bloomberg s last c-span s last survey of presidential leadership. brian: doris kearns goodwin, author of no ordinary time, if you could ask either franklin delano roosevelt or eleanor roosevelt a couple of questions, after all the work you did on this book, what would they be? ms. goodwin: i think with eleanor i d like to understand why she was unable, at 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, to say yes to him. i mean, i know that he loved her, i know she still loved him, and i d want to say, why didn t you do it? he s going to die soon. i wish you had done it. and i think for him i d want to understand why he couldn t share himself more fully with anyone. he was the most ebullient, the most charming, most sparkling personality on the surface. everybody thought how warm he was. but underneath, there was such reserve in him, and i d want to try and understand why that was s
her, i know she still loved him, and i d want to say, why didn t you do it? he s going to die soon. i wish you had done it. and i think for him i d want to understand why he couldn t share himself more fully with anyone. he was the most ebullient, the most charming, most sparkling personality on the surface. everybody thought how warm he was. but underneath, there was such reserve in him, and i d want to try and understand why that was so, and why he wouldn t give himself more to the people who loved him. brian: what makes this book different than all the rest? ms. goodwin: well, i think what i wanted to do in this book was to understand not only franklin and eleanor s relationship which has been looked at in many, many other cases but to understand the whole extended family that surrounded them in the white house. and i came to an understanding that these two characters really both needed other people to meet the untended needs that were left over as a result of their
[inaudible conversations] on the moderator. i don t mind you not listening to me. i used to be city editor of the los angeles times and no one listened to me then, so i got used to it. after retiring from the times i wrote began writing for a number of web based evocations. i write mostly for one called truth dig, edited by the famous journalist robert scheer and depending on your political views, you will really love or hate this very progressive website. i also write for the jewish journal of los angeles and la observed a couple of others. our subject is women behind the power and our panelists have written about how these famous men, three of them, how they were shaped or influenced by women. one of the women was one of the most famous people in the world intraday, eleanor roosevelt. another was joan kroc, wife of the mcdonald mogul. she was as famous, but also dominant figure. in the third was was influenced by not one person, but by a movement of women and influenced
regulators proposing new cybersecurity rules for banks and the government sees one million more people signing up for obamacare next year, just under 14 million. those are your headlines. let s get to your money. oil, the big story now, crude oil rallying 3%. the latest inventory data showing a sizable drawdown in inventory. the oil shorts perhaps throwing in the towel, stocks are pushing higher on the back of that, the dow is up about 70 points. and, by the way, for all of you market historians out there, today is the 29th anniversary of the october 1987 stock crash. and if you don t remember that, the dow fell 22% in one day. though, michelle, it did end the year higher. how is vegas? yeah. vegas is interesting. remember the trading floors used to be so full like that. not anymore. i m michelle caruso-cabrera live in las vegas. this is the spin room behind me, the site of the third and final presidential debate between hillary clinton and donald trump. we are just about e
this holiday weekend watch booktv on c-span2. gay [inaudible conversations] etna [inaudible conversations] good evening. and welcome to the mid manhattan branch of the public library, thank you for joining us this evening. tonight s program is jayhawk based on the author s recent book 1932: the rise of hitler and fdr 2 tales of politics, betrayal, and unlikely destiny . in 1932, two digression battered nations confronted their destiny, going to the polls to choose new leaders. america s presidential choices were gregarious aristocrat franklin roosevelt or tarnished wonder boy herbert hoover. germany suffered two rounds of bloody elections, and two presidential contests, not a reactionary hindenburg against rising radical hatemonger adolf hitler. as unstoppable politics and economic forces advanced on disoriented societies, merciless worldwide great depression bought opportunity for a transformation, perhaps hopeful, perhaps did the. through fd are s new deal and hit thei