she was eleanor roosevelt roosevelt. her uncle was teddy roosevelt who was president of the united states, of course, at the turn of the century. and some say franklin just followed teddy's career. she had seen teddy's wife preside in the white house mainly as a hostess, and she just didn't want to do that. she said, i just don't want to sit in the white house and pour tea. now she would have been perhaps liked to have been a closer advisor to her husband than she was. although she certainly gave him the benefit of her ideas. she never hesitated to offer opinions, but he might or might not expect them. so franklin was elected, she went to franklin and she said, i'm not going to have very much to do as first lady. could i take care of your mail for you? actually, that was rather commonly done by political wives in those days. harry truman's wife had worked in his office and taken care of his mail. and the vice president garner's wife also been in his office and helped take care of the mail. that wasn't a truly unusual req

it was when roosevelt got started. almost immediately, the more than great realized the lengths he was willing to go. at the beginning, roosevelt didn't understand how far he was going to go. the dupont family and the ones that set up the american liberty league. that was successful because they have unlimited amounts of money. there were so popular, they were not able to stop it. they began to finance right-wing think tanks. they have been successful to the university of chicago economics department and notable fraud such as milton freed man. the idea of neoliberalism is there should be massive, selective tax cuts. margaret thatcher it is there is no alternative. of course that's absurd. there was an alternative. we have to connect the dots to understand what is going on today. i read the chronicle. so what i've done is put together a montage of the murder of public sector, which is going on everyday. in fact all of the public sector is in body shape. public libraries, parks from the municipal to the national level. o

they complained to roosevelt. roosevelt ordered dominant to turn the cut back over to the soviets. in fact, donovan had his men taken to andre gromyko in washington who did not believe for a new york minute that donovan's men had not copy the codes. not only had his men copied the codes, but the enterprising fans also sold the codes to the japanese. the free enterprise lives alive and well. eventually down the but the data overcome his political enemies. he had drafted a plan for a post were central intelligence agency. he wanted to leave. but walter drolen and who was a white house reporter for the mccormick patterson chain which was very vehemently anti roosevelt which published the washington times "herald" in washington, a copy of donovan's secret plan for setting up the cia and published it in the paper. a highly inflammatory story. he accused donovan of want to set up what amounted to an american gestapo to spy on not on the people overseas but americans at home. you call somebody a gestapo back during world war ii, and those are, you know, very incendiary words. j. edgar hoo

she covered eleanor roosevelt. i got invited to the white house. >> we have someone here in the audience who is based in washington at the start of the new deal. her mother covered eleanor roosevelt. this lady was invited to parties with a eleanor roosevelt. this is a wonderful thing about speaking in washington, d.c., because of everyone here has a story, an interesting story. i've given this talk fairly frequently when i was at college, and i asked this very question to reduce the first lady you can remember, and an nice lady in front raised her hand and said mrs. calvin coolidge. and i said we have a winner. no one has topped that for going back any farther. other more recent first ladies in one wants to offer that is your first memory, yes? >> i remember, again, very, very little, five, six years old and i remember seeing -- [inaudible] >> we will talk about the looks of the first ladies who proceeded jacqueline kennedy. maybe eisenhower of course was the immediate predecessor to jacqueline kennedy. so it can i

here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. is over looks oslow harbor. they revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. they didn't get rid of it, they expanded it. just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. the new deal continues to live on there. thank you. [applause].

roosevelt ignored the idea, but roosevelt enjoyed listening to all of donovan's ideas. he was really open to it. donovan was a spark plug for thinking of the box. roosevelt from his early days as a young man was always intrigued with espionage and spying. in fact, donovan thought he was a real spy above all along. for example, one of the ideas, sitting baths in the use of houses with incendiary devices. they thought they would drop the bats over tokyo. the bats would fly into the use of the paper and wood houses. the incendiary device would go off and burn down the houses in tokyo. this was an idea that eleanor roosevelt picked up from somebody, passed on to franklin, and he passed it on to donovan. so stanley and his men got out there over some desert and dropped -- fitted these bats with an incendiary device and drop them out of the plane. the port things sound like a stone. the idea did not work. donovan was willing to try anything. in addition to being the father of american -- modern american espionage and also special operations, there are portraits of donovan. on

roosevelt, lodge, hearst and the russian empire, 1898. mr. thomas is one of the most respected journalists today. see of thunder and john paul jones. mr. thomas has been editor at large of newsweek since 2006, and the lead rider of major news events and author of more than 100 cover stories. he has won numerous awards. for newsweek's coverage of the monica lewinsky scandal. is 50,000 word narrative of the 2004 election was honored when newsweek won of national award for best single topic issue. he appeared on numerous television shows including charles rope and the pbs news hour. and a fellow of the society of american historians. mr. thomas lives with his family in washington d.c.. peter bergen is the author of "the longest war". the enduring conflict between america and al qaeda. he is director of the national-security studies program at the new america foundation. and author of the newly released book "the longest war". he is a television journalist, the author of holy war inside the secret world of osama bin laden. and the osama bin laden

first lady's we put eleanor roosevelt in her own category. she is unto herself. no one like her before or after but for those ladies to come after i maintain she is a bridge first lady because she bridges the gap between the very traditional ladies' of bess truman and mamie eisenhower but the most modern first lady beginning with lady bird johnson, they have had public policy that they have worked on in their husbands administration. if it said name that policy, for every first lady 10 or more could say exactly a what fact first lady is famous for. but what about laura bush and michelle obama? are days supportive spouses of our more of a presidential partner or spouse? and i say think about this. i st. laura bush had to be that not too hillary. >> she did not go too far on the health care initiative so people began to say she is not elected are accountable if we don't like what she is doing we have no way to reach her. she dialed back to become more traditional by being in favor of women's issues like child advocacy. that suited lowered bush

roosevelt ignored the idea, but roosevelt enjoyed listening to all of donovan's ideas. he was really open to it. donovan was a spark plug for thinking of the box. roosevelt from his early days as a young man was always intrigued with espionage and spying. in fact, donovan thought he was a real spy above all along. for example, one of the ideas, sitting baths in the use of houses with incendiary devices. they thought they would drop the bats over tokyo. the bats would fly into the use of the paper and wood houses. the incendiary device would go off and burn down the houses in tokyo. this was an idea that eleanor roosevelt picked up from somebody, passed on to franklin, and he passed it on to donovan. so stanley and his men got out there over some desert and dropped -- fitted these bats with an incendiary device and drop them out of the plane. the port things sound like a stone. the idea did not work. donovan was willing to try anything. in addition to being the father of american -- modern american espionage and also special operations, there are portraits of donovan. on

and roosevelt could see it coming. so, very few people understand

franklin roosevelt lied an awful lot. in a good cause in terms of getting the united states into the second world war. lyndon johnson lied a lot in a bad cause. in terms of getting the united states into the vietnam. we are critical of johnson because of vietnam, and admired roosevelt because of world worlr ii. but they both lied. we have a first amendment and a system of checks and balances that work through the media because we know this. because we know we can't trust the people in power to tell us the truth about what they are doing. well, fox news pulls off one the watchdogs, but they operate as a political organization. they lie. they lie all the time. they make things up, they slander their opponents, they work hand in glove with politicians and political organizations, and they make no apology for it. all they do is call themselves a news organization and put up news shows. but the rest of it is quite obvious. they sponsor tea party rallies and raise money for candidates. every single potential candidate with the

roosevelt was paralyzed on his legs paralyzed from polio. he had been paralyzed when he got polio when he was about 39 years old. the irony was, it was an infantile paralysis, and he never could get his legs back. he was always afraid of fire struck his life he would be caught in the room and could not escape fire. and so when he was in the white house, they were all concerned about any attacks and so on, so they launched a project which they called crawling exercises. the president in order to escape would have to practice getting to a window of his bedroom or from a private part of the residents, and you get down on the floor and the president of the united states and pull himself with his arms to the window and they would put shoots denizli to slide that amnesty. he only person he and trust with the knowledge of this, entrusted to help them with these crawling exercises was a valley, and african-american ballet named duffy. he was trusted by the roosevelt i always thought how remarkable that is that he didn't want to see his family in thi

in 1944 said he didn't believe roosevelt had the physical capacity to complete another term. dr. frank lahey said he informed roosevelt's primary doctor of his concerns but voters were kept in the dark. >> and will to the best of my ability... >> couric: just 12 weeks after f.d.r. began his fourth term he died of a cerebral hemorrhage 66 years ago today. today. osteoporosis treatment-- no big deal. so i have to wait up to an hour just to eat or drink. i've got time to kill. yeah right! i'm a working woman. and i'm busy. why should osteoporosis therapy disrupt my morning routine? with new atelvia there's no wait. unlike other osteoporosis medicines... atelvia has a delayed- release formulation... so you can take it right after breakfast and help protect your bones. do not take atelvia if you have esophagus problems, low blood calcium, severe kidney disease, or cannot sit or stand for 30 minutes. follow all dosing instructions. stop taking atelvia and tell your doctor if you experience difficult or painful swallowing, chest pain or severe or continuing heartburn, which may be s

roosevelt was paralyzed, his legs were paralyzed from polio. he had been paralyzed when he was about 39-years-old irony because his infantile her paralysis and he never could get the use of his legs back. he was always afraid of five-year term of his life that he would be caught in a room and could in the state fire. and so when he was in the white house of course the enemy attacks and so on, so they launched a project which they called crawling exercises, the president in order to skate would have to practice getting to a window from his bedroom or private residence and he would get down on the floor and the president of the united states would pull himself up with his arms to the window and the secret service would shoot so he could slide down and escapes. the only person that he entrusted with the knowledge of this and entrust it to help him with the scrawling exercises was the valley named ervin mcduffie and he was very well trusted by the roosevelt family and i always thought how remarkable he didn't want his family to see him in the situa

here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. is over looks oslow harbor. they revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. they didn't get rid of it, they expanded it. just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. the new deal continues to live on there. thank you. [applause]. >> welcome to town. it is nice to have you here. >> good to be here. i want to start right in about this book, um by having you read us, this letter that your brother wrote to you when he was at the university of pennsylvania and you were the younger sister that starts right down there. remind us roughly what the year was. >> the year was 1965. the moral of this story is never have a younger sister who never throws away a piece of paper. i discovered this lett

and he was very well trusted by the roosevelt family. i always thought how remarkable that is that he didn't really want his family to see him in this situation, he didn't really entrust some of his other close advisers, but he trusted irvin mcduffy so much that not only he would help, but he would not talk about it which is a very important part of being a worker at the white house. >> host: yes. roosevelt's racial attitudes, i and did initiate the order after there was a threat on washington. but did he bond with any of these people? >> guest: no, i don't believe so. and as you say, the steps he took he had to be pressured into doing. a demonstration or something of that kind. so, you know, he was not, again, a paragon of -- in his policies on racial issues. some steps he took, but -- and eleanor was always pushing for more. she wanted, she did manage to persuade him to have the armed forces provide recreation facilities for african-american soldiers, but he never, for instance, took on the issue of having african-americans fight in co

but privately, roosevelt was in this pattern of trusting his african-american staff very much. roosevelt was paralyzed on his legs were paralyzed from polio he had been paralyzed when he got pulley when he was about 39-years-old and an irony because his infantile paralysis, a young person's disease and he never could get the use of his legs back. she was always afraid of failure that he would be caught in a room and couldn't the state fire so when he was in the white house, concerned about any attacks and so on the launched a project they called crawling exercises. the president in order to east cape would have to practice getting to a window from his bedroom, part of the residence and he would get down on the floor, the president of the united states and pull himself with his arms to the window and the secret service would shoot and the escape. the only person he entrusted with the knowledge to help him with these exercises was the ballet and rm and mcduffie will trusted by the family, and i always felt all remarkable that is that he didn't want his family to see him in the si

l so roosevelt backs off. initially, they try to deny that washington was even there, but they had issued a press release. so you couldn't quite put the genie back in the bottle after that because all the evidence said that he was there. but it, basically, means that nobody black is invited to eat at the white house for, like, another 20 years. and if you are going to the white house in that period, you're probably going in through the back door if you're coming in at all. this is october 16, 1901. october 17, 1901 -- the very next day -- is when the building is officially designated the white house. now, this con juncture of these events takes place in the context of this is the high period of lynching, in the high period of terrorism against the blacks across the country. not just in the south. so all of this kind of comes together. so these were the kinds of things i discovered along the way. >> um, my question is it's not surprising about racial profiling. this has been going on for a long time. once you'r

franklin roosevelt lied an awful lot. in a good cause in terms of getting the united states into the second world war. lyndon johnson lied an awful lot in terms of getting the united states involved in vietnam. today we are critical of johnson because of what he did in vietnam and we had higher roosevelt for his leadership in world war ii but they have applied. we have a first amendment and we have a system of checks and balances that works for the media because we know this, because we know we can't trust the people in power to tell us the truth about what they are doing. "fox news" masquerades as one of these watchdog institutions as the gatekeepers but they operate as a political organization. the lie all the time. they make things up. they slander their opponents. they work hand in glove with politicians and political organizations and they'd make no apology for it. they don't even pretend to do differently. all they do is call themselves a news organization and put up -- but the rest of it is quite obvious. they spon

for the first time, he met either roosevelt. roosevelt dragged kipling to the smithsonian to show off class cases full of america's indian artifacts. kipling mader wrote, i never got over the wonder of a people who haven't extirpated the aboriginals of the continent more completely than any modern race had ever done, honestly believe that they were a cuddly little new england community setting examples to brutal mankind. of the five countries, the united states invaded and or acquired in 1898, hawaii is the only one that became a state. that said, i have come to understand that even though hawaii has been estates and 1959 and american territory since 1898, a small but defiant network made it back to this quest of the legality post-development and do not consider themselves to be americans at all. which is pretty easy to pick up on when they're marching past utah down the main drag of honolulu on the 50th anniversary of statehood, carrying picket signs that say we are not americans. [applause] thank you. so, if you have questions

horegard theodore roosevelt wrote from cuba when he heard the u.s. annexed the island. he was inthe caribbean in the rough riders. one of the end results of that conquest was american control of guantanamo bay. to roosevelt and his like-minded cronies in the government and military the most important objective of all the ann 98 maneuvers was possession of far-flung islands for naval bases and strategic ports like guantanamo and honolulu's pearl harbor. he and his friends had pined for these bases for years the way a normal man envisioned his dream house. all they ever wanted was a cozy little global empire with a few islands here and there to park a battle of ships. that japanese dive bomber sank four of those battleships in pearl harbor on december 7th 1941. that's how i got interested in hawaii a few years ago. the purpose of my initial visit was a quit jaunt to see the uss arizona monument perched above the oily grave of the 1,077 sailors who died on that ship that day. unlike the flip-floppers wearers on my trip for honolulu i did not come here for direct sunlight o

president franklin delano roosevelt just exploded the size and scope of government through his new deal both progressives both has socialist beliefs fact franklin delano roosevelt said his advisers his closest help friends his cabinet people to go his it was stalin and communists russia. to study what he was doing what stalin was doing they are so that f.d.r. could replicate it year in the united states. so that means president obama isn't our first socialist president after all he's the second or the third if you count woodrow wilson so when you throw paul brown's recent claims in with michele bachmann's about other revolutionary war was started in new hampshire in our father the founding fathers ended slavery you suddenly come to really ingenuously understand one thing about the republican party at the day aren't exactly smarter than a fifth grader. two years after the bank stories crashed our economy has renewed hope that at least some of them might soon be held accountable democratic senator carl levin chairman of the senate subcommittee on investigations released his report on who'

and on october 16th, 1901, roosevelt finds out that booker t. washington is going to be in town and advises him to the white house. this is the famous dinner where they go berserk because the fact that a black man is eating at the white house and roosevelt's daughter and wife were there so the black man eating at the white house with white women becomes completely unacceptable, there's editorials across the country denouncing roosevelt the president so roosevelt back souls and initially they try to deny that washington was even there but they had issued a press release. so you couldn't quite put the genie that back in the bottle because you're own evidence says that he was there but it's basically that nobody black is invited to eat at the white house like another 20 years. and if you are going to the white house and the per code you are coming back in the back door if you're coming at all. this is october 16th, 1901. october 17th, 1901 the next day is when the building is officially designated to the white house. the juncture of these events ta

how roosevelt have spurge, if you are interested in fdr and politics, i highly recommend the book. i am sure you can get it at the local bookstore. i want to start with jim newton. this amazing justice for all, history of earl warren and the nation he made. jim newton is a pulitzer prize-winning journalist. he is a senior fellow of ucla public affairs. he has a new biography coming out with dwight eisenhower and his white house years. we can segue into that history and you may know his name. it was done in the new yorker about the discovery -- from eisenhower in the new yorker. a really fascinating article that came out recently. with that i would like to turn it over to jim and have him tell us how we got into writing about earl warren. >> a cue for being here. before i say anything, it was a finalist for the book prize in history last night. what she should also tell you, the winner of the los angeles times. [applause] >> earl warren. i started poking around in 2001. i became an editor at the time and was responsible for california government and political coverage. i was initial

people like theodore roosevelt, president mckinley, or senator lodge who wanted to make america great. to them, greatness meant empire. empires were built on navies. those required island bases. that is how we ended up with pearl harbor and guantanamo bay. that is when we turned the corner on the street where our tanks are still moving down the street. it kind of happened that year. tavis: in retrospect, was that wise or just being greedy? >> it depends on who you ask. toodore roosevelt's goal was be great and powerful and not be a sissy, to have this big navy and take over the world. then it was a great idea. pearl harbor is still the headquarters of pacific command. if you were one of the wish to washy anti-imperialists who thought the united states was about government built on the consent of the governed, then you shed a few tears, i think. tavis: tell me about the annexation of hawaii. >> there were two factions that wanted it. all of them were white. people in washington wanted to turn it into a big military base. on the ground in hawaii, there were the descendants of the origin

>> my favorite chapter turned out to be the eleanor roosevelt and franklin roosevelt. it was complicated. he had his girlfriend living in a bedroom next to him. she had her girlfriend living next to her in the white house together. the american public did not know any of this. franklin's girlfriend turned out to be essential to helping these two figures become the great heroes of american history who led us through the great depression and the second world war. a central piece of their story is the extramarital relationship and important piece that had long ignored. >> host: let me hear your favorite chapter. let's hear from a caller in alabama. you presidents, first ladies and their lovers changed the course of american history". >> caller: thank you for your work. one of your buddies we harrelson, in that movie, online:plays a big part in his life. how much does it play in yours? >> guest: you say online:? >> host: that was his questions. >> guest: we have a web site but i never go on it. it plays no role in my life at all. much more material is available now because

to which barbara bush replied is do not talk to me about eleanor roosevelt in my family and i have forgotten the rest of that but i wonder what her family had against that although i have my own opinions. [laughter] it is probably the fact her father and the whole family were not family -- fans of the economic policies but

so the two men, you know, roosevelt liked donovan. .. twitter.com/booktv. >> coming up, lawrence goldstone recount supreme court's announcement of the civil rights act of 1983. is deemed the act unconstitutional and by doing so needed the protection of the fourteenth amendment. >> before we get to the serpentine dealings of the supreme court. many begin with an assertion. they will discover some wonderful formula to explain human behavior. and a field in which truth is quantifiable seems to have more help than one in which basic concepts will be elusive. you can never prove categorically that you are right. i remember when i was in graduate school aid debate raged fiercely. may be social science could be value free. could we take the human value out. and subjective removing sort of in a laboratory. could a historian create the equivalent of newton's laws of motion. and this argument seems to have receded. academia talked itself out. he was not really a scientist at all but throughout a hypothesis which they hopefully had supported and wh

roosevelt did not discourage competition. he liked the creative tension so if you talk or if you read the histories of roosevelt senior aides even harry hopkins even close people like steve really none of them really knew what roosevelt was up to with everything. feeca things he kept things compartmentalized and he played a zone for one another. donovan for example learned after he formed or the coordinator of information was formed that roosevelt had a secret spy unit in the white house and run by john franken carter who was a columnist in washington, a newspaper columnist. in fact he ran the secret spy unit while he was running columns all the time which kind of violates some press government rule. i am not sure what it is but it it's certainly violated it. roosevelt encouraged this tension between the two and every now and then he would he hang donovan's chain back or he led army intelligence george strong, general george strong do something that would absolutely enrage donovan. donovan had a very complicated relationship

hoorah for hawaii, roosevelt wrote when he heard we annexed the islands. he was in cuba, and one of the end results of that con conquest was american ownership of guantanamo bay. the most important objective of all the maneuvers was possession of islands and ports. he and his friends had primed for these bases for years the way a normal man envisions his dream house. [laughter] all they ever wanted was a cozy little global empire with a few islands here and there apart a fleet of battleships. that dive bomber sank four battleships in pearl harbor and it's how i was interested in hawaii in the first place a few years back. the purpose of my initial visit was a quick jaunt to see the uss arizona memorial, the monument in the harbor perched there of the 1077 sailors who died on the ship that day. unlike the flip-flop wearers on my flight, i didn't come for direct sunlight or fun. [laughter] i came to hawaii because it was attacked. after i checked the arizona off my to do list, i had time to kill and swung by the liluokalani palace downtown and wanted to look

the roosevelts, but also to kind of keep a foot in the white house. hearst, for example, hired anna, the daughter, and her husband to run the newspaper. .. >> we tallied them up for what we did. it was a much bigger deal. vanik is now. they did have a fractured personal relationship. that was embarrassing. other questions or comments? >> on that subject, having my possessions by others and apologized about whatever of they had gotten. and the letter said it is all right -- have to wipe out those things. both of the policy angles and the women's angle. and on women's pages, she used both of those to get to the public. >> not sure what this could have been but might have been driving improperly were something. something like that seems relatively trivial but -- are there other questions? we have something here? >> i was impressed when i read a biography to find out what you mentioned was a finishing school or what it was but i understand from one biography that it was a very good school. it was run by an intellectual frenchwoman who wanted to stay for h

but i was kind of wondering what her family had against eleanor roosevelt, although i have my own opinions? .. >> if it was difficult for first lady bush to deal with her husband's failures, did she comment about her son, george bush, as president and his successes or failures? >> she said almost nothing for publication. i do know from some things that i've read, that she was very concerned about our involvement in iraq. and had real concerns about us going in and what was going to happen. but beyond that, she really hasn't said very much about this presidency. you all may remember there was that one incident early in his presidency where this is george w. bush was eating a pretzel. and he started to choke on it. she said that was payback for him having criticized your cooking. no, she's really not said very much about it. >> yes? >> we've heard a little bit about nancy reagan's circle of friends, but i don't recall hearing anything about barbara bush's circle of friends. >> i think she had a fair number that came to the white house. she was very careful about it and kept it very quiet. sh

apparently he was a roosevelt guilty? >> he was a roosevelt democrat. in the 14th, jack and nelly for roosevelt democrat in a republican county. they were weird in all sorts of ways. not weird like disturbing weird. just different. the light lip farm country. they would love to put on plays and stuff. they were kind of bohemians in a way. it was a dixon. he was reluctant to admit this when i was a child. dixon was a town where apparently black people were not allowed to spend the night. were not welcome to spend the night in a hotel. any hotel in dixon during the 1920s and 1930s. but that wasn't the case in the reagan home. you know, one day the story and i relate it in the book where he in the football team arrive in dixon on their way back from playing a became and they pull into a hole. there are two black players on the team. and the hotel manager says, yeah, we've got room for your team. expect the two black players. and the coach, mike mckinnie, said we'll go to another hotel. no hotel in town, says the manager, is going to take the two black play

you remember a great part, hoover begging roosevelt, you have to do something about the bank crisis. you got to sign this document and we've got to be together on this and roosevelt said you know those drapes are lovely. i think i may keep them in the white house. lincoln did the same thing. he would not change any -- he would not declare any policy about facing down secession, about any new aspect of a compromise. he secretly discussed with fellow republicans where -- how far he was willing to go on compromise and also drew a line in the sand. but that idea of profound silence and masterly inactivity i think is a great lesson. i was, frankly, shocked that senator obama and senator mccain went to a cabinet meeting with president bush to discuss an economic plan that a lame duck president in effect was instituting. yes, we can argue all night about whether it was -- whether it helped, whether it didn't happen, whether it was a loan program but i think a president elect really needs a clean slate. i think we'll get through to january 20th. we got through march 4th through the beginning

so roosevelt said this mustachioed fellow on the right whose name is patrick early. patrick earley had been hoover's secretary of war. he never fought a battle in his life, but homer lea new a lot more about military defense than pat harvey. but he went to try to convince jiang kai-shek. at the same time, john service for two years have been pushing to say we hear all these rumors of what's going on behind enemy lines in guerrilla territory controlled by the chinese communist and we don't know how to it. they sound good that they're putting up an active fight against the japanese i like the nationalists. we've got to try and get americans observers in there to find out if it's really too. so finally again, jiang kai-shek didn't like john service because he was the messenger and he was the instigator of this thing called the dixie mission went to the other china. in 1978 when i was sitting champagne and john service is telling me about his talks with mao i'm like how might americans know we had relations with the chinese comments during world war ii? very few. because

wrong then and now and i don't care what kind of questionnaire it is i will yell it at the president, roosevelt, whoever, it was wrong and it matters. he says it has to matter. to me it's the speech i gave him was drawn from what's happening i think in the country right now in relationship to the war. who is considered patriotic who is considered a trader? and the point of a play to me is that it isn't just the museum piece. that, in fact, it does have relevancy now. and that it does spark a certain amount of controversy in relationship to what goes on now. >> twice in the same day the auditorium was standing room only. new york times best seller crediting mortson came to talk about his book. cup of tea. . he talked about the penny for peace campaign. the provides education for the communities of pakistan and afghanistan. >> i came back to america, i was broke after k 2. i had to raise 12 thousand dollars. and i didn't know how a clue of how to raise money like that. i went to the local library. any librarians here? let's give them a big hand. [applause] so, i went to the library, i talked to t

it will be tonight and wednesday at roosevelt at 6:00 p.m.. thursday march 10 at 5:30 p.m.. and 6:00 at the middle school. thursday, march 17 at marina middle school. there are several others that are hosting the. you can check the web site. and the next item is a public comment on consent items. i don't -- i need a motion into a consent on this calendar. >> on page 11, it is # 136-039 for apple computer. we need to change it to $264,286.404. this includes sales tax. and 4bb1138k14 on page 78. it should read it july 1, 2010. >> could you repeat those dates? >> july 1, 2010 through june 30, 2011. president mendoza: any items removed by the board? commissioner murase: pages 13 to 456, the contract modifications for facilities. there is a analysis before we vote on that section. [unintelligible] this is severed for discussion. president mendoza: removing these for first reading? he wanted to do this later? any items for vote tonight? commissioner murase: page 13-45 for discussion. >> a point of information, on the mlu on page 9, following it are the white pages. i'm asking abou

the roosevelt hotel. we have a crazy show. >> jimmy: little people running around. >> yeah, donnie and wee man. >> jimmy: you told me were you going stop hanging around with these people. didn't you? >> well, i'm sober now. [ applause ] thank you. i still got a lot of problems. >> jimmy: do you think participating in a show in a bar with a midget circus is a good idea? >> i have been getting that a lot from therapists and everybody. i went on oprah and announced i wasn't doing the show. and she said, it's like me in a potato chip factory. these guys are my friends. they are family. >> jimmy: they are thought your family. you have a family. >> no, they are my family. >> jimmy: the little men are not your children. >> they are like my family. we have an amazing time there. what i do, i dance and i greet people and i sing. i'm fourth generation actor. >> jimmy: you like show people. >> i like show business. i like show people. >> jimmy: do you get excited -- it's funny with you. you love the lakers, you are

franklin roosevelt lied an awful lot. in a good cause in terms of getting the united states into the second world war. lyndon johnson lied an awful lot in terms of getting the united states involved in vietnam. today we are critical of johnson because of what he did in vietnam and we had higher roosevelt for his leadership in world war ii but they have applied. we have a first amendment and we have a system of checks and balances that works for the media because we know this, because we know we can't trust the people in power to tell us the truth about what they are doing. "fox news" masquerades as one of these watchdog institutions as the gatekeepers but they operate as a political organization. the lie all the time. they make things up. they slander their opponents. they work hand in glove with politicians and political organizations and they'd make no apology for it. they don't even pretend to do differently. all they do is call themselves a news organization and put up -- but the rest of it is quite obvious. they spon

sesto office of strategic services which is most of you know was hastily set up by president roosevelt in the early days of the war. it's the forerunner of today's cia. anyway, i was in washington at the time. this would have been the fall of 2008 and i was on my book tour for the irregulars which happened to be about a group of british spies in the early days of the o.s. s. at that time the national archives released a huge cache of previously classified documents. this was a huge holes peepers, classified records, and it detailed the 24,000 people that had worked for the oss during world war ii. these records identified for the first time the vast civilian military network of operatives who served their country during the time when it was threatened by nazis and fascists. and some of these people were very notable but for the unusual and the most unlikely possible super agents. you have among them supreme court justice arthur goldberg, the actor sterling hayden, white sox catcher bill berg and arthur schlesinger, jr. but perhaps the most unusual and notable was the chef, julia stevan

it's a little bit hokey and overoptimistic i take some comfort in the fact that roosevelt was elected as a very conservative democrat in 1932 and then became probably the most progressive president perhaps ever by 1936 and was in part a response to the economic circumstances and response to the social movement that we are pushing roosevelt and a learning process. so i'd like to think that it's possible for the second obama administration to take on the direction of the second roosevelt at ministration but things aren't moving that way right now and they aren't going to unless everybody buys and read my book. [laughter] thank you very much. [applause] >> if you have a question you can step up to this microphone and i would like to remind friday that his book the kabuki democracy is available at the bookstore the other end, purchase it there. bring it back to this room for the signing after the q&a period. we have about 15 minutes for q&a so i would ask you keep your comments and questions brief and to we go. >> thank you for a great talk. but roosevelt, as you know, was aided by the do

president teddy roosevelt came to san francisco to commemorate the new union square. union square would find perhaps the noblist mission as a soup kitchen. it was at this dark hour on a wednesday morning in frill 1906, that union square and the newly built san francis hotel would form a bond that still exists today. built in 1904 at union square because of union square, st. s t. francis hotel was the -- >> we served breakfast just like we did right now. our guests were shaken and did not know what was going to happen next. and everything remained normal until the next morning when the fire broke out. >> reporter: refugees from the fire would move to union square. now it was the place to gather where forces you have left and maybe get something to eat. >> the early pictures show people out there with their trunks and luggage. a woman with her bird cage with her dress on and all done up. you would see tables where we would greet people out in the park. so they would have long picnic tables where people would eat. >> reporter: in the middle of rubble of union square, the

19th century, during my trip, i started to read up a lot of these lives of great win, like eleanor roosevelt, margaret mead. every name that is so familiar to us, but yet, we never had time to just sit and read their stories. these women just inspire us and motivate us to do even more. so i know that you are rushing, but i want to present you this little book that i read and finished. i know that you have lots of things to read, but i hope you will find time on your bookshelf for this one. i just wanted to give you this introductory remarks written for this little book. i think this was written by vincent wilson jr.. i think continually of those are truly great, the names of those who in their lives fought for lives, who were in their heart, the fire center. born of the sun, they traveled toward the sun. thank you so much for spending time with all of the honorees today and especially for this great honor. thank you. [applause] >> hello, i'm the president of the commission on the status of women, and i'm here to thank the friends of the status for women. without their efforts, we would not b