theodore roosevelt. we're going to enter the roosevelt dining room.g was very formal in the family. nothing happened until father came home from work, changes out of one suit, changes into an evening suit. children are expected to dress for dinner. they would do theme nights around the table, could be french, one night could be german, italian. so if you wanted to pass the food, you had to say it in the language of the day. roosevelt goes on to speak six languages, read in four. food was brought up by the dumbwaiter system, which is right behind this door. so the kitchen was downstairs on the lower level. so that, the area that we all walked in today that was considered the service area, there would have been an informal eating area, kitchen, servants' quarters in the rear of the home. that was until 1865. in 1865, we know that family added a fifth level to the house for servants quarters. the dining room table on display is original to roosevelt's grandfather's home, the chairs date back to his sister's side of the family, and it's all about the dyna

had roosevelt gotten the nomination it would have been roosevelt who was president. however, had it been a taft/wilson thing i think wilson would have won even though the united states was basically majority party was a republican party, but it was, as we all know a period of tremendous spirit of reform and for that -- and reform was embraced by wilson as well as by roosevelt and of course by debs. therefore, taft was a moderate conservative, was not likely, i think, to have beaten wilson. roosevelt i think almost surely would have. before i talk, i want to say first of all, why i wrote the book. i say this because people often ask me why do you write a book where foreign policy plays no role when you spent your whole life writing about foreign policy. it was foreign policy that got me interested in the book. in these issues. it's counter factual history. sort of what ifs if history. what would have happened had had theodore roosevelt rather than woodrow wilson been president in 1912? had that happened, the republican party would have been the party of reform. and se

so roosevelt is inaugurated president in 1933. by this time hughes had made a very strong record as a civil rights and libertarian. he wrote some very important decisions protecting the freedom of the press for example. and freedom of association. but what got him and roosevelt on a collision course was the constitutional challenges to the new deal legislation. particularly in 1935 and 1936, the hughes court began to strike down one piece of new deal legislation after another. now hughes was actually a centrist. he was neither a conservative, nor a liberal. he was a centrist. but he wanted in the worst way to keep the court together and try to project an image of stability and integrity. so he tried to mask the court when he could. and sometimes he could. for example, the court unanimously struck down the national recovery act administration, which was the new deal legislation trying to spur the industrial sector of the economy. but he was not so successful with when the court struck down the agricultural adjustment act which was

he may roosevelt be a better roosevelt. roosevelt be a better roosevelt. >> more from wendell willkie as he talks about liberalism and, also, the roosevelt new deal. this another from the republican national committee, a series of films. >> the doctrinaires of the opposition have attempted to picture me as an opponent of liberalism, but i was a liberal but for many of those men heard the word and i fought for the reforms of theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson before another roosevelt stopped it and distorted the word liberal. american liberalism does not consist merely of reforming things. it consists primarily of making things. we must substitute for the philosophy of distributed scarcity, the velocity of unlimited productivity. i stand for the restoration of full production and reemployment in american private enterprise. present administration has spent $60 billion. the new deal stands for doing what has to be done by spending as much money as possible. i propose to do it by spending as little money as possible. this i

one more about roosevelt.ow perhaps the most famous example of his energy occurred during the 1912 campaign. this was after a period when there was, before television and radio and so, of course, you had to speak for hours at a time orations were meant to be a long time. this began the whistle stop campaign from the back of railroad cars. he went from town to town. the two most gifted orators was debs and roosevelt. wilson also spoke beautifully, but it was not as energetic as the other two. they were stemwinders in that sense. in the late stages of the campaign in october when roosevelt was campaigning in the middle west a man came out of a hotel and as roosevelt got into the car he picked up a gun and shot roosevelt. roosevelt's life was only saved because he had a 50 page speech inside his pocket. he was bleeding, and nonetheless he insisted to go on to make the speech he was supposed to make against the advice of his doctor. no one could stop roosevelt. and when he got up on the platform before about 10,00

his niece was the most famous roosevelt woman of them all, eleanor roosevelt. they decide it would be nice to rebuild his birth place. so this so this is how the site looked. the uncle's house next-door and this two-story building when this idea of memorializing roosevelt came about. so they purchased both properties, they commissioned a female architect, this is pretty amazing because in 1981 this is a progressive idea. interestingly was a survivor of the lusitania, she using the uncle's house, which is i den tlity cal, as a model for the museum in terms of architectural details that really bring the house to live. then they tear down uncle robert's as well as the two-story building and combine both from the ground floor. so we opened up as a public building on what would have been officially on what would have been theodore roosevelt 65th birthday. the house was administered by the women until 1962 when it was dedicated the same day as the home in sagamore hill as part of the national park service. we're going to walk through five historic period rooms that r

following that of theodore roosevelt and franklin roosevelt is to make science the servant of conservationto devise new plans of stewardship that will enable to us preserve this green environment. which means. so to all of us. >> teddy roosevelt when he first arrived in california in 1903 is part of his big nine-week tour was fairly subdued. he came in through desert. he came in through a town called barstow and then red lands. he enjoyed the welcome that he got. wasn't until he went up the coast that he began to get amazed. the very first time he saw the pacific ocean, he was in awe. the first redwoods, he was in awe. then when he arrived to meet john muir, that's when he understands what the taking is. he is totally dazzled. he waxes very poetic. writes records, all these things. that was for him seeing the great outdoors. getting away from the cities, the politics. the cradle of nature. that was when he understood it. >> the origins were interesting. roosevelt becomes president when this mckinley was assassinated. >> never having been to the west coast. he took it as an opportunity to c

roosevelt wants the war over, too, but it's one of these things where roosevelt's role as a war leadercertainly an advantage. any questions or concerns? yeah? >> was his health bad enough that they realized that he might die relatively soon? >> there is some concern. he looks bad. i have some pictures here that we'll see in just a moment. in fact, here's one that you can see a little bit of that. he's seated here. oftentimes, particularly in campaign years, he would use his leg braces to give the appearance of being able to stand on his own and this sort of thing. he doesn't do that in 1944. in fact, when he delivers the state of the union address in 1944, he doesn't deliver it from the house chamber. he does so from the white house and speaks to congress and america through a radio hookup. he doesn't feel well. he's been struggling with the flu and this sort of thing. he loses a lot of weight in the first part of 1944, looks bad in the face. and there are a lot of democratic operatives who fear that he might not make it through another four years. what that means, then, is going to be

and one friend of roosevelt's later recalled, you know, roosevelt respected landon. he got along with willkie and really liked him. but that tom dewey he really hates. and it showed. roosevelt will campaign late in the season, making the campaign swing through a number of big cities, including chicago and boston. and on election day, it's a close race, but ultimately, another roosevelt victory. 53%-46%. now, while this looks pretty overwhelming for roosevelt, actually, in some of these states where roosevelt wins, the margin of victory for him is very small. this is actually the closest race since 1916 when charles evans hughes narrowly lost to woodrow wilson. indeed, about 500,000 votes switch in the right states, at least between 500,000 and 800,000 vote switches would have meant a dewey win in the electoral college. and so, that's a relatively small window of victory for roosevelt. still in the electoral college a pretty big win. and so, any questions or concerns? all right. when we come back on friday, we'll continue our look at world war ii, taking a look at com

our version of sara roosevelt is mrs. roosevelt's version.t's a version she came to very late in life. she -- her upbringing was so awful, so emotionally arid, so devoid of real parenting, she had not only a drunken father but a demented father who was there and not there and seeing visions and telling her he loved her and he was going to come and sweep her off and they were going to live in europe and be happy ever after and then disappearing and finally dying. and her mother was distracted and disappointed in her so she had no model parent. so when she became first a wife and then a parent, she relied enormously on franklin's mother. >> wait. she relied on her or sara took over? go ahead. >> we have -- many people write about the roosevelts with different views. this is my view. sara delano roosevelt was happy to fill the vacuum. god knows. she was the most devoted mother that there ever was. but eleanor was terribly grateful at the time that she took over hiring nannies, that she gave her child-raising advice. later in her life, some of th

when roosevelt was in the new york state assembly. roosevelt as vice president didn't have all that much to do. he was actually in buffalo three times. he came to open the pan american exposition on president's day. william mckinley was supposed to be here, but his wife ida, who was in ill health, prevented him from coming, so roosevelt substituted for him in may of 1801. and then of course, when mckinley was shot on september 6th of 1901, roosevelt was looking for a hotel room and just by chance bumped into ansley wilcox and mr. wilcox offered him his home to stay while he was in buffalo tending to the wounded president. the family is on mt. marcie, the highest peak in new york state. camping, hiking, a runner coming up the mountain, no small feat in and of itself to let roosevelt know the president has taken a turn for the worst and he needs to immediately get back to buffalo, that there is really no hope for the president. so it's a 30-mile journey to the north creek station, railroad station. and he takes three carriages, three te

to the tape we just heard of roosevelt, roosevelt really did become worried. maybe we will hear tonight another tape where he worried about whether he could use willkie's mistress as a back to be him in the election. there is a lot of stuff going on and they are beginning to take him seriously. that was the future of the campaign. a very important girlfriend back willkie had. >> you write about are in your book. let's take a few phone calls. we are in russia wilhville, indiana. our first caller is kurt from ohio. welcome to the conversation. the conversation. >> process and good evening. this is a great program and i hope that a lot of people take advantage of this great service to you are giving to the american people. my question is -- i have a couple of comments -- the first one is being in the suburbs of akron, ohio, i wanted to know a little bit more about wendell willkie's role as an attorney for the goodyear tire and rubber co. where he, during that time, was heavily involved in akron city democratic politics. my second comment is with wendell willkie b

our version of sara roosevelt is mrs. roosevelt's version. it's a version she came to very late in life. she -- her upbringing was so awful, so emotionally aired, so devoid of real parenting, she had not only a drunken father but a demented father who was there and not there and seeing visions and telling her he loved her and sweep her off and live in europe and be happy ever after and disappearing and finally dying and her mother was distracted and disappointed in her so she had no model parent so when she became first a wife and then a parent, she relied enormously on franklin's mother. >> wait. she relied on her or sara took over? go ahead. >> many people who write about the roosevelts have different views. this is my view. sara roosevelt was happy to fill the vacuum. a most devoted mother there ever was. but eleanor was terribly grateful at the time that she took over hiring nannies, that she gave her child raising advice. later in her life some of that stuff became distorted and she began to see it as somebody taking over her life. when

roosevelt. our guest, patricia bell scott is professor emerita of women's studies and family sites at the university of georgia. she is a major chronicler of women's a black lives. including her her book double stitch. black women write about mothers and daughters, the leticia woods browned book price. i hope some of you saw the book review a couple of weeks ago in which carmona, some of you may remember came to see us at hunter a few months ago, the the author of the notorious had high praise for the firebrand in the first lady. she noticed that nothing was ever easy for polly murray, black woman born in 1910, a woman attracted to women, also a poet, memoirs, activists and episcopal priest. but her tender friendship episcopal priest. but her tender friendship with the roosevelt sustained over nearly one quarter century and more than 300 cards and letters helped. it is the richer of that she tells for the firebrand in the first lady about that's been 20 years in the making. i think that's what w

and one friend of roosevelt's later recalled, you know, roosevelt respected landon. he got along with wilkie and really liked him. but that tom dewy he really hates, it showed. roosevelt will campaign late in the season making a campaign swing through a number of big cities, including chicago and boston. and on election day it's a close race but ultimately another roosevelt victory. 53 to 46%. now while this looks pretty overwhelming for roosevelt, actually in some of these states where roosevelt wins, the margin of victory for him is very small. this is actually the closest race since 1916 when charles evans hughes narrowly lost to woodrow wilson. indeed 500,000 vote switch in the right states would have meant a dewy win in the electoral college. that's a relatively small window of victory for roosevelt. still a pretty big win. any questions or concerns? all right. when we come back on friday we'll continue our look at world war ii taking a look at combat pragss in the european theater. have a good day. see you on friday. you are dismissed. >>> tomorrow night americ

polly, first of all eleanor roosevelt met her in the fall of 1934. was a very traumatic experience for polly because eleanor showed up behind the wheel of her can verbal coop she is the driver, the passengers are mouthing it tommy thompson her private secretary, a man polly took toto be a secret service agent, though my research suggested this man was probably tommy's husband. eleanor did not like having secret service around.et servi and so she showed up at this camp which was the first camp for unemployed women. it was the female version of the ccc camp. however eleanor was determined that unlike the ccc camp for men, this particular can would not be segregated. that was really important to her. since it was a pet project of her and it was not located very far from her home was in the bear mountain area of new york, she would go periodically unannounced to inspect the camp to see how things were going. so she would drive up in this convertible coupe, gets out of the car and immediately startset going to the premises. the residents are really excite

james roosevelt, mr. james as everyone called him, was a lovely man with a very good sense of humor and enormously fond of his son. >> franklin's strength of personality came from two loving parents. >> yeah. >> thank you very much for this wonderful discussion. what kind of a grandmother was eleanor? because i remember when i was a teenager, a couple things about her. one, she took a european tour after the war, and she took one of her grandchildren with her on the plane, as i recall. is there anything about eleanor as grandmother considering her background and her rejection? >> i'm constrained by talking about her as a grandmother because i don't know much about her. i think there are people in the audience that do, but they're not going to speak. >> they seem to have a close relationship. it was a girl that she took. i don't remember who. >> yes. curtis was with her in united nations. i really don't know very much about her as a grandmother. that was not a period i was writing about. >> i write a littl

james roosevelt, mr. james as everyone called him, was a lovely man with a very good sense of humor and enormously fond of his son. >> franklin's strength of personality came from two loving parents. >> yeah. >> thank you very much for this wonderful discussion. what kind of a grandmother was eleanor because i remember when i was a teenager a couple things about her. one, she took a european tour after the war, and she took one of her grandchildren with her on the plane as i recall. is there anything about eleanor as grandmother considering her background and her rejection? >> i'm constrained in talking about her as a grandmother because i don't know much about her. i think there are people in the audience that do, but they're not going to speak. >> they seem to have a close relationship. it was a girl that she took. i don't remember who. >> yes. curtis was with her in united nations. i really don't know very much about her as a grandmother. that was not a period i was writing about. >> i write a little b

roosevelt did not speak to him. especially after hoover in 1940 got very isolationist and nasty foreign policy. harry truman did not just policy. did,f the first things he he invited over to the white house and essentially said you have been treated wrongly and i want did to restore you, bring u back to the american family. hoover to make a study of the food problem in europe, which was grave and the wake of world war ii. said, hoover conditionsor him two on government reorganization which, to some extent, led to the national security act that secretary albright is talking about. as charitable as president truman was he was also a great politician because he knew that hoover was still a large figure on the american stage. he knew he would need bipartisan cooperation, especially on 47.ign policy in 19 like an excellent politician, which i say is a great complement, because he had made 1947, hooverr in was in a position to help him create that bipartisan foreign-policy where it truman had not treated him so nicely, ho

franklin roosevelt is looking for a fourth term. the war is still on and to 1940, he has dumped his vice president, john vance gartner, who had grown a bit too conservative for the new deal and he puts in henry a. wallace the secretary of agriculture. who is a very left-wing kind of new age kind of guy or back them. and he forces wallace on the ticket in 1940. the democratic party does not really want him. and in 1944, roosevelt is getting the word back, you keep this guy on the ticket, he could cost you a million votes. roosevelt is a great politician. he knows what this means. and he says, i have forced henry wallace on the party once. i can't do it twice. i can't do it twice. he has got to go. not in so many words, not in so many words but he eventually slits wallace's throat. who did he replace them with? the guy he replaced them with is a guy that is not too southern, not to northern, not too conservative, not too liberal, respected by the union but not really in the pocket of the union and that is harry truman. he fits in all

he wasn't just franklin roosevelt. he was bad. when he was in the senate, he probably only gave like three speeches or something his whole career. could not -- he had very bad eyesight. and he had trouble reading from a piece of paper and just giving a speech like this. but he talks to a bunch of newspaper editors in the white house and he just speaks off -- first he gives his speech and people go, is the bar still open? you know. and then he speaks off the cuff, and even people who don't like him go, hey, that was pretty good. i kind of like that guy. he's got something. and everybody notices this. this is one of these great moments where the light bulb goes on, and then he does it again. he does it again, actually, when he speaks right after recognizing israel. he goes to a jewish group in washington and he does the same thing and he wows them. he says, boy, i've got to keep doing this. i've got to keep doing this because i stink doing it otherwise. and he does. and he goes across the country in the spring on his first whistlest

roosevelt had a decoy cruising up and down the cape cod canal. document has eight points -- and a collected mix of provision, amounting to a kind of rehash of will sony and wilsonianism. this is mixed with references to various kinds of social welfare provisions the economic aspirations related to the new deal. and maybe the most interesting part about it in many ways is debate. 1941, why would that be an interesting day for roosevelt to be making a statement of war and peace names . anybody? let's do it without the boom. cash i havehinking to wake up. even though it is a secret that roosevelt, it is still a risky thing to do to release some of it immediately afterward. to make a statement about war and peace things for what the post were world will look like four months before pearl harbor is kind of out there for roosevelt. he had these feral and isolationist constituency. i know that is a problematic term in many ways. that's the term he would have used. he is looking to the postwar world before the u.s. is even in the war. i think some of the

and roosevelt said yes he supported that. and dewey was not supportive of that, and dewey said later on, roosevelt won the election and history has proven that i'm right. >> you talk about the demise of the republican party? over these international issues. do they come back in time to the '48 campaign? do the tafts and the dewey wings come together? >> it was papered over. it was very shrewd on dewey's part to see that as the achilles heel. and to try to eliminate dewey and to suggest if you vote for this man what you're going to get is bob taft and the midwestern conservative republican party. to be frank dewey did very little. they despised each other. it's about something. it's not just about personal ambition. it's about a different view of the world, a different view of government at home, a different view of what the republican party stands for, a different view of what abraham lincoln's legacy is. >> we're going to talk about thomas e. dewey, our eighth contender in our 14-week series, looking at those folks in americ

and by april 1945, franklin roosevelt is dead. and harry truman goes to the white house and says to eleanor roosevelt, can i pray for you? and she says, no. we need to pray for you. because you are the fellow who is in trouble now. he starts off very popular. the war is won. the atomic bombs are dropped on japan. there's vj-day. america is at peace finally. and harry truman reaches a popularity level of 87%. that goes downhill real fast. and people, some of that is beyond his control, but there are reasons why his popularity drops. he's not franklin roosevelt. right now, all the republicans are saying, who is the next reagan? boy, we miss reagan a lot. and back then, it was, by god. by god, how we miss fdr among the democrats. and harry truman was no fdr. so there's a longing for the lost leader there. and also, he's prone to certain gaffes. his appointments are not always the strongest. there's talk of the missouri gang, as there was an ohio gang with warren harding, of people, sort of hangers-on, small timers who are put into po

roosevelt is dead. the president who carried us through the depression, the new deal on the road to war and now almost, almost all the way through the war is gone. that brings a change. missouri's own harry truman now becomes president of the united states. very interesting circumstances, obviously. we are just about to wrap up the war in europe. we are i land hopping our way into japan. i mean, it looks promising and yet, there are all kinds of pot holes along the way. we still have to finish the defeat of germany. we still have to finish off japan. how we do that, when we do that, and what are the consequences of what we're doing, that's the rest of the story. truman is going to meet with stalin and churchill in potsdam, germany, after hitler is defeated. i mean, it's a new big three now with harry truman being the president now instead of roosevelt. truman's attitude is going to be very different from that of roosevelt. and some indication of that change of u.s. policy comes right away. remember i me

is it because he doesn't like roosevelt? is it because he has actually changed his mind as he sees roosevelt actually an act -- actually enact the new deal? these are all sort of open questions about their relationship. peter: now back to your calls on "the contenders." sheridan, arkansas. please go ahead with your question or comment. yes, my grandfather albert godwin was a county democrat chairman, a state senator, and supporter of al smith. compare al smith's campaign for president and dewey's campaigns for president. peter: well, let's ask the former new york state assembly historian if he could do that in a minute or less. john: oh, sure! dewey will be the subject of a future "contenders," i think in two weeks. there really is no comparison. with dewey, the personalities couldn't be more different. they really couldn't be. first of all, smith is a democrat, dewey is a republican. smith is a progressive, pre-new deal campaigner. dewey takes over the reins in new york state after he beats the hand-picked successor of f.d.

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roosevelt, the new deal. i'm trying to change that and have people think of them as decision-makers. how do they make decisions? i think seeing how they make decisions inside the family can flesh out our understanding of them. brian: chapter five is the grief stricken. i want to ask about somebody, william mckinley. you have calvin coolidge and the loss of his son and franklin pierce and the loss of his son and a couple children. what about william mckinley? mr. kendall: mckinley loses two children in the 1870's and as with john quincy adams, out of that tragedy comes some kind of energy and resolve and mckinley goes into politics in 1876 and his wife is very shaken. she developed a stroke and will be invalid for the rest of her life. i think there is a comparison between mckinley and roosevelt. at some level, franklin roosevelt, polio makes the politician, that he becomes deeper after he has polio, develops more empathy and is just a better speaker and i think the same with mckinley. out of the tragedy, he k

and roosevelt said yes he supported that. dewey was not supportive of that and dewey said later on roosevelt won the election and history has proven i was right. >> you talk about the divide in the republican party over international issues. do they come back together in time for the '48 campaign? do the taft and dewey wings come together? >> it was pained over. but in fact it was very shrewd on truman's part to see that as the achilles heel that republican unit was unit in name only and to try to almost eliminate dewey and to suggest that if you vote for this man, what you're going to get is bob taft and the midwest conservative republican party. and to be frank, dewey did very little. he and taft despised each other. their rivalry was one of the great intellectual and personal contests in american history. it's on the scale of jefferson and hamilton. it's about something. it's not just about personal ambition, it's about a different view of the world, a different view of government at home, a different view of what the repu

he really took off the gloves and hit roosevelt. now, prior to that, he delivered what i call 1948-type of speeches whereas you talk about home and mother and god and the american flag, but after that oklahoma city speech, i think that convinced most republicans they really had a chance to beat roosevelt. i wonder if mr. norton is familiar with that speech in 1944 and the effect on the republican party. thank you. >> thank you for the call. that's fascinating. that speech, largely forgotten today, reverberated in ways that no one could imagine at the time. there had been, remember, the famous phallus speech, someone said later on there was a contest between dog and goat. dewey had been running this high-minded campaign, and he was, to some degree, goaded into responding, and it was the prosecutor. he brought everything together, all of the allegations of new deal, incompetence, new deal, economic failure, on and on and on. >> you're talking at what point now? >> late september. about a month before the election, 1944. it is true, i

teddy roosevelt. theodore roosevelt. here look at this guy. he's a cowboy out in the dakotas. a colonel in the military. a great outdoorsman. a tremendous hunter. nobody can say what a wuss, he's weakening america. no, he's the one with really this incredible masculinity seems to be able to get people to -- for example, unlike woodrow wilson whose critics said he's a professor. he's an egghead. he's weak. theodore roosevelt, that's a man. he's very -- he's very manly. so listen to -- here's some of -- some quotes from roosevelt. i wish to preach not the doctrine of ignobled ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life. while president, i have been president emphatically. i took the canal zone in panama and let congress debate. while the debate goes on, the canal does also. when he ran for the presidency in 1912, rather than saying, i am announcing my candidacy, he said, my hat is in the ring. the fight is on and i am stripped to the buff. here's what he said about war. no triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war. a just war in the long run is far better

from a position whereactually , he wasn't playing a glove on roosevelt and in fact roosevelt spent the next four elections running against hoover all over again, every time the republicans put somebody new he said it's just a number hoover. you don't want that again do you? and everybody agreed no we don't and voted for roosevelt area his first glimmer of sort of being acknowledged as former president and maybe not a completely useless person was from truman who extended a hand and then asked him to review situations in europe for humanitarian purposes and put him on his old track but hoover didn't become on another, he didn't go back to his old age. he did those things for truman. he then was invited by truman and again by eisenhower to review the efficiencies of the us government so there was the hoover commissions and they made recommendations and a lot of them were followed so he got some plaudits as an administrator but he politically, he kept on back to the conventions sort of hoping there would be a call for let's bring hoover back in the republican conventions and in fact the r

roosevelt. look at this guy, he's a cowboy and out in the dakotas and he's a great outdoor and a tremendous hunter. unlike woodrow wilson, he's a professor and an egghead. theodore roosevelt, he's a man, he's very manly. listen to -- here is some quotes from roosevelt. "i wish to preach the doctrine of the strenuous life. i took the canal zone in panama and let congress debate and while the debate goes on, the canal does also." when he ran for presidency in 1912 rather than saying i am announcing my candidacy. he says "my hat is in the ring and the fight is on." here is what he says about war. "no triumph of peace is quite so great as its supreme triumph of war. just war in the long run is far better than a man's soul than the most prosperous peace. or, is good or masculine" we do not admire the man of timid peace. it is because of their greatness coming to an end. are we still in the prime of your lusty youth and beginning of our manhood to sit down to out warn people and taking our place with

he persuaded franklin roosevelt to make the race. although smith lost by a narrow vote, roosevelt was elected to his first term as governor. already roosevelt was the leading favorite for the nomination. the leading opponent, none other than his old p friend al smith >> frank len d. roosevelt, having received more than 2/3 of allle delegates, i proclaim him the nominee of this convention for president of the united states. >> you have nominated me and i know it and i am here to thank you for the honor. i pledge myself to a new deal for the amer leading to the 1936 election where 58 smith blew the whistle on the new deal? >> i think prohibition is something heavily identified with al smith. he never favored prohibition. it was not an issue he championed. he didn't like how new york state ratified it anyway. they did it by simple resolution through the legislateure. he thought it should be a referendum. 29 -- i believe it was come abo? >> it's most famous as a place the presidential candidates show up every four years. they show up, de

roosevelt is dead. we talked about this on tuesday. cerebral hemorrhage, april of '45. roosevelt is dead. the president who carried us through the depression, the new deal on the road to war and now almost, almost all the way through the war is gone. that brings a change. missouri's own harry truman now becomes president of the united states. very interesting circumstances, obviously. we are just about to wrap up the war in europe. we are i land hopping our way into japan. i mean, it looks promising and yet, there are all kinds of pot holes along the way. we still have to finish the defeat of germany. we still have to finish off japan. how we do that, when we do that, and what are the consequences of what we're doing, that's the rest of the story. truman is going to meet with stalin and churchill in potsdam, germany, after hitler is defeated. i mean, it's a new big three now with harry truman being the president now instead of roosevelt. truman's attitude is going to be very different from that of roose