it's just like to note that fdr. i always love it when i get to to sort of channel the former president the late president and say that he i know would be happy to see everyone here today because he had hoped this institution would become a place that would welcome scholars and writers and to see good friends and former and current participants in the program is also really nice. so i want to very quickly go over the format some of you may know it and you may hear this over and over again today, but there'll be about a 30 minute talk from the author then we'll have a 10 minute or so period of question and answer and then afterwards we'll go up to the new deal store where there will be a book signing and you'll be able to get a copy of the book with the signature from from the author and because we're on cspana would like this is different from other rooms if you could queue up at the microphone when you have questions and and then i'll just sort of single when that periods over and when we can move on so now i would

where reporter asked fdr about this he said well, it's very very simple. we are it's like it's as if a neighbor of yours has his house on fire and you are loaning him your garden hose to put out the fire. that's all we're doing. amazingly it worked. and congress in march of 1941 past lendlease lendlease was decisive in winning the war. uh by the end of war thanks to lindley's not only were weapons being provided to the british and as you can see from this poster to other allies as well later on but for britain itself, thanks to lynn lease fully one fifth or 20% of the food it eaten by britain's civilians and military forces alike were provided by lindley's for his part churchill called lindley's the most unsorted act in history. it would be a mistake though to say that when lease was in one way street. it was not under the terms of lendlease the british had to provide what was called reverse splendlease. among other things they were required to give up all rights and royalties on inventions such as radar jet aircraft antibiotics nuclear research and to hel

so anyway fdr is going to become governor on january 1st 1929 before he gets to albany. yes, the state superintendent of buildings and grounds if they could put a get rid of the greenhouses in the back of the governor's mansion in albany and put a swimming pool in. and they did that because that way he could continue his therapy. he had not wanted to run because he thought if he spent a few more years going to warm springs that he would improve much more now. he did keep going there, you know even as governor he'd take long vacation, so january 1st 1929 he is. inaugurated as governor eleanor continues to teach at the todd hunter school and she is down there like from sunday to wednesday. i want to give you a little flavor about. what it was like living in the you know in albany at that time albany was the middle of prohibition albany was described as being dripping wet. roosevelt himself felt that prohibition should be left to the states sound familiar with what we're going going on with now and of course new york probably wouldn't have gone along with that. so francis p

especially as mac mcduffie was fdr's ballet. he traveled with fdr everywhere that he won because a valet really does a catch-all job getting you ready for the day taking care of any chores. you may need a great story actually about mac mcduffie is that they had to get him a body double. so fdr during world war two had a body double because he was too easy to see and people, you know, put a safety at risk mac was such an important part of fdrs on entourage and he was so recognizable as one of fdr's most important staff members that they got back a body double as well. wow, that's so interesting. another question that we have from susan is we're the positions are these full-time positions part-time positions a mixture. it's definitely a mixture some of them that are very important in managerial capacities like the executive chef or the chief usher. they are working full-time at the white house, but then for example some of the fick lens worked part-time as butlers coming as needed for events and things like that electricians plumb

fdr on the other hand mina was a social drinker so he kind of called himself a damp. until it became politic to become a wet. so is the the century is moving on after you are becomes assistant secretary of the navy to josephus daniels who was a newspaper publisher from raleigh, north carolina a great advocate of temperance and really josephus daniels is assistant secretary of the navy under woodrow wilson his big cause was wiping out sin, which if you've ever met a sailor, you know, what a tall ordered that is and he banned any beverage stronger than coffee on ships bases and even in the officers' mess which is why we still call a cup of coffee a cup of joe after joseph is daniel. so fdr was his lieutenant in that cause the first decades of this century were very anti-immigrant very ant. click and increasingly anti-german is we got into the war in europe the annie immigrant cause came because we had had such a huge amount of immigrants coming into the country many of whom were catholic. so you had the the italians who were catholic and drank wine you had the germans w

so so fdr decide i better take them on a long fishing trip. he took them not panama canal for a three-week fishing trip. they would have martinis every night. they would play poker. they were fishing and then finally, he said they buried their feud in the sea. he sent down a trunk into the bottom. a in which they both promised they wouldn't fight in public again. so fishing had actually made that possible and then there was another 10-day fishing trip in the caribbean in december of 1940 when roosevelt freed from the conventional thinking in washington after churchill had said we desperately need help you have to send us weapons, but their neutrality laws he couldn't do it. he came up the brainstorm with len lease while he was on that fishing trip. he said he had to be away from washington in order to think again a lesson for all of us. and then there were swimming of course for fdr after losing his ability to walk with polio. he had a pool that was donated for him and made into the white house and he would swim in that pool somehow to strengt

tell us, why did fdr select that site? why did he like to do when he visited -- not called camp david at that time -- i will let you talk about that. >> very good. thank you. let's go back to 1942. roosevelt loved -- that was one of the three presidential yachts at the time. the potomac was -- in oakland california today. he loved going on the potomac to get away from the white house. his hobbies, his interest, talk to world leaders and staff. it was 41, 42, concerned about the ufo sightings on the eastern coast of the united states. staff said, sir, we can't go out on the yacht anymore. they said we will find your place you can go to get away. versus before marine helicopters -- they had to find some place drivable nearby. interesting late, because of the new deal, bringing us out of the depression, and part of the progress administration, this ebullient converse -- conservation corps, which rebuilt a lot of the roads in parks, there was a place in maryland called the -- recreational demonstration area. also known as camp

fdr only one third of the non winter months. he preferred to go to key west but he would be around the place, had the trays pushback from the cabins. and then, during eisenhower's time it was modernized with heating throughout the cabins. very rustic, maintained that. but, the only airs for use of the family and administration guests, cabins have been added. president nixon during his time put a lot of expansion into the camp to expand aspen, putting in the hourglass shape on the cover, adding the main entertainment cabinet you sometimes see a news coverage. and, a number of other features as well. it has been maintained since then, moderna and at times, it is a challenge because the president visits a lot to modernize and expand has been happening for years. very sequential and smart to the current, but, maintain the rustic nature on the outside. the amenities on the inside. far more grass, four star resort. it is not meant to be. it is a rustic, comfortable place to get away, sink, to walk in privacy, silence, recreate on your

they invalidated a lot of fdr's legislative agenda. this happened in slow motion over the course of about four years. he got tired of losing and by the time he won re-election of the fall of 1936. he said that's it. i'm i'm going to show them who's boss now. so that's when he started. he had for some time been trying to demonize and delegitimize the court denigrating individual justices who were opposed to him. most notably the the combination of four justices whom he deemed the four horsemen the four horsemen of the apocalypse is what he called and and the one i regard as the intellectual leader among them was got him george sutherland the only supreme court justice ever to come from utah himself a byu graduate and the appeals. yeah. yeah, very handsome man. that could lead to a question from the audience by the way miles it could it could okay my my dad wants. helberg sutherland professorship of law at byu. okay. anyway, he hated the four horsemen hated them with a white hot passion, especially because they were winning. because most

was my head researcher on this book and he went to the fdr library in upstate new york at fdr so many came across a memo from the officer of naval intelligence written on december 4, 1941 a 17 page memo stamped top secret and it was declassified in the 70s but it was sitting around gathering dust. enter found it and three days before the attack this memo from the office of the naval college v. gave out in detail -- so the office of naval intelligence did an assessment of where the japanese might attack including the panama canal wake island the philippines and indonesia and the hawaiian islands. this memo was given to the president three days before and no action was taken to send the world a warning out to our field commanders on december 6, 1941 that it was not a disclosure of your ships a and planes to minimize attack and all the things they should have notified of the they weren't. this memo interestingly enough wasin unnoticed until andrew fod it at fdr's library in new york. >> host: how was the economy? the eight years at the air at that point in what was the economic situation

fdr worried that if kennedy returned to america. he might make political mischief and might even run for the presidency himself. and after referring to kennedy as a trader in 1939. the following year the president wrote kennedy a letter that expressed a very different sentiment telling him joe i get constant reports of how valuable you are to the british and that it helps their morale to have you there. so like bullet president knew how to flatter men. nevertheless after only a few days a few days after roosevelt's reassurances. kennedy picked up the morning paper in london and learned that the president had been secretly negotiating and lendlies. with prime minister churchill and this the provision of mothballed ships and and weapons with the road for the british. kennedy was outraged. he immediately wrote the president quote. i've been fairly active in any enterprise which i've taken up for the last 25 years, frankly, and honestly, i do not enjoy being a dummy. i'm very unhappy about the whole position. and of course as always the

. >> >> to fdr again apparently it's why the navy has it. he took the sealers of the uss potomac of not had a job and took them with him to camp david brought them for security. they went there during the non- winter months. truman, not a favorite of camp david prefer to go to key west. had the trees pushed back on during eisenhower's time it was winterized and installed the other cabins. they still maintain that, over the years use of a family cabins have been added president nixon during his time but a lot of expansion into the camp, putting in the hourglass shape pool adding laurel which is the main entertaining cabinet you see sometimes on news report and coverage of world leaders and visiting number of other features throughout. to modernize the time they challenge the president to modernize the cabin and expanded that's been going on last for five years but a very sequential smart way to keep current but maintain the rustic nature outside. and the amenities on the inside part is not a marble, brass a four star resort is not meant to be

and biden is no fdr. >> know he definitely is not. let's be honest, it has been clear almost of the moment he took the oath of office it was very unlikely the democrats would nominate him in 2024 at the age of 82. he was arty having difficulty streaming together two sentences readily been invalidated by that last year end a half. he will not be the nominee in 2024 and they were better off, in my opinion, having said we're going to make that decision later. were going to focus all of our energy and efforts in achieving what we said were going to do in the campaign, unite the country and move forward. david: i could one similar occasion that is on march 31 -- 1968 when then president johnson shocked the nation by telling us all the following, roll tape. >> i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your pr president. joey: so are we going to hear that again from president biden? >> i think we will. but remember there is a big difference, unpopular war in 1967 in 1968. mccarthy nearly beats in t

he went to the fdr library in upstate new york, at fdr's home. he came across a memo from the office of naval intelligence, december for, 1941. it was a 17-page memo stamped top secret. it had only been declassified in the 70s by late around gathering dust and so andrew found. and it was three days before the attack this memo for the office of naval intelligence, it came out in detail of japanese tension possible they were. the assessment of where the japanese might intact. the panama canal, the wake islands, indonesia, and the hawaiian islands. this memo was prepared and given to the president, three days before the attack no action was taken other than sending a warning out to our field commanders on december six, 1941. there was not an alert to disperse your ships and planes to minimize the attack and be prepared for attack. all these other potential things that they should've done, they were not notified. this memo interestingly enough was unnoticed until andrew found it at the after the are library in new york. >> how was the economy? eight

fdr isstill fdr. he went big and bold and we have all these government programs because of it . the only way you become the talking point in the future is if people start going do you know what biden did? he's got to get all this stuff done. 1.2 trillion, 3.5 trillion, he gets it. he wants people to be talking about him ad infinitum as remember what biden did and replace the talk of the new deal with remember when biden passed build back better? that's going to be the new talking point on the left and if he gets the fact that barack obama may have been the first black president but he will be the most progressive president and he wants to cement that. i don't think it's alarmist to suggest that at his age he is probably a one term president. and i think he recognizes that and anybody with eyes and ears and a pulse gets that. he's going to do as much as he can as quickly as he can. >> the impact of this will be profound. >> absolutely. i think one of the things that i like to say is you have to understand what i call the big y? why are they doing all ofthis ? the thing is it in i

now, fdr's presence has loomed large over joe biden's presence, quite literally. his portrait hangs over the fireplace in the oval office. but biden seems unwilling, unable to heed the lessons of history. biden doesn't favor expanding the court, or saving the constitution. from the court itself. doesn't favor threatening the court expansion, following the reversal of roe v. wade. reuters reported that biden and his officials are concerned the more radical moves to -- would be quote, politically polarizing, ahead of november's midterm elections. ridiculous, in my view. his own press secretary, korean john perez went on the record to say that expanding the court's something that the president doesn't agree with, that's not something a wants to do. the truth, is i just in the number of justices on the bench, it is not as polarizing and radical as some cautious dems would have you believe. as the court's own website acknowledges, the number changed six times before settling it nine in 1869. and even since that date, the number of justices on the bench hasn't always be

i'm just you know here up at the fdr library. she's the author of five books including the book. she's going to speak of today the newspaper access express barons who enabled hitler i strongly encourage you to read this book if you haven't already it's excellent, and she's also written i'll you a couple examples, right? fornia, the 1930s and the big business roots of modern conservatism. a real enemies conspiracy theories in american democracy world war one to 911 you've got an update for that one. i'm sure that'll get you on the best seller list her work has appeared in washington post the new york times los angeles times lamond and other media outlets so join me and welcome. all right. okay. thank you very much. thank you for that lovely introduction and thank all of you for coming thanks to the thank you to the reading festival organizers for inviting me because i really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you all today. all right, so my recent book is on newspaper publishers and isolationism and what i want to specifically focus on today is the hostel media environment that

i want to ask you about fdr's under secretary of state, sumner welles, who you spend a lot of time on telling his story. who was he and what was his influence on public policy? >> so, welles probably was -- you asked me earlier who's the most powerful gay person i document in the book. it probably would have been him. he's the under secretary of state in the roosevelt administration. he's a very talented diplomat. he basically writes the atlantic charter, which is the declaration of allied war aims in world war ii. he is an old roosevelt family friend, extremely wealthy, blue blood, new england background. and in 1940, he's riding on the presidential train back from the funeral of the speaker of the house, william bankhead, tallulah bankhead's father. and he drunkenly propositions a number of porters on the train, and this news finds its way into the hands of his enemies within the administration. >> and welles becomes the first government official to be fired. >> yes. >> for being gay. roosevelt finally asks for his resignation. >> and he delivers it. yes. >> so why hadn't that happe

so we have bammy to thank for fdr. now bami proved indispensable to theodore's career during his tenure as civil service commissioner at regular dinner parties in her washington dc home and even when he was president of the united states, he would walk down to her house at 1733 n street in washington, dc. um, he she entertained artists intellectuals and prominent men of the day he would tell her whom he wanted to be there for he knew they would come if she invited them. they all found her invigorating intellectually for she had the roosevelt charisma and a nuanced understanding of international and and domestic policy. and she had possessed in abundance a roosevelt trait that was called elbow in the soup treatment. and then that meant she was so interested in what you had to say that she would, you know, put her elbow in the suit. now eleanor wrote that her antibiot quote had remarkable judgment. i used to think she might have governed and governed an empire either in her own right or through her influence over a king

consecutive american president with whom my family has had the privilege of engaging for over 80 years fdr was the first one. i am so delighted to host you here in the heart of jerusalem as i said yesterday mr. president, this is a visit amongst family and old friends. you have been >> your tireless advocacy of the enduring u.s.-israel partnership in word and in deed has truly stood the test of time. your journey of peace here in the middle east comes at the pivotal hour of a challenged world order. the pandemic, colliding with the tragedy unfolding in ukraine. while extremism displaces dialogue as our planet runs out of time. i believe a strong and vibrant u.s. israel partnership has seldom been more critical to our countries -- our countries in the middle east for diplomacy and decency. we are a diversified society, encompassing jews and muslims, christians, all denominations and beliefs. some of them distinguished -- investors from all error countries that have signed -- ambassadors from all our countries that have signed -- today. [applause] a strong and secure nationstate of the jewis

consecutive american president with whom my family has had the privilege of engaging for over 80 years fdr was the first one. i am so delighted to host you here in the heart of jerusalem as i said yesterday mr. president, this is a visit amongst family and old friends. you have been a faithful lifelong friend of the state of israel and the jewish people. your tireless advocacy of enduring the u.s. israel partnership in word and indeed has truly withstood the test of time. your journey of peace, here in the middle east, comes at the pivotal hour of a challenge world order aftershocks of the pandemic are colliding with the tragedy in ukraine, while extremism replaces dialogue as our planet runs out of time. i believe that is strong and vibrant u.s./israel partnership hustled on big more critical to our countries, to the middle east and global stability and sustainability, peace and prosperity, democracy. since its establishment state israel has been a vibrant democracy sometimes too much mr. encompassing jews and muslims, christians of all denominations and beliefs, some of their distinguish

he didn't have fdr's votes in the senate. he and joe manchin and kyrsten sinema and they are turning on joe biden now because they didn't get what they want. the blame game has begun. part of it has to do with joe biden's own performance, he does not have confidence from the public, that's obviously clear. the biden administration and moderate r1 and started to adopt and pursue policies proposed and promoted by the left of the party, build back better and climate change. despite the fact a 5050 senate, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema said they were opposed to the bills, joe manchin warns them repeatedly they would be inflationary and it was a big mistake to expunge the oil production in this country. none the less, chuck schumer and the senate, nancy pelosi and the house persisted and pushed this rock up the hill and it simply failed in public view of the american people. now the democrats are in trouble and now their solution is to tell joe biden not to run again. i think the real solution for democrats to look in the mirror

juan, back with the panel, when he came in and said i could be fdr, you know, fdr had big numbers. they had small majorities. and now they are at the back end as they are heading into the midterms not having delivered on some of the things the left wanted. >> yeah. i think that's exactly right. this is the summer of discontent among lots of democrats with biden. i mean, they don't see him as having the kind of energy the pulse, the push back to see what they sees a the excesses, let's see of the supreme court or the fact that republicans have been able to block so much of what he wanted to do in the senate. now, let's also keep in mind here that joe biden's brand has always been that he is a stable, moderate democrat. is he not bernie sanders. is he not that kind of exciting, passionate, left wing democrat. and think about it in terms of his predecessor, he's not donald trump. in fact, he sold his stable moderate persona as the antidote to trump. and candidates out there now, democrats in the midterms, they don't want to campaign with biden because if you bring him in, of course th

any textbook written i know earlier than 20 years ago said that this was fdr's colossal mistake of his administration. a 1937 high on this great landslide in 1936. he tried to create a 15 justice court. so that he could ram through what had been termed could ram through what had been turned a new deal. a lot of the subsequent decisions favored fdr in fear that he would always do that and as elizabeth warren did the s other day and at the preliminy league, we are going to keep saying we are going to pack the ntcourt, pack the court until justice roberts or someone else says please don't pack the court. we will give you a decision that wouldn't want you to pack the court. why pack the court, so that is the purpose of it. we are seeing efforts to get rid of the electoral college. no one ever says i want to get rid of the electoral college because the g founders were wro. when we get rid of the electoral college, candidates will stillas go to rural areas and places besides chicago and new york and la and san francisco and houston. they will stay do that but we won't have multiple parties a

fdr said that about the lockener court. the difference is i'm not saying go disobey the supreme court's decisions. i'm not saying that just because the supreme court ruled this way, that somehow we have to defy the decisions. what i'm saying is this court no longer has the confidence of the american public, and we need to have fundamental reform and like lincoln called out the dred scott court and fdr called out the lockener court, we need to be campaigning against this court. we, the people, the american people who get to decide about fundamental rights and get to decide about the constitution, get to direct policy about climate. it's not unelected justices who are taking away too much power. and i think they're doing their jobs incorrectly, and we ought to point that out, and they're partisan. they're partisan. they're not some deliberative body. they are -- they are following a partisan agenda, and they're not -- they shouldn't be treated as some holier than thou people with some deliberation. they are ideological. >> i

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