Home with the roosevelts. Im paul sparrow and today were going to 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 im joined by the director of jfk library. Paul, its good to be with you. Allen price here. Thank you for joining me today, allen. This is really one of the most interesting and complicated relationships, multigenerational relationships, two families that are really dynasties in the way they impacted american political life. And theres a component of this that a lot of people dont really understand. Not only is the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Kennedy, but there was an incredible relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and john f. Kennedy. I think well start at the beginning which is the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and joe kennedy. Joseph kennedy made most of his money in the 20s in the
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
Pathfinding mission, postwar food and humanitarian aid. It is used by George Marshall in formulating the marshall plan. And so hoover, under truman, i think gets rehabilitated. He is brought back into service. And in fairness, the only person who had really dealt with feeding millions of people and dealing with that kind of relief effort was hoover. Plus, he also still had a Network Within the leadership of europe that remembered him from world war i and especially in germany, really the only american they trusted after world war ii was hoover. Because at a time when the allies did not want food to go into post world war i germany, hoover fought to get it in. I feel it is one of roosevelts great feelings that he did not brief hoover on anything, not on the bomb, strategies, so truman had to take over with very little understanding of what was going on. So hoover was the only surviving expresident and the only person who really understood what the job was. I will let you wrap this up be
Between members of the roosevelt and kennedy families, in particular the alliance between Eleanor Roosevelt and jfk. The hello and welcome to another addition of at home with the roosevelts. 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. 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, to families that are really dynasties in the way they impacted american political life. A component of this that a lot of people do not stand. Relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Kennedy the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and john f. Kennedy. We will start with the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and joe kennedy. Joe kennedy may most of his money in a night 20s in the market. He was appointed as the head of the Security Exchange commission. Some said that was putt
Are really dynasties in the way they impacted american political life. There is a component of this that a lot of people do not stand. Not just the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Kennedy the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and john f. Kennedy. We will start with the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and joe kennedy. Joe kennedy may most of his money in a night 20s in the market. He was appointed as the head of the Security Exchange commission. Some said that was putting the oxen control of the henhouse. Joe kennedy really became a very close confidant of fdr. 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. 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. Fdr is the president as jfk comes of age. Much of his vision of what is the nation is inform