kicked him in the dark and as a senator he hadn t had that close of access to the branch said he is still learning the job and the essence is because he s still learning the job he hasn t developed the political skills yet to be able to get what roosevelt might have been able to get. then the question is could roosevelt have had achieved this? it s one of these kind of counterfactual questions you think about i wondered if roosevelt had been able to do it. i m not sure he would have been able to do so. what do you think? i think one side of this that is interesting and we point this out in fdr goes to war is fdr had lost a lot of clout in congress in 39 and 40. his court packing scheme in 38 really incurred a lot of people and then he also tried to of course purge of various members of congress and the senate did one of them was the senator from maryland and if you notice in the book it leads the filibuster to defeat several of the proposals fdr once passed before congress
the heritage foundation this afternoon. as you noticed, we are somewhat back in the 1941 era with our music before hand. we would ask everyone in the house of you would make that last courtesy check that salles films have been turned off. it would be appreciated and of course we welcome internet questions for internet keywords simply e-mail ns at speaker@heritage award and we will post within 24 hours for your future reference. our guest today is craig shirley, president of shirley and the minister of public affairs same relations marketing firm whose written for the washington post, the los angeles times, the the washington times, conservative digest, the weekly standard and many other publications putative she previously authors reagan revolution the untold story of the campaign that started it all. there was the first book detailing his pivotal 1976 challenge president ford in the republican primary. and he also offered tha
because martin luther king put his money where his mouth was next on c-span2 book tv, december, 194131 days that changed america and saved the world by craig shirley. it details the bombing of pearl harbor in america s entry into world war ii. mr. shirley stood at the heritage foundation last year around the 70th anniversary of the pearl harbor attacks thank you all for joining us here at the heritage foundation this afternoon. as you noticed, we are somewhat back in the 1941 era with our music before hand. we would ask everyone in the house of you would make that last courtesy check that salles films have been turned off. it would be appreciated and of course we welcome internet questions for internet keywords simply e-mail ns at speaker@heritage award and we will post within 24 hours for your future reference. our guest today is craig shirley, president of shirley and the minister of public affairs same relations marketing firm whose written for the washington post, the