This is

is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

four times elected president of the United States.

The first re-election is the critical change from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the candidate from outside, from New York, in the 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, FTR'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 herself to caring for Louis Howe in the hospital

as he coughs himself into what we know now is the end, the end days.

A pipe, a smoker, an incessant 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, Louis Howe is of course a mess at that point. He's always been a mess rather unsightly and in many cases unpleasant, a cervic, but he had always been, he had worshipped Frank Roosevelt from the time he had met him in 1912 in Albany, helped him get reelected to a basically to a Republican district in the state Senate and guided him

until 1932 when they make the big jump to the White House and when he works himself like 16 hour days and gets it to under a hundred pounds

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