and mrs. roosevelt and mrs. roosevelt forced them not to, asked by truman. you said your friends can only go so far. can you say more about this? >> yes. and what i'm talking about there is as allida black has so wonderfully laid out, eleanor was an ally, but one of the things about these alliances, and that is absolutely essential in understanding movement, and understanding these -- these freedom strategies, is that your allies can take you so far, they can only go so far, and if you're relying upon your ally to go this far, because what the naacp was counting on, because she was a member of the naacp board of directors, and w.e.b. dubois had pulled together a fabulous petition to the u.n. called an appeal to the world, where he pulled together top school ears, legal school ears, socialists, his tore tans to document the systematic violation of human rights for african-americans since the founding of this nation, and because no government entity within the u.s. was willing to fully address these issues, the naacp took it to the u.n. this is 1947. this woul

jersey justice the story of the trend in six is her third book following up dear mrs. roosevelt letters to roosevelt through depression and war in the crimber of maryland a living legacy of the new deal. please welcome kathy. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> i'm glad you are here to hear about the story of the trenton six. my book is about six african-american men who were rounded up, tried, convicted and sentenced to be electrocuted for the murder of a white man. this was done more or less with the law by police and prosecutors who follow the procedure and knew that the men were innocent cahal. i'm going to very briefly tell you some facts of the case because i want to spend some time reading from the book. on january 27th, 1948, a white man who was a second hand dealer in downtown trend in new jersey was murdered and a scene of leaving the crime were two white skinned african-americans. six men were ultimately arrested and they had no way to fight back, no knowledge of the right. the sister of one was determined to find justice and the civil rights conference

mrs. adams, mrs. roosevelt, planning the next campaign, grace removed herself from that and calvin kept her removed to the extent that she -- absolutely wanted to make it clear she didn't know what he was planning ahead about running for that extra term in 1928. calvin come edge was enormously popular. so -- he could have run for another term in '28. we know that grace probably -- knew he wouldn't. she made -- she made a blanket in the white house that had a square for each month left. there weren't that many squares on it. that was on the lincoln bed. but she -- she was -- at pains not to show she was calling the shots or that she knew and when the president said i do not choose to run, a big surprise in the summer of 1927, a senator was over for lunch and she said -- equivalent of knock me over with a feather. she really wanted to leave the executive to be free and that was a formal sort of -- a dance for her. if you look at her writings and she wrote a lot -- beautiful autobiography, she said there

. >> mrs. roosevelt. >> i don't see how anyone can have confidence in either president eisenhower or secretary dellasus' policy. as a man and as a general, i respect him. put the policies that have brought us into a position where we are, as far as the near east goes, standing together with the dictator of egypt, and the communist soviet, it's an odd situation to find the united states in. >> mrs. roosevelt, may i interrupt right there. i wonder why you say we're standing with the kremlin and with egypt. >> because there's no one else in the u.n. with us. >> our policy is against aggression because we're aggression and other nations are aggression it doesn't mean we are standing with those nations. we aren't standing with the creme len, certainly on the aggression in hungary. >> no, but there wouldn't have been aggression in hungry if we didn't encourage them in the middle east. >> schieffer: and so it went. the argument wasn't settled there and nor was the trouble in the middle east. our "face

i am pleased to mrs. roosevelt annual report to headquarters at nighter tomorrow morning. clearly relished a story that include hunting and a fine police. very quickly he earned a reputation. this is a little interesting detail. the cops had a little dim the lights to play. but let the perfect blow on the bottom of the feed of a sleeping trapp said that he will literally lift up like a stick and hit the ground running before even look at . here is to transfer a thrill. roosevelt nailing a city police officer. okay. extraordinary momentum, press popularity, everything is going his way. what does result decide to do? he makes a fateful decision to enforce laws against selling out all in saloons on sunday. of all the choices of all the crusades he jezreel one. you might say. it listed in the illegal throughout new york state tests of all on sundays, but new york city had been ignoring the losses the civil war. bar owners pay policeman took the other way. the palisades down, came in by side door. barkeep sold more booze us and is in any of the day of the week . concert halls,

knepper's third book following up "dear mrs. road svelte: letters to eleanor roosevelt" and "green belt maryland." please welcome cathy knepper. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> i'm glad you are here to hear about the story of the trenton six. my book is about six african-american men who were rounded up, tried, convicted and sentenced to be electrocuted for the murder of a white man. this was all done more or less within the law by police and prosecutors who followed proper procedure and who knew that the men were innocent. i'm going to very briefly tell you some facts of the case because i want to spend most of my time reading little bits from the book. on january 27th, 1948, a white man, william horner, who was a secondhand store dealer in downtown trenton, new jersey, was murdered. seen leaving this crime were two light-skinned african-americans. six men were ultimately arrested. they had no way to fight back, no knowledge of their rights. the sister of one was determined to to find justice for the men. she found the

jobs playing president roosevelt. take a look. >> i'm sure your victory will be great. insanely great. >> the former apple employee who had this video craig eliot said the video was used to inspire salespeople at an internal apple meeting way back in 1985. a current apple executive, meanwhile, getting attention for selling nearly every share of apple he owns. he sold 95% of his shares last friday according to paperwork filed with the securities and exchange commission. not entirely clear why. >>> internal focus on jobs on wall street. tomorrow at 5:30, the latest unemployment numbers from the labor department. they look like they could be very bad indeed. a private estimation by adp puts the jobs gain last month at slightly more than $100,000. now past month had been as high as $250,000. it led people to feel better about the economy and the true disaster for the white house, jon and laura, would be if more people started looking for jobs but then the jobs weren't there because then you'd see not only a lousy jobs number tomorrow, but an increase in the unemployment rat

. >> speaking of that, roosevelt had all the animals as well. like mrs. coolidge did, too. talking about earlier with the story that the little boys brought their little pony upstairs. >> exactly right. exactly right. >> because that -- the animals are also a great comfort to you in the paths you have. >> did millie really sleep in between you and your husband? >> are you kidding? where else would she sleep? we now have two little people in there. two little itty-bitty dogs. >> was it fun to write the book? about the white house, through the perspective? >> yes. i must say, the white house photographers really helped me. we would have -- schedule a day to go to the red room and hope nobody saw us because -- dogs are not allowed on the furniture. we placed her beautifully in the room. she lounged in the red room. she -- the photographers were fabulous about helping. that was very much fun. she made over a million dollars for charity. as george says, i worked all my life, got the highest job maybe in the world and my dog made more money than me. >> there is a very touching mo

i saw the letter of a brooklyn toy maker, mom and pop toy shop, dear mr. president i would like a bear called the teddy bear i won't do it if i have your approval. here is roosevelt i don't think there is much of a market teddy that, but you have my pleasing to make it. it became the most popular toy in the world. taft thought he could tap into that, created in the dealie possum. the teddy wear stayed up, billy possum went no where. people thought they could take the imaginic from tr, there were no coat tails, he was too jen r genero generous. taft is a victimized person in history ranks low as residents. roosevelt didn't help him any even though he knew taft was a man integrity. >> 1909, william hart taft becomes president. then the 1912 presidential race, and the reason i get to that because out of madora, i remember seeing the shirt with the bullet hole in it. >> yes. >> that is an assassination attempt, what is the story? >>> roosevelt running as the third party candidate against wood row wilson and william taft. he went to give a speech m milwaukee an

in last week's installment, mr. brinkley talked about the genesis of his interest in the subject. >> and what interests me is writing a book like "the wilderness warrior" is roosevelt really is the father of u.s. fish and wildlife. john muir's known as the creator of the sierra club, it's roosevelt that realized the federal government has an obligation to save species of birds and animals, to save plants and trees, and to be the -- the president has an obligation to make sure that we put aside for generations unborn natural wonders like roosevelt did, like, you know, the grand canyon or mt. olympus or the petrified forest. and they turned this training center for conservation into a museum almost for theodore roosevelt. >> that training center is the national conservation training center, one of the many places doug brinkley went to research his book. >> we talked about the eagle's nest in our discussion with doug brinkley about his book on conservation. it's right over your shoulder there. when did that start? >> w

and so -- and mrs. bush, you always complained that when your husband was elected, people said to you, are you going to be barbara bush or hillary clinton, i'd like to be laura bush, which, of course, you are and have been wonderfully. but, you know, there's always that thing that goes on, too. in fact, i read that bess truman at one point realized coming in after eleanor roosevelt, she said, identify fe feel like eli monroe coming in after dolley madison, which was very historically accurate for her in a lot of way. kat -- you don't mind if i call you by your nickname? >> no, absolutely. >> you and i have written about, you've written much more at lent about that period of the founding. and, you know, martha washington we know was active politically and in terms of policy, you know, lobbying for the veterans' benefits, for the revolutionary war veterans she'd been to camp with, the eight long years of the revolution. and abigail adams probably gives -- is the rule breaker in terms of bringing civility.

the presiding officer: -- mr. mcconnell: madam president, with president obama officially on the campaign trail now, it's hard not to be reminded of the kind of kentucky he was the last time -- the kind of kentucky he was the last time around and to marvel at the difference. at some point the postpartisan healer who posed to unit red and blew america became the divider in chief, never missing an opportunity to pit one tkpwraoep against another -- group against another who is now determined to win reelection not by appealing to america's best instincts but all too often to their worst. even "the new york times" editorial page wrote this very morning that the country is more divided than it was four years ago under this president. some have argued that the transformation we've witnessed proves that the president was a liberal ideologue all along, that the task of governing revealed his true instincts. and that may be true. but there's an even simpler explanation than that and one that in some ways is even more disap

the irony here, mr. speaker, is that there were other countries that provided us with men and women who served during rld war ii and they were also promised veterans benefits. in fact, there are 65 countries that provided service members to fight alongside of us. every one of those other soldiers were provided veterans' benefits from other countries and yet the filipinos, who were part of a commonwealth at the time, who were nationals of the country, who were promised veterans' benefits were denied them by the rescission act passed in 1946. what this amendment does is make all filipino veterans fully eligible for veterans' benefits like those received by u.s. veterans. it eliminates the distinction between regular and old filipino scouts and the other divisions. veterans that have received lump sum payments would be eligible for these benefits. we tried to sort of cover this all up by giving them a $15,000 stipend. frankly, that's not good enough. and there are still about 85 -- there are about 15,000 li