i think you have heard of roosevelt. one or two pieces of information to get our minds going in that direction. yeah, go ahead. [inaudible] the eyeglasses. yes it didn't look weird to his friends, but yes. [inaudible] yet, we will talk about that. he really believed in conserving american wildlife. he is there a contradiction there? we can talk about that. anything else? yeah. [inaudible] same time we've been talking about. the carnegies, the rockefellers, the first decade of the 20th century as the time of tr's presidency. we know a little bit about him. he is not his fifth cousin, franklin roosevelt and the new deal. that will come in a few weeks. this is the first, and the greater, maybe, roosevelt. we will talk about him. a little bit of background here on where and when he was born. his bringing up years. roosevelt was born october of 1858 in new york city. he's a kind of symbolic -- the hardened center of american life, born into a very wealthy family, we will talk about that in a bit. he is very much the child of

the roosevelt would have liked. truth be told roosevelt's own policies had begun to drift leftward in these years as well. during the course of his presidency and especially by the early 19 teens. he had gotten more radical and more progressive in his views. he decided in 1912 to take just about the unprecedented step of challenging taft for the republican nomination. this happens once in a while in american politics, but not very often okay, so this is you know, this would be in 2024 if another democrat would challenge president biden for the nomination. this is usually seen as disloyal to the party. it's usually seen as unwise as giving a hand to the other party but roosevelt believed or at least told himself. he believed the taft was doing such a poor job that it was time for roosevelt to return to the white house. he challenges roosevelt. he challenges taft for the nomination. 1912 loses doesn't get it. he alleges fraud at the convention the convention and not treated his delegates fairly. that's a very arcane i

the roosevelt would have liked. truth be told roosevelt's own policies had begun to drift leftward in these years as well. during the course of his presidency and especially by the early 19 teens. he had gotten more radical and more progressive in his views. he decided in 1912 to take just about the unprecedented step of challenging taft for the republican nomination. this happens once in a while in american politics, but not very often okay, so this is you know, this would be in 2024 if another democrat would challenge president biden for the nomination. this is usually seen as disloyal to the party. it's usually seen as unwise as giving a hand to the other party but roosevelt believed or at least told himself. he believed the taft was doing such a poor job that it was time for roosevelt to return to the white house. he challenges roosevelt. he challenges taft for the nomination. 1912 loses doesn't get it. he alleges fraud at the convention the convention and not treated his delegates fairly. that's a very arcane i

franklin roosevelt. well, by the time convention starts and they devote all kinds of ink, the newspapers that are run hearst and also the magazines they send out, damon runyon to interview to land. and now there's their oil and water, though. damon runyon is from colorado. mr. time square. and and one of the questions he asks is, do you stand on prohibition? you know because kansas still had prohibition and landed actually i don't know if landed dances around that but but the damon runyon knows what he has to do for mr. hearst and he really dances around it so. the delegates are there the delegates are there by the time the convention arises. and and land and land and gets the nod. so we've got land and. he's our establishment, the republican party nominee. yeah. then you've got what turns out to be a sort of array of people, a variety of ideas or program amps that promote old pensions, everything from that to well. and till unfortunately, when he was assassinated or depending on how your narrative of th

this is the roosevelt's the roosevelt and lincoln image. we introduced our conversation with and roosevelt was president for 12 years and lincoln for four. did they work hard at their jobs? there they are at the end of their presidencies. so, thank you. thank you for your attention. and i know that we'd love to hear more but we also would like to hear from you. so after such a charming and informative and entertaining viewpoint of these two great leaders, does anyone have any questions they'd like to post to our experts. please state your name and pose your question. it's it's on. dr. john willen from washington dc not as much of a question, but for those of you who are really into this photography stuff the photograph of mcclellan the lincoln that you showed. dennis frye who has identified the exact spot where that was taken it was he lives in on burnside's headquarters the house that was burned and across the street. there's a property and that's where that was taken on the antietam battlefield. so david identified exactly where that was.

roosevelt. and in c-span's most recent historians poll, these two american regionals were in the top three. as they always are. among historians. and they have kept their reputation. as you see on the screen, both faced significant crises at the beginning of their presidencies, in respect to presidencies. lee image that you see here is lincoln in the first year of his presidency. 1861. and roosevelt within the first year or two. not sure of the date of this one. but early in his presidency. here is how we are going to handle that shot today. i'm going to pose a question or a theme, an area to discuss. i will start with a link in the, usually. and i will turn it over to crack to answer, and offer a roosevelt comment, and throw it back to me for a roosevelt rejoinder. this will last about one and a half -- and then we will be off to the races. let's start with training and preparation. for the presidency. this is an eastman johnson painting of lincoln, reading and learning by the firelight in one

that's what roosevelt did.he whole, there were tens of millions of people who were reading newspapers who just him and believe he was the incarnate. everything he did was for his own own advantage. and he didn't just say well you know that's the way things are. he went out there and fought it. >> what type of language with the use or not the right-wing media studies not really the president and he lost the election and they totally delegitimize him. >> in a way you can listen to the daily newsre editorials in 1940 to 1944 and see they are trying to do you digital my -- delegitimize it. in close elections i'm sure they would have said they were stolen. so i think there are a lot of parallels. t i think as a policymaker you have to get out there and fight for your beliefs and you have to be a strong advocate for what you believe because who else is going to fight for you if you aren't going to? >> okay. >> hi there. this is not the area beer book so you may not know anything about it. i'm curious the other major

that is what roosevelt did. there were these tens of millions of people who just hated him and believed he was the devil incarnate and everything he did was for his own advantage -- >> what language were they using that right wing media said he's not really the president, last the election? >> in a way, you can look at the daily news editorials in 1942-1944, it is only because he won by such a big margins. i'm sure they would have said they were stolen so there are a lot of parallels. as a policymaker you have to get out and fight to be a strong advocate because who else will fight? >> acknowledging this is not the area of your book, the other major way people would have gotten news would be radio. are you aware of news presented on the radio, with the newspaper barons you talk about? >> interesting point. there is a shift from the mid to late 1930s. in its early days, a lot of presenters, would read newspaper stories on the air, they would not generate their own news, they would have commentators who would run

he didn't like roosevelt's protections for unions, and he didn't like roosevelt's taxes on the rich. in his editorials which were often on the front pages of his newspapers hurst blame the new deal for bringing communism. secretly to the country. so here's one typical editorial in 1935 again all caps lock key. since we have moved left, we can see the monstrous russian doctrine being actually applied of grading down the whole population to the level of the lease prosperous. is this the new deal or the new death? so her said that roosevelt's tax plan, which would have raised taxes on the 50 wealthiest people in the united states including him was essentially communism and could have been devised by a composite personality labeled stalin delano roosevelt. now hurst opposition to roosevelt's policies was not confined to the editorial pages despite his rhetorical commitment to objective journalism. so in june of 1935 he directed his editors to not call the tax bill to soak the rich bill, which is roosevelt's title for it. but instead soak the thrifty soak the saving or soak the prosperous

that's what roosevelt did.e did not, the whole there were these tens of millions of people reading newspapers put out by men that just hated him and believed he was the devil incarnate. everything he did was for his own advantage and he didn't just say that's the way things are. he went out and bought them. >> now we have the right-wing media saying they are just trying to delegitimize. >> in a way you can listen to the daily news editorials and see that they are trying to delegitimize because he was owned by such big margins that they didn't s succeed. so i think there are a lot of parallels. as a policymaker, you have to get out there and fight for your belief seem to be a strong advocate for what you believe because who else is going to fight for you if you are not? >> okay. thank you. >> acknowledging first this is not the area of your bookan so u may not know anything about it, but the other major way the people at that time would have gotten news would have been the radio. are you aware from your research

but how about roosevelt? >> i think you can argue that roosevelt's cabinet as it least as much a team of rivals as lincoln. lincoln invited those that were competitors with him to the republican nomination. he chase, and baits -- revolt did something i think lincoln never considered. invited the losing ticket, alpha landon and frank knox, the republican presidential and vice presidential candidates, to join his cabinet. he offered -- the commerce secretary's position, and he offered frank knox secretary of the navy. landon said, i'll do it if you promise not to run for a third term. >> okay, you arrived. but frank knox did except, and remain secretary of the navy until he died in april of 1944, on the eve of the day. so here, he has republicans in his cabinet. harold already mentioned francis perk guns, the first woman labor secretary of any cabinet position. she served the entire term. and then, of course, the real problem that roosevelt has, and to a certain extent, lincoln to. i think harold convention thi

roosevelt nation, fdr in 1936. landslide in the triumph of the liberal idea david will be signing books in our new deal bookstore afterwards if you would like that and invite you for that and we want to thank you for being here tonight. thank you. ab hi everyone. i'm herman eberhardt, the museum curator here at the franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum. and today i'm going to be giving you a brief tour, a little introduction to a brand new special exhibit that we have here at the library called fdr final campaign along the way, we're actually going to have a chance to talk with someone who worked with us on the development of this exhibit. and i think it gives you some insight into how exhibits come into existence. what we do exhibits here at the roosevelt library, we always work with historical advisors who are experts in the area that we're looking at in the exhibit. and for this exhibit we had two advisors, jeffrey ward, the distinguished biographer of franklin roosevelt, and david wallner, who is a

>> franklin roosevelt, unlike truman's nominees to the court, franklin roosevelt's nominees are well known by many americans. certainly by anyone who has suffered their way through law school. there were these profound jurist's. they were giant pillars of the law. they did not like each other. perhaps that goes hand in hand. they did not get long. it was not just a matter of ideology, which it was. they agreed on new deal policy, but i did not agree on too much of it. there was a fact that they personally came to dislike each other in this insular environment. they had to work closely together without the phalanx of clerks that justices have now. they had a clerk, but it was not what we have today. they had to work more closely together. they had come to actively dislike each other. they suspected each other's ambitions. you end up with a situation that franklin roosevelt ended up with. a few justices think that justices appointed by the same president. they think that the same president but appointed them, that justice wants to be president himself. he is there for skewing his vote

edith roosevelt, for example, provided a space where theodore roosevelt could meet together with the booker t. washington. that was not something that could have happened just anywhere in washington d. c. and so, that space that first ladies and first families in general have provided for gathering americans across the political divide has been a crucial part of it. i think that's why in historical, historian solidarity with dr. allgor there -- the unofficials sphere, it is such an important term rather than -- i know, political science and soft power -- but the unofficial sphere is integral to what the first lady has always done, even down to today. so changes, well there are many changes in and we can talk more about these, but it has to do with the growth of gender expectations, the growth of women's activity in the world as we move through the century of civil war, it makes changes. women's war work. and then as we get toward the gilded age and moving into the progressive era, the sort of work that women do in the world to move out of their domestic sphere, which was the socially

so bob, in your book, you talk about a conundrum for roosevelt. he obviously enjoyed train travel and traveled extensively. he also is the first president to fly. in an airplane. and of course that was after his administration. when he traveled for campaigning for vice president with william mckinley in 1900, he traveled 21,000 miles during that campaign on a train and made 673 speeches, according to your book. here we have a picture of him making a speech from the rear platform of an observation car. can you talk a little bit about what that speech was like and how it unfolded when the train arrived? >> well, when the train got to a certain city, the candidate would come out on the rear of his private car, like you see in the picture there. he would talk directly to the people. which was a lot better than the way presidents travel today, 35,000 feet up in the air. people got to know the man. i remember hearing truman one-time saying something like, why do you do this? why do you go all over the country speaking to people from the rear of a train?

and finally, bob, one other item on president roosevelt one of the interesting stories about roosevelt and later truman and eisenhower's this is a business of who pays what to write a presidential train? by this time trains were exceeding 20 passenger cars and lengthy has a president, he had his staff, good newspaper reported that other politicians invited. and one of your quotes in your book says one of the conductors he spent more time working as a detective rather than a conductor. tuna talk a little bit about what he meant by that? >> oh well, the guest is the word implies and they would do since the things. remember on one is in eisenhower funeral train they did not let any spirits on board when the train left washington. but people started demanding. so they stopped and loaded up. and that caused people to get loaded. here's one story is that secret service man think it was a military type of some kind came out of his compartment and was dressed in his underwear. [laughter] then to get them back into the apartment very quickly before the powers that be saw that person. eisenhower

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as we were researching the theodore roosevelt book, we realized in 1904, when roosevelt was running for reelection, he wanted hitt for his vice presidential candidate. it was close. it is something that is not widely known. in the end, he was pressured by the party to go a different direction. robert hitt certainly developed a good reputation. teddy roosevelt was a huge lincoln fan. i don't know and don't believe that teddy roosevelt's admiration for robert hitt was somehow connected to his transcribing lincoln's case, but i am convinced he did know about robert hitt transcribing the lincoln-douglas debates. >> it was 1915, the case was barnes versus roosevelt. what are the facts? >> teddy roosevelt was sued after he was president for a comment he had made about a well-known republican, fellow republican remember, leader in the party. it was pretty standard bluster of teddy roosevelt, attacking barnes as being effectively corrupt because he wanted party officials to make decisions rather than the people voting on it themselves. barnes sued him. roosevelt was eager to take on the case, a

eleanor roosevelt was passionate about and cnw. in the spirit of ncnw, the other ghost that is here now, the other spirit that we must embrace and celebrate and must never be forgotten is the incomparable dorothy height. she helped me understand their relationship a lot. they were on my board when i ran the eleanor papers which is documentary history of eleanor roosevelt human rights work defined. lastly, i am with dr. height one day and we have gone out of the national cathedral and she's giving me a hard time for not going to church. [laughter] we're getting in a car to go have lunch. she said i forgot to tell you she said i didn't think it was appropriate but the more i think about it i think you really need to document. just imagine dorothy height and all of her splendor and her real posture -- regal posture in the wheelchair with this extraordinary hat turning around to tell me the story. she said it's 19 47. dr. bethune told me this as her favorite eleanor memory. she said they are in nashville and i 1947, dr. bethune's asthm

eleanor roosevelt and mary mcleod bethune.alk into the lobby of this plush place, and these are women who by now are calling each other eleanor and mary. they get halfway across the lobby, and eleanor turns to bethune and says, oh doctor bethune, i'm so sorry to be so rude but i have left something in my room. i must go back and get, it could you come with me? do you mind? they turn around and go back in the elevator that rejected bethune and that my friend is how the hermitage hotel, in nashville, tennessee, was integrated. always remember [applause] they were tough, they risked their lives, their reputations, they risked their incomes but they sure knew the power of a symbolic gesture. may we revel in bethune's fierce courage. may we hazard everything we have, to implement her vision. and if you don't take another risk today after you watch, walked by that statue, shame on you, thank you very much. please please please. now, you're going to get a real scholar. it is my great pleasure to introduce to misha whitaker whose work

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

is it the next grover cleveland, teddy roosevelt, or millard fillmore? we do not talk much about millard fillmore. can we dig more into him? guest: he was president from 1850 to 1853. teddy roosevelt came to the presidency of nightly death of zachary taylor. here i sit in louisville. zachary taylor was born your charlottesville, but like many virginians, he came to kentucky and settled in louisville. that retailer did eventually. i am sitting about two miles from the home that zachary taylor lived in in louisville. he is buried about two miles from me. this is often atypical scenario where the vice president will succeed to the presidency. with john fowler, that was after william henry harrison. the presidency -- the country does not really want that person to run for presidency in his own right. often, the party turns on that vice president who has succeeded to the presidency. that is what happened to millard fillmore. he did not get the nomination of his wig party to run for a term in his own right. he waited four years and joined what was a new party

canyon in near woods and many others, but that was the first conservation the second was franklin d roosevelt and the civilian conservation corps between 1930 in 1942. and they planted about two to 3 billion trees, 3 billion total if you add them all up to help us fight -- to save and restock lakes and ponds. our country was in bad shape in the 1930's and now this book, is the third wave and that was what we tend to call the environmental movement of the 1960's and 70's. and unlike the first two that you have, the president as the real leader of the movement, it turns out that in this third wave it is rachel carson, a writer of silent spring which came out in 1962, that really spurred on grassroots wilderness advocates on the new frontiers, people around jack kennedy, public scientists, it was based on not just saving of national parks but warning people of contaminants in the air and water and that we did not have proper sewage treatment. that was poisoning people -- the american eagle's symbol of our country was dying in mass on and on, and it led to such things as the birth of the environm

elliott: franklin roosevelt. he does not hire george gallup.allup wants to conduct his own surveys and is doing a fortune. george gallup hires a little-known former reporter from crystal falls, michigan, which still today only has 1000 people in the upper peninsula. he was from finish immigrants. he is george gallup before there was george gallup. roosevelt hires him in 1932 campaign for president to run early polls of the democratic party standing in congressional races, of counties in america and states that needed more resources from the democratic party to push him over the finish line and he has to build this from scratch. he has never done a poll before doesn't know how but he is a miner so he knows about sampling. this is his speech to the director of the dnc at the time, who brings him aboard and he conducts early political polls and t -- and takes polls from george gallup and suggests or corrects them and creates the first trend line of what americans want and he leads congressional democrats to victory in the 1938 midterms and continu

it is only really theodore roosevelt that exceeds their conservation legacy. fdr was good too. host: we do have a clip, this is an audio clip 50 seconds long for ms. great society speech in >> we haves predn, 1964. ourselves on being not only am strong and america the ee, but america the beautiful. today that beauty is in danger. the water we drink, the food we eat, the air that we breathe are threatenh pollution. our parks arercroed, our seashores overburdened. green fields and dense forests a few years ago we were g concerned about the ugly american today we must act to prevent an ugly america. host: that is lbj in 1964. we have just a little over 50 minutes, so let's move on to richard nixon. his record is interesting, you write the press was baffled as to help richard nixon became a rough liner of environmental activism. what were you saying? guest: i always knew that nixon when he had to leave the white house, he quoted the speech of theodore roosevelt, the man in the arena. i always knew that nixon admired theodore roosevelt probably with winston churchill, is great hero

roosevelt and a descendant of theodore roosevelt argues that modern america trades to lincoln and the reconstruction era rather than the founding fathers. at 9:30 p.m. eastern, through the personality and presidency of franklin roosevelt. in his 1936 election. exploring the american story, watch,aturday. to find the school -- full schedule watch online anytime. >> ron desantis will be serving a second term. he gave the victory speech shortly after being declared the winner in that race. ♪ >> thank you! thank you very much! [applause] thank you so much. over these past four years, we have seen major challenges for the people of our state and the citizens of the united states. above all, for the cause of freedom. so many other jurisdictions in this country, florida held alive. [applause] we chose fact of her fear. we chose education over indoctrination. [applause] we chose law and order over rioting and disorder. [applause] florida was a refuge of sanity when the world went mad. we stood as a citadel of freedom for people across this country and across the world. [applause] we faced att

roosevelt called the presidential watch. eisenhower, when he renamed camp david, he named all the cabins after trees. he picked aspirin, that is the home of the home state of colorado. it's all named after trees. about 20 total, and includes the fire department. it includes clinic and the eucalyptus. there are support facilities. there is barracks for the single -- >> let's talk about the staff at camp david. you were the commander. what is the size of the military staff at camp david? what types of jobs did they perform? >> over 200 sailors and marines. five officers. we have one chaplain corps. supply corps and two marine officers. it comes out of -- washington d. c. all told, you put all the soldiers and marines together, it's just over 200 staff. we have a white house communications agency detachment there. in charge of communications. it's coming out of the main command in the d. c.. >> can you tell us about how camp david has changed over the years? it was very rustic when fdr first came to camp david. there has been s

and he had been the vice president under roosevelt.he was truman's secretary of commerce, it was not a happy relationship. and then james francis burns, jimmy burns was also desperately jealous of truman because roosevelt had picked truman over him for vice president. and every time burns looked at him, he said, that could be me, president burns. but of course it didn't happen. >> how about as commander in chief? he had some military experience in world war i but, now all of sudden he is commander-in-chief. lincoln, again, was a private in the black hawk war. that was it and suddenly he is commander-in-chief. the military brought him tactics, all of this was much closer with the military. how did he active commander-in-chief? >> if you think about it though, all he had to do was court of closed down two wars. the war in europe was basically over when it was about that. and the war in japan he had to make one big decision as commander-in-chief, it wasn't really much of a decision. it was made for him it was going to happen. the bomb, th