here and there in eleanor's letters there are comments -- she says when he sets off for yalta, he is beginning to be really -- he had loss -- lost a lot of weigh over the previous year. some had to do with his -- the diet that was imposed on him by his doctors in order to relieve power -- pressure on his heart but he looked pretty bad at the inauguration and when he reached malta on the way to yalta, people who saw him there -- staff people who hadn't seen him for a couple of weeks, like chip bolan, the diplomat, were shocked how worse he looked. think there's a case that can be made that the trip to yalta was something that he had put a lot of stock in, and thought he had to do it, but that he knew by then clearly that he was taking a big risk just from the strenuousness of the trip, and it was a -- paul watson, his key aide, died on the trip. hari hopkins nearly died on the trip. it was a dark time. i think i'm not dealing with the question but i forget the quit. i'm just rambling. >> i saw in your book that you had mentioned that dewey somehow found out that we had broken the japa

shortly after the inaugural, fdr departed on a 75 mile journey to yalta which was the final of the great conferences he attended, with the big 3 -- talent, churchill, roosevelt -- stalin, churchill, and roosevelt. after that, fdr returns to the united states and appears before congress in march of 1945, reporting on what he had done at the conference. what is a story about this speech to a joint session of congress is that roosevelt delivered the speech from a seated position. and he did that because he was exhausted and suffering from poor health. and in the course of that speech, he directly in knowledges his disability -- directly acknowledges his disability for the first time. >> members of congress, i hope that you will pardon me for an unusual posture of sitting down during the presentation of what i want to say. i know you will realize that it makes it a lot easier for me without not having to carry 10 pounds of steel at the bottom of my legs because i have just completed a 1400 mile trip. [applause] >> this was an extraordinary moment at the end of his life and at the end of his

conferences during the war, but arguably, the two most important was the tehran conference and the yalta. he met with winston churchill, joseph stalin, and of course, roosevelt. long before the end of the war, fdr is already rethinking about the postwar period. so, in november of 1943 when he journeys to tehran, he is -- he has several important things on the agenda, one of them is trying to ensure that his partners in the allied coalition will sign on to the idea of a postwar organization, becomes the united nations, that he hopes will hope to turn the outbreak of another world war. another document on display is actually a little sketch that fdr made at the tehran conference in 1943. this is in his handwriting. in this drawing, you can see in fdr's own writing, a broad sketch of what he thought the united nations might be. it starts on the left with this little circle marked 40 un. the representative the 40 nations fighting the axis powers. this represents what becomes it you and general assembly. in the center is executive committee. this is really the full-time staff of what will bec

the yalta , and trumanf anyone reaches out to burns and taps him as his secretary of state. he doesn't officially become secretary of state until july 1, but he is at truman's side constantly, and of course, he is the one that whispered in r that the soviets were breaking their agreement at yalta. burns has a very different view than simpson -- the opposite view in fact. mccoy,'s assistant, john reported after a conversation with burns -- this is a memo "burns wassimpson, quite radically opposed to any relation to stalin about cooperating on atomic energy." he wished to have the implied threat of the bomb in his pocket during conferences after the war duringactual quote was the conference he was to attend in london beginning on september 4. that is after the war. burns' pg the work, ress secretary walter brown writes in his diary that burns atomic bomb "might well put us in a position to dictate our own terms that the end of the war." thought to the original -- the views may be determining -- the bomb may be determining. -- have two opposing decisions within the highest leve

was no yalta nor geneva, but a simple 19th-century home near and early american arming settlement.n its own way a uniquely appropriate setting for the two statesmen who would meet there. both possess unimaginable power. both were unpretentious, straightforward. both understood the language of the farmer and the factory work. in this simple arena they would talk to each other for 10 hours, both becoming the focal point of the trouble world hopes and prayers. ♪ >> i was glad to meet the chairman this morning. we talked throughout the day quietly and straightforwardly. i found that he came to our meeting in the same spirit. we talked about the problems of the middle east in detail and we shall continue to talk about them. we talked about the problems of southeast asia. we have talked about the arms race and the need for new agreements there. we talked about the need for common action for initiatives for peace. no new agreements. alwayseements are not reached in a single conversation. spendl eat lunch and sunday together again. >> the first day of summit talks was over. there was still

. -- it was no yalta nor geneva. unimaginabled power, but both were unpretentious, straightforward.h sat in the company of kings, and you both understood the language of the former in the factory worker. they would face each other for nearly 10 hours, both becoming, for a brief moment in history, the focal point of a troubled world's hopes and prayers. [crowd clamoring] ♪ president johnson: i was glad to meet the chairman this morning. i talked threat the day straightforwardly with him. i am glad to save you that he came to our meeting in the same spirit. we talked about the problems in the middle east. and we will continue to talk about them. we talked about the problems of southeast asia. we talked about the arms race. we talked about the need for common action on concert -- on constructive initiatives for peace. we reached no new agreements -- almost, but not quite -- but new agreements are not always reached in a single conversation, so we are going to eat lunch and spend sunday together again. the first day of the summit talks was over, but for the president, there was still mu

who can forget world war ii's yalta conference, brought to you by little zippy's cocaine buzz tonic! little zippy's: it's a blitzkrieg on your brain! so why does pot coin care about north korea? well, marijuana enthusiasts have been touting the country as a stoner's paradise where cannabis is legal. a stoners paradise? really? you might be able to get high there, but good luck when you get the munchies. ( laughter ) ( applause ) i hope you like bark. meanwhile, president donald trump was not in washington. he was in wisconsin today. must have been comforting for him to be in a state where "cheesehead" is considered a compliment. you like that? >> jon: yeah, yeah. >> stephen: the trip-- joke snuck up on me. ( laughter ) the trip was all part of donald trump's renewed focus on employment, as he tweeted this morning. "heading to the great state of wisconsin to talk about jobs, jobs, jobs! big progress being made as the real news is reporting." and you'll notice that "real news" is capitalized. that means the president has seen the show we make for him every week, "real news tonight. and

and later at yalta. he worked hard with stalin. he knew he was a hard case. he knew stalin was concerned about a security boundary. roosevelt's dream was at least these countries dominated by the soviet union will be allowed to be free and have democratic elections. the alternative was another war against the soviet union. that was too terrible to contemplate. how roosevelt would have handled that honest problem can only be a matter of speculation, because he died just a few weeks before the european war ended. he had been a sick man for a year. terrible heart problems, blood pressure twice what would be acceptable today. clementine churchill, winston churchill's wife, who saw him at a conference in quÉbec city september 1944 said, i don't see how he can work more than four hours a day. and she was right. there was nothing wrong with his mind. he managed to put on a great show of physical strength traveling the pacific, campaigning in the election. he was a sick man. he went to warm springs in georgia. the placed that he loved. there was a rehabilitation cent