you have roosevelt's approach to the war, and franklin roosevelt gave it to the people early on even before pearl harbor and addressed the congress because relative, those of you who know roosevelt in the history know he was thinking quite a bit about hitler's expansion in europe especially and how to stop it. in a time when you also know millions of americans had no interest in all in getting involved. it was the furthest from their mind. roosevelt was on top of it from an early period. in january before pearl harbor, he says if we have to fight, essentially, there's only one way it's justified and that's that we fight and achieve and realize for the entire world the four freedoms. it was a display on the four freedoms down the hallway today in this room. the four freedoms were basically human rights, not just for americans, but every man and woman everywhere. everyone has freedom of speech, freedom of fear, freedom of religion, and freedom from wine. here's a signal of what's coming later. you're not going to read much about freedom from want in ambrose and brokaw. look at classic

all acknowledged it you know they teddy roosevelt would go on and on and expeditions and franklin roosevelt had his mansion and. wouldn't romney be better off just embracing the fact that he's a rich guy i mean we've had all these rich presidents rather than all this constant trying to be like the average person and screwing it up. you know i really agree with you i thought this for a long time you know don't run. embrace it and you know look we live in a celebrity culture where there's an awful lot of emphasis on well you know the big life and so just do that the who that is and that emphasize the humane thing that you do that's that's a rather traditional model but for mitt romney there's a more complex thing he has to run from his biography and he doesn't he doesn't like to talk about his political accomplishment because they were as a moderate to liberal republican really like to talk about of business accomplishments because they were as a vulture capitalist his old family background is complex his father was born in mexico because his grandfather had fled to mexico because they didn't

one author has argued the world we live in is still franklin roosevelt world. and in many ways for better or for worse our national identity is still very much the one he put forth. thank you. [applause] >> [inaudible] >> shifted the new deal. >> i don't think, i do think it shifted all that much because what he, i mean, there's very clear evidence on the archives that roosevelt was sort of on from a very early moment. and when he started arguing in the mid 1930s, so even before his 36th election, he starts arguing against dictatorships and for democracy, and he does in explicitly christian terms. he uses light and dark, up and down, all those kinds of metaphors. and because that language was so consistent over time with this slight pickup for russia, because first off russia is like on the side of the dick tater and our bad and unlikely for him, likely for him there is this siege of stalingrad which allows him to then talk about the russians in exactly the same way he can talk about the british, right. but he keeps that same light and dark christian kind of mo

so what i'm going to do today is talk a little bit about franklin roosevelt's version of what it meant to be an american at this particular moment in our national history. i did this a little earlier but i want to go back today, or at this talk, and say that prior to roosevelt, presidents tended to be very hierarchical in the way they understood the nation. they were often very explicitly exclusionary. there would be people like immigrants or african-americans, and sometimes women, who didn't get to be citizens and who are specifically located in presidential rhetoric at the bottom of the hierarchy of the nation. and the nation was understood as hierarchical, or as local. for many presidents, the south became sort of the demon region. and there are reasons for that because they are building coalitions that depend on including people but also always on excluding people. in one of roosevelt's great geniuses as president is that he almost never actively excluded people, but tended to base his notion of the nation on a very inclusive sense of what that meant. and so that's what i'm going t

in the twentieth century under two presidents particularly franklin roosevelt and dwight eisenhower was a real building out of the sense that america was a nation of many many different communities if you read franklin roosevelt's thanksgiving statements which may seem a very obscure thing to do but with each year of his presidency through the nineteenth the recent one hundred forty s. his thanksgiving statements extended out to include more religious groups more religious diversity to emphasize the pluralism of america and i think that that's something that we have lost at our leadership level in our leadership class a across the board democrat republican conservative and liberal sensibility that it is american not just to tolerate but to celebrate our diversity and when we don't do that i think we would begin to create a climate in which folks who are troubled who are threatening. acts terrible impulse absolutely john nichols great inside right on thanks for coming on john nichols with the nation. i wanted to be with you now for more on this i want to bring in rajdeep singh director o

roosevelt introduced a second bill of rights. and. so. this right now actually to sort of. average family. all right. f.d.r. then goes on to lay out a new set of rights that all americans should be granted including the right to a job. the right to earn enough to provide adequate food clothing and recreation to yourself and your family the right of every business person to trade in freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies the right to a decent home a right to adequate medical care a right to adequate protection from the old from old age sickness accidents and unemployment and a right to a good education first of all never succeeded in getting his second bill of rights passed he died of a stroke before we could see that happen but at least his definition of an economy which is something the serves the needs of society and provides the best quality of life for the greatest number of people was accepted for the next several decades by both republicans and democrats who supported labor unions high taxation on the

we had a magnificent president, franklin delano roosevelt. that was a great man hated by the bush family particularly going all the way back to president bush, an obscure member of the senate from connecticut. they all hated roosevelt because he was a communist and he was going to do this and he lacked -- he liked black people and he was going to destroy everything. i could hear the voice of the right wing then every time the senator from arizona saw fit to bestowed his wisdom upon us in the campaign and he was making the case that obama wants to become president so he could tax all the poor people of the country. what you going to live on. and out of the shots as they say. there will be a spokesman for the senator from arizona. he is going to tax and spend. that was 1936. i remember that campaign. alfred landon trying to -- which he failed to do. they are still at the same old watering hole. somebody once said everything on earth changes except the avant-garde theater. [laughter] >> a lot of people are interested in historical fiction. the u

he would have to think like franklin roosevelt and take these hard efforts if he wanted to bring recovery bring organized labor back and bring back if he wants to deal with unemployment, he has to do these things. he didn't. compromise bipartisanship was more important to him than fixing the situation. >> eliot: has his rhetoric caning changed recentry. >> oh, yeah. >> eliot: always reaching desperately to reach the other side. but he has needed to reinvigorate his campaign. and he gone back to the rhetoric of the campaign of '08. >> i love seeing that and hearing it. he has changed histone. the change began last year during that crazy business with the debt cell ceiling. do you remember that. >> eliot: absolutely. >> he suddenly realized what a mistake he made. the historical platform that he had, and he flittered it away and obama is a very intelligent man, and suddenly it dawned on him. he has rhetorically he has really rediscovered the fire. but i think it might turn out--look, he's still in the lead. he has a terrible republican candidate, and i love watching him blast mitt romney. i

>> formed by a executive order, formed by franklin roosevelt, and at the request of frank murphy, the terrie nei general -- attorney general, he was from michigan, she was a very big supporter of the labor unions, and he was also -- he goes on to become attorney general of supreme court justice, sees a big component of individual rights as well. >> what kind of plus degette when it was formed? was it controversy? >> there wasn't much controversy about it. it didn't get that much cost. was small. about seven people. in fact a lot of what it does over the course of world war ii i think it can do because it is small and falls below the radar screen. >> does it still exist? >> it became the civil rights division of the department of justice in 1957, so it becomes its own division and a gradually gets much bigger especially after the civil rights act of 1965 voting rights act, its enforcement powers and its capacity in the number of lawyers and status collis in a way yes. >> how does the civil rights action type into the title of your book the lost promise of civil rights? >> it's crucial

roosevelt in the 1930s. to give you some statistics i will be brief. factory output. the output of american industry increased every decade beginning in 18994 the following ten years factory output was up 4.7%. from 1909-1919 was up 3.4% every year. 1919-1929 the roaring '20ss it was up 5.1% each year. but 1929-1939 it decreased slightly every single year during the 1930s. so the industrial complex by 1939 has aged. it is out of touch with cutting edge innovations that are going on in europe and elsewhere and suddenly we are faced with this problem of a military complex in europe and we don't have anything to compete with them. in the book i mention army chief of staff douglas macarthur at one point testified before congress in 1935 pleading for enough money so that his army would have enough bullets for 100,000 soldiers. we are not talking about bombers or complex weapons. we're talking literally about enough bullets to man 100,000 army and i can understand if you are not for a strong military american pres

no wonder franklin delano roosevelt called campibello his beloved island. for the wealthy roosevelt family, this small canadian island was an escape from the heat of new york summers and the constraints of new york society. >> what role do you think his time on campo bello played on him becoming the man he sghaim. >> my sent is that probably more than anyplace he could be himself. campo bello island, he was treated by the islanders as just a regular individual, and i think it brought him closer to recognizing that, you know, we are all the same. >> christopher roosevelt is franklin and eleanor's grandson, and chairman of roosevelt campo bello international park. spread across the nearly 3,000 acres of the family's former estate, the park is jointly funded and managed by the united states and canada. >> the park is, we believe, the only true international park in the world. >> the roosevelts 34 room cottage still looks as if the family had just stepped out for a quick swim. franklin's ashtray is at the ready and eleanor's mega phone is there on the porch. >>

nevertheless because of the badgering of anna roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt, franklin was taken to bethesda naval hospital. it was almost knew at that time. it was our newly opened facility. he was taken there in a limousine with his wheelchair. his wheelchair was an old kitchen chair with wheels attached. he didn't want to be seen in a conventional wheelchair, a hospital type wheelchair because he didn't want to be thought of as a cripple. so we sat in the wheelchair newest pushed along in the kitchen chair. you can see that kitchen chair at the roosevelt memorial here in washington because one of the statute shows him sitting in it and you can see the wheelchair polo. it's an honest portrait of roosevelt and a sculpture that way. the bethesda naval hospital, they were appalled that his condition. a young doctor from columbia-presbyterian in new york who was then a lieutenant commander in the navy was called and was called in to look them over and said roosevelt is in very bad shape indeed. he may not live out the year unless something is done. the first thing we have to do is the

>>> recounts franklin delano roosevelt's last presidential campaign in 1944 to secure his fourth term. mr. weintraub examines the key events that marked his wartime reelection, in which he defeated republican house dewey. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> my book is called, as you heard, final victory. final victory suggests that there were nothing but victory is in his life. actually, that wasn't the case. he did have to terms as a state senator from new york state and he became assistant secretary of the navy in a little more one. he then was chosen to be the vice presidential candidate on the democratic ticket in 1920 and the democrats were sure to lose and they lost. he lost with them, but he thought that this would only energize his career. he had a national visibility. he was going to go on to do other things. but that was 1920. in 1921, he severed polio, he was paralyzed, and the period that we are dealing with now is 23 years until that period of mobility on his part. i don't think the president realized how paralyzed he was that he had no agility physically though he ha

i think that franklin roosevelt was distinguished. i think that martin luther king was distinguished. dr. suess. >> bill: let's talk about some of the people you didn't put in your book. now, remember, this is a social justice hall of fame, okay. i got that. >> absolutely. >> coming at t from a left wing position. there is no dwight highway hour on your list. now, he wasn't an idealogue, he wasn't a conservative idealogue you have betty, you have malcolm x. have you bill moyers, jesse jackson and bruce spinning stein but no dwight david eisenhower. are you kidding me? >> dwight eisenhower was a great military hero and at the end of his 8 years as president he warned america about the military industrial complex. >> bill: he should be on this list and he is not there. >> you know, maybe in the second edition of the book. >> bill: the second edition. so bruce springsteen makes the first edition but eisenhower is going to make the second one? >> you know, bruce springsteen has been the voice of working people for the last 30 years. eisen

. >>> up next arthur herman recounts franklin delano roosevelt's call to general motors president and shipbuilder henry kaiser to lead the private sector positions and lead the u.s. war protection effort during world war ii. dubbed the dollar a year men, they transformed the u.s. military's aircraft ammunitions productions. this is one hour and ten minutes. >> good evening and with the american enterprise institute and a director of the national research initiative which is a foundation or organization used within the aei entity, that is what i was looking for come entity within a e.r.a. that supports the domestic policy related research which are believed to the current speaker arthur herman and the author of the book that is the subject of today's discussion "freedom's forge" clearly is one of. the 2012 election is in many ways a debate over the 1932 election. should we continue or extend the legacy of franklin delano roosevelt in establishing the federal government as one of the preeminent directors if not the preeminent director of american economic life, or should we embrace the

president franklin roosevelt first signed social security into law on august 14, 1935, at a time when about half of america's senior citizens lived in poverty. >> today, a large part fulfilled. the civilization of the past 100 years with its startling industrial changes more and more making life and secure. young people have come to wonder what would be there a lot when it came to old age. the man with a job has wondered how long the job would last. this social security measure gives at least some protection to 30 million citizens who will reap direct benefits through the unemployment compensation, through old age pensions, and increased services for the protection of children and the prevention of ill health. >> franklin roosevelt speaking 77 years ago. today, less than 10% live in poverty. social siccative provides retirement security as well as assistance to millions of people with disabilities. the program also supports widows, widowers, and their children. critics of the program say it is fiscally unsustainable, but supporters point out is funded by the payroll tax and does not c

franklin roosevelt was moved by later movements. lyndon johnson had the civil rights movement. i think we begin with that. this book comes out at a moment when the country sees the power and possibility of occupy, 99%, and how that has shifted. it is still evolving. it has shifted the center of political gravity of our dialogue. the issue has been off the radar for so long. >> roosevelt surfed and harnessed those movements. he used them to get legislation passed to initiate programs. obama is still getting on his wet suit. to read the essay she wrote in 2008, there was a sense of exhibits -- exuberance. you say that hope is not optimism that expects things to turn out well. it seems like he confused those two things. >> i will come back to what i write about in the book. the expectations were so great and high. go back to 2008. the back to the election and year when we are fortunate region were fortunate enough to be living with debates that were not cruel reality shows. every week, there were debates among the democratic candidates. barack obama embodied change. it seemed he b

we have heard enough about the olympics, i hate to bring up this subject, but franklin roosevelt when he died somebody was caught crying and the reporter said to him, did you know mr. roosevelt? he said i didn't know mr. roosevelt, but he knew me. >> dan, the embracing -- mediate the dispute, where do you come down on this? they are going to bring in testimonials all week to his business success, bane capital, romney did -- they want to bring out this record of success and personal portrait. >> i don't disagree with dorothy and jason, that romney has to do these things. the election however is not about mitt romney. it is about the american people and the situation they are in right now. i would push a little further than what dorothy has suggested. which is mitt romney is representing himself as a guy who understands business. he wrote and published a piece on the "wall street journal" editorial page in which he described four, five businesses he worked with. he has to talk about what is in the minds of employers now who are not hiring the americans who want jobs. why aren't they doi

the president who had the greatest jeffty -- longevity of success was franklin roosevelt. he's the only president who dared to run more than twice, now you can't because of the 22nd amendment, which i'm opposed to. but longevity of success basically means you manage to maintain the country, um, and run the country without some combination of economic dislocation, um, dislocation in the streets with demonstrations of some kind that lead to violence, a war you can't get out of and can't win, a scandal. all of these things are sort of part of life, aren't they? and because it's very difficult to sort of maintain stability throughout. .. that political capital accumulated political capital because he very brilliantly crafted a center-left mode of governing that the country was very comfortable with and used that to run the country quite effectively but then he didn't try to use that political capital for any major initiative and the result was that he ended up being the good president but not a great president. think about what the republicans did and the congress impeachment

it was in 1935 that president franklin roosevelt made it easier for workers in the private sector to create unions. when signed the wagner act he see he meanted and deepened political ties between organized labor on the democratic party. >> it doesn't pool enthusiasm for picketing. >> even fdr didn't think public sector unions made any sense. >> collective bar gaining is different for public workers because their boss is really on their side. >> lies extensively on the roots of america's economic problems. >> they don't want to pay the union mihms too much because it comes out of their own pockets at ford, but that is not true of the government. >> strikes by public employees would be quote the unthinkable and intolerable. but it was within a couple of decades that democratic heirs decided the political upside of public sector unions was worth the risk. the euro caucuse eureka momentd right here in new york city. municipal workers granted the right to bargain collectively. three years later those public unions organize today's reelect him. wagner's unexpectedly strong showing caught

roosevelt uncovered a key political strategy being used then by the republican party which is to tell big lie over and over and over again and if you keep at it the people will eventually believe. the opposition. has already probably didn't give us. a very good thing for our. profit the propaganda technique according to pick me. you should not. smoke. it was a big building. back to. work make it credible. to get. an. egg and that's what paul ryan did last night at the r n c which brings us to his next big lie about medicare. seven hundred sixteen billion dollars funneled out of medicare by president obama. in an obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. thank you thank you guys the greatest threat to medicare is obamacare and we're going to stop it. that's a lie it's a lie if you can hear it's a lie of anything obamacare is the greatest savior to medicare in fact president obama's reforms seven hundred sixteen billion dollars he cut a waste fraud and corporate abuse within medicare extended the life

roosevelt a loser too because in one thousand forty four while running for reelection roosevelt compared the republican's political strategy that year to hitler's the opposition even if. it was probably to diminish. a very interesting thing because. the propaganda technique invented it take a breath. remember. mine. written by clinton though. only roosevelt didn't lose that year he won thus proving godwin's law is wrong and roosevelt won because he was bold enough to call out republicans for what they were doing which was using hitler's most powerful propaganda technique to sway voters raises the question what is that incredibly powerful propaganda technique well pretty simple tell a big fat lie over and over and over again. remember a number of years ago although of. mine have written by clinton. the technique was a sham. and it was copied by the records of italy and japan according to that pick me you should never be rudely smashed. as a big one. but it's very sad task to make sure it would make it more credible if only you keep repeating it over and over and over again and in that sam

i would go back again tobeing a democrat, if you you believe in the legacy of franklin roosevelt of social security and lyndon johnson with medicare and say we don't want these things to be -- we just burned through a lot of money and the whole thing blows up and the country collapses and their all gone. gradually you believe social security and medicare should be properly managed and something that provides long term stability in the united states. you want them to be there for your given and grandchildren and then you will vote and support paul ryan because he is the one who is going to fix them so they can last in the long run. whereas obama is going to drive this country into fiscal disaster which will kill social security, medicare along with the rest of the economy. [applause] >> all seriousness aside, i cannot wait to see paul ryan debate joe biden. it will be interesting to see if biden gets flustered. that'll be fun to watch. back to your host. >> after we say good-bye here. we got door prizes and shooting prizes. i do want to thank you -- i can't believe for a decade we've been d

franklin roosevelt was going for his second term. at the democratic national convention, he went all out assault on his conservative opponents. he called them economic royalists. he set up the democratic party as the party of the people. he said republicans were the party of the big businessmen and bankers. he was emotional and strident in his attack in a way president obama could not be in the present-day because he would lose political support among moderates and independents. it was a similar situation or even worse. in 1936, the unemployment rate was higher than it is now. the economic indicators were much lower. in a bad economy, you see real hard-edge debate between parties. even inside the parties. on the republican side, how do you go against seone like a franklin roosevelt? how are you going to respond to that? we see that in the modern day. how are we going to respond to president obama's stimulus policies and medical reform program? the republicans have mitt romney as the nominee. they seem to be embracing a lot of initiat

roosevelt proposed something he thought was absolutely necessary for the ongoing security and prosperity of the united states of america he called it a second bill of rights. right . actually. i'm all right. all right. now there's new rights that f.d.r. hope to guarantee to all americans included a right to a job that pays enough to make a good living to buy food and clothing and even take a vacation every now and then a right to a decent home a right to medical care a right to protection from old age sickness accident and unemployment a right to a good education and a right for every business owner to sell his goods or her goods in a market free from unfair competition and monopolies as we know today since none of us really have those rights i just mentioned f.d.r.'s revolutionary idea died with him a year after he proposed it and today with record poverty staggering unemployment the health care crisis the student loan debt crisis and too big to fail dominating wall street one has to wonder if all of this everything we're facing today could have been prevented had roosevelt succeeded se

roosevelt said there will not be one war millionaire as the result of the current troubles and this is kind of the opposite many million many many millionaires were made by nine eleven by nine eleven it's it's i give people who do know it's the capitalist system the free enterprise that's not there but in my taking advantage of such an egregious act it was committed against this country i heard from senior officials that i say including the very person i reported to that nine eleven was a gift to n.s.a. you know well you would think you know that the military and intelligence committee woods at at it at a not necessarily evil level or whatever the word is dysfunctional level would say ok people are going to our pants mention of what we're doing we do important stuff this this is important but to see it as a profit opportunity that seems like a bridge too far but that is that's the critical decisions are being made by the corporation and all those solutions even though george tenet at the time the head of the cia and and the d.c.i. the director of central intelligence the call had go

as i describe them in the introduction, the democratic party posted four to one of franklin roosevelt's legacy. it became complacent and we began to feel entitled to its near hegemonic position and the politics, culture and the media. when the new freight increasingly began to displace all three of those aretas some liberals turned into whiteners and crybabies. the bulk of the democratic party politicians and operators however moved in a different direction. after three straight losses in the presidential election. they are continuing to espouse them to lead the rockets can say anything to win any election and object that in the mind generally requires them to emulate republicans. particularly with respect to money grubbing on the fund-raising circuit. many of them lack because if people want a republican, they will vote for the real thing. what is evolves in america over the last three decades is a one-and-a-half party system as democrats opportunist ackley lead to the center which is the root of a stick universe of american politics keeps moving further to the right, and of quote. wel

roosevelt did back in one nine hundred thirty six calling out the liars in the republican party who were trying to destroy the new deal anyway and you will. let me make. eighty eight pages of that. we only thing. we've only been talking. we believe in work for the unemployed we believe in favoring a. some. like the way the president minutes frank is doing. what. we do. we will beat them and then. but doing up will not cost any body and. roosevelt won reelection that year and he won again four years later and again four years later you see the only way you beat liars is to call them out as liars. or you. can. drive. me nuts. please. stop and look at the current of its unemployment the national debt. failing governments ask yourself does it really matter who wins with the billions created you can gamble with your money or turn it into some.

roosevelt did back in one nine hundred thirty six calling out the liars in the republican party who were trying to destroy the new deal anyway and you you. let me make. an eighty eight page. that. we believe in a thing. we believe in. we believe in and work for the unemployed we believe in favoring a. some. i think. we do want to like the way the president minutes frank is doing. them we will do what. we will do with them and the only thing we have in the bone doing on them will not cost any body any. roosevelt won reelection that year or anyone again four years later and again four years later you see the only way you beat liars is to call them out as liars. the food bowl started here before going global and now it's cooling the fire. log in. to the right to. choose your place to take your stand. needs to. make your statement. spread the word. coupon stream along. wealthy british style sign. writing. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's conjure for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report