happy birthday, eleanor roosevelt. [applause] one of the things we are so lucky as to have eleanor's papers here along with franklin roosevelt and his administration. if you go over and look at the building, the two wings of the library are the eleanor roosevelt wings that were built in 1972. after the library first open, fdr started sketching what would be the structure here to incorporate eleanor's papers. when his archivist said do you think she will give them to you, he said he was never sure what she could do. how many of you are members here today? thank you so much. your support makes programs like as possible. we appreciate everything you do for us. we are a federally funded institution but we rely on private donations to allow us to do these programs and exhibits. today we have with us a very special friend and guest. she has spent many days here when she was working on the eleanor roosevelt papers for george washington university. she is now with george mason university. she has put together a book that looks

next we read from eleanor memoir -- roosevelt's memoir. birthday eleanor roosevelt. ou know, it is one of the things that we are so lucky to have eleanor's papers here, papers of frank lynn roosevelt from his administration, and if you look two wings ding, the f the library are the eleanor roosevelt wings that were built in 1972. they were open, f.d.r. sketched the strublth ur to eleanor's papers because he was telling her we really need to have the papers the library. do you -- isit said, visit asked if she would give them to him, he said see.l have to we appreciate everything you do for us. he library is a federally funded institution, but we rely on private donations to do many nonfederal programs like programs and exhibits and things like that. we have with us a very special friend and guest who here when she was working on the eleanor at the george washington university. she with george mason university virginia and she put together the books at the advice eleanor roosevelt gave and t is relevant how some of the questions were, even though they are 50 years, and

truman visiting with eleanor roosevelt. i like to think about some of the popular entertainers and celebrities of the day. jack benny did an entire episode of the jack benny program at the truman library and visited this home. and both mr. and mrs. truman had wonderful senses of humor. and i can only imagine the aughter that was in this room. we're standing in the dining room in the grand addition of the gates mansion, later the truman home. and what we see on the table today is a formal setting for six. and the setting was personally placed by margaret truman daniel. and i think when she set this, that she was remembering how dinners were formal in her youth. mark rhett remembered that because -- margaret remembered because it was her grandmother's house she sat at one. heads of the table and that being that she was a widow, that harry truman acted basically as the male head household and he would sit at the other end of the table. and then mrs. truman beside her husband and then when margaret was big enough, that she woul

happy birthday, eleanor roosevelt. [applause] one of the things we are so lucky as to have eleanor's papers here along with franklin roosevelt and his administration. if you go over and look at the building, the two wings of the library are the eleanor roosevelt wings that were built in 1972. after the library first open, fdr started sketching what would be the structure here to

but eleanor roosevelt is eleanor roosevelt. she is special. yes? a governor, politically, in always, and his support of the common person, how would you compare, what do you see as his secret that you would give to present-day governors? mr. chiles: it is the question of authenticity. which i mentioned before. i think he really does genuinely care about people. and curiosity, too. he's not well-educated in a formal sense, and as i said, his first term as a state delegate didn't go well, but he stayed in his hotel room and studied new york law, and learned to be this master of how legislation works. so curiosity, being interested in how government works, how you can use it to help people, but also authenticity, both from your own experience, whatever that means, and it means different things for different people, but also authentic we carrying about people. francis perkins takes him to the factories to see the conditions and he is moved. and when he goes out to rural new york, he cares about the conditions he sees and reads about. and even people wh

johnson with the eleanor roosevelt candlestick award. ♪ in texas during the month, the president and mrs. johnson traveled to el paso for a meeting with the mexican president. in their sixth reunion at the border, the two presidents presided over ceremonies completing an agreement formally ending a dispute over lands bordering the rio grande. it will go down in history as a model of peaceful solutions to international misunderstandings. ♪ but in other parts of the world, tension and conflict persisted, especially in the middle east and in vietnam. these were high-priority items on the agenda of the president's cabinet meeting. >> the situation in the middle east remains dangerous. the most immediate source of danger is the continuation of violence incidents on the cease-fire line established last year. the middle east is normally -- not only inflammatory and its own right, in terms of its own territory, but because of many circumstances including geographical location, it is an area that could be inflamed to the point where the great powers could be engaged and would be highly invo

eleanor roosevelt is eleanor roosevelt, special. >> [indiscernible] politically in always and his support of the common person -- how would you compare -- what would you see as his secret that you would give to present day governors? mr. chiles: it is the question of authenticity. genuinely care. to -- curiosity, too. he is not educated in a formal sense. he stayed in his hotel room and studied new york law and learned a master of how legislation works. interested inng how government works, how to use it to help people. it means different things for different people. it means authentically caring about people. francis perkins takes him to the factories to see the conditions and he is moved. when he goes out to rural new york, he cares about the conditions he sees and reads about. people from different walks of the, he gets letters from northern new york sportsmen's association has of his conservation initiatives. they say, you understand what we want to do. he is not an outdoorsman from the adirondack but he could understand and care about the issues. those would be the biggest things. qu

it carries into the united nations debates with eleanor roosevelt and with the federal reserve. what i was thinking is the debates in congress that carried forward, people came in -- i should say the initial group of representatives came in to speak on behalf of the fed and the said if we have the federal reserve and it will be socialism. debate takes place, there are some of the same members of congress still there, and they remember and say you guys were in here for the federal reserve telling us that if we have the federal reserve we will have socialism, no you are telling us the imf will usher in socialism. what is it? congress and with president wilson's understanding of the institution, there is continuity that perhaps we don't see with presidents that are more truncated. there are different attempts at legislation and obviously like devon pointed out, changing demographics and all the rest. even though we are trying to draw lines, maybe it is not possible. >> thank you very much. let's go to questions. the gentleman over here -- please identify yourself when you speak. go

eleanor roosevelt was the champion of this bill. she said other countries are taking their share, and we should, too. she writes this telegram to fdr , asking if he will speak out about the passage of the child refugee bill or if she should. fdr responds, all right for you to support child refugee bills. but it is best for me to say nothing. he never does speak out on behalf of this bill. the opponents of the bill are led by robert reynolds. a senator from north carolina, and it is democratic white southerners in congress and the senate who are deeply anti-immigration. they do not want to be letting in immigrants, and he argues, as you see, that american children have their own problems that we need to take care of american children before foreign children. the contrast between these two polls is at the heart of the exhibition. this is two weeks before kristallnacht, november 1938, and americans are asked what they think. do you approve or disapprove of the nazi j treatment ofew -- treatment of jews in germany? you see 94% of americ

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next we read from eleanor memoir -- roosevelt's memoir. birthday eleanor roosevelt. ou know, it is one of the things that we are so lucky to have eleanor's papers here, papers of frank lynn roosevelt from his administration, and if you look two wings ding, the f the library are the eleanor roosevelt wings that were built in 1972. they were open, f.d.r. sketched the strublth

during helen's senior year in high school, eleanor roosevelt visited her school to promote women in sports. and helen presented her with a bouquet of roses. a short time later she received a handwritten letter from the first lady. she met her husband working at park davis labs and for their first date they drove five hours to the state pines. that was the start of a 59-year marriage. after being a stay at home mom for 12 years, when her kids were older she started working at the youth home for jufe nigh eling -- juvenile deleng went. she's an avid golfer, two holes in one, most recently when she was 80. there are many golfers, including in this chamber, that are envious of that achievement. as she got older she continued to -- a few years ago she was in a grocery store and ended up starring -- to be honest she didn't realize what mike's hard lemonade was. i squind her family, friends, and entire community in celebrating an and incredible 100 years of life and wish her more. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from connecticut, m

roosevelt. those kinds of connections were critical, some semblance of black politics and black power. it's wilson's administration, through not merely segregation, but capping of black access to power in washington that leads african-americans of italy at the mercy of white leadership -- utterly at the mercy of white leadership. and that's new. at the time, the ordinary thing to do was to appoint a few token black people and nod a little bit to white lynching is bad and move on. i think john is absolutely right, this didn't start from wilson. what the wilson in ministration did was -- administration did was to seek and destroy any semblance of black power so those opportunities to salvage something wouldn't exist again really until a little bit under roosevelt, which began to play this role. that's new. that's not of his times. he didn't have to do that. there were black democrats. he didn't want to. he didn't see that as a productive way to deal with his base. he didn't see that as important b

there is a huge push -- we talked about eleanor roosevelt and she advocates for different groups. one of the things she advocates for this the idea of government support of child care. this idea of child care. if you want women to work and be a part of this war effort, then you have to have someone watching their children. and we know that child care is a problem for families today. it is not just a women's problem, it is a fort -- a family problem. but for families and affordable childcare is a problem and in the 1940's, it was an even bigger problem because there was even less infrastructure for child care. women, once you had children, you do not work, you took care of the kids. working-class women, immigrant women, and women of character -- women of color always did. but eleanor roosevelt says let us advocate for child care, some facilities were set up across the country but they are in such small numbers it is completely inadequate. so the people that are going to watch the children are going to be family. grandmothers. or this idea of support within the community. that gets

but eleanor roosevelt says let's have childcare. so there are some childcare facilities set up across the country, but they are in such small numbers that is just completely inadequate. so the people that are going to watch the children are going to be family. grandmothers, or this idea of support within the community. so that gets promoted as a war job. if you work as a child caregiver, you are enabling someone else to go and work in the factory. if you got arthritis in your rivet, maybe you can feed a baby in bottle. so, this idea of all these jobs are important, all these jobs help with the war effort. and make a difference to the whole thing. we often think of rosie the riveter at the academy of women working during the war. but the reality is more women tied. atn we get to that women war, we are not going to highlight that, but i want to speak on it now, that's one of the biggest things that women do in the military as well. you got the civil service women working for different parts of the government, but women in the military

but eleanor roosevelt says let us advocate for tell care some facilities were set up across the country but they are in such small numbers it is completely inadequate. going toople that are watch the children are going to be family. grandmothers. or the idea of support within the community. promoted as a war job. if you work as a child caregiver , you are enabling someone else to go and work in a factory. if you have arthritis in your , maybend cannot rivet you can feed a baby a bottle and do your part. this idea that all of these jobs are important and help with the work effort and make a difference to the whole thing. we often think of rosie the riveter as the opinion me -- as workingome of women for the war but the reality is that more women typed. i want to sneak that in now. that is one of the biggest things that women do in the military. you have the civil service, women working for different parts of the government. and there are mill a -- and there are women in the military too. there are no computers. everyone has orders. and they are all in triplicate or quadruplicate. everyth

eleanor roosevelt is one. there are female participants from the soviet union and from india who are deeply involved in this story, but the jews in the story represent basically the profile of american society at that point, which is, then, as now, in different ways, hallenged by that issue. >> thank you. you mentioned president carter and that makes me ask a question of his foreign policy focus on human rights. did morris abram have anything to do with the way president carter put the spotlight on human rights in his foreign policy and then if you care, to perhaps bring it to the present where we've gone there a totally different direction. but the first part of the question -- >> sure. the short answer about that is the carter administration was a really interesting turning point because president carter was the first president to make human rights an split part of american -- u.s. foreign policy. and to some extent he built on the work that morris abram and others had done for earlier democratic administrat

eleanor roosevelt goes to the pageant. multiple supreme court justices go to the pageant. a couple hundred members of congress go. and he rewrites the end of the pageant for the performance in constitution home. whoays, you are the people have the power to do something about this, are you going to do something to rescue the jews of europe? he is also writing full-page newspaper ads, incendiary full-page newspaper ads to spur action. this is a response to a refugee conference. a conference between great britain and the united states, a gathering in april 1943 that was really for show. there was no intention of rate -- of changing refugee policy. they want to be able to say they had met. actione calling for mass on behalf of the jewish victims in europe. we show here is he comes back to the story, the head of the visa division for the state department. he goes to congress in november 1943 and tells him the state department had already admitted 580,000 refugees. that claim is absolutely false. long goes to conference -- to congress. he says, we were bound by immigration laws,

roosevelt, 1942, fdr was talking about sending japanese americans into camps and she basically said, this isn't necessary for national security, total violation of civil liberties, he did it anyway, the friends thought that was a moment in their marriage that never recovered from and you will note that for the rest of world war ii fdr kept on telling her i really would like to have you home, i'm lonely, i need the company and she went on all the trips, she kept her distance and i'm convinced that one reason for that was that by interning the japanese americans fdr was showing her maybe we don't have same political ideals after all. >> jonathan in milwaukee, wisconsin, you're on with michael beschloss. >> thank you very much for taking my call, i would like to ask about woodrow wilson, in 1916 famously vow today keep our country out of war. in the election -- >> which was a lie. >> yes, precisely and his election against charles evans hughes was so close that charles evans hughes went to bed thinking he was president and waking up -- woken up to find out no, california went a differen

and in the birthday card, she wrote a quote from eleanor roosevelt, "believe in your dreams." and i'm living my dream now as a "wheel of fortune" contestant. well, good. well, i'm glad to have you here. and your daughter did a very nice thing. good luck. [ applause ] all right. here we go. hi, pat. my name's mike. we are from san diego, california, where i work for a medical device company. prior to that, i was in the u.s. navy, which is what brought me to san diego, where i met my wife of 11 years. -okay. hi. i'm jennifer. i am a homeschool mom to our three daughters -- hayley, 8, bevin, 7, and ainsley, 18 months. our favorite disney memory is a disney trip we took, and we ran the tinker bell half marathon. all right. that's good. well, we got a lot of disney stuff out here. you may win something else out here. yes, we love disney. -good to have you both here. -both: thank you. and now it's your turn. hi, pat. my name is jay wolf. i'm from long island, new york. i am a helicopter pilot for the new york city police department. and my beautiful wife tiffany here is also an nypd

it is near eleanor roosevelt high school and police say h was arrested on hanover parkway, which is near the school, forcing it into a modifiin lockdown dthe arrest. he has been diagnosed as schizophrenic. >> a tip in a traff stop led a -- jasmine barnes. the girl that was killed inside the car with her famil eric black jr. admitteded to taking part in the shooting. investigator more suspects at large. the girl's father spoke after the arrest was announced sterday. >> now my baby's got justice and now we can probably put her to rest without having to put her to rest and be still on a machinm hunt looking for a suspect. >> veinvestigators don't believ her family was the intended target and that the shooting may have been a case of mistaken identity. >>> we're working to learn more details in a fatal pedesnian accidentrince georges county. a wom was hitnd killed sunday afternoon on new hampshire avenue. the car hit her as she crossed police say the driver stayed on the scene. the car was later chose. tpolice have not said whether te driver will be charged or whether the victim h right of w

truman visiting with eleanor roosevelt. i like to think of some of the elebrities of the day. jan denny visited this home. and they had wonderful senses of humor and i can only imagine the aughter that was in this room. we're stand negative dining room of the grand edition of the gates mansion, later the truman home and we what we see on the table today is a formal setting for six. and the setting was personally placed by margaret truman daniel. i think and when she set this that she was remembering how dinners were formal in her youth. margaret remembered that because it was her grandmother's house that she sat at one of the heads of the table and that being that she was widowed that harry truman acted basically as the male head household and he would sit at the other thovende table. and when margaret was big enough, she would sit between her mother and her grandmother, wallace. the chandeliers that hangs is original to the 188 edition. when the trumans came home to independence in 1953 from washington, d.c., margaret was by that time in new york or in the miest of her singin

could she ended by saying that we eave already had a woman president during the war that eleanor roosevelt had ran the country when her husband, the president, was sick. >> so i'm skipping ahead. on tuesday night, big ma finally had something to cheer about. got the president she prayed for. pa wasn't to pleased his president, hubert humphrey honest the election, saying no black person in the u.s. should have voted for tricky dick nixon, big ma says she wasn't black, she colder, then vanetta said, and anything degree on sunday, and fern said, sunday negro. uncle darnell said he hoped someone good would run in the next elegs hen was old enough to vote mitchell stepmom looked down the shirley chism campaign headquarters. big ma couldn't believe the anymore new york voted for shirley chisolm as their congress movement they said where is your wife snow take caring of your husband. that charli chisolm already brecking up homes, pa said, big ma pay ma no mind. he and i stayed glued to the to the television. there will hundreds of people cheering on our new congressman. he whenning thought would

like eleanor roosevelt or madeleine albright. she's a giant in women's history. she knows what she's doing and she's asking for a few months here to get the government reopened to deal with this wall issue once and for all and to move the democratic party forward in an optimistic way and let the mueller report be the mueller report and maybe talk about impeachment in a more serious way but now while 800,000 workers are unemployed. >> you congresswoman tlaib is not backing down. this is what she told our affiliate. watch this. >> i know that if i was a man it, might have been differently. i know that for me, i've always been this way. i mean, i think no one expects me to be anything but myself. the girl from southwest detroit, the little sass and attitude. i think you know, president trump has met his match. >> is she right? has the president met his match? >> well, i don't know about that. i think this is a race to the bottom, right? we have cultural degradation. donald trump has vulgarized politics and it continues rather than trying to be the opposite of trump,

like eleanor roosevelt or madeleine albright. she's a giant in women's history. she knows what she's doing and she's asking for a few months here to get the government reopened to deal with this wall issue once and for all and to move the democratic party forward in an optimistic way and let the mueller report be the mueller report and maybe talk about impeachment in a more serious way but now while in january while over

the the father of eleanor roosevelt so that's what the real connection is so eleanor uncle is teddy, and her father elle teddy younger brother had epilepsy as a child became an alcoholic and died young. so it'd did i roosevelt really became like a fur to eleanor so franklin loved teddy roosevelt all three of them become a wonderful circle. fdr grows up in a qeat setting as well he's only child of his father's marriage with his mother.. but it's a setting up in hyde park but anybody who thought this man is going to be president of the united states? >> certainly not fdr. but the interesting thing about both fdr and teddy roosevelt are is they were the center of their parents love which gave them a certain confidence, i mean, with teddy roosevelt not only was he center of his father and mother's love but siblings because he used to tell them stories after he read them books tell themst stories and held organize their games and so too fdr was center of his parent 'life he wanted to be center of everybody's life after a having experienced that as a child that his daughter alex once said

eleanor roosevelt said the same thing, didn't want john kennedy because she thought he was too close to the pope. so people have their prejudice. they overcome it in many ways, but sometimes they really didn't. interestingly enough, i thought i'd tell you a story that you don't know about my father. there was a priest in cambridge, massachusetts, called father feeney who said that only catholics could get to heaven. you know the story? how many people know the story? two people, great. my father thought that was an outrageous idea. he said what kind of god would say only people born in a certain time in history with a certain family or certain ireland could get to heaven. that makes no sense. god creates a whole world, he obviously wants everybody to have a way to get to heaven. so he called up his friend, who was at that time the cardinal, cardinal cushing, and said could you get him defrocked and thrown out of the church, so the cardinal did so everybody can get to heaven whether they're catholic or not, just so you know. so when priests say only catholics can get communion, my mot

and eleanor roosevelt said the same thing, didn't want john kennedy because she thought he was too close to the pope. so people have their prejudice. they overcome it in many ways but sometimes they really didn't. interesting enough, i'd tell you a story you don't know about my father. there was a priest in cambridge, massachusetts, called father feeney who said that only catholics could get to heaven. which, you know the? >> how many people know this story to people, great. my father thought that was an outrageous idea. he's thought what kind of god with the only people born in a certain time in history with a certain family, a certain ireland, ireland, could get to heaven. that makes no sense and god creates a whole world. he obviously once everyone have a way to get to heaven. we called up his friend who was at the time the cardinal, cardinal cushing, instead would you give him defrocked and thrown out of the church? which cardinal cushing isa did kill somebody can get to heaven, whether they are catholic or not, just so you know. [laughing] so with all those priests say only catholic

eleanor roosevelt was always willing to question his assumptions, always willing to argue with him, speaking truth to power. i think any team needs that, in business or not. i mean, they said about her that whenever she wanted something done, she would bring a person he didn't want to speak to because he was tired of that person, right to the dinner table so she would have to speak with him because he brought in an alternative point of view. he built in that dissension through her. f.d.r. built it in in other ways, too. he loved to have people who were down in the bureaucracy come into his office every now and then so that he could question them against their department heads. he put people against one another and said a little bit of competition does a good thing. he would give the same assignment to two different people. they all had ways of getting new opinions into their heads. carol: jason, of course just a tease of the conversation. a great conversation between those two. you can get more in an upcoming episode of "the david rubenstein show." jason: staying with politics, here is somet