This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, four times elected President of the United States.

The first re-election is the critical change from Franklin Bellinor Roosevelt, the candidate from outside from New York in a Democratic

Party dominated by the South and had been even before the catastrophe of the Civil War.

And into a national party, 1936, I welcome David Petrucia, the historian and storyteller of the new book, Roosevelt Sweeps Nation,

subhead, FDR's 1936 landslide, and the triumph of the liberal ideal, revelatory about trends that are in place today,

voting demographics, national attention for where

the Republicans do not fare, where the Democrats fare very well. David, a very good evening to you.

Hardy congratulations. And we begin in 1936 as Louis Howe lays dying, and Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt's wife, very strong-minded wife, but alienated from his affections for many years, has attached yourself to caring for Louis Howe in the hospital as he coughs himself into what we know now is the end, the end days, a

a smoker, ancessant smoker and a man of very poor health habits. But the man credited for

riding with Roosevelt from the early success as a New York State Senator campaigning in

Duchess County all the way into the White House in the election of 32.

It is now April 36 and Louis is dying.

What does he represent to the president?

What does he represent to Eleanor?

Good evening to you, David.

Good evening.

Louis Howe is, of course, a mess at that point. He's always been a mess,

rather unsightly, and in many cases, unpleasant, acerbic. But he had always been, he had

worshiped Frank Ben Roosevelt from the time he had met him in 1912, in Albbany helped him get re-elected to a basically

to a republican district in the state senate and guided him until 1932 when they make the big jump

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