nevertheless, tom dewey wanted to attack roosevelt for having known about the military events. and what was the president going to do? he felt helpless. he wasn't going to do a thing but let it happen. but general macarthur -- i'm sorry, general marshall roosevelt'sithout knowing, and got a message to envoy,hrough an physically sending somebody to him saying that, you are all wrong. if you break the news that we have now broken the military code this will be a great advantage to the germans and the japanese because the ambassador of japan in berlin is sending messages constantly to tokyo about what he is learning from hitler about movements of the germans. and he is sending it in the codes we have woken, but they do not know we have broken them. was nonplussed by this. he said, i really don't believe you, but i have no evidence otherwise. he spoke with his advisers, and they said it is too dangerous. you better stop it. and so there was never any effort to attack roosevelt for having caused pearl harbor, or having known the codes that were the result of pearl harbor attack. so

hat was probably his last statement about tom dewey. on as inaugurated again inauguration small ceremony. he was not in good shape. days -- i'm sorry, 83 later, he died. april 12, 1945. harry truman became president. there.stop if you have questions, i'll be glad to answer them. i've taken a lot of your time. i thank you for being here. [ applause ] >> questions? yes? over the to see you bright lights. but can you come closer? the whole concept about the public not knolling about roosevelt, for example, in field, if you can drive your packer up on a platform, do the speech st from your car. but you also mention dinner for in town.ters he did how was that handled if he was small all group, in a room? did people realize what the disability was or how was that done? >> there was a bank of microphones set up that he could speak from the seat in the convertible. other occasions, he stood sleight of and by hand, they learned how do this, y sleight of hand, his assistants got him up and standing on his braces and back way.again that and people

dewey got the election results wronk. other than that headline, do you remember anything else about tom mass dewey? are you even sure that his first name was tom mass? >> no, nobody remembers anything about thomas dewey. harry trksz ruman didn't everyone bother running against him. he basically ignored the republican candidate. he ran against the do-nothing congress and he won. and that will forever be known as the do-nothing congress. it's the historic benchmark in our nation for the failure of a political institution, right? for the failure to act. that congress did nothing. for comparison's sake, the 112th congress there, that's the legislative record of the last congress we just had. they say there's nothing new under the sun? bull puckey. we are setting new records for congress doing less than it ever has done before. usa,,e usa. it's officially the least productive congress in the history of congress. and, now, this is the record of the current congress that we're in right now. the current congress, their record so far. we might even beat the record, which we set last year. congress has never

the code of omerta, the blood thing, nobody's going to squeal, once they put heat on these guys, tom dewey, line them up and you can get people talking for months. they put prostitutes -- they would keep people in a building for months at a time. they had consecutive jury where a jury would not be released until after the trial. and you could really go after these guys like that. so you have court testimony. you have confessions. and have you terrific crime reporters. some of the best reporters in the city were crime reporters. there's a lot of evidence you can compile about the life of criminals and despite, you know, without reading these ghost-written, you know, autobiographies and lucciano penned himself and things like that. s and unless you do -- crime was so interwoven in chicago history and detroit history, that it is impossible to do politics without crime and do it right. and i think it is a big mistake by not jump nothing that territory and looking for those kinds of connections. gw bridge. we didn't talk about that side of it. yeah. anybody else? yes, sir. >> when was the first

secretary of defense under harry truman, and the unification of the services, he is playing footsie with tom dewey in the campaign. cutbacks,policies, almostthink about disarmament of the united states in the 1920's. their big drawdowns in the a policy issue, he is forced up by truman. it is such a sad case because -- he ends up in the half will in a nervous write-down and commits suicide. that is a bad situation. lewis johnson is forced out after that. all of those things are problems. rumsfeld, going for a much closer history. the first question was question mark -- was? putin, is her taking advantage of a perceived weakness? guest: i think that is true. i think the situation is only midterms.d by the when you get an essential repudiation on the homefront of a chief executive, that sends message to foreign leaders. the same thing happened to woodrow wilson in 1918 very woodrow in october of 1918 sends out a message to the american people, if you are backing me and you are backing the war, vote for democrats and you do not vote for these republican guys, very much like, my policies are on the bal

dewey beats truman thing. every time you pull that out, it means you're going to lose. tom harkin, democrat, apologize for comments last week he made about joni ernst. >> in this senate race, i've been watching some of these ads. and there's the sense that, joni ernst, she's really attractive, and she sounds nice. well, i got to thinking about that. i don't care if she's as good looking as taylor swift or the nice mr. rogers, but if she votes like michele bachmann, she's wrong for the state of iowa. >> this is a tough counterpunch. >> i was very offended that senator harkin would say that. i think it's unfortunate that he and many of their party believe that you can't be a real woman if you're conservative and you're female. again, i'm greatly offended about that. if my name had been john ernst, attached to my resume, senator harkin would not have said those things. >> that's called an attack from a defensive position. the most powerful thing in politics when you're defending yourself and your honor, people root for you. >> and, chris, one thing that really comes up with th