roosevelt, it was forgotten. after that first apprentice year jackson spent the next year at dean's urging getting learning at the law school. they gave him credit for his apprentice year and he transferred into the senior year of what was then a two- year program and was a sterling student. but by the end of the year he was still only 20 years old. they declined to give him a diploma, instead giving him a certificate of completion. he was still one year short of far eligibility so we went to jamestown and apprenticed again and with somewhat casual rules in that day, he began to look at -- to litigate. and in 1913, when he was 21, age eligible, he took and passed the state bar. he hung out a shingle in jamestown. for the first three or so years he had a kind of scruffy, very underpaid, newest, youngest lawyer in town practice that began to impress people. he caught the eye of a judge visiting from buffalo. that was recruitment for the big-city. also during those first three years following his mentor he was invol

next, we interviewed tweed roosevelt, the great-grandson of theodore roosevelt. this is about 20 minutes. >> tweed roosevelt, we are talking at the white house historical association presidential site summit. attending and also speaking tonight. what is your connection to theodore roosevelt? tweed: 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? has it been something that you always had a special connection and work to develop the history? tweed: that is an interesting question, because people have this idea that our family spent all our time sitting around tables talking about theodore. actually, they never talked about theodore. we talked about what everybody else talks about. is and mabel going -- is on to bel going to get married? was going to happen here, what will happen next? i did not become aware of it until i was older and then it was mostly negative at first. as a teenager, people seem much more interested in my connection to a fam

tweed roosevelt is the great grandson of theodore roosevelt and the ceo of the theodore roosevelt association, which he has been associated with for a quarter of a century. lester truman -- mister truman daniel is the chairman of the johnston institute. lynda bird johnson robb is the first child of lyndon johnson. she lived in the white house during her father's last tenure in the white house from 1966 to 1969 and for over two decades has served as a trustee on the lbj foundation. and susan ford bales is the only daughter of gerald ford. she lived in the white house during the bulk of her father's presidency. since 1981, she has served as a trustee on the gerald ford presidential library foundation. moderating our panel is david rubenstein, cofounder and coexecutive 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 bloomberg's david rubenstein show, peer to peer conversations. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, matthew mckinley, tweed roosevel

roosevelt presidential library museum and annual roosevelt reading festival. ... minute question and answer period. if you let the auto leave, they will be outside signing books by the bookstore. we are fortunate to have c-span with elcome to their franklin d. us today. if you're going to ask a question please walk to the microphone so your questions can be recorded and preserved for posterity. this s also a weekend c-span is featuring hide park on their c-span cities tour program today and tomorrow so check your local listings was one thing we are proud about in the reading facilities we do bring the greatest doctors talking about stories we care deeply about, one of the key stories, the beginning of world war ii, and last year we did a major exhibit on pearl harbor which featured a deep dive 24 hours inside the white house, the book "countdown to pearl harbor: the 12 days to the attack" provides a wonderful and emotional and visceral ourney inside the events leading up to pearl harbor. executive order 9066 led to the internment, featuring things like dorothy lan

roosevelt i want to talk to you and so she took me aside.i was not dressed terribly but somewhat shabbily and she said to me, mr. roosevelt, it's all right for those other kids, those other boys to be like that but you have got a certain responsibility and you have to live up to it and i thought, this was probably the most important lesson i learned in college. at first i was angry, but i thought about it and that really impressed on me the ability -- the responsibility of being a descendent of a famous person . >> so have you incorporated that into your life? >> i've done a lot of writing and paid a lot of attention and right now i happen to be the ceo of the theodore roosevelt association. i do a lot of work in that area. it also got me to pull up my socks and behave a little better. i wasn't behaving all that great when i was a college student and the legacy became important. i began to realize how important his ideas were and how important he had been to this country and that his ideas deserve to be remembered and underlined and new gene

welcome to the annual roosevelt reading festival. we have an incredible day, 15 authors, we will get started with one of our headliners but first i will go over a few housekeeping details. the program format is there is a 30 minute authors talk, then a 10 minute question and answer iod, then the author will be outside signing books by the bookstore. we are fortunate to have c-span with us today, so if you're going to ask a question, please walk over to the microphone so your questions can be reported and preserved for posterity. onpan is featuring hyde park their c-span cities tour program both today and tomorrow. check your local listings. one of the things we are most proud about the reading festival is we do bring the greatest authors talking about stories we do care deeply about. we havehe key stories had recently is the beginning of world war ii and over the next few years, we will look at the 75th anniversaries of those events. last year, we did a major exhibit on pearl harbor, which featured a deep dive into the 24 hours insid

the young franklin roosevelt ran on the democratic ticket. to save the league as ball as the well as the accomplishments of the new freedom. of course they failed. we have normalcy with harding. that was the first convention that wendell could attended. in working for him that relationship soon soured and he went to another law firm and attracted a great deal of attention is a stellar advocate. one board ohio power and light attracted the attention of a figure who should loom large. for his accompaniments. he was the founder of something that became commonwealth and southern perhaps the third largest there is the confusion there. also commonwealth in edison. there is a good utilities man. there is the one to be approached. and counting that factor. there we go. the texture of this user. he was rather puzzled that he didn't see anything. will roger -ish. in fact it was a benefit to him. the large utility. as the depression sweeps across america. they concerned about investigations. the incredible figure. they lit up about 80% of the utility us

that president roosevelt, churchill, understood radio. president kennedy, reagan, understood television. and the incumbent fully understands, the vernacular of reality tv, and social media. we know the presidency has not changed the incumbent. we don't know yet if the incumbent has changed the presidency. i think one thing he has changed is, it is hard for me to imagine a successor not having an authentic, ongoing social media communication with the country. truck you think that is permanent. >> i do. twitter, the whole thing. if you look, going forward, if you look at something that comes out from a candidate or incumbent, and it looks as though it went through four layers of people, i think that has an effect. i could be wrong. we are all the media now. >> if you are thinking, i was trying to focus on the past. let's bring it up to >> so sorry >> [ laughter ] >> let's bring it up to now. are you saying, jon meacham, that in order to be successful in electoral politics you have to be able to master whatever the current communication is?

relations with the soviet union was franklin roosevelt, and that franklin roosevelt did it in a very personalistic way. many things, nixon recognized himself, if eisenhower was his first model, roosevelt was his model. from the beginning nixon places emphasis upon doing what presidents in the cold war had not done before, seeking to meet with the soviets when there isn't an agreed upon agenda. the most extreme example is china. the only presidential trip i know of when there isn't an agenda when you get on the ground. he doesn't know if or when he's going to meet with mau. doesn't know what's going to happen. he doesn't go quite to that extent with the soviets. but there is a similar desire in what he thinks of rooseveltian terms to meet with the other side, to sit down, as he said, and talk things through man to man and that phrase turns up time and again, the perception that the elites are the effete, femme recognized individuals and these are the -- nixon meets with the soviet counterpart more times in his relatively short presidency than throughout the interdecade before. kennedy

pershing had been friends with theodore roosevelt -- roosevelt and teddy desperately wanted to go over to france. wilson was in no and wilson was in no mood to give roosevelt what he wanted. wilson would be calling roosevelt a coward, a passivist, called him yellow before the war started. wilson rejected his appeal. but teddy did send over his for boys. the youngest wanted to become a pilot. he wrote these incredible letters about his experiences. he was shot down and killed, and july 14, 1918, pershing was one of the first to reach out. he said i realized that time alone can heal the wound, but at a time like now, understanding from one's friends helps. i want to express to you and to quentin's mother my deepest sympathies. he wrote, my dear fellow, you have suffered far more bitter sorrow. i should be ashamed of myself if i did not try to emulate that courage. because of roosevelt's status as a former president, he received letters and telegrams from around the country from heads of state but there is one letter i wanted to include that really touched him. it was from a mrs. freeland

roosevelt thought it was very unpatriotic of them to be holding back like that, and they did bend.ut by that time, the war was quite a bit on its way. another resource we needed, you know, the united states needed was rubber. rubber is so incredibly essential as a war material. i was amazed reading about the things that rubber went into during a war. a battleship needs 20,000 parts made out of rubber. and at that time, we did not have synthetic rubber. the germans were way ahead in that, and the russians were way ahead in that, and the japanese in the pacific invaded the places that we used to get our rub arer from. so, you know, they say that -- well, mark twain says that war is a way of teaching people geography. and it was certainly true in that case. the scientists got out their maps and figured out that absolute best place to the get rubber -- to get rubber was the amazon. 50,000 rubber soldiers -- rubber soldiers -- were recruited, volunteers. but as you, you have to say where people are very poor what degree of free will goes into being a volunteer for anything. and these 50

next, we interviewed tweed roosevelt, the great-grandson of theodore roosevelt.s. >> tweed roosevelt, we are talking at the white house historical association presidential site summit. attending and also speaking tonight. what is your connection to theodore roosevelt? tweed: 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? has it been something that you always had a special connection and work to develop the history? tweed: that is an interesting question, because people have this idea that our family spent all oume

esther tucker, you work as a fellow, political scientist at the roosevelt institute people is the roosevelt institute? guest: it is a think tank attached to the franklin delano rosen of presidential library. like a lot of think tanks out there, presidential libraries out there, there is a think tank attached to it that does work to promote the legacy of president roosevelt. there is a george bush think tank, a ronald reagan think tank , and we are the fdr think tank. host: is it funded through the same streams as a library? guest: it's a project of the national archives, semi-governmental, but also funded by foundations. host: did you take a position on whether nafta, renegotiated in the first place here? guest: we were not around when nafta was originally signed and we have not taken a formal position on the trade agreement. host: what are your thoughts on the usmca, what do you like about it, don't like? chuck grassley, one of the president's major allies in congress sort of said yesterday it is about 95% the same as the north american free trade agreement, the original 1993 packed. of an

and elanor roosevelt to her undying credits no, even j edgar hoover at the fbi said don't do it. it's not necessary. and one day in 1942, infamously, fdr became the japanese enat the present time, and the people who knew her felt the marriage was never the same because she was furious. if you look at elnoor rooz volt during world war 12 she spent an inawful lot of time traveling ay from her husband, she felt may they didn't share the it same political ideals she had. another thing you look for in these war presidents is empathy. you want a president with empathy. it's very important in the office. especially in wartime. for instance abraham lincoln, there were so many casualties in the civil war that lincoln's people came to him and said, we have to build a new national cemetery, there's so many people being buried. and lincoln said you're right, build the cemetery near my summer home. which is now known as lincoln's cottage that's been restored in washington, d.c. and he said it's going to be severely painful to me but i want to see the graves being dug, i don't want to be accid

. >> franklin roosevelt and most recently george h. bush. also wrote about the civil war and the presidents of that period too. >> i must say being called the best presidential historian is like being called -- i want to win, but it's not that hard. . >> talk for a little bit about the first amendment, what the founding fathers had in mind when they envisioned the role of the press. >> well, they weren't thinking about the new york times or the news, the press in late 18th century in england and the united states, sort of an anglo conversation was partisan, it was this every party had its own cable network of -- not unlike the internet in many ways, unsigned skwibs, lots of unsigned attacks that would be picked up and republished around the country. so i would -- let's not let the narcissism of the president blind us to the fact that we have been here before. and part of the way we came out of it, part of the way the press became part of the oxygen of the public as opposed to a stifling force was that there was so many voices. i think we wil

. >> written roosevelt, the youngest son of theodore roosevelt was shot down and killed near a village in france 80 miles northeast of paris. to mark of the centennial of quentin roosevelt's death, american history tv visited the village with a historian. >> i am standing

roosevelt. he died almost of a broken heart just months later. before he passed away, he could be seen at the stables at the home with the horses that he used to ride as a boy and he would sit there looking out and saying to himself the childhood nicknames he had given to his son. they left quentin's body in europe where he was. but they did retrieve the axle of his plane which is still on display at oyster bay. not all of the people i focus on in "my fellow soldiers generals.idents or i want to introduce you to a nurse. she wrote letters and journals describing her training, going over the atlantic, and then into combat. like the men in their early letters, she wanted to see action. to get the front and participate. and like the men, once she saw it firsthand, her enthusiasm was tempered. there was one part of the hospital once the wounded started coming in that affected her more than any other. it held a group of patients that were so terribly wounded that even the doctors and nurses could only spend a few days there at a time before they had t

see the first debate between the major party candidates in the race for oregon governor live from roosevelt high school in north portland, this is the doebebater oregon's future. >> and good evening, everyone. i'm jeff. welcome to the debate for oregon's future. and tonight's debate is very unique. all of the questions to our candidates will be coming from young people, high school students from across the great state, who are here to have their voices heard and we will listen tonight. now each of the candidates will have one minute to answer their questions and so all of our students can have their questions answered, we're trying to limit any rebuttal time. but if that does come up, then it's 30 seconds. we'll kind of play that by ear as our debate goes on tonight. with that i would like to introduce our candidates, first republican candidate representative knute buehler. thank you for being here. democratic candidate, governor kate brown, thank you for being here, governor. >> thank you. >> our independent candidate, patrick starnes, patrick, thank you for being here. with that, i would

we're halfway through our debate live at roosevelt high school. we want to alert our stations across the state who are also broadcasting this debate. we are about to take a quick two-minute break. we will be right back after this. [applause] ♪ >> welcome back, everybody. our debate continues. the debate for oregon's future. all of the questions asked from young people, high-school students from across the state. we have had some questions answered this evening in the first half-hour. now we continue. shasta, who is our next question from? >> next question is from 15-year-old kai. he wants to ask you about teen suicide. >> hello, my question is for governor brown and representative buehler. in oregon, the second-leading cause of death for 10- to 24-year-olds is suicide. according to the health authority, those numbers have been rising in the past decade and are currently well over the national average. what plans do you have in particular beyond gun safety, to prevent youth from suicide and improve the overall mental health in high-risk groups such

roosevelt thought it was very unpatriotic of them to be holding back like that and by that time, theworld was quite a bit on its way. another resource that we needed, that the united states needed was rubber. rubber was so incredibly decent show as the material. i was amazed reading about the things that it went into. a battleship needs 20,000 parts made out of rubber. and at that time we didn't have synthetic rubber. the germans were way ahead of that and the russians were way ahead of that and the japanese and the pacific invaded the places that we used to get our rubber from. so you know, they say, mark twain says that it is the way of teaching people geography. and it certainly true in that case. the scientists got out of their math and figured out the absolute best place to get rubber was the amazon. they were volunteers, but as you have to say where people are very poor what degree of free will goes into being a volunteer for anything and these 50,000 harvested were in the amazon. 30,000 of them died. 30,000 die from malaria with jaguars and on us and you could imagine they wer

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

leo rosten 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 contest 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. theres no giving out of prepared news. your acquaintances with public men all over the country,

but even roosevelt, the guy who got very great press, sometimes what he would do is, if he would like a story, he would call the reporter into the office and he would berate the reporter, made from the store, one time he had a reporter stand in the corner with a dunce cap on and the reporter did it. so there was some difference there. suppose that would be a tough thing to go home after. >> what did you do today, daddy? >> i stood with a dunce cap. >> what about this notion of accountability, then. >> accountability, you know, the american public wants to know a lot of things all the time. we can't provide them with everything, but we try to give them a window into the thinking, and operation of the white house. the presidents want to keep as much information back as possible. we want to get as much information as we think the american public wants. one of the things that is interesting, about today's particular president, but i haven't heard other journalists say this, but i say this, i say if people criticize donald trump so much, as a journalist you should love it because you get t

i've been a long-time fan of lof teddy roosevelt is thoroughly irritated with him.i had to go back and study his work before i liked him again i was so ticked off with these games but he met with different industry leaders and they would say we don't want you to regulate this and he would say okay we won't do that we will just take that out. the other thing they did that turneturn out to be a big probls they persuaded the government as they put the law for word to handle and account so if anything was proven unsafe unless the government sees them in court. at the altar of the wall in a made it in possible for the government to say you have to take that out and this played out in some interesting ways. i won't tell you all of them to paper on their way to get bleach out of flour they didn't like the byproducts and thought it could be deceptive. you see these decisions and in the coca-cola wall case they held it in chattanooga tennessee where coca-cola had its largest bottling plant and the judge ruled in his favor. >> when you go out to eat how does this change your

teddy roosevelt developed empathy. he didn't have it at first but he sees what life is like for people, he is a police commissioner, walks the streets at night and he said he begins to feel that he wants to help those people do something. fdr developed i think much more empathy after his polio. he suddenly was close to other people who fate had dealt an unkind hand. without empathy you can't bring people understand and understand people in a large scale democracy and i don't see that so far in president trump. you keep hoping it's going to come. there are moments in the hurricanes where he seems to show it, then he mocks dr. ford instead of just saying, i won, and reconciling and reaching out. you just keep waiting and waiting. >> what do you think is president trump's leadership style? what defines it to you? >> i think what he's been very successful at is putting himself in the middle of everybody's conversation at every moment. i mean,'s got that sense of almost a circus following him and he's been able to master th

this was again at roosevelt. what was highlighted was the intentional deliberate efforts to know their students and optimized learning for each. so again, the fact the principal is aware of all three schools. last but not least, is cul actually responsive pedagogy. very evident in how each students' interests are kept in mind when delivering the curriculum and the rigorous standards. moving on to student-centered learning climate, we so often at sfusd say students first. this was one school that actually did operationalize that phrase into students first and put students at the center and centered all their resources around that student professional development towards what was the need in the classroom. there again, the principal is here and i want to honor her. let's give them all a -- [applause] at this point, i welcome any ofe principals who want to say more than what i have said. >> questions or comments from commissioners? >> good evening. thank you for the recognition. we just -- our site took what dr. mat

thanks to roosevelt for hosting us. one of the important parts of forest --ming is the they capture a lot of carbon. i have a strong background in protecting old-growth forest. you a newt to pitch idea, along with supporting the measures that have been discussed earlier. israel is producing electric freeways. i could see oregon developing electric freeways all over the state so we would not have to charge every 20 minutes and we could travel on a state highways. thanks for the good question. >> all right. who is our next question from? >> our next question is from olivia cooper. she is 17, she wants to ask about e-cigarettes. >> governor brown, we will start with you. go ahead with a question. >> my question is for governor brown and representative buehler. the legalu race to age to buy e-cigarettes and tobacco products to 21. despite the law, students like me continue to see vaping in our high schools among students of all walks of life. last month the epa accredited to be an epidemic among teenagers, putting them at r

the most liberal president franklin delano roosevelt was a drug runner yes franklin delano roosevelt never made much money in his life he had public service jobs that were very lowly paid but he had yahtzee had summer homes he had mansions in new york city the kids went to private schools he inherited a fortune from war and then. and know his father who is the american opium king of china if you scratch anyone with the name forbes in their name john forbes kerry secretary of state john forbes kerry you'll find opium money his great grandfather was an opium dealer how big was opium money opium money build the first industrial city in the united states lol massachusetts it built the first five railroads in the united states opium money all over the east coast but it wasn't talked about it was called the china trade and if you go to various museums you can see teas and silks. exhibited and they keep quiet about all that big opium money. in the scramble to get opium money china was invaded and colonized by britain and the other imperial powers. far anomalies grab the whole swathes of chi

teddy roosevelt comes through in the industrial revolution. is in a mood of rebellion. there are nationwide strikes, violence in the streets, and somehow he's able to deal with the square deal for the rich and poor and channel that populist energy into positive reform. fdr comes in when the banking system has collapsed. people are taking their money out of the banks. people are out of jobs and it looked like the future of capitalism was at risk. lbj comes in with the assassination of jfk and the civil rights movement is stalled in the senate and the bill. and there's a lot of violence in the streets. each time, there was a leader who was able to deal with the crisis, and citizens who were awakened. the civil rights movement, the progressive movement. the bond between the leader and the movement that makes it work. >> taking that example of teddy roosevelt for a moment. you dive into that and write about the point where he didn't have success. that was early on when he was in the state legislature because he was a hot head, because he was full

teddy roosevelt on twitter. melissa: take more time of crafting.boom, you have a little while to think about your things is the whole big stick? huge. melissa: cracking down on fake news. facebook taking great strides it says to combat misinformation ahead of the midterm elections. we're giving you a first-hand look at the war room. the social media company has set up at its headquarters. ♪ if you're waiting patiently for a liver transplant, it could cost you your life. it's time to get out of line with upmc. at upmc, living-donor transplants put you first. so you don't die waiting. upmc does more living-donor liver transplants than any other center in the nation. find out more and get out of line today. connell: so this idea of fighting fake news. facebook is launching what it is calling a war room at its menlo park headquarters to try to root out misinformation ahead of the midterms. companies making a big deal showing this off to reporters like claudia cowan from fox and has the details for us. reporter: following the serious election meddling t

weekend, the new hampshire democratic party hosted the inaugural eleanor roosevelt dinner in manchester, new hampshire. after alec baldwin was the keynote speaker. following his remarks, he spoke with members of the news media. this runs about 25 minutes. >> hampshire democrats, please welcome my very special guest, actor, activists, alec baldwin. >> ♪ you came along, and everything started to hum ♪ alec: thank you. thank you. before i get started with my prepared remarks, i want to share three things. one is at the cocktail party, i learned two things about the people of this area. one is i asked people where are you from, are you from here originally? and i would get two answers. some people would say "my great great grandfather came here from scotland." and the other half said "i'm from massachusetts." [laughter] alec: that's pretty much the state of new hampshire. as i have learned. and second i'm told the red sox are up 2-0 over the houston astros. i'm from new york, so come on. and the other thing i was told about new hampshire are that half the seats in the room are the house del

i was born the year franklin roosevelt took power. roosevelt was going to stack the court with all democrats. that was a big worry then. well, so we got over that. i mean, i have lived through roosevelt, kennedy, nixon, reagan, um, ronald everybody. and it all comes out in the wash. ,nd i do not know another thing with this past experience with brett kavanaugh, he said he sticks with presidents. i have worked with the court and they will go with precedence. they look at their law books and to see what has happened in another case like that and they stick to that. host: thank you. course judge kavanaugh talked about prece dent, which is actually the way the senators ask him about roe versus wade. he went on say directly whether or not he would vote to overrule roe versus wade, but that is what people want to know. so they have conversations about precedent, and he says he respect it, but the court does overrule precedent. and may have done it in". in".one it it does have the power to overrule it in cases that lower courts do not. sayin

i was born the year franklin roosevelt took power, and roosevelt was going to cut the cord with all democrats and that was a big worry then. well so, we got over that. i mean, i've lived through roosevelt, kennedy nixon, johnson, reagan, everybody and it all p comes out in the -- and it all comes out in the wash, and i don't know another thing with this past experience with brett kavanaugh. he said that he is -- i worked for the court for ten years and they do go with precedent. they look in their law books and see what happened from another case that is like that and that's what they do stick to that. >> okay, mary lou thanks. >> juf talked -- judge kavanaugh talked a lot about precedent which is why the senators asked him about roev. wade. they have these conversations about precedent and he says he respects precedent and, of course, i'm sure that's true, but the supreme court can and does overrule long-standing -- they did it in the past term in two different cases and in close votes, as a matter of fact. so the supreme court is uniquely situated when it comes to precedent in that the powe

esther tucker, you work as a fellow, political scientist at the roosevelt institute people is the roosevelttute? guest: it is a think tank attached to the franklin delano rosen of presidential library. like a lot of think tanks out there, presidential libraries out there, there is a think tank attached to it that does work to promote the legacy of president roosevelt.

welcome to the annual roosevelt reading festival. we have an incredible day, 15 authors, we will get started with one of our headliners but first i will go over a few housekeeping details. the program format is there is a 30 minute authors talk, then a 10 minute question and answer iod, then the author will

of course, we know that ultimately roosevelt prevailed. and the new deal passed. but block is making fun of him , when he coulde have been passing legislation by trying to implement the court plan to add six more justices to the court. here we have both candidates for president in 1948. truman and dewey, gesturing to a man who looks like a typical character that mr. block drew to show respectable southern gentlemen. he also represents congress. block is upset about the changes in the immigration plans implemented in the united states in the aftermath of world war ii. mr. block was very much in favor of letting displaced people immigrate to the united states. and so he is showing his disapproval of congress' new immigration plan by depicting the statue of liberty pushing people away from the shores rather than embracing their arrival. this is a cartoon about president eisenhower. he is castigating -- mr. block things a little too gently -- joseph mccarthy and richard nixon for a smear campaign against ad by stevenson just days before the presidential election. what

roosevelt but a lot of the nation actually saw mrs. roosevelt. she was very rarely at the white house. she was constantly on the move. this during the great depression. and she a zoomed famously the role of eyes and ears of the president. -- and she assumed famously the role of eyes and years of the president. when world war ii broke out in europe, she saw an opportunity for american manufacturing and the american fashion industry. and she was very much a supporter of the ladies' permit union but she also, for all of her social activism, took enormous pride in the fact that she was named to a best dressed list. when she made these public appearances around the country, she knew the public wanted a little touch of elegance. they expected it of a first lady. she was in trains, planes, and drove her own card. except on the hottest winter days, she wore a for peace. -- fur piece. people loved it and little kids would come up and want to touch it. mrs. roosevelt though was very practical. she liked to dress. she would order from the so-called arnold c

roosevelt. but half of them were. and roosevelt was a good politician.ith half of the businesses in his pockeet,e knew he could count on the c.i.o.o., the socialists, and the communists to kind of work something out, and here was the deal. "i'm gonna get the money from tthe coorporations and d the rich. i'm gonna help u on a scale you've never seen before. and in return, you're gonna stop talking about getting rid of capitalismsm. you're gonna mute that part of your message. you're gonna celebrate me as the guy who gives the mass of people something they never got b before." so, what did roosevelt do? three interesting things that i'll mention. one--he created the social security system. we never had that before. in the midst of a depression worse than today, when there's no money in the hands of the government--none is comingng in; it's really hard; e can't do anything--the president goes on the radio and announces that every american over 65 years of age who's had a lifetime of worork is now g ga get money fromom the govovernmet for the rest of h his o

franklin delano roosevelt was a drug runner yes sir franklin delano roosevelt never made much money in his life he had public service jobs that were very lowly paid but he had yachts see it summer homes he had mansions in new york city the kids went to private schools he inherited a fortune from warren delano his father who is the american opium king of china if you scratch anyone with the name forbes in their name john forbes kerry secretary of state john forbes kerry you'll find opium money his great grandfather was an opium dealer how big was opium money opium money built the first industrial city in the united states lol massachusetts it built the first five railroads in the united states opium money all over the east coast but it wasn't talked about it was called the china trade and if you go to various museums you can see teas and silks. exhibited and they keep quiet about all that big opium money. in the scramble to get opium money china was invaded and colonized by britain and the other imperial power was. foreign nominees grab the whole swathes of china. this is the american a

he and -- roosevelt vision of what mattered. certainly we struggled with that and the disconnect between the academic vision of what makes western history matter and, we have a lot to learn from telling stories. this was brought out very nicely because with academic history we can't just start with questions and problems for which we seek answers instead of telling stories. we have to be better storytellers because there is a profound disconnect i used to try to explain that i tried to explain to my students the way that westerns as a genre had shifted and the interpretations of western history had shifted by talking about the transition from john wade to dances with wolves. that worked a while for me today and then i looked at my students and realized that none of them had ever seen a john wayne movie which really disturbed me but what really made me feel old is that they had no clue what dances with wolves was as an invocation, it made me realize again, what we do to connect. >> i want to -- i'm glad you brought up stories bec

i'm harold holzer, and i'm the jonathan fanta director of roosevelt house. and on behalf of jennifer rab, the president of hunter college, it's a pleasure to welcome all of you to this historic house and to welcome all of our viewers on c-span as well to this special evening. we're very pleased to welcome david kaplan and burt newborn this evening here to talk about david's new -- and would you say timely? -- book. [laughter] "the most dangerous branch: inside the supreme court's assault on the constitution." so we arranged this talk back in the spring. we, we knew only that it would be beautifully timed and scheduled because, after all, this monday was the first monday in october, and the supreme court session, of course, began as peru teen. as per routine. we did not know that david would arrange other activities to occur so that we had to turn people away from this evening. i'm even told that he had to revise his book at the very last minute and that those of you who have written books know that the very last minute is not the routine that book publishers

. >> she is at the hollywood roosevelt hotel.umor has it that it is haunted. >> it is haunted. >> oh. golden era stars of hollywood still linger. >> one of those glam goddesses of hollywood happens to be marilyn monroe so she's going to turn herself into the fabulous marilyn monroe. >> marilyn. >> but first she needs a wig. she notices she has some visitors early on in the video. >> did you see that flashing light? you don't? there's a flash, right? >> yeah. >> what was that noise? [ laughter ] >> our first occurrence. >> a flash and a noise. >> -- randomly. >> is that like motion sensors? well, she continues with her makeup and gives fullback ground on the hollywood roosevelt hotel. >> this opened in 1927 it has been a temporary home to many celebrities. marilyn actually lived here for two years. i believe in suite 1200. i asked her is there a room 1200, but it's $6,000 a night. >> she finished off with her beauty marks. >> that's incredible. wild. >> well, if you like that, you'll love the gory look. so off with the wig and the