roosevelt's dining. -- dying. nobody knew wilkie would not be around. roosevelt did not know that.t is clear that he wanted loki -- wilkie to be important in the u.n. and to be the council of the conquered germany. to be the civil authority there. between the two egos. in roosevelt's mind, would live in 1944, -- running in 1948, will be would be there. brian: what about you? mr. lewis: originally, i am from little rock, arkansas. i considered ohio and more formative place. my father was an educator and my mother was also. he was a college president. was the dean of the school of the ologies there. he was president of one of the colleges in atlanta, atlanta university. brian: why did you want to become a historian? it was in the study, the book when study growing up. i did trial law. decided i would like to read history books. i think it was a smart thing to have done. the hours are good. the subjects can be terrific. brian: did you go to fisk university when you were 15? mr. lewis: i did. brian: how long did you spend their? mr. lewis: it was a four-year. i graduated at age 19. bri

army aviator quentin roosevelt, the youngest son of theodore roosevelt was shot down and killed near the village of chammery, france, northeast of paris. mark the centennial, we visited the village about the yockelson.itchell mitchell: i'm standing in front tribute to t in quentin roosevelt who was a lieutenant in the first pursuit group in 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 dog night with german pilots. quentin was the youngest child of theodore roosevelt. quentin and his brothers all served during world war i and quentin chose the air service and was 21 years old at the time of his death. flying in the air service was an honor, a tribute for young men who were daring. not long before quentin's plane was shot down and he was killed, he was placed in the 5th air squadron which was part of the first pursuit squadron and they were charged with following and tracking down german planes in the area. the battle of the second marne had been rising since the end of may and was a heroic ef

narrowly to the governorship and ruth is described by roosevelt when he is in roosevelt as cabinet as the ablest candidate or cabinet members and alexander hamilton. the hamilton -- the federalists and the whigs to the republican, tariffs, protection, all that. ruth angers tr because he supports taft and ruth says tr believes this stuff. works himself up to believing it and he will grab any weapon like a stick or club or chair leg or table leg and beat his opponents to death when he sees this. all these issues are moral issues to him and he will work himself up. the greatest friends he will work himself up to is in 1912 he is so busy hating william howard taft he forgets how much he hates woodrow wilson and he is going to find that out very very quickly. >> does he regret making that promise of not running for a third term? >> he makes the promise, election night he won this massive landslide, this is it, i am not going to run for a third term. there is no third term tradition which franklin roosevelt is going to break and he doesn't have two full terms. he has only been elected to on

i think the lobos paid attention to roosevelt denunciations of the utilities industry. this is campaigned redrick and campaign rhetoric is that. in fact, the first major issue in that the 100 days was the creation of the tennessee valley authority, which would operate in the delta, mississippi delta or commonwealth and southern existed and had rather efficiently provided cheaper reasonable electricity to tennessee, to georgia, to north carolina. and they are really the story begins because when wilkie was informed that tennessee valley would not observe any jurisdictional limitations, it became the leader of the opposition to that industry's opposition. what is interesting about the story is from knight team 33 to 1939, there'd be this tumultuous adversarial relationship between wilkie and roosevelt around the issue of the rights of commonwealth to exist, which a combat which is totally, totally unnecessary. when tda was assembled in the three directors, morgan, edward morgan and another morgan and david lilienthal, morgan, the famous engineer who had dreamed estuaries

, franklin roosevelt and ending johnson. he compared donald trump's leadership style to previous presidents. >> all right, everyone, good afternoon, welcome to the national press club, the place where news happens. i'm an editor at bloomberg news, andrea edney, the 111th president of the national press club. before we get started i would like to ask you to please silence your cell phones if you haven't already. if you're on twitter we encourage you to tweet during the program and use the hashtag ntc live. our handle his press club dc. for our c-span and public radio audiences please be aware that members of the general public are here in the audience with us today so any reaction you might hear is not necessarily from the working class and now i would like to introduce our head table. piece hold your applause and tell everyone has been introduced. we have -- we have barbara cochran. if you would like to stand. barbara is president of the board of the national press club journalism institute and curtis e hurley chair of the m

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

william howard taft, teddy roosevelt, franklin roosevelt from this spot, lbj. eleanor roosevelt was the first woman to address the club, again, from this very spot in the ballroom. so a lot of the presidents also have come here to sit and relax. journalists founded this club is -- to have a place to socialize and relax. the 14th floor of harry truman is the vice president playing the piano with movie stars sitting on top of it. what do you think about the role that the club played in being able to get together and just relax a little bit? ms. goodwin: from what i have read about the history of it, that was the idea, a couple journalists wanted a place to go where they could play poker, relax, have a few drinks, and there was not such a place. and this place eventually developed. the larger point in the study of leadership or the study of careers, we feel today that we have no time to relax because everything goes with us, email or the iphone. but my four presidents were pretty busy, may be busier than we are ourselves, and they all found time to relax and feel

that was where roosevelt had done his square deal. if you go back and read what terry roosevelt was offering, it was very liberal. it was super -- it was universal healthcare. all of these things. he was doing it as a populace. he was no longer doing this as -- one of his ideas for example, you should be allowed to overturn judicial decisions. we can have a vote ifdo we don't like the judge's decision, we can have a referendum on that judicial ruling and overturn it. that's the sound very republican. >> all right. bring us up to date. is donald trump a populace? >> one 100%. hundred and 50%. >> then walk as to why he is 150% a populace. >> i'll tell you about the two double trumps. the donald trump we meet in 2000 when he runs for the report -- republic party, a populace -- he said he had to run against cannon because that cannon was a nazi who hated blacks, who hated jews and he was going to run to save the party. it was economically bogus. we are going to focus on trade, jobs going, that was going to be his focus. that was back when

but more important, teddy roosevelt, his brother elliott was the father of eleanor roosevelt. that is the real connection. so eleanor's uncle was teddy hiand her father, elliott, tedd his younger brother had epilepsy as a child. he became an alcoholic and he died young. so teddy roosevelt really became like a father to eleanor. franklin loved tell nervous about. all three of them become this wonderful circle. >> fdr grows up in a very wealthy setting as well. he is the only child of his father's marriage with his mother. but it is in hyde park. anyone who thought this man is going to be president of the united states? >> certainly not fdr. the interesting about fdr and teddy roosevelt, they were the center of their parents love.ir which gave them a certain confidence. with teddy roosevelt not only was he the center of his father's love and his mother is low but the other siblings made him the center of their lives because he used to tell them stories after he read books. he would tell them stories and they would sit around and he would organize their games. and teddy wanted to

it's a pre-illness franklin delano roosevelt, a very tall man in his youth.tant secretary of the navy has been banging on about how many figures cut their teeth on world war i and go on to greater prominence and use their experience in world war i in other aspects of their life in america. there is no better example than fdr who takes his experience in the navy and his vision of what wilson did and would use that in his new deal policies and his prosecution of world war ii. we did not draft a military until we entered the war in world war i. as world war ii was raging in europe, roosevelt remembered this and drafted an army before we entered the war. he draws upon his experience, as did countless others, to shape american society and the government in the following years. the things i learned in this exhibit as i put it together were threefold. one, i don't think i fully appreciated the idea of citizenship, what it meant for citizens and for the government in terms of obligation and rights. world war i really crystallized that and ushered us into an expanded

they stood up to president roosevelt that he wasn't relinquished.is successor did something very interesting. he wouldn't send i can't believe i wrote a whole -- [laughter] that was roosevelt at the time when the japanese were being taken to the concentration camps in the united states. neither would he allow the u.s. bases in mexico. you have to remember the united states talks giant chunks of territory there was no way they were going to allow the basis in mexico that belonged to the united states. and he refused to have his citizens and legal residents that were a fake japanese ethnicity to be taken to the united states. some of the older people remember him very, very well. they remember him as i'm not saying that they were not concentrate as many families had to move away from the coast. one of the most famous japanese low on the bottom to mexico he was the gardener of the president iprecedent is there wo way he was going to send his own citizens and residents. he stood up for them. >> is there anything about the connection of walt disney [inau

eleanor roosevelt to her undying credit said no, even j.dgar hoover at the fbi says it's not necessary. don't do it. and one day in february in 1942, infamously fdr weekend the japanese american internment. and eleanor was furious that the people who knew her felt this marriage was never the same after that. and if you look at her during world war ii, she spent an awful lot of time traveling away from her husband. she felt that maybe they didn't share the same political ideals which she felt that she had. another thing you really look for in all these war president is empathy. you want a president withhe empathy, it's very important in the office especially in wartime. and for instant abraham lincoln, there were so many casualties in the civil war that lincoln's people came to them and said we have to build a new national cemetery. there are 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. it's been restored in washington, d.c. he said it's going to

roosevelt was a progressive and he definitely was an elite. as he starts out an accidental president, he takes office but teddy roosevelt being the cockiest person that has ever lived treats it like a mandate and rips it up and turns it into his new mandate and he has ideas about everything. f he has a plan for how they ought to do their plan and he wants to touch every part of it but that is a technocratic progressive, not a populace. what happens for him, it's a very explicit instruction on what they are supposed to do when he goes to drug delivery rhinoceros in africa. so this is what you are supposed to give. they find out that they are becoming conservative again and he is taking them back to their old way and they are not being progressive enough. when he comes back and launches his run for another full term as president in the republican primary, he and at the primaries of 1912 are amazing to study and amazing to see. if you think there is violence in american politics today, we are talking about how they had to hide barb wire at the re

roosevelt enjoyed the most was a book about hitler's sex life, which roosevelt really, really like. that is one example. this, and atghout one time he had 20 operatives working for him. none of his colleagues knew about it. he came and went all of the time. after the war when it all came out, nobody thought that he had done anything wrong even though he was lying to his colleagues and was working for the president. it was pretty extreme. .ast-forward another operation i wanted to talk about was british intelligence. one of the things i was surprised to find out was the extent of british intelligence in the united states in 1940 in 1941. it was a massive operation with over thousands of people in the united states, canada and south america. the whole goal was to get the united states into the war. to get them to provide and thene to britain to get them in the war and swing public opinion in favor. they did amazing things. they created an industrial scale of what we would call today, fake news operations. they had a committee that met twice a week in london and they would approve rumo

the one roosevelt enjoyed the -- sexs a book about life. carter,resting thing is , he had as many as 20 operatives working for him. and went from the press here all the time. nobody thought he did anything wrong. fast forward. another operation i wanted to talk about was british intelligence. -- thing i was really it's really surprised to find out was the extents of british intelligence in 1941. it was a massive operation with thousands of thousands of people in canada and south america. the whole goal of it was to get the united states into the war. first providing assistance to britain and get them in the war. public opinion in favor of britain. scalereated an industrial fake news operation. they had a committee that met twice a week in london. they would approve rumors to get into the united states newspapers. within three days the stories would appear on american newspapers. i found these memos at the archive. they are in the american newspapers. got theme ways they there was the british subsidized a news agencies call the overseas news

this book is not anti- roosevelts. but what we did say to quote henry morgan found that was a close friend of the secretary of the treasury and he basically said that the new deal has been a failure. we have spent a lot of money and we have as much unemployment no now. but what made roosevelt a very important figure as a world war ii president. what was very important in the months before world war ii i'm not sure it is constitutional so we could help britain at the time in retrospect with the critical decision because the united states at that time has extraordinary isolationist to help anybody and that was considered dangerous. and roosevelt did a number of things that i'm not entirely certain hour legal but if not we would not be here today it could be a different regime. so on the one hand although not a fan of what he did in his first term or is in the second term and an overwhelming vote of very considerable adoration to do things that most other presidents would know and i think he save the world in many respect

roosevelt use this. he had, only and he was not really interested in food crusades but he was interested in reform. he took the report and said, if you don't give me a meat inspection act i'm going to release this report. they didn't do anything so he released a three page summary of the report. that cause such a scandal that countries across europe cancel contracts with the american meat industry. at that., he was able to say, i will release the whole report if you don't give me alone. so the meat inspection act passed that june and the food and drug act passed about a week later. there you have an enormous life-changing moment in american history. it's the first time in our history that our government signs laws that says it is our job to protect american citizens in their everyday life, not just military protection, but the protection of the safety of who we are. it's the first great move towards consumer protection. i spent some time and i won't go into all of it because i like to answer questions, t

they sent the back to teddy roosevelt, signed by upton sip claire. he read it,ed the book is gettig a huge amount of attention, and he says this can't be true. you see this cascade of people ensaying this can't be right. hso roosevelt sends his investigators to chicago, and they come back, it was the head of the department of labor, and it was a stential activists and they came back and said it's so much worse than in the book. i don't really think any of them had seen workers slipping into the m sausage process, but they did see dead rats, and the bread that was used to poison them going into potted hams, and one of the descriptions from roosevelt's investigators was of meat that had gotten modely so they scraped off the model, they gave it a boraxe bath and ground it up and put it back into the potted ham processing system. so roosevelt used this. he had come on late. he was not really interested in food crusades. but he was interested in reform and he took that report and he said to the members of congress, if you don't give me a meat inspection a

she was a republican progressive in the theodore roosevelt tradition. in late 1914, she was invited to new york city to attend an event at the saturday evening post. the editor made her an extraordinary offer. he had arranged for her to go to europe to meet the kaiser and his wife, to meet the king and queen of britain and to go to france and meet the president of france and his wife along with other vips. and then give her the first month -- moment to go into the trenches and report what was going on. on top of this, she would be paid $1000 per article. story goes that the saturday evening post made her this offer and her husband stood up and said i refuse to allow my wife to do this and she calmly put her hand on her husband's shoulder and said quote, i do not intend to let the biggest thing in my life to go by without having a part of it. her husband had them take out a $10,000 life insurance policy on her and said she could go. what is interesting to me about them is that they go to europe to report on the war and they come back with very similar ki

thedore roosevelt use of bully pulpit presaged what modern presidents could do. although he would've liked to have led the nation in wartime, that task fed -- that task fell to woodrow wilson. wilson had been a former government professor and had written books on the state and national governments. he knew the writings of scholars like fisher. constitutionally, he remained an unreconstructed jeffersonian who opposed big government. in the 1912 election, wilson had countered it or roosevelt nationalism and which big business would be controlled by big government with his new freedom in which big business would be kept in check by the rules of competition strictly enforced. wilson desperately tried to keep the united states out of war. when germany resumed unrestricted attacks by u-boats on neutral shipping going to the allies, which included many american boats, wilson had little choice but to ask congress for a declaration of war. to put it charitably, the united states was terribly unprepared to go to war. 1916, congress, under intense pressure from the white ho

and roosevelt quoted from longfellow's ship of state. this is a very long poem about building a ship. talked about hammers and saws and the whole thing but the few lines that roosevelt quoted were "sail on, oh ship of state, sail on. sail on, oh, united great humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years hangs breathless on thy fate." churchill read this letter from roosevelt to churchill to the house of commons. now look, the house of commons hearing, a letter from an american president with an american poet, not andrew marvel or william shakespeare or lord tenn tennyson and he asked what answer should we give in? and the answer is we shall not faulter, we shall not fail, give us the tools and we shall do the job. the tools being the hands and saws that longfellow talked about but also the tools that needed to win the war. this was his marvelous capacity to build consensus and he had the magnificent sense of balance and decency of the british people to help him. one time when i was in london in the '50s the english pac

met with roosevelt at the time when the japanese were being taken to the concentration camps.ither would have those bases in mexico. the united states took giant chunks of mexican territory. there was no way they were going to allow the bases in mexico that belonged to the united states and he refused to have his citizens and legal residents who were of japanese ethnicityy be taken to the united states. in some of the older people there. i'm not saying they were not concentrated. many families have to move away from the coastan one of the most famous japanese is the one that brought to mexico. he was the gardener of the president. he stood up for them. do you want to say anything about the connection of walt disney.er they have a lot of businesses down in germany. he knew that germany was way ahead of the game.ne plus they were way ahead with propaganda. was working full-time in latin america. nevertheless they were way ahead. and so he talked to roosevelt and get an organization going to have first targeted had first targeted the elites in this country. we have to have goodwi

and franklin roosevelt and actually wilson as well. very significant shift in direction of how inflating and declining houses of a far more negative effect on the -- the politics of the economy and how people respond to talk about -- a sticky wages. people respond very negatively to that. >> hi, so -- we live in like an era where companies like facebook netflix, google, Über, they all have market caps and hundreds of billions and even hitting the trillions. do you think that americans enate support for creative destruction has led to these extraordinary high evaluations of these companies which perhaps represent the pinnacle of creative destruction? >> well i think it is -- it's extraordinary to late 19th century when america ceases the initiative globally in new technologies such as steel such as petroleum then such as automobiles and electricity. and creates very, very rapidly these giant companies seeing exactly the same thing going on now in silicon valley. so we're -- we're facebook came out. but amazon, google, serious companies

roosevelt said, that is a great idea. let's do it. his conditions word do not get caught, i will not acknowledge you, there will be nothing on paper and if anything comes out about it, i will deny it. he accepted under those conditions. roosevelt a given fund that he could use for emergencies. a lot of the work that he did in was what wears would call opposition research. research against political opponents of the president, trying to dig up dirt on them to discredit them. the most prominent person he discreditir tried to was the aviator who was a prominent isolationist. legitimate.become the most important job before to war, roosevelt asked him investigate the loyalty of the japanese on the west coast of the u.s. and hawaii. he sent an agent out there who made contact with the fbi, who went and interviewed scores of japanese and produced a series there are that said about one of your 50 japanese spies and we know who they are. japanese spies and we know who they are. they are more at risk from americans living around them than ameri

roosevelt's new deal efforts to fight the great depression. we will talk more about this, because some of these issues did in fact come before the court. three, labor relations. years ago, the noted historian richard hofstetter wrote that war is the enemy of reform. yet during the first world war, reform seemed to be strengthened rather than weakened. the war labor board, cochaired by former president william howard taft, worked to reduce labor-management strife, and in doing so also forced management to pay workers a decent wage. the war labor policies board , headed by felix frankfurter, tried to set policy for wages, hours, and union recognition. wilson himself took a keen interest in hourly wages. groups played a prominent role in entraining american troops and urban reformers helped build the many army camps needed to house and train soldiers. four, the enfranchisement of women. in an era of reform, it is little wonder that women saw an opportunity to finally win the suffrage. because suffrage had always been considered primarily a matter

roosevelt wrote it out in his own hand. and, roosevelt quoted from longfellow's, ship of state, this is a very long poem about building the ship, talked about hammers and saws, all of that. sale on oh ship of state, ceylon. ceylon, -- sale on all united states, humanity with all its hope of future years hangs breathless. churchill read this letter from roosevelt, to the house of commons. now, the house of commons hearing, a letter from the american president, with an american poem, not william shakespeare or board taliban, american poet, longfellow. churchill then follows it up, by saying, what answer shall we give? and the answer give, we shall not falter, we shall not fail. we shall not tire. give us the tools and we shall do the job. the tools, being the hammer and saw that longfellow talked about but also obviously the tools that they needed. this was his marvelous capacity to build consensus. and of course, he had the magnificent sense of balance and decency. of the british people, to help him. one time, when i was in

and franklin roosevelt and actually woodrow wilson as well. very significant shift in the direction of inflating, and declining prices have a for more negative effect on the politics of the economy and how people respond. john attacked -- talked about sticky wages. people respond very negatively to that. >> hi. so, we live in like an era where companies like facebook, netflix, google, uber, they all have market caps in the hundreds of billions and even hitting the trillion. do you think that americans innate support for creative destruction has led to these extraordinarily high valuations of these companies which perhaps represent the pinnacle of creative destruction? >> i think it's extraordinary since the late 19th century when america seizes the initiative globally in new technologies such as steel, such as petroleum, and then such as automobiles and electricity, and creates very very rapidly these giant companies. we're seeing exactly the same thing going on now in silicon valley. so, with -- facebook i don't care about but amazon and goog

president roosevelt did not want to appease. roosevelt wanted to fight. last thing that fdr needed was an appeaser as ambassador to great britain. >> i'll have nothing to say till i see the president. >> so he was finished. >> get it? >> joseph kennedy goes from being a legitimate power broker in the united states and a player in international politics to being a pariah. >> when he crashed and burned as ambassador to great britain, that not only cost him his job. it cost him his notion that he could become president. and almost from the moment that he realized that he couldn't do it, the aspiration was his kids would do it. >> joseph passes his ambitions on to joe jr. kathleen, known as kick, and jack. he calls them his golden trio. >> his eldest son, joe jr., was not only handsome, but also athletically gifted. he was the heir apparent. joe jr.'s father and mother believed that he would be the one to carry the standard for the family. >> his younger son, jack, is overshadowed by joe jr. in his father's mind, but i think having a bit lower expectation gav

churchill read this letter from roosevelt to the house of commons. the house of commons is hearing the letter from an american president with an american point. an american point -- point -- poet. the answer that churchill gave is that we shall not offer or fail and we shall not tire. give us the tools and we shall do the job and the tools being that hammer in the sol that longfellow talk about, at the tools, and this was his marvelous capacity to build a consensus. of course he had the magnificent sense of balance and decency and the british people to help them. one time when i was in london in the 1950s, the english pacifist movement was at its height and they had brilliant leaders, and they had a rally and the specific issue was they didn't want nuclear weapons on british soil, and they had us i called ban the bomb. there was a meeting at victoria and albert's home, and it was important for me to go it seemed so i can understand what they was talking about, and i do not agree with them, so i was way off on the side. they had the rally and did it w

she was a great friend and fan of eleanor roosevelt. so how did she thread that needle when she was campaigning against him? so there's a speech that she gave, the same theme. basically, she would say when she gave speeches to groups of black voters, she would say eleanor roosevelt is one of the great women of our time, a towering moral intellectual presence, going on about how wonderful she was, but this election is not about eleanor roosevelt, it's about her husband. and fdr had a lot of virtues, but he refused to allow black reporters at his press conferences in spite of being pressed to do so by civil rights organizations. that's a matter of record. but he wouldn't desegregate the armed forces but nevertheless lied to the public saying the naacp went along with this policy, which was not true. everyone has things they did that historically we wish we could get back in a sense, and he was very bad on a lot of race issues which is why there's that famous poem by langston hughes, waiting on roosevelt, which is a poem about -- and, you

president roosevelt accepted, saying you are magnificent.in world war ii for those who led america in the second and greatest world war. pershing died in 1948 at the age of 87. the nation mourn the passing of it's a leader who was a symbol as well as a man. men slipping into middle age and beyond felt the memory, the trenches which separated the years of their youth from the years that came after. the big parade into history in which they have marched in full strength behind their commander. young men who had fought their war a generation later and indeed been born after pershing gave his last command, could feel something of the same sharp roar, for such was the magic of the pershing name in the sight of the pershing character that americans of all ages could feel that their own lives had in some important way been bound up in his. pershing lies in the paternity of the nations who are quite dead and the slopes of the arlington national cemetery. his name and memory are part of the enduring tradition that never dies. john joseph pershing, ge

roosevelt a lot of the nation actually saw misses roosevelt. she was very rarely at the white house because she was constantly on the move. this was during the great depression and she assumed famously the role of eyes and ears of the president. she saw an opportunity when the war broke out in europe, an opportunity for american fashion industry and she was very much a supporter of the ladies garment union but also for all of her social activism took enormous pride to the fact that she was named to a best dressed list. when she made disappearances she knew that the public wanted a little touch of elegance and they were in -- expecting it from the first lady. except in the hottest winter days she always brought a for peace. people later spoke about that for peace was pretty ratty by the time the roosevelt years ended but people loved it. little kids would come up and want to touch it. misses roosevelt was very practical. if she liked address she would order from new york and would order five copies in different colors. i'm going to wrap up by ju

the ever roosevelt when he was governor what appoint him to do stuff and then what's roosevelt became president he became his go to guy. he had a side interest in chinese immigrants and a very esteemed historian turned me onto this when she was running a book on these chinese interpreter family. himfound stuff about chasing all over san diego into this chinese smuggling scheme that he said involved corrupt immigration agents. she and i went down this route whole reading hilarious documents about this ridiculous ivy league professor asking immigration agents in san diego to keep suspected illegal immigrants for the whole summer until he could finish teaching summer school zynga go interview them. [laughter] it was completely ridiculous. then these immigration image and -- agents are like really? produced hundreds of pages of testimony and interviews and back and forth and name-calling and none of it appears the commissioner works. >> my question is about state-level immigration investigation. did you find any evidence that they were pushing against the commission or amplifying the comm

a letter of introduction, to churchill, that roosevelt wrote out, in his own hand. and, roosevelt quoted from longfellow's estate, this is a very long poem about building a ship talking about hammers, and, all of that. but, the few lines that he quoted, were, sail on oh ship of state, ceylon. ceylon, o united great, he united -- humanity series with all of the hopes of future years, hangs breathless on thy state. >> churchill read this letter from roosevelt to the house of commons, now, look. the house of commons hearing, a letter from the american president, with an american poem, not andrew marvell, or william shakespeare, or lord tennyson, an american poet, longfellow. churchill then follows it up, by saying, what answer should we give? and the answer is we should not falter and we shall not fail. we shall not tire, give us the tools and we shall do the job the tools being the hammer that longfellow talks about but also the tools, this was his marvelous capacity to build consensus. and of course, he had the magnificent sense of balance and decency, the british pe

reporter: ten minutes out from the roosevelt room. we'll talk about the immigration crisis is how one white house official put it, that is how the president and this white house sees it. a few big topics the president makes the speech, statement, however you want to describe it. he will first talk about the southern border. secondly we expect him in non-specific ways potentially process is asylum claims. sours tell fox one plan they are considering those seeking asylum have to go to a port of entry in order to gain asylum. third, the president once again will put blame on democrats for the current position we are in. we have heard the president talk about this for days if not weeks, into months at this point. we're five days away from the midterm elections. the president last night was in florida, campaigning for rick scott and ron desantis when he talked about this upcoming caravan. >> republicans want strong borders, no crime, no chaos, and no caravans. [cheering] democrats want open borders, and they want to invite caravans after c

way he felt guilty that roosevelt was in power because it was his fault.e got wilson elected in his bitterness is about that sense of responsibility and informed so much else. i said i wasn't going to do that and then i did it anyway. it's important to recognize wilson is the first president elected from the southern since the war and the abuse is that you are surrendering to wants to direct the fallout from the lincoln presidency. it's literally adopted a slogan you. he's the one to lead them into the war. we don't have that much time, five minutes at the end or two minutes at the end to get some closing remarks. a lightning round for the second abn -- lady in this row. to put the pieces together and connect through to today. for the entire government white house structure it has no structure he, no strategic plan especially in the foreign policy or the economic policy everything is just ad hoc and i see things tumbling down making for even greater chaos. >> as a reference for my question, benjamin friedman at t age 71 gave a talk at the hotel in 1961 and

the next president to break was franklin roosevelt in 1939. by 1867, andrew johnson was confident enough to assert in that year's proclamation that the practice of a national thanksgiving had been accepted throughout the country. this recent custom, he wrote, may now be regarded as established on national consent and approval. back then is the story of lincoln, mrs. hale, and thanksgiving. with thanks giving day 2017 just a few days away, i thought it would be appropriate to conclude with a beautiful line from lincoln's 1863 thanks giving proclamation. it seems to me fit and proper that our nation's blessings should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole american republic. onse are words to ponder thursday as we celebrate our 154th thanksgiving since lincoln began the modern version of this venerable american tradition. thank you and happy thanksgiving. [applause] >> we have time for questions. if you have a question, please come to the microphones. yes. >> thank you very much for your

famous roosevelt tomb, theodore roosevelt's who was shot down 1918.y of >> july 14. >> you can view many more silent war i signal films online. the national archives has oftored several hundred these films and posted them to their youtube channel. join c-span sunday, veterans day, live at 4:30 a.m. eastern, for the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i, with french president emmanuel macron speaking. a.m., washington journal is live on c-span. and american history t.v. on c-span 3. for a special call-in program about what was hoped to be the wars. end all loyola university professor. c-span,. eastern on live coverage of president trump at first lady melania trump world war i ceremonies in paris. then at 11, the wreath-laying tomb of thethe unknowns. live from arlington national cemetery. and our live veterans day coverage continues at 5 p.m. awards,with the liberty honoring former president george w. bush and laura bush. t.v. oncan history c-span 3 at 9 a.m. eastern, narrate the 1921 silent film documenting the war iy of a world soldiers' remains from france to arlington national c