country that in many ways was created in exchange for permission to build with former us president theodore roosevelt called an epic suite with us military help. panama declared independence from columbia. 1903, allowing roosevelt to build the panama canal. and engineering wonder that made navigation possible between the atlantic and pacific oceans. the panamanians soon demanded sovereignty over the canal zone. step dynamo rides with dunc stock, but it was january the 1964 when a robust kind of minion students came here to what was the balance for high school, only for american students. they was having a panamanian flag, which they insisted should also be of wasted. next to the us flag right here, is scuffle long, sued and dependent minions. students been joined, others further down to the main road. and that's where a group of american soldiers came gun down and killed 20 of them, an injured 500 others for panama. that was the last straw, the president of panama broke diplomatic ties with us and said that they would not be renewed until washington decided to seriously negotiate the return of the ca

eleanor roosevelt sees films as a force for culture and how the movies can help keep us out of war. followed democracy on screen in 1947 for modern screen. her daily newspaper column, my day, reveals that the roosevelt viewed films regularly and she'd offered movie recommendations to readers. these are especially prevalent from the thirties and forties. when the white house had a special screening room and movies were a major of relaxation for the commander in chief and guests, including british prime minister winston churchill, a profile in movie on movies in the white house noted that she was often too busy with her mail in evenings, so she didn't watch as many films as the president. although little women was a favorite, however, eleanor's involvement would expand to lending her name to advertising for samuel goldwyn movies like stella, dallas, our very own, and her voice in script writing talents to civil defense films, women in defense and training women for war production. starting in the late 1930s, sons james and elliott and daughter anna all became involved in the entertainm

in the second world war, franklin roosevelt use an executive order to put japanese—americans into puticans into detention centres. it's important to note while executive orders can have the same power as federal law, executive orders can also be challenged in the courts. bill clinton signed an executive order in 1995 preventing the federal government from giving contracts to firms that hire permanent replacement workers during strikes. a year later, the order was avoided by a federal appeals court. donald trump's new executive order to end birthright citizenship automatic american citizenship granted anyone born in the united states has already drawn a legal challenge on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. the 14th amendment of the constitution explicitly states that all persons born or naturalised in the united states are citizens of the united states. congress can also pass a law to override an executive order, though the president still has a veto over that law. they are at the heart of profound questions of where power lies in the american political system and even what sort

let us resolve to make our government a place for what franklin roosevelt called bold. persist that experimentation a government for our tomorrows, not our yesterdays. let us give this capital back to the people to whom it belongs. to renew america, we must meet challenges abroad, as well as at home. there is no longer a clear division between what is and what is domestic. the world economy. the world environment. the world aids crisis. the world arms race. they affect us all. today as an old order passes, the new world is free but less stable. communism's collapse it has called forth old animosities and new dangers. clearly, america must continue to lead the world. we did so much to make while america rebuilds at home. we will not shrink from the challenges nor fail to seize the opportunities of this new world. together with our and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us when our vital interests are challenged, are the will and conscience. the international community is defied. we will act with peaceful diplomacy whenever possible, with force when neces

let us resolve to make our government a place for what franklin roosevelt called bold. persist that experimentation a government for our tomorrows, not our yesterdays. let us give this capital back to the people to whom it belongs. to renew america, we must meet challenges abroad, as well as at home. there is no longer a clear division between what is and what is domestic. the world economy. the world environment. the world aids crisis. the world arms race. they affect us all. today as an old order passes, the new world is free but less stable. communism's collapse it has called forth old animosities and new dangers. clearly, america must continue to lead the world. we did so much to make while america rebuilds at home. we will not shrink from the challenges nor fail to seize the opportunities of this new world. together with our and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us when our vital interests are challenged, are the will and conscience. the international community is defied. we will act with peaceful diplomacy whenever possible, with force when neces

us. so on january 1st, 1942, president roosevelt and mrs. roosevelt came here to christchurch with prime minister winston churchill. lord halifax, the british ambassador and lady halifax and others in their party to commemorate what roosevelt had called for the national day of prayer. and they prayed for three things. they prayed for strength in the coming conflict. they prayed for a just peace and above all, they prayed for forgiveness of our national of our national sins so that we would be worthy of the victory. they were asking god to grant us and that combination of of the willingness to commit military power in the name of freedom and also the humility to know that we can't prevail with military strength alone is really the trait of these two great leaders that i think has lessons for us today. churchill had crossed the atlantic for the second time. the this was a very dangerous crossing. the the atlantic was infested with u-boats that were taking a tremendous toll on allied shipping. he came here in the previous august in 1941. he met

roosevelt us asked the president to find elsewhere to office. and so he built a building which had previously been on the space of some greenhouses, and that is what we call the west wing. today, the president's office initially was not oval in that space. it did not become oval until president taft. and then it was moved from the middle of the building over to the corner where it is today, under franklin delano roosevelt, where it's essentially been the oval office, as we know it since that time. the desk you're standing in front is a replica of what's called the resolute desk. so let's the story of the resolute desk. wonderful story. there was a british commercial vessel, a sailing vessel a ship that was marooned in the ice up off the pacific northwest american commercial sailors found it when the weather allowed them to take it back to the east coast. they did where they overhauled it, returned send it to england and eventually, when it was decommissioned as a working vessel, queen victor maria took timbers from that ship, had this desk made

to preach the complexities of this history that isn't allowing us to just cherry pick these lovely moments. all of a sudden jack roosevelt's fine. it wasn't. and it still is not fine. and it still goes on. and yet we do have these people within our midst who guide us in our republic. and they're still there. even in the darkest night, as maya said, the stars are there and perhaps the darkest night, the dreaming -- i certainly know it's true up here in new hampshire. you just feel your atomic insignificance, which has a funny way of instilling you with bigness that, you know, just as the egotist in our midst is diminished by his or her self-regard, you have the humility that's required to, as civil rights workers did, have the -- this is a repeated thing. brian stevenson just said that the other evening to me. of course, you know, you just -- you put 1 foot going in front of the other. and the idea that you're allowed some sort of four-year time-out doesn't work. >> it doesn't work. i mean, it's not in anyone's interest. i wonder how you operationalize that, eddie? how do you get people beyond not just the latest hurdles

and did franklin roosevelt use that for the internment? i don't know if that was his justification. it sound i mean, so i know that the alien act has been used in periods of wartime. it was used in world war one as well. i don't if that was 20th century, nancy, we don't know. i know it's there was a question right there, i think, sir. yeah, very good. stand up. thanks. you mentioned the idea of jefferson behaving in almost a treasonous manner as vice president. was there ever any indication that that he was of conducting his own foreign policy with people in france? because i know he was you know, he was ambassador there. and yeah, when i refer to treasonous behavior, that is exactly what i am talking about. so early on in adams presidency, when he sent his first peace commission, jefferson met repeatedly with the french minister and said, don't sign anything with adams. i will give you a better deal when i am in office in four years. he also suggested helpfully that maybe france should invade great britain if they were looking for something to do which they did not take that sugges

he could use as a roosevelt of white well, and i don't know there's a lot t ofof republican concerned that a lot of these executive orders have been floated are not going to will not withstand legal told mike i was working in his counsel's office that overwhelmingly of the 100 or administrative things that will matter to anybody. right. and the e operative ones are about immigration. they were toying with a couple that might have something to do with negating a party. it's constitutionally impossible. i don't think the waste energy ti on that. i think i think was only dish immigration energy is going be a place, a big place on this. >> the electrical vehicle mandate, which is something that is more miss amount of applause. yeah. at the rnc that there's a number of things that he's going to do. >> and you think about mass deportations polls at 60%. yeah, that probably needs of 65% of americans. pretty ok with it. as long remember, the people have the open opportunity to change their mind in judge what they asked for. and that's democracy. that's that's a good thing happened in that the

us presidency and churchill. it's focused on the british leaders visits to the white house under roosevelt and later under eisenhower. visits that were not unusual in cases for their duration sometimes lasting several weeks. but they took on diplomatic military significance as churchill used them. as bob writes to troll washington with his and views and hopes of warring presidents to initiate joint activities involving britain and the united states. a churchill, of course, was an enthusiastic proponent of the notion of special relationship between the two countries. he first used the term in a 1946 speech and his up close and personal advocacy for america to align itself. british interests employed both charm and relentlessness. now bob draws a range of sources, diaries, government documents and memoirs to provide a quite a and revealing account of the days churchill roosevelt and eisenhower spent together in days that churchill spent with roosevelt and. spent with eisenhower. while stories have proliferated over the years about the prime minister's stays at the white house, bob does his best to separate fact from.

us part of the u.s. is the key to getting out. the only thing i remember is franklin rooseveltls us it weighs the since of the hearted on different scales. the government that lives in the spirist charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. if you're looking at those stars, decide what kind of government you want to have. and you have to come back and we'll have the hour-long conversation about baseball. it's the greatest game ever played. >> ever played. >> ever. >> i love having you so much to marinate.is very special. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> you can navigate all of his films on his digital platform, or at ken burns's website. we're so grateful to all of you for letting us into your home for this varies usher edition of deadline >> good evening and welcome to politics nation.

us part of the u.s. that is key to getting out. the only thing i remember franklin rooseveltmination for the second time in '36 at soldiers field in philadelphia, he said, dante tells us divine justice wins the sins of the cold-blooded and sins of the warm-blooded with different scales. better the fault of government that lives in the spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. if you are looking at those stars, decide what kind of government you want to have. >> you have to come back before opening day and we will have that hour-long conversation about baseball, the greatest game ever played. >> ever played. >> ever, ever. i love you so much and having all our to marinate. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> you can navigate all of ken's films on digital platform. we are so grateful to all of you for letting us and your homes for this special edition. >> this is msnbc special presentation.

which will give me the same authority extended to every president from franklin roosevelt through richard nixon and usedy many governors across the country is absolutely crucial to successful reorganization effort. so far, news from the congress, because of their support, is very encouraging. the office of management and budget is now working on this plan which will include zero based budgeting, removal of unnecessary government regulations, sunset laws for programs that have outlived their purpose and elimination of duplication between government services. we will not propose changes until we've done our best to be sure they are right but we will be eager to learn from experience if a program does not work, we will end it. instead of just starting another to conceal our first mistakes. we'll also move quickly to reform our tax system and welfare system. i said in the campaign that our income tax system was a disgrace, because it's so arbitrary, complicated and unfair. i made a commitment to a total overhaul of the income tax laws. the economic program that i have already mentioned earlier will by enabl

thanks for joining us tonight to celebrate teddy roosevelt's 150th birthday. president roosevelt once said, i don't think that any families ever enjoy the white house more than we have. >> no greater champion of the esidency ever exist than theater roosevelt for the white house. >> he had this wonderful, rambunctious, entertaining -- above all, entertaining family. his children and rollerskate to be in the east room. i mean the same room where william mckinley's coffin had rested in september 1901. this surge of energy, henry adams called tr pure act. well his children got into the act. >> some of the stories, i think after the roosevelts time, became a little more extravagant. i have trouble imagining spitballs on the presidential portraits of george washington. it certainly didn't happen again if it ever happened first. the roosevelts were extremely conscious of propriety, in that sense. the father didn't allow it and he was a good sport about it. the mother wouldn't have been a good sport about it. >> if you want to ask yourself, to whom does the modern whi

franklin delano roosevelt first said this nation for action and action now and promised action to regulate the banks. increase employment reform, trade and support. the inaugural did not use the no deal but that summary of roosevelt's message define his two first two terms in office. before the second world war, it also shaped american politics for almost full decades. roosevelt's first and inaugural was not. it was an eloquent speech. but not in the class as kennedy. it was a great inaugural because that laid out and a gender that responded to the crisis of the moment and filled the needs the american people. in 1981, ronald reagan used his first inaugural to support his small government agenda. he famously said in this present crisis government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. and then laid out a call f less regulation, lower taxes that how he governed. that became so dominant that other republicans would cite government as the problem, as the operating philosophy of. the republican party. before donald but reagan also made clear a pragmatic commitment to make government work. a few paragraphs for paragraphs after his famous attack on gover

us tonight. to celebrate teddy. roosevelt's 150th birthday, president roosevelt once said, i don't think that any family has ever enjoyed white house more than we have. and. no greater champion in the presidency ever existed than theodore roosevelt for the white house. but it wasn't just tr he had this wonderful, rambunctious entertaining above all, entertaining family. these children who roller skated in the east room. i mean, same room where william mckinley's coffin had rested in september 1901. this surge of energy, henry adams called tr pure act well, his children, you know, got into the act. some of the stories i think, after the roosevelt's time became little more extravagant. i have trouble imagining spitballs on the presidential portraits of george washington. it was certainly didn't happen again. if it ever first because the roosevelt's were extremely conscious of propriety in that sense that the father didn't allow it and he was a good sport about it. but the mother wouldn't have been a good sport about it. if you wa