Friends and intimates and developed a level of selfreliance that increased over the course of a life time and career. Elenor said he had no real confidants. Not me either. A speech writer for fdr was a very asstute observer of rogues roosevelt and wrote the classic bioography of roosevelt and hopkins. That is a bible in fdr history. He got to know roosevelt well. He said he has a thickly forestly interior. He didnt want anyone to penetrate that force to see what was going on inside. We was probably the most solitary president we have ever had. This is the contradiction that is fdr and wife Frances Perkins was such a complicated man and theres no episode in his presidency or his life which underscore is this duality more than this type does. Four days before the Chicago Convention opened on july 11th, 1940, Franklin Roosevelt called Felix Frankfurter down from the Supreme Court. They had a two hour session in the oval study adjacent to the president s bedroom on the second floor of the
Rises in the back of the pavilion. We are here to listen to peniel joseph. I have the pleasure of interviewing and the 11 on the occasion of the 2010 book dark days, bright nights, from black power to barack obama. It was one of those wonderful, and hurried cspan book conversations. I never met him before and i was so impressed not only by intellect but by his ease, he melody and introspection. I left thinking i am going to read all of that dudes books from now on until the end of time. He is the author of the Award Winning waiting until the midnight hour, a narrative history of black power in america but the book he has come to discuss today and why i am sure you are all here is stokely a life which was described in the New York Times review as an insightful, highly engaging affluent biography, of Stokely Carmichael, the man widely seen as heir apparent in the black leadership hierarchy to Martin Luther king jr. And malcolm x following their assassination. And the reporting committee,
Started by washington and continued by jefferson became pa paramount to law. It was a deeply respected practice and very few considered challenging and no one had succeeded. He was going to retire because he said that he was tired and he was broke. And he was both. He had already designed and was then building the first president ial library in america in hyde park new york which has been restored. I urge you to go see that. It is a fabulous experience. He built a retreat called top cottage at hyde park where he could get away from visitors he knew would come. He signed a contract to write regular articles and was going to write his memoirs and two of the top aids were going to come do this. He was thinking about retirement and he was enjoying. There were third term rumbles about whether or not he might run. But nothing to it. He didnt give it any serious attention. Then as kevin mentioned at the beginning of the book he was woken in the middle of the night, september 1st, 1939 to be t
Her new job, biggest regret and balancing diplomacy and diapers. Our exclusive interview today, october 3, 2013. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer. President and congressional leaders met at the white house to talk about the Government Shutdown. No deal and now we are on the third day of the shutdown. A ruling in the trial tied to the singers death. We will talk about the case with dr. Conrad murray in a moment. Reporter it was an unequivocal win for concert promoters aeg live. Jurors say they hired dr. Murray. To the second question, was murray on fit or incompetent at the fire aeg hired him . The answer is no. And the case of damages for the Jackson Family ended. The jury said aeg wasnt responsible. Reporter the verdict was a clear win for aeg. Despite the wording of the second question it was nothing close for vindication to dr. Murray as the jurors made clear. Said murra
Continues the campaign against mailin voting. Do you realize how inaccurate the voter rolls are, with just people moving around. Not let alone the people that die off but sending ballots out just based on a voter roll, registration, any time you move, youll change your drivers license but you dont call up and say by the way im but there is not widespread voter fraud though. There is no there is no evidence that theres not either. That is the definition of fraud. What is getting chuck and nancy back to washington, it is not concern about the working men and women of america who need our help right now, they want to come back so they could rename the post office the United States ballot harvesting service. Also new today, an nbc news wall street journal poll showing President Trump trailing joe biden. The democrat now leading by nine points. And as we count down to the start of the Democratic National convention tomorrow, Kamala Harris speaking out against Voter Suppression tactics. Beca