roosevelt and macarthur were old political enemies. roosevelt loved the navy. macarthur hated the navy. roosevelt was a progressive politician. macarthur was most comfortable in the hoover administration. roosevelt shaped the policy approach governing america that took into account those who have the least and needed the most help. macarthur believed everyone could lift themselves up by their bootstraps. there were no two different men in american history that serve at the same time, and yet oddly and strangely, while they were political enemies they became weary, but good friends. roosevelt decided when he became president despite macarthur's reputation, to keep macarthur on as army chief of staff. in my previous talks, a man stopped me and said, you know, i don't like macarthur but i really like your title. so i thought that i would explain then where i got the title "the most dangerous man in america" as a way to explain the roosevelt-macarthur relationship. remember the 19th or two in the midst of a terrible depression, a group of world war i veterans organ

roosevelt said what do we do? he said price supports which is where we get price supports and roosevelt and a main he bright hit doug well in tuesday administration he was in the governor's mansion in albany. and he said he belonged is on the line and wants to talk to you, the louisiana demagogue who helped roosevelt get nominated roosevelt rolled his eyes and said i will take the call and said stay here to. >> host: team. he said yes? how are you doing he said how my doing it? what you mean what the hell you doing? you are sitting of there is in new york with the fat cats you should be out there campaigning he said know everything will be okay. we have plenty of time. we will need money. monday? i was show you how to raise money. did down here to louisiana as a sitting with the fat cats things will be okay so roosevelt repeated and the conversation went on then finally roosevelt said huey long the most dangerous man in america. and roosevelt said he is not the most dangerous man in america. the most dangerous man

for the roosevelt white house was december 8th, 1941, his speech in congress, was not true. pablo larrazabal gave the first broadcast from the position of the roosevelt family and in many ways position the national government, at a regular radio show and she went on national radio the night of december 7th and talked about more out, her own four suns one who was on a ship at sea and the eventually all four boilers, roosevelt boys went into war service and served honorably. talked about people not being scared. she had one piece of information which was interesting, the first lady of the united states and she said in that radio broadcast the president was meeting at that time when the japanese were bombing with the japanese ambassador which is not true. the japanese ambassador was meeting with the secretary of state at the time and that date december 7th, fdr was meeting with the chinese diplomat but not representative of japan. even then in the close proximity of the white house, the information is not accurate all time. >> thank you. anyone else? over here? the last questio

eleanor roosevelt gave the first broadcast from the position of the roosevelt family and in many ways the position of the national government. she had a regular radio show, and of course she had her column, "my day," and she went on national radio the night of december 7th and talked about -- it was about morale, it was about her own four sons, one who at that point was on a ship at sea. eventually, all four boys, all roosevelt boys went into war service and all served very honorably. and talked about, you know, people not being scarce. she did have one piece of misinformation which is interesting. here she is the first lady of the united states, and she said in that radio broadcast that the president was meeting at that very time when the japanese were bombing with the japanese ambassador which is not true. the japanese ambassador was meeting with kordell hall who was the secretary of state at the time. that day, that sunday, december 7th, fdr was meeting with a chinese diplomat but not a representative of japan. and so even then in the close proximity of the white house is that the

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on the afternoon of a january 6, 1941, president roosevelt went to capitol hill to deliver his it'll message. weeks earlier he had defeated his opponent and won reelection to the unprecedented third term. but he now faced a bigger challenge even more daunting than the first and second term still with the great depression it was also increasingly threatened by the axis powers of germany germany, italy and japan. and americans have yet to agree how to respond to the threat the president did not falter he also gave dramatic i new meaning to all men are created equal. life liberty and the pursuits of happiness we the people of united states and a new birth of freedom and government of the people by the people for the people roosevelt knew about a crisis and a new what americans could accomplish born 1882 the son of hudson river but long before becoming president he suffered serious defeats. none more devastating than contracting polio in 1921 at the age of 39 that left him permanently unable to stand up or walk without assistance. but he had risen above to become the most dynamic politic

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roosevelt presidential library will hold their 11th annual roosevelt reading festival which features numerous author talks on the 32nd president. look for our coverage of the roosevelt reading festival on a future weekend. let us know about book festivals in your area and we'll add them to our list. >> matt taibi talks about the divide between the rich and poor in the united states and the problems that grow from the level of wealth inequality now. that's next on booktv. [applause] >> wow. thank you. this is a big crowd. i was actually at a -- i did a speech for a law firm in new york about a month ago, and the crowd was way bigger than i expected, and i was about to go up to the podium and i asked the partner at the firm, how did you get so many people to come to this thing? and he said that's easy. we told them you were ben bernanke. [laughter] >> so i don't know who they told you was coming tonight, but my name is matt taibi. i'm a reporter formerly of "rolling stone" magazine and now first media. i obviously just want to thank all the folks who brought me here, kay, and bert, and

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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 the

the reject the idea that of franklin roosevelt did it to help winston churchill.st of all, if it was demonstrated that a president do about pearl harbor he would have been impeached. second to make this point the japanese attacks we declare war on december 8th but not until the 11th that germany and italy declared war on us which means we have to respond in retaliate to declare war on germany and italy. but here in that time there is nothing. those speeches or letters to the editor to get into the european war. actually henry stimson was the secretary of war at the time. there were going to his papers and found a draft of the "day of infamy" speech. it was a draft. they typed in the declaration of war. the obviously discussed it to declare war on the three but the line had been drawn through germany and italy in decided there were just declare war on japan because even then there was no political will. although churchill was reportedly said he was jubilant because simple indeed to american getting into the war. i have just a few minutes left. two points i want to

that is the ccc is falling roosevelt is developing.nding unemployed men out to plant forest that is used but when the government buys shoes for these men it is socially wasteful because the government should buy clothing factories and shoe factories. this is his critique. he doesn't want money to be given to people but he wants the way out of unemployment which is crushing the country. some day in one state a radical government great governor will lay down the law of the factories have to open and will start commandeering those which did not open. but someone said how about you? do you want to run for governor of california? this was a democratic committee in los angeles. there was not much of the democratic party at that time that roosevelt was enormously popular and the democrats had a chance it was likely the next governor of california would be a democrat. it was going to be exciting. sinclair could not resist the chance to educate people by throwing himself into the campaign. he ran for governor it was 1926. so he wrote a book. an

teddy roosevelt, you know, you wait for my word.the treasury secretary was to wait for the morgans' word, and there was a meeting that was called at midnight, 12:00 midnight, at the hotel manhattan in new york where morgan invited some of his friends -- james stillman who was head of national citi bank which is now citibank, tom lamont who was still hanging around in 1929 but was then much younger and a bunch of other people to go around and talk about how they would save the markets. they also got $25 million from the treasury department. so that was the first time where this trust buster said, you know, i these your help, here's some money, do whatever you need to do. morgan got his guys together to put in money to save the situation. they do except they don't do it with morgan's money, they do it with standard oil's money and shares they then dissect to get spank into saving the knickerbocker trust company, not the company that people from harlem to fifth avenue and in between were trying to get their deposits out of because it w

there will be 12 authors of recently published works that draw upon the roosevelt archives. >> i'm not defending lois lerner. i want to hear what she had to say, why she was unaware of the inappropriate material for a year after they were created. i want to know why she did not mention the inappropriate criteria in her letters to congress. i could not vote to violate an individual's fifth amendment rights just because i want to hear what she has to say. a much greater principle is at stake here today. the sanctity of the fifth amendment rights for all citizens of the united states of america. >> i have never alleged that goes to the president. i said that the tea party would clearly and fairly be described as enemies or adverse to the president's policies and i think that is pretty comfortable to understand and they were targeted by somebody who politics is with the president and quite frankly was trying to overturn -- the supreme court decision in citizens united in support of the president's position using her power and with that i yield back and urge support. >> this weekend on c-sp

also, if you look at how people felt about roosevelt and the new deal reforms, they elected roosevelt in 1936, the election that's broadly seen as being sort of a referendum on the new deal. he won by a landslide. so it would seem that maybe the new deal didn't get us all the way there, but it certainly was having a major impact. >> well, most of us think recovery is getting back to where we were before. if you buy a stock one day and it goes up a bit, 10%, you made a lot of money. but most of us hold stocks a long time. so a snapshot of the 10% improvement is nothing if you still don't have a job. most of the time it was over 10%. i think that's the bottom line. emotionally people can like roosevelt. a lot of folks liked that he was a strong leader in world war ii. but the policies of the '30s, let's name a few of those, high minimum wage, certainly generated stronger unemployment. because companies had to pay. and therefore, they didn't re-hire. wonderful new economic work that's come out indeed since i first published "forgotten man" confirms that. the whole new scholarship showing

he also did not receive an endorsement from roosevelt. roosevelt didn't endorse anyone who was running for office in the state so it wasn't so unusual. he was expecting it and he let on that he was expecting roosevelt would say something favorable about production for use which was the concept that if roosevelt had just said that and sent the message that this was -- this program fit into the new deal, it might have been different but officially it was -- she got 38%. >> one of his followers was so inconsolable that she committed suicide when he lost. another one named her baby for him and his wife wept tears of relief because she was convinced he would be assassinated. there had been a lot of death threats and they tried to make him get a body guard but he finally finally agreed to have a dog who became very close to him. no one has ever written about the dog before but i did. i am a picture with him with his dog duchess who was a comfort in the 30s and 40s. i don't think he wanted to be governor as much as he needed to put himself forwa

. >> roosevelt junior high school so it's right on those kids traffic palm street as an entryway to roosevelt middle school. >> they could yes and that's the exit there's two exits one. >> there's one further down the street that's the old electronics used to be and the property adjacent. >> that's the wells fargo building or the bank building. >> the wells fargo is on will. >> that's on geary and as you u.s. bank is on page. >> this is a our original location. >> can you reference the. >> that was the original proposed location this is geary here and palm. >> yeah. i see bank but on palm is the roosevelt junior high school it is swaktd between palm and geary. >> yes. further on down palm. >> the next property over. >> further on down we're in front of the bank. >> the traffic did you take into account the traffic from the junior high school you assumed that gere was a more trafficked student. >> in we didn't didn't and ms. short you have 3 minutes of rebuttal. >> department of public works again, i think that the issue at hand is that at&t is not providing multiple locations up front essenti

that is when teddy roosevelt had asked them to save the country.and even in the late 1890s, the morgan bank had more money than the treasury department. then it was like real money. now it is leveraged capital. itit's also worth of more complicated money. and with broad power. >> host: into that very point, the power and often times power is equated with often times arrogant. there is a quote in the latter part of the book that really grabs me and some people in the public have heard this. that's why i'm richer than you. >> guest: but that's jamie and i amend in a call. basically what it means and what it says is that, you know, this isn't about a greater good or a public interest. it's not even about the profit motive being sustained by something reasonable. it is about my ego and my power and you bring that into vacation and that is part of why it is all so much more dangerous now. there was a photo that ran chase back in the 30s as well that had quite a big ego and he was checked out when winthrop eldritch came back in after fdr. and he didn't w

this was a decision that had been made by roosevelt and churchill themselves personally at the arcadia conference in washington, which was going on at the time this message came down. now, i try not to be too second-guessing when i read about things and put information together in a chronology. but it seems elemental that knowing that at least 15 u-boats were either arriving on station off the east coast, or were a week or so behind, i should think the admirals in charm of the atlantic fleet might have said, maybe we'd better hold off sending this convoy to ireland and maybe we better put the 15 tee destroyers out in a patrol screen along the shipping lanes. but no order was ever given. the convoy sailed on scheduled. surrounded by the ring of steel, and the slaughter of american and allied merchant sailors began. it's one of the most baffling, just -- i don't know -- excisions i've ever encountered in my years of researching naval history. the other baffling thing was nobody was ever held accountable for this incredible lapse in judgment. it was shoved and buriyed under reames of repo

the answer, theodore roosevelt. he visited the bay area in 1903.entury later you can see the legacy of the visit thanks to the efforts of one woman. >> it suffered through so many things and is still here. it is hanging in there. >> at masona lake county park, a crowd gathered in the shade to honor this redwood tree and the woman that saved it. in truth, this is not the actual tree that roosevelt planted in 1903. the original tree was not planted in this park. it was planted here, about five miles away, on winchester boulevard, only to be cut down in 1963 to make way for a gas station. lillian brannon, who is now 90, was not having it. >> she found out where all the debris had gone. >> it took some digging at a dump, but they found the remains. >> they said lady, here is your stump. >> from that stump, a new sapling spawned a second chance. a tree reborn, that now stands 50 feet tall. now, in the shade of that tree, a plaque recounts roosevelt's visit to a small california town, and lillian bran non's remarkable effort to keep the history alive. te

roosevelt presidential library will hold the reading festival featuring numerous author talks.let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area. >> duke university professor martin miller spoke with booktv about the foundations of modern terrorism, which he dates back to the french revolution. this 30-minute interview, part of booktv's college series, was recorded at the washington duke inn in durham, north carolina. >> host: duke university history professor martin miller is the author of this book, "the

this was a decision that had been made by roosevelt and churchill themselves personally at the arcadia conference in washington, which was going on the times must condemn. now, i try not to be to second-guessing when i read about things. but it seems elemental cost that of is coast, about a week or so behind. the animals in charge of the atlantic fleet might have said, maybe we better hold off sending this, for ireland and then to be better put these 15 destroyers on a patrol screen along the coastal shipping lines. no order was ever given. the convoy is still on schedule surrounded by a ring of steel, and a scholar of american merchants and allied merchant sailors began. it is one of the most baffling situations in in my years of researching industry. another baffling thing is that nobody was ever out -- held accountable for this incredible lapse in judgment. got shuffled in buried under the reams of reports on the other works on the events. anyone who, the report does how take place a year before the allied war effort. but it is also still scrambling among many how to fight the war t

the morgan, rockefeller, kennedys. >> guest: the roosevelts, james roosevelt, fdr's father, and jp morgan, the famous and powerful jp morgan,crafted together among a few other established families, the metropolitan club in new york, very exclusive club where these men could get together and talk about affairs of the day and decide things, in a very small, tight environment. >> host: borders on royalty almost. >> guest: it really was. when you think about it, even the terms today that are used for ascension, the throne, the hierarchy. terms used i after the panic and after jp morgan got friends together to decide which banks or trust companies could live or die or how much money eached a to pony up to back them up, he was a little afraid, and thought, i don't want to have to do this exercise again. i would prefer a central bank as well. so the bankers who got to this idea of having a central bank to help subsidize or stabilize them so they wouldn't have to put their own money in, whether or not they caused the panic and from a government standpoint, teddy roosevelt didn't talk about so it

maybe you could include franklin roosevelt in there, too. you look at presidents who faced existential challenges. if what they were doing didn't work out, they would go the republic. the founders faced that kind of existential challenge, and i think it ingrained themselves in our national story because of their, overcoming the challenges they face. lincoln faced that, and i think you could say franklin roosevelt did, too. so i guess the less essentially the 20th century, maybe roosevelt in terms of the challenges that he faced and overcame. .. >> eisenhower in the last 150 years, our only bald president. and i was wondering -- [laughter] did you think there's going to be any more? yourself as a partially-bald vice president. >> well, if i may go first? >> please. [laughter] >> i've always believed in the principle that my good friend al simpson lived by. al used to say we all have only so many hormones, and if you want to waste yours growing hair, that's okay by me. [laughter] [applause] >> a young lady from redlands, california. >> hi. you

at which teddy roosevelt had asked j.p. morgan to get his people together to try to save the market. and it was the government calling the bankers to try to help the general economy. and after that panic and after j.p. morgan got a bunch of his friends together to decide which banks or trust companies could live or die and how much money each had to back them up, he was a little afraid and thought i don't want to have to do this exercise again. i would prefer a central bank as well. so the bankers adopted this idea of having the central bank to help subsidize or stabilize them so that they wouldn't have to put their own when he and whether or not they have caused a panic. and from a government standpoint, teddy roosevelt didn't talk about it so much, but when they came in as the president, he very much pushed this idea of having the central bank and the aldrich family that was close to the taft family basically decided that they would do these expeditions into europe and see what was going on in the bank of england and with

>> roosevelt. franklin d. roosevelt, baby, yes. >> do you vote?n't voted in a couple of years because i have had my own emotional thoughts about it.>> i >> when you vote for the in president, what month do you vote in? >> when i do vote, it's right around spring. >> april isn't it. >> november? >> october? >> november?pres >> november. >> do you ever watch o'reilly factor on fox news?nov >> i have seen o'reilly a couple times. i like his show. >> i heard what it is. my roommate watches it. >> i'm in to the paranormal. >> ever heard of watters world? >> no. i'm watters and this is my world right here. o >> really really? >> oh, here now is jesse watters. so it's kinds of grim again, right?ow >> pathetic out there. it was a bad one. i'm from philly so that hurt. that really hurt. >> so you asked how many people -- >> -- 1212 people. the quiz?you ot >> right. >> how manyy passed? >> three. >> three people passed? >> three out of 12. when immigrants take it, 90%>> t pass. >> because they are studying. stripes on the flag, 13ripe colonies. >> i thought

all the things that roosevelt wanted to do. would hope that in a case like that, somebody, for all of where we are in a place we are doing the wrong things, whether it is district of or think of philip seymour hoffman with a different thing, addiction. >> linden was addicted as well. his addiction was politics. he was not -- he did not read. he didn't go to theater or the concerts. >> he went to baseball to court richard russell. >> his arena was politics. the only books he ever read were biographies of presidents he admired. maybe he could glean something from them. he was a machine of politics. true, good, all twisted contentions -- altruistic intentions. he didn't care how we got there. he just wanted to get the a congressman's. his a, schmitz are unparalleled. >> people who love them said he was larger than life. in the end, they knew however despicable he was, his heart in the end was in the right place. >> he got things done. >> which brings me to the president obama comparison. if only the president were more like lyndon

the republican party over the size of the government, an argument that has existed since the teddy roosevelt administration. this program is just under 45 minutes. [laughter] >> thank you, john, and thank heritage foundation and thank heritage foundation's president, jim demint, for this opportunity. senator demint was my choice and i knew that jim[ó was goino be president, i just didn't know he was going to be president of the heritage foundation. [laughter] and the heritage foundation, conservative movement, america is very fortunate to have jim demint as its president. >> i think it's been to our detriment, that's why i wrote the book, "takeover." the subtitle of the bill is $100-year war for the soul of the gop and how conservatives can finally win it. and i should say that, i jokingly refer to myself as 003. means i've been active at the national level, the conservative movement, longer than every living conservative except two others. 001 is the fist lady of the conservative -- fist lady of the conservative movement, phyllis schlafly, and 002 is dr. edwards. so i've been at the front

, i know a lot of people think he is the most interesting president of the last, you know, after roosevelt, probably the most interesting guy at the office. >> i think so. just the largeness of the personality. >> unbelievable. >> i think it was bill moyers who said lyndon johnson is 11 of the most interesting people i have ever met. >> he is the full spectrum of emotion. you cannot assign any one adjective to lyndon johnson, you have to use all of them. he is mercurial and passionate and interesting and wallowing in self-pity and brazen and funny and embracing and threatening and ferocious. i mean and you never knew what part of lyndon johnson you were going to be able to receive when you walked into his office. >> it probably depended on what his needs were. >> yes. absolutely. >> and his political acumen the flip side of the political hubris coin was unmatched since roosevelt. he knew everyone. everyone in the house of representatives, everyone in the senate, and he knew what those senators and congres congressmed for their own political base and needs and so he gave them, he worked har

franklin delano roosevelt created the tennessee valley authority, the tva.liam jennings randolph was a member of congress during the roosevelt administration. the tennessee valley authority was a product of the new deal. it was not doling out money here and there. it was the planning of an area in the united states where there would be a development. hydroelectric power was a part of it. the plan to provide economic development to the appalachian region began with the construction of the norris dam on the clinch river. the tva plan was ambitious. the regional economies could be improved if the waters were made navigible. the tva constructed housing, began a malaria control project, worked on agricultural development, and provided electrical power to this depressed region. some thought the government was going too far. along with the utilities, others who feared economic loss joined in the opposition. coal miners feared hydroelectric power would reduce the demand for coal. the coal operators of west virginia came to washington, d.c. they were very angry at me

roosevelt comes in and it becomes a fund to the democrats and that continues during world war ii and funds a lot of enterprises into the war. at the end of the war, the emergency would be declared over but it wasn't. this was the problem. once you set-up a funding federal organization it is hard to get rid of it. the reconstruction financial committing is still existing giving subsidies to cronies of president truman. then it is abolished and you set-up the small business instruction which is activated to give small business republicans loans. so both political parties down the line have a stake in what the chapter we call the dc subsidy machine. it is set-up with massive subsidies go out and the function and purpose and affects of the -- the effect is disastrous. >> host: the roosevelt administration tempted a newspaper to write a good article about them with bribes. i am sorry this never happened to me. >> guest: you need to live in the 1930's and 1940's. >> host: in the purchase of a $10,000 mink coat. in 2014, a $10,000 mink coat is expensive. in 1939, that is 2-3 times the avera

roosevelt was enormously popular . the democrats had a chance. they knew that it was quite likely to be the next governor of california. and in any case it would be an exciting campaign. sinclair could not resist the chance to educate people for doing that, by doing that, by throwing themselves into the campaign, and he had done it before, run for governor. he knew how to the -- anyway, it was 1926. he wrote a book, my governor of california. li ended poverty. and it says, a people's history of california in 1933 to 1938. and it begins by describing the conference worry is meeting with the committee. they're asking him to consider the possibility of running for governor and he has prepared a plan called into poverty in california. epic. everything had wonderful initials in those days. this plan was to have the state by a land so that people who were farmers but were thrown off their lands would have a place to grow food for themselves. the state of california could lease factories. the idea was, if you are producing for the use of the unemployed

president franklin d roosevelt walking.his film pretty amazing shows him struggling to a seat at a baseball game in 1937. he was paralyzed from polio from the waist down. but they were able to keep that a secret. >> they worked really hard for people not to think of their president as paralyzed. >> jimmy deshawn caught these moments on cam are a. the eight second clip is only two known extended film clips showing the president walking. some experts say this film can solve a myth that roosevelt was trying to hide. >> thank you. the army corps of engineers has spent millions of dollars to try and protect endangered salmon from the bird called the caspian turn. the turn's breeding ground sits on the columbia river that sits between oregon and washington state. they have been feasting on young fish, threatening the salmon and steel head there. the government said they're making progress, but this started 20 years ago. we have more on this. >> reporter: hey tony, here is the basic question. how do you convince thousands of nesti

maybe you could include franklin roosevelt and their too.ok at presidents who faced existential challenges. if what they were doing didn't work out they would go to the republic. the founders face that existential challenge and i think it ingrained themselves in our national story because of their overcoming the challenges they face. lincoln faced that and i think you could say franklin roosevelt did too. so i guessed the last century being the 20th century may be roosevelt in terms of the challenges that he faced and overcame. >> from casper wyoming. >> oh wow that's my home. >> heading back there tomorrow. jan gray. lynne about madison's height he was only 5 feet or inches. he was a short as president and i want to know when your research did you find that he had any troubles because of that and especially with regard to his relationships with women? as you know he didn't get married until he was a lot older and dolly was 17 years younger than he was. mr. vice president were to ask you about bald presidents. [laughter] eisenhower in the la

roosevelt presidential library will hold their 11th annual reading festival which features author talkings on the 32nd president. look for our coverage of the festival on a future weekend. and let us know about book fairs and festivals happening in your area, and we'll be happy to add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv at booktv@cspan.org. >> booktv asked, what are you reading this summer? >> well, i'm going to read, basically, two books. i'm going to finish the warmth of other suns. i got about halfway through that book before i stepped away from it to finish my own. but i'm going to go back to it because it's a book about three families in search of a better life leaving the south and where they went and how they experience -- how their experiences were. so i'm going to finish that book. isabelle wilkerson, i think, did a great job. and then i'm going to turn my attention to this book, the south carolina roots of african-american thought, because it's a book of speeches and writings of south carolinians, most of whom i knew and still know. i've been amazed, my heroes' pictures are up

the height of world war ii, the national negro publisher's association urged president franklin roosevelte board and grant mcalpin credentials. the president did. before his first news conference, the association again tried to stop him warning the room would be so crowded with him in it, he might cause a riot. mcalpin calmly replied, that would be a hell of a news story, and i want to be there for that." when mcalpin shook roosevelt's hand after being the first african american reporter to attend a presidential news conference, the president said, "i'm glad to see you, mcalpin, and very happy to have you here." mcalpin reflected on the adversity in his life on an edward r murrow radio program a decade later. >> it takes a great deal of patience to accept the customs of some sections and communities, trying to live up to my beliefs often has subjected me to both praiseand criticism. how wise i have been in my choicessa may be known only to god. >> reporter: it's taken 70 years for the correspondents' association to apologize. at its annual dinner this weekend, it's announcing a scholarshi

history when you're on a committee like energy and natural resources, and great stories of teddy roosevelt and the big fire of 1910. and, hopefully, some lessons that we can apply even today. >> anything else on your? >> i'm also reading, looking forward to reading a book called "the second nuclear age" by paul bracket. it's a book that senator jack reed gave to me when i came to the senate, and and i've been putting it off for too long, and i've always had a real interest given new mexico's history and our role in the nuclear deterrent looking forward at this very-changing post-cold war land scape of regional nuclear powers. what does that mean for our policy. and so i'm looking forward to seeing what he has to say and, hopefully, he has some answers along the way as well. >> what are you reading this summer? tell us what's on your summer reading list. tweet us @booktv, post it to our facebook page or send us an e-mail, booktv to the c-span.org. booktv at crushes span.org. >> one of the stories that i, that resonated with me was the moment when they're dithering about whether or not they

it's essentially the relationship between theodore roosevelt and william howard taft, his successor. two different men with two different styles had a very deep and profound friendship. and teddy could think of no one else to succeed in by william howard taft. and the tragedy unfolding of that relationship once taft became president, and how it never quite got repaired. you really kind of appreciate actually william howard taft more than maybe we think of in our understanding of history, but it's another brilliant effort, really bringing alive history. and by the way, it barely reflects our modern politics. so much of what you read i in te time trade of american history 100 years ago actually nearly a ghost what we are doing today, in politics, indie media, and then in the relationship between executive and congressional branch. so a great read, and actually something, a must read for the summer. that's my list for now. >> tell me about your reading habits. >> i read a book a week. steady diet of history and biography, or public policy, and for just escape -ism i read mystery novels.

not just the seventh grade, but the entire middle school will run their annual restoration run for roosevelt midding school. dle school. we'll be starting at chrissy field and will be running a 5k this friday. better me than you. [laughter] so the point in my comments where i've been waiting and i'm just so excited to introduce the individuals that we have with us. this afternoon commissioner norton and i had the extraordinary honor at being at san francisco the arch, the graduation, and we have a wonderful partnership we have with them for or transitional age students after the age of 22. the arc does a phenomenal job, but we have a few teachers that also work there and just love those students, but train them and help them be prepared to be successful. they also had a video that they put together, which is a remake of the song brave and we're going to show you that video tonight, but before we do that, i'd like to honor this evening, if they would honor us, the students from access the arc and again, their wonderful teacher, their head mistress of korography. we're going to feel good start

of these progress or's rarely note that roosevelt's new deal, much like the democracy that produced rested on the foundation of jim crow. you have been talking about housing, but also social security, g.i. benefits, and how they have failed african-americans. >> the sad truth, like my politics are pretty obvious, like any other progressive or liberal for years, i was particularly proud of the roosevelt era and would often look act nostalgically at the g.i. bill, sosa security, basically the direction of the safety net in america. it when you look at how that was built, a professor in columbia has done great work on this in his books. what he basically shows is the way that was made possible was an alliance between northern democrats and southern democrats. southern democrats had no problem with erecting a social safety net as long as it to be one that would benefit white and not upset white supremacy or the southern way of life, as they put it on at the time. amocrats in the north wanting deal, some of them racist and some of them not, willing to go along with that, regrettably. as

roosevelt described it as a, quote, "a dirty jewish trick," unquote." franklin roosevelt talked like that? >> guest: yes. it's in the record. c-span: more than once? >> guest: yes. ah, that i don't know. but, of course, there have been all kinds of books written in recent years about how roosevelt, for a very long time, ignored what was happening to the jews in germany, did not take it seriously. this has been amply documented over and over again that -- that he simply didn't seem to feel that it was important. of course, we did not realize the full scope of the holocaust until after the war was over. c-span: where did you get that quote, though? is that something new that you found somewhere on ... >> guest: it's probably in one of the things i read, but it's been in print before. it probably is harrison salisbury's book "without fear or favor." it might be a footnote. but i've read every single book ever written about the new york times. it may have been in the private archives that they opened to me, but i think it's been in print and i think it's pr