>> franklin roosevelt -- unlike trumans nominees to the court, franklin roosevelt's nominees, they are well known by many americans certainly anyone who has suffered through law school. because they are understood as these profound jurors and pillars of the law. but they didn't like each other. and perhaps that goes hand in hand. they did not get along. and it wasn't just a matter of ideology, which it was. they agreed on new deal policy. but they didn't agree on too much else. by that also was a matter of the fact that they personally came to dislike each other. they dislike each other in this very insular environment, where they had to work closely together without the interference of clerks that the justices have now. they had clerks but it was not what we have today. so they had to work more closely together. and they came to dislike each other actively. and suspect each other's ambitions. and so -- the situation with which franklin roosevelt ended up -- or, i should say, the supreme court ended up with -- a few justices think that justice is appointed by the same president, that t

why did they hate roosevelt what was the issue?issue behind this is they believed franklin roosevelt was ultimately setting the stage for the rise of the antichrist. diabolical world leader who's going to take power to the ends of times. they were convinced we are living at the end of history. so in their minds and their magazines and on the radio stations they were continuously looking for signs that would tell us how close we were to what the bible describes as the rapture, the armageddon the rise of the antichrist and the second coming of jesus. ultimately they felt fdr was preparing the 9 cents for those events where there is some debate among them whether or not he was doing it consciously and explicitly like was he purposely working for the devil because that's what he wanted to do or was he naÏve just not really aware behind the decisions he was making. roosevelt was a problem so let's talk a little bit might even general goals were growing and power all try to watch my language, i confuse the terms they use for themselves a

go back to the end of the roosevelt administration. what was happening on the court that made this a special circumstance? >> on like truman nominees to the court, they are well known by many americans certain certainly anyone who suffer there with your law school. as a profound jurors in the joints and pillars of the west. they did not like each other. perhaps, they did not get along. they agreed on media policy but not in too much else. it is also a matter fact they personally came to dislike each other and areas really had to work closely together without the semblance that justices have now. they had clerks but not what we had today. they had to work more closely together. and suspect this the supreme court ended up with a few justices think that justice wanted to be president himself. therefore is perhaps skewing his vote had to be the finest writer ever on the supreme court. he slowed his writing ability intact. and he wanted to be president jackson just wants to beat chief justice. there's all these interesting battles happening

roosevelt asked mr. cunewtsen, how long will it take to convert our economy to war time production from civilian? he pulled out his computer, which in 1940 was a pencil and a scrap of paper, that's how we did computations in those days, and he said, well, mr. president, looks like 18 months. that's june of 1940 to december of 1941. he said the country would essentially have its economy on a war time footing. in the fall, he reinstates the draft for one year only, while assuring americans your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. and there's really the money quote from that fall 1940 speech. and it's a promise that roosevelt will keep, although it seems unusual to say that, but we can talk about that when we talk about the actual attack. he decides to stage the u.s. navy's pacific fleet from its home port in san diego, california, to pearl harbor, hawaii, to project strength against japan in the pacific. and against all u.s. political traditions, we're still reeling from this one, he decid

he found it advisable not to accept it is nomination and person roosevelt like wendell willkie led a wendell -- trust understood death was about to claim him before his architect of the peace was finished. of all those he would deem worthy and surely not harry truman. it was wendell willkie presumed to be in good health but dead at 52 on the eve of 1944 election. the republican party's internationalism is destined to swerve away from it optimistic origins toward a steadily anti-communism that became indistinguishable from imperialism. instead of the one world ideal the true object tree wood and in the american century. it undoubtedly would position him at the center of post-war international reconstruction and domestic politics and now contra factual to suggest that wendell willkie's commitment to power block understanding into coexistence is first-hand familiarity with the dramatis personae of eastern europe the middle east and asia that expressed itself in vigorous councils of moderation and reproach against the cold war policies that rapidly displaced if i take charter ideals dnf

if willkie was a roosevelt dared to run again for third time. until this warp speed materialization in may and early juneio of 1940 republican party regulars needed help in catching up with willkie's political prospects. the kenneth simpson the committeeman when asked to pitch wendell willkie is a direct to a fund-raiser simpson listed other difficulties. i'm supposed to come and go back to the clubhouse until the boys that we had to pull together now to get the nomination for wendell willkie? they will ask me will be? who is willkie? i will tell him he is president of the southern wealth and the next question will be words that rovera go to i and i'll explains not a road award of the public holding company and then they will look at me sadly and say we always thought you were a liberal erratic. now we know that you're just plain and that would the without my even getting defensive that he's a democrat. the truth about wendell willkie's unlikely run for the presidency of the united states makes an even better one. republicans had found no ground

roosevelt called it the bear's den. eisenhower went to camp david ask named all the trees, the aspen, the tree of mamie eisenhower's home. about 20 total including the fire department, ash, the clinic, eucalyptus, the admin office popular, all the support facilities, the barracks for the marines, et cetera. >> you were the commander. what is the size of the military staff at camp david, and what types of jobs do they perform? >> over 200 sailors and marines, five civic corps officers. we have one chaplain corps and two marine officers overseeing the security company which comes out of the barracks in washington, d.c. we also have a white house communications agency. they are in charge of communications. that's a joint command coming out of the main command in downtown d.c. >> so can you tell us a little bit about how camp david has changed over the years? it was very rustic when fdr first came to camp david. there's been some notable additions to the complex. you've mentioned there is a chaplain, so there's a chapel at

roosevelt asked mr. knutson how long will it take to convert our economy from world time production, knutson pulled out his computer, which in 1940 was a pencil and a scrap of paper, that is how we did computations in those days. and he said well mr. president looks like 18 months. if you're counting that's june 1941 knutson said the president enchant the economy would have it on a wartime footing. now in the fall he really gets going. he reinstates the draft for one year only assuring americans your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign oars. this road the money quote from that fall 1940 speech. it is a promise roosevelt will keep although it seems unusual to say that hopefully we can talk about that we talk about the actual attack. he decided to stage the pacific fleet from the home port in sanding of california he decides to run for third term as president of the united states? wendell wilkie the campaign sees very little disagreement over foreign policy. the danger to the country's real, bot

it was here that eleanor roosevelt, the widow of you as president franklin d. roosevelt changed the course of history. the year was 1947 and the former 1st lady stayed in the sweet while drafting a major paper for the united nations. this she, those are the exceptional movie bernacki for amanda. we are here in a very special place where people who have shaped the world have stayed as guests of new social pass router. all the heads of state politicians and people who participated in the great geneva conferences after the edition. i will end of course, eleanor roosevelt, an unforgettable personality for geneva. earlier, who said she was in charge of a commission to draft the universal declaration of human rights. and she did it here on charlotte commercial or get hot enough kiara liberal. this is the fundamental document of the united nations, like a guiding star, so document for them all to all dirty national genie. this is you really to all the child you know, can cooper the cities, hotels in the united nation. so the very special relationship during state visits, hotel serve as the link b

roosevelt. roosevelt had fireside chats. a lot of people think you get them every week, no. he gave them on special occasions. there weren't as many fireside chats as people think there were. roosevelt had a very good voice for radio, and he understood with the fireside chats, you didn't talk the same way as you did when you were a rating to a large crowd. a lot of times politicians of the era would give this amazing speech just talking into the radio and people would get turned off by that. he also used radio effectively on certain special occasions. and some of his major speeches or broadcast. roosevelt gave some acceptance speeches. you may say, yes, so? the answer is that this was an innovation. roosevelt flew to the convention in 1932 and accepted the nomination in person, something people did not do in those days. wow, this is something special. in 1936, he gave an acceptance speech again. really acceptance speeches as we know them would not become regular rise until well into the 20th century. and one speech in particular that coincided with his presidential responsib

roosevelt. and roosevelt is famous for the so-called fireside chats. the important thing to know, though, about the fireside chats, a lot of people think he gave them every week. no. no, no. he gave them on special occasions. there weren't as many fireside chats as people think there were. but roosevelt had a very good voice for radio. and he understood in the fireside chats that you didn't talk the same way as you did when you were orating to a large crowd. a lot of times politicians of the era would give this amazing speech, just talking into the radio microphone, and people would get turned off by that. fdr understood that's not how you talk on the radio. he also used radio effectively on certain special occasions. and some of his major speeches were broadcast. roosevelt gave acceptance speeches. now, you may say, yeah, so? and the answer is, this was an innovation. roosevelt flew to the convention in 1932 and accepted the nomination in person, which was something people just didn't do in those days, wow, this is something special. in 1936, he gave

roosevelt. and roosevelt is famous for the so-called fireside chats. an or not thing to know though -- an important thing to know about the fireside chats, a lot of people think he did them every week. no. no, no. he did them on essential occasions. there weren't as many fireside chats as people think there were. roosevelt had a really good voice for if radio, and and e understood that with the tireside chat you didn't -- fireside chat you didn't talk the same way as you did when you were to rating to a large -- orating to a large are crowd. people would get turned off way that. fdr understood that's not the way you talk on the radio. he also used radio effectively on certain special occasions. and some of his major speeches were broadcast. roosevelt gave acceptance speeches. you hay say, yeah, so? roosevelt flew to the convention in 1932 and accepted the nomination this person which was something people just didn't do this those days. wow, this is something special n. 1936 he gave an acceptance speech again. really the speeches would not if become reg

i wanted to know more about the us 1st lady eleanor roosevelt stay in his family's hotel. he has an appointment with the head archivist of the united nations library. i committed to providing the caching officer to new york. it was the committee to prepare the declaration of human rights in the 1st met exclusively in new york. on this then in december 1947, the committee came to geneva to approve the text with eleanor roosevelt as its chairperson to duke of evans. it fixed. okay. that's right. that went to the sir. we have the photographs that shows eleanor roosevelt and that the holding the universal declaration of human rights and was bent on every secret. santa dick, i assume kiska. he chose her, his chair, puffy, don't allow requests, you know, i to mine, ah, you as president harry truman asked her to help formulate the declaration of human rights and they, of and some of the mel delegates were not pleased at 1st. these are totally gave us this on to my wife that because she was a woman. she was an activist. right? ma'am. all who? yes, is room equal or it was there wer

joe roosevelt amended chandra law applying a utopian mysterious place of the mountain. he had that whimsical nature about naming things bridget that's what its name. as mail president eisenhower renamed after his grandson, camp david. that is how we know it today. >> you describe kempton for a lot of our viewers and listeners who i'm sure have never visited camp david in person. i'm probably will not visit camp david. when you paint a picture of what the camp is like? >> i will try. great partners of ours 1800 feet elevation, on the spring and summer months. a leafy canopy perfectly manicured yards, the road meanders to the camp. in these cabins we presidential walk-through all the cabins have this oak plank siding with the certain shade of green paint. all the roofs are cedar shake shingles. these very rustic, very leafy, very fresh. but at night i find it particularly surreal definitely quiet, no white except pathway light. no noise except for a squirrel in the tree no lights, no noises from below eerily quiet peaceful. inside the campus is called cedar just from the

first lady eleanor roosevelt stay in his family's hotel. he has an appointment with the head archivist of the united nations library. i committed a proposal that the caching over to new york. it is the committee to prepare the declaration of human rights in a 1st met exclusively in new york on this then in december 1947, the committee came to geneva to approve the text with eleanor roosevelt as its chair. personally don't go to the oven the, the text. okay, that's right. that was the clear. we have the photograph that shows eleanor roosevelt medic holding the universal declaration of human rights and was bent on every secret tenant can assume kiska. he chose her, his chair. if you don't allow requests, you know, i to mine, ah, you as president harry truman asked her to help formulate the declaration of human rights about some of the mel delegates were not pleased at 1st diesel. totally gave us this on to my wife that because she was a woman. she was an activist. right ma'am? oh yes. is really cool. a mom? her mom, there were many different

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okay. eleanor roosevelt took on the task with a lot of teresa marquis lanier for that. and she was appointed the chair of the commission on human rights. so i'd love to clean it as more, le let's have them move. you can take a look recently some commission members complained about the pace, but she was determined to finish within the given time, ready to renew its own. so for the girls limited on it, don't know, kind of italy and, and the delegate one delegate, i think from indonesia complained. he said human rights are not respected by the commission on human rights. because she made the delegates work until 7 piano with or some of her. i'd like to know what happened at the boulevard back then, because she stayed there whenever she visited mirage in google. surely there were private meetings in the hotels. then as there are now learned is a take me visit him and asked him if i come up, which was a yes, a lot happens at these informal meetings, regression this suite at the bow revise is the perfect place for such private or even secret meetings. guests can have their ch

roosevelt visited the sites nearby. he went to all three, when he came to number three he looked at and said, this is it. and he said this is my shangri-la. he named it shangri-la to imply a utopian mysterious place in the mountain. [inaudible] -- so, that's what's its name. president eisenhower named after his grandson, camp david. that's how we know today. >> can you describe camp david for a lot of our viewers and listeners who i'm sure have never visited camp david in person. and probably will not visit camp david. can you paint me a picture of what's the camp was like? >> sure, i will try. so, imagine a hilltop national park, maintained by the national park service. about 1800 feet elevation. in the spring and summer months, a very brushed canopy, perfectly manicured yard, narrow asphalt roads. and these cabins that you see here, all the cabins had a rough cut oak like siding with greene paint. all the roofs are sheet or -- it's a very rustic, very fresh. but at night, i find it particularly severe and ominous at n

roosevelt received 666 votes. when i first read that in the fundamentalist magazine, i thought that was too good to be true, so it is already setting fundamentalists on edge. there is we're going on here, and i talk to my students about this, that roosevelt became such a revered person that americans don't realize how much those that hated roosevelt in the '30s really truly despised him. but they saw him consolidating power, and they saw him essentially controlling congress. and if you add to that his efforts to pack the supreme court, it likes like what they had all done and in 1940 welcome he defies american traditions after stepping down after two terms, and this further reinforces that hitler is not just a regular -- sorry, roosevelt is not just a regular american president, but that he is up to something far more sinister. so this framed the way they understood what he was doing and more broadly new deal liberal ism. they looked at programs and saw they were helping prepare americans for the end times. one wa

roosevelt. roosevelt is famous for the so-called fireside chats.nt thing to know about the fireside chats. a lot of people think he gave them every week. no, no, no. he gave'em on special occasions. there weren't as many fireside chats as people think there were. but roosevelt had a very good voice for radio and he understood in the fireside chat s that the more moderate wing of the republican party. and they were good at it. tom dewey was elected three times as governor of new york. that you didn't talk the same way as you did when you were rating to a large crowd. lot of times politicians of the era -- amazing speech just talking into the radio microphone -- and people would get tumpbd off by that. fdr understand that is not the way you talk on the radio.rned . fdr understand that is not the way you talk on the radio. he also used radio effectively on certain special occasions. and some of his major speeches were broadcast. roosevelt gave acceptance speech. and you may, yeah, so? and this was an innovation. roosevelt flew to the convention in 193

lady was not as effective as owner roosevelt but she was very effective.mrs. reagan was wonderful to me over the years. i remember when i was starting my first book on the 76 campaign i was having trouble with the reagan library and she caught wind of it through a mutual friend of mine who has since passed away, who was a friend of mine and no book had been written on the 76 campaign, one of the most thrilling campaigns we ever had. all the gubernatorial presidential campaigns. it was exciting. these files the library had been sealed and hadn't been catalogued, weren't a priority like the presidential files were but to open up the policy for my exclusive use for my book on the 76 campaign. i will be forever and ever to mrs. reagan and on her memory. >> booktv has covered karen tumbledy on the biography of nancy reagan. we covered her at an event at the ronald reagan library. in montgomery, alabama. please go ahead. >> caller: good show, gentlemen. i'm celebrating my sixteenth birthday today and i wanted to share a story i remember my dad saying in regard t

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. >> i was surprised that i wrote a lot about the three as i recall, when churchill roosevelt and stalin met in the big bear and if the other big conference at the end of the work which is stalin churchill and truman of course by then and roosevelt said the meat and surprised me is the extent to which both roosevelt and churchill and truman and churchill were prepared to trust stalin. and he clearly had absolutely no intention whatsoever of living up to the promises he made for dealing the promises that he made earlier and of course, the work comes to an end. red army swept into eastern europe and is astonishing, they got everything that he wants wanted as a truman and churchill chare really, there is a bit ofa backseat there because stalin has one everything that he wanted and yet they still wanted to work with him. they wanted to keep his wartime 11 that's where the real tension comes in with holly on the ground in berlin and this is ridiculous, this guy cannot reach us. these persistent, freely began to change policy. as all happening on a very personal level you know pretty. >> toget

was it woodrow wilson, franklin d roosevelt, john quincy adams or woody allen?ybe fdr? kennedy: you are right. fdr. omg. all three of our players are on the board. let's go with round number two. which of these presidents changed the name of fdr's presidential from shangri-la to camp david? ronald reagan, right d eisenhower, jimmy carter or abraham lincoln? >> i do not but i'm going to guess eisenhower. kennedy: you guessed correctly. excellent work. you are not in the lead with two kevin, which of these presidents once proclaimed and looked on a lot of women with lust, i committed adultery in my heart many times, this is something god recognizes i will do and have done it and god forgives me broke. who said that? bill clinton, james madison, jimmy carter or donald j trump? >> that would be jimmy carter in the playboy magazine. kennedy: absolutely right and the pages were stuck together. you, brad. [laughter] i know, that's gross. which vomited on a japanese prime minister? four, jimmy carter, bush or hambly complex. >> george h.w.? kennedy: that's right. our pa

when roosevelt, franklin roosevelt sat down to give his first fireside chance, he began with two words that do not appear in the text. they were "my friends", hard to imagine george washington saying my friends, or calvin coolidge, another one of my heroes. >> have to first-- >> and roosevelt understood and he was going to create a new intimacy with the country. well, i don't think we want to be intimate with presidents. >> i'd rather not. >> they are the head of one branch of one of our many governments. >> and who has been the most ideal president in your view? who did it right or at least came close to it? because ronald reagan was famous for communicating with the president and look at the ghost of reagan and bring him back. >> and communicating with the public. it is wrong to say that the president should be front and center all the time communicating all the time, when the senator of colorado was making a brief run for the democratic nomination for president in 2020, he tweeted vote for me and you'll get a president you won't have to think about for weeks at a time. i was for him

teddy roosevelt for some reason, he just never, never clicked with. but there were various reasons for this it. but i'm going to be speaking at my next speech about churchill and american presidents. want to tell you my theories about why he never got with teddy roosevelt then. but of course he of course got one wonderfully well with franklin roosevelt but he did not like the cocktails that fdr used to mix for him at the white house. but otherwise there doesn't seem to have been a personal disagreement. there were strategic agreements. he wrote a wonderful book. i think your question is should immediately after they finish my book get a hole of the great contemporaries which is a wonderful book about all of the sort of top people who churchill knew by the time it was published in 1937. and that is a superb series of beautifully written portraits about all of the great people that churchill had met. >> host: including fe smith. >> guest: there is one on fe smith. i think there may be like 25 or so. they are not all people who he likes. the kaiser, for

at yelta, roosevelt is a couple of months away from dying, he's a very, very sick man. they had to have some meetings in his bedroom with him in bed. perhaps he was not on his best form, and churchill likewise, i don't think he was in his best form. he was drinking unbelievably heavily at the yelta conference, one of his aides described him as drinking bucketsful of champagne. and he kept saying i like that man, i can work with him. stalin used this to his advantage, and after the potsda m conference, the soviet's account of potsdam, and they came away thinking, we have won this hands down, we got everything we wanted. i'm fascinated by stalin, he was so evil and yet could be so charming, and he seduced so many people, and i think he seduced both churchill and truman and roosevelt. >> fascinating, i'm curious, we're almost out of time, and we're getting the heads up that we're going to move to some audience questions in a minute, so last question i have, i think we have time to slip one more in is, you know, this is history that took place a very long time ago, but one

you have stalin, roosevelt, truman, and the picture on the ground, a microcosm where it is fought between these commanders, but a personal way of telling a big geopolitical story. >> it does feel very personal and i knew these men so well is men, that was so well done. haole has a heads up, realizing these men will not be his allies. he's in conflict with his own country, what is the big turning point when everybody realized you were right, we are not going to come to an agreement, what is the big turning point? >> haole is saying we've got to change policy. winston churchill comes to america, truman invites him to make the famous iron curtain speech. this is a wake-up call to the world, churchill says stalin can no longer be trusted, these are no longer allies, we got to change foreign-policy. total scandal in america. the idea is to keep working with stalin. churchill put differently, he can't be trusted. one of the soviet sniper clocks working at a soviet embassy in canada defects to the west and defects with a huge bundle of explosive documents that reveal soviets have been spying on

but he got on wonderfully well with franklin roosevelt. he didn't like the cocktails that the fbi used to mix for him at the white house, but otherwise there doesn't seem to have been apparently disagreement. there were political and strategic disagreements later on. he wrote a wonderful book. i think your question should immediately after they finish my bookers get ahold of "great contemporaries" about all the top people who churchill new at the time it was published in 1937. that was a superb series of beautifully written portraits about all the great people churchill had net. >> including e.e. smith. >> there is one. there are 25 or so. and they're not all people whoa liked, the kaiser, for example, he writes about in a very penetrating way. but i do recommend that book hugely. >> we're drawing to a close, so we have time just for a couple more questions. one member of the audience asked, how did churchill adapt the involving technology of his time and how those technologies had an impact in which the ways leaders led? would churchill h

. - you've also played franklin delano roosevelt, - yeah. what is it? - who i heard you describe. you said you learned of fdr, that quote: he had many slippery qualities. in a way, events turned them into a sort of great unwitting hero, as a descendant of franklin delano roosevelt's chief political punching bag, fully agree with your characterization, but wonder what did you find that was slippery about him? - well, he was so crafty, i guess the great truism i came up against, with playing roosevelt is that every politician has got to be dishonest on some level, you know? - not always, they're just not popular if they aren't. - well, maybe, but you gotta be popular in order to get your way, - yeah, well, but hoover doesn't follow that formula. - and everything can be taken to crazy excess. i also think- - i push back only because hoover, who i know you've had a chance to look at a little bit, really didn't subscribe to any of that. and perhaps, maybe that- - yeah, that's right. - perhaps, perhaps that, you know, maybe has something to do with his lack of political success. - and y