roosevelt a warmonger. at the same time he supported the first peacetime draft in the united states and that it would not have passed without wilke support. he became politically flexible during the campaign but he reverted after the election. >> did your close worked to parts of the same question was your biggest surprise? how did your of him change to the most? >> craig if not a superficial understanding at least a simpler one. and he was the complicated man was the first part? the biggest surprise? us how much of bloater that he was. a straw and personality that he was such a social animal he was not a loner he was very batchelder. that not to be over he was a very solitary man that thickly forested interior was not penetrated by anybody. >> it was amazing to learn he had almost no staff. so how could he from sinn as a president without a staff at that time? you talk to paul, the key of the stake at the convention. i racing to the bait. [laughter] >> he did not have any staff he figured this out in his h

the mother was an eleanor roosevelt democrat. she loved eleanor roosevelt. the ability to live with furniture that's made there. carter makes his own furniture in his home. very spartan and warm and pleasant and emphasis on gardens and outdoor life. the bringing of the natural world. i can't emphasize enough to listeners what a special place that part of the mid hudson is in duchess county and the great love and friendship of franklin and eleanor from shared neighbors, shared friends, shared topography and knowing all of the little back roads and things together was a big part youthings together was a big part of the happiness. >> did she use that to get way? >> yeah. >> this is the own space to conduct business. val kill was her home and office. himeleanor was very rarely alone in value kill. he did a very extraordinary job in giving you the sense, the feel that eleanor had and how much she loved it. eleanor was always surrounded by hordes of people at val kill that she would invite. there would be neighbors, dignitaries, friends, reporters, painters, there

>> teddy roosevelt did.e gave a speech, even though he was so dependent on these people, so friendly with them, after a while their magazines are copied by a lot of other people. it became sensational. he got mad at that whole idea that they only looked down at the ground rather than looking up at the sky. he labeled them muckrakers. my guys were very upset by that at first. later, they wore it as a badge of honor. >> do we have somebody that could be called a muckraker today? >> i don't know. some people have said to me, do you think that the wikileaks thing or snowden are muckrakers? it is really different. these people wrote long pieces, incredibly researched, factually accurate -- they weren't just releasing information, they were creating it. they were like many historians. the problem is, who would support that today? i know we have pro-publica and i value what they are doing, but mcclure has the money to give them a salary for two years and give them expenses. he went bankrupt because he gave so much

>> teddy roosevelt did. he gave a speech, even though he was so dependent on these people, so friendly with them, after a while, their magazine got copied by a lot of other people and became sensational and character assassination type. he got mad at the idea that they only look down at the ground, muckrakers. they labeled them. my guys were upset about that at first. then later they wore it as a badge of honor. >> do we have a muckraker today? >> the question some people have said to me, do you think the wikileaks thing and edward snowden -- no, it's really different. they wrote long pieces, incredibly researched. factually act rate. they weren't just releasing information, they were creating it. they were mini historians, who would support that? we have propublica. that's somewhat in the line of what these are. i value what they were doing. but mcclure had the money to give them a salary for two years and give them expenses -- he goes bankrupt. he gives so much money to the reporters but it was their hay d

it was when roosevelt got started. almost immediately, the more than great realized the lengths he was willing to go. at the beginning, roosevelt didn't understand how far he was going to go. the dupont family and the ones that set up the american liberty league. that was successful because they have unlimited amounts of money. there were so popular, they were not able to stop it. they began to finance right-wing think tanks. they have been successful to the university of chicago economics department and notable fraud such as milton freed man. the idea of neoliberalism is there should be massive, selective tax cuts. margaret thatcher it is there is no alternative. of course that's absurd. there was an alternative. we have to connect the dots to understand what is going on today. i read the chronicle. so what i've done is put together a montage of the murder of public sector, which is going on everyday. in fact all of the public sector is in body shape. public libraries, parks from the municipal to the national level. o

do they remember that roosevelt but the that roosevelt that the food and drug administration place or wilson was the architect of the federal reserve or roosevelt did social security? you know that elderly man who said i don't want the government fooling with my medicare. do they know johnson put that federal program? you remember some of the rhetoric. roosevelt said nothing to fear but fear itself and kennedy said ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. reagan said it's mourning in america and the pride is that. we remember these inspirational talks. for the moment kennedy and reagan are the ones who fill that bill. it will be interesting to see what evolves over the next 50 years. i am very selfish. i say i wish it would could come back in a couple hundred years and see what has happened in the country but my grandiosity does not extend that far. [laughter] >> ladies and gentlemen please join me in thanking robert dallek. [applause] >> thank you.

and howard taft, they door roosevelt, william theodore .. roosevelt. >> william howard taft. >> thank you. >> your red sox did it. >> oh, my god, we were there. the happiest day to be there when they won in that stadium. >> rose: game six at home. >> and that they were winning all the time so i didn't have to run around to the bathroom to be afraid. it was great. >> rose: and good for boston. >> it was great for boston. it really was. and that team was a different kind of team that we usually have, scrappy, no big stars. >> rose: exactly. >> except for big papi and they worked together as a team. >> rose: can you imagine, he hit about 7:30 for the entire series. >> i know. incredible. he is magic. >> certainly was magic in the playoffs and series. the bully pulpit, you came to this, because the last time i really talked to you, you are writing a book about teddy roosevelt, what the hell happened? >> well, you know,. >> rose: you couldn't find enough about teddy roosevelt so you had to pull in others. >> never can i write just about the perso

tracy roosevelt and profession or allida black. first lady of 1933 to 1945, eleanor roosevelt continued in public service for years after she left the white house. and she became a key player in john f. kennedy's presidential campaign and administration. she was an advocate for women's and civil rights and president kennedy appointed her to chair a special commission on the status of women. this event was hosted by the radcliffe institute for advanced study at harvard and the john f. kennedy presidential library. it's about half an hour. >> hi. >> hi. >> it's a pleasure to be here today to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the report issued by the presidential commission on the status of women and it's an honor to be here not at the kennedy library but with the kennedy library and with its wonderful volunteers today. beyond that, for me, it's an honor to have a conversation with professor black who really knows so much about my great grandmother eleanor roosevelt and can tell us more of the official side of her work for women. for

so far this former inmate roosevelt is making good on his word.s identified the leader of a $20,000 a day narcotics ring on the city's west side. >> we got good security. who's secure? >> everybody. >> it's an impossible neighborhood to sit on. they've got guys on both ends with binoculars watching police. if they don't know you, you don't get served there. if somebody on that block doesn't bring you, you're not going to get served. >> that means the authorities need roosevelt on the block to tell them who is coming and going with the payloads of money. >> where we stash it, all they do is watch. >> the first step is doing reconnaissance with roosevelt the next day. >> our informant will be calling out realtime information to sandman and gleason. they are going to be directing everybody where they need to go. >> their goal is to get an eye on the ring leader. >> all we're doing this morning is seeing what time he's leaving his house, who he's dropping off to on the block. if he leaves there, maybe we'll follow him to a couple of different places a

here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. is over looks oslow harbor. they revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. they didn't get rid of it, they expanded it. just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. the new deal continues to live on there. thank you. [applause]. >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core missi

, with insight from her granddaughter, tracy roosevelt. first lady from 1933 to 1945, eleanor roosevelt became a key player, an advocate for women and civil rights and president kennedy appointed her to chair a special commission on the

here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. is over looks oslow harbor. they revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. they didn't get rid of it, they expanded it. just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. the new deal continues to live on there. thank you. [applause].

roosevelt to get us out of the depression. we think, wow, johnson really moved us ahead in working on our problems as a society. but the interesting thing about it, a sideline, is that he was clearly doing this for a national audience. he knew this would be televised and he wasn't worried too much about being here in the university of michigan in ann arbor. that was just the vehicle. he never even mentioned the university of michigan. he toward the end of the speech he made some sort of reference to young people, young people will be involved in this. would you be willing to help me do these things? sort of like kennedy did with the peace corpse speech and he never said would you here in ann arbor. he once mentioned michigan just as an example of when he was talking about education because i read over the speech and so he was more being a statesman for the whole country and he wasn't at all partisan either in the speech. he was trying to be a statesman. i think it's interesting that both these major event that is are major nat

here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. is over looks oslow harbor. they revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. they didn't get rid of it, they expanded it. just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. the new deal continues to live on there. thank you. [applause]. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, a

to pressure a reluctant congress to get something done. >> rose: when did -- when did teddy roosevelt and william howard taft first meet?. they first meet when the they are in their thirties in washington, teddy is civil service commissioner and taft is solicitor-general, they lived in the same part of washington, and they had kids the same age, so they walked together to work, i love the image of them walking, taft sort of listening to teddy, teddy -- >> rose: what is the difference in the size of these two men. >> taft would have been then at a slimmer level two, 50, 270, teddy, teddy weighed in the two hundreds but teddy is five-nine, five-10. >> taft is six feet tall but much big store they would have been looked shorter than each other. >> and what happened to the friendship. >> it lasted for a long time. and in fact teddy makes taft his hand picked successor in 1908 when he wasn't running again and runs his campaign, gives him all the advice in the world, don't play golf, it is a rich man's game you won't look like a working class guy, fight him,. >> rose: william jennings brian

i remember james roosevelt and ms.race tully, the president's personal secretary, it was a thrilling look back into the past. and then from the northernmost part of the country to the southernmost. in october of 1967, returning to mexico a small strip of land that was long a dispute between our countries. what a feeling of goodwill there was that day. the texas congressman from the border districts were here and a delegation from mexico, everyone i felt was saying to himself it is done at last. i can recall some other writing performed at this table. i was showing my guest the rooms on the second floor. we entered the treaty room and as i began my recital, i saw on the table some rather tattered notebooks and chewed pencils, a high school algebra and latin book. it was evident at linda and lucy had discovered what i too would soon learn, that this room is not as conducive to getting work done. -- mighty conducive to getting work done. almost from the beginning, i have used this room to launch the project closest to my

roosevelt's funeral.hen did mamie eisenhower >> much later. >> there would not have been a huge opportunity. probably not expected. that is a tough one. >> i do not know. >> i did not believe they had any pets. >> no. >> actually, she was interested in health care. she believed, she urged harry to increase funding to the national institute for health. you can look at the numbers in a second term. that budget goes up. she thought people should have better health care. but he proposed universal health care. >> one of the reasons he was so unpopular. >> i want to tell you about a book. a question about bess truman's portrait. it has been published by our partners in the series, the white house historical association. it has all of their portraits and biographies of each of them. there -- you see the little yellow bubble. it is a special edition for first ladies. if you're interested in this, it is a global on our website at c- span.org/firstladies. her white house portrait was done. we have a video that expl

and howard taft, they door roosevelt, william theodore .. roosevelt. >> william howard taft. >> thank you. >> your red sox did it. >> oh, my god, we were there. the happiest day to be there when they won in that stadium. >> rose: game six at home. >> and that they were winning all the time so i didn't have to run around to the bathroom to be afraid. it was great. >> rose: and good for boston. >> it was great for boston. it really was. and that team was a different kind of team that we usually have, scrappy, no big stars. >> rose: exactly. >> except for big papi and they worked together as a team. >> rose: can you imagine, he hit about 7:30 for the entire series. >> i know. incredible. he is magic. >> certainly was magic in the playoffs and series. the bully pulpit, you came to this, because the last time i really talked to you, you are writing a book about teddy roosevelt, what the hell happened? >> well, you know,. >> rose: you couldn't find enough about teddy roosevelt so you had to pull in others. >> never can i write just about the perso

that's what teddy roosevelt had, too. a lot of people didn't agree with him but he was so colorful -- >> what was the deal. did he have ton office consecutive the. >> the most energetic dem contract. he gave the maxwell house slogan, good to the last drop. >> he died at 60. >> because he has taken the trip and had fevers and an embolism. but ever since he was a child with asthma, he decided he had to make his body to not be an invalid and he worked out. so he was booking and wees -- becoming and wrestle -- boxing and wrestling and would take ambassadors and congressmen through walks in the park. >> not taft. >> taft played golf. >> here's where i get you and i -- you're a big admirerrer of both men and roosevelt, but i think that's when the cult of permit got -- cult of personality got out of control. he is bigger than life but it extended to people who seemed bigger than life by the skill hey had speaking for the nation, fdr, john kennedy, and we get short shrift to those who are more intro speck particulars taft, who th

roosevelt decided to run again for president and launched an attack on taft.andidates delivered speeches at the convention and they started yelling at the speeches. roosevelt performed with his own party and they caused both men to lose to woodrow wilson. what does this have to do with today's fights in the media. we will get interesting insights. the bully pulpit and the golden age of journalism. if you say so? i am joined by author and historian goodwin. i tell you, i am a huge consumer of teddy roosevelt biographies. i can't wait to read this one. the lesson learned that we are supposed to take away from this fight, are we characterizing it correctly and are there similarities? >> the interesting thing is that teddy and taft start out much more alike not only when they are friends, but even in the presidential years they believed in the power of government to soften the problems to break up the trust and get worker's compensation. when teddy goes to africa and taft is left on his own, he has to get a bill through which is within the republican party even wi

and so roosevelt was always very, very attentive to soviet demands. he had a long correspondence with stalin. he recognizes stalin was a mass murderer among other things, but also recognize that as he put it in times of trouble it's permissible to cross the bridge and the company of the devil. his handling of the soviet union, his insurer chose was a deployed diplomacy. >> host: how many deaths are soviet? >> guest: about 26 million. >> host: next call, jim and jim and sunset, louisiana. they're attacking with author rick atkinson about "liberation trilogy" on world war ii. >> caller: mr. atkinson, wonderful, wonderful presentation. i loved it. i was born in paris, france in 1945. by mother was french. my dad was american. she told me a lot of stories about the german occupation and the liberation ethic came in. she was telling me the most -- the worst part for her was being put in a position of being ready to come to america to be with my father. she said some thing about ships and all parts of europe coming over. did you do any research or run acros

do they remember that roosevelt but the that roosevelt that the food and drug administration place or wilson was the architect of the federal reserve or roosevelt did social security? you know that elderly man who said i don't want the government fooling with my medicare. do they know johnson put that federal program? you remember some of the rhetoric. roosevelt said nothing to fear but fear itself and kennedy said ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. reagan said it's mourning in america and the pride is that. we remember these inspirational talks. for the moment kennedy and reagan are the ones who fill that bill. it will be interesting to see what evolves over the next 50 years. i am very selfish. i say i wish it would could come back in a couple hundred years and see what has happened in the country but my grandiosity does not extend that far. [laughter] >> ladies and gentlemen please join me in thanking robert dallek. [applause] >> thank you. >> you kara newman looks at how the commodities market influences what we eat and what we pay for.

conversation with professor black, who really knows so much about my great grandmother, eleanor roosevelt, and can tell us more of the official side of her work for women. for me, i know a little bit more of the personal side. one story i'd like to share with you just as an anecdote before we get into the conversation is something my aunt told me. that as a young girl growing up, grand'mere, which is what we affection atly call eleanor in our family, took her aside and said to her, it's really important that you are involved in public life. it's really important that you run for political office and that you always work to make people's lives better. and she thought that this was something that she must be saying to all of the cousins. and only as she got older and spoke with her brothers and her cousins did she realize that this was not the case. she only said it to the women in their family. >> sure. >> so i'd like to learn a little bit more today about how she took that work public and, first of all, how eleanor's work really spurred the presidential commission and how she worked to ma

and we also think about roosevelt and the radio and scenes from raiding about it that roosevelt -- reading about it that roosevelt must have been on the radio all the time. the truth is he only did fireside chats two or three times a year. he had a tooth that whistled, and he would put in a false tooth to prevent from whistling before he went on the airwaves. and he also used a special paper that didn't rustle so people wouldn't hear the rustle of paper in front of him. so he was revolutionary in the use of this new technology, and one of the themes of the book is the way that presidents need to recognize new technologies and take advantage of them. and that leads us to the fourth era, the television every rah, the era we just left. but in this television era, the fist president of the tv era was eisenhower. and eisenhower recognized in some ways the tv as a two-way heed yum, that you can watch -- medium, that you can watch tv and enjoy tv, but as president, you can also convey yourself on tv. and eisenhower did love tv. he watched so much tv in the white house including shows like "i love

roosevelt, pearl harbor was a godsend to him.'m not suggesting for a second that he in that he and anyway engineered the surprise but it allowed him to unify the country you see, to fight world war ii. harry truman made the mistake of losing that consensus for the fighting in korea, it destroyed his presidency. johnson lost the consensus for the fighting in vietnam, destroyed his presidency. bush the mistake, weapons of mass destruction that weren't there. it undermines his leadership and left him with a terribly diminished popular support including katrina and the economic downturn, you see. we talked to obama about this and i said to him mr. president if you get into one of these wars without vital public commitments and consensus, it plays havoc with your domestic agenda because you lose your whole -- you lose your credibility. remember johnson's credibility gap? i didn't know when lyndon was telling the truth greedy people this earlobe and scratched his chin you know he was telling the truth. when he -- you knew he was lying.

and we also think about roosevelt and the radio and scenes from raiding about it that roosevelt -- reading about it that roosevelt must have been on the radio all the time. the truth is he only did fireside chats two or three times a year. he had a tooth that whistled, and he would put in a false tooth to prevent from whistling before he went on the airwaves. and he also used a special paper that didn't rustle so people wouldn't hear the rustle of paper in front of him. so he was revolutionary in the use of this new technology, and one of the themes of the book is the way that presidents need to recognize new technologies and take advantage of them. and that leads us to the fourth era, the television every rah, the era we just left. but in this television era, the fist president of the tv era was eisenhower. and eisenhower recognized in some ways the tv as a two-way heed yum, that you can watch -- medium, that you can watch tv and enjoy tv, but as president, you can also convey yourself on tv. and eisenhower did love tv. he watched so much tv in the white house including shows like "i love

not the roosevelts or the bushes. and what people find so appealing about them is on the one hand they represent the fulfillment of the american dream. the irish catholic, who became fabulously rich and famous, you see, and on the other hand, so stark horse, that the oldest brother killed in world war ii, the oldest sister killed in a plane crash in france in 1948. the president assassinated. bobby kennedy assassinated. the president's son killed in a senseless plane crash in -- off cape cod. jacqueline kennedy died in her early 60s of cancer. ted kennedy, the horror at chappaquiddick where the young woman died in the accident. so they identify also with the suffering that the family has gone through, because everybody worked through some kind of difficult any their lives. so it's the combination on the one hand of their fame and fortune and on the other hand their suffering, their tragedy. but they are really the dynastic family. >> explain the public's fascination. you tell us the truth and we have had a range of ke

we also think about roosevelt in the radio that he must have done on the radio all the time but only with fireside chats to three times per year plenitude not to whistle in the paper that did not wrestle so people would speaking off the cuff not to hear the rustle of the paper. one of the themes of the book is the way the president's need to recognize new technologies to take advantage of them. that leads us to the television era but the first president was eisenhower. eisenhower recognized tv was a two-way medium you can watch tv and enjoy it but eisenhower did watch tv. so much including shows like "i love lucy" that the escher's complained that the white house social schedule was determined by the tv schedule. there was no vcr or netflix you would miss that episode then you were out of luck and ike did not want to miss but he understood how important it was as a communication tool. he was skilled but eisenhower was the first president to give a televised news conference including the famous speech about the military-industrial complex in the first president to higher somebody from

what was franklin delano roosevelt's answer to the needs of older americans? 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. yet, in the midst of plenty, great disparities in wealth. "reducing poverty: what have we done?" with the help of economic analyst richard gill we'll investigate that question on this edition of "economics u$a." i'm david schoumacher. there have always been people left out of the american dream -- the young, the old, the ill, the untrained. and those who've just lost out in a competitive economy which has losers as well as winners. today we take it for granted that the government has a role to play in reducing poverty and we argue only about how and how much. but before food stamps and public housing, before government aid to the elderly, what happened when

. >>> i started with teddy roosevelt. i knew so much had been writ bn teddy, i needed another story. i got into taft, knowing he had been friends, knowing they had broken apart in 1912. when i figured out what was the difference between the two in their leadership, it was teddy's public leadership, taft's failure as a public leader. i started reading about the progressive era and the public and the magazine and the press. and these guys stood at the center of it. they played a signal role. even the best historians writing will say these people were the van kiloliter guard of the progressive movement. then i started reading about them. i knew about ida tarbell and william allen white. and i didn't know mcclure, so he came into my life. >> roosevelt, taft, and the muckraker sunday night with doris kearns goodwin. >>> all weekend long, american history tv is featuring ann arbor, michigan, where gerald ford's presidential library is located. he attended and played football for the university of michigan. hosted by our comcast

here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. is over looks oslow harbor. they revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. they didn't get rid of it, they expanded it. just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. the new deal continues to live on there. thank you. [applause]. across america, cities and towns, homes and businesses all depend upon one basic resource. modern civilization and life itself would be impossible without it. woman: okay, so today, we're going to look at how do we get our water? narrator: and today, it's a matter of simply turning on the tap. so often, we forget about the value of water. water is a commodity that is essential to life. 100 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine turning on the tap water.

roosevelt went to congress and said the u.s. must build 50,000 airplanes to protect itself. then in the fall of 1940, the battle of britain took place and the bombers were devastating england. it came out that bombers would be the way that you would have to fight world war ii. all the auto companies were given projects to build engines and airplane parts. ford motor company was given the b-24 bomber which was a problematic airplane. it was the newest plane we had. it was still in development stages. they wanted to mass produce the airplane. so ford said, i'm just going to build parts. i will build complete airplanes. that was henry ford speaking for his company. in january of 1941 his chief production guy, charles sorenson went to san diego, california, to watch how consolidated was building the b-24 bomber. what he saw for a production guy was just out of this world. they were building them one at a time by hand. every airplane. an individual handcrafted masterpiece. he said, you will never build a lot of airplanes the way. ford can't help you. ford builds everything the sa