Chaos, hoovervilles, agricultural angst, top soil had blown all over, dust bowls, the october 1929 crash of the stock market. So our country was really in tatters. And there is Franklin Roosevelt, this man whos overcome such odds in his personal life, overcoming polio and being sidelined from politics, now ushering in a new progressive era and offering 100 days of the new deal programs right off the bat, what people call the alphabet soup of the new deal, trying to get banks to run properly, starting a civilian conservation corps that would plant 2 billion trees, starting to create, you know, in a wpa and the like, workers progress, get employment back up, jobs, jobs, jobs. Mr. Slen allida black, in that first 100 days, what was Eleanor Roosevelt doing . And how she define her role . Ms. Black well, eleanor struggled to define here role because she was exceedingly active before she went into the white house. She was a party operative. He edited basically all of the National Democratic
Peter and youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, were going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in historians polls on first ladies. And were going to look at her life, her relationships, and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image series. Joining us this evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt, allida black, who is the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and a historian, and another historian, Doug Brinkley, who is also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug brinkley, its march 1933. The roosevelts are being inaugurated. They enter the white house. What are they walking into . What was the coun
Trains on time. The bay bridge toll plaza is lightening up and fast track is moving along with no problems. On the Altamont Pass we have construction until 6 00 a. M. Along the eastbound correction 580 to grant line road a couple of lanes are blocked with a battle neck westbound and at greenville we have a stalled vehicle blocking one lane and heavy delays from address at 33 Miles Per Hour so it will take 35 to 40 minutes. Two dozen people are forced from their homes this morning in San Francisco after a threealarm fire at a bass station that spread to other structures. Katie marzullo . This is a troublesome fire so i will talk about the people after talking with the red cross volunteers. They say there are 23 people displaced from seven families and two dogs so five Apartment Units total and the red cross truck is on the scene working to help everyone would needs help. They say they are looking for hotel rooms for seven people. It is a tough time with a convention in town. The fire it
Rolled and next thing i knew we were pushing out the emergency exit and i was outside and there were people screaming and bleeding and we helped them out and theyre okay now. 7 train cars flew off the track. Some cars ending up on their sides. Others landing mostly upright. Rail traffic between new york and philadelphia is shutdown today as the investigation continues. Philadelphia mayor said theres no way that Train Service is going through philly in the next week. Right. This is you know its always horrific and tragic to see this but we all take that train at some point. Its home to everybody. We go to d. C. A lot of us take the train. Yeah we choose the train over the airlines because generally youre far more certain to get there on time. Its nice. This was the regional. This was the northeast regional. Still. Still. Its huge and packed. Same track. We all go through there and baltimore. By far the most heavily travelled rail. This is inevitably going to raise questions about spendi
Joining us this evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt is allida black, the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and an historian. Another historian, Doug Brinkley who is an author from rice university. Thank you for being here with us. Doug brinkley, its march 1933, inauguration and entered the white house. What are they walking into . Fdr did not get to walk in. He came in a wheelchair. The fact that somebody was crippled in the lower half said theres nothing to fear but fear itself. Thats perhaps the most famous phrase of the inauguration. What people were fearing was unemployment, chaos, hoovervilles, unemployment, agricultural angst. Dust bowls, october 1929 crash of the stock market. Our country was in tatters. And there is Franklin Roosevelt, this man has overcome such odds in his personal life, dealing with polio and now ushering in a new progressive era and offering 100 days of the new deal programs right off the bat where what people