the fact that there was a reporter there was such incredible luck. >> theodore roosevelt when he diedas only 60. william howard taft died when he was 72. things happened after roosevelt died. before you tell me what it was, how many times when he was president did he offer him a seat on the supreme court? >> three times. it was taft's stream. -- dream. his father was a judge. he was a judge. he was happy as a judge. he should never have gotten into politics. he loved the deliberations. he loved the quietness of it. he didn't like the press. you didn't have to explain decisions if you are in the court. teddy offers it to him twice when he is in the philippines. he can't leave the job. they love him over there. he did a good job. he is almost tempted to do it but he says, my duty is to stay here. he comes back at secretary of war and teddy convinces him to lead the philippines. he becomes the most important person in teddy's cabinet. in 1906, he offers it to him again. he knows the court is going to be making big decisions about the legislation that is being passed by the roosevelt admi

uncle, theodore roosevelt of his room. e were many interesting personalities like a millionaire ehrhardt.melia this was a very important place to mrs. roosevelt because it was her first and only home that she owned on her own. this is where she would start to refer to when she said it felt so good to be home. you mentioned something very quickly about the chairs. >> to see the picture of eleanor and jack kennedy. she switched the chairs so she would look up -- down at him and she would -- he would have to look up. fixed you're watching c-span's first lady series erie. >> i have a question. where are the descendents of fdr and elinor? the would you think about entries direction today? >> why don't we stick with the kids. >> all a virtual dead. the grandchildren are very much alive and active. some of them are involved in public service efforts and goodwill. they are running outlook health programs. once eisenhower was elected, what did eleanor roosevelt do? >> she was not thrilled that eisenhower was president of the united

announced what you were going to do seven or eight years ago, it was going to be a book on theodore roosevelt. at what point did william howard taft make the cover? >> i think what happened is the same as lincoln as i started reading the books about teddy roosevelt, so many books written about him. i just didn't feel i could contribute enough to just write another biography about teddy. great studies about the progressive era. my favorite era in history. favorite historians have written about that era. i needed something a little different. i needed a team of rivals for lincoln. when i started thinking about taft, it would give me an insight to teddy and then the insight to lincoln. he got bigger and bigger in the story as i went along. >> before a packed decatur crowd, he linked taft directly to william larrimore that would be expelled from the illinois legislature to obtain his senate seat. he said earlier he trashed taft. why is there so much respect for him? he feels going against his own party and choice for president. that's a nasty thing for somebody to do. >> i think when historians a

destroyed thomas jefferson called to corpus you indians to extermination nobel peace prize winner theodore roosevelt called beneficial eradication of the native race and of those genocide was official public policy california governor peter burnette in his eight hundred fifty one message to the legislature. extermination must continue to be waged until the indian becomes extinct another govern a should the public proclamations to quote pursue kill and destroy all indians and when it snows the ensuing blood practically wiped out the native race. why should come down like men and women and children forever they could find them in this war of extermination it gives them the standing to the final extinction of the race reportedly saved the race from extinction was they used to slave labor this extermination policy has proved so injurious to the interests of the whites indian labor is indispensable for us slaves the indian girls as young as three said the marysville appeal for fulfilling double roles of labor and of last. ingenius hereditary chief of a hunk someone first nation feel really great to see y

this is well captured by theodore roosevelt. he said practical equality of opportunity for all citizens when we achieve it has two great results. first, every man will have a fair chance to make of himself all that in him lies to reach the highest point to which his capacities unassisted by special privilege of his own, unhampered by the special privilege of others can carry him, to get for himself and his family substantially what he has earned. second, theodore roosevelt continued, equality of opportunity means that the commonwealth will get from every citizen the highest service of which he is capable. no man who carries the burden of the special privileges of another can give to the commonwealth that service to which it is fairly entitled. so theodore roosevelt was speaking in the masculine but he was talking about all citizens, men and women, equality of opportunity for the individual and for the benefit of society. senator ted kennedy summarized this concept much more succinctly. he did so on august 5 of 2009 when the bill

movie lincoln, this tells the story of roosevelt and howard taft, they door roosevelt, william theodore .. roosevelt. >> william howard taft. >> thank you. >> your red sox did it. >> oh, my god, we were there. the happiest day to be there when they won in that stadium. >> rose: game six at home. >> and that they were winning all the time so i didn't have to run around to the bathroom to be afraid. it was great. >> rose: and good for boston. >> it was great for boston. it really was. and that team was a different kind of team that we usually have, scrappy, no big stars. >> rose: exactly. >> except for big papi and they worked together as a team. >> rose: can you imagine, he hit about 7:30 for the entire series. >> i know. incredible. he is magic. >> certainly was magic in the playoffs and series. the bully pulpit, you came to this, because the last time i really talked to you, you are writing a book about teddy roosevelt, what the hell happened? >> well, you know,. >> rose: you couldn't find enough about teddy roosevelt so you had to pull in others. >> never can i write just about the person, but the

from your mistakes and just make sure that you know how to do it right and i have. >> at the theodore rooseveltew york city goodwin remembered how her love of history got started. >> if you come here as a kid as i did, when i went went to roosevelt hyde park you can imagine these people living, walking, getting up out of bed in the morning -- >> and her mission now? to make dead presidents come as alive for her readers as they are for herment. >> if you had to be one of these guys, which would you be? >> probably no question teddy roosevelt. i would venture to project that he was the happiest president we have had. he loved what he was doing. he loved his family. he loved getting up in the morning. he had that energy. >> reporter: he knew how to work and play. >> he knew that. >> as for the teddy-taft friendship it broke apart when roosevelt ran against taft in a third party. the two split the republican vote, democrat woodrow wilson swept into power. >> recently baseball fanatic goodwin had a chance to broker a truce. >> part of my dream is i could bring them back together somehow. so i went t

. >> hard to believe it would start as a hunting trip by president theodore roosevelt 1902.ing a lousy time hunting he could not bag anything so the folks he was traveling with staked out the bear and he said that was not fair and refused to shoot it was a political cartoon with the dutch with an adorable cut it was reproduced. gerri: also other kindss well. >> these are beautiful large animals but nothing like a teddy bear invade our love to death. gerri: this seems like every girl has a barbie doll. >> there were only barbie dolls or friend dolls she was the first to envision how you would be when you were a grown-up. gerri: i never looked like that spinach she was based on a german doll one of the founders of mattel traveling in germany. it was not meant for little girls but for men as a gag gift it tells you about her dimensions. gerri: deal original barbie. >> how attractive is she? berry she cave with dave black negligee and dascus. which she thinks party is pure as the driven snow compared to her predecessor. gerri: this has been very interesting. we hope you enjoyed

soon passed from room to room until it finally wound up gracing president the adore resident theodore roosevelt'sew office. every time the door opens it tinkled, striking him greatly. he ordered it to be sent to the capital and he was supposed to have said, put in the vice president's office and it will keep him awake. and there it remained until my husband became vice president in during mrs. kennedy's 1961. renovation, we were instrumental in returning it to the white house where it hangs today. this room has seen many treaty signings. in our time i've witnessed two treaties here involving the geographic extremes of our country. the first was the treaty which made the summer home of franklin delano roosevelt an international park between canada and the united states. behind this table, prime minister pearson of canada and the has been receded, flanked by their delegations. i remember james roosevelt and ms. grace tully, the president's personal secretary, it was a thrilling look back into the past. and then from the northernmost part of the country to the southernmost. in october of 1967, retur

>> hard to believe it started as a hunting trip by president theodore roosevelt in 1902.s having a lousy time hunting, couldn't bag anything so the folks he was traveling with stake out a bare for him to shoot and he said that was not fair game, refused to shoot it, turned into a political cartoon with an adorable cab and that bear got reproduced in plush. gerri: we're surrounded by other plush animals. >> large animals, nothing like a teddy bear to put to bed at night and snuggle up with and those teddy bears get loved to death. gerri: let's talk about barbies. every girl has of barbie doll but they are different from the ball before them. >> there were only babydoll your friend dolls. she was the first that helped to envision how you would be as a grown-up. gerri: i never looked like that in any of my days. >> barbie was based on a german doll that came before her. ruth handler was traveling in germany and sought this fall. it wasn't meant for the liberals which was meant for men as a gag gift, based on a cartoon in a men's magazine. tells you about her dimensions. gerr

pulpit, william howard taft and the golden age of journalism chronicles the relationship between theodore roosevelt and william howard taft. former speaker newt gingrich argues that the u.s. is on the verge of a scientific renaissance which is threatened by breakout pioneers of the future, and prison guards in the past and epic battle that will decide america's fate. "the bully pulpit" by doris kearns goodwin. in the book "double down" by authors mark halperin and john heilemann, the authors provide the presidential campaign review. and returning to the country was born in and "the ministry of guidance invites you to not stay" by hooman majd. and then in the book "american minor" by deborah solomon, the biographer and author explores the personal life of norman rockwell. it is lauren taylor of the history of health care in america in their book, "the american health care paradox", by authors elizabeth bradley and lauren taylor and then finally,

kimberly went on board the uss theodore roosevelt to see them in action. >> it's designed to make difficultand landings. this is an unmanned aerial drone. it made history when it completed its first landing at sea. but the technology was not yet perfected. >> it came up on the power and sent the aircraft towards the shuttle. they were unable to achieve enough residual thrust to make the transition. >> reporter: the navy is still modifying how it communicates with the carrier. right now takeoff, flights and landing are now fully automated. the u.s. navy insists this particular aircraft will never be able to kill anybody. because after testing it will be retired to a museum, but this is just the beginning of the navy's plan for unmanned flight. there may not be plans to weaponize in unmanned drone, but that doesn't rule out other models. the u.s. military armed the predators during the iraq and afghanistan wars. but these operations require fixed land bases and cooperation with host nations on an aircraft carrier at sea, the rules are different. >> you are sovereign where you are. you don't n

so where theodore roosevelt had created this relationship with the press, woodrow wilson really wanted. but he did was start holding press conferences which a president had never done before. everything that he did was toward personalizing the white house. and toward that end wilson came in with really the most aggressive progressive agenda that we had seen. and he brought it about largely through this process of humanization. and he did it by showing up at the congress. wilson had an extremely peculiar view of how the legislative branch and the executive branch should function. he thought being a political scientist at these two branches -- now get ready, you have to work with me on this, he thought they should cooperate. [applause] think of it. think of it. i mean, he fell literally they should cooperate the government. and so wilson did something presidents have not done since john adams in 1800. he showed up in the congress to conduct business. he brought back the president appearing to deliver the state of the union address. woodrow wilson delivered 25 addresses to a joint session

but it soon passed room-to-room until it finally wound up gracing theodore roosevelt's new office, every time the door opened, it tinkled, distracting him greatly. he ordered it to be sent to the capitol and he supposedly said, put it in the vice president's office and it will keep him awake. and there it remained until my husband became vice president in 196 196 1961. he was instrumental in returning it to the white house where it hangs today. this room has seen many treaty signings. in our time, i've witnessed two treaties here, involving the geographic extremes of our country. the first, the summer home of franklin delano roosevelt and between canada and the united states. behind this table, prime minister persson of canada and my husband was seated, flanked by their delegations. i remember james roosevelt and the president's personal secretary. it was a thrilling result back to the past. then the heart of the country to the southernmost. in october of '67, the treaty was signed here, returning to mexico a small strip of land long in dispute between our countries. what a feeling of go

theodore roosevelt. coming up high technical warfare.nconventional wisdom weeknights - 10 eastern on al jazeera america and to contact the centers and the luzon >> welcome back everyone to al jazeera america. here's a look at your top stories. emergency aid is pouring into the philippines after typhoon haiyan dea devastated the count. 41 difference provinces. america pays tribute to its veterans. president obama places a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery. secretary of state john kerry says the united states and its allies were unified on a declaration for iran, reactor an a uranium mine. joining us now to discuss the talks is rutgers professor hussein are ahmadi. president of the iranian american council. professor good to talk to you. i was totally prepared to have a totally different conversation than the one i think we're about to have. you don't think that there is a deal, just cutting to the chase here. you don't think there is a deal that is going to come out of these talks. even the talks tha

." >> doris kearns goodwin, your , theodore roosevelt, william howard taft and the golden age of journalismif you flip it over, there is a whole other story on the back. i want to ask you to start off, who is this man? >> mcclure, calendar

there are only a few presidents that people get that emotive about in 20th century theodore rooseveltagan and john f. kennedy. maybe harry truman was a better president but he didn't have that public appeal the way that kennedy did. the fact that the berlin wall goes up and a lot of people told kennedy to go to war and bulldoze it down. instead he went at the wall and gave that extraordinary speech there. and to point out that totalitarianism is what's wrong, america is about opportunity. his speeches live in the annals of public oratory. >> in summary what do we say about john f. kennedy? ten days or so until the anniversary itself. how should he be remembered? >> he should be remembered as a significant, important president. but you see what gives him so much of a powerful hold on the current generation is the fact that people don't like his successors. lyndon johnson, the failure in vietnam. nixon watergate, ford, carter. the two bushes. kennedy alongside of them has a halo over his head. >> he certainly does. i've got to leave it there. sorry to interrupt. it's been a fascinating

." >> doris kearns goodwin, your new book, "the bully pulpit: theodore roosevelt, william howard taftnd the golden age

what they didn't count on was the intervention of president theodore roosevelt. >> joined by the directorat episode "a football life" on the nfl network, neil zender. so, neil, one of the things -- in fact during the whole run-up on safety issues over the past couple of years and about the idea should the president get involved, should congress get involved, a lot of people have written, in fact, that actually the first major issue with the nfl -- or excuse me with football, pre-nfl days, was government intervention that essentially saved the game with teddy roosevelt because he was a big fan. is that the reason? >> that's right, chuck. teddy roosevelt was a big believer in football, and as the national movement coalesced to ban football, he panicked because he thought that football was a central part in creating the american character in young boys. he looked at the country and saw a country whose pioneer spirit was fading away as the industrial age began. america was a country of pilgrims who'd sailed across the atlantic on the mayflower, a country of pioneers who'd gone across the oreg

joined by doris concerns goodwin, pulitzer prize winner and author of the book "the bully pulpit theodore rooseveltof journalism." thank you for being here. >> glad to be here. >> thanks for classing up the joint. president obama, a huge fan of your last book "team of rivals" obviously in the initial stages of his presidency. he had a lot of rivals, joe biden, hillary clinton, he tried to get a republican senator judd gregg, et cetera, what lessons can he take from this book which is about how teddy roosevelt and william howard taft worked with journalists to create the progressive era? >> i think the most important thing is that what the term bully pulpit means, you've got the platform to mobilize the country, to put pressure on a congress. does he ever need to put pressure on a congress, but you have to have a good relationship with the press to do it. teddy had the most remarkable relationship. he let them in when he was having his shaving hour. the poor barber trying to talk to him when had he was shaving. they had lunch, dinner, breakfast with them. he was friends with the press. >> he was the

. >> the man i just lived with, theodore roosevelt, was in a similar position.aybe a different kind of idealogy than his party at the time. through the force of his personality, he dragged the republican party to deal with the issues that were created by the industrial age. similar in a certain way to some of the traits that chris christie has. he was a fighter, he was blunt, he had energy, he had a sense of knowing how to address complex issues and make them very simple, speak softly and carry a big stick, you know, special interests. square deal. that's kind of the way you got to do it but you have to say to your own party -- he would say to the lerepublican party, if y don't come with me on these issues, the republican party is going to be dead. >> meanwhile, congresswoman, as much as you might like these fissures in the republican party, democrats are dealing with health care and headlines that struck me over the weekend, "a white house in crisis mode but some allied prod for more action." in the column this morning he writes the following, a president famou

." >> your new book, "the bullypulpit," theodore roosevelt, william howard taft and the golden age, you flip it over, there's a whole other story on the bike. i want you to start off with who's this man right here? >> the founder of the magazine, one

some of you probably seem pictures and i will say it's also right on the boundary of theodore rooseveltational park. i think i saw teddy over there. i know it's hollowing but i think -- is just come back from the dead to join us. we are taking care of your park except as oil and gas development going near. we're trying to work on that. [laughter] i just have to say during the visit was learned a lot about how companies were directional drilling, have a smaller footprint on the land and the drillinbuilding methods that wed when i was in industry, i also went out to theodore roosevelt national park and i met with a superintendent who just got an award for the work that she did in working with developers there to help them recognize the impact of development on the national parks. she described it as something like playing whack-a-mole, where just as she thought she had one area protected and worked with companies who are going to develop there and he decided to move based on a conversation with her, should someone else over here. she said i live in fear of taking a few days off. we want t

movie lincoln, this tells the story of roosevelt and howard taft, they door roosevelt, william theodore .. roosevelt. >> william howard taft. >> thank you. >> your red sox did it. >> oh, my god, we were there. the happiest day to be there when they won in that stadium. >> rose: game six at home. >> and that they were winning all the time so i didn't have to run around to the bathroom to be afraid. it was great. >> rose: and good for boston. >> it was great for boston. it really was. and that team was a different kind of team that we usually have, scrappy, no big stars. >> rose: exactly. >> except for big papi and they worked together as a team. >> rose: can you imagine, he hit about 7:30 for the entire series. >> i know. incredible. he is magic. >> certainly was magic in the playoffs and series. the bully pulpit, you came to this, because the last time i really talked to you, you are writing a book about teddy roosevelt, what the hell happened? >> well, you know,. >> rose: you couldn't find enough about teddy roosevelt so you had to pull in others. >> never can i write just about the person, but the

they represent the future of warfare and al jazeera kimberly went aboard the theodo theodo theodore rooseveltorter: this is the unmanned aerial drone and made history in july and the technology is not yet perfected and on this day the drone was not able to take off on its first run. >> it came up on the power with the aircraft towards the shuttle and unable to achieve enough residual for us to make that transition. >> reporter: the navy is still modifying how the x 47 b talks with the carrier and later tests succeeded and take off and flight and landing are automated and the code allows the drone to fly without a human pilot. u.s. navy insists this particular aircraft will never be able to kill anybody because after testing it will be retired to a museum. but the science on display here is just the beginning of the navy's plan for unmanned flights. there may not be plans to put weapons on it because doesn't rule out future models and u.s. airforce ruled out the predator drone in the 90s and during the wars in iraq and afghanistan they armed the predators and have drone strikes in pakistan and

just chosen at random to kind of signify the different eras that you wrote about--is one of theodore roosevelt, who is the president at the turn of the century. what do you think of him? >> guest: energy and a--a locomotive with pants, i think somebody once called him. this is at grant's tomb, decoration day. and look at the guys in the front row to start with--not everybody paying attention. but--but--but roosevelt brought in a stream of fresh, pure, bracing air from the mountains, and he just gave the country such unbelievable sense of energy. you go--said richard washburn describing him after a visit to the white house, 'you go into his presence, you feel his eyes on you. you listen to him. you go home, and you wring the personality out of your children' an extraordinary man of adventure. the panama canal--we were very struck by david mccullough's book on the--on the panama canal and teddy roosevelt's devotion of energy to that. changed another dimension of america and the rest of the world. c-span: you have a list in the back of the book of 100 suggestions. >> guest: yeah. i'm glad you not

course a funeral march were the reigning monarchs of europe, theodore roosevelt presents -- somewhatuse he was an elected chief of state. today of course much of that has changed. the reigning monarchs present here are few. the elected heads of states are in the majority. in the first two cars are the children of attorney general and brother-in- law sargent shriver. mrs. johnson, the president. thisecret service along long route. [bagpipes playing] >> that is st. matthew's cathedral. mr. kennedy and mrs. kennedy have worshiped here often in the past. it is the closest catholic church to the white house. admission to the funeral service is by ticket only because there are only 1100 seats and side, clearly not enough for all the visitors, family, friends, and others who would like to come. come who would like to would issue invitations and send out a card to those invited. hanging over the entrance to the church. displayed on the death posts. cathedral is something of a landmark in washington, even though it is now somewhat physically overshadowed. and johnennedy kennedy. f. kennedyn j