franklin roosevelt did. in the history of baseball in the white house is the first to explore it's only an american 20 of ours. after all, father would speak on the day before father's day, i'm told, it may not know the color of his children's eyes but he can explain why he feels a certain president to be a boom or a bust. and mark, you remember her, forgot her favorite nephew's birthday but not what [inaudible] hit in boston's forever magic place in 1967. in 1950 that great philosopher to be yogi berra was honored by his hometown of st. louis and i would like to thank all the people who made this day necessary, he said. most presidents from baseball to be necessary and none more so than franklin roosevelt. as you will see, baseball never the president to be more necessary than fdr. for the next few moments electric all indispensable role of the indispensable man in saving these two institutions in the presidency in baseball. he was forged in childhood in a different world right here along the hudson river a

this alarmed eleanor roosevelt.tood up to him and said that his vision would weaken the united nations concept and he was already impressed by an imminent attac trip to the pacid he told others that she had to go. the night returning to quÉbec on the strain without roosevelt churchill wrote to fdr and dropping their usual casual salutations he wrote in, my dear president, the letter recapped their discussions and on alec commands churchill acknowledged the plan you had in mind is the best. he went on to say he had a copy of the atomic plan for them to initial. it was still pending at that point. the combined chiefs blocked four days hot debate over strategy in europe and finally, they stated openly that the problem is that we're not trusting each other. each side gave a little and finally came to an agreement that the overlord starting with an invasion of normandy and continuing with the defense into germany would be the primary strategy in europe. hours later roosevelt and churchill signed a secret agreement to res

roosevelt had framed his new policy more impractical terms. it was neighborly assistance to another country. and then to return the weapons but of course this is conveniently vague. was that a phenomenal generous giveaway program or also self-interested quid pro quote? but result did not admit public not just out of neighborly generosity but to provide more material to british soldiers to do the fighting for him did not admit it wasn't really lending it was buying. buying temporary security and time while the u.s. geared up industrial production to train all the young men who were drafted into military service and prepare for their own defense. u.s. was also buying blood in those while they remain on the sidelines. and to be in the position to dictate terms and churchill's letter acknowledged as much. >> two weeks later on a sunday evening december 29 with a diplomatic reception room in the white house to deliver the 16 fireside chat. the cabinet members and clark gable and his wife carol lombard. this makes me smile because my students had ne

in 1939 franklin roosevelt proposed a 2-year experiment. he wanted to move the date of thanksgiving up one week from customary fourth thursday in november. the goal was to extend the lucrative shopping season between thanksgiving and christmas and thereby give a boost to business. most states agreed to try the experiment, but the sixth new england states and 11 others declined. the mayor of plymouth, massachusetts where pilgrims celebrated first thanksgiving said we consider the date sacred. in plymouth, massachusetts, 3,000 men, women and children put on pilgrim costumes and poured into memorial hall to commemorate the first thanksgiving. some of them played the parts of governor william bradford, military adviser and the indian leader and they reenacted scenes from the past, the signing of the mayflower compact that was the first written expression of democratic self-government in america, the landing of plymouth and the first thanksgiving. in the early evening as they all streamed out of memorial hall into the fresh falling snow and wint

army aviator lieutenant quentin roosevelt, the youngest son of theodore roosevelt was shot down and killed about 80 miles northeast of paris. to mark the centennial of his death, american history tv visited the village with an historian. >> i'm standing in a monument in tribute to quentin roosevelt. he was a lieutenant in the 95th aero squadron of the first pursuit group of world war i. beyond the fountain into the wooded area a short distance on july 14, 1918, quentin roosevelt's plane was shot down during a fight with german pilots. he was the youngest child of theodore roosevelt. quentin and his brother's served during world war i. quentin chose the air service like a lot of young men. he was 20 years old at the time of his death. and flying in the air service was an honor and tribute for young men who were daring. it was not long before his plane was shot down and he was killed. he was placed in the 95th air squadron, which was part of the first pursuit squadron. they were charged with following and tracking down german planes in the area. the battle had been raging since the end of ma

a long story but roosevelt after he left the president si, 48 hours after leaving, saved mt. olympus in washington state. part of olympic national park. went to african for the smithsonian institute and he live behind for will howard taft, the taft administration started giving sweetheart deals to corporations, what they could the guggenheim syndicate. the today's exxonmobil or shell and giving them sweetheart deals and clearcutting whole areas and leaving it in -- the raping, the beginning of the raping of the coal lands of alaska, pinchot blew a whistle and went to see relevant and came back and one of the first speeches he gave was -- the america the beautiful movement and roosevelt weighed in on it and created most successful third party in the american history, the bull moose party in 1912, and that conservation plank becomes what the ccc will become under fdr, roosevelt had all these ideas of how to inventory, our biology and also save the treasured landscape. >> host: you have a chapter in the quite wolds called the new wilderness generation, who is that about. >> gues

and in fact, looking back at how roosevelt made, roosevelt sometimes thought the us might be able towin the war without ever having to declare war. he was hoping land lease and military aid be enough to defeat hitler but of course that wasn't the case so thank you for coming, i appreciate having anlaaudience here . [applause] after we're done, after the questions, what taro will be leaving on the front of the stage is a packet of posters from afterworld harbor. horton would be so much more explicit and some of them that you will be seeing in the exhibit, nobody has a perfect collection but you will be seeing some of those next door. karen? >> formerly of syracuse university, you're all honor and university of pittsburgh. my wife susan and i were teaching, having to deal with anti-communist in hollywood. i'm wondering if horton got all involved in the communist party and communist propaganda during this trend because there was a lot of communist activity unlike any other agency in congress who were very much against the communist during the period you are talking about's for those of

and, in fact, back at how roosevelt behaved roosevelt sometimes thought the u.s. might be able to win the war without ever having to declare war. he was opening that military aid might be enough to defeat hitler but, of course, that was not the case. so thank you for coming. i really appreciate having an audience here. [applause] after we're done after question what is there will be legal on the front of the stage is a packet of posters from after pearl harbor where horton could be so much more explicit and i think some of the them you'll be seeing in the exhibits some of them there's so many posters from world war ii and nobody has a perfect collection. but i think you'll be seeing some of those next door. sear university which i'm retired, my wife -- getting to deal with anticommunism and hollywood and i'm wound forget horton got involved in the communist propaganda during this period because there's a lot of anticommunist afnght and other agencies in congress. where very much against the chriss are is trying not to -- so during the period you're talking about.

let's begin with president teddy roosevelt and his involvement in alaska. >> guest: tr saved the whole grid of modernn alaska. today we are have an alaska mae national 1a, the aleutian chain. it stop the timbering on the pain of alaska. created these incredible resources. places like the yukon delta bird reserve treated with federal orders come executive orders from roosevelt saw that democracy had to be synonymous with women is and make no mistake about. alaska is an incredible wilderness and it's a wonderland. america without alaskan wilderness would be a much less place. more treasure landscape in less than any other state but extraction industry, oil, gold, silver,n zinc, are always lookg to spoil the state. >> did tr ever visit alaska? >> guest: he never did. his opportunity to, with an expedition in 1899 but he got back from the spanish american war and then ran for governor of new york. g but what he did was receive the volume of the report which was josh and johnto and others who wrote these reports on what were our heirlooms, what need to be saved, two and today that are just

roosevelt died in 1945. if you travel to hyde park and take the tour, the historians will say president roosevelt never thought television was going to take off. he thought the radio was always going to be king. i mention that because of the importance radio played for fdr in particular, but also its importance in the 1930's and 1940's in the u.s. prof. byrnes: one of the things about fdr -- i think that is natural. he was widely acknowledged as the first master of radio in politics. he is the one who really understood its true potential. everyone knew it was there. herbert hoover in 1929 was talking about its potential, but he wasn't able to exploit that. fdr was and fdr understood the power of radio better than anyone else in his time. what is interesting about what i am looking at and researching is that by 1939, roosevelt also understood that he could not do it by himself. we think of politics and radio in the 1930's and we think fdr and fireside chats. in this debate, roosevelt knew he could not be on t

army aviator lieutenant clinton roosevelt, the youngest son of theodore roosevelt was shot down and killed about 80 miles northeast of paris. to mark the centennial, american history tv visited the village. standing in a monument and tribute to quentin roosevelt. of the first pursuit group of world war i. be on the fountain into the wooded area a short distance on , he was shot down. quentin is the youngest child of theodore roosevelt. quentin and his brother's served during world war i. quentin chose the air service like a lot of young men. and flying in the air service was an honor and tribute for young men who were daring. plane not long before his was shot down and he was killed. they were charged with following and tracking down german planes in the area. battle had been raging since the end of may. it was a heroic effort to help stop the germans from crossing them are. quentin had gone airborne and sadly the germans would get retribution against him. kinds whetherome or not the germans buried him with full military honors. we know it temporary grave was placed around the site, which

the entire roosevelt area. researchers were consistently one of the biggest of the presidential library. these authors reflect the wide variety of research being on these grounds. we are fortunate enough today c-span with us and our session is being recorded so if you'd like to ask a question later in the session, please use the microphone to the left so our viewers watching at home will have the benefit of hearing your questions. if you love the roosevelt reading festival and want to support this and other programs, i encourage you to become a roosevelt library member at the membership in the hall and if you haven't had a chance, go next door to see our new special museum exhibition, the art of war, america postwar. >> with that said, let me review the format for the festival. at the top of each hour, each session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a 10 minute question and answer period. at the conclusion, the authors will move to the tables in the lobby next to the new deal store where you can pu

roosevelt era. the library research room is king thely one of the busiest of all of the presidential libraries. and this year's group of author as reflexed wide variety of research done here on these grounds. we are fortunate enough today to have krrk span with us. and our session is being recorded. so if you would like to ask a question later in the session, please use the microphone over here to the left -- so our viewers watching at home will have the benefit of hearing your question as well. if you love the roosevelt reading festival and to support this and programs here i encourage you to become a roosevelt library member and join here at the membership table in the hall and if you haven't had a chance yet go next door to visit our musician exhibition the art of war, america poster art 1941 to 1945. with that said, let me quickly review format for the festivals concurrent session. at the top of each hour, each session agains with a 30-minute author talk. followed by a ten minute question and an

, we encourage you to become a roosevelt library member. you can join at the membership table in the hallway, and if you haven't had a chance yet please go next door to see our museum exhibition art of war american post or art 1941 to 1945. with that said, let me quickly review the format for this festival's concurrent sessions at the top of each hour, each session begins with a 30 minute author talk. followed by a ten minute question and answer period, and then at the conclusion of the q and a, authors will move to the tables and lobby next to the new deal store where you can purchase your books and have the authors find them. at the top of the hour, the process will repeat itself. it is now my pleasure to introduce karissa greet. karissa is an assistant professor of history at spelman college where she teaches courses in united states and african-american history. she also just shared with me that she has recently accepted a position at chapman university in orange california. her research focuses on intersection of grace, gender, social

talk about how roosevelt used radio. prof. byrnes: he knew from the beginning of the war in europe that the american people were not interested in engaging in this war. i involvement had been a mistake. that it should not be repeated. i think fdr, in many ways shared that opinion. what happened over time, especially after dunkirk, he became increasingly certain that anrican security required ally. the question was, how do we play a role in that? most americans agree to that. they wanted the british to win. also did not want the americans to fight. victoryecure the allied and preserve our security as a nation? the debate is about. how to serve the national interest in a broad sense? how do we maintain our independence as a nation? fdr's don't drop this entire period is trying to convince the american people to do more to aid the british. outould not get too far ahead of the public. position of be in a looking back and seeing that no one was following him. what he wanted the public to do was come to their own conclusion. he did

how influenced was roosevelt by wilson? >> franklin roosevelt turned out to be a committed internationalist as opposed to a nationalist. lacrosse those days, what nationalist meant was what we would call realism in foreign policy. you put your interests first because nobody else is going to. roosevelt believed in the big vision that there should be international cooperation. president, the treaty is defeated three times, he thought he had a couple of aces in the whole. one was his oratorical power. he was in bad shape. there are beautiful lines in his speeches, but they are not persuasive. the other thing he thought was, he knew the senate had never refused to ratify a peace treaty. he just thought, ok, they are going to debate and i'm going to stand firm. when you win after you stand firm, everybody admires you. but when you lose. the united states is a terrible place to be a loser. [laughter] just very sad, but his greatest vision, his greatest debacle, certainly captures it. >> the oratorical point is important to him. a

roosevelt's like, you are my guy now. he was the most dangerous man in america, but he also has a lot of talent. and then in 1935, at the end of macarthur's tenure, finally, the money comes through. they give him anything he wants to build the army and the officers. be bold, press on. he pretty much angers everybody in washington. and then, we learn about the bonus march. 1932, all world war i veterans marched on washington. macarthur would never admit they were veterans. they were all communist. no veteran of the united states whatever do that. you know? that is how disconnected he is. and runwhen they go in of the camps, and macarthur ignores orders not to cross the bridge, he believes he is going in to stop a revolution. stay away from the press. and there is macarthur, get out of my way. they are all communist. there goes his total reputation, and that's why he leaves in 1935 to go to the philippines to build their defense force. he does not ever plan to come back to the united states. that's why everything he owns is

macarthur thinks even though he can't stand roosevelt, he thinks he's a genius and roosevelt is the only person that can make macarthur stand up and salute, he's the guy who can push his buttons all the time. then this guy comes in behind him, failed has beberdasher, can of artillery. he sees him as a flunky. macarthur is in japan, first week after the war over, truman is like, you need to come home, we'll give you a parade. macarthur, "i'm too busy." so it's a bad start. mr. brass hat five star prima donna, that's what he calls him. they meet in wake island, everything is very amiable, because the war is going very well. but as soon as everything goes south, that's when it's over. >> great. i didn't know if their orbits collided in world war i at all. >> is that it? thanks, y'all. >>> on c-span, this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern, in prime time, tuesday, t"the weekly standard" hosts a conversation on the millenial generation. >> what's happening is really bad, at campuses, high schools, not reading certain books because people might get triggered by all that. that's a fight worth fighting.

you know, roosevelt is just, you are my guy now. he will call him the most dangerous man in america, but he also realizes this guy has got a lot of talent. and then as comes in '35 finally the money comes through, they give him everything they want to build that national defense act 165,000 man army and the 12,000 officers. this comes through because macarthur just kept pressing, you know, be bold. press on. and pretty much angers everybody in washington, you know, and then as we learned about the bonus march. 1932 all the world war i veterans marched on washington. macarthur would never admit they were veterans. they were all communists. no veteran of the united states would do that. that's how disconnected he is at this time. and so when they go in and they run out the camps and macarthur ignores orders not to cross the bridge, he believes he's going in to stop a revolution. there's eisenhower that night, stay away from the press, don't talk to them, and there's macarthur, get out of my way. they are all communists. you know, ther

you to become a roosevelt library and member. you can join today at the membership table in the hall, and if you haven't had a chance yet, please go next-door to see our special exhibition, the art of war, america poster art 1941-1945. with that said let me quickly review the format for the festivals current car festivals. at the top of each other each session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a ten minute question-and-answer time. at the conclusion of the q&a the authors allude to the table in the lobby next to the new deal store where you can purchase your books and had the authors signed in. after lunch the process will repeat itself at the top of the hour beginning at 1:00. it is now my pleasure to introduce sandra opdycke. [applause] >> sandra opdycke graduated from vassar in 1957 after raising three daughters she worked in mental health. in her 50s she earned a phd in u.s. history at columbia university. over the next decade she taught american history and urban history at bard, fast and mayors colleges. she w

and roosevelt said, i'm the president. and the next year he looks to macarthur because when he -- the government cannot handle it. macarthur creates an army plan where they go to for quarter armies that will serve a different coast. and macarthur uses his plan to mobilize -- does it overnight. he brings them in, gets them into the camps, roosevelt decides you're my guy now. you're probably the most dangerous man in america, but he realizes this guy has a lot of talent. and then finally the money comes through. they give them anything they want to feel that national to vents -- national defense. macarthur kept pressing. and he angers everyone in washington. and then as we learned about -- 1932 all war veterans marched on washington. he would never admit they were veterans. they were communist. no veteran of the u.s. would do that. that is how disconnected he is. and so when they go in and macarthur goes in and believes he's going to stop a revolution. a says stayaway from the press. and there goes his total reputation right

as well as teddy roosevelt, macarthur serves as his aide, teddy roosevelt is the most famous person in the turn of the century. secretary of the navy, a guy who had gone out west, panama canal, the great white fleet, speak softly carry a big stick and teddy roosevelt is a guy who thinks war is a good thing. that's the way you prove yourself as a man. and these are all the influences that are acting on macarthur before he goes into world war i. he pretty much sees war as an adventure, a way to prove himself to his peers. now, his peers are not his college classmates at west point, her his father, they are funston, there's wood, you know, these guys that he thinks that he is part of, of this ancient class of warriors. now, world war i macarthur will be the chief of staff of the rainbow division. he will also be a brigade commander for the rainbow division. like all of these other gentlemen we are working on he wants to see combat service and he will see a great deal of it. he is a trained officer. he had been an engineer, he had had command of troops from 1908 to '09, engineer company ou

roosevelt has done his renovation. and he came along, he had to repair the roof at a cost of i believe half a million dollars, he used cement so now you have not, you have a weird i don't know what, holding up the second floor. and now there's cement on top of it. so it's basically just squashing the white house into the ground. my grandfather was not, was not a huge fan of president coolidge. i kind of liked him just for being the straightforward penny-pinching vermonter that he was. grandpa didn't like that aspect of him. he once told a story that a friend of president coolidge's collected cigar bands and the friend went to mrs. coolidge and said, do you think the president would give me a cigar band for my collection? and she said sure, go ask him. he asked the president and the preds took out his cigar box, took out the cigar off it and took the band off it and gave him the band. he wasn't going to give him the cigar, he just gave him the band. anyway, part of what the restoration, the roof restoration created what

roosevelt. she wrote about him in her column. my day in 1938. it led to his getting a job with the national park service which eventually led to the white house. he was a national park service photographer working at the white house during its restoration. he took hundreds of good studies. this was just some of it. this shows you a crack in the wall upstairs, they started to pull away the wallpaper the shows you the condition that things were behind the walls. and this one you know, the second floor studied that my grandfather used as his study, mister fields brought him lunch one day upstairs in his study and as he came across the floor, both of them could feel it was moving. the floor was moving under his feet. it was very-very unstable. here is child mccanns butler. what was inside a wall, holding up the second floor. underneath it. in here, that is the broken floor beam in the family dining room, the piano punched through the floor and lowered the ceiling about an inch and a half. it broke the ceiling of the family dining room. my grandfathe

this is just one example of teddy roosevelt books, there have been many. this one is special because i visit with teddy roosevelt before. before he was in my office. his ancestor -- he, like his ancestor, president roosevelt is interested and involved in the environment. i met him and knew about teddy roosevelt and the passion he had for the environment, interesting to see how that passed down from generation to generation and it was a pleasure to meet with teddy roosevelt before. >> you are third a book about charity. >> i think this book came out in 2004. i was a homicide detective in the early 80s and became a lead detective and the korean river serial motor case and over a 19 year span, i am going to call him the devil of a human being, a monster of a human being took the lives of 60 to 70 people. he pled guilty when they finally caught him, through dna, he pled guilty to 49 murders. we closed 59 cases and they were a couple cases and we didn't have all the evidence, we knew he committed those two. this book describes in the beginning a little bit of m

not truman yet, roosevelt. roosevelt is a navy file. and he loves the marine corps. his son enlisted in the marine corps, and he was assistant secretary of the navy in world war i. and he basically was the marine corps commandant. that was his job. when truman took over the presidency, you know, this is like a navy and we're going to get rid of those guys. so here's mcarthur's comments in 1932 that were different. so think about summer '44, that's when the relief happens right in the middle of this. so the crisis increases. after the war, the marine corps commandant has a statement to the committee. they follow up and say wait a minute, this is taking the marine corps way. we will no longer have a marine corps. this is after iwo jima, all the pacific battles. but truman basically calls all the service chiefs in, except for the marine corps as part of the navy, and he reorganized the marshall plan. he said, this is what we're going to do. we're going to continue with the march with this and the marine corps will be gone. and eisenhower again says, marines should be fu

this one is special because i happen to visit with teddy roosevelt the fourth.he was in my office and autographed this book of his ancestors so he, like his ancestors, president roosevelt, he is very interested and involved in the environment. it is also, as you meet, as i met him and knew about teddy roosevelt, and the passion he had for the environment it's real interesting to see how it is passed down from generation to generation. it was a pleasure to meet with teddy roosevelt the fourth. >> you have authored a book. and proceeds go to charity. >> yes. i think this book came out 2004. i was a homicide detective in the early 80s and became a lead detective on a case called the green river serial murder case. over a 19 year span, i'm going to call him, the devil of a human being. a monster of a human being. took the lives of some of between 60 and 70 people. he pled guilty when we finally caught him through dna and microscopic paint evidence. he pled guilty to 49 murders. we close 51 cases. there were a couple of cases we did not have all the evidence we neede

truman, i'm going to talk about teddy roosevelt first. teddy roosevelt did not know like the marine corps. he was determined to get rid of them. he said the navy folks can do this just as well as the marine, and they can do it without being as irritating. [ captioners transitioning ] put up naval weapons and -- but you can do it. locally, we took command of it and he went down there and succeeded in the exercises. -- [inaudible] . the marines, luckily, they know to get approved. a lot of other reporters, the reason, the one thing that we can do, -- [inaudible] clear past [inaudible] be careful what you ask for. he is part of the army for days. i appreciate the reinforcements and so they remained and you start to see what is going to happen when the marine corps is part [inaudible] unfortunately, they encouraged the marines and the command. one thing that he doesn't want, [inaudible] why? [inaudible]. he will get all of the credit anyway. go do your thing and i will do my thing. we can't get up and take the presidential declaration like pr

sean burroughjohn breaux who wat known nature writer at the time and mentor to the roosevelt, he wason the trip and wrote the official account. you've got john, george cornell who is by the time the editor of the most popular after magazine in america. the real impact as they come back and start writing these reports. no matter even if it was a hard-core expedition, he wants it to be remembered as a major scientific outing so he finds these beautifully printed books and before the folks go to press, he starts getting copies to teddy roosevelt who at the time is the sort of board new vice president in washington, d.c. who all he dreams about is getting up in the catskills and going up to hike and such. roosevelt is plannin planning ie back of his nine-day trip to alaska to see these areas with the glaciers and the such that his buddy is writing about and then let me behold love and beht mckinley was assassinated. theodore roosevelt sensed the presidency and he is the new antiquities act able to start setting aside essentially every area that he'd read about in the reports from his pal

>> well, what happened was, puck liked roosevelt at the beginning, and then decided roosevelt was too big for his bridges and he endorsed. so this cartoon is published the week after roosevelt won reelection in 1904, and this is shaking hands and making up cartoons. >> we're going to come back to that in a moment. hunting ground, how he made a game of the politicians. this is 1885, and this is right after the election of 1884, and this is puck's idea of bragging. in the election of 1884, puck had supported the democrat, cleveland, and opposed the republican blame in the big- time opposition. you can see puck is standing and hold ago carcass. the head of the carcass is james blaine, who ran against cleveland. you see the dog on the left. the collar satire. what puck is trying to say, satire -- the republican party. this is the first time in many, many years that the democrats won an election. so puck was justifiably proud of himself. >> was joseph kepler viewed as revolutionary? >> in the united states, yes. however, there were quite a few european magazines that had similar kinds of a

roosevelt did not live long enough to see the panel completed. but i can tell you that this desk has been used by nearly every president since rutherford b hayes, it was first placed in the oval office by president. kennedy. after president. kennedy's death, it left on exhibition and was returned to the white house in 1977 for president. carter. and here you see it today in president trumps oval office. as we learned at lunch time, during the latter part of the 19th century there were various pieces of china purchased from british companies for the white house. they weren't full services but i wanted to show you briefly a selection of some of those pieces. the slide on the left shows you some dinner plates that were acquired during the cleveland administration. on the right are some examples from the mckinley administration. dinner plates made by wedgwood, mitton and the smaller t plate also made by minton. in 1903, a service was purchased for the white house made by wedgwood. by 1901 during the presidency of theater roosevelt it was pretty obvio

his cofounder was theodore roosevelt who later went on to some success in politics and together theystarted to set aside large tracts of land to preserve animals that could be shot for sport it was a mixed bag they did not see eye to eye at the beginning of the trip. >> but how those two things come together to create the environmental movement we know today. is that reflected in the alaska that you visited with that contradiction and marriage of using the land and conserving the land? >> yes. they say the first day you get to alaska you buy a pickup truck and a fishing pole. even history professors were telling me this in anchorage this small part of alaska the less than 1% that is kind of urban. they are constantly in the outdoors especially in the summer the three months you can actually get outside to enjoy the extremely long days. but at the same time conservation is a taboo subject. it is a very deeply red state and they are very suspicious of government intervention they worry about federal overreach which is a popular term there. and it's a weird set of framework they love th

president roosevelt hoped it could be made by a u.s. company. an article in the october 30, 1902 issue of the clay records suggested that an order was actually turned down by a pottery company in east liverpool, ohio. the large order, the different shapes that were needed were needed with just too much for the small plants. edith roosevelt very much wanted a design that was simple and not ornate.what was chosen with this, made by wedgwood. a cream white color porcelain and decorated in gold. it was an adaptation of one of the wedgwood patterns. it is described by the press as a simple colonial pattern. what made it unique the white house was the addition of the hand-painted great seal of the united states. thought you would enjoy seeing some other forms from this service. there is an oyster plate on the left, a dummy task cup and saucer at center. on right, is a teacup and saucer. there were 120 place settings made, a pieces per play setting. in 1946, there was a gift made to the white house. it was a gift of the dealer and appears to have come

roosevelt to. he was theodore roosevelt's youngest son who was shot down in july of 1918. guillaume: july the 14th. you can do many more silent world war i army signal war films online. the national archives has restored several hundred of these films, and posted them to the youtube channel. announcer: on september 12, 1918, under the command of general john j pershing, that u.s. army launched the first independent offense of of world war i. author "reel america" and historian mitchell yockelson and french world war battlefield provideillaume molzan commentary for a 1918 silent film. the st. mihiel drive. town is about 175 miles east of paris. it is september 1918. the americans are about to undertake the first independent the enemies there because that was formed in september of 1914. is that correct? guillaume: that is correct. the germans had a big offensive and surrounded the town. mitchell: there is pershing at his headquarters. in leave meave been -- leenee. this was a surprise attack against the germans who were vacating the area. guillaume: we see a bulge around th

the admirals went to teddy roosevelt. they agreed with him. he said all the navy stuff, it does not include the marine corps in his vision. just before he left, he had a presidential declaration that they were going to bring marines off of the battleships. then he exited stage left and left it for taft to figure out. some admirals support the marines, some don't. it is one of the many times that one service or the other tries to eradicate the marines. we are paranoid, but we have reasons to be paranoid. this almost happened. there might not have been a marine corps to go to war. they would have been guarding our navy ports, yards, basically being cops. it was defeated because the american public rose up and one of the marine's fathers was a -- the head of a committee and basically brought it to america's attention. they said we want our marines. a lot of it was based on china and guantanamo bay. you can start to see people getting irritated with these marines. the army especially. so they survive. ,then comes 1914 in veracruz. the marines have

so we'll talk about truman and teddy roosevelt. teddy roosevelt did not like the marine corps. and he was determined to get rid of him. he said, navy folks can do this just as well asthma reens, and they can be a lot less irritating. and we can do landing parties of sailors and replace those marines and increase our own strength in our funding. guess what? we'll get all the marine corps do. so the admiral went to teddy roosevelt and remember all the navy stuff that doesn't include the marine corps in his vision. so just before he left, the break between him and taft, just before he left, he had a presidential declaration to bring marines off the battleship and he exited stage left. left it for taft to figure out. there was a huge controversy. some admirals support the marines, some don't. but it is one of the many times that one service or the other tries to eradicate marines. and believe me, we are paranoid when we have reason to be paranoid. so it's almost half -- there may not have been a marine corps to go if they pulled the marines off. based on guarding the navy, the navy

his cofounder was theater roosevelt who later went on to some success and politics, and together theystarted setting aside large tracts of land to preserve essentially animals that could be shot for sport. it was a mixed bag but certainly john europe and herrmann did not see eye to eye at the beginning of the trip. >> host: mark, you write about how those two things come together though. there's cautious but they also come together to create the environment of movement that we all know today. did you see that reflected in the alaska you visited for your book, the same contradiction and also marriage of loving the light and also using the land, hunting, taking advantage of it? >> guest: yes. have you when you meet in alaska, and you know this because you lived there, they say the first day you get to alaska you buy a pickup truck and a fishing pole essentially. even like tenured history professors were telling me this in downtown anchorage, which is a small part of alaska, less than 1% that is kind of urban. alaskans love the outdoors. they are constantly outdoors, especially in the su

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