william jennings randolph was a member of congress during the roosevelt administration. tennessee valley authority was a product of the new deal. it was not doling out money here and there. it was the planning of an area in the united states where there would be a development. hydroelectric power was a part of it. the plan to provide economic development to the appalachian region began with the construction of the norris dam on the clinch river. the tva plan was ambitious. the regional economies could be improved if the waters were made navigible. the tva constructed housing, began a malaria control project, worked on agricultural development, and provided electrical power to this depressed region. some thought the government was going too far. along with the utilities, others who feared economic loss joined in the opposition. coal miners feared hydroelectric power would reduce the demand for coal. the coal operators of west virginia came to washington, d.c. they were very angry at me because i was an open supporter of the legislation to create the tennessee valley author

pretty bitter because he took the blame, the politicians in washington created it -- the roosevelt administration created a commission and asked congress to investigate what happened at pearl harbor and who is to blame and the roosevelt administration had complete control of this blue ribbon commission and roosevelt simply asked the house and senate, they complied. and somebody has to be blamed and it felt to walter short who is head of the army at the hawaiian islands in january of 1942 and husband kimmel even though the navy has done a number of studies and reports afterwards to complete the -- i have one of them here, exonerate these two men and our own government, the military code, and the u.s. embassy in washington going to the white house and the war department but it wasn't going to kimmel or short or any of our overseas commanders but macarthur has the advantage because he had been told by every means possible, short wave radio, telegrams, wire services radio, all these other installations have been hit and yet he does nothing. macarthur was a political legacy, his father won the congres

the roosevelt administration had complete control of this blue ribbon commission. and roosevelt simply asked the house and senate not to initiate their own investigations, and they complied. and, you know, it is that in politics when something goes bad, somebody's got to be blamed. and it fell to walter short who was head of the army at the hawaiian islands who was also out by january of 1942 and husband kimmel. even though the navy has done a number of studies and reports afterwards that completely exonerate -- i have one of them here -- completely exonerate these two men. and as a matter of fact, our own government handcuffed them because we had not yet intercepted the japanese military code, but we had intercepted the diplomatic code. and yet the material we were getting that was coming into the u.s. embassy in washington was going to the white house and the war department, but it wasn't going to kimmel, and it wasn't going to short or my of our other over-- any of our other overseas commanders. but macarthur still has the advantage because he's been told, you kn

. >> host: the roosevelt administration tempted a newspaper to write a good article about them with bribes. i am sorry this never happened to me. >> guest: you need to live in the 1930's and 1940's. >> host: in the purchase of a $10,000 mink coat. in 2014, a $10,000 mink coat is expensive. in 1939, that is 2-3 times the average householiday income? >> guest: yes, you are talking over a 100,000. >> hoover says we will not need to use the committee very often and it will probably only need to be around two years. >> guest: correct. >> host: reagan would say nothing touches like the government. and now the small business instruction is the most corrupt and rent seeking self serving organization in the united states government. certainly in the top ten list. >> guest: sure. >> host: but we have seen the tarp authority during the housing meltdown which was supposed to last for a little while. we only just now gotten disinvolved from the general motors case in which the united states was a large shareholder and took a $10 billion loss on that during a time of leaving 13 people dead as a result o

roosevelt loved the navy. macarthur hated the navy. roosevelt was a progressive politician. macarthur was most comfortable in the hoover administration. roosevelt shaped the policy approach governing america that took into account those who have the least and needed the most help. macarthur believed everyone could lift themselves up by their bootstraps. there were no two different men in american history that serve at the same time, and yet oddly and strangely, while they were political enemies they became weary, but good friends. roosevelt decided when he became president despite macarthur's reputation, to keep macarthur on as army chief of staff. in my previous talks, a man stopped me and said, you know, i don't like macarthur but i really like your title. so i thought that i would explain then where i got the title "the most dangerous man in america" as a way to explain the roosevelt-macarthur relationship. remember the 19th or two in the midst of a terrible depression, a group of world war i veterans organized this is national and came to washington to lobby for the early payment of the world war i bonus. this was the bonus army.

roosevelt loved the navy. he wanted nothing to do with the navy. roosevelt was a progressive politician. macarthur was most comfortable in the hoover administration. he shaped the policy approach to governing america taking into account those that needed the most help. macarthur believed everybody could lift themselves up by their bootstraps. they did not serve at the same time while political enemies they became wary but good friends. in roosevelt decided when he became president despite macarthur's reputation to keep him on as army chief of staff. as he was walking up the aisle to give the talk the man stopped me and said i'd like macarthur but i really like the title. so i thought i would explain that. where i got the title "the most dangerous man in america" has so way to explain the roosevelt macarthur relationship. remember 1932 in the midst of a terrible depression during the hoover administration and a group of world war war veterans organize themselves to lobby for their bonus this was the bonus army. they camped out to lobby congress very peaceful the profits of lazy and set up a camp for these were the families that were the poorest of

subsidies their effect is disastrous. >> host: i was particularly interested to know that the roosevelt administration tend to use the subsidized loans to bribe newspaper editors to write nice things about them. i'm sorry to say my career as a newspaper man i've never been offered such a thing. the other active i thought -- >> guest: the 30s and 40s. >> host: there is more scope for my particular talent but in the purchase of we have seems similarly enough last couple of years we have the tarp authority during the housing meltdown which was only supposed to last for a little while. we have only just now gotten ourselves disembowel from the case of general motors in which the united states government was a large shareholder to the 10 billion-dollar loss on that during a time in which what appears to be negligence and malfeasance has left 13 people dead as a consequence of faulty ignition switches in the gm products. there will always be the question about maybe that wasn't investigated as aggressively as it should have by the united states government. a case of the rfc later the sba, what hope is there

the british had to convince the americans and lord haley found a way to convince the roosevelt administrationto go along with the technocratic approaches because they we were doing the same to the african-americans in the south. roosevelt had lunch with a black leader named bunch and she said roosevelt needs to vote of white segregation to be reelected can you postpone your challenge and the new deal offers technical solutions to the black poverty in the united states. so thinking of that parallel helps us think about this debate. fdr went along because they saw the parallel between colonialism and their black treatment. material solutions to black poverty but not the right to end segregation or to vote. and after the end of colonialism, one thing you need to know, was the end of colonialism wasn't anticipated by anyone. it was a surprise it collapsed 15 years later. there were statements that the british expected their empire in african to endure for generations if not centuries. this was indefinite justification for the empire. after they collapsed, new parties found justification for autho

republican party over the size of the government, an argument that has existed since the teddy roosevelt administration. this program is just under 45 minutes. [laughter] >> thank you, john, and thank heritage foundation and thank heritage foundation's president, jim demint, for this opportunity. senator demint was my choice and i knew that jim[ó was goino be president, i just didn't know he was going to be president of the heritage foundation. [laughter] and the heritage foundation, conservative movement, america is very fortunate to have jim demint as its president. >> i think it's been to our detriment, that's why i wrote the book, "takeover." the subtitle of the bill is $100-year war for the soul of the gop and how conservatives can finally win it. and i should say that, i jokingly refer to myself as 003. means i've been active at the national level, the conservative movement, longer than every living conservative except two others. 001 is the fist lady of the conservative -- fist lady of the conservative movement, phyllis schlafly, and 002 is dr. edwards. so i've been at the front lines of this m

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we did between the roosevelt reagan administration was also the period with the lowest levels of economic inequality you'll also notice that since the marginal tax rate started to plummet inequality started to explode even more striking during those same thirty three years since reagan took office and started cutting taxes on the rich income levels for the top one percent have exploded while income levels for everyone else pretty much stayed flat coincidence i think not. creating a middle class is always a choice in my embracing of reaganomics and cutting taxes on the rich we decided back in one thousand nine hundred not to have a middle class within a generation or two george herbert walker bush saw it and in one nine hundred eighty correctly called it voodoo economics and we are still in that era of economics of reaganomics as president obama recently pointed out reagan was a successful revolutionary this of course is exactly what conservatives always push for when wealth is spread more equally among all parts of society people start to expect more from society and start demanding more

the way. >> seth: great. because you're turning 49 next year, right? [ laughter ] >> actually i think that was during coolidge administration. when i turned 49. [ laughter ] >> seth: so what would you have -- >> teddy rooseveltation do differently? like how do you deal with someone -- >> right now, i'd be giving them some weapons with which to defend themselves. i would be taking other measures, such as giving them money that they need to get their economy back on track. we should be saying if they want to, they can be members of the european union. there's so many -- we're the strongest and most powerful and best nation in the world. [ cheers and applause ] and we can make him pay a price so that he is not guilty of these kinds of aggression. and we just had to be strong and steadfast. and if we aren't, then he will continue to kind of take advantage of us. we're not going to have world war iii. we're not gonna go back to the cold war, but we are going to have a very aggressive vladimir putin. >> seth: as someone with guns, just domestically, i would prefer the idea of more background checks when an american wants a gun. so it seems very -- i'm always scared about just sending guns to a place where we don't

adversely rewarded by the export import bank the obama administration, so the politics become very unfortunate. starting with hoover, continuing through roosevelt. the many you see these subsidies come into play in a big way the political aspect of this becomes absolutely all-important. the politicians on top of it. very rarely can you cite one of these programs that successfully benefited the united states economic development. >> host: you look at ge specifically. a look at their corporate income statements coming is a difficult to think of them as private companies when you look at where their revenue actually comes from, what the profit centers are what they remind me of, mussolini economic model. firms that are nominally private . but subsidize / controlled by the government any idea of doing so can add to the public interest. even of the public did a bad joke in the airplane off the ground essentially to this day it's an extension of what we used to call the war department the department of defense and homeland security and all arrest of it. so -- doesn't even make sense to talk let these companies as though they are normal, private firms

the american domestic scene was full of intense recrimination and scapegoating about who was at fault for this or that calamity. our policies have changed from administration to administration. truman thought that roosevelt was on the wrong track. eisenhower thought truman was on the wrong track. ronald reagan thought the last three presidents before him had been losing the cold war, and this pattern has continued. to me, that makes the past much more like the present. we're able to see our controversies about syria and ukraine in a more meaningful historical context if we understand what a myth the past was. i should say that i wanted to make this argument with as much vividness as i could in the book with color and drama and lively stories. i assured an audience last week in california there was plenty of presidential profanity in the book. [laughter] and a woman came up to me afterwards and said, it was that presidential profanity line that head me want to buy this. [laughter] so there are many different tastes. i felt in the course of writing it that perhaps i'd gone too far when my editor called me up and said why is the prime minister of great britain with always bursting into tears on the phone wi

the report. >> i would say in historic roosevelt room in the west wing of white house, i sat down with president obama's top advisors on climate change. we discussed the administration's brand new national climate assessment, one of the most comprehensive looks ever at the hard facts about climate change. the head of the environmental protection agency tells me we're seeing those impacts now. >> it's that climate change is no more about modelling future impacts. it's really here, and it's now, and weir living with it. >> for the bay area, that means concerns about rising sea levels, more wild fires, and more frequent droughts. white house officials tell me this climate report will give california communities the information they need to plan ahead for the future. >> so i'm going to make a ten-year investment or 50-year investment, how careful do i want to be in making sure that investment will be viable through its entire lifetime. >> one controversial move the white house is making will come next month. new regulations for all power plants nationwide. >> it's by far our biggest source of carbon pollution, about 40% is being emitted from the power sector. >> i'm meteo

the largest public works projects this country has ever seen. seventy-nine years ago today, then-president franklin d. roosevelt signed an executive works progress administration or wpa. it was a major component of the new deal, fdr's massive response to the great depression then crippling america's economy. in 1935, unemployment stood at 20 percent. the wpa put millions to work on massive public projects, building roads, bridges and dams. the massive infrastucture build cost 10 billion dollars - a huge amount of money equal to 172 billion in today's dollars. when the wpa was retired a few years later in 1943, almost nine million americans had done some sort of work through the program. it helped provide support to more than a quarter of america's families during the worst of economic times. in the end though, it wasn't the new deal and programs like the wpa that helped lift the country out of the depression, it was world war ii. even so, the wpa's legacy is still with us all these years later: 650,000 miles of roads built or paved; 78,000 bridges; 16,000 miles of water mains; and 24,000 sewage facilities installed - all across america. and that's the problem

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through the corruption in the grant administration that led to the pendleton act in 1883, the corruption involving outside corporate influence on president theodore roosevelt that led to the town and act in 1907, the teapot dome scandal that resulted in the federal corrupt practices act of 1925, the abuse of federal employees that led in 1938 to the passage of the hatch act, the taft-hartley act in 1947, the watergate scandal spurring the federal law election campaign act of 1974 which was revised, of course, by buckley, and on through the abuses of soft money and other ways that brought about the federal election campaign reform -- bipartisan campaign reform act of 2002. it was scandals that led to corruption that led to change. all of-focus was turned on its head by citizens united prod has a very narrow has applied decision and brought down to basically take away almost all of those protections, at least going back to 1907 and then to mccutcheon. i want to make a couple of broad points, particularly about mccutcheon. spite's of the other focal points, but has alarmed me the most about the mccutcheon decision was justice roberts basically taking corrupti

administration lie and lie and lie repeatedly. in the final year of world war ii, franklin roosevelt ordered a blessing by john adams carved on the fireplace in the state dining room that can be seen today. it says this. i pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that should hereafter inhabit it. none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. today in america a dishonest man rules under the roof of the white house and john adams has got to be spinning in his grave. jay and former clinton special counsel davis. good to see you. >> hi, sean. >> hi, sean. >> we went round and round about whether they were alone and depends, we have been told a series of lies here and we can prove them. i'm asking you as a democrat, in light of what john adams wrote his wife that day in 1800, does any of this bother you? does any of this you find difficult to swallow, jay carney's propaganda? >> i don't share your belief, you're entitled to your belief -- >> they are called facts. >> got to let me finish. >> it's a fact. >> are you going to let me finish. >> go ahead. >> you had plenty of time in your opening. i don'

as we went through the corruption in the grant administration that led to the pendleton act in 1883, the corruption involving corporate influence on president roosevelt that led to the tillman act in 1907, the teapot dome scandal that resulted in the federal corrupt practices act of 1925, the abuse of federal employees that led in 1938 to the passage of the hatch act. the taft-hartley act in 1947, the watergate scandal, spurring the federal election campaign act of 1974, that was revised by buckley. and on through the abuses of soft money and other ways that brought about the federal election campaign reform, the bipartisan campaign reform act of 2002. it was scandals that led to corruption that led to change. all of the focus was turned on its head by citizens united. brought as a very narrow as applied decision and then broadened out to basically take away all of those protections, at least going back to 1907. and then to mccutcheon. i want to make a couple broad points. particularly about mccutcheon. despite some of the other focal points, what has alarmed me the most about the mccutcheon decision was justice roberts basically now taking corruptio

roosevelt. many on the left want to t dismantle the entire corporate system. and we are seeing the se consequences of that in thences obama administrationering his sixth yearar in office, the president hasent not been a friend tote corporate america. he advocates high taxes topa pay for an entitlement culture. business knows that and has not expanded, preferring to hoard profits or keep themse overseas where theyas cannot be taxed. that's why the job situation and income for working americans is stagnant.good for every good job available, there are plenty of applicants, therefore, salaries are suppressed. the government can provide well-paying jobs on a mass scale. it cannot. and every country that has tried that has failed. 90 miles off the coast of florida look what happen in cuba. that should be affluent country but communism has killed the country. hillary clinton must fight zealot tri on the left. she will defeat it she will get the nomination and mrs. clinton will run as a moderate democrat promising to reform some of president obama's ante business policies. that's what she will do. and that's the memo. now for the top story toni

roosevelt who had walking, his legs supported by braces. this is the 1937 major league baseball game. >> fdr did not like people to see his disability. his administrationsome mention and some images of fdr struggling to walk. there was a story back in 1936, editor and publisher of the reporter taking a picture of fdr struggling to get out of his car and the secret service running over and ripping the film out of his camera. as you know, the resolute desk, the famous desk used by every president since rutherford b. hayes, fdr didn't like the knee hole there because it showed his braces. it showed his leg braces, so he had a panel installed although i think he died before that panel was installed. but in any case, he was very sensitive. that's why images like these are so rare. >> so rare. i'm so impressed because you're a knower of all things on presidential politics. thanks for having me. nice addition. like it. >> you're welcome to come any time. we have water. water and mugs. >> we'll see you at the top of the hour. >>> and coming up next political debates. they are fiery and argumentative. the only way to describe the governor's race in idaho is jus

the u.s. senate fighting teddy roosevelt's an enormous reforms. twenty-six presidents. and here she was alive and to the force second presidency, still alive during the obama administrationas hard to believe. well, where was she? it turns out that she was in a hospital in new york city living at beth israel medical center, had been first and one osbourne, then another, living in a single room, i standard, ordinary, symbol of the room with your chief paneling and a trillion know, bathroom and television. and by that time she died in 2011 she had lived in the hospital for 7,364 nights, 20 years in two months. while her monet painting, waterlilies and three when renoir and tear stradivarius violins were over in the fifth avenue apartment she was living in acquire hospital number. maybe you can see, this is the view from our room. the air-conditioning unit is outside. there's the view this should give up and the view that she got. so all of this raise a lot of questions for me. now, we did a story and nbc news website which was then called m.s. in the c dot com. we did a report about why aren't these empty mansion sent to? what happened to the owners? and we were astonished

republican party over the size of the government, an argument that has existed since the teddy roosevelt administration. this program is just under 45 minutes. [laughter] >> thank you, john, and thank heritage foundation and thank heritage foundation's president, jim demint, for this opportunity. senator demint was my choice and i knew that jim[ó was goino be president, i just didn't know heas