roosevelt's inauguration in 1905, roosevelt visits here, at the panama canal.e is a lot of footage that through the copyright prices and then to the roosevelt memorial association, they are getting newsreel producers, for example, that did not register their films, but they had a lot of films related to roosevelt, particularl after he left afteruy -- particularly he left office. this was a man u had an amazing decade after he left office, going to africa -- this was a man who had an amazing decade. serving as a roving ambassador all over the world. running for president again, as a progressive kennedy in 1912. going -- as a progressive candidate in 1912. going to brazil and traversing the river of doubt. and there is a lot of film taken of the river of doubt. at thethat is here library of congress. we are busy preserving and digitizing that material as well. the most interesting thing about the roosevelt films, ironically, film's a good deal of taken during his presidency, which lasted from 1901 to 1909, but the vast bulk of the film that we have in the collect

theodore roosevelt, the fifth cousin of franklin roosevelt. the complicated thing is theodore roosevelt had a wonderful niece, he loved dearly, eleanor roosevelt, and then franklin married theodore's niece. franklin would call theodore cousin theodore but then called him uncle theodore. >> i feel the need for a family tree. [laughter] >> distant cousins. franklin and theodore. >> set a stage for this large and bustling family. very quickly, edith determines it was just not going to work for them. a sketch she drew one week after moving into the white house. a plan for the second floor that shows how very crowded it was to have the family and workspace there. what did she do? >> she picked up on harrison's place in the white house and got together with a very influential firm, mckim, mead & white. there is a big back story here. to cut to the chase, mckim decided he was, as she put it, "tired of living over the store." she wanted to separate the living areas with the public areas. the downstairs was renovated and most people really liked it. th

biographic and others were shooting footage of roosevelt, roosevelt inauguration in 1905 and rooseveltisit here, roosevelt in the panama canal. there is a lot of footage that came in through the copyright through the then roosevelt memorial association, they are getting newsreel producers, for example, that didn't register their films. they had a lot of films relating to roosevelt, particularly after he left office. this is a man who had an amazing decade after he left office going to africa, serving as a roving foreign ambassador all over the world, running for president again as a progressive candidate in 1912, going to brazil and traversing the river of doubt. and there is a lot of film taken in the river of doubt. and all that is here at the library of congress. ande are busy preserving digitizing that material, as well. the most interesting thing about the roosevelt films, ironically, there is a good deal of film -- which lasted from 1901 to 1909. but the vast bulk of the from that we have and the collection relating to him comes in the post-presidency era. when he made this tradi

once roosevelt had said i'm not going to run in 1908, then as roosevelt looked over the cabinet to seewho might be his successor, elihu root was probably too old. lewis gould: so there was will taft from ohio, a state that really mattered to republicans in those years, and he became sort of the logic of the situation. susan swain: very briefly, why did the united states have the ability to appoint a governor general of the philippines? lewis gould: as a result of the spanish-american war and the treaty of paris in december of 1898, spain ceded the philippines to the united states and they became a possession and would remain so until 1946. susan swain: one of the hallmarks of this program is, we've been taking you to historic sites that are associated with the first ladies and their lives. throughout this program, we will be taking you to the william howard taft national historic site in cincinnati. you see a picture of it there. it is available for you to visit as well. and we hope, those of you who are getting interested in this series will visit some of these places we're showing yo

roosevelt figured that. he knew they reverse serious about going after japan they would have had a better answer on short notice so he picked up the fountain pen and wrote an extraordinary letter to general marshall that is now in the fdr museum. i have read your estimate my first impression is exactly that is what they hope they would do following pearl harbor and it is not in fact, used in fighting except a lot of violence his occupation will not affect the world this year or next. so it is disapproved so instead of though little fdr he signed the letter roosevelt cnc he wanted no doubt who was giving orders to military professionals so the british won that round and that is when we invaded north africa had 1942 but marshall and decaying and arnold they came around to team up with the invasion force under eisenhower it went splendidly at first but before we get to the prime target of the campaign with the tunisian port cities cities, the americans were kicked in the teeth at the past that we could come bac

roosevelt.of the two powerful men drank, laughed, talked bravely all of which was captured in a home movie taken by henry. one amusing scene in the movie depicts my husband as bright faced dressed in white making mint julep. he served in mint julep to churchill who with his protruding belly was sitting back like an oyster on the half shell. when he took on taste of the mint julep's he grimaced and went back to his class of whiskey. as i mentioned, eleanor roosevelt and my husband had a very close relationship. when he was a small boy he had a series of infections and back in those days there was no penicillin. there was no cure for these infections and many people died of them. during one terrible bout of infection from his parents were away on and around the world trip. eleanor roosevelt took it upon herself to visit him every single day, soothed him, reassured him that he had a gas mask mask that gave him laughing gas over his face and which the plane he was screaming because they were drainin

roosevelt.ey drove around the country visiting the distant franchise and the poor to see exactly how they lived. they went to the tennessee valley to inspect wpa programs, charted by started by fdr and henry junior, they went down into a coal mine in west virginia and came up as much with black dust and shocked with the terrible conditions the manners miners worked under. you can be sure that mrs. roosevelt, as she would want to do march right back to the white house and got franklin to do something about it. once when the press was decrying the plight of underpaid, ill treated orange pickers who came up north to work on apple farms and other fruit farms, mrs. roosevelt proceeded to ceremoniously inspect the morgenthaler orchard. she pronounced the workers extremely well treated, ever after henry morgan paul junior was able to say quote mrs. roosevelt has given fishtailed arms a clean bill of health unquote. eleanor roosevelt had the uncanny ability to go to sleep as soon as she got into the fro

once roosevelt had said i'm not going to run in 1908, then as roosevelt looked over the cabinet to see who might be his successor, elihu root was probably too old. lewis gould: so there was will taft from ohio, a state that really mattered to republicans in those years, and he became sort of the logic of the situation. susan swain: very briefly, why did the united states have the ability to appoint a governor general of the philippines? lewis gould: as a result of the spanish-american war and the treaty of paris in december of 1898, spain ceded the philippines to the united states and they became a possession and would remain so until 1946. susan swain: one of the hallmarks of this program is, we've been taking you to historic sites that are associated with the first ladies and their lives. throughout this program, we will be taking you to the william howard taft national historic site in cincinnati. you see a picture of it there. it is available for you to visit as well. and we hope, those of you who are getting interested in this series will visit some of these places we're showing y

roosevelt administration didn't give in completely at all. people, radicals helped parties of the left, including communist parties. the administration sometimes used that as a way of saying, well, give us our more moderate reforms. but they did -- just to concentrate a little bit on labor rights which were certainly expanded to the new deal cost -- recovery act, later that was made more permanent and was more controlled through the act m of 1935, as a result labor triples. one of the important things about the relationship of the roosevelt administration to these descend was that they really did not believe in suppression of decent. roosevelt may have coopted but very against the use of on-force. particularly in relation to the sit-down strike in -- in michigan, he and perkins, the secretary of labor supported the governor who was for not using force and the result was, of course, one of the greatest victories of the century for labor, recognition of general motors. the obama administration has really not been supportive of lay -- labor. it

we would do foghorn leghorn and franklin roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. >> my other question is during did she broadcast during those days as well remapped. >> she was on the radio, but she was not doing it as a host. she appealed for the united nations and other languages in which she was semi-fluent and she was on many radio programs supporting the u.n. declaration of human rights which she was on the committee to create and one of the first delegates. oftentimes people say the first, but there were more than one. it's hard to know, it might have been someone with an alphabetically lower name. >> did she ever stop being mocked in her later years? >> oh, i don't think she ever stop being mocked, but she was the most popular woman on the planet and remains so as one of the top people at least a decade after her death. she was enormously admired and still quite vilified by the people who did not like her. there were plenty of them. but the public opinion polls, if she wasn't the most admired person, she was right up there. >> i remember. >> that was the late 50s or early 60s. [inaudible

roosevelt's global strategy. although we're talking about was the pacific war, it obvious that it was a two front war. a lot of historians like to cut .- like to compartmentalize it the key to roosevelt global strategy was to anticipate postwar relationships with the soviet union. 's strategy, they're different interpretations. some say he had no strategy, others say he was a prisoner of public opinion, others say the strategy was to ignore internal and postwar politics, just focus on winning the war. some postwar critics would say that you have the verge is to focus on winning the war against british.us i don't think that is true. of course, there is the cold war argument that roosevelt should have contained soviet expansion, while at the same time fight germany and japan. finally, if you authors, and i agree with them, and say that he had a definite vision for the post world world. was aestion was if he appeasest?d app roosevelt was a secretive. he didn't like diaries. he didn't like people taking notes in his

the male roosevelts, fdr and t.r. were really the only two who truly escaped the effects of alcoholism entirely. so edith roosevelt was not thrilled with the idea of champagne and other things that helen taft liked very much each day. ms. swain: another reason for the rift between them. mr. gould: yes, yes. ms. swain: colleen is in barnesville, ohio. hi, colleen. what's your question for us? colleen: yes. my great uncle used to be personal secretary of president taft and my grandmother used to go with him and meet the president and mrs. taft. and -- ms. swain: yes? colleen: and like they became really, really good friends. and president taft considered that my grandmother will be principal -- to be the first belmont county person for the republic. mr. gould: which of the -- of fred carpenter, charles norton and charles hilles was your relative? colleen: yes, charles dewey hilles was his personal secretary. mr. gould: yes, charles hilles was the last of taft's secretaries and the most efficient. he helped him get the n

bob lafollette did not want to support roosevelt. william howard taft gets the nomination, teddy roosevelt runs independent on a progressive boulders ticket --bull moose ticket. the twollette looked at parties, davis and democrats, coolidge and republicans, he said, both of them are conservative parties, neither have the full reform issues. he created a third-party that ran with burton wheeler as vice forident and bob lafollette president. it was poorly funded, they had $250,000 to spend nationally. that was compared to $4 billion that the republicans had and $2 million that the democrats had. bob lafollette relied on his old speechmaking ability. each one should have a patriotic duty to build at least a part in his life and for the life of his country. amazingly, he got about 17% of the vote nationally in the election. , thewas at the time second-best run of a third-party , only teddy roosevelt and his progressive party exceeded that. 1992 slightly succeeded. second in 10 other states. that was his last her raw in 1924.-hoorah in th

eleanor roosevelt, anna eleanor roosevelt roosevelt was born in new york city, and she was born to wealthy parents. they died within two years of each other when eleanor was just under 10. she was raised by her maternal grandmother. theodore roosevelt was her uncle. as far as education, she had private tutors. she went to a convent school. she went to a girls academy in london. but she had no college. having no college was a regret that she had her entire life. she marmarri married her fifth . she had five sons and one daughter. she became first lady at 48 years old, and she served, like i mentioned, a little more than 12 years. unprecedented, never happened before, will never happen again. and she died at age 78. she's buried in hyde park, new york. eleanor roosevelt was a phenomenal woman. difficult for any first lady to live up to eleanor's accomplishments. she was the eyes, ears and legs of fdr. she took full advantage of the way that was paved by florence and by grace and by lou. and what most people don't realize is that the social activism of eleanor started well before she married

between the roosevelts, there is a regrettably small number of films. it's striking that these two roosevelts, both had sort of same approach to the media. by the time friends and roosevelt takes office, radio is part of everyday american life and with his fireside chats, he takes advantage of that. he was a very visually savvy

right now you're looking live at the roosevelt boulevard.we've been talking about this all morning. the traffic issues out here. the northbound lands completely unaffected by all this. what you're looking at are the southbound lanes, the outer lanes shut down. the police cars are out there right now. the inner lanes have been re-opened. traffic is getting by there. we do still see some vehicles being shuttled off on to some of the side streets. this is on adams avenue where the vehicle is right now, adam avenue between the boulevard and whitaker. the boulevard at adams avenue, if you have to travel in this direction, this is what you want to watch out for. jessica and i will keep you updated throughout the morning as soon as the outer lanes re-open. this tow truck about to remove this vehicle and soon after that we would hope this area will re-open to traffic. for now i'm live in lawncrest, matt delucia, nbc 10 news. >>> breaks news out of ferguson, missouri. st. louis county police exchanged gunfire with a man during a demonstration on the

roosevelt gave him the nickname public enemy number one. interestingly davis' greatest victory came in 1952 when he was 79-year-old. he argued on the winning side of the case, at which time truman was president. the court ruled the truman spill mills was unconstitution. the pending case of the supreme court over obama's immigration actions is supposedly the case in dedeciding -- deciding the immigration case. now, robert taft, time magazine had a quote -- had a cover article about taft when he was a u.s. senator. u.s. politicians like to brag about coming from nothing coming up with no family health, wealth. they said quote taft came up from plenty h. his father was the only man to serve as president and chief justice of the supreme court. his father had been an attorney general. taft was number one at hopkins number at yale and harvard law school. in the words of time magazine, he came up from plenty. but he was an interesting politicians, in some ways like coolidge, he was very reserved man of not too many words who was incapable of small

just off of roosevelt boulevard.there are closures on the roosevelt boulevard right now, the southbound lanes just a portion of it that is shut down there, the right-hand lane. some of the traffic is still getting by at the moment. there is still an accident investigation out here right now. we've learned it's a man and woman that were involved in this crash. one vehicle involved right now. this happened shortly after 2:00 this morning and it appears that the vehicle crashed into a pole that is right by a cell phone tower. that vehicle overturned and the two individuals who were in the car were ejected and thrown, i would say, at least 30 to 40 feet from where we are right now. those bodies were just removed about 20 minutes ago. again, a lot of family members out here right now, very emotional, crying, holding one another. very distraught over seeing what was going on out here. we did just talk with somebody who knows one of the victims. we're trying to get that audio for you coming up in the next 30 minutes. for no

there is the roosevelt boulevard. the outer lanes are still shut down as we've been hearing from jessica all morning. adam avenue shut down between the blvd and woulevard and whit. it is still an active investigation at this point. jessica and i will keep you updated as far as traffic is concerned. a tough morning for the family of these victims, two killed in this one-car crash. live in the lawncrest section, matt delucia, nbc 10 news. >>> let's check in now with nbc 10's first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington with more on the impact that this crash is having in that area. >> again, that is on the boulevard southbound. that's between adams avenue and whitaker avenue. separate portions are being closed on whitaker and adams for this accident investigation as well. right now, your best bet, wyoming to castor and that will get you by the scene. they are directing traffic around the scene right now. you might be fine as it is. just to be safe, that's a great alternate. we have an accident scene on 95 on the north

where you see the police lights, that is roosevelt boulevard. just within the past few minutes as i mentioned be with we did see police start to allow traffic to move on the outer lanes of the southbound roosevelt boulevard. the northbound lanes were not affected at all. the adams avenue, just off the boulevard here, that is still shut down as you can see right now. the investigation is still under way. that car, that jeep was just taken away not long ago. we are expecting this to start wrapping up relatively soon. live in lawncrest, matt delucia, nbc 10 news. >>> 5:33 and it's time to take a look outside as we get our monday morning started here in the philadelphia area. >> bill henley has that for you. bill? >> you can see breaks in the clouds. we're just over half an hour away from sunrise this morning. we'll see sunshine to start with. you may also see a few sprinkles. in fact, tracking a few showers, moving through some of the suburbs and into delaware where the clouds are a bit thicker. it's from i-95 south towards middletown. very light r

president franklin roosevelt was a big lobbyist to try to get it to change. in fact his final exchange with gridiron club was a letter about a week before he died in 1945 in which he explained, i can't come to the dinner, i'll be in warm springs, georgia. but he said i notice in the invitation it was black tie. and he said hooray, you are finally changing it. they had to explain to him, that was just a -- it was a war-time thing so they weren't doing white tie and tails in the middle of a war, even though it was nearing an end. >> let's talk about presidents an the gridiron club. any president refuse to show up. >> the very first president. the founding of the gridiron club came at a time of real tension between the press and public officials. congress was furious at the press because of the stories written about the credit mobile scandal which was an exchange of members of congress gets stock in railroads and the construction of the railroad. and the gridiron club was in part an effort to try to heal that rift. and it marked the more professionalization of t

and that is what got roosevelt to those transports in florida and roosevelt responded to the presidentlease tell mrs. mckinley to think of the rough riders as her very own, and we will make her proud." and from and from that point on roosevelt curried favor with ida mckinley. and there was an event in 1899 where she came in -- big dinner, thousands of people there. roosevelt was governor of new york. he was speaking. and he saw she was coming in, and right at the right moment, said, you know, "three cheers for mrs. mckinley." so he, you know, he knew how to curry her, but she sort of gave favor to him with her husband. swain: we have just 13 minutes left, and a lot more story to tell. david (ph): (inaudible) i wanted to ask, is it true that robert lincoln, abraham lincoln's son, who was at this bedside when he died, was also at garfield's assassination and was also at mckinley's assassination? norton smith: he was at garfield's. i think he was in the train station at the time that garfield was shot. he was not -- i don't believe he was in the temple of music. he was in buffalo, though.

now, this is where we had earlier crash, i'm pull up map here for you, the roosevelt southbound, roosevelt boulevard southbound at adams avenue, center lane blocked, very serious accident, in this area. so, even though it is still early, not many vehicles on the roadways, you certainly want to give yourself couple of extra minutes in that area. like i said, very serious accident there. here is a look at the ben franklin, walt whitman bridge now open, clear, ben franklin bridge looking good for those of you coming over from new jersey, exactly what we want to see still in the 4:00 hour, still early, and also, the vine street expressway, look at that, beautiful picture of this looking great, just few early risers out, there so if you are thinking about leaving your house any time soon, right now would be great time to do it. mass transit looking great. no major delays at the airport, so for early start on monday morning, things are looking really good. erika, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. following some breaking news out of ferguson, missouri, man in critical condition after shoot-out w

edith roosevelt, this sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's series, "first ladies." from martha washington to michelle obama. sundays at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. sees -- this year, c-span is touring cities across thecountry and exploring history. this week we are in a gusto, georgia. you're watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. >> the augusta canal is a man-made waterway. the water comes from the savannah river, our main river here. it travels to town in about 7.5 miles. here, the son of the first mayor of augusta was in massachusetts and saw how they built the canal and how they built the mills. augusta's economics came to a standstill. people are leaving town to go out west. he says, we have to think of something. said,ught of lowell and we can do this. we can build a canal and pull that savannah river and bring high so it canp flow and we can bring in job. the canal was his main purpose was hydropower. a second use was travel. there were long barges bringing goods to town. they had to shoot the rapids of

roosevelt is a fairly multifaceted person. if you read what he said when he ran as a bull moose candidate. he was way out there. he maid -- made wilson look conservative. and by the time he died in 1919, he appeared to -- come back into the republican party and because he hated wilson so much. he was arguably maybe less progressive than he was in 1912. but yeah, if you look -- essentially if you look at coolage, he started career very successful political career. he moved up to massachusetts. he was a roosevelt progressive and became more conservative. >> echoing the question if you thought about it anymore who would you be watching today that could possibly have enough in conservative circles to be added to your book? >> well, i think back to the question a minute ago from the gentleman across the table we don't know. i think it's -- it's maybe encouraging to look back. you look back to 1880s even the democrats who elected cleveland supported cleveland really didn't know what kind of president he was going to be. been in the

take the roosevelt bridge. outbound, 66 there at the toll road because of an earlier crash, 66 overall, no major problems. 95 looks pretty good. same thing when you're looking at prince george's county, overall, a little yellow here and there. 270 at montrose with a little slowdown. >>> arlington leaders and law enforcement will remember a state trooper who died. they are dedicating the i-95 bridge over south glebe road to trooper jacqueline vernon today. she had just pulled someone over for violating hov rules. vernon was the first woman and first black virginia state police trooper to be killed on the job. >>> well, it is truly back to school for students at thomas stone elementary. a water main break forced school officials to cancel the first day yesterday. but they say the water main is fixed and that means classes start at 7:45. >>> we need your help this morning to make the backpacks 4 kids program a huge success. our goal is to provide as many backpacks as possible to children in our region who need the

president roosevelt and elenor roosevelt were fans of reading.ow that they have book shelves with books. fdr was a collector of books, as the german army spread across europe, there was an effort by the german army to destroy books. the idea was basically getting control over ideas, any ideas that did not sport the nazi platform or ideas existed were considered dangerous. those books would be removed from libraries. some were dangerous that were y was allowed to take those books. fdr did not think that was the besti policy. he thought americans could combat that by reading as many books as they can. he thought was a again use idea. and so he gave a speech one day about the power of books, and he talked about the book burnings a little bit and you can see the poster ended up being made that had an excerpt of the speech. he concluded that we know books arhee weapons. after the speech he had a press conference and one reporter asked, mr. president, what types of books should we ask to donate anything but algebra. [laughs] >> on the more serious note

franklin roosevelt, president roosevelt died on the 12th of april, 1945. this is a few weeks before world war ii in europe was over, a couple of months before world war ii in the pacific theater was over. roosevelt made it almost to the end. six days later, the reporter ernie pyle was killed in the western pacific by japanese gunfire. these were not equally dramatic events for the country. it is remarkable that takes days after roosevelt died, the president who had been president for 12 years, the new president issued a statement of the white house of bereavement recognizing the death of ernie pile, a reporter. he said the nation is saddened by the death of ernie pyle. no man has so well told the story as american fighting men wanted it told. more than any other man he became the spokesman of the ordinary american in arms. it was his genius to never obscure men who made them. there were lots of other eulogies for pyle. maybe the best of them was written by a famous poet of the era, randall gerald. part of what he said. we could not help realizing that erni

president roosevelt and his wife were fans of book reading. if you visited their home nearby you know they had shelves full of book. he felt books played an important role in the war. as the german army spread across europe, there was a concerted effort by the german army to destroy books. the idea was getting control over ideas. any ideas that didn't support the nazi platform and what ideas existed were considered dangerous. those books are being removed from libraries and burned. some libraries contained so many dangerous books they had to be locked and no one was allowed to go. fdr didn't think that was the best policy and he thought americans could combat that by trying to read as many books as they could. the work of the victory book campaign, in collecting all types of books regardless of view point, and sending them to the training camps for americans that would face combat and the german army he thought was a genius idea. he gave a speech about the power of books and talked about the book burning. you can see this poster made with an e

it's a fascinating story on so many levels, but theodore roosevelt is certainly the central character. and i want to reiterate how important the people are in this. these are stories where we're certainly talking about policy and all that, but this is really stories about people whether it's the men who were around george washington at yorktown, the men, young boys who go to the philippines or theodore roosevelt as a real force of nature in american poll the ticks. it's -- politics. it's really the people that are driving these stories. >> yeah, i'll second that as far as, i mean, the title, "the hidden history," i think, is appropriate because you do mention people who i've never heard of before who were, you know, people who were right there at the, where the battle was happening. i wanted to ask you another thing about this. you also sometimes go to obscure places like in the philippines which is not -- you know, if you were telling a general history, i'm not sure that's the first place you'd go to if you wanted to explain the spanish-american war. but it's a very smart place that

roosevelt is the central character. we are talking about policy but this is really a story about people. whether it is the around george washington at yorktown. the young boys in the philippines or roosevelt as a force of nature in american politics. it is really the people driving these stories. >> host: i will second that. i think it is appropriate because you mention people i have never heard of. people where the battle is happening. i wanted to ask you about another thing about this. you also sometimes go to obscure places. if you were trying to tell a general history i am not sure that is the place you would go to explain the spanish-american war. but it is a smart place you end up and everything comes from that. i really like the way the book goes to the specific and broad ns out and tells the big picture but doesn't lose the small picture as well. >> the point was trying to focus on -- this created outrage with the pearl harbor moments. we had many in the history when something disasterous happens and the nation

our first crash, roosevelt near fox street. in the east falls area.t is blocking that far right lane and the shoulder but all of these vehicles having to try to make their way around it, you're backed all the way up until around roberts wissahickon areament just know on the roosevelt boulevard you are looking very, very busy because of the crash. and then, on 95 southbound, before girard, look at that sun glare. now, these travelers moving the southbound direction will not get caught up too much. they are going away from the sun glare moving in the eastbound direction or northbound direction, this is where it can cause some problems for you. it is looking pretty good here. ninety-five northbound, 452, however, traveling in the eastbound direction, expect some sun up, slow downs if you will on this fridayment not that we ever want to complain about the son there is will certainly cause some slow downs. >> i can tell you the boulevard is looking very slow, as well. nicole, over to you. >> thank you. >> planning to visit pope francis? wear comfortable sh

a lot of conservatives say, it all started with roosevelt and the new deal.erals don't appreciate their own history as deeply as they might, including hofstadter for all of his brilliance and insight. >>>> let me comment briefly. these are big questions. let me give a gloss on kennedy. i mentioned that liberals abandoned the substance of many of kennedy's ideas. the cold war would be the most important one. by 1968 or 1972, liberal democrats had more or less abandoned the idea of fighting the cold war. however, the thing they grabbed onto kennedy and turned him into the liberal icon was the kennedy style. david has mentioned this. this the thing they admired. kennedy was wealthy. he spoke beautifully. he wrote books. with the help of ted sorensen, he cited ancient writers. his wife was beautiful. his children are beautiful. he was sophisticated. this is what many liberals saw as the essence of kennedy's liberalism even as they abandoned much of his substance. the term "liberal" is not really used much in american political discourse until the turn of the 20th

first lady edith roosevelt changes the entire floor. by adding a social secretary to the payroll, she creates the offices of the payroll and changes the name from executive mansion to white house. examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the role of first lady. sundays at 8 p.m.. recently, american history tv was at the organization of american historians annual meeting in st. louis, missouri. we spoke with authors and graduate students about their research. >> jennifer frost, catherine feeley. your panel topic is the same as the book on which you collaborated. when private talk goes public. how do you define gossip? >> that is a big question. many scholars would say there is no airtight cold truly perfect definition of gossip. it varies across different fields and domains. we decided to define gossip as private talk. talk about people's personal lives aired privately. if you don't think that boundary should be crossed and private information shouldn't be made public, you would see gossip in a negative light. if yo

take the roosevelt. >>> more power to police, why d.c. mayor muriel bowser is pushing for just that. >> open or closed? what we just learned about >>> right now, flights are back under after a fire at dublin's airport. look at this picture here. it is a hangar burning the roof completely on fire. this forced the runways to shut down. and flights at the airport had to be suspended. the fire was in a restricted area, separate from where passengers are. we don't know at this point how the fire started. back to you. >> thank you, kristin. >>> developing right now -- the washington monument closed today after the elevator inside broke last night. molette green is gathering details. outside the monument this morning. on a lovely morning. but what's going on out there, mollett? >> reporter: good morning, we just got news that crews are arriving sometime this morning to get on top of this latest elevator problem. we told you right when we went on the air sat 4:30 the monument will not open today because of all of this. the malfunction forced a bu

roosevelt made it almost to the end.eporterlater, the ernie pyle was killed in the western percent thick -- pacific by japanese gunfire. these were not equally dramatic events for the country. it is remarkable thake

>> roosevelt? >> steve: what's that? >> jimmy: roosevelt. >> steve: oh, roosevelt?: oh, no, it's benjamin harrison. >> jimmy: yeah, bring out the puppies! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: that's "double puppies!" >> oh, my god. >> steve: kyle mcadams and lisa armstrong. >> that's not an animal question. that's a politics question. >> jimmy: oh, hi. >> steve: okay. >> how come he got two? oh, my god. that's cheating. >> steve: that was "double puppy." that was "double puppy." >> jimmy: that was "double puppy." >> steve: jimmy, this question is for you. which of these real birds is also known as the "timber doddle"? is it "a," the "tufted titmouse"? "b," the "moustached puffbird"? or "c," the "american woodcock"? which one is it? [ laughter ] this is for a puppy. you could take the lead. it's tied now. >> jimmy: stop chewing on this. wait, what are the answers again, i'm sorry? >> steve: "a," "tufted titmouse." "b," "mustache puffbird." and "c," "american woodcock." >> jimmy: "timber doodle?" that's "timber doodle?" >> steve: yes, known as the "timber doodle." >> j

roosevelt boulevard, looking pretty good.e is a look at the blue route southbound at mid-county toll plaza. looking really nice here. in fact, all morning long when i was looking at the blue route, casino of what you are looking at, even though in the 6:00 hour. blue route looking good. talking about the schuylkill just second ago, shear look at the schuylkill westbound at city avenue for those of you headed off the roosevelt on to the schuylkill for example. this is what you are looking amount. you are traveling less than posted speeds. just ever so slightlily on the schuylkill. of course we see that bill pushing specially toward the 7:00 hour. first accident of the morning northeast extension, southbound at lansdale. right lane block for those of you traveling around this area. back to you. >> right now 6:16. and, boring. one word never used to describe the m tv video music awards. kanye west, always making headlines. finds out what announced it time during his acceptance speech. and, another highlight for you, justin biebe

also, the boulevard, the roosevelt boulevard looking great here. we know from last week, probably be busy coming up into the 5:00 and even 6:00 hour making your way to the schuylkill expressway. so, we've got some emergency road repairs, 15th street south of city hall, one southbound lane open until 9:00 a.m. and then it is completely closed, police will be directing traffic, and this is between 15th street between south penn square and chestnut. we know that that's already a busy stretch, tan will get busier. then serious crash, roosevelt boulevard southbound at adams avenue, center lane block, so you want to use an alternate, i would suggest using wyoming avenue to castor. all right, erika, busy morning, back over to you. >> meisha, a thank you. back to breaking news out of ferguson, missouri. one man reportedly in critical condition after witnesses say he was shot by police. it was the day of peaceful protests that errupted into violence and gunfire. cbs correspondent don champion has the latest. >> reporter: with reports of thrown bottles and t

again, i think there's a real jájz dell nor roosevelt in 1940.again, arguing that he was the one to keep the united states out of the war. in the end, what brought the united states in i think was both this gradual shift in a public opinion and not enough to do but i think really it was what the germans did, the germans behaved in a way that i can only describe as folly. the german supreme command by 1917 virtually in command of the german state. it had set up something close to a military dictatorship and it had been pressing to renew unrestricted submarine warfare. this had stopped in 1915. after an american ship had been sunk. and there was huge protest in the united states and the german government at the time had recognized that unrestricted warfare and submarines firing on any shipping approaching british shores, ew t the high command add been pressing for resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare and in january 1917 they got their wish. and so, the sinkings and the loss of american lives began to go up and american opinion begins now to

roosevelt said, alex, your goal the nazis don't blow us up. action, roosevelt said. intelligence reports from europe indicated that the nazis were working on such a weapon, but no one knew how much effort they were devoting to it. the one certainty was that if hitler developed the bomb, he would win the war. the letter to roosevelt paved the way for the creation of a top-secret military project, one that would have the highest priority and tightest security. it would be named the manhattan military engineering district. dr. teller: finally we became a -- we began to participate in the war effort. it was a relief. narrator: the project was massive, it designed and built a design that existed in theory from material that didn't exist in any quantity, under unprecedented's secrecy, many of who were not even u.s. citizens. it was known that the nucleus of one form of uranium would split when it absorbed a neutron. when this happens, energy is released and more neutrons were created that struck and split the nuclei. when it happens continuously, it is known as a chain rea

very first political ad, 1912, and which william in howard taft and woodrow wilson and theodore roosevelt is running for the progressive party, bull moose party. produced by the democratic national committee, the old way and the new. it opens up with this rich, fat plutocrat who comes in to an office where one of his flunkies is dusting off portraits of theodore roosevelt and william of thetaft as an example old way. money,he has lots of dispensing favors, all sorts of political corruption. they are contrasted with the new way of doing things, represented by woodrow wilson, the champion of the common man. the film actually inns with a plea for people to send one dollar to the democratic national committee on behalf of the woodrow wilson campaign, because woodrow wilson is for the common man. republicans are for the .ealthiest 1% somehow those tropes have not changed in the last 100 years. we have 1.4 million items in the collection, so there are plenty of treasures out there to be discovered. the great thing is that with new technology, not only the ability to preserve the older films on

sunday, in the area of roosevelt boulevard, and devereaux avenue. that is where witnesses tell police they saw a silver toyota corolla going east on the roosevelt, and pool going west on his honda motorcycle. from that corner, police say, the corolla made left turn and struck pool, then sped off. but a tow driver stayed behind the corolla tracking him, even after pool had been ejected from it bike by the impact. pool was taken to aria-torresdale with head injuries. he was pronounced dead there, soon after, pool was not wearing a helmet either, police say, he is now the second philadelphia police officer to die in a off duty crash in as many weeks, and that's not lost on investigatorsment take a listen. >> it is unusual. i don't recall in my career that we had two in a week that may have happened. i just don't recall it. but they're very both tragic. different kind of crashes nonetheless, but to lose two in one week is tough. >> lot of heavy hearts this morning, last weekends sergeant ralph yell ali killed in single vehicle crash. speed played a fact

i mean, woodrow wilson follows theodore roosevelt.nd these two together acting one after the other made the president the center -- the center of the government, the active part. and even, you know, even presidents later such as calvin coolidge especially who wanted to retreat to the sidelines couldn't do it. i mean, now that's what -- that's what really changed there. the first lady role, i think probably, probably in terms of trying to continue that. i think ellen probably had more impact than edith did. kristie miller: absolutely, i couldn't agree with you more. susan swain: well, that's a great segue because we now have to move in ellen's wilson's story. and before we do that, i want to tell you that how you can involved. the beauty of the series, and by the way tonight is a special two-hour program since we have two first ladies to talk about. but our phone lines will be open and you can reach us, 202-585-3880, if you live in the eastern or central time zones. mountain and pacific, 202-585-3881, you can be part of a facebook conv