Its not going to be the constituents the rise and intersect with the government without official, the agent. A big deal for us because its a big deal for iowa. Is that good . Is that good, bill . A good. Thank you all very much. I really appreciate it. [applause] thank all the students here. You were patient and u. S. Brilliant questions. This plan is a national zealous reporter. Thanks again for coming. Applaus[applause] [inaudible conversations] Iowa GovernorTerry Branstad is running for a fifth term against democratic challenger jack hatch. The two candidates face one another tonight in a televised debate. Could look at the ads running in the race. Four years ago 114,000 iowans were out of work. Unemployment was the highest in five years and oustates budget was 900 million in debt. Terry branstad came back and so did i will. Today with a budget surplus, 140,000 new jobs, unemployment reduced nearly 30 and governor branstad is just getting started. Terry is back. Iowa is back. Terry branstad is building hese honest, compassionate, a visionary. Is always looking forward, where we can go next to do better, bring create jobs and grow the economy. We are seeing that. The jobs are there. An appointment is low, seven the lowest in the nation. We are seeing young people move back. More i was working today than at any other time in our state history. I am really optimistic about the future. He has a passionate a passion for the state. State. After 20 years i once are tired of Governor Terry branstad to the scandals, ideals and political favors. 110 million bad deal taxpayer money given to an egyptian billionaire. And isu economists call it the dumbest economic decision made in iowa. For instead tried to abolish preschool funding while pushing tax breaks to wealthy special agents. Arent you tired of kerry . Its time for a fresh start. Jack hatch or governor. The are two men running for Iowa Governor. Support tax breaks for undeserving corporation, jack hatch support tax cuts for bill klesse families. Governor branstad was given 200 million a which we wealthy egyptian company. Jack hatch was putting iowans to work. Theres only one thing they have in common. For jack, thats one thing to many. Im jack hatch and like you, i am ready for a fresh start. Spin the debate airs live tonight at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Next, filmmaker ken burns talks about his new pbs documentary, the roosevelts, a seven part only covers the lives of theodore, franklin and eleanor roosevelt. From the National Press club this is one hour. For more than 30 years ken burns documentaries present the stories of the American Experience with the drama and flair. His topics have raised from the Brooklyn Bridge to baseball, from mark twain to jazz, from prohibition to the National Parks. Remarkably, his works never become outdated. As we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the civil war, his pbs series on the war remains as relevant today as it was when it debuted in 1950. He captures the historic moments of american life, with the deep dives into archival materials, like personal letters, diaries, newspapers. His use of still photographs have been revolutionary. He has called photographs the dean they of everything he has done. And his evocative, slow scans have transformed the subjects into a cinematic experience. The slowmoving, the slowmotion scanning to me is now even called the ken burns effect. His new seven part pbs series, the roosevelts premiered last night. And i have reliable information that the ratings were extreme high and that they are sworn. Pictures will be broadcast every night this week. In this film he focuses on the powering but flawed figures who, before they were history, were family. He was able to draw on newsreel footage, radio broadcasts, and personal documents, notably a true of newly discovered letters tween fdr and his cousin daisy, as well as on an enormous line for photographs. Ultimately, nearly 2400 stills were used in this series. Burns has always rejected using the voice of god approach to narration, relying instead on contemporary voices to bring his subjects words to life. In the roosevelts you will hear some of our, some of americas greatest actors, including Paul Giamatti as theater, Edward Herman as franklin, and meryl streep as eleanor. Conference is also a frequent guest at this podium, because, like his films, he never becomes outdated mac please join me in welcoming the documentarian and press club member, ken burns. [applause] thank you all very much for coming. Im so happy to back at the press club. Its really been a home base for many, many of our long, arduous, promotional tours for the film. And today is no exception. I do feel compelled to edit my room, just one little bit. He had the civil war sure is coming out in 1950. I was negative three years old then. [laughter] and though i was already working with stills, i had not yet perfected what we call the ken burns effect quite been. I also feel, now tha now that yu brought up the civil war, myron, that i reminded you 24 years ago in 1990 when we came with the civil war, that i reminded you what William Tecumseh sherman felt about newspaperman. He hated newspaperman so much that he was sure if they kill them all there would be news from hell before breakfast. [laughter] and, of course, unfortunately, you do not escape unscathed with the roosevelts though all three, eleanor about twice weekly news conferences with women only, the first time a first lady did that, and franklin who because he had been editor of the harvard crimson felt that that it made him a newspaperman himself and loved to develop and cherish the development of personal relationships with a newspaperman that he crowded in, men the crowd in 998 times for news conferences during his presidency. But theater was equally adept at enabling the press and making them feel like they were friends, and ushering them into his private world, th though wed have a special purgatory for those people who displeased him with his writing, he called the anayus club, right . Ananias club, excuse me, ananias club which is of course an ancient liar who was instantaneously stricken down from having told a lie. And if youre compelled to the ananias club, youre not in Theodore Roosevelts good graces. So im sure thats not true of anyone who. He did Kenneth Walker back a little bit. Hed often confide to the port that the reason why criticize them suddenly had less to do with the writing and with the s. O. B. Who owned the paper. He was fully taken out on the messenger. First of all, i didnt come your without the assistance of hundreds of people. Those of you had a chance to watch last night still there was a credit sequence that went on for many, many minutes that thank, quite correctly, hundreds of people. First of all, because this is Public Television we are dependent not on our sponsors but our underwriters. Theres a huge and very important difference between them. I would just like to take a moment to thank the bank of america which i is that our sole corporate sponsor since 2006, and his plan to be involved through 2020. They have been an enlightened corporation that is helpless. Im so grateful to pbs itself, and the corporation of public broadcasting, for major funding to i also grateful to the National Endowment for the humanities. I began this business and often long time ago in the late 70s. I had the great good fortune to work with its chairman, joe duffy, who turned up today, not like a bad penny but as a welcome old friend and its great to have joe dear. Thank you, joe, for all the support you and subsequent chairman, there must be about a dozen now since you, that have been supporting our work. We also have the sustained support of the Arthur Vining Davis foundations, individual contributions, significant individual contributions from jack taylor and roslyn walter. And we also enjoy the sport of a new organization, a nonprofit called the better angels society. John and Jessica Fullerton and joan neuhaus newton, and the gulkin family, and bonnie and tom mccluskey, and the file foundation have all been treated to our film. I would literally simply not be here without their support. Nor would i be your without the support for the corporation for public broadcasting, and for my longtime Production Partners for almost 35 years, of weta which is the washington, d. C. Based Public Television affiliate and it said, sharon rockefeller. And they have been our Production Partners for that long. Im also extremely grateful to our network. I think the best in the business. We live in a place in which we are saturated, buried in information, a little bit more on that later. But we also enjoy one home where we know, reliably, whether its our children for delving into issues of science or nature, whether it is about Public Affairs for artistic performance, whether it is Public Affairs for history, we have the best place on the dial. And thats pbs. And i am so honored that my president , paula kerger out of here today. Whatever you like about what we do, its them. And the pic that they set for me. The stones are also not made by a single person. Writers have that come every borders, for the most part, who are now not having to blog and to be the post and all of that, have that luxury of working alone. But i also have what i think is even greater luxury of participating in an extraordinarily collaborative medium. There are many people responsible for this film, editors and producers, paul barnes and pam bolcom come all the extorted archives that helped us collect the more than 25,000 still photographs that when into the 23, 2400 that made it into the final film. Same for the archives that found extraordinary in some these never before seen still photographs, moving pictures. All the sites from Campobello Island down to warm springs whether roosevelt made their home, most of them United States park Service Sites that open the doors and let us film at ungodly hours. At the most significant person involved in this project has been my longtime collaborator, collaborator of 32 years, geoffrey ward, who was here, im also to say happily, with his wife diane. And we have just been making films together for an awfully long time, beginning not again, my ring, editing a text, with the civil war, but we begin with yohe was an advisor on a film we made on the celibate religious sect the shakers. And then our next summit came out in 1985, five years before the civil war, on the tribunal life of the southern demagogue huey long. We have been making history together and weve been talking together for almost all of those 32 years about making a film for a film series on one or more of the roosevelt. Geoff himself threatened to extraordinarily great books on the roosevelts, on Franklin Roosevelts early life. One of them is called before the trumpet, which takes them from his birth to his marriage to eleanor. And the second which is one of the gross biographies ive ever read, and please run to your notepad to jot this down, a first class temperament, it takes Franklin Roosevelt from his honeymoon to his election as governor of new york. It is a remarkable story and it is a remarkable story about an extremely complicated human being, overcoming one of the most devastating illnesses that you could imagine, and still managing to be, president of the United States, part of the story we want to tell. So now that ive completely buried the lead to, i will be rescued by myron, was absolutely correct to say that for the last seven years geoff and i and our team have been producing a seven part, 14 hour series on the history of theater, franklin and eleanor roosevelt. Pbs began broadcasting this series nationally and in unprecedented fashion last night whether showed the First Episode and then show the First Episode again at 10 00. And each subsequent night will show another episode until this coming saturday, the 20th. We believe its the first time, short of a national tragedy, when a Single Network has shown, has taken up an entire primetime and then some. It goes from eight until until midnight, and our out of prime time, for one single show. We are very happy with Public Television confidence in the work weve done. Id like to spend a few more minutes, before the good part, where i had a chance to have an exchange with you to take a little about what were trying to do. Those of you saw last night saw the table setting episode in which we set in motion what is the most complicated and intertwined and inter braided narrative that i think that ive ever undertaken. I certainly think that geoff thinks so as well, even though we have tackle together the history of the civil war, baseball, jazz, the Second World War and are working right now on the history of the war in vietnam. We were drawn to doing all three in part because of the avalanche of information that i mentioned to you earlier. We live in a media culture in which we think we know everything. We have lots of information at almost no understanding. We are drowning. One of the default positions of this access of information is we tend to form superficial, conventional wisdom about the subjects we think we know about, even those happening today for those that took place in the past. And so it seems that for almost the entire history of this country since the roosevelts, we have been compelled to focus it on theodore, and there is a lot of books and very good books and films on him, or franklin, and a lot of good books. Geoff has written two of them. And franklin and eleanor, a little bit less on eleanor but no has put it together as a complicated family drama that it is. I guess this has to do with the fact that in that superficial glance, we look at the door and say republican. We look at franklin and eleanor and say democrat. And we think we can segregate them into own individual silos. It is interesting as individua individuals, and certainly franklin and eleanor as a pair, it is exponentially more interesting if you have the opportunity to get to know them in concert. And thats what we tried to do. It is a complicated russian novel of the story but as not only these three primary characters but dozens of secondary and tertiary characters. And, of course, the world that they compelled and a world that they that compelled them, that is dealing with the late 19 city, coming out of the civil war, the gilded age, the age of monopolies and trusts, world war i, the roaring 20s and jazz age, the great depression, the Second World War, the greatest cataclysm in human history, and the cold war from one theater result was born in 1858, when our series began, to win eleanor dies in 1962, when our series ends this coming saturday night, we are dealing with a century. 104 years, an American Century in place at the time were so much of the modern world was created. And these three people are as responsible for that world as anybody that i know. We say, and we set without some conviction and confidence in the opening of our film, which you mightve seen last night, that no other family has touched as Many Americans as the roosevelts. And that is true. You only need to stop and think about the world we live in. If youve ever flown out of laguardia airport, youre in something that Franklin Roosevelt did, or went through the lincoln tunnel, or took a drive on the skyline drive, or the Blue Ridge ParkwayBlue Ridge Parkway, our road the elevated in chicago, expected in the Tennessee Valley to see lights come on when you turn on a light switch, or in the northwest or the southwest. You have traveled over thousands of bridges built during the era. Youve seen or attended thousands of high schools. You have driven on miles and miles of roads that they originally placed in this country. And more importantly, you will enjoy or you are enjoying catching a social strategic. You like the idea that our government takes its soldiers and pays for the College Education with the g. I. Bill. Im sure youre thrilled that your children do not work in mines seven days a week, 14 hours a day, that there are such concepts as a minimum wage and livable ours. I think youre certain that big monopolies ought to be at least regulated, if not broken up. I think you enjoy visiting our National Parks and National Forests and other sanctuaries of the beautiful wildness that a country still has preserved, in large part, thankfully thanks to these two extraordinary president s, theodore and Franklin Roosevelt. Their legacy, this is only a small, small portion of their legacy. They of course raise questions that are not always positive. And i do not in any way want to suggest to you that the film weve made is in some ways a valentine to these three human beings, that it is in some ways hagiography, hero worship. In fact were interested in telling a complicated portrait of the great strengths but also the great weaknesses and flaws. And my goodness, ladies and gentlemen, there on vivid display with these three characters. And more importantly, their deep wounds. And thats i think were the subtitle of her film comes in. This is the roosevelts in intimate history. Having said that i feel qualified in the early 20th century to have to warn you that this is not tabloid history. We are interested in getting to know them. We often debate in our films the ten