fdr understood and hopkins shared fdr's convictions that the united states was the only power in the words that have genuinely global interests. the soviet union understandably was largely concerned with fighting the germans. china was fighting for survival on significant numbers of japanese forces in china throughout the entire war. britain did have a global empire that britain had been so reduced by the war that its objectives became somewhat more narrow. churchill was hoping once the war was won and once the soviet union was in the war and the americans in the war at the end of 1941 was pretty clear hitler would be defeated and churchill in particular could begin looking at other objectives beyond winning the war for example recouping as much of the british empire as possible. americans had an interest in all that logistical theaters in the world. roosevelt shared with his military chiefs the idea we have mobility. we have air power the ability of not only our own friends but the friends of our allies as well. another very important specific aspect of roosevelt's leadership and wh

we've been allied with the saudis since fdr concluded an agreement in the mid 1930s. they feel so abandoned by the united states they feel the u.s. is in such decline and is so cozying up with iran that they are actually reaching out to the russians. tells you a lot about where we are. jimmy carter was right on thfrment this. obama actually thinks that he's become a reagan ex because of the opening to cuba and to iran is simply delusional. reagan succeeded because he defeated the soviets by resisting them and essentially driving them into surrender. obama's works, his great achievement is surrender to cuba by getting nothing in return. and what he's going to be doing next week surrendering to iran. so that is sort of the mirror image of what reagan did and yet obama thinks that's a great world historical achievement. >> and on iraq the deadline is extended for working out the nuclear deal. i want to play what john kerry had to say about where we are in that process. >> we are working very very hard and we have some very difficult issues. but we believe we're making progress. and we're going to continue to work

united states on the west coast in 1940. comes all the way to new york city and at that point it's the run up for world war ii and fdr and others are getting ready for it and there's a selective service and he's drafted into the u.s. army. now, another program they had in the u.s. army was the army specialized training program, in the u.s. army was the army specialized training program. in which they would take out mar tir army g.i.s, send them to college for better education and make better use of them. george became a part of the astp and was sent to city college in upper manhattan. and then in the most fortuitous situation, which no one could have predicted and it was just a lucky hit for the soviets george is selected for the special engineer detachment. we heard quite a bit about about it. but they were the junior members that assisted the senior scientists. they were graduate students, they were a special group and they were very important. george gets tapped for that and gets sent to oakridge tennessee. he has the run of the place. and he's using instruments that were designed earlier, the person who designed them measur

i don't think the nazis would never have won the war against the united states fdr or no fdr because once they went to war with britain, the soviet union and the united states the war was over. it was only a question of when. that is number one. number 2, the gentleman just touched on the lassitude by fdr in the face of african-americans and civil rights which is an obvious fact. fdr for all his greatness and i think he was a great president did not live up to what he could have when it came to three groups of people who were helpless and the president of the united states more than anyone else was in a position to play a role in helping them, number one, african-americans, number 2 jewish refugees from the nazis and number 3, the internment of japanese-americans following pearl harbor. i will leave it at that because we are pressed for time but those are the comments. [applause] >> do you want to address that? >> no question about it. given political realities of the democratic self perhaps he could have used the bully pulpit. [inaudible] >> one person with the the most ability. >> i