now roosevelt publicly declared a new goal. the atlantic charter laid out the new world order after and i quote the discussion of the nazi tyranny. in other words although the united states was not yet formally -- formally at war it was committed to the distraction of a nazi regime. this is typical of the way all through this roosevelt gradually escalated his rhetoric as he gradually escalated power. indeed the phrase no end save victory comes from the state of the union in january 1941 which was the first time he hinted the victory over the enemy powers might be the goal. in september the war department stimpson gave roosevelt the estimate he asked for a victory program. it called for the potential mobilization of 8 million men for a huge air force for everything you would need. roosevelt received it calmly from stimpson but there was one big problem is stimpson recognized. there was no way the administration could undertake this program with the destruction of the civilian economy until we were in the war. still a month later

[applause] [applause] >> now from the roosevelt reading festival david kaiser recounts president roosevelt preparation for american entry into world war two. >> before today. bob clark. the deputy director of the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum. my pleasure to welcome you to this session of the 11th annual roosevelt really festival. as an archivist myself this is one of my favorite events of the year because it is an opportunity for all of the wonderful authors to show off the fruits of their labor. so we're happy to have you and all of them participating today. just a couple of housekeeping matters. will everyone please take of their electronic devices and turn them also that our presentation is not interrupted? thank you. for those of you have not had a chance yet to see the new permanent exhibit that opened here last year this time of year, please come and find one of the library staff and we would give you one of these initial buttons we will get you into our exhibit galleries for free. thank you to our colleagues. there are great supporters of our programs. happy

. >> now on booktv, coverage from the annual roosevelt reading festival from the franklin roosevelt library and museum in hyde park, new york. over the next three hours five authors will present their books on the 32 president and the events that marked his tenure. we kick off coverage with david cross's visit to the presidential libraries. >> good morning, everyone. my name is bob clark and 9 executive director of the presidential library and museum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the eleventh annual roosevelt reading festival. fdr established the first presidential library in hyde park. he envisioned it becoming the premier research center for the study of the roosevelt era, very consistently one of the busiest research rooms in the presidential library system. one of the reasons we love this day so much is we get to see the fruit of the labors of all the people who use our research room throughout the year. it is our pleasure to have you here. let me go over those formats of the day and a couple housekeeping matters. the first is would everyone please take out your electronic dev

roosevelt campaign wanted to nomination to be seen. not the harvard boy with the silver spoon in his mouth. but a humble strong man who new adversity and hard times submitting to the call of public service. so in the end, i came to believe fdr became president not so much in spite of polio but at least as much because of polio. eleanor roosevelt was asked near the end of her life would your husband became president if he had not had infantile paralysis. she said yes, we would have been president but a different kind of president. i don't agree with her. i am not so sure he would be president without polio. she didn't elaborate on what she meant but i will take the liberty of eleanor roosevelt. because of polio, as president he knew compassion and that means to suffer with. he had known suffering and loss. the man who became president of the united states during the great depression was perfasuite identify and help people who had lost a great deal through no fault of their own. he had become experienced in the practice of courage no dou

how franklin roosevelt did this. so bob clark wheeled me up one of this carts, which you can see, and i opened up the first box, and i took out one file, and what is wonderful about this library is before the freedom of information act took place, and the archivist and the white house before franklin relevant left the white house, were able to organize the papers very well. and i looked at this first file and i saw about 20 pages cross-referencedful might be something a cabinet member said and then cross-referenced. and i thought if i'm a writer and i footnote this, it looks like i've done this for six months. so for all of these books we read -- this is why my book "chasing history," i dedicate to the archivist. they may not even be alive anymore when you go to that file, but for the mcculloughs and -- they couldn't do what they do without their work. and why do they do it? in this world where everything is self-aggrandizement, and as i drove across the country and met archivists, never met so many people who loved

barkley got along well the -- with roosevelt. the senator's humor often bringing welcome relief to a president burdened with the pressures of war. on one occasion he was consulting with roosevelt in the white house when he recalled a story. it involved a reverend who had apparently delivered a remarkable sermon. one parishioner approached the reverend afterward and exclaimed, reverend, that was a damn good sermon you preached this morning. the reverend, somewhat taken aback, replied, i appreciate your complement but not your language. the parishioner continued, it was such a damn good sermon that i put $100 in the collection plate. the reverend blurted out, the hell you did. [laughter] roosevelt's laughter was apparently heard by the secret service all the way down the hall. so as the senate majority leader barkley not only enjoyed an easy friendship with the president, he eagerly embraced the responsibility to lead the charge for the administration's legislation. but sometimes the president took the loyal leader for granted. tha

that is what roosevelt said. even the audio that may be over there and the library exhibit in the time that roosevelt was living there was another forgotten man who was known to them but mostly not. the forgotten man described by a professor at yale named william craig. he was the different forgotten man. little algebra. he said a wants to help ex, the man at the bottom, and he wants to help expiries sometimes there's a problem when they get together and to worsen a third party into funding government projects. the forgotten man. the man who is not thought of. and all throughout the 30's were i discovered in my research, the americans debated, who is forgotten? the homeless man, the taxpayer? low, so on and so on. but the story is lost to us because we did not get it in education. i was sure to bring it in. you know, i will show you later. these are just more pictures the soviet union, some of my characters. went to russia to have a look. there were not mostly traders. there were not spies, but there were definit

roosevelt," and she said, "mrs. roosevelt's answer changed my life." she said, "i am now the champion of the poor people here." and she said -- she told me she had been elected to office and what she was doing. c-span: i want to ask you the same question about two different people. in your lifetime, which black person, african-american, has been the most effective in civil rights, and which white person in your experience has been the most dedicated to changing the civil rights situation? >> guest: well, i think -- i think i would have to say the leadership of dr. king. i think that the quality of leadership, the teachings that he gave and the recognition that we had to have freedom everywhere, and we had to have justice everywhere, or neither would exist anywhere. in the white community, i can think of so many, of course mrs roosevelt and women like that. but i think i would have to say that in a surprising way the leadership that lyndon johnson gave in helping the country get the civil rights act was very critical. c-span: you mentioned mary mcleod b

volumes -- -- franklin delano roosevelt. the firsto record for time his role as united states commander-in-chief but to set the record straight. in fact, to change history if we understand by event, the way we look at the past. and especially with regard to the d-day landings in june 1944. for the simple truth is most people have very little idea of the origins of d-day, the story of how president roosevelt personally direct to the -- directed the military so that d-day would be a triumph and not a mass suicide and let me ask -- explain briefly. which is pretty hard for somebody raking multiple volumes. [laughter] in 1942, in the panic stricken week after pearl harbor, a time when a young major general eisenhower working in the parchment, apartment was trying -- in the war department, was trying to put together the ships to rescue his former boss, general macarthur in the philippines, the president of the united states took the reins not only of the u.s. commander-in-chief in wartime, but of the western allies. whatever you

of roosevelt and hopkins. that is a bible in fdr history. he got to know roosevelt well. he said he has a thickly forestly interior. he didn't want anyone to penetrate that force to see what was going on inside. we was probably the most solitary president we have ever had. ... this is the contradiction that is fdr and wife frances perkins was such a complicated man and there's no episode in his presidency or his life which underscore is this duality more than this type does. four days before the chicago convention opened on july 11th, 1940, franklin roosevelt called felix frankfurter down from the supreme court. they had a two hour session in the oval study adjacent to the president's bedroom on the second floor of the residents not to be confused with the oval office which was roosevelt's favorite room. he talked about this issue for two hours at the end of which roosevelt said i want you to write a memo about what you just told me. i would like to request archibald's mclease and the library of congress. jim

this is eleanor roosevelt's friend. the most famous female writer during the roosevelt administration for the associated press. i brought it to the attention of the people in kingston that put on the play. we had a fundraiser at beakman arms and several people came. her biographers and other people and we raised enough money to put in a blue stone bench, a tree, and a plaque in the cemetery in memory of lorana hicock. thank you. [applause]. >> a couple comments. hickok -- >> she drove herself on most of the trips. including a couple cross country trips. driving was different then than now. i tried to re-create the journey she made on the much-improved roads. she was a terrific reporter. i drudged up some of her associated press dispatches. she was good. there was one where she was assigned to cover the passage of hardings -- the train with warren g hardings remains. and the reports dashed off at night are models of this kind of reporting. they are well-worth reading in their own right. i quoted them in bits and pieces b

roosevelt presidential lie area and museum, and it's my honor to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. before i introduce our distinguished speaker, let in go over a couple of housekeeping things. would everyone please take out your electronic devices and turn them off so we don't have any interruptions of our presentation today. the next is if you haven't had an opportunity yet to see our new permanent exhibit we signaled last year, come find one of us on the library staff and we'll be happy to give you an fdr button and that will get you into the museum galleries for free today. and then finally, just a kick quick thanks to our friends frid colleagues from c-span who are recording this session. just a little talk about how the session will go. the author is going to speak for roughly 30 minute. she likes to do things very interactively and will talk to you about the process of doing the book and how it came about and how it came to fruition. she is very open to questions from the audience, because she would love to take as many questions as possible, we're going to

he thought that roosevelt must eat ill. noticed that the president is a very tired man, he seemsseems closed, to have lost his wonderful elasticity, churchill complained to his doctor. in truth, the president wasn't wasosel in good health, but he tired of the excuses that had been made. they had, after all saved the british in africa, and now were ready to launch a long-awaited second front that would lead to berlin. he did not want a fruitless dive version of effort mediterranean. he saw no reason why the united states should agree to such a cancellation or postponement. stood firm.t planningwith serious made for the d-day plans, but he began to think more carefully who should command them. given churchill's obstructionism, amounting to cross channel defeatism, the president rejected the initial idea of a jewish supreme supremer -- british commander. if it was to be american, who shouldn't be? it was at that point in the summer and fall of 1943 that the president began to a question which everyone had that the supreme comm

i don't think roosevelt was a creep. and when you have a creepy looking president, that attracts some readers who like violence. you know, did they like shades of gray? it's much harder to have characters in between in the book like this. as the trade off. we're thinking of doing a book that as cannibalism and it. camels might sell a line. the issue of jamestown, early american settlements since when people did not have enough food. paul knows that the things with violence sell better. here we are. we settled on this. i would describe him. if we were to give an adjective, mischievous which i am at peace with because i do kind of thing president roosevelt was mischievous these were hard calls. i am not an artist. i am a bookworm. but i felt like -- and i learned a lot to my would say, from the artists and from this process about the president's, about how to depict them, but history and so on. thank you for listening. now i am going to go back to the beginning. so how does -- what are we trying to do? we're trying to reac

and theodore roosevelt, and of course crichton roosevelt, -- franklin roosevelt, they were all governors of new york. in those positions, don't with the press on a regular basis. -- they dealt with the press on a regular basis. theodore roosevelt when governor of new york used to meet regularly with the press. with a see pictures bunch of correspondence standing on his desk when he is talking to them about what he is doing. he brings that into the white house. if you go into the 20th century, woodrow wilson was governor of new jersey. that also was a large state. it still is. but it was a large state at the time. he had a good sense of publicity. when he came in, one of the first things he did was create the presidential press conference. he did that knowing he was going to have to deal with reporters because he had dealt with reporters in new jersey, so he knew what he had to do. he had to spend time thinking about his publicity. in fact, he wrote his own press releases, not just his own speeches, but he wrote his own press releases as he came in. deal knew he wanted to with reporters i

taft and roosevelt don't talk at all and taft tries to talk to roosevelt that roosevelt ignores them and finally they meet by happenstance in a hotel. what happened than? >> i was so happy this happen. what happened is when i finished the book up to 1912 i did not want it ended with a sense of betrayal but i didn't really know what the relationship had been like past that. i followed them in 1914, 15 and 16. people brought them together but taft says it was like an armed neutrality. in 1918 teddy was in the hospital with an operation that taft had once undergone any work undergone any wrote them a letter saying i know how painful this is an teddy wrote him back. it's often things a little bit so it just happened than some months later by happenstance they were both at the blackstone hotel in chicago and when taft checked in the elevator operator told him roosevelt was in the restroom -- restaurant eating alone. taft said bring me down immediately. he walked over to roosevelt and the whole room, 100 people dining in a broom and he says i'm so glad to see you. they throw their arms aro

taft and roosevelt don't talk at all and taft tries to talk to roosevelt that roosevelt ignores them and finally they meet by happenstance in a hotel. what happened than? >> i was so happy this happen. what happened is when i finished the book up to 1912 i did not want it ended with a sense of betrayal but i didn't really know what the relationship had been like past that. i followed them in 1914, 15 and 16. people brought them together but taft says it was like an armed neutrality. in 1918 teddy was in the hospital with an operation that taft had once undergone any work undergone any wrote them a letter saying i know how painful this is an teddy wrote him back. it's often things a little bit so it just happened than some months later by happenstance they were both at the blackstone hotel in chicago and when taft checked in the elevator operator told him roosevelt was in the restroom -- restaurant eating alone. taft said bring me down immediately. he walked over to roosevelt and the whole room, 100 people dining in a broom and he says i'm so glad to see you. they throw their arms aro

roosevelt. but she seated me at mrs. luce's table. and she said to me ahead of time, she said she won't take any notice of you, she's not interested in women at all. she'll only focus on the men -- [laughter] which, of course, she did. she didn't talk to anybody but alistair horne the entire dinner until the very end she lifted her head and said what do you do, young lady? i said, well, i'm a writer. and she said, oh, you're much too young to be a writer. and that was it. [laughter] so at the end of the evening i'm standing at the top of of the stairs waiting to leave, and she came up, and i thought she'd mistaken me for the hostess who was also short and dark. and, go, she was going to kiss me good night. so she gave me a kiss and said good night, you sweet thing, or something like that and swept out. and i was absolutely flabbergasted. so i then plucked up my courage and wrote her the first of several letters asking if i could do her biography. and she was really reluctant at first, but the bostons kind of gave a dinner party, and w

roosevelt went down on it for 55 minutes. hee new york times" said needlessly risked a valuable life and a collapsible and otherwise dangerous device. >> the book is "away from the white house: presidential escapes, retreats, and vacations ." we've been speaking with lawrence knutson, the author. thanks for being with us on american history tv. >> thank you. >> tonight at six: 30 p.m. eastern from the american bar association's and a meeting, supreme court chief justice john roberts discusses the magna carta on its 800th anniversary. he reflects on why there was a need for the magna carta. how it helped to shape a young and growing american and its significance today. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. week american history's a" brings you films that tell the story of the 20th century. >> from the ground station nestled in the mountains, a signal is sent to a satellite.

so it was with francis perkins and roosevelt.t want to be perceived as being in favor of the dole as they called it then, government handouts to poor people. the dole was a bad word and a bad political concept before roosevelt became president and she was proposing expanding the dole beyond anyone's wildest dreams. the social security act would not just provide unemployment insurance, which was considered the dole, but it would provide a national welfare program for poor mothers who may never have had jobs. here is her memory of franklin roosevelt's first reaction to the idea of unemployment insurance. >> no, don't mention unemployment insurance to me that's nothing but the dole. i would mention old age insurance and he would said no, that's the dole, too. i don't believe in the dole. franklin roosevelt was very much opposed to the dole. oh, we don't want the dole. not the dole. i had a great time to get him quieted down and stop talking about the dole. [ laughter ] to try to think about the realities. >> what if she hadn't succe

roosevelt went down on it for 55 minutes. and the "new york times" said he had needlessly risked the valuable life in a collapsible and other dangerous device. >> the book is "away from the white house." we've been speaking with larry knutson, the author. thanks for being with us here on american history tv. >> thank you. >> sunday night on american history tv, we'll hear about senator sam irvin's time, from his former aide and his iv.dson, judge sam evin early this his character and how the country lawyer relied on his knowledge of the law and personal convictions to guide the senate watergate committee. >> 200 years ago on august 24, 1814, british forces entered washington, d.c., and burned the capitol building, the president's house, and most of the federal buildings. next, steve vogel, author of "through the perilous fight -- six weeks that saved the nation," texas on a river truer of washington. his program is about 90 minutes. >> ipad a boat on the potomac for about 30 years. it is a great way to see the city. it is a d

he wants to add or reagan and franklin roosevelt. icons from either party to try to solve the polarization. well, a journalist, a nasty guy. i have some history around crack roosevelt. you don't want upon amount. the speaker to be safe context the fbi and says i have to find out about this. ordered reluctantly, does not like to do this kind of work, but he is off to find out. he is rejected but initially he goes back and finds out what he knows. and he goes back -- is a journalist as an art. so he is ready to give up on the case. the speaker says i have to know what the journal's new or i can't go ahead with my project. so the fbi agent has to find out why the journalist was killed and with the back story, so he goes off initially to see what he can find out about the treasure. they're is a subplot that runs through both books, a terrorist in this country who tries to disrupt america by attacking its monuments. we call him the monument. in the first book the lincoln memorial is in jeopardy. the second book mount rushmore which is the

eleanor roosevelt? i think what i would ask eleanor, in fact it happened when i was working on the boat. they were so many times what i felt there what i thought they were such love between eleanor and franklin in as such hurt because he had had an affair so many years before. i would ask her again, just forget that affair. i know he loves you. i would talk to her when i would write the book could just tell her, just remember you are so much better than any other women in his life. just absorbed the fact that you are eleanor and just be closer to him because he was boldly in those years and there was still a present and understandably that separated them from their beds from each other, but made them this incredible part errors. i guess i was trying to tell her, i know him and i know he wants to be with you more and if you could stay home a little more, i think it would be good. [laughter] >> if you hadn't been a presidential scholar, you would've been a marriage counselor. [laughter] what would u.s. te

penndot is repaving the inner lanes of the roosevelt boulevard. that is just one of 97 construction projects in our area, made possible by new funding from harrisburg. bob will have more details coming up. >> our time now 4:50. let's get a check on business. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange, hearing more trouble from the us postal service. what's happening? >> reporter: good morning, ukee, erika, the post office lost $2 billion this spring, which means it, won't be able to meet $6 billion payment pavement for its retiring fun. post offers actually brought in more money by increasing prices, still salaries, benefit costs are going up, and there has been big drop in people who use first class mail. that's big source of revenue for the post office. but, i guess they'll need more of those famous people on stamps. ukee, err dismay. >> how about that, hey, jill, bluejeans are considered a staple of american wardrobe. if your sales are down, thanks to new trend, what's that? >> yep, that's right, denim sales actually

theodore roosevelt island boasts 400 varieties of plants and 80 different species of birds. as one assertive looking president in bronze. next, an event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the battle of the crater honoring the role of the u.s. colored troops in the fighting. on julyle took first 30, 1864 as part of the siege of petersburg. the ceremony includes the unveiling of a stamp by the u.s. postal service and remarks by historian james blankenship who details the events of the battle. this event is one hour 15 minutes.

>> theodore roosevelt and franklin roosevelt. they put public service first.hey cared about the country. tr was more conservative. their pragmatism and love of the land. both tr and fdr loved rivers and lakes. they thought in order to love america, you had to be a custodian. >> i knew that about tr but not about fdr. >> he planted for the civilian conservation corps. was shut out and fdr created bird flight a waste -- fly ways. america owes a lot to that family. ken burns is doing a documentary on the roosevelt. >> i have talked to him about it. there is -- who is the smartest? >> in the nixon tapes? have all the people that occupied that you know about? with historians agree on one person? sheer brainpower. >> i would go with these or -- theodore roosevelt. thomas jefferson. george washington in his own way. there are only a few intellectual events. >> fdr was not that. >> jimmy carter was marred. he is very smart. >> clinton? some said it was the smartest -- he was the smartest president he had ever met. >> nixon was very smart. kennedy, not bookish smart. i

they tellegramed president roosevelt, the children wrote letters to eleanor roosevelt, and they telegramed the state department that was in charge of immigration and visa distribution. the passengers heard back only from the state department, from mr. a.m. warren, who was in charge of the visa division, and in the telegram, it said that mr. warren said that the st. louis passengers, though they had waiting numbers, would have to wait their turn until the numbers came up and would have to leave american waters. so that sort of closed the door on the st. louis, the state department telegram. and just for a second to anticipate some of the questions, if you were going to ask about president roosevelt, who, again, this was primarily a state department issue, but the question has come up, couldn't president roosevelt, who was a rather powerful, persuasive president, have issued an executive order init technically what was legal for the passengers to come to the united states based on bureaucracy, but could there have been an executive order. the answer is yes, of course, there could have been.

reachable exclusively by footbridge, theodore roosevelt island honors our only manhattan born president. to loveoy who grew up urban pavements less than the rugged vistas endangered by human exploitation. as a result, there's noise been controversy surrounding -- there has always been controversy surrounding the 17 foot statue of president roosevelt which coexists uneasily with the adjoining wilderness. is it repressive of daughter -- his irrepressible daughter was alleged to have called it the ugliest thing she ever saw. she was the soul of grace is this -- graciousness when dedicating it in october of 19 627. the work of the sculpture perhaps best known for the gold plated figure of prometheus writing the waters at new york's iskefeller center, t.r. flying past pylons inscribed with his quotations. a raised plaza, formal plantings, and fountains complete the memorial. the wilderness backdrop does at least as much to evoke the spirit of the great outdoorsman. in the 17th century, a group of indians on the island named it [indiscernible] duringd by union troops the civil war, it later b

teddy roosevelt was this sickly boy who became this big, strong figure. and nixon had been a sickly boy and i leave the rest to you. he was talking -- he read from teddy roosevelt about when my dear wife died, what that was about. it was very weird. now i learned in working on this version of the book that at the same time that was going on he had a military aide in there stealing papers that he signed over to the archives, but he wanted to write his memoirs, called r.n., like t.r. so this guy was loading these documents into trucks and sending them out to san clemente. he'd been doing it for a while. then a ford person caught them and said you can't keep doing that. it was a very strange event. they went out to the helicopter, and who can forget that. the iconic scene of our era. >> carl, the night of the resignation? >> bob and i were in the newsroom. catherine graham, publisher of "the post," had come down from her office. ben bradley, the editor of the paper. there were surprisingly few people in the newsroom because we knew what was coming. and cathe

theodore roosevelt to decided that he needed to and get the canal done. so it was actually the first time in the state's history that this sitting president had left the territory of the united states, got on the ship with his wife, went to the canal zone to toward everything, sat in the steam shovel, a famous presidential photograph. all about the canal clearing march with an army of journalists. and that really was the beginning of the posters and transferred to russian and napa to across the joyous entry. but the. >> the construction, where they pretty, to agree carefully. congress did play an important role. the government and the canal zone was quite autonomous and had a great deal of power. congress was watching it. there was a lot at stake. and congress would carry out regular investigations into conditions, had power to oversee and pass perret's is for the skilled workers, that sort of thing. >> host: how much did it cost in the end? >> guest: gosh, i am not exactly sure of the figures. i am thinking 100 million maybe. >> host: back in the day, do

for the first time he met theodore roosevelt. roosevelt dragged kipling to the smithsonian to show off american artifacts. they honestly believed they were a godly little new england community setting examples to brutal mankind. of the five countries the united states invaded or acquired in 1898 hawaii is the only one that became a state that has said i have come to understand even though hawaii has been a state since 1959 and american territory since 1898. a small defiant activists question the legality and do not consider themselves to be americans at all. which is pretty easy to pick up on when they are marching past you on the 50th anniversary of statehood carrying picket signs that say we are not americans. [applause] >> thank you. so if you have questions, a microphone carrier will find you. hi, sarah. >> hi. i know you mentioned your nephew. how is he doing and how old is he now? >> owen, my nephew, is almost 11. how is he doing? you know, i don't know. i haven't seen him in a while. i do like to travel with him. almost a

roosevelt and behalf of the children of the ship and didn't get any answer.telegrams to canada, south africa, central america. nobody wanted to let us in. let me tell you the truth. i happened to see miami beach when i was 12 years old from the ship. i was very impressed. i said to myself, i would like to live here someday. well it took me a long way to get around there. the coast guard came and chased us away from miami, and we had to go back to europe. i found out later that 300 families that said we're not going back to germany, we're going to jump ship before they let us in. when the captain heard that, he went to see the committee we had on the ship and promised us that he won't take us back to germany. he will scuttle the ship before we get to germany. well two days before we arrived to germany, we found out that four countries wouldn't let us in. france, belgium, holland and england. my parents, my brother and sister came to france. we didn't know anybody there. and we came to france, and there was a jewish organization that came on ship and they had c

and it was pretty mawkish and kind of embarrassing and he was reading from teddy roosevelt's memoirs.associated with teddy roosevelt, the man in the arena and he never gave up and this sort of thing. and he -- teddy roosevelt was this sickly boy who became this big strong figure and nixon had been a sickly boy and -- i leave the rest to you. [ laughter ] he was talking -- he read from teddy roosevelt about "when my dear wife died." i mean what was that about? it was very weird. now, i've learned in working on this version of the book that at the same time that was going on, he had a military aide in there stealing papers that he'd supposedly signed over to the archives but he wanted to write his memoir s memoirs like tr so was loading these documents into trucks and sending them out the san clemente. finally a ford person caught them and said "you can't keep doing that." so it was a very strange event. and then they went out to the helicopter and who can forget that? the iconic scene of our era. >> carl, the night of the resignation? >> bob and i were in the newsroom. catherine graham

but, the crews are out full force, last night, our cameras were there on the roosevelt boulevard, as this big project began. as they milan pair the roadway, they will be working on the inner drive of the roosevelt boulevard, they began last night here at ninth street. ninth and adams, phase number one, so the inner drive closed on the overnight, then when they open it back up at around 6:00 in the morning, you will have that uneven surface, the manhole covers are going to be exposed, so little bit of speed bullet p, not good for your alignment or for your tires as you roll up and down the roosevelt boulevard. here is a live look, right at ninth street. you got some left over crews still here, but looks like they got traffic moving again to expect delays north and south on the boulevard for the next couple of months. here is live look at the 42 freeway, starting to see pockets of volume come in toward philadelphia, approaching i-295. then on the northeast extension northbound, construction crews are still with us, right near the lansdale interchange. otherwise, the bridges look fine,

he wanted to expand mount rush rushmore and add ronald reagan and franklin roosevelt. i try to snowfall polarization. well, there's a journalist, kind of a nasty guy, who says, i've got some history on franklin roosevelt you don't want to put him up on the mountain so the speaker to be safe, contacts the fbi and says i have to find out about this, and zane rigby is ordered, reluctantly, doesn't like to do this work, but is off to find -- initially rejected by the journalist but determined find out what hes no, and when he goes back he finds the journalist has been murdered. so, he is a ready to give up on the case but the speaker says, have to know what the journalist knew or i can't go ahead with my project. so the fbi agent has to find out why the journalist was killed and what is the back story with fdr hat the journalist was going to use to undercut the speaker's plan. so he goes off to cocoa island initially to see what he can find out about the treasure. and then there's a subplot that runs through this -- runs through both books -- a terrorist in this country wh

he would both catapult off teddy roosevelt.typicalansit in landing pattern around the ship. 90 seconds later, the at-18 manned aircraft will and on the deck. it will be the first time we have seamlessly integrated a manned and unmanneaircraft onto the carrier. >> thehe flighght pattern is programmed, autonomous, and its flflight is tomatic. not so on the ship, where they use special control devices to guide the plane around the dizzy flight deck. no easy task when missing planes --ith pilots in the car it's in their cockpits and planes with no cockpit at all. thprogram manager talked abobout how the trials went. >>>> in the eyes of the navy, a very historic opportunity that help to show unmanned systems on the ship -- that we will bee abe to fold in operations and retain as much the processes as we haveve in the past. a big day for the navy. >> the test on board the aircraft carrier theodore roosevelt were another step to bringing unmanned aircraft into the fold of carrier operations. >> today was a history-making day, as we ag

roosevelt presidential library and museum.is my honor to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. before i introduce our distinguished speaker, let me go over a couple of housekeeping items. please take out your electronic devices and turn them off so that we don't have interruptions. the next is if you have not had an average into the yet to see our new permanent exhibit we installed last year, fined one of possible library staff and we will be happy to give you one of these buttons which will get you into the museum galleries for free today. finally just a quick thanks to our friends and colleagues from c-span. it is nice to have them back with us today. a little talk about how the session will go. ms. amity shlaes is going to speak for roughly 30 minutes. she wanted me to let you know that she likes to do things very interactively speech you will talk to you about the process of the book and how it came about and how it came to fruition. she is open to questions from the audience because she would love to

he goes -- roosevelt, you got to do something. unconscionable. and roosevelt looks across the desk and says, you know what, norman? i'm a damn sight better politician than you are. and we've got le to wait. people are doing good work down there. to take some g time. saying, it can't wait. know, it was -- this is what the response of some pacifists would say. ou can't wait, you can't let this go on. that was his response to what south.pening in the you know? ultimately, you know, things did change. and it did take a lot of time. but you could say like, maybe in the 1930s with the political climate, social climate, wouldn't allow for roosevelt to come in and the national guard and change things. you know, maybe you had to wait 30 years. but a lot of bad things happen in the south in 30 years, you know, kind of racial violence. >> what are the things that fdr's own self-conscious was awakened when eleanor brought him to this part of new york. insofar as he was able to roject those values domestically, how do you -- on the you come out issue of the l

i spent years writing about theodore roosevelt. it's less than sounds because i wrote other books in the meantime but each of my books spent about five years. how long edison will take, i can't tell. >> what's one thing you learned about edison that you didn't know? >> how profoundly imaginative he was. one thives a scientists as someone who works with process, experimentation and theories. but the fact that theys 1,092 1,092 patented inventions of edison that poured out of him from the age of 14 onward, the fact of that prodigal outpouring of inventiveness derived from imagination is what fascinates me. he really was an inspirational person. i'll give you an example. he was talking to a science fiction writer in the 1880's who was expliccating the new current theory of atomic composition of matter. even in the 1880's, it was known that all matter could be reduced to atoms. edison was talking about this subject and he said if this is indeed correct and all matter consists of atoms i suppose it would be possible for me to take a few

>> thank you for scsmght theodore roosevelt and franklin roosevelt, both of them, because they put public service in america first always. they always cared about this country so deeply, and they -- tr was a little more conservative than fdr but their pragmatism and their love of the land. and both t.r. and fdr loved the rivers, the lakes. they thought in order to love america you had to be a custodian of it. >> i knew that about t.r. i didn't know that about fdr. >> he planted for the civilian conservation corps a billion trees. olympics, kings canyon, all of our waterfowl was shot out, and fdr created bird flyways and our first national seashore, cape hatteras. the song america the beautiful, that was fdr. he really -- both of that family, i think america owes a lot. ken burns is doing a documentary on the roosevelts this fall. >> i have seen it. i mean, i have talked to him about it. there's also this -- who was the smartest? >> smartest in the nixon tapes? >> no, of all the people that have occupied that you know about, and would historians agree on one person? >> just sheer brain pow

it is blocking the ramp from the southbound roosevelt boulevard to head west on the schuylkill expressway, one of the tractor-trailers caring one every toast cargo containers like you typically see on the cargo ships. live look of our traffic camera, right above the scene here, it is actually in that funnel ramp, the ramp that comes from the roosevelt boulevard, and puts folks west on the schuylkill. the schuylkill itself right here not impacted at all. you can go west, on the schuylkill, you will drive by it of course, but as we go to the maps now, it is really impacting the boulevard ramp to the westbound schuylkill expressway. so if you are coming down the boulevard, and you typically go west out toward conshohocken or king of prussia, you have to go eastbound, flip u-turn laverne there at montgomery drive, then come back west. they hope the next couple of hours to have it cleaned up, have uprighted the tractor-trailer, that's good news, we'll keep an eye on, that light volume so far this morning. not causing too much after problem. coming into town on the schuylkill good shape. no pro

this is the roosevelt boulevard. you can see that right lane taken out approaching that would be fox street there in the background. just watch for that uneven surface. i-95 right here near philly international airport only that far left lane is opened as you head northbound. coming from delco heading towards the airport look out and be ready to hit the brakes. right here, here is your quit exit that comes up on you fast there. you got to cut through the cones in order to get through the parking garages. at the top of the show we mention that had accident that involved an ambulance, broad street still closed between tioga and venango. it is right there in front of the temple hospital to give you a locker, 13th or 15th street would be your best bet. a fire location in delco thorndale roadblocked at springfield road. they are still working on the new jersey turnpike a crew southbound at exit number six. otherwise mass transit looking good. natasha, back to you. >>> "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan, again, live at

there is still paving on the roosevelt boulevard.ones down, police and penndot on the scene here. lets go outside to a live look to the north bound lanes of the boulevard from ninth street on up down to one lane push over to the right, otherwise, i-95 and schuylkill looking good, coming in towards philadelphia. no problems or delays at the moment. a crash out in king of prussia prince fredrick right at cross field road and it is moving day, part two for temple university, so we will see some delays there, along broad street and natasha, grab your mini fridge and football light and lets go, university of penn also moving the kids in today as well. so that will tie us up there along spruce street. here's natasha brown with a look at sports. >> all right, bob, thank you. lets talk sports here eagles play in front of the hometown fans tonight, bird host steelers at the the link in preseason game number three. starters will see a good bit of playing time tonight, fyi, birds fans parking lots open up at 2:30, gates at 6:00. >>> forbes maga