let's talk about football and theodore roosevelt. i would like to start with a statistic. 18 people died playing football in 1908. in 190518 people died playing football. we hear a lot today about the problem of concussions and head injuries and long term health impact. this is a controversy in football today but it has nothing on the challenges the sport faced a few centuries ago. let's go back in time. in 1876 theodore roosevelt attended his first football game. he was an 18-year-old freshen who got on a train with a bunch of friendss and they went to newhaven, connecticut where they watched the second ever football game between harvard and yale. in the history of college sports there are a lot of great rivalries. michigan has ohio state. the heritage foundation has the brookings institution. harvard has yale. the ivy league had an athletic conference. in 1876 they play their second ever football game. weather was loudly. it was cold. the winds were so strong bishops couldn't leave the harbor. roosevelt shivered and as he watched t

he had just become, just entered his sophomore year at harvard when theodore roosevelt became president. so roosevelt's vision of an american sentry, of a globally-assertive united states was something that was bred into franklin roosevelt really in his youth. and i don't think ever left him. and all through his public career you hear kind of theodore rooseveltian rhetoric. i was just reading and listening the other day to his third inaugural speech where he talks about, um, in lincoln's day the great challenge facing the presidency was danger from within. now we are dealing with danger from without, namely fascist nazi germany and fascist italy. but ea also ends -- but he also ends about the mission of the united states is not only to be vigilant about this, but also to defend and promote democracy around the world. um, so it's a consistent theme in his, in his public life that is, um, i think, striking and striking to some degree because it's not, it's not really recognized as such. there's this, i think the historical consensus about fdr is still, as about any historical figure, it's

in 1876, theodore roosevelt attended its first football game. he was an 18-year-old freshman at harvard university. he got on a train with a bunch of friends and they went to new haven connecticut where they watched the second ever football game played between harvard and yale. so in the history of college sports a lot of great rivalries. michigan has ohio state, alabama has auburn, the heritage foundation has the brookings institution. harvard has yale and let's remember the ivy league is an affleck conference. 1876 they split their second ever football game. the weather was lousy. it was cold, the winds were so strong the ships couldn't leave the harbor. roosevelt shivered on the sidelines that day and then he watched the game. the sport he saw was different than the one we know today. there were no quarterback, there were no wide receivers, there were no forward passes. football was in its infancy. before the play began, the captains from the two teams met to discuss the rules they would play by. what would account for a score, how many peopl

for one progressive objective called for at least as far back as theodore roosevelt's 1912 campaign, a program for national health care was still waiting. since the 1960s we have experienced something of a drought in truly progressive legislation with a growing but erroneous assumption that government is a problem and not a solution. to see government itself as a problem is a dangerous idea in a democracy. in looking to the sources of the roosevelt revolution, the major biographies and histories of the new deal were not as clear as they ought to have been on two points. the importance of religion and the influence of a well-developed ideology on the political thought and action of franklin roosevelt. there is repeated testimony by those who knew him best including eleanor of the importance of religion and particularly his christian faith on his ideas. this is confirmed by his own words including those in speeches and public documents included in the book which constitute an important part of it. roosevelt acknowledged the guidance of his father and the instruction of his head master

harrison, cleveland, theodore roosevelt, william howard taft, woodrow wilson, coolidge, hoo r hoover, franklin roosevelt -- >> break, break. >> no, truman, eisenhower. >> cooper, you're gone. anderson cooper with ac 360. very close. >> thanks, rainman. >>> good evening. we begin keeping them honest. a strange saga or congressman anthony weiner and what may or may not be an intimate photo of him that came up on twitter. was the photograph of a crotch shot in boxers sent from his twitter account and addressed to a seattle area college student in fact him? >> have you ever taken a picture like this of yourself? >> i can tell you this that there are -- i have photographs, i don't know what photographs are out there in the world of me. i don't know what things have been manipulated and doctored and we're going to try to find out what happened. >> we'll play more of the interview with the congressman shortly in two parts. he did tell "the new york times," he could not say if he was the person in the picture, in other words, not ruling it out. he does, however, flatly deny sending it. he say

. >> well, washington and lincoln, f.d.r., theodore roosevelt, truman. >> rose: here's what john adams said once, that his generation-- his generation-- should study war and politics so that their grandchildren could pursue fine arts. >> that' exactly what this book is about. this is pursuing the dream that adam's had for the fute generation. i'm going in saying what did they do? how have they done? and of crse one ofis descendents is in the book, henry adams, who may have been our greatest historian. >> rose: tell me the people you mealong this journey. who is it that you most want to tell us we would be part in if we had been in paris at this time. >> rose: oliver wendellwendall holmes senior. who's one of the most engaging fellows i ever sat in a cafe with. holmes was aoet and essayist. a very small man physically. he said 5'4 in a pair of heavy boots. he was a poet, a published poet already and he was a medical student. and he saw no incongress grewty in devoting his life to medical science and writing poetry and essays and founding the "atlantic" monthly magazine. holmes was one o

almost exactly 100 years ago, at the start of another century, president theodore roosevelt launched u.s. navy mission known as the great white fleet on a voyage around the world. it was a show of american strength, but also a show of american good will and prosperity. that voyage would open the door to trade with the vast, untapped markets of asia and helped usher in what became known as the american century. president roosevelt leadership put the world on notice that the united states of america was the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen, and was open for business. it is a legacy belt to this day, but a legacy now in jeopardy. we are all keenly aware of just how serious our nation's current fiscal situation is. no american family could spend 60% more than it is taking it and survive, no less prosper. but that is exactly what our country is doing. result is a $1.50 trillion deficit and at $14 trillion debt that is dragging down our economy and burdening us and our children. to put all that in human terms, nearly 14 million of our fellow americans are without a payc

he is a senior editor of "national wildlife," and his new book as a but theodore roosevelt, his life in the badlands of the dakota territory, after his wife died but before he became president. you could follow this discussion alive at 6:00 p.m. eastern, booktv.org. senate armed services will be hearing from t -- will be having the confirmation hearing for leon panetta to become secretary of defense after the retirement of robert gates. that hearing gets underway at 9:30 eastern, right here on c- span. a hearing earlier today at the appropriations subcommittee looking at the irs budget for 2012. commissioner doug shulman testified. the house budget resolution would increase the federal budget deficit by decreasing revenue. this is earlier today on the 2012 budget for the irs. >> good morning. i am pleased to convene at this hearing to consider the fiscal year 2012 funding request for the internal revenue service, the largest single account within our subcommittee. our focus today is on the president's budget request for the irs, $13.6 billion in annual funding constitutes over half t