and the the emissary they chose they hated the roosevelt's absolutely hated the roosevelt's. uh, he referred to president roosevelt as the old con man. he thought mrs. roosevelt should be kept out of the public limelight completely, and yet this guy's name was carter. clark. yeah. carter clark. a discharge charges this mission to the best of his ability. you know, he could have said something. he was in private with dewey or maybe one other person, and he could have said, you know, governor, he could have gotten winked and nodded and said, you know, i really hope, uh, but he didn't he did, you know, they, they do. i like that about these these people that they they had the interests of the country at heart and they did the best they could for it. well, that sort of leads to a question i was thinking about as you were speaking, as these systems emerge and people more are involved, so many more and become public, or could become public, are there sources of accountability or those who would hold anyone accountable emerging at same time or who who's aware, who could hold people

theodore roosevelt. i'm you know the what do i call the chairman of the school and a professor at nyu and? just delighted about it. elihu i won't go on about it's just a fabulous school it is being turned from an almost dead private small private here on long island and they had the good fortune. i don't want to sound like i'm sort really groveling here too much, but anyway, we had the good fortune of having kim kline. dr. klein appointed president. and what she's done is i mean, the thing i'm most impressed about, of course, is that roosevelt school, there are only 31 veterinarian schools in the country and she got the 32nd and they're places like north dakota, a big animal state that has no and an excellent university, has no school who really a fabulous achievement and that's just one of many things they've been doing here. all right. enough of that. i'm going to start i'm just going to go round the room here. so why don't we start with? you okay? sounds good. thank you. tweed. what if i'd known that

and so our thematic, our vibe is theodore roosevelt. we have one of the largest selections of theodore roosevelt, new books that that i know of anywhere. we don't have rare books or used books. but if there's a new book about theodore roosevelt that's been published in the past several years, we stock it and we display it. my guess would be that business does not fall off in the summer at theodore's because of your location as a tourist destination. well, you're exactly right. and we are a tourist destination mostly, not only because of sagamore hill in theodore roosevelt, but also because oyster bay has a rich and vibrant revolutionary war history. you know, the general, george washington's spy network, the nexus of that spy network was in a house called raynham hall, which is in back of theodore's. so we have tourists coming to explore that revolutionary war history. we have tourists coming to explore the theodore roosevelt history. and we're located three blocks from the waterfront, from oyster bay. billy joel, sean hannity, live acr

but i should also add, theodore roosevelt had a niece named eleanor roosevelt, and fdr married, their type. and when you deal with the environmental conservation, those presidents are giants. and i wrote two books on them. so the book i'm is silent spring. remember, evolution is about the third wave. and incidentally, fdr, 800 state parks, 800 that i can go to him him saving big ben national park on d-day which did he had all the d-day maps of big ben where visitor stations are to be fdr. right while our were invading normandy did not a game for the roosevelt's environment conservation but the third wave i had to write didn't have a figure like that. it didn't have a figure like fdr or whoever. he filled out an application. what is his job he'd write tree farmer. he saw christmas trees out of his home. he was born along the hudson river. spent his life along the hudson is on the hudson and really was the leader of what today we call the scenic cuts river movement to protect that beautiful, incredible waterway. so my third wave that i had a problem where to begin, who to focus in this

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

, roosevelt advisors cordell hull skims, and the others thought. this was a terrible idea. of course, the whole was advised by someone named stanley hornbeck, who in turn was advised by alger hiss. we're still wondering what effect alger hiss had when all of this. but in any event, the summit never occurred. and the two the japan was preparing for war because there were not going to be strangled. finally, in november, there was an agreement reached in draft form where the japanese would withdraw from southern part of indochina in exchange for a resumption of oil. this was a draft agreement they submitted on the 20th of november. we had a draft agreement that essentially said much the same thing. and cordell hull circulated those around to the allies, the british, the dutch and, the chinese. chiang kai shek came back with an adamant rejection of this and said, if there is any reelect session of these. situation with japan, with their put the you relaxed nature of the asset freeze, who will be a can total disaster for china. they will collapse the ar

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

roosevelt who made the modern fbi. the new -- the fbi turned out to be a new deal alphabet agency. he pushed law enforcement in a big way and pushed hoover into political intelligence during the war. that was fascinating for me. then the last two presidents lyndon johnson and richard nixon were also fascinating because they had very long-term relationships with them. he lived on the same block as lyndon johnson from the 40's onward and had decades of relationships with nixon. then when they were in office they both cooperated and were at odds with one another in interesting ways. >> our guest is yale history professor beverly gage author of "g-man: j edgar hoover and d making of the american century." if you live in the central time zone 202-748-8201. mountain and pacific time zones. you can send professor gage a text message 202-748-8903. if you send a text please include your first name and your city. how many of those presidents wanted to fire hoover but he wasn't too politically potent to fire? >> i would say three

. >> roosevelt is the one you doubt is the second epicure of the white house. you can 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. the 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 cau

he was a friend of the roosevelts in fact. so by any stretch the imagination, he seemed to fit into the mold of the eastern establishment and to hold its verities and virtues to the to the highest under so we know that one of the reasons that alger hiss able to convince so many people was because he had so many supporters in the east and the people who should have known but who didn't. and alger hiss was a great chameleon in the end. he's very unlike very just from the great soviet spies of the cambridge spies of the british establishment, men like guy burgess, kim philby, donald mcclane, john cairncross, who were also major soviet spies at the same period, they were wracked with guilt. they drank themselves into early graves. they instead of standing trial, they escaped the iron curtain and went to moscow where they literally died. alcoholism in their moscow of darkness. they were men who were absolutely riven by their spying and their betrayal. but not alger hiss. alger hiss, for whatever reason, maintained his equanimity ti

already terminally ill roosevelt writes you misinformed.nswer is our information modest honest people are aggressive. he proposes to the us an unthinkable operation with the nazis and a new massive bombardment of soviet cities. the war isn't over yet and the ladies' conference wasn't planned yet. but churchill has already given the order to develop a new military plan. the attack on the soviet union was simply planned. at the same time, they wanted to use 100,000 in it. just defeated soldiers of the german wehrmacht , any thinking person can give an assessment of this fact. just not fair and june 29, 1945. he gives the order to marshal zhukov to move the army to combat positions in the western direction. a surprise strike will not work. as you know, he mobilized german prisoners of war in northern germany to turn their weapons against the soviet union and arrived at the potsdam conference, stalin asked him what was happening there, what you were doing there, they did not inform me. i found out such a double game western power. enough we don

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

with president roosevelt. there were about a men there, and they were talking about air power and how air power would be completely different. we got involved in this war that we wouldn't boots on the ground, that the airplanes take care of everything and. everybody was agreeing with the president. they got to general marshall and general marshall said, mr. president, i respectfully disagree. and said that you could hear the air leave the room. and after meeting people patted him on the shoulder and said, well, you know, general, that's the shortest tour in d.c. ever. have a nice time out in the back of beyond because you just entered career. but president roosevelt saw what general pershing had seen which is someone his own peril would tell him the truth and he felt like he needed that. if they got involved in this, what would turn out to be a global war? and what was his specific role during world war two? he was chief of staff of the army, which is the leader of the armed forces, of course, then and also in

fred, we've been talking about president roosevelt. the story of presidents in baseball, and you can jump in, it goes much further back than that it can you get us started, and we will let phil bring us in on the long history of u.s. history. >> we have a town ball in illinois. by the time of the election, baseball is such an important subject that it was the subject of political cartoons. all four candidates in the cartoon have a baseball bat, and it shows their political affiliation, and link when -- link it is very quickly disappointed. -- lincoln is vanquishing his opponent. >> isn't there a precursor to a small that even george washington played? >> they talk about throwing the coin across the potomac. he never really did that. i have not heard of any presidential involvement in -- before the election of lincoln that you showed on screen. >> he brought a book that is called baseball -- the president's. you say to the author's apron to viewers. >> paul nixon. >> it is by paul nixon. it is about the presidents game. it actually says

with president roosevelt. there were about a men there, and they were talking about air power and how air power would be completely different. we got involved in this war that we wouldn't boots on the ground, that the airplanes take care of everything and. everybody was agreeing with the president. they got to general marshall and general marshall said, mr. president, i respectfully disagree. and said that you could hear the air leave the room. and after meeting people patted him on the shoulder and said, well, you know, general, that's the shortest tour in d.c. ever. have a nice time out in the back of beyond because you just entered career. but president roosevelt saw what general pershing had seen which is someone his own peril would tell him the truth and he felt like he needed that. if they got involved in this, what would turn out to be a global war? and what was his specific role during world war two? he was chief of staff of the army, which is the leader of the armed forces, of course, then and also in

the republic seriously alarmed roosevelt in a message received by stalin on september 1 , 1944, the usdent expressed concern about this position of the soviet government. he stressed that it could not be accepted by the united states and other major countries, according to roosevelt , a danger was created for the implementation of the entire project to create an international organization. simply put, he was afraid that the united states would lose the rose. a troll from an organization that is just being created, but even he had to admit that for the onset of peace, belarus did a lot, as a result, only two republics of the ussr became separate founders. we and ukraine what happened to the second country, you know by whose efforts the expert community also used the phrase security donor in relation to belarus. and in general. this is a rather capacious definition, which, in its depth, emphasizes the whole complex of belarusian e-peace initiatives that we observed during the soviet period. and this is justified, and the desire for peacekeeping understanding of security and stability as

so he the support of theodore roosevelt was to retain that seat. so he kind of went and i think little bit jaded perhaps from some of the people who had voted against him. but he had enough friends that he able he was in there for like three decades. so he had a long tenure, three decades. what is what did he do in those three decades? what else he known for besides the reed smoot here? he's mostly known for this smoot-hawley tariff, which what? that was the one that actually led to the what didn't lead to, but definitely helped push the great depression into a more severe, which led to a type of. um, now i'm not an economist and so i'm not, i don't have the great details of this. how all worked but basically had a type of basically. the rest of the world starting to pull back their trade with the united states out of a type of retaliate to retaliatory effects with that and so that led to global trade problems the united states and so you had the great depression even more so but again that's not my area specialization but mostly once you get past

i think it was absolutely right to remove... ..to remove roosevelt's statue. 0k.ething significant will happen with mine replacing it. so... it's, um... and it wouldn't be... it's not a matter of exchange. it's a matter of historical truth. it's a matter of... you know, 1619 — it goes back a long time. you'd like to see the roosevelt statue replaced with one of your sculptures, africa rising from around 1997—98, which is of a large concave black platform, on top is a winged figure. it's in manhattan now, and it stands on the site where bodies of enslaved africans were buried. i want to ask you this question. how important do you think the legacy of slavery is today? how relevant is it? it is the... you know, it is the original sin. it is something... it is so, um... how can i say it? so essential a historical event in the soul of america until... i really don't think that we will ever be free of this history. now, we have to deal with it. it's not going to go away. it's not going to... it can be rewritten 1,000 times, but it is still going to be there. and as, you

the 32nd president of the united states, franklin delana roosevelt, is the only american president toe been elected to this post more than twice. he headed the united states for almost 12 years and was a very popular successor in the country. roosevelt's successor was harry truman, who was then vice president, with the change of us leaders , the country's position in the negotiations of the anti-hitler coalition changed. truman actually considered stalin an enemy aggressively, gripping eastern europe, this exacerbated the contradictions with the ussr, the cold war began. it was truman who became an active supporter of the creation of a military bloc. nato it is quite possible that if it were not for the sudden death of roosevelt, after the military history of the world, the path could have gone completely differently . vostok alone started from the spaceport. baikonur flight was prepared in an atmosphere of complete secrecy gagarin from a height. 302 km first from the people i saw the earth from space, blue and round, the flight lasted 106 minutes, there were many emergency situations

what were the particular things that the roosevelts brought?they had lots of kids, too, so it was just a good time. fdr, not known to make t of an appearance because he was concealing his disability, but eleanor roosevelt was there. she was very much the the leader of the easter egg roll during that time. she's the first first lady or president to speak live directly from the easter egg roll on the radio. and usually the weather was very good. there was one year where it was not good. it was on naturally very, very cold. and only about 5000 kids showed up, which is really a tiny number for something like this. and she more or less rged everybody to run, jump up and down. a lot have fun and stay warm while we're about presidents and war. tell me what happened during the bush administer reaction when the iraq war was going on. yes. so the president and first lady had a great idea that in order to remind everyone that even on the happiest occasions, we need to remembe sacrifice that are active duty military is making. they had all the easter eggs

the implementation of the entire project to create an international organization, in other words, rooseveltd that the united states would lose control over an organization that is just being created, but even he was forced to admit that for the onset of peace, belarus has done a lot. as a result, only two republics of the ussr became separate founders, we and ukraine, what happened to the second country, you know whose efforts, too, the expert community in relation to belarus used in its depth the whole complex of belarusian, peaceful initiatives that we observed during the soviet period. this is justified, and the desire for peacekeeping understanding of security and stability as one of best values, but let's fast forward to the period of independent belarus only for the first years of independence. minsk has signed approximately 1,000 agreements, conventions , treaty protocols and memorandums. trying to live by the rules and respect partners in the nineties belarus for a meter. the network of nine missions, representative offices, 58 embassies and contacts has expanded to more than hundre

and there's evidence that roosevelt himself discussed it. he he was reacting to the to bomb the railways. this was a bad business. he thought. and he thought that if american bombs bombed the railway tracks and therefore killed some --, then we will be caught up in meaning associated with blamed this whole horrid is what he said. now you know was not cognizant the fact perhaps the -- themselves inside the camp wanted to be bombed, even if it meant they would all be killed. they would look upward at the skies, hoping to see bombs for. a bomber took planes flying that would drop bombs on them because they knew, okay, we'll die, but it will save the this at this time. the summer of 1944, 12 to 15000 -- were being brought to the camp every day to be murdered. the -- of hungary were murdered at rate never matched to any other stage of the war. so even as d-day has already happened and the war is being won, it is the worst hour for the -- of europe. do you, as in in a sense, do you think that roosevelt and churchill are culpable. i mean, that's it