. >> george herbert walker bush was born on june 12, 1924. he grew up in greenwich, connect connects, with three bothers and one sister. summers were spent in maine, a home bush would eventually inherit. his father set a mark for achievement and duty. successful in business, proscot bush volunteered in local government, helped to establish the uso and served in the united states senate for two terms. >> his father was a stern, statuesque, rigid business guy. but his mother was the moral compass. >> i write about my grandmother, who i think was one of the greatest fln influences in my dad's life. >> dora bush cook is a the the author of the memoirs. >> she taught the very basic lessons of be kind to others, lift someone else when you are down and don't graying brag about yourself. >> high school was phillips academy in andover. the school motto means, not for self. >> i felt that all the my life. don't brag about yourself. i called her once when i was 16. mom! i scored 3 goals in soccer! long pause. how did the team do? that stayed with me all

the clearest formulation is from herbert crowley. he allows that americans have an almost religious faith this their country. the traditional american confidence and individual freedom has resulted in a morally and socially undesirable distribution of wealth. the time has come to inject the ghosts and devote ourselves to a dominant and constructive national purpose. centered on a new theory of the state. in which expert government can regulate the economy to achieve progressive outcome. by becoming responsible for the subordination of the individual to that purpose, crowley writes, the american state will, in effect, be making itself responsible for a morally and socially desirable distribution of wealth. so teddy roosevelt is looking for a new and more comprehensive progressive philosophy. he finds it in crowley's book. somewhere out in the safaris of africa when he's reading it and gobbling it up. the material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good

hoover but he wasn't crazy about herbert hoover.he said that man has given me nothing but advice and all of it bad. [laughter] in retirement he gaveled hidden $3,000 a week offering a popular syndicated newspaper column and compost as an eloquent and even public on the biography, the autobiography of calvin coolidge. his role was not different. he had moved back only to discover the next president cannot live in a two-family house upon an ordinary small-town street. all those crowded with curiosity seekers will apply in the constant procession. admirers trampled and trespassed the porch and peered through his windows. he paid $40,000 in the beaches, 16 rooms on the 9 acres overlooking the connecticut river. a house far grander than pennsylvania avenue. it was there that he died on thursday, january 5 disturbed by the great depression still saddened by the passing and possessing fewer and fewer reserves. he returned home from the offices. as he shaved a heart attack fell beyond him. the varied, include milledge plymouth next to his m

[bell] secretary boomer: [names] herbert. >> i am having difficulty on one california mine. last week, they had to turn back and not get to their terminal destination. on one occasion, i had to wait 15 minutes for the bus that was turned back. on the second occasion, i asked the driver why the bus had to be turned back. she has replied, "because my supervisor told me to." i was not given a full explanation. i would like an explanation why these buses are being turned back. i want an explanation as to why these buses get bunched up. sometimes there are three or four buses that are bunched together, and this has been happening for the last six months. also, there is the number of the signs with the destination and the arrival of buses. sometimes, i will see a sign that the bus is going to come 45 to 60 minutes from now, and the bus is going to, a lot sooner, and actually, i got furious about two things. now, i realize that there is no free lunch. i hate to be in the lunch. -- being the lunch. and secondly, you are here to serve the people and not serve yourself. these are my c

then 2 others. >> herbert wiener, i think they should be paying me for writing it. -- riding it. the buses should be running every 20 minutes are running over 25 minutes. there are coaches that are missing. yesterday, the haight-ashbury was clogged up. there were about three boxes on top of each other. what is going on here that there has been such colossal mismanagement? if you want to have a transit first agency, please do not make it transit first, passenger last. i have really been putting up with a lot of garbage, and i get very frustrated. i get very angry when i miss a muni bus because i do not know when the next one will arrive, and i am just plain out of luck. this has got to stop. you have to make this efficient. you have talked about getting rid of cars. you in their right mind is going to take a bus instead of using a car if the boss constantly breaks down? now, there really needs to be some fixing, and the policy right now is to fix the passenger, not fix the bus system, and this is really wrong. the motto of muni right now is the maximum damage with the least resour

we had herbert brownell in the cabinet. herbert brownell was a product of the bustling metropolis of nebraska. he graduated from law school and he'd been in the board rooms of the east and all of that. i picked him for a particular reason. his savvy of human nature and how to get things done. when brownell said from the very first, he was telling ike and me, don't meet with this guy. nothing good 8 come from your meeting of this guy. he's going to use you. he didn't listen to brownell, right? he was going to follow that policy of moderation right through to the very end. so in failing to begin a modification before the whole thing blew up, i would say that's's weakness. now strength, along with the ones that i recounted here, it is very easy, by the way, to say it sure is. a strength, i would say is once the man made up his mind is overwhelming force. let me tell you a caveat here. in '62 we went through it with ol' miss, if you recall. it was a complete disaster for eisenhower. we can do this with federal marshall. what we

or herbert hoover. i'm going to say gerald ford. >> i'm going -- fashion model, i'm going with the obvious, herbert hoover. what's the answer? gerald ford! did you cheat? >> i didn't know. i just thought -- in the '40s. >> gerald ford did a bit of modeling and even posed on the cover of "cosmopolitan"? >> does helen know that? >> his wife was a fashion model, betty ford. >> i'm 2 for 0? 0 for 2? which president was given a $20 speeding ticket for riding his horse too fast on washington street? >> horse. >> andrew johnson, ulysses s. grant, thomas jefferson -- >> i'm going with jefferson. >> ulysses s. grant. did they give him a ticket? >> i don't know. we don't know. another question. play along at home. there are eight left-handed presidents. name them. >> bill clinton. >> yes. >> barack obama. >> yes. two. >> the only two i know. >> okay. we only like multiple choice. don't ever do that again. >> james garfield. >> herbert hoover. >> harry s. truman. ronald reagan. george h.w. bush, bill clinton and b

now back -- herbert road. let's check -- liberty road. forecast with lynette. >> i am doing wonderful. all right. so yesterday it was a gorgeous day. we topped out around 64 degrees. and still not that bad this morning because that cold front took a while to pass through. finally got through but temperatures still not so bad well above average. 41 right now in baltimore. along the eastern shore, we are looking at 43 there. and we are starting to see the colder air filter into hagerstown and frederick into york, pennsylvania and that's going to try to trickle down into the area going through remainder of the morning. we are breezy this morning. we can see the sustained wind at about 5 to 15 miles an hour. but we do have gust recorded this morning into baltimore about 21 miles an hour in easton coming in around 18. these will die down going throughout the day. satellite and radar not doing a whole lot. high pressure is doing its thing building in behind the cold front. and it is out of here high pressure for today and then behind that, well

the savings bond for education because city clerk susana mendoza will pay $1,000 up for pocket to herbert pulgar for his savings bond. more like winter tom skilling tells us snow falling in the future going to be one of these localized late to affect sections of four counties most directly including counties closest to lake michigan jet stream out of alaska and canada south bring cold air in our direction leading edge behind these clouds look at what is happening to the north the cold air hits the warm like water amazingly ice free and you wake of the unusually mild winter getting snow fall to about a big rapidly to the north happening in our area counties under snow watch right now including cook lake and porter county indiana again cold air comes into west contact with the lake explosive situation temperatures drop dramatically arctic air over warm clearwater's that are ice free like they are tonight. you can see this lake plume developing stories in the mid or an outburst steadier snow showers and afternoon 20-30 mi. heavy snow that oscillate east and west across the area setting up ov

. >>> ha herbert klein worked on everyone of richard nixon's campaigns from 1946 to 1968 and he was later appointed communications director of the executive branch from 1969 to 1973. next, in an excerpt of a longer oral history interview for the richard nixon presidential library, herbert klein reflects on the 1968 election, his role during the nixon presidency and his relationship with the former president once they both had left office. this interview airing now for the first time on television is 1:15 minutes. >> when we were in the soviet union in 1959, after we left moscow we flew on russian airplanes and one of the interesting things was that the doctor with us was an air force and colonel i guess he was. air force officer. and when we flew from st. petersburg we flew the long way across country. one of his assignments from the air force was to take pictures of anything he saw that would look militarily out of the wind window. so these airplanes had like clothes hangers and you hang a newspaper up. that's how you read them. kgb stayed up in the front of the airplane with the vice pr

. >> george herbert walker bush was born on june 12th, 1924. he grew up in greenich connecticut with three brothers and one sister. summers were spent at their grandparent's house in maine a home bush would eventually inherit. his father set a mark for achievements and duty. successful in duty he volunteered in local government helped to establish the uso and served in the united states senate for two terms. >> his father was kind of a stern statuesque, pretty ridged business guy but his mother was the moral compass. >> i write about my grandmother my namesake dorothy walker bush one of the greatest influences of my father's life. it was my grandfathmother who tt my dad the lessons in life the basic lessons of being kind to others lift someone up when they are down and also don't brag about yourself. >> high school for bush was at phillips academy in and over. the school motto means not for self. >> i felt that all my life. don't brag about yourself. i called her once and i was 16. mom, i scored three goals in soccer. long pause. how did the te

think it does answer the question whether or not facebook is a central bank thank you so much stacy herbert obvious speaking with yanis varoufakis after the break a greek economist. should be a fantastic thank you thank you ranks go away much more coming why stay right there . welcome back to the kaiser report max kaiser time to go to athens greece and speak with a kind of list professor and author dr yes vero fake as yanis welcome to the kaiser report thank you to delight being here ariana's here's the headline no we formed no bailout what's the latest drawing on in the greek belov drama up with have a simple story this deal is. going to fail just like the previous one in may two thousand and ten because you have a bankrupt entity the greek state and you keep piling you debts on and on condition that the this country is going to shrink its national income through which was this will have to be based further and some point the german taxpayers have had enough and this is the problem that germany and the german political elites. that kind of . come to the the german elected and all these dra

. >> i george herbert walker bush. >> the distance is into a room called tomorrow.moving towards democracy through the door to freedom. >> on the other side of the low, a crisis was erupting. unarmed demonstrators chanted and clashed with government troops and tanks. >> the president knew a lot of the leaders some personally in china. and he took measured steps. >> when he responded mostly by cutting off ties he had with the chinese. because the military, he tried to call and the chinese said we don't do business like thachl the president wanted to talk to them. he tried to restore peace some kind that won't destroy an important relationship. it worked. >> by november 1989 protestors in east germany were demanding freedom to cross into the west. then, the unthinkable happened. >> after the berlin wall came down, it showed us to show more emotion. >> we didn't know how the so farrit military was going to react whether they're going to say enough, we're not going to be kicked around like this. >> just weeks after the fall of the wall bush had a summons from russian le

hundreds of teens and i do mean hundreds, packed the auditorium at the charles herbert floral high school. the officials organized the summit to raise awareness. the circuit court judge discussed all of the different types of abuse that young people endure. >> and that is physical abuse, emotional abuse and psychological abuse and a lot of abuse regarding the social media network and how you abused throughout the community and schools regarding social media. >> and he said that county officials expected about 150 teens to show up this afternoon. instead, you so that? nearly 800 showed up it can be thoroughly cleaned. the past two weeks, george washington and howard universities have reported potential noro virus outbreaks. >>> to pakistan where a demolition team is destroying the compound where osama bin laden died. the government wants to make sure it doesn't become a shrine for the leader. the u.s. officials there for si before a navy seal team killed him during a raid in may. >>> a virginia man is among seven marines killed in the fiery crash of two military helicopters. the 28-year-ol

as anti austerity outrage grips european states max keiser and stacy herbert look at how effective public anger can actually be because report is next. max kaiser this is because a report worried about domestic terrorists oh my god look at this photo this is of course lloyd blankfein with the twinkie vest noids getting ready to go his twinkies are wired to blow if ben won't inflate bill so that's an eight true terrorist c.e.o. yes. my hair standing on end but i'm glad to see that finally this recognition that lloyd blankfein is a financial terrorist and that the act of threatening to blow yourself up and to throw out of the economy or to throw out congress blow him off for a candle is for extortion ari purposes and having the result of austerity measures people die innocently civilians because you're better the military industrial financial credit complex is terrorism terrorism terrorism those killers of if there is a need to put terrorists in allusion to. build up to the edge of the law is that sort of fire going to church stamberg that look like oh qualifies that we should do it now let

>> miss watson, bob herbert from demose.g problems in detroit is the concentrated poverty. it's just so many poor people, so that there is a problem for lack of demand which makes it very difficult for businesses to get started locally. so my question is how do you attract people to come into detroit, if you don't have jobs that attract them and if you don't have a sort of a base of income that would support a business that they might try to establish there? >> i appreciate that question, bob. there is a gold mine that already exists not only for detroit, but for cities across this nation. it's called hud dollars, housing and urban development. did you know, bob herbert, that there is a 20% set aside when cities like detroit receive hud dollars in the 200 million was received in 2011, 10% of that should be set aside just to help you hire people and provide businesses, contracts with those hud dollars. so that section 3 level of the hud regulations has been on the books for 40 years, unenforced. gegs w guess who is fighting f

me all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser stacy herbert r. and i guess that is all the lire s p g dot com going to send me an email please do so because the report at r t t v dot ru you can follow me on twitter of course max kaiser and i like tons of nice guys are saying by all. the boy. a glimmer of hope for a peaceful way out of the syrian crisis as russia's foreign minister adamant in his pursuit of a diplomatic solution is into mascaras holding talks with president bashar al assad . strike in stalemate in greece people are on the streets again to protest massive job cuts as the coalition government struggles to agree on more austerity measures to appease creditors that secure a vital second bailout. and a discovery that could reveal previously unknown lifeforms russian scientists drilled deep into a subglacial lake in the coldest place on earth but explored the significance of this rare finding with our correspondent in antarctica. live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r.t. with me and he said now it's good to ha

this happening exactly twenty years after the european union treaty was signed max kaiser and stacy herbertcheck out the record after two decades the full program coming up later here's a preview. their opportunity was last year to have a could it up and get rid of happened and they could have been put in a populist government and they could have saved themselves but they failed to do that so for them ireland similarly is toast no help for them whatsoever portugal under the bus spain no italy they have twenty five hundred tons of gold if they can hold onto it they're in good shape but i suspect that the current government will sell that italy's gold deal with the i.m.f. because they're totally corrupt this leaves only germany if at the end of the day. the former head of britain's m i six spy agency server mark allen is being sued by a pair of dissident libyans he allegedly helped capture and sent for torture under khadafi back in two thousand and four investigation may have uncovered several other backroom deals between the u.k. and the former colonel's regime bennett explains this of ducte

then they turned around to george herbert walker bush in 1990 and they offered him $2 of the imaginary spending cuts for every $1 of a tax increase. he was a cheaper date. the spending cuts never happened. what happened in 2011 was there were not able to talk of republicans into swallowing their own net tongues. [applause] they had been able to do it in the past. they were not able to do it in 2011. the tea party movement, the ron paul movement came into the modern republican movement. making as bigger, stronger, and more conservative. i look back at the goldwater election, 1963 and 1964, a lot of people came into the party and strengthened the party. made it more conservative and more active. i understand why our enemies advise us against having a stronger and bigger party. there were a number of the establishment republicans warning us against all the new people because they're used to be 12 people at our town committee meeting and now there are 40. they're not gone to re-elect me. more people are a good idea in a movement. i cannot imagine the guise of walmart looking out at new cus

and saying that with europe next here on our team max keiser and stacy herbert check out that year's record as the union turns twenty. i am our skies are there's a kind.

and linda avery herbert, i wanted to point you out. you're sitting in front of me. rita, i feel like i want to name tom comic role, and everyone, mark. anyway, my sister, my friend joyce from way back. mr. shaw, randy. i will go ahead and start. you know, it was just yesterday that i was standing under the rotunda listening to mayor lee's inaugural speech, and i think this is an incredible time for our city. a time where the city is coming together and moving past the old political pigeonhole. i want to say first and up front that we are the city where everyone is included. we are the city for everyone. our priorities are clear. we need to focus on jobs and smart economic development for all of our neighborhoods and rolled up our sleeves, get to work, and get things done. to the people of district 5, mayor lee and i share the same standard, that every decision i make will be what i believe are in the best interests of my constituents and the people of san francisco. i think you all know that i am is following in the footsteps of great supervisors who have represente

nbc 33 news in baton rouge, louisiana, where one happy couple was honored after having married when herbertoover was in the white house. norman and norm ma burma tied the knott 81 years ago. they are the state's longest couple. they are the guest of their governor for valentine's day. still love each other. norman is 101 years old. his bride is 98. they have 13 great grandchildren. the secret? mr. burma says the key to happy marriage is simple, listen to your wife. very wise man. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today" just your first stop today on your nbc station. >>> 4:28. 40 degrees. we had clouds above us earlier. beautiful view of the crescent moon peeking out earlier. good morning, i'm joe krebs. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to nuft for this wednesday, february 15, 2012. we're following a developing story out of capitol hill where congress has reached a tentative deal to extend the payroll tax cut through the end of the year. lawmakers are expected to reveal details today. they could send the measure to president obama as early as this week. the tax cut extension would havespired at the en

distinguished history there and its number one member, george herbert walker bush. with play complete, waited around to go back for the ultimate souvenir. the flag at the 18th. phil remembered his grandfather. he used to give all of his victory flags to his grandfather. he useded to have them lining the walls of his den. again, we had co-champions in the pro-am. they will have their name on the back of the wall on the first tee. and a little waterford crystal is heading phil's way. jim: we will have more golf coming up. phil will be in the field at the northern trust open. he has won that multiple times as well. tonight on cbs begins with "60 minutes" featuring adele. and the live grammy awards and a tribute to whitney houston. here are the updated fedex cup standings. phil moves into fifth position. did you expect anything like this today when the sun came up and you were making your walk around pebble beach? nick: i was predicting you would need a fade. phil's draw is a fade. he has been working it so well. his stats are fantastic today, 13 out of 14 fairways and

nbc 33 news in baton rouge, louisiana, where one happy couple was honored after having married when herbert hoover was in the white house. norman and norm ma burma tied the knott 81 years ago. they are the state's longest couple. they are the guest of their governor for valentine's day. still love each other. norman is 101 years old. his bride is 98. they have 13 great grandchildren. the secret? mr. burma says the key to happy marriage is simple, listen to your wife. very wise man. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today" just your first stop today on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. we're off to a quiet start on this wednesday. no rain expected to start today. 39 at the airport. the 38 insurers sold. becoming mostly sunny. you'll see some clouds early -- will come back and check the forecast going into presidents' day weekend. >> 41 degrees on tv hill. the george huguely murder trial has brought to light the dangers of domestic violence. >> waterfloods a gas main in southwest baltimore and hundreds of people are waking up without

. >> for her portrayal of -- herbert trail of british prime minister margaret thatcher is as strong as the iron lady herself. >> i have done battle every single day of my life. >> in a first for iran, the award for best foreign-language film went to "a separation." in his speech, the director dedicated his work to the iranian people. >> i have seen the "the artist " twice already. we asked about the winners on oscar night. and we began lauding him about his prediction that "the artist" be the star this year. >> i would not be the only one. in a lot of ways it could be the under at -- the underdog. it really struck a nerve with the academy. i think there was a lot of nostalgia with this film. it has been 80 years since the start of movie-making, at a time in america where they are mired in economic troubles, where the country is in two wars, and there is this appeal to looking back to a time where everything is black and white and all you need is a song and dance number. >> if you want to keep up with the latest in a mobile phone at center, you should look up the mobile phone trade show

nbc 33 news in baton rouge, louisiana, where one happy couple was honored after having married when herbertver was in the white house. norman and norma burma tied the knot 81 years ago. in 1931. they are the state's longest married couple. they are the guest of their governor for valentine's day. norman is 101 years old. his bride is 98. they have 13 great grandchildren. the key to a happy marriage is listening to your wife. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop today on your nbc station. >>> spa day sound nice? how about a spa marathon? the third annual sauna marathon took place as teams of four spa hopped in bathrobes and bikinis. the goal was to hit 15 spas that scanned over 60 miles and stay in each treatment for 3 minutes. sounds tough. check-in points ranged from traditional spas to steam baths and historic smoke saunas. >>> are all of those valentine's day sweets running up your calorie count? a farmer has cornered the produce department with mini heart-shaped cucumbers. the green gourds take shape in four days as the country's full producer, the farmer had over

herbert hoover started bailing out banks in '31 or '3 2. it outraged people in exactly the same way as our current bailouts did. incredible cronyism. the man who is the head of the bailout agency, calvin college's vice president, and they put him in charge of this agency, he one day quit suddenly. went back to chicago and about a couple weeks later resurfaced ace president of a bank there and demanded a bailout, and he got one. he got one. and the public was just screaming. they couldn't believe it. teachers in chicago hadn't been paid for something like two years. and here is this guy getting this lavish handout. okay. so franklin other. , did he say we'll continue this policy in the spirit of civility and bipartisanship? hell, no. he went after these guys. this is some of his most famous speech, denunsation of the bailouts, that we are rewarding the people at the top while our economic army is starving. he said things like that. when he got into office he didn't stop doing the bailouts. he did. the in a way to ensure that the money did no

. >> herbert weiner? followed by in the peer -- andy. >> i am a former member of rescue you need.there is a problem with the one california bus. sometimes you have to wait a very long time for the bus, then three of them will show up. this has been going on for some months. last night, as of yesterday, i had to wait for a very long time, suddenly there were buses following each other. i wish that something could be done to look into this. this was not a problem before, but it has been going on for about

he's a product of tamny, and he gets whooped by herbert hoover for that and be a number of other reasons. harry truman is the product of this prendergast machine in kansas city. he's the head of the county government for them. they steal millions and millions of dollars. harry truman never takes a dime. he has to kind of wink at what goes on in some cases, he has to get things done. he would sit down, he would sit down and pour out his soul to private letters which he never sent to anyone. he'd hole up in his hotel and write out these letters which were found decades after his death as he would wrestle with these questions; am i a public servant, or am i a crook? am i doing the right thing? he's conflicted by this, but he stays in the machine, and he eventually determines to get out of local government. he wants to be a congressman. but he's such a puppet, he's such a nobody even at that time that it's like, no, harry, you can't be a congressman. can i be, can i be governor? be -- no, you can't be governor. when the machine can't find anyone to run for the united states senate in 1934 --

herbert hoover started feeling a things in either 31 or 32. i forgot. it outraged people in exactly the same way occurred till outstayed. there's incredible cronyism. the man who was the head of this bailout agency who attend calvin coolidge's vice president and he put them in charge of this agency of one point suddenly quit, went home to chicago and a couple weeks later resurfaced as president of the bank and demanded a bailout. [laughter] and he got one. he got one on the public just creamed. they couldn't believe it. teachers in chicago hadn't been paid for something like two years and here is this guy getting a flattish handout. okay, so franklin roosevelt. how do you think he reacted? okay, so franklin roosevelt. how do you think he reacted? in the spirit of bipartisanship. how do you think he reacted? in the spirit of bipartisanship. no. he went after these guys. these are some of his most famous beaches or denunciations of the a lot that we are rewarding the people at the top economic army is starving. he said it was like that. when you get to of