she became eleanor roosevelt-roosevelt., in fact, at the wedding, theodore roosevelt, who gave his niece away, congratulated franklin and said well, franklin there's nothing like keeping the name in the family. [laughter] >> now, this wedding ceremony -- the day of the wedding is one of these critical moments -- well, not so much a critical moment in the development of franklin roosevelt's character. we'll get to those. but a critical moment in eleanor roosevelt's understanding of what she had gotten into. when i originally conceived the book and when i pitched it to my publisher, it was going to do be a dual biography. it was going to be a biography on franklin and eleanor. there was a biography written 37, 36 years ago called "eleanor and frank." and this is really the story that was written -- joseph lash was a dear friend of eleanor roosevelt. and so it's eleanor with frank alongside. i really don't think you can understand franklin's personal life and development without paying large attention to eleanor and, frankly,

roosevelt is vice president. they thought they would get rid of them by putting him on the ticket because he was a reformist governor and the corrupt people in albany did not like having roosevelt. he was placed on the vice presidency. mckinley is a sassy. he is not dead yet. roosevelt is hiking. the secret service goes and get him. they think mckinley is going to die but after a day they think he make go through. roosevelt goes back up into the adirondacks. the secret service gets him again. the president is dead. it takes roosevelt another 36 hours to get to buffalo where he is sworn in as our youngest president. now, he says later in his autobiography, doesn't sit at the time, remember, he is leader of the republican party, i wanted to transform the republican party as he says, into a quoted fairly radical progressive party. that's the exact quote. fairly radical progressive party. he doesn't tell the country that but he says in his diary. and to do that he needs different potential. who also is a sign of weal

and the exact language was as i said dictated by theodore roosevelt in 1903 and his cousin franklin roosevelt when he aggravated the platt amendment heave railroad or he reasserted the validity -- or asserted the validity of the lease and used the exact language theodore roosevelt dictated in 1903. now, i have passed out some photographs and there are two photographs of the guantanamo bay itself. and if you look at them and look at small boats in both pictures you will get some sense of the expanse of the bate. i was in guantanamo for about four days back in 2007 as the guest of the commander of the base, and i could not take a panoramic photographs nor could i look at the entire expanse of the day itself. it is a huge. christopher columbus passed by guantanamo i think on his third voyage to this part of the world and he pronounced [inaudible] -- large port. and it is in these huge. and it could easily accommodate for decades the entire united states fleet and that is what it did. it was the winter quarters for the u.s. fleet certainly in the 1920's, the 1930's, 40's and so on. now, i think i

roosevelt wanted the u.n.nd he wanted soviet participation in the war with japan and he got both of them. churchill had less power so he got less of what he wanted but he got recognized. these were things stalin didn't want to do what he was sent -- he didn't get poland, what he wanted in poland was stalin's priority and he was able to do the correlation of the forces to get that savitt is a sober conclusion but judicious. i think that your man is in many ways the most interesting contingency that comes out of it. that is something stalin certainly didn't need to get something i think americans are not particularly fond of and one couldn't imagine coming out of the multipolar world. it's the one element of the conference that fits into the liberal internationalist or public territorial from work. when he gets to the end talking about misunderstanding generally stalin comes through as the dominant figure in the negotiating negotiator and one at that is most formidable but he doesn't leave it at that and i was g

and eleanor roosevelt and knew them from that point of view. so part of my book, the latter half, is as a teenager and participanting in the adult life. so i can say, to put it briefly, my education is from the dining table, listening to the conversations. >> we just saw a great picture f. we could put it back up of a young curtis with his grandfather at what looks leek a dining table there. and your grand father is the most powerful man in the world at this point. what in the world is that like? how do you separate granddad -- what do you call him by the way? >> we called him poppa. which is sort of the european expression. and he called my grandmother grandmie, because we called my great grandmother grandma. and in coping with the great depression, he had very little to do with foreign affairs. unlike president obama, he did not herit two wars and a lot of other hot spots, north korea, et cetera. no, he had the great depression. quite enough. obama has a great recession. but not to the breadths and depths that the depression hit this country.

he disputes the account thatç theodore roosevelt -- theodore rooseveltç deserve a nobel peae prizey, russia at that point of was a bastion of horrible anti-semitism, almost pre- german nazi anti-semitism going on in russian society. japan was already a huge industrial power. so i think he cut president roosevelt's diplomacy at portsmouth that gave him the nobel peace prize terribly short. what he does is set up a strong man and not down. tr -- what he is right about, what mr. bradley is right about is imperialism has an ugly side would come a very ugly side, and he pointed out in the book. i enjoyed it, but it is not a book i would recommend or trust xdor footnote in any work i do. host: national, tommy on the democrats' line. -- national -- nashville. caller: the last story and i got to talk to is the late howard vince -- what i say about the current government. do you not see reflection in today's government in what he wrote about the late 1800's, like 1870 through the time of roosevelt and how we have become monopolized and corporatized and we are becoming the best nation that m

roosevelt and want to do it, and so johnson gets into see him and before he could say anything roosevelt says to him, lyndon have you ever seen a russian women make it? [laughter] johnson is mystified and he starts telling him about harry hopkins had just been to russia and johnson, what he told them about the russians etc. at etc. before you knew it roosevelt's eight came in and said time is up mr. congressman samples johnson of a room. reagan was no fool that way. he was a very astute politician who had learned some of his lessons from a master like franklin roosevelt. anyway there is a couple of associations that came to mind from your talk. >> i will tell one other story. it is true, reagan grew up as a democrat. he became fiercely anti-communist in the late 40's and the screen actors guild. he became generally conservative in the 1950's, particularly on economic issues but remains a democrat until 1960. there is a wonderful story. he is a democrat, but he likes eisenhower. nixon is running for president in 1960 and reagan, then an actor, not a politician goes to nixon and says i am

he disputes the account thatç theodore roosevelt -- theodore rooseveltç deserve a nobel peae prizediplomacy. incidently, russia at that point of was a bastion of horrible anti-semitism, almost pre- german nazi anti-semitism going on in russian society. japan was already a huge industrial power. so i think he cut president roosevelt's diplomacy at portsmouth that gave him the nobel peace prize terribly short. what he does is set up a strong man and not down. tr -- what he is right about, what mr. bradley is right about is imperialism has an ugly side would come a very ugly side, and he pointed out in the book. i enjoyed it, but it is not a book i would recommend or trust xdor footnote in any work i do. host: national, tommy on the democrats' line. -- national -- nashville. caller: the last story and i got to talk to is the late howard vince -- what i say about the current government. do you not see reflection in today's government in what he wrote about the late 1800's, like 1870 through the time of roosevelt and how we have become monopolized and corporatized and we are becoming th

he is barry friedman's analogue of the four horsemen who went to challenge roosevelt.ere will be a majority for a full-blown confrontation, but that does not mean that the court might bought an average monthly stumble into a confrontation with the president that is -- might not stumble into a confrontation that is more volatile than you could imagine. you look at the citizens united case, and unites the libertarians in the central figure of anthony kennedy. he is a judicial supremacy just. he is more willing to strike down federal and state laws and any other -- than any other justice. in 2003 he voted to strike down more laws than any other Ñijustice, and has a romantic ñrnotion of individual liberty that might lead him to strike down the financial accountability portÑiÑiñr -- bo. imagine it is one decision or to dip below decisions, and later terms call in to strike down be accountability. he would probably think of himself as being moderate, picking and choosing. there are now unanimous opinions to uniteñrñrñr, and heok thinksd be polarized. with citizens united, it

and franklin roosevelt senior, franklin roosevelt himself was very, very profitable in west virginia. they brought a lot of stuff and helps people out there. and the new deal really impacted west virginians to a great extent. so they bring in roosevelt, fdr junior as the hatchet man. and he brings that hubert humphrey's war record in world war ii or a lack thereof here at andy's basically seen in the crowd as a draft dodger and kennedy says i wish he would have brought that up. that was just terrible and i disassociate -- like from the fact that hubert humphrey never served in world war ii and one thing leads to another and all the sudden there are allegations of involvement in jack kennedy's west virginia campaign, which are often the question. but there was some. and a lot of money is poured into west virginia. and even though jack kennedy is going to find out very, very nervous about how this election is going to turn out. so nervous that he flies to washington d.c. and kind of to hide out because you want to downplay that. it's not that important. i wasn't even there. he gets a ca

he didn't like theodore roosevelt. well, i do like theodore roosevelt, so we differ there. but that doesn't stop me enjoying mark twain's books. a few years ago, the oxford university press published, at a very modest price, a complete reproduction of all mark twain's books. and i have them in my library in london, and i read them constantly. i get enormous enjoyment. of course, he is best known for huckleberry finn, which is one of the greatest books in the whole of american literature. and i suppose it is his best book. but he wrote many other good books, too, and lots of short essays and entertaining little reads. and all of them are in my mail. so isolate mark twain, but that doesn't mean i have to agree with all his opinions, particularly his opinion about my favorite president, theodore roosevelt. >> why was theodore roosevelt your favorite president? >> for six good reasons. first of all, he was a very active man. he was always in the saddle or on the move or doing things. he was a hard, very hard-working man. like winston churchill. secondly, he didn't take anything

roosevelt, an absolute cossack. he wrote the new deal in 1932 intel 1940, which received both the bangkok and the france's parking prices and which is now about to appear in a new addition and he made out from his publisher, harpercollins i think so, but harper company. what the new cover i gather which is shocking to me because i cover again as a classic, too. mr. leuchtenburg is a past president of the american historical association, american historian society and the american historians and is undeniably wanted to mention for this evening event. in 2008, the same society the american historians may professor jan knight of the first recipient of the arthur m. junior award for distinguished writing in american history of enduring public significant. [applause] i'll be saying a little bit more about her past their leuchtenburg and a little bit. he is the author of the just published american presidents series volume on herbert hoover. he has been working with ken burns for many years and they have a new pbs series

a brilliant book about the roosevelt white house. we've been having one of our usual dinner conversations about our work. i.e., no one listening particularly carefully to what the other one was saying. when alan told me about the time when madam chang was staying at the white house. although there were phones and call bells in her room, when she wanted something, she would always go to her door, open it, clap her hands loudly like this and expect the servants to appear. this was the way they called them in shanghai but you can just imagine how this went over in the ultra democratic roosevelt white house. why i wondered would such a highly intelligent woman looking for american money to arm her country do anything so counterproductive? i was going to find out. first thing i discovered writing about madam chang is that it required a whole new approach to research. and european royals know that they have to pay for their perks, their limos, their planes, their ceremonial carriages, jewels, palaces and privileges. because of this, they'r

guest: theodore roosevelt wrote all the time to his children. ansel adams writes a lot to his children. frederick law olmsted, over his entire life, writes to his children in such a wide range. i mean, there's some very funny letters that he writes, and then also some of, i think, the most touching letters in the book, toward the end of his life. c-span: some are mean. guest: some are very mean. jack london's letters are shocking. they're just so, so cruel. c-span: i actually had it open to that page. guest: ok. c-span: i wanted to -- 181. first of all, a little background on who jack london was. guest: jack london was a writer. his most famous short story was "call of the wild." it's the short story that sold the most of any short story. what was the page? c-span: it's 181. guest: oh, 181. c-span: you know, when mikhail gorbachev was here for booknotes, i was asking what he read, and he said he had in his library and had read most of jack london's work. why would that be? any reason? guest: really? c-span: yes. guest: i don't know why it would

henry wallace was roosevelt's vice president at the time. talk about the book. henry wallace was a genius, probably one of the smartest man to ever hold national elective office in the united states. he was a plant geneticist by training, dabbled in astrology and metaphysics, was extremely liberal and a little weird. the party bosses and 44 thought, we need to replace them so they did. all the other candidates for too liberal or too conservative so truman got six. reporters joked it was another missouri can compromise. we all know what happened in 1945, franklin roosevelt died and harry s. truman became president. he had been vice president just 82 days and had met with fdr just twice outside of cabinet meetings and all that time. is presidency of course encompassed major events in the 20th century, the end of world war ii, mccarthyism and the united nations. flash forward now eight years almost to 1953, january 20th and swidey eisenhower is inaugurated as president. and just as he was back in that summer of 1922, harry truman is unemployed. after eisenhower's w

added joe kennedy's urging they bring in the franklin roosevelt, jr. to campaign. franklin roosevelt's himself was very, very popular and they built a lot of stuff and the new deal really impacting west virginia. subterranean rose about and heftier, jr. and he brings up the war record or lack there of them basically decry as a draft dodger and jack kennedy says he wished he had not brought that up. that was terrible and i disassociate from the fact that hubert humphrey never served in world war ii and went thing leads to another and there are modifications of the involvement but there was some. how lot of money is poured into west virginia. even though jack kennedy is very nervous, so nervous he flies to washington d.c. to hide out. but not to downplay and he gets the call from kennedy kennedy, you wind. that is basically the end of hubert humphrey's campaign and the primaries. it is over. but not the nomination. where has landed johnson bed? he has not been a candidate. he only and balances his candidacy for the presidency of the united states one week before the

he did not like theodore roosevelt but i do. so we differ there but that does not stop me to enjoy mark twain's books. a few years ago the oxford university press published a very modest price complete reproduction of all of mark twain's books, i have them in my library in london. and i read them constantly. i get to enormous enjoyment he is best known for "huckleberry finn" which is one of the greatest books in whole of american literature and i suppose it is his best book. but he roche many other good books and shorter essays and other little entertaining notes. so i salute to mark twain but that does not mean i have to agree with all of his opinions particularly with my favorite president come with the door roosevelt. >> host: why is the door rose about your favorite president? >> guest: net six good reasons. first of all, he was say very active man always in the saddle or on the move were doing things. he was a very hard-working man. like winston churchill. second, he did not take anything for granted pervez a young man he w

. >>> with a look ahead to the news at 5:30 i'm roosevelt leftwich.ller whales are not residents of the national aquarium here like in orlando but employees still take steps to protect themselves. we'll take you behind the scenes. >>> you interviewed for a job and you have not heard back. well, you didn't get it. find out the common mistakes people make. >>> plus, is the cost of taking care of your sick pet getting too expensive? we'll show you how to save on pet medicine. those stories and the forecast coming up at 5:30. >>> a look around the nation. we'll start off in houston. that's where a woman accidentally drove her car through a glass window of a shore store. witnesses say she was backing up when she hit three other vehicles and landed 15 feet unside the store. the driver was taken to the hospital for treatment. no one else was hurt. investigators are trying to determine what caused the accident. >>> now to california. a commuter train derailed. it hit a minivan abandoned on the tracks. the crash sparked a fire and caused major delays and servi

but this could -- we may have had, say last week, the deepest point of the -- of his -- you know, roosevelt in his first year was also sort of tentative and didn't take a really tough stance. and he wasn't that popular either. then he really got tough. he was threatening to increase the number of judges on the supreme court to overcome that obstacle. and eventually he succeeded, and that made him popular. >> he failed at the court backing, but he succeeded politically is what you mean. >> yes, yes. >> one of the proposals, because banks have been making these unexpected and many think undeserved profits has been in various ways to claw back some of the money. the british and the french are talking about a tax on bonuses. obama is talking about a tax on bank size. another proposal to have a tax on financial transactions for the future. what do you think about all those proposals? >> why shouldn't those things provide revenues to make up the losses? i think it's a natural source of revenues. >> one more tax to ask you about. the tax on carried interest which is at the heart of hedge funds lik

roosevelt had the press set aside because roosevelt, they're dorr roosevelt was a writer. he had the newspapers on his side. the divided now. the country is in the center, center right. while some media is sticking with obama, others are drifting away and i think the main thing the president needs to do is not point fingers at the american people but inspire new leadership. >> douglas, great seeing, khalid sheik mohammed, to gitmo or not? n host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? host: is ed "too tall" jones too tall? host: could switching to geico 15% or more on car insurance? host: does a ten-pound bag of flour make a really big biscuit? ♪ you know, this is a great one for watching football on sundays. are you a football guy? - i like football a little bit i guess. yeah. - yeah. this is going to be weird, bear with me. you look like brett favre a little bit. we get you. we've got your tv. get an 10% instant savings or 24 months no interest... on total electronics purchases over $999 with your sears card. plus get a free samsung blu-ra

and in 20th century america especially after the ascension of franklin roosevelt the closest counterpartto these forces was the democratic party. conversely, the political right seemed to represent an american version of the conservative forces in europe, which had always opposed equal rights for jews. it made perfect sense then for jews to align themselves with the left and to deep their distance from the right where they were in any case unwelcomed. but then something momentous happened that began to rob these political commitments of the sense they had always made. this momentous event was the six day war of 1967. to be sure, even before 1967 in the decades following the end of world war ii, jews found themselves getting more and more out of political step with the other white members of the roosevelt coalition. the attachment of these non-jewish ethnoreligious groups to the democrats was steadily declining in direct proportion to the improvement of their economic and social condition. but not the jews. a substantial majority of whom kept on voting for the democratic candidate in ever

the first lady was as well, eleanor roosevelt. buried alive from childbirth. that humanizes president's in a way. there may be a number of people and the evidence you have the same fear. host: what was george washington stipulation to make sure he was not buried alive? guest: he just expressed a fear. he said do not put me in the tomb in less than three days. the irony, of course, i discovered a friend of his who is the co architect of the original capital. he rushed to mount vernon and thought he could resurrect the dead washington by robbinubbings body vigorously in putting him in warm water. mrs. washington put a stop to that. maybe he was onto something. host: next call. caller: i was intrigued by the comment of how poor and the presidency is. i want to mention a book that came out in 1984 called " presidents of both parties." is the study of the first six presidents and how they believe in a non-partisan presidency. i think we're coming back to the time or it is probably needed now, in the age of hyper partisanship. i want to

i mean the policies of the roosevelt administration kept us and turned the recession into a depressionand then kept us in a depression. and so we build monday it's to those people. that's just -- monuments to those people. that's just an aside. he wrote that that bubble was caused by the monetary authorities and of course, milton and freedman and anna schwartz wrote their book in 1963 on the monetary issue in the united states that discuss this exact thing that why we are in the situation we are, why do we get business cycles? we don't get business cycles because all of a sudden all of the businessmen have decided or businesswomen, keeping in line with the politically correct. they make all of the wrong decisions at all the same time, right? you can see that certain individual businesses may make wrong decisions but why should it be that every now and then, all of a sudden, we produce tomorrow automobiles or houses or too many of such things. why do business cycles go up and down? it can't be that the market is doing this. it must be the government central planner that is doing this. s

roosevelt had his fireside chats.uld sit down at the radio and people would listen and he would talk about these problems and he would try to coax americans through a very difficult time. this commission is trying to plant some of these -- decisions to the end of -- trying to punt some of these decisions to the end of the year. six of them appointed by the present and of those six, four would be democrats and two republican -- six of them appointed by the president. the republicans, so fearful that this commission would come to the conclusion that taxes would have to increase, the republican leadership is thinking about boycotting it. they feel like it is just a front to raise taxes. and it would be the ultimate irony if president obama signed an executive order to mandate bipartisanship and even that can't be navigated because the republican leadership said, no, we will not name our six members. host: what kind of teeth would it have? since it is not a statutory commission how would it get suggestions mandated? guest

he brought us truman's courage and honor, roosevelt's pride and soul. he brings us the human spirit that not merely endured, but prevailed in building the panama canal. and with john and abigail adams coming to us next month, he will show us the sacrifice and the glory of the past. i bring you our poet t. our writer of american history, the one and only, david mccollough. [applause] >> well, i -- maybe i should stop right now. that was a wonderful, wonderful introduction. and thank you, congressman roemer, very much. jim billington, thank you. and ladies and gentlemen, what a warm welcome, which warms me very much. this is a full season for me. i have a book forthcoming. john adams. and i'm happy to say two of my previous bocks are being reissued in hard covers as simon & shuster classics. "the great bridge "ow and "mornings on horseback." my book about theodore roosevelt. each of these books is to have a new introduction by the author. as it says on all of his books in the new classic series, which led me to an incident in a bookstore a few weeks ago t

roosevelt is president.islation trying to do something about the new deal, not that it would have made a lot of difference. the court kept striking it down. roosevelt suggested packing it. adding enough justices to change the outcomes of decisions. everybody is mesmerized by the question. the country comes down against packing the court but not before the court suggests it is going to change its direction and come into line with what the president and the people want. most likely not much happens, more likely we get some campaign changes from the court. least likely a confrontation. but that is the way in which public views becomes substantiated into the constitution. >> jeff? >> i would like to talk about the third possibility that he identified. he called it the most dramatic possibility. is it conceivable that we could in 2010 or 2011 have a reprise of 1937 with a popular democratic president taking on an obstructionist supreme court? this would be something. i like the fact that he described my book as t

if roosevelt had not come down with polio in 1941, he would've been nominated for president in 1924. boris by 1924, 1928. neither one of those years was a democratic year. he would've lost and that would've been not. the fact that he had polio required him, allowed him to stay out of the political agreement until things turn around by the time he ran in 1930, 1932, he wasn't a lack in 1932 because he was franklin roosevelt. he was elected because he wasn't herbert huber and it was his good fortune to be elected under those circumstances. okay, thank you very much. and needless to say all be happy to sign any books. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> let me first thank john minus and bob hill. is that better? there we go. everyone has been very, very gracious to me and colonial williamsburg. so thank you for coming out today. as john told you, i am a lawyer by trade, but please do not hold that against me. in fact, whenever i'm in front of a knotty up, i'm reminded of a story that is about the lawyer called the smartest man in the world. and i'll share that with you. this is call

that's what franklin roosevelt did. >> right. right. >> rose: and ronald reagan. >> and ronald reagan. >> rose: but has barack obama done that or failed to do that? >> well, i think he has not done thatn part because he's historically had trouble getting independents, and especially white independents in places like indiana. and you began to see a huge shift in april. it was april to june that his ratings among independents dropped 15%. the number who said he was a liberal rose 18%. so he lost them then. then another shift in december. so there were these two big shifts and he sort of lost what he'd had was the connection that i am something new and he lost that. >> rose: even though he says the same people... the people who elected scott brown were voting for change in the same way that the people who elected him... >> that's not credible. scott brown was running against barack obama. and... >> rose: health care and barack obama. >> i mean, it's... to the extent that there is a free floating desire to have something new and it f

can i tell you something, this is almost -- correct me if i'm wrong, judge -- the theodore roosevelt.d is shaking his head. this is the beginning of the progressive movement. second is end corporate welfare, no government hand-outs to business. [ applause [ applause ] government involvement is necessary. the next one government involvement is necessary where private industry can't do the job all by itself, such as in agriculture. wow, we have always been the bread basket. now we've been bassed -- i try to remember what country passed us as the world's bread basket. we are no longer the agricultural center for the world. last is corporate welfare should be eliminated for big business, but the social safety net for individuals should be retained. did anybody go for this one? i love this audience. next, we go to healthcare. healthcare regulation is the main cause of rising costs. regulation has denied people of treatment, resource and made the cost of creating new treatments out of control, the government should stay out. this week everybody has been talking about healthcare. anybody who

" do you know franklin roosevelt? >> he said, no, i didn't know president roosevelt, but he knew me. but he knew me. [applause] that has always been what our purpose is in the democratic party to know the aspirations, the challenges, the hopes, the dreams, the fears of the american people. today we know that people need jobs. they always do. and that is our commitment to ensure their economic security whether it's through the creation of jobs, making health care available, education of their children, the pension security. we know them. you again are our messengers the make sure that the democratic people knows them. we couldn't have a better messengerer than barack obama the president of the united states to convey that message. that's what we do every day to pass legislation to demonstrate that we know the american people. we just to convince them of that and you are very much a part of making that happen. so i thank you my friends for your support and encouragement, if your in getting out the vote and promoting cau

roosevelt. he freed the slaves and saved the union. and because he saved the union, he was able to free the slaves. beyond this, however, our extraordinary interest in him, and esteem for him, has to do with what he said and how he said it. and much of this had to do with the union, what it was and why it was worth the saving. he saved it by fighting and winning the war, of course. but his initial step in this was the decision to go to war, not a popular decision, and surly not an easy one. his predecessor, the incompetent james buchanan, believed that the states had no right to secede from the union, but there was nothing he could do about it if they did. dust by the time lincoln took office, seven southern states had succeeded, nothing had been done about it. led by south carolina, they claim to be doing only what they and the others had done in 1776. to oppose them might bring on the war, and began had no stomach for this. lincoln knew that the time to come when the only way to save the union

i'm roosevelt leftwich. >> i'm kelly swoope. let's get right to meteorologist wyatt eberhart and justin berk with the latest on this latest winter wallop. >> we've basically gone from forecast mode, more to storm tracking mode. this is already moving into maryland as we speak. you can see some very heavy bands pushing into the immediate baltimore area. we have sleet through much of the eastern half of the state. extending now through the delmarva peninsula. on maryland's most powerful doppler radar now you can see, if you look closely, baltimore getting into some, at least moderate snow now. i'll have to check the objections at the top of the -- observations at the top of the hour, but looks like more sleet down in the easton area and back to cambridge to the south and east. that is why we think accumulations could be a bit less. nonetheless a winter storm warning up for the entire state. baltimore, ocean city, all the way west past hagerstown, frederick and beyond. it will be a snowy situation. we think we'll now push to the nu

eleanor roosevelt rol's role isa hollywood myth. eleanor roosevelt had very little to do with the success of the tuskegee airmen. in the movie that hbo made, they have eleanor roosevelt flying with the tuskegee airmen. she flew with chief anderson in 1941, before the tuskegee airmen arrived, but for the first 12 cadets arrived at the tuskegee -- before the first 12 cadets arrived at the tuskegee air field. she was a friend of black people, patronizing but a friend. the friend in this case was george marshall, the chief of staff of the army. when the tuskegee airmen did not go overseas for a year after their training, it was he who forced them overseas. he was the chief of staff of the army. he was carrying out franklin roosevelt's orders. there is no question that eleanor roosevelt was a friend, but as far as influencing policy -- the story of having never lost a bomber is a continuing story. there is a historian working on that. he has been able to document that on a day when the tuskegee airmen were escorting bombers a bomber was

here we had a supreme court that was striking down the new deal legislation and what does roosevelt do? to design going to change the supreme court but i'm not going to lead the way that the modern presidents do today for the retirements and it is such a clever thing he says and anyone could have believed. >> host: but john he waited until after the 1936 election. >> guest: that's true. he got a huge majority. but his reason was -- >> host: it was jacksonian. >> guest: i hadn't thought of it that way that he might have waited specifically for this, but to say that all of this justice on the supreme court, they are sold. >> host: what and a just, fdr. >> guest: they need help. >> host: anyone over 70 -- and wind 76 -- >> guest: that was old then, not just now. these guys are sold we need new blood and their world and the justice. >> guest: he actually said these guys come from the horse and buggy generation. they can't understand the modern economy so for everyone that is over 70 there will be a new seat on the supreme court created for younger men to help. >> host: and they were all ap

i mean, the policies of the roosevelt administration kept us and turned a recession into a depressionn kept us in a depression and so we build monuments to those people. but that's just an aside. nonetheless, burt has written very well about that bubble way cass -- was caused by the monetary authorities and of course milton friedman and anna schwartz wrote their famous book 20 years after the great depression or actually longer than that, 1963, on the monetary institute of the united states and they discussed this exact thing. that why we are in the situation we are, why do we get business cycles? we don't get business cycles because all of a sudden all the businessmen have decided -- or business women -- keeping awrong with the politically correct, all the business men and business women make all the wrong decisions at all the same time. right? i mean, you can see that certain individual businesses might make wrong decisions but why should it be that every now and then all of a sudden we produce too many automobiles or we produce too many houses or we produce too many of such things?

did you know franklin roosevelt? he said, no, i didn't know president roosevelt. but he knew me. but he knew me. [applause] >> that has always been what our purpose is in the democratic party, to know the aspirations, the challenges, the hopes, the dreams, the fears of the american people. today we know that people need jobs. they always do. and that is our commitment to ensure their economic security, whether it's the creation of jobs, that making health care available, education of their children, the pension security, we know them. you, again, our our messengers to ensure that the american people know that the democratic party knows them. we couldn't have a better messenger than barack obama, the president of the united states, to convey that message. and the congress of the united states, that's what we do everyday, to pass legislation, to demonstrate that we know the american people. we just have to convince them of that. and you are a very much a part of making that happen. so i thank you, my friends, for your support and encouragement, for your work and getting out the vot

and finally got the attention of the folks that ran the roosevelt dam in arizona and their reaction was sort of like, what the health care is going on? and this story they are coming back was there was no way that kid was ever close to those sorts of controls. some of you may have seen a "60 minutes" show, which basically followed rumors from the intelligence community that someone got into a power station and shut off the power, maybe yes, and maybe no and the brazilians said it may not have been a hacker and may have been a -- problems with the drought and the bad smoke stacks and, we find these guys early -- fined them several million dollars. true? not true? i don't know, i'm reminded of the testimony given by a fellow, asan tay, the security head of the north american electric reliability corporation and pleaded congress and said, guys if you in the intelligence community know about our vulnerabilities, tell us. they are not telling the electric power industry what is this point of the intelligence in the first place? i will leave that up in the air and go to number 4. number 4 is,

roosevelt did it. roosevelt chose the perfect enemies. host: who were the perfect enemies?et. come on, you saw that coming. host: taxes, you are on. caller: -- texas, you are on. guestcaller: in today's politicl climate, their rhetoric is divide and conquer. whether you are for or against it, health care, abortion, gay rights, it never seems to be inclusive. it always seems to divide and conquer pre and mr. frank was exactly right he does not want to ruffle feathers. he is the first black president, so therefore, he does not want to ruffle feathers. he wants to be inclusive. but you cannot do that. you have to take the bull by the horns and lead. that is where we are lagging right now, with the democratic party and members of the democratic party. in this climate that we have today, what i hear people talking about the tea party and good old-fashioned american values, let's go back, well, it was not good for minorities. it was good for white men in general. guest: that's for sure. look, there are all sorts of examples of what the caller was talking about. what i have been t

. >> bill: you are a big income -- he said teddy roosevelt wanted taxation.hat's what his answer was. i'm not soft oon obama. i identify what he does. i'm not going to say -- >> if you want to be technically accurate. he is not a marxist. he is not a socialist. he is a progressive. >> bill: that's right. exactly. so you are agreeing with me, beck. >> never. >> bill: techni -- technically accurate. you are agreeing with me. >> the spirit of it. >> bill: i have no beef with that. >> people don't understand what progressive really means. the difference between marxism and progressivism is marxism has a revolution like what van jones would like to do. progressivism says bit by bit we will eat at the constitution. >> bill: let me make it really simple for you so that you can go back on your show and say this to the folks. >> do you have a chalkboard? >> bill: progressivism wants to take your stuff. that's it. that's what it is. it wants to take your stuff. >> doesn't want to kill you? no because then they won't have your stuff if you are dead, you can't earn stuff

this is not unlike what the reconstruction finance corporation did in the 1930's or what franklin roosevelt ordered and we need to reassert that society is in charge of the financial markets and they're a means to an end, rather than the dominant political entity. >> i want to spend just a couple minutes on housing finance. you spend the first probably 25% of the book on the mortgage market and the securitization process and the gsc, fannie mae and freddie mac. they in a large part started much of the unraveling. here at the center, we have convened a mortgage finance group and we're spending a lot of time talking about what comes next in the financial system as we try to disentangle the federal role, which is essentially now supporting almost 90% of the housing finance system. we could talk a lot about the diagnosis of how that went, but i want to talk a little bit about, particularly the future, because you argue, we won't have mortgage lending or many other kinds ever lending, unless we figure out the securitizatio sen procession and you've talked about the mismatch between the short ter

so roosevelt said, well go do something. and what was created out of that go do something was one of the most extraordinary science policy documents that have ever come into being called science, the endless frontier, authored by a set of committees but really by vanover bush. and what were the elements of that, that made it so important? first of all, what bush wanted to do was to use taxpayer money. he knew that while foundations could offer assistance in growing research, there was nothing like the public cofferes and especially the federal dollars that could potentially really bill science, technology and other areas in the growth of knowledge. and so, he wanted to use this. and that was extremely important. he wanted to establish a national research foundation and was independent of government or quasiindependent of government. he failed on that. congress wouldn't let him do it. eventually that more -- morphed into the science foundation. he wanted to outsource research. in short, he didn't want to take the route europe

. >> host: why was theodore roosevelt your favorite president? >> guest: for six good reasons. first of all, he was a very active man. he was always in the saddle or on the move and doing things. he was a hard -- a very hard-working man like winston churchill. secondly, he didn't take anything for granted. he didn't necessarily take the received wisdom. as a young man he wanted to see it for himself. he went to the far west and the badlands of dakota and all those sort of places and saw for himself. and that was the second reason. the third reason was that he was -- he thought that war was a great evil but also sometimes necessary. and he was determined to see war at close quarters. so he took an important part in the cuban liberation movement and led his own little army of american adventurers during that campaign. and that was the third reason. the fourth reason was that he had a strong idea of american leadership in the world. his most famous saying was -- was speak softly but carry a big stick. that is always very good advice for an american

nevertheless, any other english leader would not have got on so well with roosevelt.ll did. their partnership was unique in modern history. and it was a very successful one. and often when i'm talking to english leaders like tony blair or margaret thatcher, i'm often inclined to say to them. it's very important to study the relationship between fdr and churchill. and to read the letters they exchanged because that gives you a kind of guide as to what anglo american relationships should be. and how the special relationship should function. and the special relationship with all its faults and all its limitations is still the most important geopolitical fact in the entire world. and long may it flourish. that was laid down in its modern form by churchill and fdr together. and i always try and encourage british leaders to stick to that formula and to make it work. >> mr. johnson, how well do you know the queen? and what's the significance of her role in history? >> guest: well, i don't claim knowledge of the queen. i met her only formally but her role is very important. e