roosevelt. climbing senate leadership chief of the famous truman committee on war production, his work was a vital factor in the war effort. at last summer's democratic national convention truman was chosen as candidate for vice president with president roosevelt roosevelt. his brilliant record hailed at the convention included leadership and legislation for the selective service act or lend lease and the repeal of the neutrality act. in 19 35 he voted for the world court. he had consistly given support to the progressive social program of the roosevelt administration. returning to washington with mr. roosevelt, harry truman was the vice president elect and after the first speech, vice president truman said in this shrinking world, no nation can live safely alone. peace loving nations must band together for the preservation of human progress. as second in command the words expressed the american program. franklin roosevelt, born into wealth, and harry truman, one-time farm boy were firmly united

roosevelt. his brilliant record hailed at the convention included leadership and legislation for the selective service act or lend lease and the repeal of the neutrality act. in 19 35 he voted for the world court. he had consistly given support to the progressive social program of the roosevelt administration. returning to washington with mr. roosevelt, harry truman was the vice president elect and after the first speech, vice president truman said in this shrinking world, no nation can live safely alone. peace loving nations must band together for the preservation of human progress. as second in command the words expressed the american program. franklin roosevelt, born into wealth, and harry truman, one-time farm boy were firmly united on that and every other major world aim. as the nation is plunged into mourning by roosevelt's death truman becomes president, the seventh vice president to assume the office under similar circumstances. president truman takes over his duty and announces the conf

i think what happened was with the roosevelt family in particular you have the rise of theodore roosevelt also sort of coincides with the beginning of a real communications revolution and so you now have the ability of stories to be sent across the country very quickly, and not long after that you have the beginning of radio and so increasingly this was something that was followed thought the whole country. there was -- and alice in particular. it's tough to understate just how much of a celebrity she was really for the first half of the 20th century. everywhere she went, including hollywood, the l.a. papers were agog and hollywood and all the 1930s starlets whetten alice shows up they make the front page. >> blanch cook in her biography of eleanor seems to indicate that the rivalry between alice and eleanor increased rather sharply in 1917-18 when both their marriages were failing shall we say and that alice's gelosis reflected in part because of the unhappiness when -- with her marriage and it's also when alice sort of encouraged fdr to be seeing more of lucy mercer, and invited actuall

but this book "roosevelt and stalin" is really roosevelt's book. it's about how roosevelt brilliantly went about winning the war organizing the postwar world and making stalin and churchill fit in with his plans. they were both a tough sell. what is notable though is how he kept changing stalin's mind. i thought i might find the opposite, but what i found essentially was that stalin did his bidding. we think of world war ii as the last good war and have woven myths about it, which is natural. it's very hard for all of us to be objective about our pastor in fact i suppose you could say it's almost impossible. how many here have one-tenth, half a million. and it also turns out that most of what we now think about as world war it because fdr insisted that china be one of the four major players in the postwar world organization along with great britain, america and the soviet union, stalin agreed. because fdr insisted stalin agreed to free and unfettered elections in poland. because he trusted fdr stalin signed an agreement whereby russian troops would

by the way, one thing churchill did not like about roosevelt was roosevelt's cocktails. when he would go to the white house, and roosevelt had a special cocktail, churchill would say this is terrible, and he actually said to roosevelt, you should not be drinking that. that is too strong stuff. that is the pot calling the kettle black. >> professor maurer, thank you for coming today. turning to the u.s.-china relations, it appears china is pursuing, and you alluded to this earlier, it is playing out potentially as another iteration of rivalries. china -- while economically, the united states and china appear to be like an earlier iteration of the united states and britain, china. to be pursuing a naval strategy more akin to germany before the first world war are even france before the franco-prussian war. what changes in naval strategy what patterns do you think we should follow to potentially overcome, hopefully without fighting, this potential threat? john maurer: yes. that is a good question. in thinking about today, it is useful to look back to the naval rivalries bet

he also met theodore roosevelt. now roosevelt, as you are going to see, did not form a very good impression of winston churchill. they went to a dinner party together and this is what the door roosevelt -- theodore roosevelt had to say about the experience. he found churchill to be a rude young man. roosevelt wrote to his son, that he hates it when a man of light is me to behave like a swine to prevent that other person from behaving like a swine. why was he behaving badly? i had to ask him to say goodbye to his hostess. he was going to go away from the dinner party without saying goodbye to his hostess. roosevelt did not form a good impression of churchill. indeed many people who met churchill for the first time did not form a good impression. churchill was someone who grew on you. of the more you knew him, the more you saw his talents. well, the great war, the great war of 1914-18, the first great war. churchill was the civilian and head of the royal navy. our equivalent is the secretary of the navy. he took up th

roosevelt wins. >> the nation was jub lent. he did it again and at hyde park square, roosevelt and his family received well wishes of their neighbors. again, the president addressed the nation and those of diplomats, and nations south of the border, fdr asked for broader powers than ever before given to any american president. >> the first and fundamental fact is that what started as a european war has developed as the nazis always intended it should develop in the way war for world domination. therefore, with profound consciousness of my responsibilities to my countrymen and to my country's cause, i have tonight issued a proclamation that an unlimited nationally emergency exists and requires the strengthening of our defense to the extreme limit of our national power and authority. >> with the world facing the greatest conflict of all time with the rights of all free people endangered roosevelt meant winston churchill on the high seas gave a pledge to the world, pledged the right of all people to choose their own form of govern

on that day franklin roosevelt, president roosevelt dedicated the jefferson memorial on the tidal basin in washington d.c. he had been personally instrumental in the dome design, in approving the sayings are quotes from jefferson that encircled the memorial. he said down with the architect in the white house. he pushed the jefferson memorial. he wanted to own thomas jefferson overall time for the democratic party which jefferson along with madison. on the 200th anniversary of jefferson's words roosevelt read from the word that still is circled the interior of the dome. i have sworn on the altar of god eternal hostility towards every form of tyranny over the mind of man. we understand by jefferson's languages is endured two centuries after he wrote it. at the time, 1943 those were were delivered in your face to hitler andism. it was meant to be a support for america in a time of war. jefferson defined the emotional genius in emotional terms. he's the emotional number of the founding generation. william jefferson clinton literally shares the founders named as a rare copy of jefferson in 1

so bowers' and roosevelt's -- eversin and hamilton dichotomy was simple. who spoke for the rich, who spoke for ordinary people? why is this book so important? because this would never happen anymore. at the democratic national convention in houston in 1928, the author of "jefferson hamilton" claude bowers gave the keynote address. fdr introduced the candidates al myth of new york, who went down defeat to herbert hoover, but this keynote address delivered before 10,000 in the houston arena, and millions more by radio, was claude bowers. a national celebrity of famous order whom, roosevelt on becoming president appointed ambassador to spain and later ambassador to chile. so fast forward a bid -- bit to thomas jefferson's 200th 200th birthday in 1943. on that day president roosevelt dedicated the jefferson memorial on the tidal basin in washington, dc. he had been personally instrumental in the dome design, in approving the sayings or quotes from jefferson that encircled the memorial. he sat down with the architect in the white house. he pushed the jefferson

swain: as we go through time, you mentioned you get roosevelt. -- edith roosevelt. she was tired of the family living over the shop as she put it. it was too crowded for their big family. she decided was time to do something about it. what did they do? mr. seale: that flynn was going through and the ark attacks -- architects got -- that plan was going through and the architects got to the roosevelts and they talked them into something else and show them how it could be a home. that is what they wanted. talk about a strong first lady. he didn't knew exactly what she wanted. she went to the white house as first lady, did her job, and one was over, privacy is what she wanted and she had it until her death. a wonderful little book published of her letters to the local library and about the books they were both reading. really interesting. she taught her clock exactly as she wanted it to be and kept him from doing some awfully foolish things. at one point after the white house, he was being presented in court in england to the queen and he wanted to wear his rough rider

he was in the book he reached out to roosevelt. he reached out to truman and the united states supported chiang so i guess by 1949 mao had a reason to be a little upset. he had faced american guns and a five-year horrible civil civil war in guess what? just as he had told the state department in 1944 in 1945 chiang lost in he won. >> a question back here. >> on the chinese and i came to this country in 1997. for my masters degree and then i went on to get my ph.d. from texas a&m and i love this country. i also have four years experience going back to china to work. i didn't realize i'd love to this country until i came back to china. so i just wanted to make a comment to some of the two questions before earlier. there was one lady there who asked a question about it his seems to have more freedom in hong kong but not so much in china. but mr. bradley gave an example of the pharmaceutical executive who gave up his hong kong passport for the china passport. my view of china's society nowadays is that it's more capitalized than this c

the charge to put these people in what president roosevelt himself called concentration camps they were barbed wire enclosures with machine guns manned by american soldiers at these 10 relocation camps. first they went to 18 assembly centers they were called. santa anita racetrack was one the livestock pavilions in washington and oregon and the people lived in stables. they were amazingly compliant as they were rounded up. there were only for four people who didn't as it were show up and even in santa anita where they re-created these kinds of small town america where there were 18,000 people held at santa anita all of them claiming that they are stable with the manure and everything else and it had been see biscuits. that was the mark of distinction. they were held there for three months until the camps were almost finished. the camps were built for plans for prisoner of war camps. they were 12 by 20 to 18 by 10 tarpaper enclosures. the latrines were outside. the water was outside. the kitchens were outside. the latrines women's latrines which were a great problem worth long boards wit

roosevelt and her family. ♪ ♪ >> harry s. truman, president of the united states, distinguished senator from the state of missouri for ten year and vice president since the last national election he brings to the high office an understanding of the great american war effort, second to that the president roosevelt. climbing senate leadership chief of the famous truman committee on war production, his work was a vital factor in the war effort. at last summer's democratic

roosevelt saide woulput "first tngs first." another way of saying this is that countries in a depression were not going to "let the international tail wag the domestic dog." under really serious pressure, the gold standard collapsed. schoumacher: 1944. the battles were still lo and fierce. as the allies swept across europe, there was no longer any real question that germany wou be defeated. but there wererave concerns about whether the countries of the world could recover from the economic ravages of e war. inuly 1944 worleconomic leaders met here in bretton woods, new hampshire. it was at this hotel that representatives of 44 countries met for 22 days to create a blueprint for a new world economic order. but why would that system, so carefully craed here, eventuallyollapse? dr. edward bernstein was chief technical advisor to the u.s. delegation at the bretton woods conference. mr. bernstein, what did the delegates who assemblere to accomplish at btton woods? we had twoifferent objectives. one was to get monetary stability with

>> eleanor roosevelt. i don't think you could find anybody who fits that title more than eleanor roosevelt. this was a woman, well educated, had real serious concerns about where her country was was married to the most powerful man in the country, in the world perhaps but she had her own agenda. she was writing news columns she was doing radio, she was in newsreels, she was defying the d a r, resigning her membership. she was a member of the board of the naacp. she is doing her own thing. it may be that there has never been a first lady before or since like her, but i think she stands alone, what she was able to accomplish as her own self, not just as the extension of her husband and her husband's interest in what she was actually able to accomplish on her own. >> carl cannon, what do you say? >> i would say eleanor roosevelt. for all these reasons and a couple other examples. roosevelt according southern democrats so he could run clear action again and again. he is confronting him privately on this. there

it is affecting southbound side of the roosevelt boulevard, traveling on i-95 your average is 12, 55 on the blue route traveling pennsylvania turnpike it is not awful but if you are traveling northbound on the roosevelt boulevard, ramp to wissohickon we have an accident police are still on the scene. traveling in new york, do you get the usual delays building on 42 and 295. >>> we have some breaking news about this deadly, plane crash in the french alps, do you remember that? investigators now say co pilot accused of intentionally crashing that plane practiced his plan on another flight earlier that day. prosecutors say that andre a lubitz brought the plane down in march after locking the pilot out of the cockpit killing all 150 on board. preliminary report just revealed this morning it shows that the pilot also left the cockpit on a previous flight while lubitz practiced the controlled dissent. >>> the issue of revenge porn heads to a new jersey courtroom today and an nfl player is the the one facing charges. former jets linebacker jermaine cunningham is most high profile suspect to

and she often talks about eleanor roosevelt and says if -- eleanor roosevelt could have run for president now. we would have handed her the nomination. party would have been hers if we had this environment. so hillary clinton is sort of the person fix indication of eleanor roosevelt 50 years later, but in terms of embrace thing real for what it is, michelle obama to me is almost a transformational figure. i've been -- i don't cover the white house anymore. i covered it for 15 years now. id did a person who covers the white house so i have to -- i can say what think little more. if alexis is watching this, you still have to be objective about michelle obama but i don't. >> transformational concept is interesting. eleanor roosevelt was seen as transformational but no one who followed her did what she did. >> susan can i explain? michelle obama is the first african-american first lady. we talk about that. people have written about that. >> right. >> chev is also, i think something even broader than that. the first -- i want to say post title ix first lady. she walks with confidence you. see

and we think of eleanor roosevelt as an activist first lady. but lou henry hoover absolutely was an activist first lady and she had lived her life consistently up to and after the presidency. rick: i have to make a disclaimer here before we go to clifton. the first president of the united states that i ever met was gerald ford. i met him in 1976 at the republican convention in kansas city. the first president i ever saw was harry truman at his home in independence. i grew up 90 miles south of independence, missouri, and as a fellow missourian, take great pride in harry truman. so i want you to tell me about perhaps one of the most reluctant first ladies that ever was in bess truman. clifton: market was talking about activists first ladies and then you have my grandmother the anti-activist first lady. >> but we loved her. clifton: i loved this too but , there's no getting around it. she was -- first of all, when she got into the white house the first thing she did was cancel eleanor roosevelt's weekly press conferences. she just wasn't going to

roosevelt was flattering but he gestured an important idea. the isolation and shared a conservative affinity for republican institutions and a few of the threat posed by sensuous power and empire. the agrarian populist northeastern partitions literary figures and industrialists, that formed the america committee to find a common language. the perceived history was a collection of reactionary blindness to fascism to say we think what fdr wanted us to think about it. fdr for trade narrow self-serving conservative anti-democratic, fifth columnists and even treasonous. almost uniformly the isolationist coalition feared were free to fascism at home nat a voice in home nat avoids most famously by an arch liberal who has the distinction of being forced at the new republic and national review for his views. something of a bridge between the left and right-wing isolationists and also serving as chairman of the keep america out of four congress. more radical organization which had its first chairman, the former nation editor. the 1940 platform of the so

near the end of june, watch for the annual roosevelt reading familiar from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library in july we're live at the harlem book fair, the nation's flagship african-american literary event with author interviews and panel discussions and at the beginning of september we're live from the nation's capital for the national book festival, celebrating its 15th year, and that's a few events this summer on c-span2's booktv. >> booktv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> thank you for asking. i taught economics for the past 18 years and went to seminary before that so i like to read combination of economics and ethics and on the stump people thought that was a humannous joke -- humorous job, and bit i take it serious. "hissen in plain sight" about the calls of the financial cries and if you don't have an account of the cause of the financial crisis hard to solve that issue going forward. we don't want that happening again. some signed that we're heading in the wrong direction with the debt to gdp and tha

roosevelt said absolutely. she mentioned it to her husband, the president, who mentioned it to general arnold, who i'm sure said, "what a splendid idea, mr. president." that's how the women's air force service pilots were founded. of course, jackie cochran was named the commander of the wasps . it created a lot of jobs on the home front for women -- there were women mechanics, women pilots. they were trained in a military style, but they were not an official part of the military. it was not until the 1990's that they were granted veterans benefits. jackie surrounded by a lot of her lost pilots. after the war jackie cochran became a big proponent of an independent air force, which, of course, came about in 1947. she continued to fly. she want to be the first pilot -- first woman pilot to fly supersonic lee, so who better to teach her than the first pilot to fly supersonic lee, general chucky egg -- jagr? she became the first woman to fly twice the speed of sound, again with chuck yeager flying the chase plane. a

>> roosevelt. >> which one? >> teddy. >> very good. that's exactly who i mean. >> carry a big stick? oh [bleep] >> i don't remember. >> teddy roosevelt [bleep] >> what are you so mad about? ♪ ♪ >> there is nothing to fear but. >> fear itself? >> who said that? >> i just did. edgar alan poe. >> fdr. >> very good. >> a house divided against itself cannot stand. >> [crickets chirping] >> lincoln? >> lincoln, i don't know. >> you got it. >> embarrassing enough, i haven't heard that one. >> you haven't heard of that? >> no, rub it in. >> who did lincoln free? >> oh, the slaves. >> are you sure. >> not sure. >> come on, man. >> ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country? >> thank you anyway. >> i think i hear my mother calling me. >> ask not what your country can do for you but -- >> -- what you could do for your country? >> very good. >> you can do for your country interest. >> very good. who said that? >> john f. kennedy. >> excellent job. >> kennedy? >> you got it. [cheers] >> ask not what your count

>>al michael talk about the roosevelt institute and some of the policy precipitations that your group has put out on this ea issue. >> absolutely. we just released a big report and when people talk about economic reform in the past 35 years, they tend to emphasize globalization. they tend to talk about tech technology and skills and talk about sociology and family structures d and individual choices choices. we wanted to emphasize decision, the rules of the economy, how laws are set f up, labor markets are set up, just as much of a role, maybe even a greater role. there's a lot of research in the past 15 years. a lot of these changes have not made the economy strongeratio and some cases may have weakened it.: and we think within our capacity viewers to show broader prosperity. >> you can check out the report at rooseveltinstitute.org. we're doing our phone lines differently as we talk about income inequality. income under $25,000, we have a line for you.20000 between $26,000 and $50,000 80 202-748-8001. between $51,000 and $100,000, we have a number for you. that line for those over $

it's about an hour. >> first of all, on behalf of the national parks service, i would like to thank roosevelt island historical society and the new york a look library for hosting us and giving us this opportunity to talk to you a little bit about our national park, which is gateway national recreation area. my name is lincoln hallowell.

there is a statue in front of the museum of natural history of ted de roosevelt on a -- teddy roosevelt on a horse with an african-american next to him and an indian next to him. they are clearly made to look saw bored net. he is on the horse. it is history. >> what is that celebrating that statue? >> i have no idea. >> what moment in history? >> the idea is that h's -- history. we don't have to agree with everything. it is history. it is what happened. the idea that it is somebody imposing the culture or sending the signal today is absurd. let me point out, it is a catholic university. >> don't he want to share their religion? >> they obviously don't. some catholic universities are more catholic than others of let's not mention georgetown who is a pseudo catholic university. >> that's stirring them up. pseudo this and pseudo that. an thon fee what is wrong -- anthony what is wrong with having two minorities grovel at the foot of a white man. >> i do believe the issue is the look of the statue. the guy is towering over. they are looking at him like oh my god he brought a wheel and fire.

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just knowing that it was a funny thing with president roosevelt. everybody knew how sick he was but everybody denied it. there was the whole she knew it wasn't likely to happen and that wasn't something she wanted. >> it is important to remember this wasn't their first rodeo. they had been in politics for a long time. margaret talk about your great-grandmother. now you are in the whitehouse, you are the first lady from what you have been able to find what was her impression of what her role was to be? >> she saw it as an enormous opportunity -- in terms of the role with the president, my great-grandfather was not an outwardly gregarious or publically excited figure. he was orphaned at nine years old and that changes how you interface with the world. she was a very gregarious personality. she was the first lady to give public addresses on the radio. she saw her role helping to soften him with his sons in his work and then in the presidency. she also understood there was a role for the first lady and was very aware of that. you see that throughout th

watch for the roosevelt reading festival from the frankly d. roosevelt presidential library. in july live at the harlem book fair, the nation's flagship african-american literary event with author interviews and panel discussions. and at the beginning of september we're live from the nation's capital for theonal book festival celebrating its 15th year. that's a few of the events this summer on c-span2's "book tv." >>> on april 13th 1865, a day before his assassination, president lincoln left the white house on horseback for his cottage retreat in northwest washington, d.c. this would be lincoln's last ride to the cottage before he was shot at ford's theater by john wilkes booth. to mark the ride's anniversary lincoln's cottage hosted a horseback procession along the route and held a wreath-laying ceremony at the foot of their statue of lincoln and his horse. this is 15 minutes. >> welcome, everyone to president lincoln's cottage. please be seated. today is the 150th anniversary of lincoln's last ride from the white house to the soldier's home. this was a ride that was very fa

we're joined by scott of d mich manhattanae institute and michael ent console of the roosevelt 2013 institute.c ineq michael, first, president obama in 2013 called this issue economic inequality issue woagu defining challenge of our time. would you agree with that? >> yes, i think inequality is the doubling of top shares that are going to run away a real ce median class. median incomes are down 8% since 2000 in particular areas. aus e lot of unemployment. an >> and scott, runaway incomes, talk about the growth of guest: inequality. are we hearing so much because t this is an issue that is running be away?ca >> i think we have heard a lot odged aboutan it since the financial cry crisis because we dodged another great depression. there was a lot of economic anxiety for pretty good reasons.tended but inequality is high before ccupy

i know after world war ii it was speculation that roosevelt knew in advance. similar speculation in the press. >> well, yeah. the conspiracy theories revolving around the lusitania are immense. at the time wasting churchill was the 1st lord of the admiralty command he was one of the seven people who read into the intelligence that was coming across. at one time he was quoted as saying we need the neutral nations. we need this stuff. many of them to come to the united kingdom in order to sustain our war effort. a war effort. out of some of them get in trouble so much the better because that would work to england's advantage and against the germans. now, it's a far cry from that didn't say he was complicit in any way with what happened to lusitania. he actually left for paris two days before the attack. so he actually wasn't in any kind of position to be controlling what was going on. and when you look at the track of the lusitania and you look at the track of the suffering and the countless individual decisions and actions that resulted in them being in the sam

much of chapter 10, for example assenting altec, where we are red from church of roosevelt stalin and their senior commanders. we also peek in on the other side of the hill to see what the germans are doing. i also recount an invasion of southern france in august 1944 as well as the subsequent drop -- drive up the wrong river valley by french and american troops and the launch to capture strasbourg and to reach the rhine in november 1944, 4 months before the armies that are coming from normandy arrive on the rhine. it's an important part of the liberation of europe from a part many of americans know very little about and the characters are fantastic. the generals and the french first error may commanders -- army commanders, beyond the power of any novelist to invent. he was described as one admirer by an animal of action. you would often appear in the middle of the night where his soldiers were sleeping and roar out, waking them up, "what have you done for france?" he's that kind of guy. as you may suspect, the liberation of europe is not a non-scuppers subject. amazon.com was 60,000

much of chapter 10 for example assenting altec, where we are red from church of roosevelt stalin and their senior commanders. we also peek in on the other side of the hill to see what the germans are doing. i us a recount of some of southern france in august 1944 as well as the subsequent drop of around river valley by french and american troops and the per show matches to capture strasbourg and to reach the rhine in november 1944 at 4 months before the armies that are coming from normandy arrive on the rhine. it's an important part of the liberation of europe from a part many of americans know very little about the carrot terser fantastic. alexander patch and the army commander a general named john who is beyond. u.s. described by one of his admiral of actions and a lot would often appear in the middle of the night were his soldiers are sleeping and would roar row we cannot not. but if he done for france? he's that kind of guy. as you may suspect, the liberation of europe is not a non-scuppers subject. amazon.com was 60,000 hardcover world war ii titles. how do you tell that story s

roosevelt presidential library n. the middle of july, we're live at the harlem book fair with author interviews and panel discussions. and at the beginning of september, we're live from the nation's capital for the national book festival celebrating its 15th year. and that's a few of the events this summer on c-span2's booktv. >> and booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> i've got a couple books set up. one, i'm a lover of biographies, so i've just found two. one is called rebel yell, it's about stonewall jackson. and it's -- >> [inaudible] >> it is a good one and it's really insightful into the personality of someone who's become larger than life a lot of times and how he came from his teaching to become just this amazing symbol that we've heard you know on both sides about. the other one is the cruise -- cruise billion with grant and lee. so we're excited about reading those. of course, i've still got ben franklin's and the others to go through, but we're

topics included the atomic bomb, the invasion of normandy, and harry truman who followed franklin roosevelt into the oval office after fdr's death in april, 1045. >> a catastrophe of almost unimaginable scale, world war ii left more than 60 million human beings dead, or three of every 100 people on earth. it was an event that stamped the lives of every american especially the lives of young men and women who served in the u.s. armed forces. world war ii called for sacrifice from every social st ratum and every walk of life. an entire generation answered the call gravely, even eagerly. they understood that cherished ideals of human dignity and individual freedom were literally at stake. easily more than half a million missouri and kansas citizens served during the war, from rural teenagers who had not finished high school to omar bradley of missouri and dwight eisenhower of kansas. three of those individuals are with us tonight to share and reflect on their experiences in this terrible yet galvanizing war that ended 70 years ago this year during the presidency of harry s truman. these men ne

i was sat at a table with the roosevelt cousins. these are people who had been young children in those days. at that time, the main staircase of the white house, if you remember from yankee doodle dandy, came straight down into the state floor and not the grand staircase that was built at the time of the truman restoration. so they used to tell wonderful stories about going up and getting the huge silver platters and using them as tobaggans. when you think of things that have gone on in the white house from abigail adams laundry in the east room to caroline and her pony in the east room, no one has figured out what to do in the east room. as become a variety of things. at the time lucy was there, her mother found everybody who should cut that had been in the white house and brought them back to the white house. one of those people was eleanor roosevelt's daughter. the dining room of the floor where we love to eat in our jammies. as she wandered around, she sed in her rascally fashion, i remember this room. i had my appendix out in t

roosevelt. but half of them were. and roosevelt was a good politician. with half of the businesses in his pocket, he knew he could count on the c.i.o., the socialists, and the communists to kind of work something out, and here was the deal. "i'm gonna get the money from the corporations and the rich. i'm gonna help you on a scale you've never seen before. and in return, you're gonna stop talking about getting rid of capitalism. you're gonna mute that part of your message. you're gonna celebrate me as the guy who gives the mass of people something they never got before." so, what did roosevelt do? three interesting things that i'll mention. one--he created the social security system. we never had that before. in the midst of a depression worse than today, when there's no money in the hands of the government--none is coming in; it's really hard; we can't do anything--the president goes on the radio and announces that every american over 65 years of age who's had a lifetime of work is now gonna get money from the government for the rest of his or her life.