henry was reeling at the end of roosevelt's second term mr. the latest -- from the latest unemployment statistics from april 1939 which revealed that 20.7 percent of americans were unemployed. in other words, more than twice the number we have today were unemployed after almost two full terms of franklin roosevelt in his spending programs in the new deal. he finally was so frustrated with the latest wave of statistics that he said this: we have tried spending money. we are spending more than we have ever spent before, and it does not work. and i have just one interest, and if i am wrong, somebody else can have my job. i want to see this country prosperous. i want to see people get a job, i want to see people get enough to eat. we have never made good on our promises. i say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started, and an enormous debt to boot. we had, indeed, doubled the national debt in roosevelt's first two terms. what we had then is all the presidents up to 1932, we had a national debt of

the camp under the redwood trees which roosevelt thought, the red words were great cathedrals. they slept in a snowstorm without a tent and roosevelt, with his enthusiasm, the greatest day i have never spent my life freezing in a snowstorm with john mayer. they would try to out naturalist to each other. nobody new birds like tr but tamir was one of the botnets so he would talk about the plants and roosevelt was out playing in with the birds but they had a friendly competition. roosevelt thought mere was one of our great figures. they had some differences. tr was a hunter conservationist and mere thought only in extreme cases should they hunters shoot an animal. roosevelt believe that was nonsense that you had to constantly hunt, that hunters were the great conservation is. at one moment by a campfire mere says to roosevelt when are you going to give up that bullish punting thing of yours? tr, uncharacteristically said i know i need to. i should. of course he didn't. he ended up going to africa, collecting for science but also getting specimens and gets back here taxidermy questi

his latest book, "the wilderness warrior," looks at teddy roosevelt. also tonight, a tribute to the people of new orleans from josh charles. it is simple as helping rebuild the city. -- his single effort is helping rebuild the city. we are glad that you joined us. it our book at new orleans four years after katrina coming out. -- our look at orleans four years after katrina coming up. >> there are so many things that wal-mart is looking forward to doing, like helping people live better. but mostly, we're helping build stronger communities and relationships. with your help, the best is yet to come. >> nationwide insurance proudly supports "tavis smiley." tavis and nationwide, working together to improve financial literacy and the economic empowerment that comes with it. >> ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: douglas brinkley is a noted historian and best-selling author whose look at a hurricane katrina is called "the great

one of the problems with court-packing, roosevelt had nobody around him really at the time who could say no to him in a way that he would listen. he had had a very close, intimate aide named lilly hal who had been with him since roosevelt had been at new york state senator and he really was the one that's got roosevelt to be president, that saw the possibility in roosevelts even after the yet polio, both before and after the thing that is also something we take for granted now. the idea that a man in a wheelchair could be elected president of the united states and we overlook that because roosevelt was elected four times, we know that but i think if you looked at it from that point outward, it is much more impressive that this happened. lilly how had died in the previous spring and there was really nobody around roosevelt except for the possibility of eleanor and missy lehand, who is sort of is right-hand woman if you will, who we would listen to but neither of them got involved in this fight. >> host: was harry truman in the senate? >> guest: harry truman was in the senate. he voted

new deal was the stepchild of teddy roosevelt's new deal. the were5th cousins. klin roosevelt idolized him and followed his example closely. when franklin roosevelt was in college while teddy was president the other guys at harvard laughed at him because he would go around saying bully, as his famous cousin liked to do. host: this your ones you to compare them on the selection of truman. guest: i do not know how to react to that. next is detroit to ,hank? caller: this is the most educational program on tv. i really enjoy the fact you can listen to other people. we give our opinions. host: thanks for watching, sir. caller: back when bush was installed after the debacle down there in florida where it went to the supreme court and gore was 600,000 votes ahead on the national action, i have always been confused by that. i think that was the most unfair decision that could have happened. it changed the history of the world. when we have these delegates -- if you looked at the whole system of democracy is just not fair. we have a guy holding up the health care program

the page. mrs. taft, mrs. roosevelt there must be a lot of stuff, there was a big feud between taft and roosevelt. so i found my way to the original. in the second two volumes, there were no ellipses ease on the page but things had been left out. i found my way to the originals, but was there and larges what we know about what went on in the taft white house. archie butt was with taft from morning until he went to bed at night so he knew the stories. so that was wonderful. the other thing wanted to tell you about, when i started working on a book about the roosevelt, his life after the white house, i wanted to write -- he was only 50 when he left the white house, he was the youngest president, the youngest ex-president, jfk was the youngest elected president but teddy roosevelt became president when mckinley was assassinated and he was two weeks shy of his 40 third birthday. he is the youngest ex-president, only 50. what would happen to a man who had power once he didn't have it any more? the existing biography of theod

of the extent they had surveys, was he ever unpopular? >> guest: roosevelt wasn't on popular especially in that period. the nra was like -- the depression was like a natural disaster. all old rules were off. you suspend disbelief as they say. and we will just get through this time as an war and other writers have written quite a bit about that, robert higgs for example. they said we have to get through and the emblem was the eagle and led by general johnson and we will have to get through even if it is it was not a war and the monetary event was mysterious but solvable. we know what was soluble now and we had the economy that allowed to function, with a little bit less disruption it. >> host: one thing, michaelene, the german cartel system, the soviet union, in some way was the new deal inevitable because it was the american experience was part of that least in the developed world at that time or the industrialized world everybody had something like this in the rise of collectivism of state action there is a recent book that came out last year in english by

was the ever unpopular? >> guest: roosevelt was not, the nra, it was like a natural disaster.ll the old rules were off and there was disbelief and be will just get through this time. as in war and other writers have written quite a lot about that. so they said it will have to get rid of the emblem was led by general johnson. and you will have to get through even if we don't agree and i think incredible policy was it was not a war and the monetary events for mysterious. we know it was solvable and we have in the economy in a frozen while the less disruption and it would have righted itself sooner than were offered to appear in. >> host: one thing you mentioned mussolini german cartel system of the seven union. in subway inevitable because it was the american spears parts of the developing world at that time with the industrialized world and everybody has something like this and the rise of collectivism and the same action there is a recent book out the came out cold three new deals which write about mussolini and hitler and so and some way to the american experience wrapped up

he was a cousin of the roosevelt. the roosevelt name was very elevated at that point. people were looking to him when he became governor, they assumed it was likely that he would becomepresident. what held him back for a lot of his political career was he had polio, he was disabled. after he got in he didn't think -- he had to be talked into it by eleanornd lewis poll. to persuade him that he was able to do something as geling as run f governor. part of ithe was a natural born leader, very charismatic figure, likeo be in charge, i think the polio had a big effect. frances perkins talks about this in her oral history, which is 5,000 pages, it isorth rummaging through a little bit. she talks about, she knew fdr, they were social trends, traveled in the same circle, she didn't like him at all. she thought he was upper class, harvard kid who looked down his nose at people, then she got to know him again when she was lobbng the sta legisture for minimum wage and maximum our laws for women and he didn support her and she thought put down, he did his environmental stuff, he d

to be more prepared, was a group of people, most of them republicans, many disciples of the roosevelt, who set up a volunteer military training camps. one was in new york, often elite college students of the day would spend their summers training military officers, many of them became military officers. after the war, the rotc as we know it today, traces its roots back to this movement. >> was there a grass-roots movement to get into the war? was the war popular before the americans got into it? >> the war was popular with some people but one of the things most people forget about world war i was it is very divisive, both entering the war and how to fight the war after it starts. a lot of that decision has been forgotten since then. >> where did your book, uncle sam wants you, come from? >> it started with a group of people, on a footnote of another book i found reference to called slacker rage. slacker was the slaying term in world war i for draft dodgers. slacker raids were carried out by a group of volunteers, mostly middle-aged men overdraft age who would go around in cities and s

third time was at the roosevelt hotel. and i was like, "hey, bono, remember me?" a big -- something happened incredible. he got the nobel peace prize. >> jimmy: okay. >> anyway, he was in this, like, designer outfit. i don't know. he had his hat and his goggles, or something was going on. [ light laughter ] and i talked to him fo like, ten minutes. a great, amazing conversation. he wasn't talking to anybody else, just me, zeroed in, like, this is amazing. bono is, like, listening to me. and then, he just, kind of, slowed down talking. i just said, "bono, once again, it was just a pleasure talking to you." and he said, "good-bye, jimmy." [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: i love that story! >> yeah, you love it! >> jimmy: i love it so much. >> yeah, of course you do. so i felt like, is this like a cyrano de bergerac where i'm talking, and he's like, "that jimmy's fantastic." so, i'm, like, talking all this -- saying great things. >> jimmy: i got invited to a party, like, the week after that. >> yes, and you did. i didn't. who am i, then? so there's you -- just you

i went to say prince at the roosevelt, and i thought, "oh, if he could be in this movie." ght i would beg. playing, his left hand, it was kicking. it is all encompassing, not really about the guitar. if you watch the movie, it is about, what is it about to write a song? and even more broadly, what is it like to be able to want to seek an artistic path to be able to express yourself? tavis: 1 in place so many things well and he is an embarrassment to everyone else -- one man plays so many things well. he is an embarrassment to everyone else. going beyond a guitar. >> as a songwriter, as a guitarist, as a singer, as a producer. he wins all of those categories. tavis: when you got together to talk about the fellow, and you talk about your favorite guitarists, what is it that made you say, "i really do like this instrument, and i can do this. i would be interested in this." >> i love music, sort of like you, and because i m&a filmmaker, i live a creative life, but i am sort of a subcategory -- because i m&a filmmaker. prince, jimmy page, or the edge, i feel that they are not no

we're looking fine on the roosevelt bridge, the key bridge, and the memorial bridge. this is the american legion bridge. >> thank you. >>> we have breaking news out of massachusetts. senator ted kennedy has died. >> he was surrounded by friends and loved ones. courtney robinson has a look back at his life and legacy. >> ted kennedy died late last night in his home in hyannis port. he was 77 years old. he said he devoted his career to being a voice to the march of progress in this nation. he was a respected member of the u.s. senate. his legacy will live on. >> the driving dream of american service. >> ted kennedy had dreams of a political dynasty. >> i shall dedicate all of my strength and will to serving you in the united states senate. >> he entered the senate in 1962. he would find his way in the oval office when he drove his car off a bridge off chappaquiddick island, resulting in the death of mary jo kopechne. 10 years later, he announced his run for the presidency. >> i am a candidate for president of the united states. >> he never overme questions about chappaq

good in rosslyn and across the roosevelt bridge. quiet into georgetown. y, i would jump over to the camera and see if i can take you -- this is not working. that will work. this is montrose road. it is super. delays on 95 before the prince william county to lorton. alison and doug. >> thank you. >>> martin o'malley is expected to announce details this morning about the purple line project. >> including what form it will take. there is a news conference at 8:30 this morning. it would connect prince george's to montgomery counties. we will have a live report in just a few moments. >>> the use of a snail mail could lead to cutbacks at targeting your local post office. >> the post office is considering closing as many as 14 post offices in our area. pamela brown is that one of them. >> postal workers are not coming as often these days, mostly because more and more consumers are turning to the internet. the postal service is taking some drastic measures. with just a click of a button, the internet gives you instant gratification of sending e-mails or paying bil

the danger is extending that into the private realm. president rooseveltenegotiated contracts that he felt were too high for delivery airmail. right away that creates a certain instability. who is safe? he ended up having the army deliver the mail. when that happened, we had 12 deaths from army pilots who were not trained to fly in the inclement weather. then roosevelt had to go back and say, let us go back to something else. that creates the kind of instability that will perpetuate unemployment. host: next phone call from charles. caller: i have a hypothetical question. roosevelt introduced social security. i presume that was and confiscation of part of everyone's wages. i presume if they could do that, they could have passed a law that says you need a certain percentage of your wages and put it into a savings bank, or perhaps another mutual-fund. the question i have, really, is supposed social security was not a government plan, but more of a mandated individual thing where people control their own money and retired on that. similar to a 401k. what would

more prepared, this preparedness was a group of people, most of them republicans, disciples of the roosevelt, who set up a volunteer military training camps. it was in plapsburg, new york, they would spend the summer training to the military officers and many of them did become military officers. the rotc traced its roots back. >> was there a grass-roots movement to get into the work? was the war popular beforear? was the war popular before the americans got into? >> it was very divisive, entering the war and how to fight the war after it started. a lot of that division has been forgotten in the years. >> where did your book sam wants you: world war i and the making of the modern american citizen" come from? >> it started from a group of people. the footnote of another book i found reference to, slacker was the slang term in world war 1 for draft dodgers. slacker raids were carried out by volunteers, mostly middle-aged men overdraft age who would go around in cities and small towns and try to track down the draft dodgers in their community. i thought this is just unusual. people volunteering

what we have, we have got to realize that it is america's best idea, the parks, monuments, wildlife refugees and think about what rooseveltalled the generation's unborn, these land areas are great heirlooms to future generations. >> doug brinkley, thanks so much for your thoughts this morning, we do appreciate it. >> we will be right back. >> that is our broadcast. bob schieffer will be back next sunday. thanks for watching face the nation. t captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

i mean, al the way to theodore roosevelt? >> well, theodore roosevelt represented the united states a the ste funeral for the king of englandat the beginning of the 20t entury. and during his funeral, you h all of the crowned heads of rope just beforethe outbreak of worldar i. and it washere that theore roosevelt prively came to the conclusion that wa was coming, d of course he was right. >> he was. thomashalen, thank you very much for joini us tonight. >> you're welcom >> there's anotr incident invoing americans ing held in this se by an. ey were said to be hiking in the kurdish regio of northern iraq fourays ago wen they parently wanderedcross the border and then we arrested near t town of mry ban by irian authorities, toy iranian television swed pictures o joshua fattal o oregon andhane and sarah schoud. >>> in afghastan, a sca in theapital of kabul day. ju over two weeks bfore that country's poid presidential election. officials said at least eit rocks slammed into the cityf daybreak, at least one of them heading from fir

we got off the freeway today and there was so much traffic that i had to skate all the way to the roosevelt. >> it can be used for transportation. is that true? >> yeah, it was crazy. i got mobbed on the -- it was crazy. i had to get out fast. >> wow. how old were you when you started? how old are you now? >> 19. >> you started at what -- really -- at what age? >> i started at 18 months, but i don't remember that. >> your parents put a baby on the state board? >> it was either that or i was climbing on the roof. i liked anything dangerous. i still do today. >> maybe it didn't save your life. maybe it postponed the inevitable. >> made it better. >> then you started to skate in competition at what age? >> when i was 7. i won the first contest i ever entered and from that day on i wanted to skate. >> as is there any -- is there any 7-year-olds that will compete? >> yeah, the amateur skateboarding league, it brings out the best amateurs in california. in the world, actually. >> is it true when you were 6 years old tony hawk came to your birthday party? >> yeah. he did. he did. we sent him an e-

i mean, all the way to theodore roosevelt?> well, theodore roosevelt represented the united states at the state funeral for the king of england at the beginning of the 20th century. and during his funeral, you had all of the crowned heads of europe just before the outbreak of world war i. and it was there that theodore roosevelt privately came to the conclusion that war was coming, and of course he was right. >> he was. thomas whalen, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> you're welcome. >>> there's another incident involving americans being held in this case by iran. they were said to be hiking in the kurdish region of northern iraq four days ago when they apparently wandered across the border and then were arrested near the town of marivan by authorities. today, iranian television showed pictures of joshua fattal of oregon and shane bauer and sarah shourd. also from california. the television claimed that the case is being used as propaganda by western media. friends and family said the americans accidentally stumbl

dents to report off the wilson bridge. 66 looking good in each direction between manassas and the roosevelt bridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. -- no accidents to report off the wilson bridge. >>> fire inside a fire station at the boulevard heights station along alton street in maryland. the source, a fire truck. even bigger problem, when the firefighters called for backup, there wasn't anyone there. sarah simmons has more on the fire and concerns over staffing. >> reporter: the fire in the engine itself broke out at 2:00 a.m. here. you can see back here the door open. the engine was inside the station at the time when this occurred. when they realized they needed help, they call the capital heights station for backup. that wouldn't closest fire station but when they called, no one was there. that is because just this past weekend, sunday being the first day that staffing cuts went into effect for that station. they were operating on i volunteer basis an no one was there at the time. district heights is the station that actually responded to the call. just to give you an i

what we have, we have got to realize that it is america's best idea, the parks, monuments, wildlife refugees and think about what rooseveltalled the generation's unborn, these land areas are great heirlooms to future generations. >> doug brinkley, thanks so much for your thoughts this morning, we do appreciate it. >> we will be right back. >> that is our broadcast. bob schieffer will be back next sunday. thanks for watching face the nation. t captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org explain. oh yea, well for 6 months, customers get all three: fios tv, internet and phone for just $79.99 a month. oh, all right, see... you're just moving your fingers, aren't you? i gotta cut my nails. (announcer) now get three amazing fios services for the price of two. tv, internet, and phone for only... for the first 6 months. it all adds up to one incredible deal from fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v unlike cable, fios brings 100% fiber optics straight to your home, for razor sharp tv, america's top rated internet-- now even faster, and crystal c

he has this very personalized, rhetorically violent conflict with teddy roosevelt, part of the conflict that ford represented to republicans, that roosevelt represented at all the isolationist republicans represented a third way, a threat that many saw as bordering on some form of socialist pacifism. >> i was wondering about the did -- gendered division of labor in the factory and in the city's itself and also, unrelated question, a utopian communities outside the united states with megalomaniac leaders? >> there are a lot of different utopian -- jonestown comes to mind because it is the northern part of the amazon basin. there are others as well. american history is filled with these attempts to deal with, in some ways, the problem of expansion by trying to establish these utopian communities. that is one particular example of it. as far as the gender division of labor, it was meant in terms of the -- carved out the jungle. ford sent mostly men down in terms of administrators, he also sent families down, and one of the things that was interesting about it, the men ford sent down, wheth

i am seeking the very minimum of interference necessary to make them good. and roosevelt's secretary of war, the man responsible for the takeover of cuba in 1906 said the same thing directly to cubans. he presided of the university of havana. he gave a speech and said we are here only to help you with our arm under your arm lifting he you again on the path of wonderful progress. okay, fast forward to a more recent time, 1991. the soviet union just disappeared and a reporter yelled out a question while mr. bush was walking by in the rose garden. he said are you going to talk to fidel castro now that you have been successful with mikhail gorbachev and mr. bush paused, turned around and said what's the point? all i would tell him is what i am telling you, give the people the freedom they want and then see the united states do exactly as we should, go down and left those people up. president bush's immediate predecessor ronald reagan always said first before talking with him the cubans have got to kick out the russians but now the russians put on. the soviets were gone. what ha

same thing with the roosevelts, same thing with the loes and the tafts, as riard mentioned. joe kennedy, on the other hand, in the 1930s at the time he wa ambassador to loon, hehought seously about running for resident himself in 1940, finallyoncluded that the times had not changed enoh for an irish catholic to get ected. so en he said, you know, my son, jo, jr., natural candidate extravted, great looking, mart boy, i'm gog to begin buiing his career. joe was kild over the english chann in 1944 during world war ii. and e moment whic really solidifiedll this is, y know joeennedy's dreamhad been shattered. the ly person to take the up was jack kennedy who was back home from the war, 1945, he was sick, he was depressed, his father said "i can't get jck interested in anything." he was introverted. you know, theast time of person you would imagine, couldn't give a speec but joe ennedy said "you have to d ." jack kennedy said "i was drafted almost against my will. and so wt i'm saying is this dasty was really molded by one an's will. you know, one point that really sort ofakes it,

. >> absolutely, and you are absolutely right when you talk about the bushes and the roosevelts, and k you have to call the bushes a dynasty. what is different about the kennedys is they were all of one generation,ç and they had powe, money, looks,ç and glamour, so they made a more indelible impression on the nation that some of these other families have. shepard: did it just end? >> i think it did. we will be debating that, and, certainly, another young burt kennedy can rise from somewhere, but i see it as an end to an era -- another young kennedy can rise from thsomewhere. ethel's kids getting into trouble. we see caroline trying to be appointed to the senate and not making it, and we see his own son of struggling with drug abuse. we are not sure that this next generation has everything more needs to create a dynasty. shepard: for one thing, you'll have to have the support of the people, and my guess is that the kennedy family has its, and at some time, somebody might go, "hey, what about me?" >> i go back to the caroline kennedy story. she should have gotten that seat, and she co

. >>> president obama revealed the most comprehensive educational benefits since franklin roosevelt. the bill allows every eligible veteran, a service member, or national guard member to attend a public college or university for free. >>> the use of snail mail is slowing down. despite rate increases, the u.s. postal service is in the red for this year. it is proposing the closing or consolidation of hundreds of post offices. we have reaction for us. >> over the last few months the postal service has tried several things. they have talked about removing some of these drop boxes. they have raised the price of stamps. now they are considering is something more, closing their doors for good. this president considers her neighborhood post office a committed the staple. >> i do not think they should close this because they do not think about the old people and the people who come to this place for years and years. >> the postal service is thinking about its financial future. >> i can just e-mail somebody >> i recently started doing online bill pale because i wanted to make sure bills got pa

and four years later when the republicans tried that trick again, franklin roosevelt asked "can the old guard pass itself off as the new deal? i think not. we have all seen many marvelous stunts in the circus, but no performing elephant could turn a handspring without falling flat on its back." the 1980 republican convention was awash with crocodile tears for our economic distress, but it is by their long record and not their recent words that you shall know them. the same republicans who are talking about the crisis of unemployment have nominated a man who once said, and i quote, "unemployment insurance is a prepaid vacation plan for freeloaders." and that nominee is no friend of labor. the same republicans who are talking about the problems of the inner cities have nominated a man who said, and i quote, "i have included in my morning and evening prayers every day the prayer that the federal government not bail out new york." and that nominee is no friend of this city and our great urban centers across this nation. the same republicans who are talking about security for the elderly hav

close advisor charles hyde said that he does not think of himself primarily is the new patted yot. >> roosevelt endorsed madison grant the passing of at great race, a book that hitler referred to as his bible. what most textbooks before the nazis took power, germans lagged behind americans and europeans? eugenics. but the big flu pandemic turned doctors into social planners and they took the logic of public health to totalitarian extremes. they made the central policy goal, marriage, medicine and more. same year that hitler joined the nazi party. nazis rounded up elderly and mentally e.u. and exterminated them as bread gob lesser as life unworthy of life. it was being effectively written into the constitution. in a case in 1927, lawyers stood on the ground of massachusetts vaccination law to keep terry buck from reproducing. we know now she wasn't retard had. to add insult to injury, oliver wendell holmes three generations of imbeciles are enough. seven years later, hitler wrote to the american eugenics society to ask for a copy for case for sterilization which called for sterilization of some

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teddy was a classic liberal who would have been very comfortable with eleanor roosevelt or the rooseveltstruman in those days. as you say, a labor. >> a real labor guy and staunch supporter of the wage earner in this country. he did a lot to make people's lives better. >> part of it is being confident in your constituents. he knew he could get reelected in massachusetts. you know, it takes guys pretty secure in their constituency to be a leader. it's tough being harry reid! it's tough! you don't sometimes give credit to these guys. they represent districts that can swing just like that. they have to hit the middle of the road voter to win and need them. in massachusetts, you just need the democrats. >> but with democrats, if you're for the wage earner, you don't have to worry about reeke reelection. >> i worked for senators from utah, for example, frank moss who had a -- he got blown away by orrin hatch. if you're from a state not liberal, i don't care how pro liberal you are, you get beaten. >> what did it mean in president obama's campaign to get an endorsement and what reaction to this

the adams, the roosevelts, we could go on, but this is the only one where one man basically said, i'm going to set out in life to establish a dynasty of political figures who could become president. that was joe kennedy. and those ambitions finally fell on the fourth brother. >> george will was writing today, i think, that the adamses were really a greater political dynasty, if you look at the literary and political contributions of the adams as presidents and their other roles. yet, at the same time, ted kennedy's contributions in our century really were unparalleled. you can talk about clay, you can talk about webster. but within the senate, is this the greatest figure of his century in the senate? >> i think that's not a bit too much. especially because he had 47 years to do it. and, you know, you can compare him to the brothers. unfortunately, john kennedy only had two years, ten months as senate. bobby on only two months in the senate. but there are a lot of senators that serve a long time, but kennedy decided to make use of it. >> and as we sit here, eugene and michael, the fami

. >> host: now you also named the president roosevelt as a dictator. when we talk about the story of thi woman, it was not somebody that the president did not send him here and he did not understand american policy if it was diffent fromussia because it was the beginning of the demonstration and protesting and itas the wife of the ambassador that told the story they don't remember somewhere near the embassy with those parts and she went out she was angry. but of course, it was different but it was a little bit insulting i do understand it is different culture. we can turn to some other things now. maybe some more serious things about the relations between khrushchev and eisenhower. when we talk about this or the invitation it is really the white house t impose conditions if he will do this or this or this then we will invite him. but they did not understand khrushchev because he wanted to be treated as equal and if there were condions on him, he would never come and maybe we'll go deeply to a cold or so what is your feeling of all of these things justin

expensive money and were widening roads and filling potholes as opposed to what we did during the rooseveltnd eisenhower administration, building dams and power plants and major highways. the projects that we're building now i don't think will have long-term ramifications for the next generation. yet the next generation's going to be paying for it. >> keith, what do you say to that? wrong kind of spending, says the mayor. >> i think the mayor misunderstands the purpose of the spending and the purpose of the infrastructure and the purpose of the stimulus itself. remember where we were about 11 months ago, michelle, in september when hank paulson came to the u.s., to congress, and said we need $800 billion immediately or the entire financial system's going to collapse. what has happened since that time is that the stimulus was a second round of government infusion designed to stop what could have been a great depression. the stimulus was not designed to have a permanent impact forever and ever. but it was designed specifically over the course of the two-year period where we were most concerne

the book. how can you not put this on your shelf? you've got to put this up there. teddy roosevelt, what a great president, "wilderness warrior." join us again monday for more "hardball." right now it's time for "the ed show" with ed schultz. >>> i'm ed schultz. this is "the ed show." good evening. live from 30 rock in new york, it's "the ed show" on msnbc. i'm lawrence o'donnell in for ed schultz who's gone fishing this week. he'll be back next week. more town hall and one new york congressman may have found the way to beat the mobs. congressman anthony winger joins me in just a minute. >>> will the anti-reform campaign unite the democrats? rahm emanuel wants liberal groups to lay off the blue dogs. will they follow the white house marching orders? >>> and 44 years ago, lyndon johnson got government-run, single-payer health carapaced by a wide margin. what can president obama learn from lbj? i'll ask joseph califano, a top aide to president johnson, in "the playbook." plus "ed-lines." the latest twist in the florida senate race. >>> first, tonight's "op ed." the angry mobs at heal

the hour. reporting live, roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. >> thank you. >>> a look now at some of the other top stories we're working on. roll up your sleeves, trials begin for the h1n1 swine flu vaccine across the country today. health officials at the university of maryland school of medicine are taking part in those tests. young adults and senior citizen volunteers will get the vaccine first. if it's found to be safe the vaccine will then be tested on children. >>> keep it here on abc2 because this morning "good morning america" will be live at the university of maryland school of medicine for the beginning of today's trials for h1n1 vaccine. >>> in new york divers return to the murky waters of the hudson river hoping to find the last two bodies from a fatal crash that killed nine people. officials say members of a pennsylvania family and tourists from italy were all killed when a helicopter and small plane collided mid-air. >>> south carolina governor mark sanford is back in the headlines this morning. an associated press investigation found that sanford used state aircraft for personal and

and then after 1900, you know, in the roosevelt, munro doctrine and all this, it goes on and on and on. when was the last time we invaded a latin untry was in 1980? panama? and then you wonder why a politician can score points with crowds in south america by claiming to stand up to the damn yankees. there is this heritage of there. i don't know if this country will ever be able to overcome this fear and suspicion, considering that the war was bad enough what went on for the next 150 years. you know, an old world power politics termed the united states is the natural hegemon of the western hemisphere. it is the most powerful economically, militarily. but you don't have to act like. and in the long run it's a losing thing. the sun has set on the british empire, for instance. >> what would be your view of the intercontinental north to south road -- >> everything i know about that, there's some misbegotten highway structure construction projects that will probably never get off the ne. >> would you say it's so embedded and not to be forgotten by the south or mexico? i don't ever see harmon

the opposition be damned. that's something that happened with roosevelt. h social security, he was being battered from the republicans and from within his own party and he said, i'm drawing a line. i will not sign legislation that does not have the core values of what this is all about, and at the end of the day social security didn't pass because congress wanted it. it's because roosevelt forced it and demanded it. that's what obama has to do and we should point out that there may be a new fire lit under the base in this country because all of the protests are not antireform. for instance, robert wexler down in florida. >> right. >> supporters including a marching band showed up at congressman robert wexler's town hall in florida. so are the positive forces, have they been reignited and are we headed for a march on washington? what do you think? >> you can never underrate the appearance of the tuba, ed. when the tuba comes in you know you're talking serious business. here is the thing. at the end of the day, the public option has to be on the table and it

, father of the park system. roosevelta famous visit to the grand canyon in 1903. even back then the president was pleading for its preservation. but historians say obama's challenges today are far more complex. >> we now have an obama administration that's going to have to deal with climate conservation. how do you create new wildlife corridor, how do wstart using public land for solar panel farms, different uses of public lands. >> reporter: it's a complicated task list but if obama's going to make a lasting mark on the national park system, he will have to take the long view. rachel martin, abc news, phoenix, arizona. >> hard to believe these parks are hurting for funding considering how many people consider this the routine family vacation. there's a separate group that supplements the budget, the memorial society. they more or less take donations from mt. rushmore national memorial. >> some don't charge admission. the actual exhibit, the mountain is free. so we -- >> maybe if they changed it a little. >> maybe if they

it's not known how the cash will be divided between the two facilities. roosevelt leftwich, abc 2 news. >> thanks, rosy. >>> 25,000 temporary foreign workers will be allowed into the united states, and that's good news for maryland's crab industry. the program was capped at 66,000 visas a year. and many crab processing facilities on the eastern shore had their applications for immigrant workers denied. the workers, all women, mostly from mexico, will spend months each year in eastern shore plants picking meat from local blue crabs. they work under a special visa program for seasonal industries call h2b. >>> now for a look at tonight's top stories. a bicyclist killed in baltimore this week is raising concern cans about safety. the accident happened on tuesday at the corner of maryland avenue and west laugh yet. john yates was killed when police say he clipped the back wheel of a box truck. the city just released a resource guide with maps and bike trails and tips to keep cyclists safe. police are still looking for the driver of that truck that hit yates. >>> a $2 bi