theodore roosevelt. appier in a book than anywhere in the world. she was a bookish intellectual oman and there had been people like that before, mrs. fillmore was such a person. and, as a bookish woman again, mrs. harrison that no one has ever heard of anymore. mrs. harrison was a very smart individual and also astute.lly > now, one of the reasons we asked you these questions because you were involved with -span with the first lady series going every monday night at 9:00. however, there's a summer hiatus really restarted september 9. we've done 16 programs so far. doesn't matter what era. could be before or after -- the iw programs will start up and think there's another 19 programs to it. what are the milestone years for ladies through history? well, i would say certainly adams. mrs. the first woman to live in the white house. lady, capable lady. more social sign. the medicine and the mellow of the burning of the house. first ladies but there to a period where really aren't many first ladies. there toake it up from harriet lane, president buchanan

theodore roosevelt. the roosevelt. >> wide. -- why? >> the white house have been remodeled into him more modern setting. a was fresh and run like marine camp. everyone knew their job and everyone did it. that was true on all levels. it was spit and polish. >> the worst white house? >> the worst white house was ?arked i never -- white house i never think of the worst white house. the kerry harrison found white house in terrible condition. the structure was bad and the walls were in bad shape. moved out,oosevelts the germans moved into a pretty beat up house. the furniture was taken by the roosevelt. it was their own possession. things were beat up. it had been 13 years. it was pretty run down. that is not why truman remodeled the house, though. no president has time to do the house over. they had a requirement for it. the security was the basis of this with german. not the fact that it was shabby. the secret service said that it was too dangerous. the house was a house of would, primarily. one firebomb could ignite it. truman was presen

. >> stephen: you've got some phat beats in here from abraham lincoln and theodore roosevelt but you'vet things from, like, win william shakespeare and winston churchill. this is honorable truly american life. what do they know? what do english-- pardon me-- limey bastards know? (laughter) i mean that in the best possible way. why would you quote someone else to talk about the truly american life? >> because some of the principles that are most distinctly american are ones that are part of the human condition and that people like shakespeare could have written about and churchill, of course, was part american. his mom was american. >> stephen: it comes from his father's side. it was his father's side. yeah. (laughter) do you have a favorite get to here? something that if you had to throw autoall the others and just keep one, what would it be? >> there's a very short coupleet that says "life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in one's own." not bad. >> stephen: no. (cheers and applause) i believe that was written by flo-rida. (

it reflects more theodore roosevelt, what theodore roosevelt did during 1902. there was always a clock on the table. you served through a pantry through those doors on the side. dishes were washed there. the family gathered there at this great big table. not every family did. through the door was then a hall and staircase and a big dining room where state occasions were held. in 1902, this room was turned around and incorporated into a dining room. it is the state dining room of today. host: the grant family had four children. were all of them living at the white house? guest: the oldest son received an appointment to west point under the johnson administration. he was coming and going. the younger children were still there. julia talks about the dining room table, how ulysses sometimes with the kids would play around, play games, and take pieces of bread and roll it into a ball of dough and throw it at the kids, the boys. guest: she disapproved. guest: she also recalled upstairs in the private family area, the children and ulysses coming into her room about a

. >> our national forrests were established by theodore roosevelt.t said our forests should be used for multiple use, and sustainable use. they are not just for logging. they provide recreation, logging, grazing lands, fish habitat, and wildlife habitat. we cannot use them as a single-use land. we should not be selling these off to the -- to the private land owners. this is a resource that provides clean air, clean water, and lumber for our homes. >> what about the let it burn policy? >> i think that would be wrong to characterize it as something that the is the only way that the farrest service has managed it. smokey bear had some issues, but the forest service realizes there needs to be other factors. logging is not the solution to all of the problems. >> we'll get more into this in just a moment. how to manage america's lands to prevent and fight wildfires. after the break we'll look at the options. we'll be right back. ç] ♪ >>> welcome back to "inside story." fire seasons are getting more severe, and americans are building their homes in forests

theodore roosevelt exploited it. they were very exploitable.dith roosevelt was the least willing to go along. the children had a great time. this is the hinge. you have newspapers with pictures. all of a sudden, presidents and their families who were very remote figures before, they have faces and personalities. that expanded to the families as well. it would take off as the media became course is physically. >> good evening. first of all, i want all the callers to know i have a comment to make. this program that you have put together on c-span has been phenomenal. i have watched most of the series and i've been educated and enlightened. i have a couple of comments. >> the gentleman sitting across from you, it was decided to do the series and our producer worked very hard on this. thank you. >> you are absolutely right. richard norton smith, it is a pleasure and an honor to be up to talk to both of you folks. i have as a love of history i have followed both of your works for years. i'm just honored to bring to talk to you tonight. first of all,

where he is today, that moved lincoln down further where he is, and now they had room to add theodore roosevelt. >> how much further? >> oh, not too far. got to go up the stairs, and we're gonna be there. >> how'd the workers get up here? >> well, believe it or not, it was a climb of over 760 stairs every morning from down by the studio, walk right up this way. and then in 1936, the upgraded train-car system would carry five people. so you got a free ride up in the morning, walked down at night. are you ready? >> all right, let's go. >> okay. >> on the way up, we passed the remains of an old pipeline. it once carried the compressed air that powered the jackhammers used to carve the faces. i'll show you something really cool that most people never get to see. this was gonna be the hall of records. gutzon borglum was mount rushmore's ingenious sculptor. he wanted a place where america's most important documents would be safely stored for future generations. although the hall of records was never completed, part of borglum's dream did come true. >> so, in 1998, park services were developing mount

these door rooz vel theodore roosevelt had five living at the white house and a pony.of course that was like 100 rears ago. calvin coolidge was the last one not to have a dog. he had a cat. and i don't know if they thought about the name well enough. sunny and bo. if they get in trouble, you'd be like sunny and bo no. >> i don't know if they thought about that. speaking of presidents, scored a big interview for world humanitarian day 2013 with beyonce and they talked about world humanitarian issues. he said he was so excited he could die. and beyonce before he left made sure that he sealed things with a kiss. very cute moment. >> what can that guy not do. >> are we best friends? >> only if i get a kiss on the cheek. >> okay. >> come on, come on, come on. thank you. >> even beyonce hater has to admit it was a wonderful moment. and cliff diving. >> yeah, how can i follow that up. there was a diving contest. this guy diving off 50 feet. this bridge goes back to the era of the romans. even a 75-year-old guy was diving there. >> amazing. thanks, guys. this is "first look" o

a piece of the new book he is doing which is really about new york city and the creation of theodore rooseveltuch of the historiography surrounding t.r. has been about the roughriders or the american west. this book points out quite rightly that roosevelt was born in new york and grew up in new york and made his politics in new york and all this other stuff was really a self-created mythology that he wanted people to think of him as a westerner or a frontiersman or a rough writer. what he really was in his heart was in new york are and growing up in an affluent part of new york in a wealthy family shaped him as the early experience as police commissioner etc.. it was in new york city that he was forged as a politician. this is a dual book on the city of on the verge of greatness. >> one of the book coming up from basic, churchill's bomb? >> graham barr mellows another returning author. he wrote a book called the strangest man which is the biography of paul tarak. the new book is about the race to create nuclear technology during world war ii and all of the best scientists many of them who had

it would be reduced to three under theodore roosevelt and poured generously. was a lot of wine and men guests would sometimes have scotch instead of wine. and then you would have numerous plates, bone dishes, all of these things that -- at each plate, serving about 60 for a state dinner in those days. >> and i just wanted to say that the cups and saucers that were ordered for the harrison china did not arrive at the white house until after caroline's death. which is very sad. she didn't get to see them. and the china was reordered periodically in later administrations so it became a very popular service. ordered again by mckinley and roosevelt and even as late as jacqueline kennedy and mrs. clinton. >> in addition to the official design that she did, she was an avid painter of china as a hobby and in fact she gave classes in this at the white house. >> right. >> which may have been a political move. she had music -- she was a musician. >> politics in the white house. >> and a former lobbyist. >> she was a musician, painter and was fluent in french. and i think

party of lincoln and the emancipation proclamation of theodore roosevelt and the american conservationovement. the party of ronald ration who signed the deal with -- that eliminates nuclear weapons could be going ballistic. ted cruz talks in brinksmanship terms about shutting down the american government. he speaks in cold war terms of not blinking when it happens. letting the government drop before him as he gazes on in cold contempt. he uses the tactics of joe mccarthy suggesting now defense secretary chuck hagel, a fellow republican, might be an agent of this country's enemies. iran and north korea. will the republicans fight back? will they refuse to let their party's soul be grabbed by this new hard right that harkens back to the worst methods of the early 1950s? will they or let the cruzs and pauls and the rest dictate the new terms of political warfare in this country where no one blinks even when the u.s. government defaults on its debts, goes bankrupt and leaves the world's creditors to pick up the pieces. michael tomaski and jim moore. let's talk about this thing now with ted

party of lincoln and the emancipation proclamation of theodore roosevelt and the american conservationald ration who signed the deal with -- that eliminates nuclear weapons could be going ballistic. ted cruz talks in brinksmanship

was first launched in the progressive party bull moose platform of 1912 when they nominated theodore roosevelt. and seven presidents tried and failed to get universal coverage, including franklin roosevelt who chickened out on it. others were blocked by congress for all kinds of reasons. obama had to do some unpleasant things, cutting deals with pharmaceutical companies, but he got done what presidents have failed to get done for a century. people will no longer have to worry about losing their house if they get sick. as a cancer survivor myself, this really cuts close to home. and i think all the noise, get the basics of the, gets obscured and it's a huge progressive accomplishment. if he gets immigration reform, that will be another big one. i'm critical of them for not being more progressive on leaning on the banks when he had a chance. that he relied too much on certain wall street advice. he had a set of reasons for that because of the state of economy, the brutal state of economy where we're losing 800,000 jobs a month and he didn't think, like roosevelt also rejected nationalizing the b

she knew the parents of theodore roosevelt in new york city. she bought at the best stores. they took summers in cooperstown, n.y., and in newport. molly arthur was a little bit more, i would not use the term "pedestrian," but she was just not interested. host: last question on the arthur administration, on mary arthur, the sister, she had a very strong opinion on women's suffrage. how influential was she in this non-official white house hostess role? guest: it really showed us that the country had come to expect a female presence, whether it was a wife, sister, daughter. she really walked the fine line. she made public appearances, sometimes on around, sometimes only with him. i think he almost was kind of ambivalent about how public a role she should take. her support of the anti-suffrage movement occurred after the white house. there was some coverage of it. i will add that she was also a great advocate of civil rights. in her home in albany, she not only welcomed as a dinner guest but as an overnight guest and booker t. washington. host: we have 12 minutes left. as arthu

raise your hand if you remember who was president before theodore roosevelt. no one remembered.a few guys, thank you. put those guys on "jeopardy!" most people forget when roosevelt came into the administration he was vice president and was somewhat who is this guy, this showboat guy from -- fighting wars in cuba. hat elevated him was that he was a very popular vice president for a popular president. it was mckinley.he was killed just after he was reelected. he was at a pan-american exposition, a world's fair in new york state. president mckinley was working the rope line, and a man standing at point blank range at the line pumped a bullet into the president's stomach. before he could squeeze off a second round, the bullet glanced off to the sized and grazed him. i have done presidential advance work with secret service and mapping out an event, setting up the rope line, watching them do their thing, and when you talk to guys, the only thing that has changed is technology.protocol is basically the same. you search everybody coming up head to toe.now we use met

september 9 for a look at the life of theodore roosevelt.ite has more about first ladies including the essential section, welcome to the white house. we chronicle life in the executive man -- mansion. and we offer a special edition the united states of america, providing a profile of each first lady. this is at www.c-span.org /products. span brings public affairs offense from washington to you, with briefings and conferences -- all as a public service of private industry. c-span, created 34 years ago and cable orur local satellite provider and now you definition. in high >> coming up, the center for american progress on consolidating small school districts, then an encore of first ladies featuring elizabeth monroe and catherine adams. and later, thad allen on federal crisis management. >> thursday the center for american progress looked at small school district consolidation. issues included the economy of scale, new governance programs for schools and the influence of technology and socioeconomics on education system. this is about 90 minut

president.other dutch theodore roosevelt who bucked the arty he represent in bull moose election, martin van makes a es and substantial decision that he's what he go against spent his life working for. party run a third campaign with his son, john, and e runs on the free soil, free liberty ticket. it's a very interesting third party. republican of the party. they basically believed in free soil, free men and free labor. >> any evidence that angelica and her brothers or other in the were involved former president's future ambitions? john was involved because he stayed political. others weren't. other sides ofon this issue. >> i think what's interesting, she's is that after widowed, or actually before, part of spends the last her life in new york city. >> in new york city. cosmopolitan yearning. >> take a call from courtney in naples, florida. hi. grew up in kinderhard in the 1940s. recollection of lindenwald is it was an abandoned home that in total disrepair. were totally wild nd any evidence of a farm was totally absent. at what point did the this property get improved? my rex election