Kennedy president ial library about political relationships between numbers of the roosevelt and kennedy families in particular the alliance between roseville and jfk. The Franklin D Roosevelt president ial library provided this video. Paul hello and welcome to another edition of at home with the roosevelts. I am paul sparrow, the director of the museum in hyde park, new york. Today we will talk about the relationship between two of the most important political families in American History during the 20th century, the roosevelts and kennedys. To assist me in this conversation i am joined by the , director of the jfk library. Thank you for joining me. This is one of the most interesting and complicated relationships, multigenerational relationships. Two families that are really dynasties in the way they impacted american political life. There is a component of this that a lot of people do not really understand. Not only was there a relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Kenn
Life. There is a component of this that a lot of people do not understand. Not only is there a relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Kennedy, but a relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and john f. Kennedy. We will start with the beginning, which is the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and joe kennedy. Joe kennedy made most of his money in the 1920s in the stock markets. Kennedy asppointed the head of the Security Exchange commission. Some said that was putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. This created a relationship in which joe kennedy really became a very close confidant of fdr. He became ambassador to the court of st. James. You want to talk about how he managed that posting in london right before the war . It is an interesting time. I almost want to go back a tiny bit before that. As you could imagine, when young people are in the age where they are graduating from high school, whoever is the president in that moment has a profound impact on them. Shapes
Now refer to, institutional as the press. Lectures in history. On American History tv, on cspan 3. Every saturday at 8 pm eastern. Lectures in his three is also available as a podcast. Find it where do listen to podcasts. Hello, welcome to another edition of at home with the notes thoughts. I am paul sparrow, director of the Franklin Roosevelt president ial library and museum in high park new york. Today, we will talk about the relationship between two of the most important families, political families in American History, during the 20th century. The roosevelts, and the kennedys. And to assist me in this conversation, i am joined by the director of the jfk library. Paul, it is good to be with you. Allen price here. Thank you for joining me today, alan. This is one of the most interesting and complicated relationships, multi generational relationships. Two families that are really dynasties, in the way that they impacted american political life. There is a component to this that a lot
About that he outlived the bas tarta which allowed him to have the last word in. Cheap quotes, some of kind of hoovers understanding of what happened. The first where he said that a foolish individual only hurts themselves. Whereas a foolish government hurts both the wise and the foolish. And the other is blessed are the children for they shall inherit the national debt. Tom, you do a fantastic debt at the hoover president ial library in west branch, iowa, and you do a fantastic job preserving and protecting that legacy and those records. President ial libraries, we may have president s and different politic political philosophies but support each other and thank you for joining us today, tom. Thank you, palm. Youre watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan3 explore our nations past. Cspan3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Weeknights this month we feature American History tv programs as
Difficult times. As you mentioned, this is my 11th president ial campaign. I have never covered one like we are embarking on now. That will make this a rich topic. We have two of the most highly respected governors in the country joining us today. A former twoterm governor of ohio, nine term member of the u. S. House of representatives. He was part of the Budget Committee. He played a big role in welfare reform and balancing the budget. The nomination twice in 2016 and this time around he was the last man standing against donald trump for the republican nomination. Im happy to be joined by terry mcauliffe. The nationalof committee and cochair of president Clintons Campaign and chair of hillary Clintons Campaign and last year he. Onsidered a president ial bid he started his First Business at the age of 14. Had some success in the years that followed with other business sectors. We will start with me posing questions to the governors. That we havell asked our participants. Result of that