and roosevelt is well aware of it. there was no doubt in anyone's mind that there was a great catastrophe unfolding and been gall. churchill. the decision was so be it. ah, the 1st meeting radically changes roosevelt's attitude to style it. it's a pleasure working with him. there's nothing devious. the outlines the subject, he wants disgust, and he sticks to it. roosevelt warm up the salad. and he starts talking to us dollar and making fun of the british making in front of churchill says winston got out of bed on the wrong side today. and by the end of that, he was to call him uncle joe. and in some ways, had the u. s and soviets were more on the same page in certain respects than the u . s. and the british were, at the time, during the same period, the germans offered stalin a trade for his son, yackel of who is being held in a concentration camp and his change of a general field marshal feed. rick palace captured near stalingrad the kremlin mazda answered, i don't trade soldiers, promotionals the allies knew about it

the roosevelt family. the delano family were old money that had built their fortunes in merchant ah, ship building other trades. roosevelt was a pragmatist. and when it suited american interests was prepared to cooperate with the soviet union. it was under his rule that you eso via diplomatic relations were established in 1933. franklin delano roosevelt is recognized by many in the american historical and academic and political ranks as one of the greatest for term presidents in history. the only president to ever, sir. 4 terms, in fact, for his work in resuscitating the united states after an economic depression that occurred after the fall of the stock market in the 19 twenty's. the big 3 is how the allied 2nd world war leaders were known. they had different personalities, were from very different backgrounds and had opposing views, each defended their own peoples and ruling class. his interests that miss donna, he, indigo. she stood the men chide, krista thank up as ne, in his books and on lot. so who h

the roosevelt family. the delano family were old money that had built their fortunes in merchant ah, ship building other trades. roosevelt was a pragmatist and when it suited american interests was prepared to cooperate with the soviet union. it was under his rule that you eso via diplomatic relations were established in 1933. franklin delano roosevelt is recognized by many in the american historical and academic and political ranks as one of the greatest for term presidents in history. the only president to ever sir. 4 terms, in fact, for his work in resuscitating the united states after an economic depression that occurred after the fall of the stock market in the 19 twenty's. the big 3 is how the allied 2nd world war leaders were known. they had different personalities, were from very different backgrounds and had opposing views, each defended their own peoples and ruling classes, interests that miss donna he. in that the she stood the men chide, krista thank up as ne, in his books and on lot. so who ha

roosevelt. yeah, it seems. now, the good part is that the biden team actually was the most effectively organized, the largest team and anticipated virtually everything about what happened. except for january six, the fellow that ran the transition, ted kaufman, who was biden's long aide, probably his best friend, put together to streams of work, one he called conventional issues and one he called unconventional conventional were all the things that a transition normally does. personnel agency, etc. the unconventional was all the threats that could occur if. trump did not cooperate and the biden presciently predicted every single issue that happened. delays lack of agencies not opening except for one thing they never predicted. january 6th. nobody could have predicted that. yeah, i think that's a good note to open it up for questions that people have some. we have a microphone there. people want it just go up and ask their question question. hi, thank you. what the date of your article about the transition. the

eleanor kept roosevelt when she married roosevelt and theodore roosevelt is fun and this sort of vigorous executive, but also quite stubborn and famously joined a different party in order to run against his former vice president. kristen: i know you could talk about each of these four half an hour, but with about four minutes and so much to discuss, i want to run through the bottom five in the five living. the bottom five president in history. guest: here's the thing -- it does take a wild to rate presidents, so we have to wait a little bit longer. donald trump was easier to rank than perhaps other most recent presidents because we were in the middle of the pandemic. william henry harrison, poor guy, he was only president for 30 days. he didn't wear a jacket when he was inaugurated and got sick when he was was inaugurated. andrew johnson was the vice president after abraham lincoln. he ascended to the presidency and did a really terrible job at reconstruction. it was a disaster because of him. james buchanan come our bachelor president, always going to come in very low. last is not unusua

war with japan along with the united states after he verbally promised roosevelt, well, roosevelt wasally not interested in disrupting the e negotiations as a result of the second front was opened six months later. after the meeting in tehran, and the meeting itself took place, mainly according to the soviet scenario, largely due to the work of foreign intelligence. in the early spring of the 45th year, soviet intelligence received information that negotiations were underway in switzerland between the anglo-american allies and nazi germany. the diagnosis was made by the allies. germans. on the western front. in fact, they stopped the war against england and america, at the same time, the germans continue the war with russia, an ally of england and the usa, it is clear that such a situation cannot serve the cause of preserving and strengthening trust between our countries. the germans were represented by a general with karl wolf of the allies, a resident of american intelligence in europe , the future head of the cia collusion behind the back of the ussr on may 10, 1941, british pilots

because the farmers america liked the high tariff, and roosevelt had been promising to it.and then he realized he might lose the farm votes. so he kinds of, well, we're we're only going to, you know, to lower a reasonable level and we'll do it by negotiations. so. so kind of tried to smooth that over, but that was kind of the politics of the matter. and so that that was kind of the last gasp, though, of tariffs. the smoot-hawley got such a bad name, and ever since it's been held up as this kind of catastrophic policy error that we have moved in more direction of free trade, starting with, i think it's called a reciprocal free trade act or something close to that. in 1934, under fdr. so that's usually up as a bad example. my own point here is that it's import in the total context. i think has been overstated. i'm not the tariff. i'm saying that it's not is somehow the the the bugaboo that it was made to be. thank you. dr. nash. another wonderful lecture. certainly appreciate the clarity. bring us back to herbert. my question is, you would expect from west michigan, are there

constitutional scholar kermit roosevelt. the third will discuss his latest book, the nation that never was reconstructing america's story. roosevelt is the david burger professor for administration of justice at the university of pennsylvania, carrie law school and the great great grandson of u.s. president theodore roosevelt. in the nation that never was. roosevelt examines essays, history and writings throughout history to show that modern america is not the ideologic descendant of the founding fathers, but rather derives from lincoln's period after civil war. in the book, he argues that the ideas of fairness and equality that permeate our culture were not at all supported by our founding fathers, and that by understanding this, we can better grasp our trajectory as a nation. mr. roosevelt is joined by david spencer, founder of send spy and a member of the commonwealth board of governors who will lead this conversation. please join in welcoming kermit roosevelt and david spencer. welcoming. welcome to the commonwealth club

and for roosevelt, biden did three things right. each one of which is quite extraordinary -- number one, as you say, he went public with the intelligence assessment that russia was going to invade ukraine. and he did so in order to try to prevent it. the logic was, if we call them on this, they will be less likely to do it. that did not work. but it was certainly worth a try. the second thing -- which has been extraordinary -- has been their willingness to adapt. they thought -- our people thought -- that ukraine would collapse quickly. but when it didn't, they adapted. they were able to send more humanitarian and military aid. they have shifted their story from one in which there is going to be a partisan resistance, all the way now to one in which there is going to be a ukrainian victory by the ukrainian state and civil society. and the third thing, which president biden has done which is extraordinary extraordinarily unprecedented, is physically go to a war zone, to assert the united states's support for ukraine. the physical cou

best of president roosevelt stunned the people of every life. harry truman succeeds former chief as president of the united states and takes the oath of office. the truman home independence, missouri, where we see the president and his daughter margaret and. at the left, this is bess truman, the president's wife and his agent mother, to whom he was devoted presidential duties. call him back to washington. the san francisco conference, of which from around the world, founded the united nations president truman emphasizes the cause for which he is himself. he we all have to recognize, no matter how great our strength, that we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please no one nation, no regional group can should expect any special privilege which harms other nation. the potsdam conference, where it was hoped an enduring peace settlement be made. president truman, secretary state burns, conferring with soviet stalin and foreign minister molotov. the big three completed by british prime atlee. and a parade of fellow veterans of the fir

, where roosevelt argued for more government. reagan argued less. a few years later, when ron when obama was elected president, baker, writing in the new york, said that president obama must seem to be in a direct dialog with ronald reagan, that obama was arguing for more government and responding to reagan's famous comment that in this present crisis, government is the problem. government is, not the solution. so you can draw a line between fdr in 33 to arguing more government. the new deal as the solution to. ronald reagan in 1981. and then to barack in 2008. respond ing to that. it is because of the importance of the ideas in 1982. in this speech that there are two different books about the reagan and reagan's time. one by a very conservative scholar. one by a very liberal scholar that have the age of reagan, their title. they're simply question that begins in 1980. there's an argument that reagan had begun to get these ideas to the nation before 80 that what reagan's in this inaugural address changed american politics and mov

already terminally ill roosevelt writes you misinformed. stalin's answer our information modest honest people aggressive us operation is unthinkable with the nazis and new massive bombing of soviet cities. the german wehrmacht can be assessed by this fact by any thinking person. this is simply dishonest stalin already knows everything on june 29 , 1945. he gives the order to marshal zhukov to push the army to combat positions in the western direction. a sudden blow will not pass then churchill, as you know, mobilized the german wars, prisoners in northern germany turn their weapons against the soviet union and profit conference. but the red army is needed by the allies in the far east, there is an almost one and a half million kwantung army and it is difficult for england and the united states to fight it alone, the japanese who recaptured the islands from the japanese were not ready, the japanese were most afraid that the soviet union would intervene in the pacific war. truman understood this stalin assures him that the russians will enter

. >> roosevelt is the one you doubt is the second epicure of the white house.an see that there was a big tug-of-war going on between him and eleanor roosevelt about white house food. what was that about? >> this is where the side of the white house that people are not always aware about comes to play. that domestic side. th relationship between eleanor and fdr was fraught. they had been brought up in wealthy mill you, they were actually distant cousins, they were both cousins of teddy roosevelt. they were both brought up on delicious food with cooks of the house and servants, but they had a very contrasting style. fdr was a real gourmet, and a gourmet is someone who loves siliceous food, and a gourmand is someone who eats success. teddy roosevelt was a gourmand, but if was a gourmet. eleanor treated her food as fuel. she would just eat toast and bacon soup and did not realize what she was eating. fdr love exotic food, whether it was bison steak, or special fish floating just for him from all over the place. and, so, that was sort of uh, guaranteed to cause some

american history tv well, it was at his 1933 inaugural in that elected president franklin roosevelt declared that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. and the longest serving president us history is the this week on our special series speeches that defined the presidency we will see that first and inaugural address its entirety and that's the great depression that gave way to world war he delivers 30 plus fireside chats and declares december 7th, 1941, as a day infamy. now fdr doesn't live long enough to see the war's end dying just a few months before, so will conclude this of speeches that defined a presidency with harry truman's of the dropping of the atomic bomb on hiroshima, japan, in august of 1945. this c-span american history tv series speeches that defined a presidency. and here it is the beginning of a greatest drama in american affairs, the creation of a new chief executive. according to time honored custom the retiring president and the president like ride together from the white house with congressional escort down long and proud packed pennsylvania avenue, the capitol

roosevelt is also the first to call this the state of the union. it had been called annual address, but roosevelt is the first to popularize that term. every year. harry truman is the first to appear on television to deliver the state of the union. those technological advances started make the speech less of an address to. the congress and more of an address to the american people from the congress. the house of representatives becomes in many ways a really cool television set for presidents to directly address. the american people, which is a very different interpretation of the state of the union than what we find in the constitution and what early presidents expected. so johnson as was his wont you know formalizes this by moving the speech into prime time. if it's going to be a speech where you're directly to the people, why not do it when most of them can watch. on this, which was my home, i stirred by old friendships. tho total agreement between the executive and the congress is impossible. total respect is important. now we know a lot about p

president roosevelt. the entire country is behind you, filled with hope and faith. we are present my countrymen and, my friends, to the night. mye is to speak to the whole of america until 430 o'clock this morning. had hoped against hope that some miracle would prevent a devastating war in europe and bring to an end the invasion of poland by germany before years a success of actual wars and constant crises have shaken the entire world and have threatened in each to bring on the conflict, which is today unhappily, in fact, it is right that i should recall to your minds they consist urgent and at times successful efforts of your government in crises to throw the full weight. the united states into the cause of peace in spite, spreading wars. i think that we have right and every reason to maintain as a national policy. the fundamental moralities the teachings of religion, the continuation efforts to restore peace because someday though the time may be distant, we can be even greater help to a crippled humanity. it is right to to point out that the unfortunate events of

the soviet head of government wrote to roosevelt about this .see that the germans are on the western front. at the moment, the war against england and america has ended, and at the same time, germany is still waging war against the ally of england and the usa, russia from a political point of view. this is a betrayal from a moral point of view of view, there is generally no talk of 1945, the united states and negotiations with germany, and the surrender of german troops in northern italy, the soviet union found out about this, of course. happiness, but was refused, thus the western state allies violated their obligations towards the ussr even before the end of the war. that is, i am in allied relations with the soviet union and at the same time i am negotiating with the enemy. stalin, in a letter to president roosevelt, directly accused the allies of a separate deal from germany , the already terminally ill roosevelt writes to you misinformed stalin's answer with our information modest honest people aggressive us operation is not conceivable wit

the soviet head of government wrote to roosevelt about this.e that the germans are on the western front. at the moment, the war against england and america has ended, and at the same time, germany is still waging war against the ally of england and the usa , russia from a political point of view. this is a betrayal of the point of view, there is no talking at all to the united states and applied for participation, but was refused, thereby the western state allies violated their obligations towards ussr before the end of the war. that is, i am in allied relations with the soviet union and at the same time i am negotiating with the enemy. in a letter to president roosevelt, stalin directly accuses the allies of separate deals. with germany already mortally ill, roosevelt writes you misinformed. stalin's answer is our information modest honest people are aggressive. he proposes to the us an unthinkable operation with the nazis and new massive bombardments of soviet cities. the war isn't over yet and the ladies' conference wasn't planned yet. but c