nancy and marion became eleanor roosevelt's political mentors when eleanor roosevelt was just getting started in political life. we are in a room that originally was a living room in office for eleanor roosevelt's secretary mel mina thompson or tommy, she was called. she lived here until her death in the early 1950's, with eleanor roosevelt. mrs. roosevelt took over the use of this area and this became her office sitting room. this is where she would receive guests. this is where she would work every day. at this desk, which was made at the val-kill industries. the industry thing about the desk is there's a little lame plates on there. it's actually her first name is misspelled on the nameplate. this was given to her as a gift by a child. she obviously noticed right away that her name was misspelled but you didn't say a word, she said thank you very much and she used it from that day to the time of her death. this tells you a lot about eleanor roosevelt. it was not important to her that her name was misspelled, she appreciated the gift of the child had given her. mrs. roosevelt wrote

it would be a very roosevelt thing. name the center and drop them from the ticket and in favor of a little-known missouri senator, a hard-fought campaign in a time when no other democrat was given a chance of winning which is a point that people often forget when they talk about how roosevelt made up his mind. he is really decided whether thomas story could be president. >> soon followed by the battle of the bulge in belgium which proved to be his last desperate throw the dice. roosevelt's perilous trip for the second meeting was in church alluding to an agreement on the united nations and soviet intervention on our side in the pacific war and crucially a compromise on paula that had little or no chance of holding. roosevelt recognized the army had already occupied the entire country. to mention a few highlights. by picking harry truman as his understudy dwight eisenhower to be supreme commander both surprise traces fdr chose not only his successor but his successor successor. all these matters have been written about o

roosevelt. i am irish catholic born in upstate new york and my grandparent came over on the ship during the famine into so many people died on the way to the ships. they had a baby and my grandfather was working. my great grandfather was working on a church building in a hatchet fell on his head and killed him, so my poor great-grandmother never remarried and that's why my father was that very unusual creature and only child in the irish catholic family. [laughter] but i am the youngest of four children. i was born in pots and -- i gave away my age, 1896 and when i was a small child we moved to somerville which is the city within the city of boston, and that is where i grew up. i went to the public schools there and my education was going well until i was diagnosed with a fever and i spent about two years in bed recovering so i didn't finish high school until 1917 when our country and heard the great war. i was feeling very patriotic so i took the civil service exam as i have studied secretarial

roosevelt clearly was pushing. it seems to me, roosevelt was pushing america closer and closer to the war in both the atlantic and the pacific. the atlantic you had american destroyers escorting british merchant ships. there were clashes and an american destroyer was sunk. the american government said it was going about its own business, which was nonsense. it was actually helping the british war effort. in the far east they were provoking japan and they blocked trade, created a trade embargo which gave japan the choice of either pulling back or going to war. i think one possibility is that japan bombed pearl harbor, germany then reneged on its promise to japan and a declared -- and does not declare war on the united states. in which case it would have been impossible to get the american people interested in what was happening in europe. audience member: i agree. audience member: is it your opinion that hitler ever really intended to invade england? norman: again, there's a lot of ambiguity there. his order to inva

roosevelt wanted something from britain. roosevelt wanted 50 bases, i'm sorry, not 50. he wanted bases in the west indies to protect america's atlantic coastline. so, they organized a swap. they worked out a way that you could swap the destroyers for the bases. it seems simple. it wasn't. in fact, they had to fudge it so in theory some of the base -- bases were given free. in fact it was a swap. there is also a justification for feeling this was an executive act without going through congress. and the deal was done. and roosevelt said, when he announced it, this does not affect in any way our neutral status. this was eye wash. his supporters knew it and his opponents knew it. it it committed america to europe's -- do europe to britain's , defense, to britain's survival and meant that america believed that britain could survive and committed america to the defense of democracy in europe, a commitment that has been maintained to this day. it was a change in direction of american policy from earlier in the year. it was a change in the direction of american policy since the

next we are going to look at a vehicle that along to another roosevelt, franklin roosevelt, who would be president a few decades later. preferred aelt horse-drawn vehicle throughout administration, which led to his successor howard cast optimizing -- howard taft automating. the lincoln model k is one of the most significant presidential vehicles in that it is the first car specifically modified for presidential use. when i say that, i don't mean armored. nor was it modified to be more luxurious or flashy. instead, it was modified for practical purposes. the pollster he is thicker than it would be on a standard lincoln because a lot of people -- the upholstery is thicker than it would be on a standard lincoln because a lot of people were getting in and out of it. it has a popular nickname, sunshine special, which comes partially from roosevelt's preference to ride with the top down whenever weather permitted, but also because of roosevelt's sunny optimism throughout the depression and world war ii. he retained an optimistic persona and his public appearances. this car was modified even

one being about franklin delano roosevelt who had polio. he had a door carved in the mahogany wall so he could take the elevator from his car to his office without having to use a wheelchair. it was a way for him to keep his privacy and not encourage questions and that kind of thing from the public. we are standing in the fonew yo state assembly. the room opened in 1879. it didn't look anything as it does today. it had an incredible vaulted ceiling, 56-foot tall vaulted ceiling. one of the tallest ever attempted. after about ten years, the ceiling started to fail, and assemblymen were finding chunks of stone on their desks. so they, unfortunately, had to replace the ceiling. and when they did that they also covered up murals that had been painted right on the stonework which the famous 19th century artist william morris hunt. but there was no alternative, so they built a lower ceiling made of mahogany and papier-mache. the papier-mache came in handy later when there was a terrible fire in 1911. as the fire reached the assembly, the papier-m

in 1899 governor theodore roosevelt said we're done. it's complete. and so marked the official end of the construction of the capitol. although some other work probably did continue. but that's the official end of the construction story. >>> we're standing in the second floor of the old state capitol long the mississippi river in baton rouge, la. it was built in 1847 wp started in 1847 and completed in 1851. it's one o one of the only gothic capitols in the country. it's represent mri ka of

we've gone from the carriage that belonged to teddy roosevelt, to franklin roosevelt's sunshine special, up to standard lincoln's modified but no other changes. this is a car built from the ground up as an armored vehicle to provide maximum protection to the president. you have armored plating behind the doors, bulletproof glass, reinforced tires so if the tire gets punctured, the vehicle can still drive to safety. this car was built for president nixon and became the primary car after it was built in 1972. it is most often associated with president lincoln. he was shot in 1981. he survived of course. it was more dangerous than we realized at the time. this was the car into which is that reagan was getting after he made the speech at the washington hilton he was shot. it is almost ironic. as the president was getting into the car were being pushed into the car by secret service agents, he was hit not by a direct bullet but a bullet that ricocheted off of one of the armored panels of the car. it was a perfect shot for lack of a better term. the shot went through the door and the body. fr

the roosevelts, both of them, came to think very highly of hoover. here is the fact some of you already know, frank and roosevelt wanted hoover to run to be the democratic nomination as hoover's successor -- rather, wilson's successor in 1920. he even wrote a letter saying that he wished hoover could be president, there could not be a better one. roosevelt did become the running mate of the democratic residential nominee in 1920. i believe, and my research i helpful demonstrate this, that roosevelt, who was encouraging a democratic pro hoover -- that he hoped to be hoover's running mate. he did become the running mate, but not of hoover. their wartime association and aftermath, which led to a cordial but not intimate friendship, did not cease because they still have contacts on occasion, but they were going and politically different directions. hoover had become a republican, and roosevelt was a democrat and seeking to overcome polio and rehabilitate his career. in 1928, hoover was running for president and roosevelt that year, somewhat against his o

i think that certainly franklin delano roosevelt had an incredible impact. he came back into public service after being a state senator and then contracting polio when he was 39 years old. encouraged by his wife and friends to run for governor. and that, of course, led to the presidency during the incredible time in america's history world war ii and the great depression. grover cleveland went from being mayor of buffalo to governor and then on to the presidency. he was the only president to serve two terms with an interruption in the middle. martin van buren was governor in 1828. and was from this area, and his home is not far from here. there is one governor who was impeached, his name was william salzer. he was governor in 1913. and it seems like it -- in retrospect, it seems like it might have been, you know, he might have been set up, shall we say. but he was notorious, there was a trial, and after the impeachment, his supporters went over to the executive mansion and trampled their muddy boots on the furniture. he didn't leave the governorship with a g

and in 1899 governor theodore roosevelt said we're done. it's complete. and that marked the official end of the construction of the capitol. although i think some other work did continue. that's the official end of the construction story. >> we're standing in the second floor of the old state capitol along the mississippi river here in baton rouge, louisiana. it was built in 1847. started in 1847 and completed in 1851. it's one of the only gothic state capitols in the country, and it's a replica of actually a castle. and, you know, mark twain had always had a big problem with it. he didn't like it. he thought it was too european or too gothic, so to speak. and always very critical of it. but nonetheless, it's one of a kind

edith roosevelt? >> i think she was very influential. he loved her very, very much. i think it was a situation where -- but it was a traditional kind of thing. i mean it was not like she was there making policy or anything like that, but his affection for her and devotion to her i think certainly made him -- >> okay. but not -- here is another one. let me go here. this is a question about women first ladies who are married to introverts. the question brings up grace coolidge and pat nixon. what is the difference when the president is an introvert? >> wow. pat nixon, i mean she is a fascinating character. >> yeah, i agree. >> because she's just sort of a mask that you never get behind, and i get -- from the things i have read, i don't know as much about them, but from the things that i've read he was not a womanizer. you know -- >> well, b.b. rebozo, the inflatable dolls, anybody know what i'm talking about? if you were around during nixon time, it was close to scandalous but he would go off on weekend

roosevelt? >> nand fact i told that story here one night and one of the grandchildren stood up and told -- >> yes. i remember. >> we are always thrill today have you. you're a great audience. i want to give a special thanks to leslie. i don't know how many years we have been doing women in the white house panel. she shows up every time and she does many other programs with us. keep your eye out for leslie. she is always coming back. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] >>> and just another announcement for another program. i think louis was talking about the program in may. we also have one coming sunday, march 19th to be interviewed and his to y'all david ruben stein. come to that as well. come back for more. thank you all so much. [ applause ] >>> the u.n. warned of a possible humanitarian crisis of the congo. they have asked for elections by the rest of the year. this morning the human rights commission will host a discussion on the political and human rights situatio

nash: i still have some of the book to write about hoover and roosevelt. to set the stage a little bit, hoover and roosevelt had some quarter contact during the war in the wilson administration period. throughber of occasions a common friend they would get together for informal dinners and things like that. -- roosevelts, oath of them both of them, came to think very highly of hoover. here is the fact some of you already know, frank and roosevelt wanted hoover to run to be the democratic nomination successor -- rather, wilson's successor in 1920. he even wrote a letter saying that he wished hoover could be president, there could not be a better one. roosevelt did become the running mate of the democratic residential nominee in 1920. i believe, and my research i helpful demonstrate this, that roosevelt, who was encouraging a democratic pro hoover -- that he hoped

she wasn't mean to teddy roosevelt. he said, i have a choice, i can either handle my daughter or run the country. >> i can't do both. >> when he was governor and he wanted her to go to a conservative boarding school to control her, she basically said, i will shame you, i will embarrass you, you're not going to do this, and he knew she would. >> it was true. >> when the tafts move into the white house, and taft is teddy roosevelt's handpicked successor, they discover in the white house a little voodoo doll alice left for them. >> oh, how wonderful. i love her. >> and alice was banned from the taft white house, among other white houses. >> all right. we have some questions from the audience. so let me start first for you, annette. was sally hemmings ever freed from slavery after jefferson died? >> she was informally freed. she was done -- given her time, and she moved into charlottesville after jefferson died. if he had freed her, a couple of things, she was over 45. she was, you know, at this point she was actually 53 ye

roosevelt. last year we went over the four in total. we just talked about stalin, hit -- hit-or-miss and roosevelt. -- hit-or-miss and roosevelt -- tler and roosevelt. we talked about the critical change in 1942, july and december because of the radical withround in the submarine allies get the upper hand. and the german disaster of stalingrad. let's look at this map for a second. ii -- it's hard to know when it actually starts. in europe it starts on september 3 in germany after they have invaded poland and russia two weeks later. the chinese have been invaded by the japanese since 1937, manchuria since 1931. the ethiopians have been invaded. there is a lot of wars going on. russia has gone into finland. all of these wars today are going to coalesced through this conflict of world war ii. that is us looking back at that. at the time, nobody said we are in world war ii when germany went into poland. war, aas a finnish polish war, a norwegian war, a manchurian war, and they all 1941-1942. we in t

admiredic leaders president roosevelt. basically these are social reformers that said, president roosevelt have brought -- has brought a new deal to the american people, we want a new deal for the latin american people. in 1940, only four of the 20 latin american countries could be called representative democracies that respected civil liberties. 1946, only five of the latin american nations remained authoritarian states. it was an enormous transformation, political americamation in latin during world war ii. as we come to president truman. in principle, president truman and his key advisers like the embrace the state policies and spirit of the good neighbor. but the realities of international politics intruded upon inter-american relations. here i want to make a major point. if president roosevelt have been able to serve a fourth term until 1948, i think u.s. policies toward latin america would have changed in the same way it changed under president truman. in the postwar period, latin americans were expected the united s

franklin roosevelt, the good neighbor policy. virtually every latin american major city has a boulevard named after president roosevelt. john kennedy, the catholic president. the alliance for progress. you would not be hard-pressed, much as in the united states, to still find in the homes of latin americans, a portrait of john kennedy. jimmy carter, numero uno, perceived as a saint in latin america. he pushed through the panama canal treaty. bill clinton, a good deal of respect in latin america. he pushed through nafta and free trade between the united states and mexico. also he initiated a plan was colombia that basically rescued colombia. most americans don't know we have been giving money to colombia every year since 1999 and that has transformed the country into a peaceful and prosperous place. barack obama, wildly popular in latin america among people of color. free-trade agreements with places like peru and panama. respected for normalizing relations with cuba. obama perhaps received the highest honor a u.s. leader could re

frank monday roosevelt -- frank monday roosevelt in his first inaugural address devoted only one sentence to foreign policy. in the field of foreign policy, i would dedicate this nation, he said, to the policy of the good neighbor, the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and because he does so, respects the rights of others. the neighbor who respects his obligations and the sanctity of his agreements in and with the world of neighbors. the only sentence in that address. it seems to apply to the whole world. i think roosevelt intended that. the good neighbor policy came to be applied to latin america. during franklin d roosevelt presidency, the less troops were withdrawn from the caribbean. the united states supported the nonintervention resolution in the 1943 congress. fdr also in 1938, accepted the nationalization of mexico of its oil industry, which included the seizure of american properties, without objection. the good neighbor policy continued in world war ii, during which almost all of the let american nations were supportive of u.s. policies -- the latin american nations were

eight years later frankie roosevelt went to the 1932 election. let us build. >> that's what he wrote. take heart from this, we will be back. of course you know about next and strategy for short years nobody saw that goldwater went down and we be talking southern strategy and send who had a more moderate stance, even liberal stance is now ushering in. >> what was buckley's attitude toward nixon? is although the sum was reviled by the left, mainly for anti- communism he was more liberal in most ways than ike's. so, what was buckley's attitude toward him? >> when nixon passed away buckley said that it's amazing how conservative he was through all of his battles even though he did very little for the movement. he said what is it about this man and why is it that somebody and somebody my friend still cling to him. and he said when they outed -- in public, it turns out by the way he was guilty. when we know this now, we know as espionage. he headed over to the department in that little window-my kid a little window in they turned up some documents and

but he continued to be a democrat even after roosevelt died. he supported the democratic nominee can stretch it makes 1950 and he continued to support new deal democratic ideals in private conversation well into the 1950s owing so far according to barry goldwater recollection of calling him a fascist s.o.b. when he first met goldwater who were friends of the second wife's parents, loyal davis, in phoenix in the early 1950s. he'he moved over to the right ae became aware that the democratic party was leaving its ideals as he understood them behind. he understood those ideals as using government to help the average person. but you instead begin to see the democratic party was interested in power for its own sake, centralizing vision that made government and socialization of america it animating gold rather than providing assistance to people who needed assistance to overcome obstacles or petty tyranny in their private or injure public lives. reagan was a very smart man. he was somebody who read incessantly picky was somebody who read when he was a

we did not talk about mussolini, , lincoln andhitler' roosevelt. i felt we could talk about the beginning of world war ii and the critical change in 1942, july and december because of the radical turnaround in the submarine campaign with the allies in the upper hand. and the german disaster of stalingrad. let's look at this map for a second. world war ii -- it's hard to know when it actually starts. third when the allies declare war in germany after they had invaded poland, along with russia two weeks later. the chinese have been invaded by the japanese since 1937, manchuria since 1931. the ethiopians have been integrated by italy since 1933. there is a lot of wars going on. all of these wars today are going to coalesced through this conflict of world war ii. that is us looking back at that. at the time, nobody said we are in world war ii when germany went into poland. there was a finnish war, a polish war, a norwegian war, a manchurian war, and they all coalesce in 1941-1942. we in the united states say world war ii. the british say the second wor

our most successful presidents jackson, lincoln, theodore roosevelt. franklin roosevelt, ronald reagan, brought the country together. they were unified priorities. franklin roosevelt, unemployed people when unemployment was 25%, get people jobs. donald trump was elected to bring people back -- he fallen into same problem predecessors has what he is not doing. where is the major proposal? where is major legislation to give people opportunity who are left behind? in fact it seems to me, what we're doing, we've been doing this before he was president, cutting more and more people,is leaving them out of the american dream and doing that, that contributes to the very dividing forces that law meant, tony, i lament as well. we need a unifying president who offers opportunity to citizens of all kind. that is what lincoln said. what we need today. >> host: from the book, quote, our poor understanding of the presidency has prevented us from addressing structural impediments in office. candidates talk about out comes they want to achieve from robust economic grow

he voted for roosevelt boast times, an ardent new dealer and enemyized roosevelt's fireside chats according to his coworkers inch fact he even bore dates by talking about new deal politics when way want today talk about something else. but he continued to be a democrat even after roosevelt died. he headed history for truman in 1948. supported the democratic nominee against richard nixon in 1950 and continued to support new deal democratic ideals in private conversation well into the 195s, going so far according to barry goldwater's rex of calling him a fascist sob everybody he first most barry gold water, who was fends of loyal davis. he moved over to right as he became aware that the democratic party was leaving its ideals, as he understood them behind. this understood the ideals was using government to help the average person. but instead began to see the democratic party was interested in power for its own sake. a centralizing vision that made government and socialization of america its animating goal rather than provide situation stance to people who needed assistance to over come obsta

of teddy roosevelt. but i tell the story of america as reemerging into what teddy roosevelt was supremely confident was going to be an american century, which it was. so, in 1897, a 37-year-old teddy roosevelt arrives in washington as in the number two person in the department of the navy. at the time there was only the secretary of the navy, the assistant secretary and that was it. the number two person. her had for 15 years been railing about the -- what the called the abomination of spain in our hemisphere, particularly in cuba, spain was occupying cuba. also the british naviesies and e german navy and others. happened in the decade after teddy roosevelt arrived in washington and you can read in the chapter bit, but just briefly, first there was a mysterious explosion on a ship in havana harbor. we took it as an is owe edition dechristopher war against spain and we took cuba puerto rico and guam. that's how guam became an american territory. teddy roosevelt wanted a canal to connect the atlantic and p

library next door and the final resting places of fdr and first lady, eleanor roosevelt. we visited the grounds and went to the home of david roosevelt, grandson of president and mrs. roosevelt to talk with him about his memories of hyde park and his time spent there with his grandmother. >> it really was not until my grandmother's funeral that i realized that it really hit me l that she was really a special person. and something of a celebrity and see the president, to ex- presidents, one futurend other president, and all sorts of ambassadors another diplomatic people there, very important people.e my gosh that it really dawned on me, my gosh, she really was important.l >> we never thought of her in that way. we never viewed my grandmother, she was only a grandmother to us. and that's all she ever wantedot to be to us. i was born in january 3, 1942. f my father was elliott and elliott was the second oldest of the sons, the third oldest of the children. so my dad fell right in the middle. i think he always felt that he was the middle child. but, but my uncles used to clai

president roosevelt felt argentina to open a conference in person. he said the delegates should "stand shoulder to shoulder to cooperate for their mutual ." urity emphasis on the security. in 1935, there was a conference in mexico city. one of the resolutions passed by the delegates was called the act of chapultepec. it stated formally the principal of collective defense again. truman inherent pan-americanism. the third thing he inherited when he became president was the good neighbor policy. -- frankday roosevelt monday roosevelt in his first inaugural address devoted only one sentence to foreign policy. policy,ield of foreign i would dedicate this nation, he said, to the policy of the good neighbor, the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and because he does so, respects the rights of others. the neighbor who respects his obligations and the sanctity of his agreements in and with the world of neighbors. the only sentence in that address. it seems to apply to the whole world. i think roosevelt intended that. the good neighbor policy came to be

this was called popularly roosevelt's big stick diplomacy. that was the first legacy truman inherited. the second was pan americanism. it was implicit in the idea that the americas were a new world. it went back to the time of exploration and has been important in american history. the new world was a world of fresh beginnings. it was opposed to the old world of europe, which had suffered the burdens of a long and troubled history. this idea was taken up by some of the writers of the federalist papers, who argued that the united states must keep europe out of the americas and avoid the establishment of the kind of balance of power politics that had kept europe and would continue to keep europe in a state of near constant warfare. the monroe doctrine reflects this view, simon bolivar believed europe post this threat to the americas, and at the start of the 1820's, organized to defend the americas from european aggression. the idea of collective defense became an important part of the pan-american movement. the phrase pan americanism was coined

roosevelt was having none of it.e had just kept kennedy and england to keep him from coming back and running against roosevelt or president in 1940. once roosevelt was reelected, he had no use for kennedy and hurled him out of his world and banned him from american politics. host: general brooke. tom: general alan brooke was churchill's closest military advisor. a man of some talent, but not great talent. he simultaneously admired churchill and grew to hate him while working with him. he loves him and he loathed him. it was exacerbated by churchill's behavior. i have a lot of sympathy for him, but i think he failed in one key way. he did not have a basic strategic understanding of the war. -- he reallys not does not get why we need to help russia. america and the british need to help russia and persuade stalin to stay in the war. absolutely understand that having russia on our side is essential. as is having the americans. he also understands that russia basically won world war ii. the three key elements of the allie

i think eleanor roosevelt had an extraordinary influence.icy and in her way, and what she espoused and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there was another one i don't know i will get to, about the firebrand and the first lady. so, it is a big undertaking. i am excited to be able to do it and to learn from a great role model. announcer: book tv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter at book tv or instagram at book underscore tv. or posted to our facebook page, facebook/tv. -- book tv. next, a conversation about iran's nuclear program and the influence in iraq, syria and yemen. the expandingted influence in the region. the heritage foundation hosted the forum. >> good afternoon, welcome to >> welcome to the heritage foundation. guests in-house, we would ask that courtesy check that. off as we prepared to begin. for those watching online, you're welcome to spend -

is slightly difficult from roosevelt's cover story. in dallas was basically horrified there is a newspaper article about him. but he realized quickly that the people want to believe that i will let them. the germans bought that. they wrote a lengthy report i think in january or february of 1943 a few months after he arrived saying that he was there and had a biography of him. they had some germans who knew him from before the war and said he's in switzerland and just here on roosevelt's behalf. and we think he's most interested in the german economy. gathering intelligence. but it really wasn't sort of very late in the war before they figured out he was oss. they clung to this mistaken identity. they knew he was doing some espionage but they did not know that much about his network. there was a report the germans stood in the summer of 1944 and they were mentioned him as someone who had been working with the german resistance. they had a good idea of what he was about what he was out to but they were lacking a lot of detail. >> how did

franklin roosevelt, ronald reagan, they brought the country together. they were unifying forces and focused on priorities that mattered most for the country. for franklin roosevelt it was getting unemployed people, getting them jobs. i believe donald trump was elected to help those who have been left behind and to bring them back into our nation as a whole. i'm frustrated that he is fallen into the same problem his predecessors had. that is not what he has been doing. where is the major proposal, the major legislation to give people opportunity who were left behind? it seems to me what we are doing , is cutting more and more people out. leaving them out of the american dream and in doing that, that contributes to the very dividing forces that you lament, tony, and i lament. we need a unifying president who offers opportunity to citizens of all kinds. that is what lincoln said and that is what we need today. "st: from the book again, candidates talk about the outcomes they want to achieve from robust economic growth to impregnable national security witho

president roosevelt. that was because the distance was growing between them, they ere going to win the war and own the world in effect. you've spent a lot of time talking about the attitude of british, towards the british towards americans. some background. tom: it strikes me as almost tragedy. k brittin and america come magnificent way. i don't think there's another example in history of allies closely uite so together. attitude is very condescending. their attitude at the beginning s the americans are our little brothers, we'll educate them. we've been at war for several years. fight tell them how to it. the american attitude is, you guys have been losing several years. what do we have to learn from a losers? but they worked together. they followed this plan. invade ly, they do northern europe. sort of you find this tragic moment when the british realized in sort of august and 1944, the americans don't need us anymore. fougthought -- and that in a ad hoped played world, the greeks for the romans educati

. -- roosevelts, oath of them both of them, came to think very highly of hoover. here is the fact some of you already know, frank and roosevelt wanted hoover to run to be the democratic nomination successor -- rather, wilson's successor in 1920. he even wrote a letter saying that he wished hoover could be president, there could not be a better one. roosevelt did become the running mate of the democratic residential nominee in 1920. i believe, and my research i helpful demonstrate this, that roosevelt, who was encouraging a democratic pro hoover -- that he hoped to be hoover's running mate. he did become the running mate, but not of hoover. their wartime association and aftermath, which led to a cordial but not intimate friendship, did not cease they still have contacts on occasion, but they were going and politically different directions. hoover had become a republican, and roosevelt was a democrat and seeking to overcome polio and rehabilitate his career. in 1928, hoover was running for president and roosevelt that year, somewhat against his own inclination, was

he was indebted to roosevelt's vision. in the sense ameritech should not return to what existed prior. where he had opposed an increasingly interested in power but this was exemplified but does he said over and over the reason he opposed the was necessary and that they should support them for the states to create those programs that if more money would needed to put that up and continued to push for one-size-fits-all regardless of need and with the socialized medicine in your society some shoe could the legitimacy the lead humid need to much less command-and-control. the republican party talks the language of the supply-side economics he refused to adopt by himself when reagan was running for president he never mentioned the phrase entrepreneur the only time when he enters the race 1979 at the first inaugural address. reagan believed in bottom-up economy every buddies were discounted and the republican party that can talk to those reagan democrats after him his successors in failed to attract the support with i am to local

s fifth cousin, theodore roosevelt, and today is known as the roosevelt conference room. >> for years, mike meister was told his father had a family heirloom like no other -- a decorative piece of wood with peeling paint, reputed in family lore to be from the white house. the problem -- nobody knows how to find out if the story is true. it's become an irresistible mystery to mike and his brother-in-law, larry forrest, who are determined to solve it. larry's inquiries are all met by laughter and blank stares, until he calls author and historian bill seale. >> he was skeptical that it could be the actual white house. so i said, "can i just send you pictures?" >> what was your initial reaction? >> well, i thought it looked suspicious. [ laughs ] and so, i didn't tell them much until i researched it. >> did you say, "ah, just leave it in the attic another 50 years. it'll be fine"? >> no. no, i was too curious for that. >> in fact, the meisters' photos have bill scratching his head. >> he called me back, and he goes, "i swear i've seen it." >> bill is remembering a particular photo from 18

which society invade had a lengthy report but then with switzerland and roosevelts behalf and is most but then they mention those who has been working about what he was about a and certainly they were lacking a lot. >> >> how did he get the information he was gathering back to the united states they could take advantage of it? >> that was a constant problem. originally because switzerland was surrounded by the germans and the occupied territory they originally experimented by giving documents to diplomats of neutral countries who would smuggle it out of the country thro and spain but then they go missing from time to time and day experimented and they knew the swiss intelligence service was of a telephone line. look th and they're rolling to look the other way but those were those who were pro german door pro-american. we could not transmitted very much secret information so he used day simple code but maybe they crashed along the border and snack into switzerland cleaning mechanical trouble.ligence. so they worked with each other for a lot of the codeine those secret documents from g

a shooting in front of the target across the street from the roosevelt mall.erson is under arrest. police have been searching for a possible second shooter inside the target. let's get to brandon hudson. what can you tell us so far? >> reporter: we'll take you across the street and you can see police at one of the entrances a couple of them in tactical gear. i want you to know that in the last 15 minutes or so, they just allowed a few of the customers inside the parking lot. let's go live to sky force 10 over the scene this happened some time around 3:30 this afternoon. one woman told us she thought this sounded like a mass shooting and so she was running for cover. she saw children she was trying to protect from the shooter. they have a shooter in custody. let's get to some video of police trying to cut through rush hour traffic. that's a very busy time.

wants to do that shgs franklin roosevelt wants to designate land. for military lands. the secretary general says you can't do that. you don't have executive authority. then people talk to the attorney general and the attorney general says, you can do that. so it's an amazing story. it's interesting all the no, national monument things we're getting right now, in fact the designation of military lands is interesting. there's changing status as to whether there's really much of an occasion of saying here's a big block of land, we'll acquire that. the federal government certainly acquires land to round out borders and so on, but it's never anywhere near the scale of this situation. but great question. so bureaucrats. here are two very famous bureaucrats. lewis and clark. and they were on a federally funded and mandated expedition. they were bureaucrats. i have a campaign going that's going quite poorly to take the word bureaucrat and just make it a word of neutrality that says someone who works for a state or federal or county government. or, any numbe

i think eleanor roosevelt is extraordinary influence. in her way, in what she espoused , and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there's also another one and i don't know that i'll get to it. it's about the firebrand and the first lady. so, as i say, it's a big undertaking, but i'm excited to be able to do it and to learn from a great role model. >> book tv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter apple tv, or instagram at book, -underscore tv, or posted to her facebook page, facebook.com/book tv. put tv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >> from this morning's "washington journal", a segment on the national flood insurance program. >> joining us from south carolina, robert herwig. he is a codirector of the centet for risk and uncertainty management and previously the president and economist of the insurance information organization of new york spee2 thank you. glad to be here. >> we are tiny about the national flood insurance progra could you remind our viewers what th

what happens first, the story of roosevelt trying to impact the court. >> let's listen to franklin roosevelt in 1937 complaining about the supreme court in a fire side chat. >> the court in addition to the proper use of its judicial functions has improperly set itself up as a third house of the congress, a super legislature. as one of the justices has called it. reading into the constitution, words and implications which are not there and which were never intended to be there we have, therefore, reached the point as a nation. where we would take action to save the constitution from the court, and the court from itself. >> and what was that action? >> well, he tried to pack the court. he tried to pass a statute in which the number of justices would be increased. he could appoint justices until the older justices retired. and it got a very ill reception from democrats. he could have gotten a constitutional amendment to legit mate what the deal said. he chose not to do that. he chose to do this instead. there were many that were not in favor of this court packing scheme. that's what he tried to

with theodore roosevelt. theodore roosevelt, in fact, des neigh itted the malhorn national wildlife refuge. that's complicated timing and comes into a more forceful era with the progressive era and then the bureau of land management. good luck getting the start date for that thing. it's the general land office. from the early 1880s which passes that land, distributed land and then becomes kind of an e ineffective steward of the forest reserves and people have often noticed that frederick jackson turner tells us that homesteading ended. the general land office continued, in some ways more claims, not successful ones after the end of the frontier than the before. 1930s, progressive era action, taylor grazing act creates the grazing service which regulates and allocates excess to the grazing lands. the dust bowl is one good explanation for the lobbying force that led to that. general land office, merge in 1946 and doesn't look like a progressive era timing and goes back to that. people, students love this. when

the west wing dates back to th century,e early 20 theodore roosevelt was in office.l the west wing itself, not as old as the mansion, which of course 1800. back to host: what is a new president get when they come in in terms redecorating budget? how much change can they make in and in theve mansion white house complex itself? reason, they within can do whatever, once they get a forain budget from congress redecorating. that is usually for the personal family, of the first which is on the second floor of the white house. of money whole lot given the amount of space that we're talking about, but $100,000. what many first families do is themselves, others use private funds there is a famous story, of course, about all of money that nancy reagan spent, for example, she wanted and the story was that taxpayers footed the bill for that. not true, she raised that money rivately, that is to use a current term, that is fake news the taxpayer his to pay for that. also got a certain amount of money, we've not seen their personal quarters, but you can presume they put their own furniture in, own perso