Book team of rivals was the inspiration for Stephen Spielbergs lincoln in 2012. Doctor goodwin earned her phd at harvard. So coming up, were going to re air her in death appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took phone calls. Will also be showing you discussions from her books, leadership in turbulent times. In holy pulpit. So well start with a january 1st, 1995 the parents on cspan series footnotes. In this hourlong interview, she discussed franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in the home front during world war ii. Her book, no ordinary time, won the Pulitzer Prize for history. Now here is historian doris goodwin. Author no ordinary time. If you could ask either Franklin Roosevelt or Eleanor Roosevelt a couple of questions after all of the work that is done. What would you be. I think it would like to understand why she was unable a certain moment in the middle of the war when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, and i
How have you been. We call ourselves partners in crime. That we are not going to talk about the crime part of it, just to the partner part. What has been interesting since ive been in the position of library of congress is the fact that people ask me what does the National Archives do. What does the archivist do a and then theres a confusion around the history and the role of each of the institutions, and ive learned a lot about that even in coming up to reclaim the declaration of independence, the bill of rights. We call it the constitution. And that was held by the library of congress and the type of thing. It wasnt until the 1930s the United States got serious about its records. Iwas Franklin Roosevelt was passionate about records and that we actually created and he signed the legislation that created the archives. The charters had been in the custody of the state department independent of library of congress when the archives building was built, a beautiful tabernacle was created f
So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy brings them into his cabinet, he becomes the most important person in his cabinet even though all his life he wanted to be a judge, never a politician, from from that he decides hes the man i want to succeed me, he runs the taft campaign, gives him advice at every moment, the only thing he did not give him a vice was the Campaign Song which i dont think teddy wouldve approved of it was get on a raft wi
Legislative and judicial and executive. But there is a fourth factor. And when we stand up to say no more, when we say there is a person right there doing the right thing we will get behind them then make sure that attitude becomes potent and decisive. When someone reads about Margaret Chase smith and says thats what i willwh do somebody in the government right now it will happen out of the necessity to survive we will expect that. I believe and you write we are centrist nation basically a country where 30 or 40 or 50 percent of the people are in the middle and want government to get something done. We aint doing it. That doesnt mean we wont. We have come through very hard times and baffling times and pessimistic times. And inappropriate behavior with the part of leadership but we have come to thembu all and very often when we do come through these difficult times the dark clouded sky times, we were better off for having done it. People talk about it was a simpler time. No itt wasnt. I
Five minutes. When is his need to unmute themselves when recognized for their five minutes or ask a question. Please keep your camera on at all times even if you need to step away for a moment during proceedings. Do not leave the meeting. As we begin, we should take a moment to honor an important anniversary in our nations history. Fiftyseven years ago today, hundreds of self thousands of americans came to our Nations Capital for the march on washington, the job and freedom. Our hero, late representative, john lewis from the Lincoln Memorial that day. He fearlessly challenged our countrys denial of freedom and civil rights to black americans including the right to vote. Within 70 years earlier called preservative of all rights. Today, many people are gathering at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the march and continue demands for Voting Rights, racial equality, Police Accountability and criminal justice reform. On income it access to voting, the bedrock of our democracy. Today, the