It is very detailed and good. I just wish it weren't two hours every night.

We're recording it, and watching it an hour at a time.

We too are recording it and watching when time allows. Recommended viewing for all.

Am watching every night. Well, only two so far, but sitting here ready for tonight. Smile. Have already learned lots.

I find so many things the Roosevelt's fought the rich about that they are taking back today. It is amazing how the oligarchs of today are so similar to the oligarchs of TR's days.

I just finished episode 5. It is streaming until the end of September. Check out your local offering.

You just opened up a new world for this technidiot.

Love him, hate him or just disappointed in his Vietnam mistake, I think the LBJ series is fascinating-maybe because I'm a Texan. I admire Kennedy more but think the LBJ episodes are better

I can't help longing for more political leaders like FDR. In my opinion the greatest president this country has had. A man who truly cared about the people and wanted this country to fulfill its promise of equal justice and the right of all to share in the its bounty. No "trickle down" economics espoused by the Reagan and the Bushes.

It is worth remembering that the Tea Party gang is just the most recent example of those who have been trying to reverse all of the good accomplished by the New Deal. The rich and powerful hated FDR then and their heirs, ie. the Koch brothers, continue the fight today. With their control of the media, I fear that it will take another depression to awaken the people to what is being done to them. How great does the gap between the super rich and the rest of us have to get?

Too bad there are no commercials, because I can't even find a minute to run to the bathroom! LOL

I am in awe of all the historic films and photographs! Can't imagine how much research it took to put this together. I really didn't know that much about TR. What a mercurial personality he had. He must have been ADHD!

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To be specific, Uncle Wes was my paternal grandmother's brother.

He was a successful business man in NYC, but he hated all the corruption he saw around him. He became a kind of "Deaniac" of those times; working behind the scenes to get Teddy elected.

I have to say, I did not enjoy AT ALL the hunting stuff, but I was prepared. I kind of knew about the Rough Riders and the battle of San Juan Hill, but not the details. Oh my, watching that was
exhausting--wanted to turn away, but I couldn't. So glad all that super-human manic energy was put into that TOTALLY PROGRESSIVE agenda!

Somebody said, "You have to remember: The president is SIX!1"

and

Alice said, &quot TR) wanted to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every baptism."

and

Toward the end of his tenure, TR is ruminating how greatness in presidents depends on their having had a war or great crisis, that nobody would know LINCOLN without the Civil War. And the narrator reads, &quot TR) had not had a war, had not had a great crisis. Some people thought HE WAS THE CRISIS!" Haha.

and for those who are ever in the DC area, there is one monument/memorial that is a must, and that is FDR Memorial.

We walked the mall, saw the main ones, and even asked people if the FDR was a must, and in most cases people were ambivalent.

We got some bikes and rode over, and it is a must, BAR NONE, can't be missed.