but franklin was born in boston. he sat up -- what about group boston by the age of 17 or ran away to philadelphia and established himself as a leading year in philadelphia but in his 50's he was sent to england as a representative of pennsylvania assembly and he spent 18 years in london. he thought london was the greatest place going. franklin was one of those who is always looking for the bigger stage and the brighter lights. in fact it almost broke his heart that he found london -- the british were too short-sighted to be able to see the future of the british empire lay in equality between the north american colonies and britain itself and franklin imagined what a great thing this would be and he could not persuade the british that this was their future and because they refused to accept it they. franklin is a mere provincial his whole life. this finally was more than franklin could bear but basically he took the position that if these in london cannot see he's going to make franklin sent a modest but he was fully

we have franklin roosevelt. we have herbert hoover, who they threw out on his ear, but no one doubted the man's intelligence and ability to do the job. and suddenly we have harry truman who is using curse words in press conferences. in fact there are two famous cartoons of women pulling their children away, the kids are kicking and screaming, she says, "we have to leave now, the president is talking." so there was this idea that we have this crass boor suddenly in the white house. truman was aware of that, as i think our immediate past president was aware of it as well. i think it's more of a stylistic comparison and an example of a shock to the system, in that you have -- if you take president obama with his urbane nature and his harvard education, you take franklin roosevelt with his urbane nature and harvard education, and suddenly the coin is flipped over, it's a shock to the system. i think it's an excellent point, i spent a good amount of time thinking about it in the last few years, thinking about how tha

>> well, franklin roosevelt, unlike truman's nominees to the court, franklin roosevelt's nominees to the court are well-known by many americans and certainly by anyone who has suffered his or her way through law school, because they're widely understood as profound jurists, these giants and pillars of the law. but they didn't like each other. and perhaps that goes hand in hand. they did not get along. and it wasn't just a matter of ideology, which it was. they agreed on new deal policy but they didn't agree on too much else. but it also was a matter that they personally came to dislike each other. and it's a very insular environment where they had to work closely together without the phalanx of clerks that justices have now. they had clerks, but not what we have today. they had to work more closely together. and they had come to actively, frankly, dislike each other. and to respect each other's ambitions. when you end up in a situation which franklin roosevelt ended up with -- oh, i should say, the supreme court ended up with, were a few justices think that justices appointed by thei

he nominated franklin roosevelt to the court of appeals. it was seen to this day and accurately so the second most important federal court in the united states. and then world war ii breaks out, franklin roosevelt says i need you. frankly vincent is here to get off the bench and participate more actively in the war effort. world war i america's involvement when the war ended just as vincent had finished basic training. he felt like he had missed out or world war i. so we wanted to contribute now in his later years in world war ii and a more direct manner. so he left his lifetime appointment with tenure in the pension and everything that comes with it agreed to become a cabinet member for franklin roosevelt hopscotch two different jobs. they stopped holding confirmation hearings for did stop holding votes for vincent. the white house but that nomination shoot down an office of emergency management. nominate for treasury secretary gets the most votes. they all knew him, they had voted on him so many times and said this is a matter of course f

what happened to nailah franklin? as her family continued their desperate search, police focused on the men in her life. and with a little digging one of their stories started to unravel. here's keith morrison with more of our story, "smoke and mirrors. " >> it's a grassroots effort by family and friends. >> for all the frantic activity, the phone calls, the flyers, the organized looking about, it was a rare quiet time, nine days in. when nailah franklin's sister felt it. >> we had a prayer service at our church, and in my heart i knew. i was like, you know what, she's not coming back. >> and that very night in the 3:00 a. m. hush of calumet city, night patrol officer calvin lucius felt his way past the glittering earbuds his partner saw hanging from a tree to the inky black fringe of forest at the back of a long abandoned parking lot behind a derelict video store. >> i probably got like maybe right around this area and just looked over and the body was there. >> what was that moment like? >> shock. you don't know if

washington, franklin. the first in philadelphia is franklin. because he said we've got to be on the same wavelength, because we are the two most respected people, nationally. we are the two national heroes. we have to work on the same wave length. and so they came, and wilson was a fellow -- and franklin, as you know, they had met at a weekly meeting in their house, where wilson and others had come. and i had talked about these things. so they came prepared. and so, when nobody else showed up on time, the pennsylvania delegation in the virginians who were there -- and at first it was only two, it was only washington and madison -- but then mason and some others begin to roll in. and they finalize madison stinking into the virginia plan, which is called the virginia plan, not because it had anything to do with madison, but because it was offered by the governor of virginia. randolph. they offer, really, the plan for national government. and to read the virginia plan, it doesn't say -- they don't use the term federalist. it says national governme

you describe in your wonderful book franklin and washington, the founding partnership, franklin's own gyrations about where sovereign is and saying maybe taxes are okay if they're imports but not exports. and trying to split the difference. but eventually he came around to independence and he like the others decided that sovereignty was in the people. how would you tell the story of that transformation. >> to build on what gordon already said there was a instruction on how to draw the lines of virtual representation. because they understood the terms were sole representation. and the british were using them and they could say and some did, well, we are virtually represented, just like women are virtually represented and they would use that exact analogy of women being virtually represented by their husbands voting even though they can't vote. and they did in some pamphlets. if everyone is treated the same, we're like manchester. manchester had grown to be a city of, i don't know, second or third largest city in england and it no representation in parliament because it didn't exist whe

. >> so, before we talk about the legacy of franklin. there is controversy around this iconic scene. here franklin sitting by himself in a different share as everybody else. what do you make of the scene and water your thoughts about this? your thoughts >> i think we hav, lindsey. we're looking at something that happened in 1973. we're looking at it through 2021 lens. so, yes, is so very easy to get offended or upset about something. but we have to remember that at that time, that actually represented progress. so, we need to make sure that we allow for it to exist in the environment that it was created. which was progress. i know that charles schulz at the time had challenges getting a blood character on television in his iconic comic strip. and that represented a compromise. but he was very, very -- he was a very strong advocate for equality. there was a point when franklin was introduced into the comic strip that someone in the south wanted places where his trip was indicated, said he didn't want to in there. and said that's fine, if

at the corner of union and franklin, there is a sign that reads a driver killed her neighbor. sherman elementary school kpix.com eight andrew zieman was hit by a car and killed at the intersection wednesday . >> he was a gift and had a gift taking care of kids. he will be missed. we are devastated. >> reporter: the driver of the ing a mucacrat lled arew. e been charged with vehicular manslaughter. sherman elementary school let out today, a crossing guard was on duty, and parents and students stopped by to pay respects. parents say they have been petitioning the city for a decade or so traffic down on franklin, feeling just this to result. >> yellow flashing lights, or anything like that point >> speed bumps anywhere else would make a lot more sense, don't you think? this is a little kids to school. >> we should have more prominent signs of the school zone. >> reporter: franklin is a major northbound one-way artery used to avoid the mess on venice. the blocks before have a steep pitch, and drivers often pick up speed. there is only one school zone sign at the beginning of the b

although franklin throws out the notion while he is in london out of touch with american opinion that maybe we can have some representatives from the colleague, maybe hundreds the way the scots do in the way the scots did in 1707 when they became great britain, when england and scotland great britain. the americans want no part of that notion. they know that they will be swamped, by the british and know whenever susan considers having memberships in the house of commons as a solution to the problem. right from the outset in the stanback of congress which meets in reaction to the stanback which is the tax law on all paper products in america they know instinctively the colonial assemblies will be the legislature that will determine taxation. now they have representation of the outside of their own colonial legislatures. only their willing to recognize the supremacy of parliament and the empire. that concession confuses the english because the english look at parliament as a sovereign body, and fact is the protector of liberty, is the instrument that they have honored ever since the rev

and that is why franklin was trying to draw a line. not very successfully. i agree with gordon on that as well. but then you get to the point, okay, if we're not parliament, where is sovereignty? now, you can go way back into the colonial tradition. the original motto as gordon probably knows and you probably know, the original motto virginia, and i hope it get it right, was, it was in latin. virginia enquattro? virginia is the fourth? i hope it is the fourth. it could have been the fifth. the point was that virginia was the first colony. and there was it was equivalent to scotland. it was an independent domain like scotland and that was their motto. virginia makes four. that was the motto. virginia makes four, if you translate it. and the other was scotland and the other was england. and i think the other was wales. and the point was we're just under the king. and our assembly should be equivalent to parliament. and that's the other place they tried to come down. one point with the yes, franklin's argument representatives in england but i agree british parl

and franklin roosevelt and the average ranking was 19 of the greatest and why is that set the result of their individual fault, ball to some extent sure, over the course, is very critical of jimmy carter and not out of any personal opposition to anything he tried to accomplish. the criticism of his understanding of executive authority and is use of the powers of leadership. carter's ranking as we saw we flipped back here, concord, 25 and 1919 and 27, 25 and 26. and we can identify those specific reasons that carter fell short of greatness that only he can be - one, denny undermined the presidency speech, and prestige is key. like how the president is viewed by people outside or rather how president is viewed by washington and trying to determine how the public views, when he will be able to successfully convince what he wants is in the people's best interest. he did things like carrying his own luggage rated ending the practice of playing hail to the chief when the president arrived and the presidential yacht and national address in the carter sweater essay that - but he does not nec

, the first person -- is franklin. because he said, we've got to be on the same wavelength because where the two most respected people, nationally. where the two national heroes. we've got to be working on the same wavelength. and so, they came, and wilson -- franklin, as you know, had met and had a regular, weekly meeting at his house, with -- and wilson and others. and they had talked about these things. so, they came prepared. and so, when nobody else came on time. the pennsylvania delegation and the virginians who were there, and at first it was only two. at first it was only -- and madison. but then mason, others begin to roll in. and they finalize madison's -- into the virginia plan, which is called the virginia plan, not because it had anything to do with madison, but because it was offered by the governor of virginia. they offer, really, the plan for a national government. and to read that virginia plan -- it doesn't say -- gordon was very clever to say, they didn't -- the virginia plan. it says national govern

at the corner of union and franklin, there is a growing memorial for paraeducator andrew zieman, who was hit by a car and killed at the intersection on wednesday . >> a man from her school and mr. andrew was, got in a car crash, and, but i, even though i didn't know him very well, i still feel bad for him. >> reporter: the driver of the car allegedly ran a red light, causing the crash that killed andrew. she has been charged with vehicular manslaughter. as sherman elementary school let out today, the crossing guard was on duty, and parents and students stopped by the memorial to pay their respects. parents said they have been petitioning the city for a decade to slow traffic down on franklin, fearing just this result. >> slowdowns, yellow flashing lights, or anything like that. >> speed bumps anywhere else to make a lot more sense. this is a little kid school. >> we should have more prominent signs of the school zone. >> reporter: rincon is a major north-south artery used by drivers to avoid the mess on venice. the blocks before have a steep pitch, and drivers often pick up speed. th

legend has it that benjamin franklin created it, but now millions are saying thanks but no thanks, ben. ♪ not totally on board with changing the clock back and forth for daylight saving time? you're not alone. momentum picking up to do away with the switch once and for all, keeping it lighter longer all yearlong. in the last four years alone, 19 states have enacted legislation or passed resolutions to provide for year-round daylight saving time, likely a welcome change for places like fairbanks, alaska. which only gets three hours 42 minutes of daylight total each year on december 21st. setting our clocks back is also difficult on folks with seasonal affective disorder, defined as a type of depression suffered by 5% of american adults, occurring during the fall and winter months when there is less sunlight. but can these 19 states just go rogue and keep their clocks the same all year round? not quite. congress would need to pass a federal law. because it was a federal law, the 1966 uniform time act, that got us into this in the first place. though daylight say to conserve. since then

franklin d. roosevelt took part in the ceremony. it is the most used bridge in the state, with about 250,000 passengers each day. >> that's a lot. a lot of drivers. look how beautiful it is out there tonight. >> it is a gorgeous night. >>> garvin thomas joins us with what's coming up at 5:30. >> right now, at 5:30, president biden is juggling two big challenges that are facing his administration. he has to tackle consumer prices and covid cases. both on the rise. >>> and she is finally free. an l.a. judge ends britney spears' conseconservatorship. how the pop star reacted to the judge's decision. >>> first, it's a critical statewide system, aimed at getting illegal guns off the street. tonight, we investigate why some bay area police departments aren't following the rules. and that's all because police across california are failing to properly log them in the state data base. >> joint investigation with the journalism non-profit called the trace discovered. that failure could jeopardy gun trafficking investigations crossing state an

franklin is over here and franklin actually takes the floor and he goes up past this point no place to the lending trace cannot johnston the johnson speeding to it a day late and a dollar short but he was right mess with the union plan to do in his wonderful back in a strategy is to pull back behind at this river which runs like this. i don't know how many of you have seen this river mike gorman a historian with the park service called these insult to reverse. [laughter] and it is and if you look at it, you're like what's the problem with this, just a couple of streams well, a few little streams surrounded by about a mile wide muck, sticks, tics, and he has high banks on either side and when it rains, it feels rapidly and it turns into a river so it is hard to get men across much less hard to artillery and why gets was a real problem and he wants to get behind best enforcement: to come up through the peninsula away from the protection of its gunboats and the james river and the york river and stretches supply line because he knows he's going to have to get this at some time and is g

an american historical association panel why many americans hated thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, franklin roosevelt, lyndon johnson and richard nixon. >> let me talk about as the white evangelicals were i'll try to watch my language, i'll probably use fundamentalist interchangeable. in 1920's and 30's, they called themselves fundamentalists, and now evangelical. and the same people, traced from the 1930's to the 1950. what they believed, the way they were reading our bible, they thought they could see signs the baseball laid out, especially old testament, but that we were living near the anti-christ and the epoch apocalypse. >> they were worried about women's suffrage and worried in the 1920, they were worried that prohibition wasn't being enforced. for more interesting to me. this were closely watching the world events. they were good students, almost better, they were understanding what has happening in asia, africa and around the world. in 1980's and 1890, and they were preaching, preaching, preaching. and in the 1920's they began to see some of these fulfilled. one of those was new re

up next, what do thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, franklin roosevelt, lyndon johnson, and richard nixon have in common? they face not just political opponents but americans who hated them. what were their reasons? an american historical association panel tries to answer that question. >> i'm the founding director of the center for presidential history atto southern methodist university. you already know because you signed up for this webinar, we are here to talk about presidents and hatred, two contextual points, i think, that might be helpful from a start. i mentioned this to my daughter today what i was doing. and herer first question was, a youug doing that because of president trump? said, well, i suspect it in why we want to do the first place but we're not trump, about president we're talking about presidents in history. no doubt he will show up in the q&a, but obviously we're going to try to keep focused on those for whom we have, say, a greater historical perspective. then she asked another really interesting question. she said, well, all presidents are disliked. how do you deci

people like aretha franklin, martin luther king. you give us a new set of eyes to see the people that we think in a way that we know. about dr. king, you say that he is still the greatest american ever. what brings you to that conclusion? i read it but i want the audience to hear the way that you got there. >> this is a man who did not have like abraham lincoln, the office of the presidency or secret service guarding him. he spoke his truth with honesty and told america the best of what it was and what it could be and conjured the metaphor of redemption as a means to transform this nation and to bring the memory as abraham lincoln spoke about them in service of a radical democracy. one only few people could imagine. as a private citizen transformed the world. when he stood tall, 6:01 local time and a bullet rang out and snuffed his life and blew up his jaw and his blood quickly coagulating and his comrade going into the bedroom, extracting a cardboard and sweeping the coagulated blood into a jar saying this is the blood of the proph

that i have a narrative from people like aretha franklin. her father, in my pastor and my mother, in my family. this is the gift that i have been given, and the burden that rests upon my heart and spirit, is to amplify the deep ancestral ties, of a people who have been searching for a democracy for all these years, in every gift that i can give to my people. and to the world. and to this nation, is what i want to do to be able to perform that black-ness. >> this book is full of admiration for so many people who fully deserve it. and what's fascinating about it is these are people who are admired by millions of people. people like aretha franklin, martin luther king, but you give us a new set of lives to see these people who we think in a way that we know. and about dr. king, you say he is still, the greatest american ever. what's brings you to that conclusion? i've read it, but i want the audience to hear the way that you got there. >> look, this is a man who did not have like abraham lake, and the office of the presidency, he didn't have a

it failed utterly when harding succeeded wilson's ohio governor gains cox and undersecretary franklin roosevelt. when the willkie's left for new york city after nine years in akron not only had firestone's prediction failed that wendell would never amount to much because he was a democrat dwindles political activism local bar association presidency and multiple board services had put them on top of akron's leadership and garnered notice by wall street kingpins. a spectacular future lay ahead, spectacular and holy unanticipated. at age 40 is committed democrat and successful lawyer would preside from new york and atlanta over the nation's second or third largest private utility holding company, commonwealth and southern whose electric power companies of tennessee, alabama georgia mississippi and parts of south carolina served 4.5 million citizens of the mississippi delta with the fared degree of efficiency. that said, willkie's is this success would hardly ever put him between the crosshairs of that t.r.'s presidency but for the new deal deals tennessee valley authority tba -- tv and t

by 1932, the election of franklin roosevelt, that was up to 18.4 million. there were some presidential radio addresses during the 1920s. calvin coolidge actually had a pretty good voice for radio. herbert hoover did some speaking on the radio. but really, when we think about presidents and the electronic media, we're thinking about franklin d. roosevelt. and roosevelt is famous for the so-called fireside chats. important thing to note about the fireside chats. a lot of people think he gave them every week. no, no. he gave them on special occasions. there weren't as many fireside chats as people think there were. but roosevelt had a very good voice for radio and he understood the fireside chats that you didn't talk the same way as you did when you were orating to a large crowd. a lot of times, politicians of the era -- they weren't speaking into the radio microphones and people would get turned off to that. fdr understood that's not the way you talk on the radio. he also used radio effectively on certain special occasions. and some of his major speeches were

parents have been petitioning the city for a decade to slow traffic down on the franklin fairing justice resort. >> yellow flashing lights or anything like that. >> speed bumps would make a lot more sense. there is a kids school here. >> we should have more prominent signs that this is a school zone. >> reporter: this is an artery use to escape the mass on van ness. drivers often pick up speed on the route. there is only one school zone sign at the beginning of the block. >> people walk with their families and children every day. this needs to be a safe spot and a safe zone for our community to get to school. not just our families but our teachers and staff. >> reporter: he was a para educator focus on helping children with special needs. >> he had such a kind heart and a kind soul. he was a give to sherman and he had a gift and taking care of kids. he will be missed. we are devastated. >> family say they hope this tragedy will prompt the city to do something to slow down traffic on franklin street. >>> travis scott was first seen after the festival. he was spotted outside of the season

if you are going to secede then we are going to secede and go back to that name of the state of franklin. what do legislators from nashville do? they start appropriating money to build roads in west tennessee and east tennessee. but in spite of this grid the strengths were pretty much nonexistent and you would have some boardwalks for sidewalks and you would have some transportation but overall living in the city was kind of a dirty place to live because you have chickens running loose, all manner, don't have a good sewage system so living in the city was in some ways kind of unhealthy. that is why people build these houses if they had any wealth and build the houses out like all these houses out in this area the donaldsons built and travelers rest like the overtons built, the thompson's house, the civil war when that house was built but as opposed to being in town. a lot of men kept townhouses in the city and worked in the city but they had a house in the countryside to keep kids healthy because epidemics, with colorado. we now know colorado was caused by contaminated drinking water. wi

police say two cars were involved in a collision on franklin and union streets that left a pedestrian, a man in his 30's, dead. the school identified him as a beloved staff member and alum of the school. >> when i came outside, i heard the crash, i saw the guy pinned against the wall, and then my neighbor, she's a nurse, she went there, out there, she checked his pulse, and she said no pulse, so they pulled him m put him on the floor. >> he says the man was on the sidewalk when he was hit. there are now flowers on that sidewalk, where allies was also walking moments before the crash. >> and could have been me. a could have been me and her. >> elias has owned the market for 33 years and says the intersection is dangerous. sherman parent mark benitez says traffic speeding down franklin and making improper turns is unsafe. he dropped his daughter off at school minutes before the crash. >> san francisco, wake up. that intersection is really not great, especially for my children. maybe i am being selfish because my daughter goes there, but like i think i have the right to. i pay my taxes a

president franklin d. roosevelt took part in opening ceremony. it's the workhorse of california, most used bridge in entire state. quarter million passengers every day. >> so beautiful. >>> happy birthday to see's candy, celebrating 100 years of business. headquartered in south san francisco but first start opened in l.a. in 1921, mary see's candy was catching on fast by 1925, dozen stores in l.a., 250 today. purchased by billionaire warren buffett who moved the company to bay area. jonathan bloom got inside look how see's candies creates your favorite treats, nbcbayarea.com, search candy from the heart but i need the candy in person, not virtually, you know? [ cheers and applause ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon."