he thought it was part of the tradition of theodore roosevelt 's new nationalism and fdr's new deal anddon johnson and great society. he was a proud liberal. now liberal is back in vogue. barack obama has really learned a lot from ted kennedy. president obama it is sort of my age. john f. kennedy, we were children when we had the cuban missile crisis, but ted kennedy was out there fighting my whole teenaged years and into my 20's and 30's and 40's. the great act of heroism when he endorsed barack obama made such a big difference, basically taking the baton of camelot and handing it to barack obama, doing it in conjunction with caroline kennedy. dramatic moment. i know that president obama will sorely missed ted kennedy, not because he was just a health care warrior, but he always gave the senator and now president obama unvarnished advice. since chappaquiddick, he was not trying to run for president, he was tried to help the american people in many ways as act of redemption for his ethical lapses in life. he worked triple hard to try to make up for a, and the net effect is stunning. bil

what part of theodore roosevelt's commitment, his president obama all to build upon?thank you for asking. i think there are a couple more national parks that need to be created, and war, alaska, big sur, but the problem shifted. when roosevelt left 100 years ago, he called for global conservation courts because migratory boards. migratory birds do not know borders. neither do rivers. we have not had that kind of global conservation corps. the obama administration is willing to talk about climate conservation and really focus on global standards. china is polluting big-time right now. how can we stop that from happening or curtail at some time -- curtail it somehow? the obama administration is starting to already do this, they are creating wildlife corridors, how to more properly used land, redefining some areas as wilderness. i think you will find a progressive and energetic conservation agenda, but the obama administration will have it and a year or two. another focuses on health care and is hard to get the parks in there. with the documentary coming out and hopefull

>> guest: that is theodore roosevelt with the great naturalist in 1903. remember roosevelt becomes president in 1901 because mackinlay is assassinated. seered is sworn in in buffalo. immediately only two months as president tr stars this aggressive conservation program because he had created the first boone and crocket club tr created was the first protection for big game group. he was a member of the audubon society and as governor of new york tr beacon considering erratical long preservation of natural resources. in 1903 tr gets on the training goes to yellowstone with john burroughs. then he goes to the grand canyon and then he ends up in the redwoods of northern california and then goes to yosemite, and here is the president of the united states with john mere and they camped out. they spend three days in the mild. 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

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

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the existing biography of theodore roosevelt don't cover this period very much with the exception ofthe time he ran for president as foremost candidate in 1912. there just wasn't a lot about him in this period, and the reigning idea was that teddy roosevelt, out of power, was out of control. this was an assertion made by a historian in this era of a biography that every undergraduate still reads. i thought that was what i would find when i started out, that this was a man who was a rogue elephant once he was out of the white house. the farther i went into things, the more i realized that i didn't agree with at all, that he was very deliberate, often at the top of his lungs, all calculated, everything that he did. he was a critic of wilson's war effort, people writing about this period would often cite this as an example of how he was totally out of control once he was out of power. he really made a calm decision to speak at the top of his lungs about what he thought was wrong with the war effort as a way of speeding it up. he spoke if in a calm, reasonable voice, nobody would pay att

theodore roosevelt was not karl marx, and the republican tax scheme is not tax reform. [applause] finally, we cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation from a fair society. so i will continue to stand for a national health insurance. [applause] we must not surrender to the relentless medical inflation that can bankrupt almost anyone and that may soon break the budgets of government at every level. let us insist on real control over what doctors and hospitals can charge, and let us resolve that the state of a family's health shall never depend on the size of a family's wealth. [applause] the president, the vice president, the members of congress have a medical plan that meets their needs in full, and whenever senators and representatives catch a little cold, the capitol physician will see them immediately, treat them promptly, fill a prescription on the spot. we do not get a bill even if we ask for it, and when do you think was the last time a member of congress asked for a bill from the federal government? [applause] i say again, as i have before, if health insurance i

to enter like theodore roosevelt who felt this was an international crisis and even a humanitarian crisis. have the obligation to be involved but others wanted the u.s. to be more prepared to have a larger army with more capabilities in case world events drag america into more than there was a european problem that they thought they should stay away from. >> not a centralized government effort? >> no. woodrow wilson tried to avoid it as president because he was worried he would end up alienating voters on both sides. >> how did the u.s. get into world war i? >> despite woodrow wilson's efforts he made a series of decisions that backed up into war to give flight preference to britain and not trading with germany and as the germans in the spring of 1917 launched into a last-minute gambit to win the war knowing they would drag the americans into it. the germans thought the americans did not have a big army or a strong federal government they would never did in and time to make a difference and that is where they were wrong. >> prior to woodrow wilson decision what were the grass roots separa

he thought it was part of the tradition of theodore roosevelt 's new nationalism and fdr's new deal anddon johnson and a great society. he was a proud liberal, and now the liberals backing both barack obama, they have learned a lot from ted kennedy. president obama, when we were children during the cuban missile crisis, three-year-old, ted kennedy was out there fighting my whole teenage years into my 20's and 30's and 40's. the great act of heroism when he endorsed barack obama made such a big difference, basically taking that and handing it to barack obama, doing it inh caroe kennedy. i know that president obama is sorely going to miss ted kennedy, but because he was a health care out warrior, -- health-care warrior, but because he always gave president obama unvarnished advice. since chappaquiddick, he was not trying to run for president, he wa trying to help american people for perhaps is ethical lapses in his life. and he worked triple hard to make up for that, and the net effect of his life is really stunning. bill after bill, law after law, ted kennedy stamp is on it. tavis: muffl

to winter, especially people like theodore roosevelt for example the felt that this was an international crisis and even a humanitarian crisis of civilization and the u.s. had an obligation to be involved. others is one of the u.s. to be more prepared to have a larger army, to have more capabilities in case the world events dragged americans to war. then there were those that felt that this was a european problem, that the u.s. should stay away from. >> not a centralized government effort? >> no, there is not a centralized government effort and in fact woodrow wilson tried to avoid this as president because he worried that it was, he would end up alienating voters on both sides of the funds. >> how did the u.s. into world war i? high-speed despite woodrow wilson's efforts to keep america out of work, he made a series of decisions that slowly back this into war, particularly by givings lathe preference to britain by not trading with germany and then as the germans in the spring of 1917, they launched sort of desperate, last-minute gambit to win the war knowing they are going to drag the a

to enter, especially theodore roosevelt, who felt this was an international crisis, even a humanitarian crisis of civilization and the u.s. had an opportunity to be involved. others just wanted u.s. to be more prepared, have a larger army, have more capabilities in case the world events greg america into the war. than there were those who felt this was a european problem, that the u.s. should stay away from it. >> not a centralized government efforts. >> there was not a centralized government effort. woodrow wilson tried to avoid this as president because he worried that he would end up alienating voters on both sides. >> how did the u.s. get into world war i? >> despite woodrow wilson's efforts to keep america out of the war, he made a series of decisions that backed us into the war, particularly by giving slight preference to britain, by not trading with germany, and as the germans in spring of 1917 launched desperate last-minute gambit to win the war, knowing they're going to drag the americans into. the germans thought that the americans didn't have a big army, they didn't have a st

to enter, especially theodore roosevelt, who felt this was an international crisis, even a humanitarian crisis, the u.s. had an obligation to be involved. others wanted the u.s. to be more prepared, to have a larger army, to have more capabilities in case the world events drag america into the war. than the european problem, the u.s. should stay away from. >> but not a centralized government effort. >> there was not a centralized government effort. woodrow wilson tried to avoid this as president because he worried that he would end up alienating voters on both sides. >> how did the u.s. get into world war i? >> despite woodrow wilson's efforts to keep america out of the war in a series of decisions that slowly backed us into the war particularly by giving preference to britain by not trading with germany and as the germans in spring of 1917 launched desperate last-minute gambit to win the war knowing they were going to drag the americans into a. the germans thought they didn't have a strong federal government and would never get into the war in time to make a difference. that is one pla

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you know, i mean, there is political precedent for combating this in the form of theodore roosevelt who was, you know, famous, you know, for what's colloquially referred to as busting up the trusts, you know, and sort of pushing the rewind button a little bit on capitalism away from vertical monopoly back to, frankly, a more natural state. and it's not coincidence that these companies that he broke up was the meat packing companies and that's one part of the farmi farming conone drum of what you're talking about. you have to start talking about it first, and that's number one. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> thank you. he'll be happy to sign books. >> what's the key to writing a children's book? >> gosh, i would say respecting children as readers and not talking down to them. if anything, it's basically about trusting their judgment and their intelligence and hopefully speaking to what interests them and what they're passionate about. >> what are children interested in? >> well, just about everything that adults are interested in for the most part, their world around them, growing

. >> theodore roosevelt. >> bully. i have never really understood what the attraction was this man had, but there was a kind of social justice choice that he made against all the developing monster industries and so on, one he controls, and that was a pro democratic stance. >> a lot of bill clinton. there is one with my voice and his back -- knives in his back. >> wherever he stepped there was a question, whatever he said and did. and he was extremely open to fun. he was what you hope for in any president. a human being that made mistakes but was brilliant about other things and that balance, he balanced on his own. >> monica berlinski -- lewinski with a cigar. >> that is unfortunate. >> new gingrich on the backside of an elephant. >> well, i mean, he was associated with the grand old party elephant, and i think he was talking out of the other side of his mouth too often. there was this thing -- he was a snake oil salesman, although he had gotten bitten. >> bill clinton with an elephant nose. >> because i think there w

part of that, and certainly some of america's most prominent progressives, woodrow wilson, theodore roosevelt and others were supporters of at least the possibility of eugenics because it has great possibilities for social engineering. glenn: let me go to jonah goldberg here. this is from cass sunstein in the columbia law review in january 2004. another time he said "if a program would prevent 50 deaths of people who are 20, should it be treated the same way as a program that would prevent 50 deaths of people being 70? programs that protect young people seems far better than one that protects old people because it delivers greater benefits." next one, this is from rahm emanuel's brother ezekiel wrote in november '96 and just wrote another one january this year "conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic, and should not be guaranteed." jonah, please, i mean -- >> i think there a lot of things going on here. i think, first of all, this mode of analysis, which is all over the place, with cost benefit ana

there was too much instability in cuba and people asked president theodore roosevelt, a man who charged up san juan hill during the spanish-american war they asked president roosevelt were you trying to do and he was particularly poignant plea questioned before a harvard audience and here is what he said to the harvard audience. 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

i'm afraid he has confused karl marx with theodore roosevelt.applause] that obscure republican president who sought and fought for a tax system based on ability to pay. theodore roosevelt was not karl- marx- marx, and the republican x scheme is not tax reform. we cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation from a fair society. so i will continue to stand for national health insurance. [applause] we must not surrender. we must not surrender to the relentless medical inflation that can bring corrupt almost anyone and that may soon break the budgets of government at every level. let us insist on real controls over what doctors and hospitals can charge, and let us resolve that the state of a family's health shall never depend on the size of the family's wealth. [applause] the president, the vice president, the members of congress have a medical plan that meets their needs in full, and whenever senators and representatives to catch a little cold, the capitol physician will see them immediately, treat them promptly, fill a prescription on the spot. we

the big teddy kennedy and the wilderness book, the big summer book, a great new history of theodore rooseveltut the kennedys. and what eunice shriver represented in terms of breaking through all of the old myths about people with special needs. >> well, you know, i see eunice shriver as part of a kind of humane reform movement in america that began in the 19th century. i think back to jane adams and wholehouse and chicago when miss adams did so much to help, at that point, just children and create foster programs and deal with the poor. you later have helen keller in the 20th century dealing with people that are deaf and blind. and by the 1960s, that era of so much going on in the humane movement in civil rights and in hispanic and indiana rights, women's rights, you have miss shriver stepping into the fray and picking up on special needs and continuing to kind of move how humans deal with other humans forward. and it's a very big legacy, because up until the '60s, particularly in the south, people were just put in these mental institutions and locked -- they locked up and the key thrown away

and i think yellowstone, where theodore roosevelt went in 1903, he's doing the two stops t.r. did in 1903. yellowstone, the grand canyon. talk about climate conservation. talk about wildlife protection. talk about the eventually solar panels that the federal government's going to do. wind farms. alternative energy. i think you want to mix the conversation up in august. half of it health care, also push forward your energy and environmental policies. ken burns has this viewpoint te documentary coming out on the national parks. eye it's going to get a lot of attention. i think it's fortuitous timing to see the west and take his case to the people of the west. >> the members of congress, it's a big enough pill for them to swallow on health care, it's going to be tough on those guys. >> the house has already passed it. they might as well get some credit for it. >> what the senate does, it's going to be tough in the senate. >> it's better to go uphill than downhill. we'll be right back. why are so many politicians quitting? they've killed themselves. tief set their heart on office.

theodore roosevelt was not karl marx, and the republican tax scheme is not tax reform.plause] finally, we cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation from a fair society. so i will continue to stand for a national health insurance. [applause] we must not surrender to the relentless medical inflation that can bankrupt almost anyone and that may soon break the budgets of government at every level. let us insist on real control over what doctors and hospitals can charge, and let us resolve that the state of a family's health shall never depend on the size of a family's wealth. [applause] the president, the vice president, the members of congress have a medical plan that meets their needs in full, and whenever senators and representatives catch a little cold, the capitol physician will see them immediately, treat them promptly, fill a prescription on the spot. we do not get a bill even if we ask for it, and when do you think was the last time a member of congress asked for a bill from the federal government? [applause] i say again, as i have before, if health insurance is go

prepared in this movement was a group of people and most republicans and many disciples of theodore roosevelto seventh of a volunteer military training camps and a big one in plattsburgh, new york called the movement and often of the elite college students of the day would send their summer's training to be military officers and many have become military officers and a pass after the war the rtc as we know today really traces its roots back to this massive movement. >> so was there and grassroots movement to get into the war? was of the war popular before the americans got into a? >> the were was popular with some people but i think one of the things most people forget about world war i was it was very divisive both entering the war and then how to fight the war after it started. lot of that division has been from dawn in the years since then the. >> where does your book, "uncle sam wants you", come from? >> the book and to the senate found it puzzling group of people so in a footnote of another book i found a reference to what were called slacker rains in this locker was a bustling term in w

the title comes from theodore roosevelt? guest: it does.to explain the dysfunctional relationship we have with cuba, and the more i studied it, there is nothing unusual, except the longevity of the animosity. so i wanted to pull out something that hinted at the longstanding difficulties we have had with the cuban people. and i pulled out a sentence where teddy roosevelt said in 1906, "i am so angry with that infernal little cuban republic that i would be to wipe its people off the earth." i thought that captured it perfectly. they annoy us in the early 1920's, and with the exception of the longevity of our hostilities, there is nothing unusual about the relationship with castro. host: the situation with havana is different than china or other situations. guest: yes. with this book, i try to explain why. on a fundamental level, we have to protect our interests. first, the economic interests of u.s. investors. we lost a lot of money. $1.8 million. much more important, the security interests of u.s. defense managers, and more recently, concern

defy the republican party to name one thing they have ever done for the common man, other than theodore rooseveltall these detractors, these people of low virtue who pick one cause and sacrifice everything else for that -- as another caller said, people on one side pick the site. none of us from either party may agree with all aspects of abortion, but we realize that once they're born they have to be taken care of. the parents have to have economic justice and opportunity to work. with all of senator kennedy's personal flaws -- i would rather stand beside him on judgment day than ronald reagan who robbed from the poor and gave to the rich. we'll never see another family like this again, i'm afraid, with some much wealth and power who were so dedicated to the common man. god bless us, god help us all. host: the phone lines are open. for those who live in massachusetts, there is a special line for you. tucson, ariz., good morning. caller: i want to express my condolences. you had a caller from texas who said he had been in vietnam and was born in 1962. i would like to know how that happened. your o

you go all the way back to theodore roosevelt that tried to do this.hts, it was the big medicare to go through, and closing the door on social security. somehow the president is not able to say this is medicare, but better. somehow it has become a different kind of debate. i would like to know how you react to that? >> well, i think the great victories of the 20th century legislatively were social security and medicare. and both were from scratch, and both had universal benefits. and this is something that -- since we are trying to reform an existing system, somewhat public and private and deeply personal, and benefits for which will not be universal, because you can argue about who gets what, i think it complicates it to the extreme, and it's hard to imagine how it works. >> i am struck by two different numbers. during the campaign, the big number we heard was 46 million uninsured, and now the big number we hear is 85% of the people like the health care they have. how do those number compute? >> gene robinson, we have a few seconds left, but maybe the

douglas brinkley is a presidential historian and author of the wilderness warrior theodore rooseveltfrom austin, texas. good morning. >> good morning to you guys. >> you know 21,000 people have filed by senator kennedy's casket paying their last respects, it's an enormous amount of people for a senator. because as you know, lawmakers' approval ratings aren't so high these days. will we ever see this outpouring of love again for a politician? who is not a president, by the way? >> well, it doesn't happen often for a politician who is not a president as you said, but ted kennedy has been part of the massachusetts scene since really the late 1950s and was beloved as the senator. he could've won five more elections if he wanted to there. he could have been incapacitated and been reelected because they loved him so much in massachusetts. you're seeing that outpouring at the library going by the casket and then there are people who just admire the kennedys all over the world. used to be said you could go in some latin american countries and see in little homes a picture of the pope and a p

both theodore and franklin roosevelt, cigarettes, alcohol were among his many targets and complaints yet beneath all of these imagined annoyances was the fact that the force of industrial capitalism he had helped unleash was undermining the world that he hoped to restore and in his later life, he increasingly grew more and more eccentric and more and more desperate. also he abandoned an earlier kind of liberal modernism that he was associated with. and once claimed to have invented the modern world to embrace the vary cultural conservatism, looking to the values of small town america as the solution to america's problems. ford preached with a pastors confidence is one true idea that ever increasing productivity combined with ever increasing pay would both relieve human drudgery and create working-class communities with corporate profits, depending on the continuing expansion of consumer demand. he put it very simply, high wages to create large markets. by the late 1920's, fordism, as this idea came to be known, by the late 1920's fordism, as this idea became called was synonymous wit

go back and look at the progressive movement, there are an amazing number of leaders, from theodore roosevelt to norris and johnson on down -- all across the country, all moving in the same direction, all representing a generation of reform. and from 1896 to 1916, they invented modern government. our problem is we now have the fossilized remnants of that system, and we now have to go through a similar generation of invention. so to re-enforce, budgets are a function of government. government should be a function of the society you're trying to create. so successful budgeting starts by defining a successful society. if you start budget talks by talking about the budget, you're making a fundamental mistake. i think decisions have to be made in a deep, mid and near order. so if you want to know what budget do we need next year, i started to say tell me about america 15 to 25 years from now. now tell me about america five years from now. all right. now, let's talk about the budget. but unless you start deep, you cannot understand what you're doing. think about it. if you don't know where you're g

george washington, john adams, thomas jefferson or theodore roosevelt?ook how excited she is! >> thank you. >> she is thrilled! >> all right, so, the correct answer is? >> well, lincoln is the one. john adams is not on and lincoln is. so george washington, jefferson, roosevelt and lincoln. so, some things to know about mt. rushmore -- >> what? >> it took 14 years to bui, and the sculptor who started it, he was 60 when he started it and it took until he was 74. there were 400 people who worked on it. and each of the presidents is six stories high. their noses alone, 20 feet along. >> did you google all that information? >> you know what -- >> you are so smart. >> we have skills. >> back across to kathie. >> this gentleman's visiting from winnipeg, canada. which of the following cities did the "today" show cast not visit during "today takes a vacation," lake george, key west, las vegas or dallas? >> lake george. >> no, darling. you weren't paying attention, but you're going to get ♪ everyone has a story all right, hoda! >> dallas was the wrong answer, but