eleanor roosevelt wrote a letter on her behalf. lobbying for. him there were newspaper reports of her getting the part. i think it was because walter leafed that without verifying his sources. can you imagine that happening today? so there was a story that he got the part. obviously she helped him get the part. but she would often accompany roosevelt towards georgia where he would sit for long periods of time to get treatment for his polio and he started going to georgia when he was governor of new york. there he met a woman named. d.c. is one of my favorite characters in this book. days he was the private cook for a local family. when she would go to warren springs, georgia, for a long period of time to ingratiate themselves with the president the family lent daisy toí+z fdr. so she would stay at a cottage at little white house in warren springs and cook. she introduced them to all sorts of specialties like country captain. i don't know if you've ever heard of this. it's a dish that is very popular in georgia and it's essentially a chicken cur

eleanor roosevelt. isn't that wonderful? to be so proud of. the first lady in the -- to come to testify before congress. thank you all. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> now we'll hear from house minority leader kevin mccarthy who spoke

eleanor roosevelt also bought in a stream expensive set. nancy is bought with private money -- eleanor roosevelt also bought an extremely expensive set with taxpayer money. nancy bought hers with private money. eleanor roosevelt had to have a huge press compass about it. this would create -- conference about it. this tells them that they have $3 million of unreported gifts here. susan: at the end of 1981, the first year in the white house, she had the lowest approval rating of any modern first lady. what did she do to turn that around? karen: one thing isn't she comes to the realization that if her husband is going to succeed, she is going to have to succeed as well. she does this in small but very meaningful ways. in washington, there is this annual press dinner. anybody who is anybody is there, ambassadors, supreme court justices, congressman. she is sitting there and they are making fun of her in a show they do on stage and she disappears. people either head table say she must be really mad that they are singing a song that is a parody o

eleanor roosevelt was in the white house much longer than lady bird was, but i see lady bird then coming in and modernizing the office of the first lady, really the first person to do that since after world war ii in my view, with a policy staff in the east wing, with a communication strategy and staff in the east wing. really becoming part of the political operation of the west wing, which of course rings to mind the office -- the way hillary clinton operated when she was first lady. as far as rank order, that's a tougher one for me to answer. i do think she is one of the most significant, certainly of the 20th century first ladies we had. host: in the book she refers to it as "our presidency." she only do that in private? hillary clinton faced faced criticism for the two-for-one concept. why did it succeed for lady bird johnson, in this instance? guest: she did it carefully, only in retrospect. it was not something she talked about while she was in the white house. but in practice, -- i do not know if she had a security clearance, but in practice, she was in the room quite a bit, the r

. >> i see her as the bridge between eleanor roosevelt and hillary clinton. she has the commitment to developing policy agenda that reinforces and of the fate her husband -- and elevates her husband. she does not have a radio program or column like eleanor did but she was out campaigning for her husband but was working hand in glove. er was in the white house much longer than lady bird but i see lady bird modernizing the office of the first lady, the first person to do that since after world war ii. >> author of lady bird johnson: hiding in plain sight, sunday at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. you can listen to q&a as a podcast where you get podcasts. >> treasury secretary janet yellen called for a global corporate tax rate during a speech to the chicago council on global affairs. this runs 45 minutes. >> good morning. president of the chicago council on global affairs. thank you all the specially for a members for joining us this live program today. just as a reminder, the chicago global affairs is nonprofit and nonpartisan independent organization and theref

. >> i see her as the bridge between at lenore roosevelt and hillary clinton. -- eleanor roosevelt, and hillary clinton. she has a commitment to developing policy agenda that reinforces and elevates her husband's that eleanor had. she has the public will not is probably because she did not have a radio program or column and eleanor did. but this is a woman out campaigning for husband and working hand in glove to elevate his presidency. absorption, yes. >> so the effects would be felt much faster? >> yes, they could. >> in a case where you have a person who is experiencing cardiac arrest, right, and there put in an ambulance and taken to the hospital for >> cardiac arrest, and taken to the hospital for resuscitation. >> yes. >> back now, so the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. after a break, that defense began questioning dr. lindsey thomas, a forensic pathologist. both the prosecution and defense redirected questions to dr. thomas, after their initial round. >> a possibility. right? >> you're still under of. -- you still under of. -under oath. >> dr. thomas, i w

. >> i see her as the bridge between eleanor roosevelt and hillary clinton. she has the commitment to developing policy agenda that reinforces and elevates her husband. she has the public role, not quite as broad because she did not have a radio program or column, but this woman was out campaigning for her husband and working hand in glove to elevate his presidency. eleanor roosevelt was in the white house longer than lady bird johnson, i see her mod modernizing the office, the first person to do that after world war ii. announcer: the author of lady bird johnson, hiding in plain sight, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. you can listen to q&a as a podcast where you get your podcasts. announcer: congress returns from their holiday recess next week. the senate returns monday at 3:00 p.m. eastern to continue work on the nomination for the deputy transportation secretary, the number two post under pete buttigieg. later in the week, senators work on more nominations, including wendy sherman to be deputy secretary state, and the chair of the securities an

eleanor roosevelt. isn't that wonderful? to be so proud of. the first lady in the -- to come to testify before congress. thank you all. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> now we'll hear from house minority leader kevin mccarthy who spoke to reporters about the g.o.p. agenda. congressman mccarthy was critical of democrats for their support of the statehood for d.c. measure and of president biden's handling of the southern border and immigration. mr. mccarthy: good morning, everyone. how are you today? just seeing if you're paying attention. let's begin. the democrats know their socialist agenda is not what the country wants. that's why they're moving to dismantle our institutions, to hold on to their own power. last week, we twheached chairman of the house judiciary, jerry nadler, at the supreme court, pushing to add four more justices to the bench. upending a framework that's been in

but eleanor roosevelt was there, she was very much the leader of the easter egg roll during that time. she's the first lady or president to speak live directly from the easter egg roll on the radio. and usually the weather was very good. there was one year where was not so good. it was unnaturally very cold and only about 5000 kids showed up, which is really tiny for something like this. and she more or less discouraged -- encourage everyone to run around, have fun and stay warm. >> talking about presidents and more, tell me -- war, tell me what happened during the bush administration when the iraq war was going on? >> the president and first lady had a great idea that in order to remind everyone that even on the happiest occasions, we need to remind our active-duty members are making great they had yellow for the iraq war. >> the yellow ribbon concept. >> support our troops. then the second bush administration did something similar. they actually closed the grounds down for one year for the easter egg roll and barred the general public and made a special event for active-duty and res

roosevelt became president blair pressured eleanor to convince fdr to hire the first female cabinet member and he hired francis perkins for the department of labor. um, and then francis oldham kelsey was also a member who was worked for the fda and she is the person who refused to approve the drug thalidomide. so those some of the trivia that i found out while i was doing the research. okay, so do you think the society women geographers is still relevant today since the explorers club now accepts women. yes, absolutely. there's a place for women. there's a place there there needs to be a place where women can network with other women explorers and scientists and artists outside the presidency of men. i think that the society allows gives women a place to support each other and that's very important. the you know, the our picture is it's kind of covering that that photo that newspaper article, but it says don't take a woman with you when you go exploring, which was what the president of the explorers club roy chapman and andrews who's pictured there said when he was the president and in 193

it dates back to 1933 and clint eleanor roosevelt, the president after the great depression, and introduced the new deal, a raft of welfare measures that saw government grow. 90 years onjoe biden won't mind too much if people start comparing him to fdr. the president of the united states. applause. because of covid and social distancing, the audience was much smaller. but the pandemic has givenjoe biden the space to come up with a set of radical proposals that are a break with a0 years of economic orthodoxy. big government, tax and spend are back. but one thing is totally new. madam speaker, madam vice president... applause no president has ever said those words from this podium, no president has ever said those words, and it's about time. a lot of people thought the 78—year—old would be a transitional president. wrong. he's set on transformation. with his plans for european style welfare policies, a green agenda, and the thing he kept on repeating last night — creating newjobs. that's why i propose the american jobs plan. a once in a generation investment in america itself. this is t

their grandparents, including franklin and eleanor roosevelt, henry a. wallace, francis perkins and harry hopkins, had a vision of what government could do, indeed, must do to meet the urgent needs of all americans. they had a vision. acting upon that vision they dramatically changed the relationship between the american people and their government. and through that relationship, the way americans learn to deal with and help each other as fellow citizens. today these grandchildren, james roosevelt jr., david wallace douglas, tomlin perkins coggeshall will first describe their grandparents' contribution for creating the new deal. then i will ask them to help us shape a vision that can inform our future efforts to meet the needs of our country as it negotiates vast social, economic and cultural challenges. both within our nation and within the world, society increasingly tightly built. the job is not to copy the new deal policies and programs, but to capture the vision of what our society is becoming and to begin at how our government which is the instrume

so a five year old would donate five pennies and so on this effort was sponsored by eleanor roosevelt and it ran from april 23rd to april 30th 1940 as many as 250,000 schools throughout the united states participated and as part of the effort. it wasn't just fundraising they were hosting patriotic pageants and learning about other countries and writing to pen pals and other countries and creating poems and art about these so-called refugee war stricken refugee children, so it's partly a fundraising campaign in his partly a patriotic week to teach american children how lucky they were to be americans unlike the refugee children who are suffering so it's about patriotism but also service and sacrifice. became really as you said a mass movement and showed that even the youngest americas even the littlest among us could inspire other people to act and could act themselves. and we actually have an audience comment along those lines shelley wrights that every good deed and every act of kindness no matter how small shifts the world onto a better path. and i thank you for that shelley. i thin

roosevelt. she painted a miniature of him in 1943 and he liked it so much that he invited her to warm springs, georgia two years later to paint a full portrait. so fdr sat for a watercolor portrait with elizabeth schumachoff on april 12 1945. if that date sounds familiar to you. it's because in the middle of their sitting roosevelt suffered a fatal cerebral hemorrhage and died just a few hours later schumachov's portrait was unfortunately incomplete only the head and torso had been finished but as you can see it hangs in warm springs, georgia today, and it's pictured here. during his administration lyndon b johnson later invited schumachov to complete another version of this portrait to hang in the white house and to accompany the recently completed portrait of first lady eleanor roosevelt. johnson later commissioned schumachov to paint his official white house portrait and first lady lady bird johnson's next slide, please. so you can see here all three of those portraits completed by schumatof

. >> i see her as the bridge between eleanor roosevelt and hillary clinton. she has the commitment to developing policy agenda that really reinforces and elevates her husband that eleanor has. she has the public role, not quite as broad because she did not have a radio program, she did not have a column like eleanor did, but this was a woman who was out campaigning for her husband when working hand in glove to elevate his presidency. fdr -- edr was in the white house a lot longer than the president was, but really the first person to do that since after world war ii in my view. >> julia, author, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a, you can also listen to it as a podcast where you get your podcasts. >> congress returns from their holiday recess next week and the senate returns monday at 3:00 p.m. to continue work on the nomination of polly trout and birds to be deputy sector -- deputy transportation secretary. later in the week, senators begin working on more nominations, including to be deputy of secretary of state, and the this week, members are expe

. >> i see her as the bridge between elinor rose -- eleanor roosevelt and hillary clinton. she has the commitment to developing a policy agenda that reinforces and elevates her husband, that eleanor had. she had the public role, not quite as broad because she did not have a radio program or a column, but this is a woman that was out campaigning for her husband and working really hand in glove to elevate his presidency. er was in the white house much longer than lady bird was, but i see lady bird coming in and modernizing the office of the first lady, really the first person to do that since after world war ii, in my view. >> author of "lady bird johnson, hiding in plain sight," sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on q&a. you can also listen to the podcast where you get your podcasts. >> congress returns from their holiday recess this week. the senate returns monday at 3:00 p.m. eastern to continue work on the nomination of holly trenton berg to be deputy transportation secretary, the number two post undersecretary pete buttigieg. they are in the week, senators begin working on more

eleanor roosevelt was livid about the speech. she didn't approve of the speech. she thought it was a threat to at linus that her husband and churchill had started. so truman somewhat distanced himself immediately after the speech. but in the end, truman had great affection for churchill's words, and again, used the speech in many ways as a blueprint for the doctrine plan that was the united states's recipe for waging the cold war. >> let's talk to clarence who is calling from east lansing, michigan. clarence, good morning. >> good morning. >> i've been inspired while hearing more about the speech that i never realized was given. so far i've just been receiving snippet tz of the. i think he was one of the great statesmen. we -- i feel like he doesn't get enough credit. thank you, sir, for enlightening me, and i'm going to seek further to find out as much as i can about the gentleman. thank you. >> well, thank you for calling in. i think churchill's words resonate today. not only the iron curtain speech but a lot of his great speeches as an orator. he had a vision

roosevelt was in the white house longer than lady bird was. but i see lady bird then coming in, and modernizing the office of the first lady, really the first person to do that since after world war ii, in my view. >> the author of lady bird johnson, hiding in plain sight, tonight it :00 p.m. eastern, on. c-span q&a. you can also listen where you get your podcast. >> monday afternoon, a discussion about supply chain vulnerabilities hosted by the woodrow wilson center live at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org or listen with a free c-span radio app. >> we return now to the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. after a lunch break the prosecution question dr. andrew baker, the chief medical examiner of the county, about the autopsy he performed on mr. floyd. oxygen and the secondary -- >> for our next witness the study calls dr. andrew baker. [witness sworn]. if we can statute your full name, spelling each anytime. >> my full name is andrew michael baker, andrew, michael, baker. >> m-blackwell. >> thank you, yo

president roosevelt and first lady eleanor roosevelt used to showcase fort hunt as a model facility for ccc. and it played host to a great array of eminent-foreign leaders, including future most prominent, the royal couple. two pin oak trees were planted in honor of the occasion. one of those trees still strives today to witness. the lady bird johnson park crabapple. along the george washington memorial parkway. lady bird johnson park is actually a manmade, 157-acre island located immediately south of theodore roosevelt island along the virginia shore of the potomac river. sort of the symbolic entrance to the nation's capital. the mcmillian commission began to develop plans for the present design of washington's monumental core. a less well known though is a the commission's plan for a columbia island. in 1932, the arlington memorial bridge and the mt. vernon me me memorial parkway project included seeding the grass on columbia island and planting approximately-75 ornamental flower trees. a very few of these exist and this one, certainly, is a mammoth example of a crabapple tree. freder

. >> i see her as the bridge between eleanor roosevelt and hillary clinton. she has the commitment to developing a policy agenda that reinforces and elevates her husband's that eleanor had. she has the public role, no the quite as broad because she didn't have a radio program, she didn't have a column that eleanor did, but this was the woman who was out campaigning for her husband and working really hand in glove to elevate his presidency. where e.r. was in the white house much longer than lady bird was, but i see lady bird then coming in and modernizing the office of the first lady, really the first person to do that since after world war ii in my view. >> julia sweig, author of "lady bird johnson: hiding in plane sight" sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. you can also listen to q&a as a podcast where you get your podcasts. >> next, a discussion on the constitutionality of efforts to make washington, d.c., the nation's 51st state. the federalist society hosted this hour-long virtual event. lo. mr. smith: i just want to begin by saying thank you for

she did much more, for instance, than eleanor roosevelt, as first lady. after he left office, he revolutionized the role of former president, but i'm just trying to kind of correct the balance here and end this notion that, you know, he was a lousy president, which is just not true. judy: john alter, the book is "his very best," a play on jimmy carter saying when he was running for president, "why not the best?" big contribution to our study of this presidency. i came to washington to cover his presidency. the book is very much worth reading. on "the newshour" online, the u.s. spends billions of dollars every year putting people behind bars, but not nearly enough to help those who are released. activists say when we look at the challenges state and local programs face to raise money to support people after incarceration. all that and more at pbs.org/newshour. that's "the newshour" for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrow evening for all of us at "the pbs." thank you. please stay safe and we will see you soon. >> major funding

he said, "i had not seen the speech. " eleanor roosevelt did not approve of the speech. she thought it a threat to the alliance her husband and churchill had started. so truman somewhat distanced himself immediately after the speech. but in the end, truman had great affection for churchill's words, and used the speech in many ways as a blueprint for the truman doctrine plan that was the united states'recipe for waging the cold war. >> let's talk to clarence, who is calling from east lansing, michigan. clarence, good morning. good morning gentlemen. >> good morning. i have been inspired since january or march about the speech. i never really realized that was given. so far, just been receiving snippets of churchill's speeches he gave. i think he is one of the greatest history people in history, one of the greatest statesmen that ever lived. i hate to say it but possibly we may have been speaking german or japanese or italian if it were not for people like him, you know? i feel like he does not get enough credit. so thank you, sir, for enlightening me. i'm going to seek fu

she was much more influential than eleanor roosevelt and i would argue that hillary clinton because our relationship with her husband was closer. she's an enormously formidable woman who continues to do very important work. and unlike her husband she really doesn't have any critics. usually the staff has a problem with the spouse because they think they cannot get in the way or whatever. in this case they are all revered rosalynn and the reducer to get messages to jimmy because everybody including jimmy agrees that she has a failure political head than she does. she is more savvy than he is. at one point as to whether he was stubborn and she just laughed because everybody kind of knows that jimmy carter is very stubborn individual. she set she said of cours. if he had listened to her alone or he would've been better off politically because her antenna were much better than his. >> you mentioned she was diplomatically successful in south america, that she traveled around. that's pretty fascinating. that she really did this without him, not without them but -- >> well, i mean, you know, s

you know, eleanor roosevelt was was livid after the speech. she did not approve of the speech. she thought it was a threat to the alliance that her husband and and churchill had started so truman some what distance himself immediately after the speech but in the end truman had great affection for churchill's words and and again use the speech in many ways as a blueprint for the truman doctrine plan that that was the united states recipe for waging a cold war. let's talk to clarence who's calling from east lansing, michigan clarence. good morning. yes, good morning. gentlemen. good morning, you know. yes, i've been inspired just about hearing your more about the speech that i never really realized. that was given, you know, so far just been receiving just snippets of a churchill speeches that he gave. i think it's one of the greatest history, you know people in history one of the greatest stations that ever lived in i hate to say it, but possibly we may have been speaking german or japanese. so italian now, it's a wonderful people like him, you know. i feel like he doesn't get e

. >> i see her as a bridge between eleanor roosevelt and hillary clinton. she has the commitment to developing a policy agenda that reinforces and elevates her husband like eleanor has. she has a not quite as broadly, because she didn't have a radio program, but this is a woman campaigning for her husband who was working hand in glove to elevate his presidency. and i basically in the white house much longer, i see lady bird modernizing the first person to do that since after world war two. >> author of lady bird johnson, hiding in plain sight, sunday, 8:00 p.m. eastern on "q&a." you can also listen to "q&a" is a podcast where you get your podcasts regularly. >> back now to the trial of the former minneapolis

voted the most trusted woman in america after eleanor roosevelt. she had a line of house dresses. she had a cookbook that was successful. she had a column where she gave motherly advice. she -- this show was the first show that was so successful on television, made into a movie. everybody knew dish even interviewed someone who worked with her on the movie, played young woman in the movie and still with us, and i asked do you'll know who gertrude berg what before you identity the movie and she said, oh, honey, everybody now knew who she was. so that tells you, this woman was incredibly famous and i didn't know. i had never heard of her. that was the first thing that kind of like i filed away in my head. and the second thing from the mary tyler moore show research was that we talked about the character that betty white played on the mary tyler moore show, sue ann nevins, a happy home maker. she had a home making show on the station where mary works and was this very sweet, sort of sickly sweet character in front of the camera and wore frilly dresses and the minute the camera went of

. >> i see her as the bridge between eleanor roosevelt and hillary clinton. she has the commitment to developing a policy agenda that reinforces and elevates her husband's. she has the public role that is not as broad because she did not have a radio program, column that eleanor did. she was campaigning for her husband and working hand in glove to elevate his presidency. eleanor was in the white house much longer, icy see lady bird coming in and modernizing the office of the first lady. the first person to do that after world war ii. >> author of lady bird johnson, hiding in plain sight. you can listen to q&a as a podcast, where you get podcasts. >> washington journal continues. host: president biden unveiled a series of executive actions yesterday taking on the issue of gun violence. here are some of the president's statement from yesterday. [video clip] [no audio] host: if you want to call and comment on what is going on as far as the executive actions and if you support or oppose them. if you support (202) 748-8000, if you oppose (202) 748-8001. you can al

. >> i see her as the bridge between eleanor roosevelt and hillary clinton. she has the commitment to developing a policy agenda that reinforces and uplifts her husband's. she has the political role -- not quite as broad because she did not have a column or radio program -- but she was out campaigning for her present -- her husband and working hand in glove to elevate her husband. i see lady bird coming in and modernizing the office of the first lady, really the first person to do that after world war ii. >> julie is why, author of -- you can also listen to q&a as a podcast where you get your podcasts. >> washington journal continues. host: we are back and we are going to open up our phone lines to you to see what you think about the idea of expanding the supreme court. we want to know what you think of the idea of expanding the supreme court. we have news on that that happened this week. i will redo this story from axios.com that talks about what president biden did on friday -- read you this story from axios.com that talks about what president biden did on

. >> i see her between the bridge -- as the bridge between eleanor roosevelt and hillary clinton. she has the commitment to developing policy agenda that reinforces and elevates her husband. she has the public role, not quite as broad because she did not have a radio program, but this was the woman who went out campaigning for her husband and working to elevate his presidency. i see lady bird coming in and modernizing the office, the first person to do that since after world war ii. >> author of lady bird johnson hiding in plain sight at 8:00 eastern on q&a. you can also listen to q&a as a podcast. >> listen to c-span podcast the weekly. the workplace to the pandemic with kim hart. she will talk about a newly released poll which indicates most employees prefer working remotely. >> 87% of the people surveyed say they want to work remotely at least one day a week. a lot of people want to work even more than that. 13% said they want to work full-time on site the way they use to. that is a huge seachange for employers who are used to having everybody in the office every day. people wa

his wife eleanor was the niece of theodore roosevelt. this was about as establishment as they come. it was harder to marginalize roosevelt as a radical, and i think if you looked at joe biden last night, he does not look and sound like someone who is threatening. and the horrible thing is that a white president who is of a certain age with decades in politics, that shouldn't be in an area which he should have an advantage as a president, but he does. >> he has the advantage, and the thing to do with that kind of privilege and advantage is to use it to be able to go further than other people could, if they didn't have that privilege and that sort of -- >> absolutely. >> -- that sort of margin you're given. >> also, lyndon johnson, forgive me for interrupting. totally agree with what you said. >> it's the satellite delay and it's my fault, but you are exactly right. nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss, good to see you. thank you so much. >> same here, be well, rachel. >> all right, more ahead tonight. stay with us. >>> in 2017, russia's most vocal, most effective critic

it was hard to marginalize roosevelt as a radical. joe biden doesn't look like someone who is threatening. the horrible thing, a white person who is of a certain age with decades in politics, that shouldn't be an area where he would have an advantage as a president. >> he has the advantage. the thing to do with that kind of privilege and advantages to use it to go further than other people could, if they didn't have that privilege and that sort of margin that you give them. >> absolutely. >> that's what roosevelt did, also lyndon johnson. forgive me for interrupting. >> exactly. no -- it's the satellite delay, and it's my fault. you're exactly right. [laughs] michael great to see you. >> same here, be well. >> more ahead tonight, stay with us. sta with us. feel the cool rush of claritin cool mint chewables. powerful 24-hour, non-drowsy, allergy relief plus an immediate cooling sensation for your throat. feel the clarity, and live claritin clear. in 2017, russia's most vocal an effective critic of the putin rigged jean, alexei navalny

. >> i see has the bridge between eleanor roosevelt and hillary clinton. she has the commitment to developing policy agenda that reinforces elevate eleanor. she has the public role like, she didn't have a radio shouldn't have the call on our did but this is a woman campaigning for her husband working hand in glove to elevate the presidency. i see her coming in and modernizing first lady, first person to do that since after world war ii and my feelings. >> author of lady bird johnson hiding in plain sight sunday 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. you can also listen to q&a as a podcast where you get your podcast.