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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
Doris thank you for coming. How may people here have read team of rivals . Bully pulpit . Lyndon johnson . The kennedys and fitzgeralds . How many agree shes one of our foremost writers . [applause] for those who dont know her background very briefly grew up in new york, brooklyn, got her phd at harvard one Harvard White house fellow the Johnson Administration help johnson with his memoirs and then went back to teach at harvard and now has been riding extraordinarily well received and terrific biographies and histories in the wind and sir of a Pulitzer Prize as well. Youll be writing a new book coming out september 18 called leadership about on the leadership skills of the people you have written about lincoln, roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson we will talk about that today why did you decide to write about four different people why not . Each time i finish writing one of the books i have take all that persons books out of my study to make room for the next one i felt li
Roosevelt originally had a different estate down the road. The house burned to the ground fdrs father, james roosevelt, purchased the home in to be their new the Hudson Valley. James andnts were sarah delano roosevelt. Mr. James roosevelt had a wife before sarah named rebecca howland. She passed away in 1876. In 1880, mr. James married sarah delano. When he married sarah, he was 52 years old, and she was only 26 years old. She was half his age. James and sarah only had the one child, Franklin Delano roosevelt. When mr. James roosevelt bought this property in 1867, it was a 17 room farmhouse with about 110 acres of land and several outbuildings. He paid the price of what would be an expensive car these days, but back then it would have been he had a growing family, and he decided as early as 1907 that he was going to be, president of the United States one day going to become president of the quite often, events would be held here such as when he announced he would run for Vice President
Night, in that first, you know, it would be the story. Not taketations would it. But then they started because the word got out and then suddenly it became a big deal. The big deal was that it proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is a role for news and Public Affairs in public broadcast. And out of that came everything else. Announcer you can watch this and other American History programs on our website, where all our video is archived. Thats cspan. Org history. Springwood estate in hyde park, new york is the birthplace and final resting place of Franklin Delano roosevelt. Wet on american artifacts, hear stories about his time in the home from a National Park Service Ranger who leads us on the tour of the National Historic site. Franceska this is home. This is where his heart was. He always told his friends and neighbors that this is where his heart was, and it always will be. This is where he found his strength and happiness through his life. Franklin delano roosevelt, the 32n