president told through the eyes of the five unsung women that influenced roosevelt's roosevelt. this book is a presidential chronicle unlike any other. kirkus reviews writes that the book is a fascinating celebration of women who helped make an iconic precedent. o'keefe's prose brings vitality and nuance to his subjects. he will be in conversation with susan page. susan, who is currently the washington chief of usa today, is an award winning journalist and author. her books madam speaker, nancy pelosi, the lessons of power and the matriarch barbara bush and the making of an american dynasty. both new york times best sellers. her biography of barbara walters the rule breaker has just been published last month. everyone, let us all welcome edward o keefe and susan page. hey, it's great to be here. thank you all for being here. look at the great crowd. you. oh, this is great. thank you for a book that got a incredible review this morning in the wall street journal. you want to you want to take a look at that. such a really just such a interesting book and you know and there are a l

the snake that alice roosevelt had. she did not like her aunt emily and she did not like spinach so let's have a snake named emily spinach. she is the one who withheld these stories to the press over the objection because she knew if people fell in love with the roosevelt family, her brother could accomplish all that he wanted in politics. >> finally, the fifth woman in your infrastructure for teddy roosevelt, his second wife edith. >> edith is amazing because first of all, you could not find two more opposite women on the face of the earth then alice and edith and yet, they both married theodore roosevelt in the course of seven years. edith is a childhood playmate of the roosevelt's. she was homeschooled with them. she knows theodore from age 3 to his death at 60, 57 years and they're married for over 32 years. she knows him better than he knows himself. she is reserved. her stepdaughter will say she is sort of parchment. it is an imperial kind of quality. i want to talk to you about whether you might see barbara bush

eleanor roosevelt put it left.f you wanted advice you want to bamie, if you want sympathy, you go to connie. connie is the emotional outlet. she is a poet. she is the younger sister and she is the one that will emphasize with tr. she becomes his press secretary before the role existed. she will slip stories to the press of this rambunctious home life. emily spinach the snake that alice roosevelt longworth had because she didn't like her aunt emily and she didn't like spinach. let's have us make named emily spinach. she is the one who would tell these stories to the press over edith's objections because she knew if people fell in love with the roosevelt family her brother could accomplish all that he wanted in policy. >> finally, the fifth woman in your infrastructure for teddy roosevelt, his second wife, edith. >> it is amazing because, first of all, you could not find two more opposite women on the face of the worth -- earth than alice and edith and yet they both mary theodore roosevelt. edith is a childhood playm

so in the case of teddy roosevelt, teddy roosevelt was the big draw and the big celebrity who drew people out to rallies. and so it was less. by the 1920s, you're going to see many more surrogates who are drawn from the world of celebrity, from the the new world, hollywood, and from radio. but in this period, you know, the big surrogates are progressive leaders like william jennings bryan. but really, really, the candidates themselves are the stars of the show. want to take our viewers to october the 14th of 1912. this is a photo of teddy roosevelt speaking from a car in front of the kilpatrick hotel in milwaukee. minutes later, an assassin tried to kill him. here's more from presidential historian douglas brinkley on that moment. he went to give a speech in milwaukee. and a crazed anarchist took a shot at him. he was bleeding. now, what people he had such bad eyesight roosevelt that he had always carried bird glasses with him in his pocket and he had a stick script kind of in their papers and he had his case metal like case with his bird so he could see the coloration details he kept it.

he paled in comparison to roosevelt. it did not help that roosevelt was kind of bad mouthing him in the press a fair amount during his presidency so i think that tracked down some of his popularity. >> take us back to 1908, how is taft seen by the american public in 1908 and how did that relationship change between becoming the person roosevelt helped put in office to follow him the bad mouthing him while he is in office? >> it is a really big shift. taft and roosevelt had been friends at that point, for at least a couple decades and worked closer together. taft was a more legal minded person, he was amiable, people liked him, he had taken on these powerful positions in the government, he had been solicitor general, he served in the philippines. teddy roosevelt hand-picked him as his successor. taft was not his vice president but he was the person roosevelt believed could carry on his legacy. i think that roosevelt genuinely believed that, when he left office in 1909. because of, the less forceful personality taft had, b

so in the case of teddy roosevelt, teddy roosevelt was the big draw and the big celebrity who drew people out to rallies. and so it was less. by the 1920s, you're going to see many more surrogates who are drawn from the world of celebrity, from the the new world, hollywood, and from radio. but in this period, you know, the big surrogates are progressive leaders like william jennings bryan. but really, really, the candidates themselves are the stars of the show. want to take our viewers to october the 14th of 1912. this is a photo of teddy roosevelt speaking from a car in front of the kilpatrick hotel in milwaukee. minutes later, an assassin tried to kill him. here's more from presidential historian douglas brinkley on that moment. he went to give a speech in milwaukee. and a crazed anarchist took a shot at him. he was bleeding. now, what people he had such bad eyesight roosevelt that he had always carried bird glasses with him in his pocket and he had a stick script kind of in their papers and he had his case metal like case with his bird so he could see the coloration details he kept it.

roosevelt's shadow roosevelt's and macarthur macarthur. anticipating the the surrender order and occupation of japan. harry truman made a fateful decision in august of 1945. although he had serious reservations, he appointed general douglas macarthur, supreme commander of allied powers, pacific. why. roosevelt's shadow? the year before 1944, roosevelt was out in hawaiian islands, and he elevated, douglas macarthur over admiral nimitz as the key. the only strategist, the main strategist in the pacific. now, truman, a rookie president, was not about to challenge roosevelt's political and military judgment. and so. that that's why he he stuck with macarthur and made him the supreme commander, harold ickes, who was close to roosevelt and actually to truman. he was a new dealer. he was in both the cabinet, roosevelt's cabinet and truman's cabinet. he said that truman had no other choice. and he publicly said the blame for appointing to the occupation is in the pacific, in the far east is due to roosevelt. harry truman, saving democracy, an. ear

roosevelt's shadow roosevelt's and macarthur macarthur. anticipating the the surrender order and occupation of japan. harry truman made a fateful decision in august of 1945. although he had serious reservations, he appointed general douglas macarthur, supreme commander of allied powers, pacific. why. roosevelt's shadow? the year before 1944, roosevelt was out in hawaiian islands, and he elevated, douglas macarthur over admiral nimitz as the key. the only strategist, the main strategist in the pacific. now, truman, a rookie president, was not about to challenge roosevelt's political and military judgment. and so. that that's why he he stuck with macarthur and made him the supreme commander, harold ickes, who was close to roosevelt and actually to truman. he was a new dealer. he was in both the cabinet, roosevelt's cabinet and truman's cabinet. he said that truman had no other choice. and he publicly said the blame for appointing to the occupation is in the pacific, in the far east is due to roosevelt. harry truman, saving democracy, an. ear

roosevelt on the bomb roosevelt shadow in the bomb. once an interim committee as chairman and seven civilians. and the mandate of the interim committee was to provide a recommendation on sharing and control of atomic energy. and whether to use the bomb over japan. june 1 , 45 the interim committee report was delivered to truman the recommendation. in the basic recommendation was to save american lives the united states needed to deploy and debt detonate an atomic bomb over japan to force the surrender. and it needed to be targeted at a japanese war plant surrounded by workers in a japanese city. a largeit city. this should be no advanced warning. nothing t was said at this point about the control ensuring of atomic energy. nor was there any discussion of the moral legitimacy of detonating the atomic bomb. truman never wavered. the decision to use the atomic bomb was made. it had been assumed in the national security team. they would deploy thehe bomb and it was assumed by those who directed the manhattan project that roosevelt would us

if roosevelt had been president going into war -- i mean, roosevelt had some experience in war. he left his position, i believe as a secretary of the navy, to go and fight in cuba. so, he had an affinity, in some ways, for war. so, it is entirely possible that the u.s. would have gotten involved sooner, but that is based on public sentiment, had public -- roosevelt read the public sentiment. the issue in the 1916 campaign was whether the u.s. would get involved in the war or not. and roosevelt, had he respected term limits, may have chosen not to run in 1916, and the question would have been tossed to someone else entirely. >> coming back to the reality of the time, how did the progressive ideas -- we talked about the high point of the progressive era -- how did those ideas of 1912 impact the politics and the elections in the years to come? >> oh, they really affected governance in the united states. there were a number of new agencies that were created that would regulate things like food and workplace safety. they really laid the groundwork for what would become the new deal i

roosevelt. conservatives swiftly put pressure the network and nbc announced the following day that black civil rights leader, an entertainer with soviet ties, not be appearing with mrs. roosevelt after all, forcing her to interference in her television guest list. however, although eleanor often differed with robeson's more radical tactics, she voiced concerns in her mind. syndicated column about the threats of censorship. she wrote, i think i will always have comfort in the common sense and clear judgment of the american people as a whole, if they hear all sides of question above everything else, we must guard our freedoms. and that means that all must have a right to be heard when to discriminate. we can never tell where the discrimination may end. paul robeson was barred from appearing, but this was only one small defeat in a long history of educating and inspiring the public and giving voice to who are not always allowed the opportunity be heard. the first words she spoke to open the premier

roosevelt. conservatives swiftly put pressure the network and nbc announced the following day that black civil rights leader, an entertainer with soviet ties, not be appearing with mrs. roosevelt after all, forcing her to interference in her television guest list. however, although eleanor often differed with robeson's more radical tactics, she voiced concerns in her mind. syndicated column about the threats of censorship. she wrote, i think i will always have comfort in the common sense and clear judgment of the american people as a whole, if they hear all sides of question above everything else, we must guard our freedoms. and that means that all must have a right to be heard when to discriminate. we can never tell where the discrimination may end. paul robeson was barred from appearing, but this was only one small defeat in a long history of educating and inspiring the public and giving voice to who are not always allowed the opportunity be heard. the first words she spoke to open the premier

roosevelt.or roosevelt on screen is her first book. please join me in welcoming ms. beachum to the roosevelt reading festival. well thanks for that introduction and thanks, everybody for being here. thanks. also, the archivists here who are so important to all this work that we do, thanks to the other researchers and scholars. and also i have to thank both franklin and eleanor roosevelt for this shining example that they made, for all of us so i'll be talking about my book, eleanor roosevelt on screen. and i think i'm the one here today talking about air rather than fdr. and also a film and television historian. so my topic's a little different than everyone else today, but over the years, i found myself recognizing that eleanor was not a pioneer in print and radio but she's the first woman in the united states to host major public affairs, broadcast television. and that's something nobody about, but quite a big deal today with mrs. aired weekly on nbc 1950 and albert einstein made his first tel

roosevelt. and they put pressure and that black entertainment leader with soviet ties would not be appearing with mrs. roosevelt after all and forces her to accept interference in her television guest list. however, although eleanor often differed with his tactics, about the threats of censorship she wrote, i think i will always have confidence in the common sense and clear judgment of the american people as a whole if they hear all sides of any question. about everything else we must guard our freedoms and that means that all must have a right to be heard. when we begin to discriminate we can never tell where the discrimination may end. paul robeson was barred from appearing, but this is only one long defeat in a long history of educating and inspiring the public and giving voice to others who are not always allowed the opportunity to be heard. the first words she spoke to open the premier of her 1950's series was, i believe of the people in this country and the world are entitled to hear vars

the roosevelts. she's been a major or supporting in more than 50 different narrative films or television, including showtime's the first lady series in 2022 and a major topic of at least 25 documentaries. she was also an early advocate. visual literacy, specifically to the newsreels. e.r. wrote in 1938. i contend that seeing things is almost necessity in this visual minded of our development. she recognized that the movies were primarily enjoyed as entertainment, but also identified them as something which may be used to shape public opinion and act as a powerful imaginative stimulus. by 1951, e.r. hosted an episode of mrs. roosevelt meets the public to discuss the topic of television itself, sensing that it would eventually reach a far greater number people than any other media. impressed by its potential as an educational resource, but already concerned with how convincing and selling you the products of various sponsors it proving to be interpreting evaluating, experiencing and exploiting visual m

so is very effective and roosevelt knew they were doing this. he said in one of his campaign appearances in october he said quote certain techniques of propaganda created and developed in dictator countries have been imported into this campaign. he said it's a very simple technique of repeating and repeating and repeating falsehoods but the idea that by constant repetition with no contradiction the misstatements will finally come to be believed. they are used to create fear by instilling in the minds of our people doubt, doubt of each other doubt of our government and out doubt of the purposes of our democracy. in my mind this is one of the most important speeches he gave because he was trying to wake america up to the fact that they were spreading the propaganda and for specific purpose to keep us out for. this is sound at all familiar? [laughter] c. i was careful. there were three republican congressmen bruce barton and joseph martin who have been attacking fdr prior toto the war every time he tried to raise the military budget. anything regar

roosevelt pe purported inact during holocaust.tempt able and unconscionable, back to this hillary, and kamala, and media democrats, and the 1939, neo-nazis, met at madison square garden how many modern day democrats would be comfortable there. starting with individuals democrats, in congress, in media, the voters, ine streets, colleges and universities that's would be able, maga, make america great again they support the constitution, with a president donald trump, biggest defender of jews in country and state of israel in history of this country, i'll be right back. ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com. >>> welcome back america. as we continue ouri our expo say, democrat party a

he sort of knew that roosevelt was using him or thought that roosevelt would be using him as a puppet, but that he had no intention of really following through with things that didn't align with his own belief system of what he thought was best for this country. the second election was it's so funny because very rarely within a president's reelection and you not hear about someone's opponent from another party. and i think that all of the press coverage during that second election with taft, it really was rooted basically between this all out bloodshed, war that i think people don't realize happened back then, between he and tr, like tr went off and started his own party. things that now that we think are a little like crazy, but are when they happen today we're like that would never happen. it did happen. it happened. then. but i also think what's really interesting is because the two men were best friends, roosevelt and taft, there wasn't any opposition. research really needed and they used all of the information that they knew about each other already against one another. and what'

if teddy roosevelt hasn't -- hadn't handed him the roosevelt presidency as they say, i don't think he would've been the president at all. he loved being a president -- public servant but not the stress that came with president. in terms of our three branches of government he was a big proponent for the judicial branch and the power that lay there and how that really wasn't a true check and balance system. it's interesting to think about so many of taft's opponents in the democratic party at the time that he was teddy roosevelt's puppet. it turns out, because william howard taft was not great at playing the system, it turns out he was in so much teddy roosevelt puppet. he went on to make decisions once elected that did not really , that teddy didn't approve of so much. what's really interesting is when you think of the role that ego played, not to plan to roosevelt, but it's been said within three or four months of choosing taft as his successor, roosevelt automatically was regretting his decision and want to be president again. so if you think about that for a moment, there also these

roosevelt should certainly be passed on to the roosevelt family. well, i don't want to sing this roosevelt. no, i tried to. roosevelt but as good he had done done it again, i'm going in. i say it's little moonlight. we nurture of them that they're country. i'll know them. i said, oh, no no, mind. they go the other way. then i knew then my part that. now i'm. well. douglas, the roosevelt. you, he said, hey, and i know what, good lord, above cuba and the prime. so that was the one. it was missing. and there and i had read this, this report that said it should definitely be passed along to the roosevelt family. you know, it was one of her favorite things that she collected. and i actually found it here. they had given rexford g. tugwell a copy and as the the library here had transferred it to reel to reel tape. and then i was able to get a digital copy. so thank you to the federal library library. i just want to keep going about this section of of her. sidney made note of the rare experience of integration in the clinton general store. quite a contras

and churchill says, i mean, roosevelt says there surplus. so they were declared surplus and they were sent to great britain. now, this turned out to be a very popular decision, very popular deal with the american public, because everybody saw, oh, we get all these great, we get away bunch old destroyers and we get these great bases that'll help protect coast. so it was a popular decision, one which allowed fdr to push congress to modify the neutrality act, to allow him to sell arms to belligerent nations on a cash and carry basis. so the neutrality treaty said you can't send ships to ports, are involved in war, you can't give weapons, you can't give supplies. but this cash carry bases sort of was enough to let roosevelt provide weapons to england and. france, but not to germany because england france controlled the atlantic, or at least they controlled the surface of the atlantic. so as this new cash and carry neutrality act was enacted, a new leader who was emerging in isolationist anti roosevelt movement. so charles lindbergh had become an

and churchill says, i mean, roosevelt says there surplus. so they were declared surplus and they were sent to great britain. now, this turned out to be a very popular decision, very popular deal with the american public, because everybody saw, oh, we get all these great, we get away bunch old destroyers and we get these great bases that'll help protect coast. so it was a popular decision, one which allowed fdr to push congress to modify the neutrality act, to allow him to sell arms to belligerent nations on a cash and carry basis. so the neutrality treaty said you can't send ships to ports, are involved in war, you can't give weapons, you can't give supplies. but this cash carry bases sort of was enough to let roosevelt provide weapons to england and. france, but not to germany because england france controlled the atlantic, or at least they controlled the surface of the atlantic. so as this new cash and carry neutrality act was enacted, a new leader who was emerging in isolationist anti roosevelt movement. so charles lindbergh had become an

a gallup poll showed that willkie and roosevelt were in a close race, 51 for roosevelt, 49 for willkie, which is really within the margin of error. so it was at tight race. now that of 1940 was a terrible time for winston churchill. germany was bombing london and england every day. there were setbacks for the british army in north africa and of course, german were sinking these cargo ships were bringing desperately needed supplies to england. and so really wanted not only these sort of 50 destroyer years, but he needed something that would help him, you know, convince the british public to show fortitude. and of course, he gave some of the greatest speeches of all time during this period. know never have so many owed so much to so and we will fight on the beaches. so fdr saw in churchill a real potential ally who would help him convince the american public that they had a sort of a moral imperative to to the aid of the democracies and opposed this fascist regime. so in one of his speeches, roosevelt attacked these lies that were being spread him through propaganda. several of these. co

roosevelt p purported inact during holocaust. contempt able and unconscionable, back to this hillary, and kamala, and media democrats, and the 1939, neo-nazis, met at madison square garden how many modern day democrats would be comfortable there. starting with individuals democrats, in congress, in media, the voters, ine streets, colleges and universities that's would be able, maga, make america great again they support the constitution, with a president donald trump, biggest defender of jews in country and state of israel in history of this country, i'll be right back. israel is under attack. israel has been attacked like never before. our skies are filled with rockets and drones. the international fellowship of christians and jews urgently needs your help to send out emergency teams across the holy land. the international fellowship of christians and jews needs your $45 gift to rush emergency aid to the people of israel struggling to survive day after day in bomb shelters. we are bringing food. we are bringing emergency resourc