roosevelt -- molotov. roosevelt would have never done that. truman had this famous meeting with molotov in which he dismissed him from his office looking very tough. roosevelt would have treated him differently. my guess is, though, that had hopkins lived and had roosevelt -- hopkins died in 1946 early, so he was gone. but had they lived, i suspect it still would have been, it still would have gone that way. it just would have taken longer perhaps. but i don't think had they lived, there would be no cold war. george cannon was in the embassy when hopkins arrived on that last mission in june of 1945. and george cannon said to hopkins before he went in to talk to stalin, he said, socially, don't try to negotiate poland. it's not going to work. just back off, you know? you going to -- you're going to pick more trouble for yourself getting embroiled in this whole issue. stalin's not going to do it. and, of course, he was right. so that's the story. >> in the pre-tv era, can you comment? the public saw very little of roosevelt in a wheelchair. can

roosevelt but never done that. truman had this famous meeting with molotov in which he dismissed him from his office, looking very tough. roosevelt would've treated him differently. my guess is that hopkins lived -- how can died in 1946 early, so he was gone. what had they lived, i suspect it still would've gone that way and it just would've taken longer perhaps. but i don't think had they lived there'd be no cold water. church can visit me at this even hopkins arrived on that last mission in june 1845 and church can then said to have kids before he went to talk to stalin, he said essentially, don't try to negotiate poland. not going to work. just back off. you're going to make more trouble for yourself getting embroiled in this whole issue. stalin is not going to do it. and of course he was right. so that's the story. >> in the pre-tv era, can you comment the public saw very little of roosevelt in a wheelchair. can you comment on what impact do you think that might've had on the hot kid was about projection to the

hopkins translated roosevelt's vision into concrete action. which roosevelt needed. then he had contempt of bureaucracy and cutting through the red tape. then he had these helpful political connections. because he was helping out with relief during the depression, he knew the mayors and governors. then another major reason why it was so close. this is the key to their relationship, i think. hopkins three presidents move on like anyone else. he came as close as anyone to gain admittance into what robert sherwood called roosevelt heavily for state interior. unlike mrs. roosevelt, he knew when to be still in the president's presents for one to back off and tell a joke. and then they were close because hopkins was just great company. roosevelt loved to be around him. he was a window on the world that roosevelt could not inhabit because of his paralysis. so hopkins would come back at night in manhattan or washington and regale the president and dish the gossip from the great country houses where he stayed during the weekend. churchill used as a that hopkins had the gift o

so you can go on with teddy roosevelt. you go through the book, you'll find -- the other one which was quite curious was good to the last drop which he invents. he's at the maxwell house which was a famous restaurant and hotel in nashville, tennessee, and they pour him a cup of coffee, and he says, ah, this is good to the last drop, and before you know it, they're promoting this coffee all over the country, it becomes a national brand using teddy roads svelte's slow began. -- roosevelt's slogan. he may be the first and only president to write an advertising slogan. so i think the next question, of course, that everyone wants to know is how does our present president, president obama, what has he tone that's interesting? he's yet to really make a mark. he's not done -- he's done a couple interesting ones. shovel-ready is really his. it's hard to find that anywhere in the first t.a.r.p., he said we've got projects that are shovel ready. sonoma get done's his. ing he -- that was a totally spontaneous, this was in the 2011, th

roosevelt wasn't prepared for it. robert trout was the one who introduced him for the fireside chat. but the word -- he wasn't sure at first. but again, a quick digression. but i've done some baseball writing. one of the things i found out is that when roosevelt started to write the fireside chats, he's a slightly aristocratic individual and he wants to talk to the american people. and he feels that he is coaching them out of the depression. and he starts using baseball heavily. and he said, you know, i just can't get the first base of this legislation where there is some member of the opposite party. so he would use these metaphors. it was then picked up by eisenhower. it is based on football. and that sort of becomes a big change in language. the president takes on a popular metaphor for explaining things. and it was explained in much more legislative, bureaucratic type of language. where all this of a sudden we just can't get to first base. >> [inaudible question] >> that's a good question. i mean, they have had th

he demanded much from roosevelt, and roosevelt gave it to him.he named him the first ambassador, the first irish catholic ambassador of the court of st. james. he became the ambassador to great britain. it was one of the worst decisions i ever made. he knew but somehow believe that he could keep kennedy and check what he could. when kennedy talked to his children, he was a cheerleader and an optimist. in his relationship to the world around him and the 20th century, he made his pile of money and he was convinced that it was going to be taken from him. he was convinced that it would be taken from the united states that the united states entered the war. entered world war ii on behalf of the british. nothing is more important than making sure that there was no war. keeping britain out of the water and then the united states out of the war. and he did everything that he possibly could. he violated protocol, he did not file orders. he met secretly with german diplomats and he was convinced that as a businessman, he knew how to negotiate a deal. and t

franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. for he did not affect the philly communicate their agendas or initiatives for jefferson, monroe, grant in cleveland. obviously failure for second term president has been their inability to successfully work with congress. only 82nd term presidents have failed second terms to directly to the fight between congress and the white house. i've been a majority of their own party of relief. those presidents who served in the congress have a majority of the opposing party during his second term included wilson, eisenhower, nixon, reagan and clinton. the competitive battle between the president and congress, over the treaty. after considerable after working with members of congress, compromising and cajoling. and i was at the congress of right-thinking federalist senate president hu is revered. when they went in his second term, eisenhower worked quietly behind the scenes of the senate majority leader, brendan jones said, to gain approval of his legislative agenda. ronald reagan began the demo

roosevelt was as well. he repeatedly told his son, we are not going to be played as a good time charlie as we were in world war i. >> he also campaigned with african americans at a time of jim crow, and went to africa. >> he was shocked. he said the british empire said these people back a hundred years. >> you made the movie born on the fourth of july. you made platoon. and now have written the untold history of the united states and done a showtime series. what is most important, do you feel, that has not been told in the past and maybe even in your films? the bomb, youith obam can work your way through the eisenhower years. he was a benign face, but their foreign policy starts a parade of intervention that is criminal. and he gets away with it. he builds up our arsenal of 30,000 nuclear warheads. >> p p e has one finger on the button when he takes off -- he has one finger on the button when he takes office. a dozen fingers when he leaves. >> he puts us in vietnam. he financed 80% of it. he was definitely

roosevelt was very feeble.when party bosses are to come to them and they want to get wallace off the ticket, roosevelt says to him, i support wallace but i can't fight this campaign myself. i'm not strong enough again. i am depending on you guys to do it. finally, caved in. his family was furious. eleanor roosevelt was furious with them. every one of the rows of kids was furious with them. they were huge wallace supporters. he had all the black delegates at the convention, all the progress. there were fights in the party that is split still today in the democratic party. roosevelt didn't have the gumption to fight at that point. he lost that strength. wallace said publicly at the convention if i were a delegate i would vote for henry wallace, which he would have, but it's tragic as a say in the document is, it's tragic you didn't have the strength to fight at that point for wallace. >> i sense in the opening question, michael, you're pointing to the forces of history. and i see the marxist side of this, the for

roosevelt everyone -- 3 of his aides claim that they invented the term but roosevelt is meeting with moran of mark twain's relatives and he insists the distant relative that he got it from a yankee of king arthur's court in which the hero -- the characters they yankee the serfs the peasants are subjugated to the rule of king arthur and not doing very well. he stands up and he says you guys need a new deal. that was from there and the other one, i'm working on another book about words by famous writers. if you remember the old laugh and show they would sever the picture mark twain and a connecticut yankee he is also the first one to use socket to me. there are about two -- there are going to execute the hero and he said come on, socket to me so that became the fiber. i have to tell you something from a book that is neither britain but if you read paradise lost carefully you will find john dellums talks about all hell breaking loose which is a modern-ism. yes, sir? >> either common and also a question. first to comment. a comment. with your introduction of all these new words i don't t

franklin roosevelt won his second term, landslide, because of his huge popularity. however, in many more presidential elections, the candidates are in a heated battle to present themselves as the one best capable of serving the country with the winner walking off with the modest majority. it is a customary wisdom that the campaign between the incumbent president and his opponent will be either a referendum on the first term of the president, or a judgment of which candidate will be the better leader. is there really a difference between these two considerations? does not boil down to judging the leadership skill of the incumbent based on his effectiveness during his first term, versus the unknown leadership skills of the challenger? it's easy to point to the national security, or the economic consequences, or consequent impact on the ratings of an incumbent as a indicator of the popular view of the sitting president or the public was not over enchanted with the war in iraq when george w. bush ran for reelection. against john kerry, but voters by a small margin seen

two of the roosevelt children were at the table. it was just a wednesday night, you know, at home with the roosevelts. nothing special. and after dinner the gentlemen retired to talk about race, but the dinner itself was just, you know, a family evening that was taking place, you know, at tables all over america, the same kind of thing. but at this table, you know, there was a hot seat. >> final question, what was on the menu? >> the menu has not been recorded, but roosevelt loved hot food and plenty of it. so probably hominy, biscuits, you know, comfort food as we know it today. >> deborah davis is the author of "guest of honor: booker t. washington, theodore roosevelt and the white house dinner that shocked a nation." thank you. >> thank you. >> now, from the 2012 miami book fair international held annually on the campus of miami-dade college, a panel on american history featuring candice millard, david nassau and les standford. it's about 45 minutes. .. >> we can visit there, we been trying to learn the customs, we can translate

. >> franklin delano roosevelt was the 32nd president of the united states. >> fdr is someone who totallyhanged the face of this country, totally changed the direction of this country. >> roosevelt was elected and re-elected an incredible four times. the fdr memorial has four rooms, one for each of his terms in office. when he became president in 1933, our country was suffering the worst financial crisis in our history -- the great depression. statues of soup lines and dust bowl farmers illustrate those hard times. but why the man listening to a radio? >> there was no television then. how did you communicate? the president communicated via radio. >> fdr's way with words gave people hope in those dark days of the depression. carved on the memorial's walls are some of his most famous quotes. for example, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." >> if you give time and you really soak in and pay attention to what is being said in those statements, they're very powerful statements. >> something else that makes a very powerful statement is the memorial's use of water. what does the wat

again from roosevelt to george w. bush. lesson number one is move fast. the concluding snippet at the lesson goes like this, the day after the election said they hoped the kaiser turns to president-elect of the semester or not to president-elect, hurry up, were almost out of time. when you win an election for a very brief moment you have this enormous amount of capital. you say f. he singled day and most presidents forget that. they say that people have selected me. that means they selected my agenda and that's true. for six months the agenda will dominate washington. after month seven was someone talking about? everybody's running for the midterm and all the u. k. this gone. some presidents get this. johnson got it, george w. bush got it. he was very, very shrewd about creeping things through and we believe barack obama got it partially because he had read the research. we have reason to believe he orale spacers that this boat and moved quickly. so imagine there is some feeling in the industry should to put health care off until things had settled down a

two of the roosevelt children were at the table. it was just a wednesday night at home with the roosevelts, nothing special. and after dinner the gentlemen retired to talk about race, but the dinner itself was just a family evening that was taking place at tables all over america, the same kind of thing. but at this table there was a hot seat. >> host: final question. what was on the menu? >> guest: the menu has not been recorded but roosevelt loved hot food and plenty of it. so, probably biscuits, comfort food as we know it today. >> host: debra davis, the author of guest of honor, booker t. washington, theodore roosevelt and the din that's right shocked the nation. thank you. >> thank you. >> the first ladies i am drawn for the ones on the ground floor that sort of more modern day first ladies that i can identify with more. people like eleanor roosevelt, jackie kennedy, those are the women whose stories feel close enough to connect with. many of the women in the higher floors on the state floor, they seem like characters from a wo

night at home with the roosevelts. nothing special. after dinner they retired to talk about race but the dinner itself was a family evening taking place at tables, all over america. but at this table there was a hot seat. >> host: final question. what was on the menu? >> guest: it was not recorded by roosevelt loved hot food and plenty of it to. probably convert food as we know it today. >> host: the author of a guest of honor. thank you. >> one cannot count the times american say we are the best country in the world. with a marvelously stupid thing to say. of all the countries in the world, everybody thinks their country is pretty good. why do we have to believe that we are the best? what does that mean? why do we have to assert that all of the time? and what does it mean to other people? american products go around the world, information products coat around the world. it is seen by every corner of the world and we

roosevelt's a democrat.they have sparred, they have been at opposite ends of the political camp for more than a decade. but when he gets that call, the first thing he does is to quit as president of general motors, move to washington and begin the process of figuring out how he's going to get this country up and running. for wartime production. and he, of course, now also realizes that obstacles that he faces in this process, that he's got, first of all, an american industry which has been, fallen into the hard times because of a decade of depression. the steel industry, for example, which is about one-half of the production capacity it had been in 1929. that he's also got the fact that many businessmen that he's dealing with, including his own boss. you see him, there's knudsen standing at the microphone, his own boss standing to knudsen's left, on your right, alfred sloan, tells him you're crazy! you're going to work for roosevelt? he's going to make a monkey out of you. this is not a project you want to g

by 1937, franklin roosevelt knew what the new deal was about. his second inaugural address was much more specific and is really arguing for continuing the crusade. it is his speech about seeing one-third of the nation still ill fed and ill clothed. second inaugurations are often much more pointed as far as the president is concerned. what should you look for in his inauguration? it is going to be a coming together. it is going to be the legislative branch hosting, the chief executive sworn in by the cheap justice of the supreme court -- chief justice of the supreme court. huge numbers of the public will be there to see what is going on. i think the fact that congress continues to hold his inaugurations -- these inaugurations is it a sign that we're coming together. -- is a sign that we're coming together. as a historian, i never like to predict the future. until people i like to predict the past. -- i tell people i like to predict the past. i will absolutely predict that monday's inaugural address will and the way i am going to end right now, wh

i can, again, the reason i raised teddy roosevelt is that a lot of people could say that teddy roosevelt more of a character than a transformative president. i can name, literally, things that president obama has done. i'm going to say that if teddy roosevelt is the measure, it strengthens the case for president obama. >> if you had to pick one republican, who would it be? >> we only have another nine minutes. >> i think eisenhower is a good one. really changed our country. but if you were to ask obama if he would rather have his face on a mountain or be remembered in the hearts and minds of americans, i'm pretty sure he would take the latter. >> president obama always thought of himts in a big way and aspired to be thought of in a big way. jodi character says about how, you know, he always set his sights high. he says just two years after arriving in the senate, he spoke about becoming one of the greatest presidents who would heal the country's divisions, address his most critical problems and turn americans into a hopeful, new direction. that is a noble thing to aspire to. >> of course

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chambers, the roosevelt administration as early as 1939. roosevelt administration through diplomatic reporting from moscow in 1944-45 which he also felt to have been -- both men found themselves isolated from many contemporaries, even ostracized for having gone out on limbs but kennan's came quickly and less painfully than that of whittaker chambers. neither took satisfaction in vindication. self congratulations for both men, most atypically in the modern age was almost impossible. that is remarkable of the 20th century. one reason for this was religious faith which became deeper for both of these men as they aged but that faith resided in the city of god, not the city of man, hence that phase, minimal expectation beyond bearing witness accomplished in his life. and the capacity, and leave the little country, the united "% states, survive in a sinister "% world. both were at the same time dedicated american patriots whose only acts of witness eliminated the country's path to survival through this horrible century. the despair was so deep th

president obama -- this is not a political time when roosevelt lived in. the labor movements are not as strong. today there was a story about the tea party move -- losing its mojo. we're seeing overreach that has led people to this tipping point moment where millions of people have said enough. the obscene inequality in this country colliding with downward mobility that people feel in their gut, they see it among their family and friends. that has led to this moment where there is the possibility of space. organizers can move into it. we could see some real change. it will not come about through just one leader. >> it helps to have a leader who is effective. >> in traveling with the book, i am reminded about what candidate obamas said when he said i am a were shocked -- rorshack. people bring to him their views of the country, their anger and pain. feel he has done what he could in a system where you have a republican party that was determined to take him down. they did not want to govern with him. my sense is that he wanted to bring a different kind of po

it's the roosevelt bridge, traffic is being allowed across on 66 eastbound into the district. if you are crossing the roosevelt bridge, you're not getting very far. 23rd street is as far as you get unless you have a special permit. if you take the exit to the left would say if she to the eastern expressway, if you will not get as far as 18th street. the best thing to do it is turn left at 20th street off the eastern expressway from the roosevelt bridge and avoid trouble. there are metro stations closed today for the ongoing inauguration activity. archives, mount vernon square, and smithsonian are closed. if you have tickets for the inauguration, use the union station, judiciary square, capitol south, and federal centers southwest's stations. those are pretty much only for inauguration tickets holders. l'enfant plaza, gal replace, if you don't have a ticket. the parking lots will be filling up very early this morning, so have a backup plan in case you get to the parking lot and it is full. that's a real possibility with metro having opened at 4:00 this morning. back to you. >>

when roosevelt died, harry truman became president. when harry truman was inaugurated after his election in 1948, he came to st. john's and had a pre inauguration worship service here before he was sworn in for his full term as president. subsequent to that time, other presidents have had pre inaugural services in churches or elsewhere. not necessarily in st. john's, but the tradition began here and it began with franklin roosevelt. that is just one more example of the association of st. john's with presidents and part of the heritage of this building. >> a look at the statue at the martin luther king jr. memorial in washington d.c.. tomorrow is martin luther king day and the public inauguration of president obama's second term. a look at the martin luther king memorial. president obama was officially sworn in earlier today at the white house. we will show the public swearing in tomorrow from the west side of the capital. life inauguration coverage starts at 7:00 a.m. eastern. hosted a brunch for some of the newly elected women of cong

roosevelt didn't do it. he refused to appoint an all-powerful war production czar, not even bill knudsen was entrusted with that kind of power and later on, although people have unified position, they never really have any power over it. by then the system is up and running and they can't control it. the real problem becomes how to shut this down, to stop the production is taken on a life of its own. i think in many ways historians give them a kind of reasons for doing a bad one is that he didn't want to have been a single one agency or person have power over this war production effort. he didn't want to give up his own power as commander-in-chief to a person who would read, if they have statutory authority to close factories are up in factories or tell people what you can make them but you cannot, basically means a second president on your hands. i think maybe he was also, and i also think to a degree he was kind of realizing there was nowhere else to go. the new deal had played out, they were run out of id

roosevelt the acting secretary general from the founding conference it in san francisco and also named from the carnegie endowment for peace and a radically denied chambers allocation. a great deal more than the rest of station was at stake into communism and those associated with nixon a prominent member of the committee would be dealt a devastating blow. the guilty and communism occupy a part of the political landscape and furthermore chambers and hiss each represented one side. one represented freedom and western civilization and the other the etiology of totalitarianism. both the left and the right to understood america and the world was at a critical point* in history consider the major political events that transpired between august 1948 when chambers confronted hiss and may 1952 when chambers published "witness." 1948 the communists through a justice of akia coup d'etat the first seizure by force of a popular government and spending washington. at the shanghai shacked the following year the communist would assume command of the world's most populist nation. 1950 was the devil th

roosevelt was becoming a huge colossus in american politics. and in 1943, right in the middle for the war to come he decides i'm going to do it. world war two, the tide has turned and he's going to win the war. he's going to come home at the end of the war, bring the troops back and he's decided i need another crusade and that's going to be health insurance. they would win this thing through congress. the crowd goes off, writes the national health insurance package. there is one great memo in the archive in which somebody says health care is the most boring subject i've ever encountered. so we had a good laugh about and just as it arrives, roosevelt died certainly in april of 1945. this new guy doesn't know anything about harry truman, takes over and here comes this package really from roosevelt's great, national health insurance, truman grabs it and he makes it the cause of his life and no one knew it but it becomes his crusade. truman failed to win the national health insurance, but this idea come a national health insurance passes from every

president roosevelt distressingly, the record shows was almost dead.he was very, very confused on many issues. alger hiss was not confuse. he knew what he was doing and he was the person at all the paperwork on had all the documents, all the cables went through him. he was all over the place. that is in the papers, very little of it is in the yalta documents. but i'm almost done. chambers said something very somber, very pessimistic, very -- he said that he was leaving the winning side, communism, for the losing side. it was the one thing about which he was wrong. what convinced him that he was right about that was the unwillingness in people in authority to hear the truth, deny the truth, they ignored the truth, they censored the truth. and this came to the floor in a grand jury session and 1944, 9048 for all these commies and soviet agents were paraded into testified. alger hiss, white, the list is long, they're all in the book, they were allowed to walk because the prosecutors in his said there's only one witness against them come and that's elizabe

the closest was roosevelt 1937. we're not likely to see that, charlie. i thought he did what brand said he should do. i appreciate what mark is saying but i think this is not a programmatic speech. this is not a speech where you talk about here's my four-point jobs program. it's a speech about vision and i thought he gave a good sense of where he wanted the country to be i think it clearly was a progressive democratic speech. in f you read reagan's in 1985 it was a conservative republican speech. and a as for those who say -- i watched fox news who say he didn't offer olive branches or reach across the table to try to encourage bipartisanship, i would note 16 years ago bill clinton in his second inaugural said that you have sent a democratic president and a republican congress back to washington, you didn't send us back to engage in bickering and partisanship. within a year they were impeaching him for lying about sex. so so much for the message that resonates on -- for bipartisanship on inaugural day. >> rose: here's what david brooks said. "it was the

franklin roosevelt was having affairs. franklin roosevelt had two very long-term affairs. one with margaret, his personal aide and secretary and cook and dresser and vinedresser, apparently. what if we found out about fdr's this behavior. what if we threw fdr out of office and demanded his resignation as the economy was recovering? all the way back to the french and indian war of very young george washington was riding very romantic letters to a woman who was not mrs. washington. her name was salutary bear facts to my very attractive, older, sophisticated never. what if washington's letters have become public during the french and indian war or the revolutionary war? much as the traces e-mails became public. what if we get rid of george washington? so girlfriend is not the worst. patraeus is not the first and not the worst. been there, done that. there's a long history of it. in fact and it pains me to say that even abraham lincoln visited a prostitute. i know. citizens so. it happened. the details on the sketchy. there is a lot of -- there aren't a lot of letters written

by 1937, franklin roosevelt knew what the new deal was about. his second inaugural address was much more specific and is really arguing for continuing the crusade. it is his speech about seeing one-third of the nation still ill fed and ill clothed. second inaugurations are often much more pointed as far as the president is concerned. what should you look for in his inauguration? it is going to be a coming together. it is going to be the legislative branch hosting, the chief executive sworn in by the chief justice of the supreme court. huge numbers of the public will be there to see what is going on. i think the fact that congress continues to hold these inaugurations is a sign that we're coming together. as a historian, i never like to predict the future. i tell people i like to predict the past. i will absolutely predict monday's inaugural address will and the way i am going to end right now, which is thank you, god bless you, and god bless america. [applause] i have been asked to open the floor for questions. >> , a history major. i was wonder

of course i did the inevitable eleanor roosevelt. i sort of got imprinted, i think, very early on, the biography is a way of exploring that which you, that which you admire. my mother was quite right to keep me from the duchess of windsor. i think that we are all very lucky man did not start writing biographies earlier because i probably would have produced the definitive biography of hopalong cassidy. [laughter] when i was six, what i really wanted to be was a cowboy. started at that point, i would have certainly written about hopalong cassidy. so now we will move ahead to virginia woolf.

. >> was that in the company, the era of teddy roosevelt and his lament over the overcivilized men inthe famous speech he gave? >> right in the strenuous life. in that period, 19th century turning into the 20th century as roosevelt's roughriders were going up san juan hill and pursuing the spanish american war there's an effort to buff jesus up essentially, emphasize his scenes where he kicks the money changers out of the temple or where he's a carpenter and he's buff and got strong muscles and that sort of thing and that was an effort to bring men back in the churches, there were very few at that time and there was an effort to attract them. >> we won't try to summarize the various permutations of the image of jesus in your book, but one of the funnier aspects of it is your portrayal or your backgrounding of the laughing jesus. correct? >> yes. >> what was that? >> well,, you know, i think this is where the friendly mr. rogers jesus sort of ends up is the jesus who laughs. >> who produced the laughing jesus? >> well, there was a couple efforts to do it. there was a fellow called hube

taken on this path and that they are setting an example for how to help us bring forward eleanor roosevelt's work and make it continually relevant to the world today. i would love to have you here from kevin curr, the principal of balboa and oxy trejos, sr. to explain what it is to them. thank you so much. >> good evening commissioners. superintendent. you know, we live in kind of a high-stakes world in high schools. whether it's the california standards test, ap testing, sat. these are very important parts of just kind of growing up as a student now in our kind of complex world. but it's nice on occasion to kind of step back, and remind us of what life is really all about. and this idea of really teaching kids that human rights is not just something that lives in a far-off, distant land, but something that they need to shepherd themselves and protect in their own communities. so i couldn't be more proud of the work we do in regards to the universal declaration of human rights. i cordially invite you, a little less than 350 days from now, to attend our next assembly. it was really an incredi

because that's where theodore roosevelt went. progressive era, you know, foreshadowing the bull moose party and his break with the republican party. the radicalization of t.r. i wouldn't say we saw the radicalization of barack obama. but we saw... i think this was the most ideologically assertive inaugural address since ronald reagan's first speech, this being the unreagan. >> brown: was it in overt language or symbols or we were talking earlier today as we were talking about the code... >> there was a coded language. talking about takers, we're not a nation of takers and so forth making reference to the sword and those kinds of things. he knows references that he knows people will understand and that codes people will get. so it was really about ideas. one of the things that i mentioned before about him not mentioning names, it was about ideals and ideas. so he was there, i think, summoning the will that beverly talked about. saying we are here together. this is your country. we are citizens. let's make it happen. it is very ide