrica, the pain started subsiding. [ male announcer ] it's known that diabetes damages nerves. lyrica is fda approved to treat diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is not for everyone. it may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thought

roosevelt.e contributor is back with us as well. that's what i've been most struck by when the i word, impeachment has been invoked in the last few weeks. i grew up in the '90s and i remember this. i remember not only the impeachment in 1998 of bill clinton over the whole monica lewinsky thing. i remember driving around my town in massachusetts, liberal massachusetts, there's a car in front of us like a month after bill clinton was inaugurated in 1993 that said impeach clinton. i remember that. that backlash against him began from the moment he took office, there was going to be this fight against him and it culminated six years later. i feel i'm watching the same thing play. >> i agree with you. but i had a similar experience if not driving around counting bumper stickers. you get people who oppose a democratic president. he wins anyway. they are disgruntled. spend the first term complaining about it. sure they can knock him out in the second term. when he gets re-elected, we now have a diagnos

not unlike franklin roosevelt, kennedy to a considerable degree, americans look to a president for signs of optimism. as far as iran contra, i ask one of reagan's closest advisers, did he know about this, he said, of course he knew about it. when there is good news to deliver to a president, you are actually selling arms to the iranians, getting money, giving it to arm disengaged when that happened. the anti-communist guerrillas in nicaragua, a brilliant schemo ndon to give ge president. nobody wants to give him bad news. one final point, and gerald ford was the most emotionally healthy man that has ever served in the white house. he sacrificed his presidency with that part in and he did the thing for the country and by me andiled everyone else. >> he would have been a good president, if he would of been elected. >> the presidency is the most lonely, isolated job in the world. in the to protect themselves against that. nixon did not. by me and everyone else. successful presidents have been the ones that they have someone who they can listen to our talk to. can be there wife, their spouse

we will be focusing on eleanor roosevelt on monday, october 21.'s go to deborah, new york, independent. thank you for waiting. caller: good morning. congratulations on your publication. guest: thank you. 'sller: as far as obama management style and being in the so-called bubble, have you considered that for the first four years he was literally underwater, dealing with problems that were passed on from the previous administration? that would have a whole lot to do with the perception by other people. guest: i do talk about that in hadbook, that he has terrible collapses. the mortgage industry, the sense that we were headed for another depression, not just a recession. a terrible series of problems he inherited. and of course he inherited two wars. i am not minimizing bad at all, afghanistan and iraq. so he was faced with crises from the very beginning that he had to deal with. i do acknowledge that. but i think that any president in dealing with crises, it is important to keep a sense of the pulse of the country. i didn't want to give the impressi

he votes for things that would perhaps put him closer to teddy roosevelt or taft or others. in favor of women's suffrage in what is interesting is the progress explains it in declaration terms. so to fight the war of world war i therefore if you partaken of the duties you have the right to so conservatives think of the neocon variety we don't understand the form of government matters tremendously while these principles are eternal, how one structures government government, said the devil is in the details. i don't think that president bush understood that the american experiment of self-government as was extremely complicated. i think he took too low a view and how it could be transplanted and that is something that coolidge would have understood as well with his understanding of religion and greek and latin and education. but you raise a very important point* of the living constitution. one thing we as conservatives can do is try to understand the progress with the amendments come to think in those terms with the declaration in mind. as a college student i have been thrille

and of course, hitler in a famous speech then ridiculed roosevelt for such a proposal.her documents do you want to show us? >> another document that's important is the extraordinary letter that albert einstein sent to f.d.r. in august of 1939. because of the outbreak of the war, though, the letter wasn't delivered until october. but what the letter did was warn franklin roosevelt of the danger of uranium-based weapons. it reads some recent work by enry question leads me to expect that the uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. certain aspects of the situation, seem to call for watchfulness and if necessary quick action on the part of the administration. einstein then goes on to describe the possibilities of a massive weapons of destructive power. it was this letter that he handed to an aid and he said see that this gets done. >> the next one will really catch people's attention, i think. >> this is just an incredible moment in history. this is what east referred to as a bedside note he received word of the invasion by hi

but i would have done the teddy roosevelt thing. during the panic of 1907 which was every bit as dire as this, trust banks were failing and even a commercial banks were failing, we didn't have a fed. teddy roosevelt was president. he was down in louisiana bear hunting. he got a message that there was a crisis on wall street. he said, i don't care, i'm going to continue hunting my bear. he stayed in the wamps of, you know, louisiana for the next ten days. by the time he got back, wall street had taken care of its own. jpmorgan said anybody that's insolvent, you're gone. we'll make a loan from the clearinghouse banks. not the fed, not taxpayers' money, our money, the syndicate of banks, and the next thing when you open, the solvent banks and, you know, they carried a lot of them out on a stretcher because they were insolvent, but the solvent banks, when you open tomorrow morning with our money that now is at risk, the 24 banks in the group, all you officers, you're gone. you screwed up, you put the bank in this situation, you are gone

we will be focusing on eleanor roosevelt on monday, october 21.ah, new york, independent. thank you for waiting. caller: good morning. congratulations on your publication. guest: thank you. caller: as far as obama's management style and being in the so-called bubble, have you considered that for the first four years he was literally underwater, dealing with problems that were passed on from the previous administration? that would have a whole lot to do with the perception by other people. guest: i do talk about that in the book, that he has had terrible collapses. the mortgage industry, the sense that we were headed for another depression, not just a recession. a terrible series of problems he inherited. and of course he inherited two wars. i am not minimizing bad at all, afghanistan and iraq. so he was faced with crises from the very beginning that he had to deal with. i do acknowledge that. but i think that any president in dealing with crises, it is important to keep a sense of the pulse of the country. thedn't want to give impression that a do

"invisible choirs of 17-year cicadas buzzed in counterpoint to roosevelt's voice." more recent example, take this anti-kerry rnc ad from the 2004 presidential race. >> every 17 years, cicadas emerge. morph out of their shell and changed their appearance. like a cicada, senator kerry would like to shed his senate career and morph into a fiscal conservative, a centrist democrat opposed to taxes, strong on defense, but he leaves his record behind. >> as for how the current administration is prepping for the oncoming swarm of cicadas. "the obama administration currently has no plan to suppress the cicada invasion." >>> finally, what do our tastes in music say about our political views? some results from ppp. for favorite music genre, democrats like classical music while the top pick for republicans, country. now to the favorite member of the beatles. democrats chose john lennon over paul mccartney 39%-36%. it was the opposite for republicans, but by a wider margin. 49% for mccartney. 15% for lennon. as for which singer people would want to see as president, both parties

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, teddy roosevelt. a big fan of t.r. roosevelt and the reform movement and his energy and his style and also i have got one that deals i think mainly with this time down in south america so it should be interesting. >> let us know what you are reading this summer. tweet us at booktv. posted on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org.

and ovita set up a plan, and roosevelt looked at it and said you have to be the head of this. and she said, oh, no, no, i'm going back to houston where i belong. and her husband, william, found out about that and said, no, your country's calling, and you need to be there. so she did that, and that's where she met eisenhower. and she so admired eisenhower after meeting him and seeing what he did in the war that then she became the head of texans for eisenhower when he ran for president. and if you ever want to hear kind of some tongue in cheek stories, ask bill hobby, who was a teenager at the time and went to his first and only republican convention -- [laughter] about that experience, he will give you some stories. [laughter] so that's how i wrote the book about texas. there's a lot of history in here, but my main reason was to show the stamp that women put on the spirit of texas which is so vibrant and so much fun, and it was much what i've done with the american women in american heroines and leading ladies, the other book i wrote. now, i will just end by saying that, you k

it ended and i had nothing to do with the roosevelt secretary treasury. >> when i asked you yesterday about okay fine, you're supposed to let them go down. is that it will be constrained to wall street. my sense was there is enough mortgage-backed comment that her in the equities of community banks. >> no, there weren't. you've got to read my book because of the entire mainstream banking commercials to them, at the balance street had 100 billion, which is nothing. it would have been written -- they wouldn't have those securities. >> in that case, maybe with the benefit of information, i am more sympathetic even though i'm not -- [inaudible] >> they walk home. they were panicked. they could have looked into it. they could have realized all the rest of it was the iranians in tory shelves -- >> you don't think after leaving they just freaked out? >> a freak out because the institutions they knew and loved were going down by arguing that made any difference. >> if they had known not, they probably still would've done the same thing. >> i think it is well-meaning. >> he was in the wrong jo