the roosevelt would have liked. truth be told roosevelt's own policies had begun to drift leftward in these years as well. during the course of his presidency and especially by the early 19 teens. he had gotten more radical and more progressive in his views. he decided in 1912 to take just about the unprecedented step of challenging taft for the republican nomination. this happens once in a while in american politics, but not very often okay, so this is you know, this would be in 2024 if another democrat would challenge president biden for the nomination. this is usually seen as disloyal to the party. it's usually seen as unwise as giving a hand to the other party but roosevelt believed or at least told himself. he believed the taft was doing such a poor job that it was time for roosevelt to return to the white house. he challenges roosevelt. he challenges taft for the nomination. 1912 loses doesn't get it. he alleges fraud at the convention the convention and not treated his delegates fairly. that's a very arcane i

and served [inaudible] roosevelt, though, the outdoor roosevelt's. you're not entirely wrong to associate that with him because we'll talk a few minutes about how he had almost four times and tried for a fifth term in [inaudible] 1912. >> yeah, audrey. >> [inaudible] in the hopes that he had [inaudible] more successful as a president? >> that's a good question. i think it did. i think they did. because as governor, he had some executive experience to actually running in a state or being in charge i. think that was an acid to him. i think again meeting different kinds of people in the west, people he didn't grow up with was an asset to him. understanding the political details that had to be made, understanding the leadership of the republican party at this machine, i think, was an asset to him and. then in his military experience, defective of the effect of that could be debated. for example when he was leading the charge up san juan hill, if we got to give the order to his bed to follow him. so he just charges up and that realizes nobody is behind hi

he sent a message to roosevelt. roosevelt's 46th birthday. the message read as follows. you have made a very good start in life. your friends have great hopes for you when you grow up. surely he sought attention. he always wanted to be the center of attention. he always wanted to be -- every riding, every funeral. here's the story anyway. the story is on one occasion, roosevelt came up to the front and said i had the most wonderful dream last week. i dreamed that i died and went to heaven. on the first night, a celestial crowd -- it was magnificent. there were >> what then was this thousands of altos. thousand basses. and the friend said, what about the tenners, to progressive movement about under roosevelt? so let's look first its was domestic. the which roosevelt replied, i sand tenor you get the idea. thing to remember as i talk about these different elements of his domestic program, the important thing to bear in mind is that they were path breaking. they constituted such a dramatic break with the american past. particularly in terms of government regulation. i reall

roosevelt. the man catered by historians the greatest president of the 20th century and even beyond that, throughout all of american history, it probably considered in the top three greatest american presidents along with washington and lincoln. it is an assessment based on the fact that he steered the nation through its two greatest crises of the 20th century. one internally, the great depression, and one externally world war ii. there has been a long and ongoing debate among historians as or whether history is influenced by more interview vigils or by larger social, cultural, and economic forces of the times. i think it is of course both of those. it seems to me that franklin d. roosevelt is a prime example of the significance of an individual's impact on history. it was brought on social and economic conditions that allowed fdr to become a great leader. and in this case in particular, i believe it was a personality that was a paramount elements, as i think we will see today as we go along. le

roosevelt's good neighbor policy. now, a more positive example of roosevelt's expensive outlook at foreign policy concern his efforts to bring an end to the long running russell japanese war. in 1905, he invited delegates from both those countries to meet in portsmouth, new hampshire, which resulted in a treaty to bring the war to an end. and it was for those efforts that roosevelt was awarded the nobel peace prize. i can say to that he was undoubtedly the most unlikely recipient ever to receive a peace prize, given his naturally -- nature and his aggressive tendencies. it was, however, an early example of americas increasing international involvement and it was during roosevelt's presidency that the u.s. began to establish itself as a world power. roosevelt attempted to illustrate that emergence through a symbolic and somewhat controversial episode known as the voyage of the great white fleet. his idea was to send the entire u.s. naval fleet on a world tour. when congress indicated its refusal to fund such a venture,

roosevelt side. and this is eleanor roosevelt in her wedding dress, and she was given away by her uncle teddy roosevelt who happened to be president of the united states at the time her mother and father both died when she was young a child and so she became sort of teddy roosevelt's surrogate daughter and part of this big roosevelt family next slide, please. now frankly that eleanor has seen each other and family events while they were growing up, but as he was graduating from harvard, he really sort of fell for her and this is 1905. this is right after the wedding and as you can see, you know, they were a handsome couple and they were the melding of two branches of this family and as theodore roosevelt famously said to eleanor is good. you're keeping the name in the family. and of course. their wedding was scheduled for march 17th, because her uncle teddy was going to be in new york for saint patrick's day because as his other daughter once commented on him teddy roosevelt liked to be the baby at e

conversation with roosevelt and roosevelt basically tells truman you really can't deny the president, especially not in a time of war. and that's enough to make truman accept. the possibility of being nominated because there's still the convention. the convention in 1944 operates much differently than conventions today. political conventions today largely make official what people already know. because of the primary and the caucus system that we have, but that doesn't exist in 1944. and so as folks are gathering in chicago. in 1944 there's really a horse race and the convention is going to solve it. after the convention nominates roosevelt in that's not in doubt. they quickly move to the business of nominating a vice presidential candidate. and you can see this picture. this is from the floor of the convention and you see all the signs roosevelt wants wallace. the people want wallace. we want wallace wallace has a great ground game at the convention. he's got the house organ playing his convince his campaign song. and he's got his floor delegates. really riling up the convention and

it is between roosevelt, who is seated in the middle, churchill, who is on the screens left, roosevelt right, and stalin who is on the screens right. this is the big three. they are coming to discuss what a postwar europe is going to look like. who is going to be responsible for occupying which countries, and what are these occupied countries going to do? how do we move them from liberated unoccupied to autonomous and independent. one of the things that the altar conference quantifies his self determination. the countries of a newly-liberated europe should be able to determine their own form of government. in the most legitimate way to do that, is through elections. that is why it everybody signs onto. that is what's solid, roosevelt, and churchill agreed to. they also admit the reality that the red army is pushing from the east. the red army is the one that is going to liberate eastern europe. the united states, the british, and the free french, they are going to be coming from the west. again, when these betrayals of the altar are discussed in the 1950s, it is willfully overlooking t

there was one moment when roosevelt -- theodore roosevelt considered his most important accomplishment as president to be getting the panama canal under construction. this was his contribution to world history, he said. well, to get it going, roosevelt essentially had to foment a revolution in panama to break panama free of columbia. and under international law, or even ordinary codes off ethics, it was highly problematic. but roosevelt convened a cabinet session to basically convince everybody in the cabinet that he had done the right thing. and so after he gave this long explanation as to why he needed to be done, and how it was just right, turns his attorney general, a guy named knocks, stood up and said, mister president, really, you should not that such a great accomplishment as this be tempted by any with of legality. roosevelt didn't laugh. [laughter] the other members of the cabinet did. but i will -- i have to give roosevelt credit for this. roosevelt was one of the first presidents to be the target of other people's humor in a particular form -- editorial cartoons. and editor

kennedy and eleanor roosevelt. and we could have a discussion on the power of first ladies after they leave the white house, because so many of them had continuing power or maybe even more power. they had more power after they left the white house. and certainly, eleanor roosevelt would fall into that category. she was -- let's put it this way. she was very influential on our topic today for no other reason than the longevity of her time in the white house because of her husband's 12 years there. i became interested in this particular topic at the site, at the hyde park site. i had not been there until 2010. i went through the main house where fdr was born. and i didn't realize i had a personal relationship with him as i felt with president kennedy because of my mother taking me to see him. i had all these stories that had collected from my parents and my aunts and uncles about coming along in the depression and what fdr and eleanor roosevelt meant to them. and so, the ranger, the park ranger, was taking us through

roosevelt versus hitler, roosevelt versus mussolini. he wins, basically, by default. by comparison. because this guy is way worse than this guy. so i hope that explains it. >> i know there's more questions, we will go back to you, but i had a question that popped into my head. i got to speak with a different historian last week, he said something i found interesting. this author, you know, said something i thought was interesting. he said, yes, we won the war because of normandy. because of you jima. because of the atomic bomb. but we really won the war because of detroit. >> oh absolutely. >> and the american factories. can we talk about that? >> yes whoever you talked to is right. maybe he discovered the truth, i don't know. [laughs] but it's that, three weeks, immediately after december 7th, roosevelt tells detroit, you're not making any more cars. and we didn't make any new cars for the duration of the war. people had to drive -- i remember my grandfather saying, i bought that before the war, but i sold it after the war. is that -- the roosevelt administration, nationalized a lo

edith roosevelt for example provided a space where theodore roosevelt could meet together with booker t, washington that was not something it could have happened. just anywhere in washington dc, you know so that space that first ladies and first families in general have provided for gathering americans across the political divide as has been a crucial part of it. i think that's why in historical historians solidarity with dr. algo there unofficially the unofficial sphere is such an important term rather than i know political science and soft power, but that unofficial sphere is integral to the what the first lady has always done even down to today. so changes. well, there's a there are many changes and we can talk more about these but it has to do with the growth of a gender expectations the growth of women's activity in the world as we move through the century the civil war. it makes changes women's war work and then as we get towards the gilded age and moving into the progressive era that's sort of work that women do in the world. to move out of their domestic sphere which was the s

but, i have to give roosevelt credit for this because roosevelt was one of the first presidents to be the target of other peoples humor in a particular form. editorial cartoons. cartoonists had a field day weather was about, he had features that were easily caricature. he had the mustache on the glasses, he was always full of himself. he said bully! and delighted! there were various cartoonists to its skewer was about, and roosevelt to his credit or sureness would respond by writing a letter to the cartoonist. the person who of the cartoon, and said oh i got a great laugh out of it. what she did not. he said i liked it so much, could you send me the original. [laughs] nobody ever knew what happened the originals, but he understood that he needed to do this, even though it came hard. the presidency, the presidency would continue to evolve and the biggest evolution of the presidency as a relates to this question of humor, and how presidents portray themselves. that is the development of the modern mass media. in fact, roosevelt and his editorial cartoons, the reason they were so popular

i'm again president roosevelt is another one. so maya, i think we should have a contest like got around more places and did more roosevelt or jefferson. i think that would be a really great road i could do how we have that we have presidents, you know rent at the washingtons nationals. we have to have something yeah only one gave a speech after getting shot appreciate it. so talk a little bit about what your plan how are you going to use the digital assets in your planning process? well teresa. thank you so much. i just want to begin with gratitude to stuart and anita anita. i know you've been planning this event for two years and it's we're all here in person and life. thank you pleasure to be with you. the w hha has been a tremendous support of the theater roosevelt presidential library project which owes a debt of gratitude dr. stacy corder is in the audience from dickinson state university. thank you to dr. cordary dsu who got this idea started about 10 years ago and in the last two years remarkably during the pandemic probab

the theodore roosevelt presidential library foundation was asked by the roosevelt family and the american museum of natural history to accept on a long term loan on the equestrian statue that stood outside of emanate for 80 years. controversial, not exactly the thing you want to do as you are raising fund for a new presidential site. the reason why we did it, we could help facilitate a difficult conversation and remove it from a contentious place of public view. the composition is problematic. the context of where it was was basically nonexistent. there was no consent on central park west and public view for people to decide whether they wanted to view the statue or not. we said, we can intercede here and, one, remove it from that location. which was the decision of the city and a mh, and then engage in unintentional dialogue with the five tribal nations, with black americans, to talk about potential we contextualization of the controversial object. again, if you're going to go there, then be prepared to go the distance. do the hard work, to have the dialogue that needs to be done. >> the

gravitas with roosevelt and what churchill? you know, i'll try to answer it as it can is is that the soviets got a very very favorable press in the united states look magazine and life magazine which went out to millions every week. you can't underestimate their influence, you know, but they depicted soviet union as a worker's paradise is that you know, he he the moniker uncle joe was used often by the intelligence here. so he had a very even though he was million killing millions with his with his resettlement programs things like that is that he got very favorable, press in the united states. he had a lot of sympathetic supporters. there were a lot of you know, it was it was not it was not if you called somebody a communist in the 1930s. it didn't carry the same heavy burden as if you called somebody a communist today. it was it was were i would say we were more open, but we were more on educated about the collectivism or the socialist philosophy. and also is is that is that you have the contrast is that it's down versus hitl

named in part for eleanor roosevelt. it was built during the great depression to house unemployed minors and provide a model for a new way of living with greater independence. >> today's reading would have been on the great depression families facing great depression, so it would be appropriate for us to talk about this story of norvelt, which is a great depression story. about how to deal with the suffering that the great depression brought about. and i want to first talk a little bit about that suffering. so we can see that economic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. and this was a measure of u.s. gross domestic product, so does anybody know what that might mean, gross domestic product? in the sense, dan? >> that would be projects in the u.s., in general, not imports or exports, just products in the u.s.. >> not just physical products but all economic activity. so it's in an attempt to measure all of the economic activity that's happening in the economy. and so, and of course, it won't catch everything, but it catch

all right, eleanor roosevelt was the wife of franklin delano roosevelt. she was very powerful in improving peoples lives. she became a great champion of the homestead communities. she was the sponsor for the arthur daily community. she invested a lot, not only of her time coming to arthur dale on a regular basis. she went to every high school regulation, she was out there multiple times a year. but she also invested a lot of her personal wealth trying to make things work. she was really a mover in the substance homestead movement, in the division. and, she was a strong advocate in a number of ways. in order to build houses cheaply you can do that more efficiently if you do not put it bathroom in or a kitchen and. you do not have plumbing or electricity, you can make those houses for much less money. the number of people in the roosevelt administration who are saying these folks are coming from coal mining communities, did not have electricity and they have an outhouse now. why would we provide all of those things for them in this homestead community? she

calendar in front all right, eleanor roosevelt was the wife of franklin delano roosevelt, and she was really powerfully invested in this in improving people's lives. and so she became a great champion of the subsistence homes that communities and she was like the sponsor for the arthurdale community. she invested a lot not only of her time coming to arthur dale on a regular basis. she went to every high school graduation in arthur dallas. he was out there multiple times a year, but she also invested a lot of her personal wealth in arthur dale trying to make things work. so she she really was a mover in the subsistence homestead movement in the division and she was a strong advocate in a number of ways in order to build houses cheaply. you can do that more efficiently if you don't put a bathroom in and if you don't put a kitchen in if you don't have plumbing, you don't have electricity you can make those houses for much less money and a number of people in the roosevelt administration were saying these folks are coming from coal mine patch communities. they don't have electricity now t