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. . he connected to people with that kind of language and those options, it wasn t just rhetoric about how he was going to make the country great again. change people s lives. very large portion of the book is focused on his second term and you talk about the second term curse and if it had not been for the onset of the war, he might not have been reelected. you want to tell us a little bit about the dynamics in the second term? sure. well, the second term, he begins by making the misjudgment of trying to put across packing plan. it never went through. is this because the supreme court was invalidating many key elements of the new deal and he thought of what can i do to prevent he was afraid that the could would invalidate all of them? exactly. liberal justices on the bench who would then vote in support of these new deal, measures, you have to understand the expansion of federal authority under his leadership, but he had the model beforeh ....
for more information go to our website, studentcam.org. this week on q and a, meijer inc chairman, hendrik meijer, talks about arthur vandenberg, the man in the middle in the of the american century. brian: hendrik meijer, author of of the man in the middle of the american century. when was the first time you ever thought about writing a book this about this man? in 1989 i thought of a biography. but i was casting about for another idea. i ll a failed fiction writer and poet looking for a character i wouldn t have to create but could explore and explain. was talking to freand of mine historian in grand rapids, saying arthur vandenberg, i am intrigued by him. i love foreignpolicy. i kept running across his name. but some professor back in 1970 published the first of what was supposed to be a two-volume biography and i thought the world doesn t need two biographies. that year my friend was responsible for the local state historical society s annual meeting. he was p ....
wall street contributor a.j. baime. brian: you have a book called, the accidental president . when did you first get interested in doing a book like this? a.j.: i was raised in a household where truman was a hero. i grew up thinking that truman was a man of integrity. i never understood the trajectory. in that book, there is a chapter where senator truman goes to detroit to investigate the car companies and their failure to produce airplanes and other military pieces during world war ii as fast as i said they could. it struck me that this obscured senator truman should be the one to become the most powerful man in the history of the world in 1945. brian: in your notes, you talk about a new session. what does that mean? a.j.: when you are researching a book like this, you end up traveling around the country and eating a lot of peanut butter and jelly s images and spending time alone sifting through documents. are essentially looking for treasure and those eureka moments ....
u.s. foreign relations. after him will be professor of ukrainian history and the director of the ukrainian research institute at harvard university. we will start with frank. frank: first of all, i want to join others in thinking mel and will. it is an honor to be in this room with most with so many people whose work i respect so much. what i have done is basically extrapolate from the op-ed i wrote a light of some comments the people made yesterday, other op-ed, particularly mel s question about irrationality. i also have the perspective of george kennan. it s been easy for americans to feel irritated, angry, exasperated, resentful or disgusted with the russian government to whether that country is being run by lennon, stalin, khrushchev, or putin. the quashing of pole, and the most recent aggressions against georgia and ukraine. not to mention the berlin in cuban crisis of half a century ago and the egregious interference in our election last year. it is therefore u ....
presidential library museum. we are glad you braved the cold to come out and we are lucky enough to have c-span here with us tonight so after the presentation if you are going to ask questions please come to the microphone can record you. how many of your members here tonight? wow what, that s fantastic. i m so happy you are here i can t tell you how much we appreciate your support. because of you you make programs like this possible and i feel the community has come out tonight to hear what i think will be one of the most important programs we have this year. david woolner has been involved with the roosevelt institute s and the roosevelt library for 25 years and really has enormous insight and a depth of understanding about the roosevelt era that i think if you read the book it really comes through. he s also been involved with marist college for 20 years and now involved with bart and really has spent most of the last 25 years of his life dedicated to the roosevelt l ....