he was very much a product of the new deal and was a protÉgÉ in many respects of franklin roosevelt's, who saw the great potential in young lyndon johnson. so when johnson became president it was his hope that he would finish the new deal, he would finish with his great society what president roosevelt started with the new deal. and one of the things that fdr left unaddressed in his presidency was civil rights. i think ultimately president johnson will be remembered as the civil rights president for having signed into law the civil rights act of 1964 which broke the back of jim crow in our separate but equal laws throughout the south. the voting rights act of 1965 which gave all americans unimpeded access to the ballot box and the fair housing act of 1968, which allowed for fair housing for all americans. that's a triumvirate of civil rights legislation, and i think it's the principal legacy of lyndon johnson. >> here's a look at our live coverage today. >> the mayor of long beach, california, told house lawmakers about the facilities housing migrant children in his city and immigrati

when our democracy was tested franklin roosevelt reminded us in america we do our part we all do our part that's all i'm asking. it to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day reading president joe biden last night the u.s. president delivered his 1st address before a joint session of congress instead of a packed house pandemic restrictions meant the president had a captive audience of only 200 people and yet the moment retained that a mistake a bill or of a right of passage for new presidents biden's task last night convince congress and the country that his unprecedented legislative plans totaling 6 trillion dollars are worth every penny biden one of the most experienced new presidents in u.s. history relied on a familiar construct to execute his argument america's success in the 21st century as it had been in the 20th depends according to biden on an unwavering commitment to defeating freedom's nemesis in 1951 or 1981 that would have been the soviet union in 2021 red is still the color but the challenger has changed to

when our democracy was tested franklin roosevelt reminded us in america we do our part we all do our part that's all i'm asking. it to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day reading president joe biden last night the u.s. president delivered his 1st address before a joint session of congress instead of a packed house pandemic restrictions meant the president had a captive audience of only 200 people and yet the moment retained that a mistake a bill or of a right of passage for new presidents biden's task last night convince congress and the country that his unprecedented legislative plans totaling 6 trillion dollars are worth every penny biden one of the most experienced new presidents in u.s. history relied on a familiar construct to execute his argument america's success in the 21st century as it had been in the 20th depends according to biden on an unwavering commitment to defeating freedom's nemesis in 1951 or 1981 that would have been the soviet union in 2021 red is still the color but the challenger has changed to

franklin roosevelt was dedicating in 1997, honoring america's president during world war ii. as the only president to serve one in two terms, the memorial is divided into four rooms. one room for each of roosevelts for terms. its location next to the tidal basin signified the importance of water in a road of -- roosevelts life. as a man stricken with polio as an adult, roosevelt spent much of his life in the soothing waters of springs and baths to ease his pain. the martin luther king junior memorial dedicated in 2011 sits on the northwest corner of the tidal basin. its location was specifically designed among the cherry trees, which are generally and bloom each year on the anniversary of dr. king's death. memorial design is drawn from a passage of his i have a dream speech, in which he says, out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. dr. king himself is depicted as that stone of hope emerging from the mountain of despair, which sits behind him at the memorial at the base of that are a number of quotations from his famous speeches, sermons and writings. of t one of the

okay, president franklin roosevelt. you are famed for your incredible and informative radio broadcast to the american public. what was the goal behind your implementing these incredible and very unforgettable fireside chats? well in the beginning our first fireside chat occurred eight days into my first turn and the united states. facing economic collapse the banking system at all but failed. and so we put through a series of reforms with the congress to put banks on a holiday the shut them down for a few days why they were able to reorganize. and then to eventually add what is now known as fdic federal deposit insurance corporation to guarantee those. i thought it was important that the american public should know what was going on. and so i went on the radio on march 12th. ten o'clock eastern time on nbc and i started by saying. my friends tonight i wish to speak to you about banking. the next 17 minutes i spoke about how our banks worked. why people needed to keep their money in the banks? and apparently the speech w

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

roosevelt it's a legacy that biden seems comfortable leaning on but a democracy was tested franklin roosevelt reminded us in america we do our part we all do our part. that's all i'm asking. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day reading president joe biden last night the u.s. president delivered his 1st address before a joint session of congress instead of a packed house pandemic restrictions meant the president had a captive audience of only 200 people and yet the moment retained that a mistake a bill or of a right of passage for new presidents biden's task last night convince congress and the country that his unprecedented legislative plans totaling 6 trillion dollars are worth every penny biden one of the most experienced new presidents in u.s. history relied on a familiar construct to execute his argument america's success in the 21st century as it had been in the 20th depends according to biden on an unwavering commitment to defeating freedom's nemesis in 1951 or 1981 that would have been the soviet union in 20

when our democracy was tested franklin roosevelt reminded us in america we do our part we all do our part that's all i'm asking. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day reading president joe biden last night the u.s. president delivered his 1st address before a joint session of congress instead of a packed house pandemic restrictions meant the president had a captive audience of only 200 people and yet the moment retained that a mistake a bill or of a right of passage for new presidents biden's task last night convince congress and the country that his unprecedented legislative plans totaling 6 trillion dollars are worth every penny biden one of the most experienced new presidents in u.s. history relied on a familiar construct to execute his argument america's success in the 21st century as it had been in the 20th depends according to biden on an unwavering commitment to defeating freedom's nemesis in 1951 or 1981 that would have been the soviet union in 2021 red is still the color but the challenger has changed to

if franklin roosevelt -- there were people who could not say his name. they referred to him as that man. 40% of the country never voted for franklin roosevelt. you gave a very generous spirited evaluation of the new deal. but in many ways, the right wing in the country is still living in reaction to this redefinition of the relationship between the state and the individual that unfolded amid the crisis of the 1930s. the other thing about president johnson of course is, yes, niall is right that 61% of the country voted for johnson in 1964, but a thousand days later, in 1966, the republicans had a remarkably successful midterm and ronald reagan becomes governor of california. so these moments of consensus are vanishingly rare and therefore, any president, any congress, has to take full advantage of them when he or she can. and i think that is what the president is doing. >> stay with us. we are going to have to continue this fascinating conversation. i'm going to ask niall ferguson in particular whether this new infrastructure bill could trigger runaway in

another error when our democracy is tested franklin roosevelt reminded us in america we do our part we all do our part that's all i'm asking. that we do our part all of us if we do that we will meet the center challenge of the age by proving that democracy is durable and strong autocrats will not win the future we will america. the future belongs to america so i stand here tonight before you in a new and vital hour of life and democracy of our nation and i can say with absolute confidence i have never been more confident or optimistic about america not because i'm president because what's happened with the american people we've stared into the abyss of insurrection and autocracy pandemic and pain and we the people did not flinch the very moment our adversaries were certain we'd pull apart and fail we came together. with light and hope we summoned a new strength new resolve to position us to win the competition of 21st century on our way to a union more perfect more prosperous and more just as one people one nation and one america. we told him we were leader of a member of the really it

it was clear that franklin roosevelt was not in good health. there is a real concern among conservative democrats that roosevelt would die in office and leave henry wallace, the last of the hard-core new dealers, as president. they threatened to mutiny at the 1944 convention. roosevelt says ok. get the guy from kansas city. he had hardly met harry truman, but he became president. truman says he will be a straight talking guy. he did hold press conferences. this is actually another important part of the story. through the truman era, presidential press conferences, as they were called, were off the record events. they were for the background. the president could be quoted only with his explicit permission. so when harry truman held press conferences, he would say something or other and reporters would have to say can we quote you on that. nowadays, we live in the age of other transparency. if a president says something inadvertently, it's considered fair game. truman discovered there were limits on his candor. when he was thinking aloud, saying

what the lesson of franklin roosevelt shows in the 1930s. 1936, fdr ran for re-election. there was still high unemployment, still in the great depression. four years after roosevelt had come in. yet enough people said, he's trying. he's using all the powers available to him. things are getting better. they voted for his re-election by a landslide. >> yeah. okay. michael beschloss, and francesca chambers good to see you both. thank you so much. >>> all this week watch comprehensive reports on the president's first 100 days. his performance so far. >>> meantime, getting shots in the arms of teenagers. why the timing is so critical. we go there, next. has always been about so as your business changes, we're changing with it with e-commerce that runs at the speed of now next day and two-day shipping nationwide same day shipping across town returns right from the doorstep and deliveries seven days a week it's a whole new world out there let's not keep it waiting ♪ ♪ think you're managing your moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease? i did. until i realized

there's a famous story about franklin roosevelt who was in governor of new york at the time. and he had a conversation in august of 1932 with the senator from louisiana judy long. and his staff in the governor's office in albany. sat there as roosevelt kept saying yes huey. yes, huey. i understand huey. yes huey. so is basically on one sided conversation and eventually he hung up. and his staff asked, you know. why did you talk to that guy? and roosevelt said it's all very well for us to laugh over huey. but actually we have to remember all the time that he really is one of the two most dangerous men in the country. who was the other he was asked by his staff? the other is douglas macarthur. and roosevelt who would become president march of 1933 went on to to explain and i quote here. far beneath the surface of american life given the stress of economic collapse in the threat of public disorder. he felt there was a latent sense that democracy had run its course that the totalitarians had a point that some measure of liberty would have to be sacrificed to strong leadership. al

it was clear that franklin roosevelt was not in good health. there was a real concern especially among conservative democrats that roosevelt would die in office and leave henry wallace, last of the hard-core new dealers, as president of the united states. they threatened a mutiny at the convention. roosevelt said, already, just get that guy from kansas city. he had hardly met harry truman. anyway, so truman becomes president. and he says that he's going to be this straight talking guy. and he did hold press conferences. and this is actually another important part of the story. through the truman era, presidential press conferences, as they were called, were off the record events. these were for background. the president could be quoted only with his explicit permission. so when harry truman would hold press conferences, he would say something or other and reporters would have to say, can we quote you on that? nowadays, of course, we live in this age of utter transparency. if a president even says something inadvertently, it's considered fair ga

roosevelt earlier in the year, franklin roosevelt had died in office in 1945. truman learned soon after becoming president of the existence of the manhattan project and the effect would have atomic weaponry available to us as weapons to finish the war. truman always maintained these bombs ultimately save lives by showing the japanese that we had this bomb that could be ruinous. that could be apocalyptic. i use that word earlier. but in your room contract view was truman right? he went to his grave believing bouts the right decision. not only did it save american lives, those who would continue to fight world war ii also the lives of allied nations. >> i think truman and his latter days did express some regret for making that decision. i think as anyone, almost anyone of course are people we know who are sure of everything they do. but truman did have some self doubt despite his reputation for being utterly decisive. actually, i thanks it shows more than humanity that eventually later on did he start having second guesses. made a comment about killing women and

right um president franklin roosevelt is a hero to many americans. i'll even cop to that myself and he certainly plays a role in our museum's narrative of world war ii is precisely for you know, the great things. he did as a wartime leader. can you describe the roosevelt's thought processes leading to the roundup of japanese american citizens made perhaps this isn't as finest hour. i wonder what your thoughts are on that. well, you know, it wasn't like roosevelt did that all by himself and is as you saw in the film there was a lot of propaganda even dr. seuss did a lot of propaganda against asian americans japanese americans in particular. there was a huge economic issue at stake here. i mean, my grandparents owned 14.25 acres or owned 14.25 acres in san jose and they were very successful farmers like other japanese americans, so there was a lot of competition from the food food growers associations and other economic interests. also the media is you know today plays a big role in terms of creating false narratives and the news had a lot to do with i

you know franklin roosevelt created source curity l.b.j. for in the war on poverty medicare medicaid what will biden's signature policy be i think at the moment it's not going to be the covert 1000 relief package that you asked is big it was i think it will probably be something like climate change if you manages to congress right yet and that's a key thing isn't it is it climate change is the cornerstone of it of his domestic policy and how hard would it be for the u.s. to make the big green transition that he wants and he's promising. well you know it depends on what setter mansion will think because a lot of that is going to be the the lynchpin on what is able to get through the senate you know for all of bod's overtures for bipartisanship there wasn't very much of a come in 1000 relief bill and i don't imagine that there will be any in the future at least if you look at what tim scott the republican senator who offered his rebuttal to biden said yesterday it doesn't look like there's a real change in tone and so biden will have to marsh

he loved franklin roosevelt, hated harry truman. and when the reporter asked him why, he says, well, harry truman means what he's saying, to belie that on the crutches of race, roosevelt did. all of us knew about roosevelt. i'm old enough to remember all this stuff. that's what started me to studying this stuff. and so i tell people all the time, i don't want it to be new. i want it to be fair. new deal was not fair. harry truman put in the fair deal. he proposed three civil rights bills that roosevelt refused to propose. so what i want to do is i've said to joe biden, he's doing a great job. i think that he is putting us to where we need to be. i think if he continues on this course, it will go down in history as great a president at truman. >> thank you for being with you, congressman jim clyburn coming up, republicans are singing the praises of florida governor ron desantis as a kinder, gentler donald trump. i'll tell you why the second verse is just the same as the first. >>> but first, my colleague richard lui with today's top

i love you for succeed, you know succeeding my friend the great franklin roosevelt, but i have to say answer i believe no person has done as much as you have to save western civilization. became a rich mutual admiration society. any closing remarks from either one of you? i just say i think it churchill's view of the world and and truman's view of the world. was it might both be admirably a a summarized by what what was his tagline for churchill's history of the english speaking people's on one side. there was resolution and defiance. on the other side magnanimity in goodwill he held both and so did truman the the marshall plan and nato the the at the end of the war churchill didn't didn't want and and truman didn't didn't want to to do what we did at the end of world war one to the germans and to the japanese who want to restore them not punish them. in fact, tricia had done that his entire life even when he was a very young man in the war war, you know, no one fought harder than churchill during war and no one was faster to extend the hand of friendship after you know, he fought to

franklin roosevelt didn't live to see that what franklin roosevelt did do was executive order 8802 which created the fair employment practices commission. there's a lot of things we could say about that but the most important thing is this. that required if you got a defense contract during the war there were a lot of defense contracts going around and everybody wanted a defense contract. it said if you get one you can't segregate your factory. that was huge. so that was largely not enforced but it was huge in terms of desegregate all factories in the south although a couple were desegregated but it was the promise of the federal government coming in and saying aggregation in these southern states is wrong and we're not going to do business with companies that have segregation or with cities that have segregation so it's sort of this seed is planted and after the war a lot of people call for permanent fair employment practices but this seed is planted thatsays the federal government will step up to protect african-american civil rights in the south . i was glad you mentioned the name a p

franklin roosevelt knew that if he wanted to actually turn american public opinion into supporting the war and even more so in supporting our soviet allies during the war he was going to need to use it would. lead a lot of we're just going to davis cup one of the classes. for soundly. door. it is. glorious genius and you feel it. and. i think. sometimes the officer for information commission how they would musical comedies like this is the army which were intended to increase the prestige of military service and raise the morale of soldiers fighting overseas one of the roles in that film was played by a young actor named ronald reagan the future president of the united states. i've missed you too plenty. to explain. that there were other orders that weren't so benevolent in 1902 after pearl harbor president roosevelt ordered the forced relocation of 120000 japanese people from the west coast of the united states is hard to believe but in those years japanese americans were simply put in buses and sent to specially created internment camps in the u.s. territory the office of for informa

franklin roosevelt was elected. he had a new deal, legislation designed to help, but the court struck down much of that legislation as unconstitutional. three of the judges, called the three musketeers, consistently supported roosevelt's legislation. the judges called the four horsemen opposed it. the two remaining judges sided with the opponents of roosevelt's new deal some, but not all the time. between 1933 and 1936, the court overturned federal legislation at 10 times the rate it had done previously. many thought the court had left roosevelt's initial new deal recovery plan in tatters. the secretary of the interior described the dilemma in these terms. either we reform the court or submit to judicial tyranny. in november 1936, roosevelt was reelected in a landslide, largest in the nation's history, 61% of the popular vote. viewing his popularity as a mandate to continue the new deal, roosevelt created an ambitious legislative agenda. what about the supreme court? what could he do about that? in february 1937, ro

which was a major renovation project of franklin delano roosevelt. it was funding made available to the public works administration in the 1930s that made the national mall living proof of the power of the new deal. and investments from the federal government to transform and green our country. my deepest gratitude to my partner and friend, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. it is a privilege to work with you, stand shoulder to shoulder with you. to rattle cages with you. and to fight together for the future of the people of this country and the planet. and i could not be prouder to be working with you on this issue and so many others. it's my colleague senator padilla from california, jared hoffman of california, congresswoman corey busch of missouri, we thank you for your leadership and coming here today to speak. i also want to recognize our allies speaking today. ellen charlotte's of sunrise movement, cary fulton of climate justice alliance, and judas outlet 32 bj. [inaudible] your organizations are an inspiration in the heart of this moveme

roosevelt did in four terms in one term, without either a depression or a world war. the american people are in the end not going to support this, especially when they find out that people who quit their job are going to get 75% of their salary under unemployment under this plan, they're simply not going to be supporting that. everybody from small businesses to people who work hard. >> next question for you, you're from the progressive wing of the democratic party, yvette. did the president go far enough for you? >> i don't think so. i mean, i think -- we want to talk about the highlights first. the $15 an hour, saying that out loud, sounded great. but he didn't include that in reconciliation when he had the chance. the question is when and how is he going to get that done? health care is one of the major issues facing most americans. i don't think the aca revisions or the prescription drug revisions he talks about goes far enough. we know there's a lot of support for public option and lowering the age of eligibility for medicare, he didn't talk about any of that. i k

eventually all of the judges by new deal presidents franklin roosevelt and harry truman. those judgeses lookly fought they were replacing out worn incorrect legal principles with other sounder principle and likely thought they were following b the constitution bac efforts topr create a workable form of democratic government that would last hundreds of years. but it is difficult to deny that court overall have changing political views of a majority of this nation's citizen. one could argue that it is a good thing that the country revise its prudential principles every few decades to reflect new generations and changing circumstances. jefferson certainly thought so. but that kind of change does connect. jurisprudence would follow at least separating the prudential from political aspect causes of this low change is not an easy task. finally there are institutional considerations. the court properly pays attendance to those considerations, for example, every time it refuses to hear a case on ground that is unlikely to be able to provide legal guidance to help lower court -- b