frank when roosevelt did. my book, the president and the pastime, the history of baseball the white house is the first to explore this only american twinning. after all, a father, we speak on the table for father's day, 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 bust. aunt mod, you remember her, long ago she forgot her favorite nephew's birthday but not the forever magic place of 1967. in 1950, that great folk philosopher to be, yogi berra was honored by his hometown of st. louis. i'd like to thank all the people who made the state necessary he said, well most presidents have found baseball to be necessary, none more so than frank and roosevelt. as we will see, baseball never found the president to be more necessary than fdr. for the next few moments, i'd like to recall the indispensable role of the indispensable man and saving these two institutions, the presidency and baseball. he was forged in childhood and a far different world right he

eleanor roosevelt was there before leaving on a trip to the pacific and hyde park was full of roosevelty, friends, white house staff, including harry hopkins, and ambassador averill harriman who nurture children will. fdr at pictures hung up in the main hall of springwood that he hoped would remind prime minister how far they've come together that maybe this would soften the discussion and also he hung the one painting the churchill made during the war. i don't know -- [inaudible] >> the next day august 13 roosevelt took the churchill's to homeowners idyllic college, val-kill for swimming and a picnic. fdr drove the churchill's up in his blue ford convertible. churchill war a tropical suit but a suit nonetheless a day when temperatures were going go up in the '90s. after lunch fdr churchill it off under a tree to talk alone and each man needed something from of other at this point in this time they needed it in writing. fdr wanted churchill to go first. fdr expressed firm commitments to confirming overlord as as a principal allied strategy for europe, with the u.s. provide most of the.

in fact, looking back at how roosevelt he hated, roosevelt sometimes thought the u.s. might be able to win the war without ever having to declare war. he was hoping that land lease in military aid might be enough to defeat hitler. but of course that wasn't the case. thank you for coming. i appreciate having an audience here. [applause] after we are done, they been on the front of the stage as a packet of post tears from after pearl harbor where horton could be so much more explicit. i think some of them you'll be seeing in the exhibit. they were so many posters from world war ii. nobody has a perfect collection. but i think you'll be seeing some of those next hour. [inaudible] syracuse university, your alma mater in pittsburgh university. my wife suzanne and myself are teaching a course having to deal with anti-communist than in hollywood and naming names. i'm wondering if court got involved in the communist party and communist propaganda during this period because there's a lot of anti-communist that dvd with other agencies and congress are very much against the commu

and they take him to roosevelt, roosevelt hospital -- the roosevelts were great philanthropists. and he's there for a good six weeks, and he is on death's door. there are rumors which spraild spraild -- which spread around the country that he has died. it's the effects of the jungle fever. and they also operate -- he says why don't you operate on my ears, there's something wrong with my ears. operate on them. and they clear out abscesses in the ears. and when they're clearing out the abscesses in one ear canal, they ruin it. they absolutely wreck it. and t.r., who had been blind in one eye from a boxing match in the white house, is now deaf in one ear. and in wrecking the hearing in that ear, they have also wrecked the equilibrium where he has to learn -- he comes out of the hospital, and he has to learn how to walk again. gentlemen of the jury, exhibit a. the standard t.r. pose when speaking palm out and slamming it repeatedly with his fist. that's him september 30, 1918, in columbus, ohio. and notice he's grabbing on to the podium with one hand and that stanchion holding up a l

there is also color footage of eleanor roosevelt on a boat knitting with some of her friends. but most of it is black and white. >> how and when did the fdr library come to acquire the collection? paul: the collection was donated about a year ago in august of 2017, and it has taken us a while to go through it and have it transferred. some of the old film stock is fairly fragile, and has to be treated in a special laboratory that the national archives works with in maryland, the color lab, so they have to go through the process of getting it ready for transfer, and we transferred it in both what they call 4k video files and high-definition video files so that the footage will be available to researchers and filmmakers in the future. >> is the collection previously unknown? paul: well, the entirety of the collection was unknown. some of the footage has not been seen before. some of it has been rarely seen. some film archivists who worked for ken burns, for example, may have seen it, but some of it has never been seen. >> these are all pre-world war ii films? paul: yes, from the

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. because 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 , we think fireside chats. in this debate, roosevelt knew he c

james roosevelt, f.d.r.'s father, bought this property in 1867, it was a 17-room farm house, about 110 acres of land, with outbuildings, for which he paid $146,000, which today is the price of a nice car but then it was a large amount of money. the house was enlarged by f.d.r. in 1915 because he had a growing family and he had decided as early as 1907, 25 years before he achieved it, he would become the president of the united states one day he wanted a grander home for a future president. once f.d.r. became active in politics, quite often events one held here like when he announced his intention to run for vice president of the united states. it was that big announcement was held right here. quite often he would bring, once he was president, visiting foreign dignitaries to this house, especially during the war year he felt it was a place where they could get away from the pressure the wartime in europe. so he loved doing that. he was very proud of this house once he had enlarged it in 1915 and many times his

tweed roosevelt is that great-grandson of our 26 president theodore roosevelt, and the ceo of the theodoreoosevelt association, which he's been associated with for a quarter of a century. clifton truman daniel is the grandson of our 33rd president, harry truman, and the honorary chairman of the truman library institute. linda johnson robb is the first child of our 36th president, lyndon johnson. she lived in the white house during the last two years of her father's tenure in office from 1966 to 1969. and for over two decades, has served as a trustee of the lbj foundation. and susan ford bails is the fourth child and only daughter of our 38th president, gerald ford. she lived in the white house during the bulk of her father's 1977,ency, from 1974 to and since 1981, has served as a trustee of the gerald ford presidential foundation. moderating our panel is david rubenstein, the co-founder and co-executive chairman of the carlyle group and our country's leading patriotic philanthropist. generously contributing to the preservation of our nation's history and culture. he is also the host of blo

i think little is paid attention to of roosevelt's denunciations of the utilities industry. i think it was thought this was a campaign rhetoric and campaign rhetoric was simply that. but, in fact, the first major issuance of the hundred days was the creation of the tennessee valley authority which would operate in the delta, the mississippi delta where commonwealth and southern existed and had rather efficiently provided cheap or reasonable electricity to tennessee, to georgia, to florida, to north carolina. and there really the story begins because when willkie was informed that tennessee valley would not observe any jurisdictional limitations, became the leader of the option to -- that industry's opposition to tva. what's interesting about the story is that from 1933-1939 there would be this tumultuous adversarial relationship between willkie and roosevelt around the issue of the rights of commonwealth and southern to exist. which a combat which was totally, totally unnecessary. when tva was assembled and the three directors -- morgan, edward morgan and another morgan and

ford .onvened at a conference next, we interviewed tweed roosevelt, the great-grandson of theodore roosevelt. this is about 20 minutes. >> we are speaking at the presidential site summit. what is your connection to theodore roosevelt? >> he was my great great grandfather. he had a son named archie. archie had a son and his son had me. >> your entire life, have you been connected with your famous ancestor? it something that you have always have -- always have a special connection? >> people have this idea that our family spent all our time sitting around tables talking about theater. actually -- about theodore. actually, we never talked about theodore. we talked about what everybody else talks about. i did not become aware of it until i was older and then it was mostly negative at first. , people seems much more interested in my connection to the famous person than they were in me. that gets old. >> sure. >> it wasn't until later, several things. juan, it became clear to me that i was no tr and i shouldn't worry about it. there's only one tr and i am not one of them. it wasn't until college t

one is abraham lincoln, one is teddy roosevelt, one is franklin roosevelt and the other is lyndon johnson i want to ask you first, why did you decide to write a book about four different anymore you have already written books about them. why not pick somebody new. >> guest: what happens is each time i'd finish writing one of the becomes, and i have to take all of that person's books otherwise of my study to make room for the next guy. felt like i was pea traying the person who was there before and it's like having an old boyfriend and moving to a new boyfriend. so, i figured what if i could keep my guys together this time instead of doing that? i knew i'd have to do it by having a chance to look at them anew in a new way, and i've always been interested in leadership. once upon a time when i was graduate student we would stay up late at night discussing questions but leadership. you're adding plato and aristotle and thinking whether where does ambition come from and does the man make the time order the times make the man,ings leadership traits been or made. and we also talk but boys and g

or a good athlete what was it like growing up with teddy roosevelt? be mickey's effort from life-threatening asthma as a child which means he can participate but he developed is mine and reading books and every spare moment but all he had to do is to pull the book off of the shelf and then if he wanted a book it would magically appear. he read 15 novels that summer onhi vacation and his father was like his tutor and eventually that became a huge part that books were the greatest can be a leader and he know about human nature and the best way is through books. but for him he gave an alternative. it is very timid. he begins to imagine this courageous guy at a certain point that the mind cannot go as far as it should but for the little kids all the strenuous exercises and a very strong person by the time he gets past her for it presidency making is well-respected. >> he really wants to be in our anthology is on -- ornithologist but he keeps bringing dead birds into his room he doesn't to make friends with anybody not on the social register. those were th

theodore roosevelt, lost his wife and mother the same day, retreated to the badlands. that may him grow being out in the country. fdr had years of polio, took years of him driving for to be able to walk or in his wheelchair. lbj in different way suffered a senate loss should not compared to the terrible reversals, like a repudiation of himself. he finally got back to having a later heart attack. that brought him back to the person he had been before. he had looked for wealth and power. >> host: that was in 1955 he had his heart attack? >> guest: correct. he lost the first race in '41. trying to win the second race he became more conservative, eschewed wealth and power. when he had the heart attack in' 55. what is power for, what will i be remembered for? it repurposed his life why he got into government in the first place. that led to the great achievements in civil rights. >> host: doris kearns goodwin, would you consider all four presidents to be political animals? >> guest: without question. politics became every fiber of their being. being out of politics would be

roosevelt is therefore a duck hunting trip. when everyone finds out, they split up into search parties. he is one of the people who goes out. it is roosevelt who finds the boy the next morning. he finds him on this island. he brings the boy back. that is one of the legends here about roosevelt visiting. while the war was raging in europe, american officials realized that we needed a well-trained force. when we would enter into the battle. they realized louisiana's terrain gave the soldiers many opportunities to train. more than 400,000 soldiers came into the area to engage in these elaborate wargames. the biggest names in the war, the people who would make the most significant contributions including dwight eisenhower were stationed here. even very famously the person who many people tell legends about, general patton. the troops were divided into two forces. a red army and a blue army. they were divided by states. one army was arkansas, louisiana, texas, alabama, mississippi. they went to war against the red army. planes dropp

roosevelt one of the greatest women represented better angels in every sphere of life. so whenever i visit domestic trouble which is often i will say at least fdr did not tell mrs. roosevelt that winston churchill thank you for coming to stay in the white house for a weekend stay for christmas until christmas eve afternoon. it is amazing she did not just kill him. also fdr drank odd martinis that were three quarters removed and one quarter gin it is amazing that we want. [laughter] churchill hated them he would pour them out and kill the plant during one summit. and if he would pour out a drink it was bad. he wasn't perfect because what is the greatest american moment? people say world war ii. absolutely right but remember the soul and the clan so here we are protecting power to defeat tyranny around the world and what is the reality at home? a segregated america? military? franklin roosevelt signing an executive order 9066 to join the japanese-american simply because he thought they may be a security threat. but pushing on. that last example is joe mccarthy. i don't kn

and the roosevelt book has a lot of world war i and i was fascinated by world war i. i thought about i would write about him as commander-in-chief then i realize he delegated most of the responsibilities. there wasn't enough for a book but a paragraph. wilson as commander-in-chief. [laughter] so many started to think about his record in office as highly successful, then the terrible last years. it is a mixed legacy so i was a student of character and wanted to know why that happened. >> the last years there have been other books that have come out of well acclaimed biographies of wilson. how do you think of your book in context? >> they are quite different you can tell when you write biography active real graffiti of major figures. cooper's is a political historian and a very, very good biographer as well and he concentrates more on the politics and he tries to cover a lot more ground. i chose my focused of moralists to concentrate on the events that i could tie to the notion of him as a person equally principal. but scott's book is a little bit like mine he does have

roosevelt's man in the arena seems tailored to john.lt speaks of those who strive and dare to do great things. sometimes they win and sometimes they come up short. but always relish the good fight. a contrast to those cold timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. isn't that the spirit we celebrate this week? that striving to be better. to do better. to be worthy of the great inheritance that our founders bestowed. so much of our politics and our public life, public discourse, can seem small and mean and petty. trafficking in bonn bustard and and petty. trafficking in bonn busta rd and insult. and petty. trafficking in bonn bustard and insult. —— bombast. phoney controversies and manufactured outrage, politics that pretends to be brave and tough when in fact it is born of fear. john called on us to be bigger than that. he called on us to be better than that. today is only one day in all the days that will ever be but what will happen in all the other days that will ever come can depend on what you do today. what better way to hon

goodwin, the book focuses on president lincoln, teddy roosevelt, fdr and lyndon johnson. why did you pick those books? >> that's why felt closest to. each one of those four lived inr a very turbulent time in a time of crisis which often makes the leadership more necessary and more possible. when i chose the title, "leadership in turbulent times" come i didn't think it to do as well as it does today. [inaudible] sometimes we think we're looking at the work of time and yet if we look back at what abe lincoln when he went into office comest boulware was 600,000 people were going to i die on the horizon, f you'd ever known how difficult it would be to get through the first t month he would've thougt he could live through it. he comes into the industrial revolution, when it would break out. after your of course at the height of the depression nlg albie june assassination of jfk. [inaudible] i wanted people to remember that we've done it before we could do it again. >> cabal discovered personal personal political [inaudible] >> it argues it's one of the most important qualities

. >> let's talk about teddy roosevelt.he has an experience like that no one wants to go through on one day that put him into a depression. >> he's in the state legislature and his wife alice, who he dearly loved. he fell in love with her at harvard. she was a beautiful young woman was having their first child. he got a telegram saying alice's child was born. they were all celebrating the and our leader he gets another telegram saying you must come home immediately. your mother is dying and alice is dying too. the mother had come to take care of alice. shewas only 49 years old and she got typhoid fever . goes back home immediately, his brother meet him at the door and says the curse on this house. he goes inside, his mother is dying. shedies at 3:00 a.m. . 12 hours later, alice died in childbirth. they said he walked around in a dazed, stunned state. he previously had gotten a ranch that he might go now and then and he went for two years and became essentially a cowboy. he said as long as he could ride his horse 15 hours a

is if you know what you want to ask her your book to roosevelt fdrit and the back of those and the most petty and he lived in a very prevalent time when i said the title i didn't expect it to do as well.se i h butop will be history can get te reassurance that reassure that ret you look back like the watee for the people going to die on then out verizon or to know howr difficult would be get through those first month but he hit it and also the industrial revolution but fdr thought thought that profitability -- lbj with the assassination but all thattimes. with civil-rightr for the war in vietnam. some people to see we've done before we can do it t again. >>host: first political fee prior to this? to argue it is one of the most important of these in each one of my guys id not call them my guy butesp. have lived with him for so long like a possession of the right. but to play yard will be able t not to be compared to these like reversals until later got backpn to have the heart h attack and then he looks so powerless but had a heart attack that work or will that work for the report is we h

roosevelt carried all but six states.gress.t, and then, of course, in some ways, what put the seal on hoover's reputation as a failed president was the next three months. -- uber-roosevelt hoover-roosevelt situation was so that the constitution had to be amended. that it was too long for roosevelt to be sworn in. the two men had virtually no communication. i think it is safe to say that hoover believed fdr was the liberally avoiding having any responsibility in the hopes that if things did go to hell, he would then receive the credit, and in many ways that is exactly what happened. the irony is, the banks were crashing -- the roof was falling in. hoover could have closed the banks. someone say it was stubbornness or principle, i would say it was a lack of finesse. fdr had tosted that agree with him, it had to be a joint undertaking. there is a difference. fdr, who is not only a born politician but a natural pragmatist -- remember is fdr that says, try something, if it above allrk, ok, but try something. felt that nothing

this is just one example of the teddy roosevelt books i i have read. there has been many. this one is special because i happen to visit with teddy roosevelt the fourth in my office and he autographed this book of his ancestor for me. he, like his ancestor, process roosevelt is very interested and involved his in environment. and as i've met you and the passion he had for the environment is interesting to see how that is passed down from generation to generation and it is interesting to me teddy roosevelt the fourth to make you authored a book and proceeds go where? >> yes. this this came out 2,004. i was a homicide detective in the early '80s and became a detective called the greed -- green river serial murder cases over 19 year span, i will call him the devil of a human being, a monster and the live between 60 and 70 people people. he pled guilty going through dna microscopic paint the pled guilty to 49 murders we closed 51 cases 51 cases a couple of cases we didn't have all of the evidence we needed to charge him but we knew he had committed those also so we closed 51 ca

and teddy roosevelt. they knew about his -- teddy roosevelt did a bioon him and said, in times of trouble, what i am looking for leadership, i read jackson. starting with lincoln. how die stop the division of our country? how did andrew jackson -- how did -- get his country ready for war? he went to hermitage, crippled, insisted on walking up the steps. wanted to feel jackson. so, he is a great american and i hope you'll read "a great american." >> host: elizabeth in littleton, colorado. go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: hey. i love you, c-span. brian, you talk much about the pirate in your book. >> guest: yes. one of the key moments is -- -- a demoment approach bid the -- they were kind of done a wink and a nod deal. we'll expunge your crimes and we'll pay you. jackson said, i don't deal with bandits and the more he talked to people on the ground, he realized and the pirates were able to fight and use their weaponry and supply the money and knowledge of the area to allow him to put toget

s fifth cousin, theodore roosevelt, and today is known as the roosevelt conference room. >> for yearsold 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 1898, during the mckin

had all thene that teddy roosevelt qualities. he was the favorite.was the one that was going to it was a very brave letter. i would gladly sacrifice all four of my sons in the cause of freedom. it was a most like a propaganda letter. , a couple weeks after his dad in the stable, they found roosevelt with his arms around clinton's favorite .hetland pony crying the way morris told the story, it was not a joke. and he died three months later in morrison's new partially of a broken heart. but very happy to -- ok. they give her much. thank you. >> anybody with an elvis shirts is ok with me. come up on the side. >> 1, 2, 3. >> thank you. thank you. good to see you. they would have thought of something else, i would think. how are you? good to see you. thank you, sir. thank you. hi, how are you? nice to see you, how are you? thank you for having me. >> we are going to take you back in the offices for a little while/ >> what time are we supposed to start? >> ok. good. senator mccain: if you receive urgent plea is, i would be glad to do it. well. sure we sena

and president theodore roosevelt. if you think you have seen john mccain do it all, you may have if you stayed up late on saturday to watch them host saturday night live. what if he forgets to run? [laughter] [applause] all right. the president forgets to run for reelection and the republicans are without a candidate. how does john mccain stepped in to fill that void? guest: i would call the president and remind him to run. have questions about senator mccain's future or past, give us a call. as you describe coming into the united states senate, with tremendous ideals -- i do not ,ean to put words in your mouth there was a mr. smith goes to washington reverence of the place, that was quickly diminished by political bruising and fights. handle on theter u.s. senate. but do you make of it now? office,efore i ran for my last job in the navy was officer of the senate. i got to see jackson and barry , someter and john tower great leaders in action. howard baker. i began to eat appreciate how someone can wield when they are

he said, you cannot make it teddy roosevelt out of me. go back to that 10-year-old boy who did not know he could do something for pleasure without offending god. i always thought there was a direct connection between that and the adult hoover, who in many ways was emotionally stunted. he is a most improbable politician. his story is -- every president is unique in his own way. one of the lessons i think that hoover's story teaches us is beware of successful businessmen because the qualities that drive business success, the ability to work with a board of directors, the knowledge that your directions will be carried out, that's not the same as working with congress. hoover had poor relations with congress, which was nominally republican the first half of his term and then marginally democratic the second half. hoover is one of those very rare presidents -- taft comes to mind, quasi-madison comes to mind. almost too rational, too cerebral, who don't have in their dna whatever the political gene is that enables a lyndon johnson, in the most

the publishers hated roosevelt because they were the guys with money. they were paying the taxes that fdr was imposing. the reporters were benefitting from the taxes. so there was this inherent tension. and fdr understood it, he loved it. and he understood the power of imagery. he was watching a newsreel of himself and said, that was the garbo in me. orson wells came to see him once and he said, orson, we're two of the best actors in america. he understood this. which is why he was elected four times. >> i hear you talking about this and i reflect on how when the country started, for decades, the press was all about opinion. the press was ginning up opinion, it was the driving force of the media -- we didn't call it the media then. then we went through this period of where we tried to be fair, objective, that was -- >> and balanced. >> that was -- that was the time i came into the press -- >> yeah. >> -- and it was what i was told, nobody cares what you think. you're supposed to go out and gather the facts and report them. so we now -- if we're going ba

franklin roosevelt was stolen. it at a reporter who oppose foreign policy during the war two, that roosevelt awarded him an iron cross, a metal you give to nazi soldiers. a of the journalists had that same reaction they were appalled. nixon was not the first to go after the press. i was struck listening to nixon's tapes, how varied his approach to the press was. he bullied journalists, he attacked them, he railed against the press in late-night bull sessions in the oval office. he also flatter journalists. he courted them. he curried favor. his press strategy was far from one-dimensional. his administration also helped advance the most successful calendar to the object to the ideal that had been so powerful. conservative criticism of liberal media bias. conservative activists had been challenging the idea of objectivity for quite some time. in the 1940's and 50's, conservatives were arguing that the media were bias, they were not actually objective and objectivity was a mask a used to disguise liberal bias. that wa

i'm going to put in ronald reagan, harry truman, franklin roosevelt and teddy roosevelt. i will tell youwhat they thought of him . they knew about his battle with indians . [inaudible] they said in times of trouble when i'm looking for leadership, i read jackson. morning with lincoln, how do i stop the division of our country. how did fdr get his country ready for war. he went to the hermitage, crippled and insisted on walking up the steps of the hermitage. you wanted to steal jackson so if he's these are great americans on i hope we all see they were great americans. they saw something great in jackson and that's why bring out in the paperback. >> we go to littleton colorado, comments with brian kilmeade. >> caller: i just want to say i love your book and the brian, do you talk much about the pirates in your book? >> guest: thomas jefferson and the pirates, one of two is actually i talk about the pirates with andrew jackson. there was a key moment where he was as you know with the british, he needed his army to be abandoned but there were good guys and they were like mob

the fit one placed on long island in the roosevelt school district. at the time it was struggling system. however, its elementary grades were pretty much on a par with their surrounding neighbors. it was the middle school and high school that obviously was a big cause of concern. so, a charter school was given permission to do that, and we just thought that we would see this phenomena and you can only measure what happened in year one. we thought we would see a big drain from the elementary students who were enrolled in the roosevelt public school. that did not happen. the charter school got enrollment from the private and parochial schools that had served the students. so, the parents who decide they did not want to send their kids to roosevelt public schools had options for many years. it was private and parochial schools win the community of roosevelt oron, and when the opportunity came to no longer -- to keep your kid out of the roosevelt public school and no longer have to pay, they gravitated to the charter schools, and as i said you can only me

then president roosevelt, winston churchhill, president reagan. and the incumbent understands the vernacular of reality tv and social media. we know that the presidency has not changed the incumbent, right? we don't know whether the incumbent has changed the presidency. i think one thing he has changed is it's hard for me to imagine a successor not having an authentic ongoing social media communication with the country. >> you think that's permanent? >> i do. >> twitter, the whole thing. >> i think that if you start -- if you look at -- i think going forward, if you look at something that comes out from a candidate or an incumbent and it looks as though it went through four layers of people, i think that's going to have an affect. i could be wrong, but we are all the media now. >> so if you're thinking -- i don't want to get -- i was trying to focus on the past but let's bring it -- >> sorry. >> let's bring it up to now. are you saying jon meacham, that in order to be successful in electoral politics in this country, you've got to be able to maste

leah rothstein who was writing about washington correspondents during the roosevelt administration talked about the nature of the relationship and the way in which it's a content over information. the newspaperman motivated by the ancient values of journalism is interested in precisely that type of news, which the official, the president, is least eager to reveal. in the final analysis, press conferences reduced itself to a contest between reporters, skilled at ferreting, and officials adept at straddling. so, the ferreting and the straddling is something that you will always see in the relationship between the white house and the press. writing in the early 20th century in 1902 william price who was one of the first white house correspondents, talked about news and how newspapermen at the white house get their news. there's some ways in which things have not changed. as a matter of fact, the news secured at the white house is nearly always the result of the efforts of the newspapermen themselves. there is no giving out of prepared news. their acquaintances with public men all over the co

lincoln, both roosevelts and lyndon johnson.oris, i want to talk about the unusual notion of presidential vulnerability and empathy, something you write about regarding a place we both been, warm springs, georgia, and fdr. >> and there's no question that the path to the leadership that fdr exhibited in the presidency was through warm springs. he's gotten polio, obviously. he finds out there's this place where if you can swim in the warm waters, you can exercise. he creates an institution for other polio patients. while he's there, he calls himself doc roosevelt. he teaches them, it's not just exercising, you have to get joy in life again. you have to have fun. you have to feel like i do. you can see my legs, you can see what they look like. and they played games in the pool, they have dances in their wheelchairs at night. and they learn to love life again. and then when you think about it, he becomes president when the country is paralyzed by an economic depression and that confidence, that optimism and the empathy. he learned t

teddy roosevelt went to the north rim to go mountain lion hunting. there used to be a lot of mountain lions there and there were hundreds of them that were killed over the years. the forest service hired a ranger to kill the mountain lions and nobody was quite thinking ecologically and thinking what happens if you kill all the predators, well the prey are going to explode. there was a massive population explosion of deer. teddy roosevelt tried his best to make this a national park and he could not persuade arizonans or congress to make it a national park. in 1908, he made it a national monument by signing a bill. certain protections but still a lower-level protection. it did not remove all of the private mining claims or ranching claims or timber claims. he was dead for a few months before the grand canyon finally became a national park in 1919. he always regretted he did not succeed in making it a national park. it partly became a park because their railroad was here first and they were bringing in tourists and they were loving it and bringing in mo

president theodore roosevelt personally applauded pershing's accomplishment.1905, while pershing was theing as u.s. observer of war between japan and russia, roosevelt promoted him from brigadier general, over 862 officers, who were senior to him. in 1915, pershing was in command the southwestern division along the mexican border, defending american interests against increasingly frequent raid by bandits across the border. it was at this time that the personal tragedy of his life occurred. his wife and three daughters a fire which raked the presidio at san francisco where they were living in his absence. only his son was saved. characteristically, pershing bore his loss with silent fortitude and turned his whole hearted effort to the new duty to which his country called him. punitivef the expedition into mexico, in pursuit of pancho villa, the most bold and reckless of all the mexican bandits, destroying on a brutaloperty raid in columbus, new mexico. daringly and courageously for year, pershing led his troops over 400 miles of the most desert, under trying of

teddy roosevelt was very strongly in favor of getting into the war. but a lot of people within and without the republican party had the opposite view. this is senator robert lafa allott, and he was opposed to the united states entering war. he said the zimmerman telegram was irrelevant. ourif the british want goods so badly, let them send their own ships over here. why do we have to go into harms way? we have no quarrel with the germans, and a lot of people in the united states supported that idea, particularly the farther west you got. there was a great sentiment that somehow people like teddy roosevelt and others in the big cities in the east were trying hip up war enthusiasm, maybe to save wall street which had invested so much of the allies, or maybe just to establish a stronger financial footing for the great banks of these. and westerners didn't care for that so much. in late february of 1917, the woman on the right, carrie of the catt, the head american women's suffrage association, suddenly announced without conferring with any of her colleagu

but as franklin roosevelt once said, problems created by man can be solved by man.there are ways of thinking about how to make our system better. but it certainly is not a good time in my lifetime to see the broken washington the way it is. >> it makes one wistful really to listen to you. tell us about the incredible story of lincoln's renown, how it even reached to siberia. you have a beautiful anecdote about that. >> lincoln dreamed from the time he was young of doing something that would stand the test of time, that would be remembered. he was in a near-suicidal depression when he came out and said i've not yet done anything to make any human being remember that i have lived. but even lincoln could never have dreamed of the story that tolstoy told, the great russian writer told a story to a new york reporter at the turn of the century that he'd just come back from a remote area of the caucasus. a group of wild barbarians who'd never left that part of russia, they were so excited to have tolstoy in their midst they asked him to tell stories of the great men of his

that is one of the legends here about roosevelt for the visit -- roosevelt's visit. prorating overas europe, the boys back here realized we needed a well-trained force, when we would enter into the battle. they realized louisiana's terrain would give the soldiers many opportunities to train, and so, more than 400,000 soldiers came into the area to engage in , and elaborate wargames most, the biggest names in the war, people who would make their most american contribution," -- significant contribution, including dwight d. eisenhower, were stationed here. tellhe person who many legends about, general patton. the troops were divided into two forces -- a red army and a blue army. they were divided by states. one army was arkansas, louisiana, texas, alabama, mississippi, and they went to war against the red army. planes dropped bags of flour from the air, and where the flower covered would show the damage that ensued. our residents will remember this by the number of men that were here, soldiers camped out everywhere here. they had tense in people's backyards. -- tents in