thanks for the invitation, and here is to theodore roosevelt. [applause] >> commemorating the 1903 construction of roosevelt hall. this is about 15 minutes. >> first of all, welcome everybody. this is a great event. this is our second -- this is going to be an annual event. what i am particularly pleased with is the theodore roosevelt association, which was created shortly after tr died to commemorate his memory. one of the things we do is we have established a new relationship with this institution. every year, the leading prize is called the theodore roosevelt award. i was honored to come down here faster, and hopefully will come this year where we gave the , first award. chosen by thes leadership. will -- thefourth first one. it was a huge challenge for students here. we cannot allow this to happen again. something is wrong with the administration or something, it was unanimous. ofmust have given up a lot aussie beer or something. he is a wonderful guy. totried to get him to come our annual meeting, which is held in october. he said it was a

to me, this building, the first moment i saw it, i thought about theodore roosevelt. to me, it looks like he wanted to be. it is a building with great shoulders. it exemplifies power to me and stability. president roosevelt, from the moment he had the idea of world leadership for the united states, he wanted to express it in this building. let me give you a feel for mcnair itself and the early history of the national college. fort mcnair was established in 1794. i always thought it was a great military lesson for us. when i first got here as a refugee from capitol hill, i came to this post and i saw this building, walking around the grounds, especially in summer, and i saw the cannon facing the water. indeed, this port was designed to protect us against enemies coming from sea. unfortunately, the brits in the war of 1812 decided to come from land. they finished destroying the capital building under construction. it is always the first lesson in military planning to anticipate the unanticipated. this is the only u.s. fort that was ever lost to a foreign enemy. during th

announcer: we have just heard about theodore roosevelt's role in creating the national war college in washington, d.c. next, on the presidency, tweed roosevelt placed tribute to his great-grandfather with remarks in the college rotunda. he speaks in front of a marker commemorating the 1903 construction of roosevelt hall. this is 15 minutes. >> first of all, welcome everybody. this is our second -- this is going to be an annual event. the theodore roosevelt association, which was created shortly after tr died to commemorate his memory, and one of the things we do is we have established a new relationship with this institution. every year, the leading prize that goes to students is called the theodore roosevelt prize, and i was honored to come down here last year where we gave the first award. it was a huge challenge for students here. we cannot allow this to happen again. he must have given a lot of -- or something. he is a wonderful guy. our annual meeting is held in october. it is a great honor for the tra to establish this relationship. we have relationships with other military oper

thanks for the invitation, and here is to theodore roosevelt. [applause] >> commemorating the 1903 construction of roosevelt hall. this is about 15 minutes. >> first of all, welcome

on that plaque, it recognizes of president theodore roosevelt's secretary of war. was the individual who carried out the vision president roosevelt had of modernizing the armed forces. in his cornerstone speech that he delivered when the cornerstone was laid, president roosevelt articulated four large goals he had. the largest was the establishment of general staff. he wanted to modernize the army. he wanted to modernize our national guard as a national militia, and he wanted to provide for the training of the officers and men of the army. root is recognized because of his recognition to modernize the armed forces. president roosevelt also said in that speech it should be a matter of pride and congratulations for every american citizen interested in the welfare of the country that the foundation stone of the building was being laid. our military could be prepared to bring peace in order for our nation to play its great role in a time of war. with the assured self-confidence armed, president roosevelt's words. the cornerstone that gave us this building, roosevelt hal

in addition to theodore roosevelt? lindsay: the roosevelts, both of them, are huge. fdr was in the white house for a long time. he was going to have a huge impact. after him, truman oversaw a huge renovation. i also think jackson was a huge player, under jackson's presidency, the first time the east room is finished properly. that is a huge moment. then moving backwards, i would say the combination of madison and monroe, the white house burned in 1814 during the war of 812. he rebuild and making sure it stayed in washington, d.c. which was questioned. refinishing it to be a proper house of state, that was a huge decision and had a huge impact. host: how much of a white house that people get to see today is original? matthew: are we talking about sandstone walls? [laughter] matthew: going off of what lindsay said, when truman does the renovation, he essentially, the building is gutted. they try to save different materials to reuse them. some can be salvaged but others can't. this is when they start the souvenir program and are giving people bits and pieces of the whit

i think we need to recover the courage of theodore roosevelt who challenged the biggest company of his time and became president, the john rockefellers and the j.p. morgan's he stood up to them and told them. we need courageous enforcers but i think the public is clamoring for something. we started talking -- one of the things about monopoly, just a matter of economics. it starts to bleed into politics and culture in an to what we call the news and facebook is the poster child. it got extremely large, they only cared about money and growth, they did not take the position responsibly, they ended up being hacked, instagram to which they controlled in the 2016 election. and they had a terrible effect on what passed in the news. so the social effects and political effects of facebook are enormous. amazon is another example. they are taking over industries, having an enormous effect of how people buy things. a lot of people like that because they're cheap but there's something to be said for that. the other hand, the externalities, side effects on labor and retail haven't fully been thought

i think we need to recover the courage of theodore roosevelt who challenged the biggest companies of his time when he became president, the john rock fellers and jp morgueance. he stood up to them. so i think we need courageous enforcers but i think the public is clamoring for something. i think -- we started talking about the scurs of bigness. i think one of the things about monopoly is not just a matter of economics. it starts to bleed into politics, into culture and into what we call the news. and facebook is sort of the poster child i think of the curse of bigness. they got extremely large. they only cared about money and growth. they didn't take their position responsibly. they ended up being effectively hacked. instagram, too, which they controlled during the 2016 election. they've kind of had this terrible effect on what passes as news. so the social effects and the political effects of facebook are enormous. amazon is another example. they're taking over industries. having enormous effect on how people buy things. a lot of people buy them because they're cheap. there's someth

i think we need to recover the courage of theodore roosevelt biggestlenged the companies of his time when he johne president, the rockefellers and the j.p. morgans. them.od up to i think we need courageous enforcers. but i think the public is clamoring for something. i think, you know, this -- we started talking about the curse of bigness. of the things about monopoly, it's not just a matter economics. it starts to bleed into politics, into culture, and into the news.ll and facebook is sort of the poster child, i think, of the bigness. they got extremely large. they only cared about money and growth. take their position responsibly. they ended up being effectively hacked. which theyoo, controlled during the 2016 election. they kind of had this terrible effect on what passes as news. the social effects and the political effects of enormous.re amazon is another example. you know, they're taking over having enormous effect on how people buy things. a lot of people like them, cheap. they're there's something to be said for that. on the other hand, these sort of the sidethings, effects on

administration is the unprecedented attacks on the antiquities act which has stood since president theodore roosevelt. the president reduced a national monument by 85% and grand staircase by over 45%. the largest rollback of protections for our collective federal lands in history and in unlawful presidential action in my view. each of the monument is home to the ruggedly beautiful lands that are at a risk. the designation was the result of many years of hard work and collaboration by five tries to trace their ancestry to this now the department is pushing to open up p the land outside of their boundaries for cold and mineral mining corporations. last month i had 16 democratic senators with a letter to mr. bernhard seeking his commitment to leave existing boundaries of other national monuments in fact. so far we have received no assurance that any other monuments won't meet the same fate. the pattern is clear from the arctic refuge to california's central valley, from the atlantic coast, the department places profits over people. the american public deserves an interior secretary they can trust to loo

first, arkansas congressman french hill and janet breslin smith talk about theodore roosevelt's interest in education and his role in founding the college. >> i think everybody is seated. there may be others who will be joining us later.

doug: i like theodore roosevelt. how he wrote over 35 bucks, 130 50,000 letters. his writing is about america's outlook -- outdoor senior wonders. he was an avid reader also. spoke foreign-language is. he may not be quite the legal intellectual of thomas jefferson who was almost -- also a fine writer but i would put tr at the top. richard: i would say lincoln. in a utilitarian way. lincoln is the a great -- is the original great communicator. there was no public opinion polls. he was flying by the seat of his pants. and exposure he did have two people, which he went out of his way even in wartime to make sure was possible. if you look at the second inaugural address, i would argue it is the greatest sermon in american history. and i do not think -- i also think maybe the second greatest .peech by a president it is actually wilson's speech and april, 1917. when wilson who had been very reluctant to take america into finally decided he had no choice. once he decided that, he became a crusader. and he wrote an extraordinary speech. i recommend everyone take a look at

it wasn't called the white house until the -- theodore roosevelt dubbed that. so the executive mansion, lincoln flew when so vulnerable. i landed at dulles airport which is very close to the battle of bull run. half of the country is putting up confederate flags and trying to find a way to keep america cobbled together. i am always amazed that we were able to hold an election in our country. lincoln is able to get reelected. when you think about it, the gettysburg address, the first and second inaugural are almost foundational text. like the bill of rights or the constitution, we are not a full nation without addressing lincoln's accomplishments. and the emancipation proclamation, the original sin of the united states with slavery. lincoln gets to be the person that leads the abolitionist crusade from the white house. and finally, his assassination. john wilkes booth. kids study it. lincoln's body moved back to springfield where he is buried there. the train arrived, but the casket went across the country for the exact same moment that the union soldiers were l

didn't get named the white house until theodore roosevelt called it there. the battle of bull run virginia, where the confederates were close to washington. you are watching a president having to navigate himself through these dangerous times and in the end he won another second term. in 1864 he won an election in the middle of the civil war as a victorious commander in chief. some of the things that he wrote are almost like foundational texts, emancipation proclamation, gettysburg address, and both of his inaugurals. so together there really is nobody like lincoln. the only person knitting on his heels is george washington -- nipping on his heels is george washington. host: what do you think of the top five, dean medford? guest: they are able to rise to the occasion in moments of crisis. they had great vision for the country and were able to that thete in ways guys at the bottom were not able to. guest: yeah, lincoln had that marvelous line at a particularly critical juncture in the war where he said that the occasion is piled high with difficulty and we mu

he's so famous that theodore roosevelt asked him to join a new national commission for the fine arts. he has had enough of the way the national mall looks. it's too hard to get the dc government to clear land and make decisions or he's going to create a national commission. french agrees to serve. he actually sort of leaves his conservative republican roots, and takes a fancy to theodore roosevelt. taft is the one who forms the commission, and french goes to work there. this is the commission at work. daniel chester french of the head of the table. well, this is going to present a bit of a problem, because, the next big project is a project deferred since 1865, and that is a statue of lincoln in washington. now, washington has a statues of lincoln. thomas ball has a statue of the emancipator is already in washington. long binaries statue of lincoln is already in washington. but, the centennial commission is determined to build a temple to honor lincoln. and, this is the man they choose to do it. he looks very much like a businessman, this is made around that time, this is when he join

and that is the same as theodore roosevelt, wherever he would go he would try to be positive and optimistic as president, so much so, that doctor kay jamison head of psych psychiatry john hopkine a book called exuberance, all about -- theodore roosevelt was a poster child which she set the form of manic depression, where every thing is positive, and you think that is political blather but they come into her room and say you look wonderful, isn't it beautiful, look at the chandelier as a coping mechanism for not falling into despair and in fact he had a day in his life as a young legislator, lawmaker where he got called from albany to york city and on the same house that he was born in in new york, you could go there and visit today, the national park service runs it, he had his mother and your mother on one floor and his wife alice on another forgiving birth and she was sick and he shoveled between two floors that evening in they both died. he lost his mother and his wife on the same day. he put in his diary, as historians will look at other people's leadings and thanks for living but he pu

so this is theodore roosevelt. maybe this is not so odd given that personality but roosevelt could not appreciate jokes told at his expense. roosevelt himself did not take tell jokes but most presidents eventually would get to the point where they would learn to laugh when people made jokes about him because that was the easiest way of dealing with it. roosevelt had to train himself to do it there was one moment when he considered his most important accomplishment as president to be getting the panama canal under construction. this was his contribution to world history he's at. to get it going he essentially had to have a revolution in panama to break it free from columbia and under international law or even ordinary codes of ethics it was highly problematic. roosevelt can be in a cabinet session to basically convince everybody that he had done the right thing. after he gave this long notification his attorney general stood up and said mr. president, really you should not let such a great accomplishment as this be t

the executive mansion, it wasn't called the white house until theodore roosevelt dubbed it that so thecutive mansion and very light security keeping animals in the front lawn and lincoln is sitting there so vulnerable and i flew in today from austin and landed in dulles airport, which is very close to the battle of bull run where the confederates won the first battle of bull run and there's abraham lincoln sitting in the white house would have the country putting up confederate flags and trying to find a way to keep america cobbled together. he did it in a miraculous way. i'm always amazed we are able in our country to hold an election in 1864 in lincoln's able to get reelected but when you think about it, the gettysburg address lincoln's first and second goggles are almost foundational texts. meeting they are like the declaration of independence or bill of rights or constitution, we aren't a full nation without addressing lincoln's accomplishment and of course the emancipation proclamation of the original sin of the united states is slavery here lincoln gets to be the person who leads

first, arkansas congressman french hill and janet breslin smith talk about theodore roosevelt's interest in education and his role in founding the college. >> i think everybody is seated.

general theodore roosevelt. they had allowed the discipline to slack. they were good fighters. it was not necessarily a healthy thing for the army to have this kind of thinking. they are relieved not for competence or cause but for disciplinary reasons. and roosevelt were too valuable to send home for good. commands the 101st airborne division. roosevelt earns the medal of honor on d-day, was about to get his own division level command and died of a heart attack. needed aoper division new culture. knowing what you know, their insular he and resentment against outsiders come you can imagine how happy they are going to be about these really popular commanders, people you would have known and seen throughout north africa and sicily, people you would have felt a connection with being cashiered. when you have received this momentous mission of leading the invasion of france, which they deeply resented because they thought we had done enough, we are supposed to go home and train new people to do this stuff. combat soldiers always think once we have done our battle, let someone else c

the hero of that eric was theodore roosevelt. he's thinking is this a good policy or not, but progressives do, hate the big, fight the big, reform government and cleaned up. he had to work in it but he was often assigned to clean up government, to shut and offices. he evaluating this whole time. what to mention he had a mentor who is also silent. i could did know this and i beo research in massachusetts at the forbes library for much of his material is. that was called w murray crane, senator crapo helped tr with coal strikes. crane was of the crane paper company. he was a businessman and the crane paper company, something called government, printed the dollar. in a very interesting way, crane knew about the u.s. economy through the dollar, to how much he printed. crane was silent, rarely spoke. he was the worcester, massachusetts, leader versus the boston leader in massachusetts politics, and that was his mentor. , how much of the crash of 29, 1929 could be blamed on coolidge? he left in, what, march -- ? >> guest: imagine the s

andgs aren't looking good, then with theodore roosevelt , and olympiabirth is not quite the beginning, but very close to that, and that is the start of all metal construction. olympia is the oldest steel warship on the planet, at the moment. and as for technology, it was fast evolving, ships were becoming obsolete all must as fast as they were being built. england was at the cutting edge of that technology and quite wenkly, in olympia's era, were just building the industrial resources to be able to produce something like this. there were a lot of problems in construction at the time, with advances in steelmaking and the contracts changing to get the latest kind of steel into the ship, and those kinds of things, a lot of growing pains going on in that era. the ship's main armament change? pictures from world war i show no tourette's and a single mount on each end. mr. brady: right where i showed that picture of the ship sunk, she goes into the yard and part of the job is to change up all of her armament. she has those open-emplacement five-inch guns. our primary purpose at this point i

administration is antithetical to every principle of conservation and conservatism and every tenet of theodore roosevelt's grand old party. whether it is stewardship of god's creation can take your choice. the u.s. must rejoin the paris climate accords and adopt ofgets consonant with those other industrialized nations. we must protect our economy, yes, but we must also recognize that increased natural disasters and unfamiliar weather patterns threaten to strip the snow from our white mountains and to melt the mountain glaciers worldwide upon which hundreds of millions of people depend for their only water supply. europe has its cathedrals and monuments. we have our mountains, canyons, valleys, rivers, and streams, and we had better take care of them. host: let's go to our next caller, a republican. he lives in michigan. what did you think listening to the former governor? caller: i think it is insanity. with respect to the paris treaty, the u.s. was the only large nation to reduce emissions. we did so significantly. the rest of the world, including european union nations, increased emissions. co2 is not a

administration is antithetical to every principle of conservation and conservatism, and every tenant of theodore roosevelt's grand old party. whether it's as protection of a fragile ecosystem, or a stewardship of god's creation, there is a pressing need to act on climate change. the united states must rejoin the paris climate accords and adopt targets consonant with those of other industrialized nations. must protect our economy, yes, but we must also recognize that increased natural disasters and unfamiliar weather patterns actually threatened to strip the snow from our white mountains. mountainlt all the glaciers worldwide upon which hundreds of millions of people defend depends for their only water supply. europe has its cathedrals and monuments. mountains, canyons, valleys, rivers and streams, and we had damn well better take care of them. host: our caller who is a inublican, ui in -- eli michigan. what do you think about this? caller: with respect to the we did soty, significantly. [indiscernible] that does not -- last time i checked, will be mammoth ncb to -- and sabertooth tigers marketable --] a am

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president, theodore roosevelt. numerous additional laws are passed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that aim to curb japanese and asian immigration to the united states the building is also associated with the evacuation and relocation and incarceration of u.s. citizens and residents of japanese descent during world war ii. following the signing of the executive order numbered 1966 by president franklin roosevelt, they were seized -- they are forced to cease operation and to the building was seized by the government for used -- use as eight used as a process centre where citizens were required to report before they were incarcerated and relocated to concentration camps around the united states. the building is also associated with community organizing and activism, among african-americans in san francisco during the mid-20th century, as home as the booker t. washington community centre were from 1942 to 1952, which provided neighborhood african-american youth with a space or social educational and recr

deferred maintenance backlog in the park, theodore roosevelt national park, as you know you're working on a presidential library. we've talked about that. we ask one, you're willing to help us with that. teddy roosevelt spent a lot of time out there. incredible, beautiful bad lands. just amazing. not only that project, but the other is the deferred maintenance backlog. we're working with lamar alexander and others to address the deferred maintenance in our national parks. really critical. i know you support it. but we'd like you on the record on both issues. >> we are absolutely behind that. it's part of our budget. we'll work with you on it. >> i believe we have a chance to get it. it's so important for our national parks. also, i chair the indiana fairs committee and would ask that you come to our committee and testify. are you willing to do that? >> of course, sir. >> okay. one of the pieces of legislation we passed recently is the tribal energy resource act. it gives tribes more control on their reservations over energy development, how they do it, traditional, renewable, whatever

because i think there is a misconception that theodore roosevelt did everything himself. rooseveltedith contributes to a lot of his different ideas and policies. when they moved into the white house, she drew this diagram of where the children were sleeping on the second floor. she put her office, which was the second floor oval room, and it is next door to the president's office. they shared a door. when he goes down to see the digging of the panama canal, who does he bring with him? edith roosevelt. of first lady responsibilities, you see something shifting at the turn-of-the-century. a differentd relationship. it was something that they treated each other much more like partners and equals when it came to things like politics, but also family. host: women still cannot vote at that time. matthew: exactly. this is a you look -- question for both, when you look at the history of the white house, which presidents were most influential in changing the building to what we know today? the roosevelts, both of them, are huge. fdr was in the white house for a long time. he was g

announcer: next on the presidency, it has been 116 years since president theodore roosevelt made his way to an already historic army fort in washington, d.c. to oversee the cornerstone laying of what is now known as the national war college. the building, whose construction began february 21, 1903, is named roosevelt hall. in about 40 minutes, we hear from the 26th president great-grandson, tweed.

years after serving as president, theodore roosevelt famously mounted a failed third party run in 1912 88 electoral votes versus woodrow wilson's 435. ross perot was the last third party candidate to make it to the debate stage. >> thank you. >> in 1992, the billionaire won 19% of the popular vote. he was widely criticized for splitting the republican vote. he followed that effort up in 196 winning 8%. in 2,000, winning 3% of the popular vote ralph nader's run blamed in part for costing al gore the presidency. so i want to take a quick poll of this audience. if you could, show of hands, in this room, who thinks if mr. schultz ran as an independent that essentially would be handing a second term to president trump. raise your hands if you believe that. >> not that many. >> bret: okay. what do you make of that? >> i think that's quite encouraging. i mean, obviously, what you just showed is emblematic of the past. let's talk about the future and where we are today. so, first off, and i think this is really important. certainly in my lifetime i'm 65 years old. i have never witnessed such a

bad air out was it theodore roosevelt so he's thinking is a good good policy or no not with progressives to? fipa begin reform government waited up. he certainly have to work and was often assigned to clean up government to shut down offices but he is evaluating this stuff full time. i want to mention he had a mentor who is also silent. i didn't know this until i began to search in massachusetts at the library where much of his materials were. i was called w. murray crane. senator crane to help it with coal strikes. crane was of the crane paper company. he was a businessman and the crane paper company. the dollar. in a very interesting way crane knew about the u.s. economy through the dollar and how much he. crane was silent, rarely spoke. he was a western massachusetts leader ursus the boston leader in massachusetts politics. i was coolidge's mentor. buy how much of the crash of 1929 could be blamed on coolidge? he left in march of 29. >> guest: imagined the stock market where i teach to the stock market was 100 for a long time. then it went up 200 very high. coolidge has seen a lot of

didn't get named the white house until theodore roosevelt called it there. battle of bull run virginia, where the confederates were close to washington. you are watching a president having to navigate himself through these dangerous times and in the end he won another second term. in 1864 he won an election in the middle of the civil war as a victorious commander in chief. some of the things that he wrote are almost like foundational texts, emancipation proclamation, gettysburg address, and both of his inaugurals. so together there really is nobody like lincoln. the only person knitting on his heels is george washington -- nipping on his heels is george washington. host: what do you think of the top five, dean medford? guest: they are able to rise to the occasion in moments of crisis. they had great vision for the country and were able to that thete in ways guys at the bottom were not able to. guest: yeah, lincoln had that marvelous line at a particularly critical juncture in the war where he said that the occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must r

when it comes to ages at inauguration time, it was theodore roosevelt at -- sworn september 15, 19 none, president john f. kennedy at 43 years and seven months and when it comes to the oldest president's at inauguration, it was donald trump at a 70 years and seven months followed by president ronald reagan at 69 years 11 months. amy is next in texas, hello. caller: yes, sir. i am calling in regards to the age related issue and yes, i personally think the age related issue is important. if air traffic controllers are forced to retire at the age of 56, and that is for a good reason. if an air traffic controller has to retire at the age of 56, then maybe we should consider all of the factors that a president would be under the kind of makes and be forced to instantaneous worldwide public facing decisions clearly age should be a factor. i am in agreement with the gentleman who said we would like an fbi background check. we would, we would like an fbi background check before they are president. we would like some vetting. host: senator sanders said when it came to age, that was a factor, b

administration is antithetical to every principle of conservation and conservatism and every tenet of theodore roosevelt'srand old party. whether it is stewardship of god's creation can take your choice. the u.s. must rejoin the paris climate accords and adopt ofgets consonant with those other industrialized nations. we must protect our economy, yes, but we must also recognize that increased natural disasters and unfamiliar weather patterns threaten to strip the snow from our white mountains and to melt the mountain glaciers worldwide upon which hundreds of millions of people depend for their only water supply. europe has its cathedrals and monuments. we have our mountains, canyons, valleys, rivers, and streams, and we had better take care of them. host: let's go to our next caller, a republican. he lives in michigan. what did you think listening to the former governor? caller: i think it is insanity. with respect to the paris treaty, the u.s. was the only large nation to reduce emissions. we did so significantly. the rest of the world, including european union nations, increased emissions. co2 is not a p