elizabeth each month, the white house -- roosevelts valley taking the -- classed roosevelt with lincoln whose love for his fellow man has been something akin to the divine. here's a way for whom the employer is a hero. that's the. news the bigger news is the white house club doing a slow job as a campaign speaker. mrs. mike duffy was cheered in chicago, st. louis, and indiana. she went out to make one. speech did make. three could have made 24 more before returning to washington to cook the presidents meals. so she went to a lot of cities that had a large african american voting constituency. campaigned for the president. in my view, the federal hatch act was in place, but for whatever reason nobody tried to prosecute her on that. but she made such a difference that after the election was over, president roosevelt actually calls her to the oval office and thanks for personally for what he did for them. so it just shows you the kind of relationship that they had. there was a movie executive dining at the white house and he took one look at her, does anyone want to guess what movie that w

and the friend said, what about the tenners, to which roosevelt replied, -- so you get the idea. >> what then was this progressive movement about under roosevelt? so let's look first its was domestic. the thing to remember as i talk about these different elements for this domestic program, the important thing to bear in mind is that they were path breaking. they constituted such a dramatic break h6ñwith the american pass. particularly in terms of government regulation. i really used to ask my students. at this point, how big a role that the united states government play in the daily lives of americans at that time? why did the federal government to? the most frequent answer was and this is true. not the federal government was responsible for national security military. that is true. but that did not affect people on an everyday basis. how did the american average come into contact with the federal government? for this year, before roosevelt? the good answers, gotta deliver the mail. postal service. but aside from that there was not much interference from the federal government and the da

in the roosevelt legacy and francis perkins. i'll let chris introduce the rest of the panelists. i would like to say there's a small family, a committed family of roosevelters. i'm fairly

in the roosevelt legacy and francis perkins. i'll let chris introduce the rest of the panelists. i would like to say there's a small family, a committed family of roosevelters. i'm fairly new to it. i'm a newbie in this world. i've been welcomed very warmly and i appreciate that. but there are a few who have been more dedicated and thoughtful in their writings. please welcome chris breiseth. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you, paul sparrow. we've all come to count on the new deal safety net to remain security, but in a time when much that had seemed secure is coming unstuck, we need to remind ourselves of what that new deal legacy is and how it came about in the first place. understanding its history is crucial to preserving it. the impact of disregarding our history, the disease we are painfully aware has afflicted us at the highest levels, can seriously undermine the foundations of the new deal programs, as other institutions that were created out of earlier challenging circumstances in which now seem to be threatened. we're

the reason they were so popular and so media. effective was rooseveltas the in fact, roosevelt in the first president in the age of editorial cartoons, the reason they were so popular and so effective was roosevelt was the first president in the age of the modern mass newspaper, the the modern mass newspaper, the penny press, technological penny press, technological development in the printing development in the printing industry that made it possible for newspapers to be printed industry that made it possible for newspapers to be printed and sold for a penny. and sold for a penny. newspapers in the middle of newspapers in the middle of the 19th century war expensive the 19th century war expensive magazines. ordinary people did not read newspapers. magazines. ordinary people did not read newspapers. you needed a certain threshold of income. by the beginning of the 20th century, everyone could read newspapers, and this you needed a certain threshold of income. by the beginning of the 20th century, everyone could read newspapers, and this contributes to t

the people. for you rather than you lose? okay, president franklin roosevelt. you are famed for your incredible and informative radio broadcast to the american public. what was the goal behind your implementing these incredible and very unforgettable fireside chats? well in the beginning our first fireside chat occurred eight days into my first turn and the united states. facing economic collapse the banking system at all but failed. and so we put through a series of reforms with the congress to put banks on a holiday the shut them down for a few days why they were able to reorganize. and then to eventually add what is now known as fdic federal deposit insurance corporation to guarantee those. i thought it was important that the american public should know what was going on. and so i went on the radio on march 12th. ten o'clock eastern time on nbc and i started by saying. my friends tonight i wish to speak to you about banking. the next 17 minutes i spoke about how our banks worked. why people needed to keep their money in the banks? and apparently the speech wa

in 1937, the art gave roosevelt -- the court gave roosevelt a key victory. by a vote of 5-4, they took the view congress had the power to regulate labor relations. justice roberts was considered to have provided the swing vote. that case was soon seen as standing for a major change in the court's general jurisprudential approach. instead of finding economic reform legislation unconstitutional, it would deter brent -- would interpret the constitution as granting the government far more constitutional leeway to enact legislation. this shift in the jurisprudence, the end of the walker era, coupled with one justice's retirement at the end of 1937, put an end to roosevelt's judicial reform bill. it no longer seemed necessary. scholars disagree as to what caused the justices to change course. was it a switching time? was it calculated to avoid roosevelt's court packing plan? or was it simply the coming to fruition of an internal, long-standing jurisprudential debate among the justices, a debate that originated and continued long before the court packing threat? may

the other is douglas macarthur. and roosevelt who would become president march of 1933 went on to to explain and i quote here. far beneath the surface of american life given the stress of economic collapse in the threat of public disorder. he felt there was a latent sense that democracy had run its course that the totalitarians had a point that some measure of liberty would have to be sacrificed to strong leadership. all there was lacking was a familiar figure of the man on horseback. a symbol for the fascist minded among americans to rally around and who better qualify for this role? who came better equipped with charm tradition and majestic appearance than douglas macarthur? we must tame these fellows said roosevelt and make them useful to us. and of course this came for the man who would become president in march of 33 and be president for 12 years. now macarthur retired as chief of staff of the army in 1935 he stayed in the army, but he was sent by the president and it was roosevelt by this time to the philippines. to essenti

during the roosevelt administration, 55 acres became the new home of whatever regionally had been the hygienics laboratory. >> the national institute of health 16 universal language of humanitarianism. and 90 >> in 1930, the laboratories name had been changed to the national institute of health. the move prepared the nih for its period of rapid growth in the post war years. 1941 saw the country's entry into world war ii public health service officers served in several different branches of the armed forces. many were signed to the coast guard and did everything from making see bourne households while on convoy patrol supporting amphibious landings perhaps one of the most fundamental changes brought about by the war was in nursing. the strain of the war on how countries health care system made it clear that something had to be done to increase the supply of nurses the answer was the kodak nurse corps, which was ford formed to meet and they need. their nursery schools had received a free education. we were paid a salary by the peaches and we're obligated to perform military or federal s

the vanderbilts, the roosevelts, the rockefellers. a lot of celebrities, caroline burke. we did hear. a lot of rioters got divorced here. so it was really something where people from every walk of life, from the most famous to people who just really needed to get a divorce and get out of the marriage came here. the process for divorce was very formal. it was taken very seriously here. because they knew that people were counting on this divorce being final and being recognized in other states. so the process was very straightforward. someone would arrive and they would meet with their attorney right away. they'd have to hire an attorney. the spouse who did not come would have to have an attorney in their stead, appearing on their behalf. but the person who was staying here and establishing residency would then have to stay in a place where he witnessed could testify that they had seen them every single day of that period, that they hadn't left the state, you know, they had been here the whole duration. and then when that period was up, which you know, when it was at its fa

the second of the presidential libraries after the franklin roosevelt library. nd so he goes to a school, he takes a field trip to the truman library. and my friend gray, he's a third grader. and they're all tripping out of the bus to go into the library and who should they see? but former president harry truman who lived adjust several blocks from the library, had an office in the lab run every morning he'd get up and he'd walk to the library. and he would talk with the people on the way, he did and he would talk to people. so he started chatting up this group of third graders. i said hello kitties. so when you know about history? and what do you know about politics? truman, the last president not to have a college degree, but he prodded himself on the knowledge because he relative so he was quitting the case. he loved to show off how much she knew to demonstrate that he knew more than a third grader. so my friend greg still just shakes his head puzzled with this. so greg says, the president stopped and he said ok kids, i've got a question for you. now you proba

the corpse at every funeral. and so this is theodore roosevelt. the odd thing is, maybe this isn't so odd given that sort of personality, but roosevelt, roosevelt could not appreciate jokes told at his expense. he never -- i mean, roosevelt himself didn't tell jokes. but most presidents eventually would get to the point where they would learn to laugh when people made jokes about them because that was the easiest way of dealing with it. roosevelt had to train himself to do this. there was one moment when roosevelt -- theodore roosevelt considered his most important accomplishment as president to be getting the panama canal under construction. this was his contribution to world history, he said. to get it going, roosevelt eventually had to foment a revolution in panama to break panama free of colombia. under international law or even ordinary codes of ethics, it was highly problematic. but roosevelt convened a cabinet session to basically convince everybody in the cabinet that he had done the right thing. so after he gave this long explanation as to

i'm speaking to you today from the roosevelt treaty room in the white house.e same spot where in october of 2001, president george w. bush informed our nation that the united states military had begun strikes on terrorist training camps in afghanistan. it was just weeks, weeks after the terrorist attack on our

i'm speaking to you today from the roosevelt treaty room in the white house. the same spot where in october of 2001, president george w. bush informed our nation that the united states military had begun strikes on terrorist training camps in afghanistan. it was just weeks, weeks after the terrorist attack on our nation that killed 2970 seven innocent souls, that turned lower manhattan into a disaster area, destroyed parts of the pentagon, and made hallowed ground of a field in shanksville, pennsylvania. promise that it sparked an american promise that we would never forget. we went to afghanistan in 2001 to root out al qaeda, to prevent future terrorist attacks planned from afghanistan. the objective was clear, the cause was just. supported that military action along with overwhelming majority of the members of congress. more than seven years later, in 2008, weeks before we swore the oath of office, president obama and i were about to swear, president obama asked me to travel to afghanistan and report back on the state of the war in afghanistan. i flew to afg

can you describe the roosevelt's thought processes leading to the roundup of japanese american citizens made perhaps this isn't as finest hour. i wonder what your thoughts are on that. well, you know, it wasn't like roosevelt did that all by himself and is as you saw in the film there was a lot of propaganda even dr. seuss did a lot of propaganda against asian americans japanese americans in particular. there was a huge economic issue at stake here. i mean, my grandparents owned 14.25 acres or owned 14.25 acres in san jose and they were very successful farmers like other japanese americans, so there was a lot of competition from the food food growers associations and other economic interests. also the media is you know today plays a big role in terms of creating false narratives and the news had a lot to do with it. newspapers and the reporters so it was very easy in my mind for for roosevelt to slip into this mindset, but from my research it was clear that president roosevelt was a racist he had many racist feelings against japanese americans. i think a lot of times a lot of that is no

more information was established in 1942 by the roosevelt administration and was basically a propaganda effort. limited time to get into the legal residents and he said they did it because you split it into. franklin roosevelt knew that if he wanted to actually turn american public opinion into supporting the war and even more so in supporting our soviet allies during the war he was going to need to use that would . lead a lot of what has got to davis cup one of the classes. for family always a. little door they need to. do is cheat is the new feeling. and. i think. sometimes the officer for information commission how they would musical comedies like this is the army which were intended to increase the prestige of military service and raise the morale of soldiers fighting overseas one of the roles in that film was played by a young actor named ronald reagan the future president of the united states. i've missed you too plenty. something i'd like to explain. but there were other orders that weren't so benevolent in 1902 after pearl harbor president roosevelt ordered the forced relocation

the united states. i've missed you too plenty. to explain. that there were other orders that weren't so benevolent in 1902 after pearl harbor president roosevelt ordered the forced relocation of 120000 japanese people from the west coast of the united states is hard to believe but in those years japanese americans were simply put in buses and sent to specially created internment camps in the u.s. territory the office of for information was staffed with providing media to support this monstrous initiative. japanese fishermen had every opportunity to watch the movement of our ships. japanese farmers were living close to. the propaganda that the japanese really are going to be act on behalf of the japanese government has sabotaged the war effort and put arsenic in american food and blow up the defense so that it was none of that but the office of war information produced various documentaries defending this practice. but the office issued very different instructions concerning the u.s.s.r. the soviet union was to be portrayed as a friend of them. eric in distress. in the north star in the soviet presence peaceful life is interrupted by the not se

then in 1937, the court gave roosevelt a key victory. by a vote of 5-4 he took view that congress did have the power to regulate labor relations justice roberts was considered to provided the key swing vote. that case jones and laughlin steelere versus national seen as standing for major change in the court'sing general prudential approach instead of finding economic reform legislation unconstitutional which it done during the era it would interpret constitution as graduating the government far more constitutional leeway to enact economic and social legislation. this shift in jurors -- functional in the theory coupled with justice retirement at the end of 1937 put an end to roosevelt judicial reform bill no more court packing no longer seemed neglection. now, scholars disagree as just what caused the justices to change course. was it, oh some cl in time? that saved -- was it calculated avoid the the court packing plan or internal long standing prudential debate that originated continued long before appearance of the court packing threat?

. >> after the death of mckinley, teddy roosevelt became president. d by making him vice president they would not hear from him and here he was, president. he was a strong conservationist. >> roosevelt had long been interested in conservation issues and nature was the world he loved most. when roosevelt comes into office it was as if god had sent manna. how many chiefs of agencies are close friends with the president of the united states? that helped pinchot enormous lay. he spoke -- enormously. he spoke in his own name but everyone knew who stood behind him. narrator: although both men were born into wealth they distrusted business tycoons leaving with profits from the nations national resources. >> conservation was well advanced by the time teddy roosevelt became president of the united states. but teddy roosevelt finalized it with a vengeance. narrator: roosevelt worked to get forest reserves out of the general land office and under the supervision of gifford pinchot. >> gifford pinchot hated the general land office and the interior apartment and th

spring thousands of people visit the washington dc tidal basin to see the cherry blossoms memorials to thomas jefferson franklin d roosevelt and martin luther king jr. stand on its banks the tidal basin started as an engineering project but is also served as a swimming hole a protest ground and the scene of a political scandal. mike litterst national mall and memorial parks communications chief met us on site to talk about the area's history and famous japanese cherry trees. we are at the end of the tidal basin in washington dc home to the world famous cherry trees which blossom every spring well known to washingtonians people across the country and in fact people across the world, but had you been here before about 1890 or so, we would be in the middle of the potomac river this area has evolved over the years. there's always been an element of recreation around the tidal basin but with the passing of time recreation has become much more important than it initially was now as early as 1890 there was an established swimming area around what we know today is the tidal basin with the planting of the cherry trees originally in

. >> i want to stay with the roosevelt for just a second ago they were an office for such a long time. the longest number of years for the easter egg roll. what were those particular things, they had lots of kids. >> it was a good time. fdr was not known to make too big of an appearance because he was concealing his disability. but eleanor roosevelt was there, she was very much the leader of the easter egg roll during that time. she's the first lady or president to speak live directly from the easter egg roll on the radio. and usually the weather was very good. there was one year where was not so good. it was unnaturally very cold and only about 5000 kids showed up, which is really tiny for something like this. and she more or less discouraged -- encourage everyone to run around, have fun and stay warm. >> talking about presidents and more, tell me -- war, tell me what happened during the bush administration when the iraq war was going on? >> the president and first lady had a great idea that in order to remind everyone that even on the happiest occasions, we need to remind our active

the stuff keeps rolling out. >> westerners also complained about the amount of land that the roosevelt administer ration was withdrawing from the public domain. congress then passed a law that said that the president no longer could simply delineate land and said that was going to be a national force. they put this in a spending bill. >> the president had 10 days to sign the bill. >> there was a set of days where pinchot and the forest service looked at maps, circumscribing areas of land, saying these would be new for us. >> they drew lines around areas and made them national forests. >> there called the midnight forests the term meaning this was done at midnight. both in the dark of night but also rapidly on the part of the forest service. >> teddy roosevelt would put moreland land into the public land system than any other is in. >> and his first term, he was quite cautious. he set aside 20 million acres under the furnace -- under the act. in his second term, he really went to town and set aside approximately 80 million acres of land. it is almost the equivalent of california. >> the

he was very much a product of the new deal and was a protÉgÉ in many respects of franklin roosevelt'swho saw the great potential in young lyndon johnson. so when johnson became president it was his hope that he would finish the new deal, he would finish with his great society what president roosevelt started with the new deal. and one of the things that fdr left unaddressed in his presidency was civil rights. i think ultimately president johnson will be remembered as the civil rights president for having signed into law the civil rights act of 1964 which broke the back of jim crow in our separate but equal laws throughout the south. the voting rights act of 1965 which gave all americans unimpeded access to the ballot box and the fair housing act of 1968, which allowed for fair housing for all americans. that's a triumvirate of civil rights legislation, and i think it's the principal legacy of lyndon johnson. >> here's a look at our live coverage today. >> the mayor of long beach, california, told house lawmakers about the facilities housing migrant children in his city and immigration

the. roosevelt's new deal following the great depression in the 1960 s. but by the time is also facing a lot of opposition. road builders in the us will soon have plenty of work to do infrastructure in the world's largest economy is in poor condition across the board . at roads power or water me and many key industries have long since moved abroad. with his 2 trillion dollars package u.s. president joe biden wants to give the entire country a make over. was an extreme distress his administration plans on modernizing 32000 kilometers of road while repairing foundations of bridges half a 1000000 new charging stations will be built to accommodate the ever growing number of electric vehicles biden also wants to bring industries such as chip production back to the united states today computer chips are still mostly produced in asia. the whole project is expected to take 8 years to complete some of the funding will come from a corporate tax hike from 21 to 28 percent biden supporters see the program will create millions of will be jobs and strengthen america's

[laughter] >> one of the favorite things in your book is the teddy roosevelt book. that comparison is that the firm joy is a wonderful quote a wonderful concept explain it for us. how can you embrace that with the incredibly competitive world in which you operate quick. >> all day long we compare ourselves to others it is partly biological. i am 5-foot tall i'm always the shortest. i wish i was taller. i wish i was then i wish i was bigger. i wish i had her shoes. it is so crazy and then in addition not in your first job it when you are transitioning into leadership and management people will be in your circle at get a great opportunity you did not get. i saw a lady the other day and moved to valencia spain during the pandemic i said i want that life. but i realize every time you compare yourself to somebody else somebody is looking at who wants what you have. we have to be reminded as adults we spent all this time thinking about what other people are thinking about us. nobody is thinking about you. they are thinking of themselves. >> exactly even senators today. the

she was labor secretary for the entire roosevelt years. she was one of those people who saw the triangle fire with her own eyes. she had been in that she lived in the neighborhood and came running to watch it. and at the end of her life she said that the new deal which we now know to be the most important and influential domestic event. of the 20th century the new deal began on the day of the triangle fire. so that's why it's not just publishers hype but actually true when we talk about this book as the story of the fire that changed america. i'll field questions after dan talks and he's going to take us up for the next 20 years of new york history. thank you very much. i'm delighted to be here and i'm a special delighted to be on the same panel that david is on. his book is an important book has that virtue of an important book that tells a story which is what we all try to do. mine is a very different story. i could not be writing about people who are more radically different from those who are involved in david's in the story of the tria

a war speech state of the union address in 1941 the freedom address. rooseveltto turn the nation in the direction of recognizing they were going to have to go to war. of course he had a tricky road he want to prepare the nation and promise to stay out of the war. in doing so he articulated the basis for american citizen ship. argue going forward throughout the 20th century leading to the second moment i find mind blowing. johnson 1965 speaking to a joinlt session of congress calling for voting rights. amazing similarities to today. in 65, johnson spoke a few days after the country watched on tv the video of voting rights activists being beaten on the bridge. johnson said the famous phrase we shall over come aligning himself with the movement it happened because the nation saw it on the tv screen the week before. >> thank you so much >> chief justice of the supreme court. >> in normal times the chief justice would be accompanied by the associates covid says no. >> yes it's interesting to take a stem back and recognize all the circumstance is wilsons fault. presid

there are strands of the roosevelt family, the churchill family, the bush family that would not have affected american history. and me a filmmaker, one of the great sagas, there would be no humphrey bogart because he is a howland as well. some of the crew were living history educators who had portrayed john hallen. and they talked about what it was like to be aboard the ship under sail and to be in the riggings, to be working the ropes and suddenly have these insights. they saw themselves as the ship was moving, how the ropes were moving, and the three young men talked among themselves and said, yes, they could see how if a ship is in dramatic water, the rope spills over and that's what it's doing in the water with john howland. the power of museums is we are experimentals, we try to recreate the work in the past. in that recreation we discover something about those people that came before us. so, sailing this ship gives us insight into the original 1620 voyage. and the restoration brings the ship closer to the original 1950's vision that william baker had for the ship. it's been new