he tells hoover-- this is all on tape because lbj is taping hoover. >> jon: lbj is taping hoover? >> he tells him i want you to destroy the ku klux klan. >> reporter: says that to hoover. >> in three years they were broken like a dried twig. >> reporter: that was all hoover. is hoover recording lbj? because the whole thing was didn't hoover have tapes of john f. kennedy having sex with people. wasn't it secret bedroom tapes and he used them against these people to stay in his snogs. >> by the time he got up into his 70s, the presidents started taping hip. lbj and nixon starred taping him. had their own record. >> reporter: nixon was like you think you're a paranoid freak. no, no, no, my friend. i will show you abuse of power. >> right. and hoover finally said no. to a president when nixon told him to start... of the weather underground and other leftists, hoover wouldn't do it. what does nixon do? he sets up the plumbers. >> jon: wow. >> hoover dies. six weeks later they break into the watergate hotel. game over. >> reporter: he was waiting for hoover to die to get permission to g

. >> hoover is his own monument. the institution that we turn to when we want to have our securityenced is the fbi. the institution that is supposed to guarantee our freedoms under the constitution is the fbi. here is the institution in which is-- the constitutional command to be safe and free, we are engaged in a struggle between these opposing forces. they're the guys that have to get it right. if they get it wrong, people die. or we lose our freedoms. >> rose: explain to the audience the disphinx-- distest between the fbi and cia in terms of their responsibilities. >> the fbi was found 1d 03 years ago. teddy roosevelt set it up. and its job initially was to root out anarchists and other people whose thoughts and words were incendiary, dangers to the republic. and also to try and enforce federal law. back then the power of washington did not extend very far. there was no income tax there were no federal laws against-- there were few federal crimes as we new know there were thousands of them. but first and foremost

hoover at the hoover presidential library and almost as many for the president as well. just as an example, one letter says, "mrs. hoover, you remember that florida, virginia, north carolina, tennessee, and texas gave mr. hoover a large majority last fall. well, we thought we were putting a real white lady in the white house. didn't even dream you would disgrace the white house by association with negros." but there were also supporters and they were mostly northern and liberal periodicals, but also individuals. a person by the name of a.e. bruce says, "mrs. herbert hoover, we have been watching with much interest the newspaper accounts of recent occurrences at the white house. fortunately, or unfortunately, we are white folks, but we have never been able to convince ourselves that the color of our skin had any particular relation to the size of our brains or the use to which we put them. and we are quite sure in our own minds that the nondiscriminatory action which you have recently taken should merit only the approval of all right-minded people." and how did congressma

hoover at the hoover presidential library and almost as many for the president as well. just as an example, one letter says, "mrs. hoover, you remember that florida, virginia, north carolina, tennessee, and texas gave mr. hoover a large majority last fall. well, we thought we were putting a real white lady in the white house. didn't even dream you would disgrace the white house by association with negros."

steven hoover is head of palo alto research center, or parc. just celebrated his first year at the helm. parc will celebrate ten years as an independent company later this month, spun off from xerox. joined by farhad manjoo of "fast company" and "slate" and eric savitz of "forbes." so if one of your scientists had created draw something, you could have booked a billion dollars in revenue. none of your scientists i assume are working on draw something. was it a bit disheartening to see some of the small companies in silicon valley that are getting these enormous valuations when you guys are working so hard on things that are so much harder to describe to the public? >> well, it's not disheartening. i mean, i wish -- >> it's a billion dollars. >> and god bless them. and i hope they make many more. they're really drawing -- companies like that are drawing on the underlying technologies that we've helped to create and innovate, and that creates the basis, the background for all of that innovation. and we've got a pretty interesting business model o

i keep on thinking it was at hoover but it wasn't. it couldn't have been at hoover. it was in 2000. >> it was. >> i think -- i think -- maybe it was at hoover. >> yeah, i think it's hoover. but i don't -- but i remember she used to come home and talk about what she did in the resource environment. it was just amazing for her to be talking to, not only the people that was providing the resource -- peer resources but also to the ones that needed to speak to them and so forth. and i thought it was so powerful because that's when i just bought into the program saying we've got to have this in every school. and one of the things i'd like to do, i mean, i realize it was anecdotal. i heard her stories and i've heard other student's stories through the years. do you happen to have an annual report of some sort where you collect the data of all the different pieces of the peer resources that your students are involved with and what kind of a result you're getting? >> yes. we do an annual preand post evaluation. so we get that qualitative data about what's change. we also coll

>> guest: hoover set the table for roosevelt, and i believe that president bush set the table in his last 18 months for this substantial power grab by barack obama. at the end of the day what is fundamentally challenging about the obama administration and their effort to expand the power of the federal government, and the executive branch within the federal government, is that the president has taken what has been a casual tendency by past presidents and he has put muscle on the bone. he has done it at alarming speed, and in an alarming scale. so that you see not only his use of -- i'll give you an example. in 2009, "newsweek" magazine had a cover store. the cover story was that we are all socialist now. well, the heck we are. but what "newsweek" magazine was talking about was that president obama had reversed what had been done in the clinton gingrich years to balance the budget, to actually end -- reform welfare, and we were moving back very rapidly in the first year of the obama administration to an expanded welfare state. and so it's -- this represents a clash of world views, and

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour the hoover institute recently published an article saying that california's public universities are trying to create a nation of liberal activists that's really going on a golden state or is this just part of the right wing agenda also autism spectrum disorders affect one in every eighty eight children in america but until recently their causes have been a mystery but these new research reveal about a link between pregnant mothers and the rise of autism and some people say terrorists and dictators could be funding mitt romney's campaign by laundering their money through karl rove's super pac but the american public will never know who they are tell you why and let's go we take. in the best of the rest of the news republican congressman allen west turned some heads last week when he said this about democratic members of congress. it. was later said he was referring to the members of the house progressive caucus which had recently introduced the budget for all to end our wars create a public option and modestly rais

>> hoover thought that with the sentencing that the case was closed.e asked for and was granted a sentence reconsideration by a three-judge panel. he is asking that his sentence be reduced. we will have more on that coming up tonight on "news4 at 6:00." >>> the washington humane society tonight is trying to figure out who set a dangerous animal trap in northwest d.c. earlier this month someone found a raccoon wandering around cleveland park with a snap trap on its leg. self raffle days later the human society tracked it down. officials tell us it had to be put down and warned the situation could have been worse. >> whoever set this did it irresponsibly. first of all these are illegal. second of all any animal, any child, anybody could have gotten caught in this trap. we don't know where it came from, who set it, what they set it for. it wasn't done in a way to keep animals safe. obviously they had the intent to do harm. >> $1,000 cash reward for information in the case. >>> anyone who need ad taxi around alexandria today may have had a hard time findin

hoover, we have been watching with much interest the newspaper accounts of recent occurrences at the white house. fortunately, or unfortunately, we are white folks, but we have never been able to convince ourselves that the color of our skin had any particular relation to the size of our brains or the use to which we put them. and we are quite sure in our own minds that the nondiscriminatory action which you have recently taken should merit only the approval of all right-minded people." and how did the congressman respond? he was not one to shy away from annen opportunity to shy away from civil rights and i'm sure depriest is going to give you an idea of his personality. but when asked about his opinion, he said, and "time" magazine quoted him, i am delighted beyond measure at the fine social context my wife was able to make at the white house. she greatly enjoyed herself and is greatly delighted." about a month after the affair, mrs. de priest addressed 300 women in the church in chicago about the affair. she was quoted as saying, "the president's wife is a wonderful hostess. i beli

he realizes the only person really who has done this is hoover. years after fth took over. as the new dealers still working for truman pull out their hair and say no they cannot do this he calls hoover answers and says come over, sends him on the road 55,000 miles, you know, fine capitols, seven kings and takes over the u.s. effort to refeed europe. who are had been the devil incarnate for 13 or 14 years because of the depression, it's like emotional redemption of a huge kind and truman delivers it, which is another thing the club does right up until now. it helps men who basically come out of the white house as not necessarily failures but not exactly successful and helps redeem them of their many season in their own minds. so it's great. it's just an amazing story of not just a partnership but of consolation among men in the end don't have that much in common politically but they all have sat in that chair and developed scars you get when you do that job. >> i thought of truman over the weekend when you quote him as saying there are more prima d

edgar hoover who ran the f.b.i. for forty eight consecutive years bugging wiretapping spying on americans breaking and entering over was the law today i think we have a better balance we've got a president who understands the constitution unlike his predecessor and we've got meth the other record we actually cares about striking this pounds this is something new. one hundred three years of history i'd say the last three years they're trying to get it right and they deserve some credit for that now go back over time the god was vote was because hoover was the overall ok all right you know i'm also curious then what you think of in terms of the f.b.i. often going after perhaps not the real threats that we face at the moment or that we will be facing in the future which is their mission but he's rather and madge unary threats and you know you talk about in the history of it where they continued pursuing communists right even though that soon just became a threat of the past that wasn't really what we needed the f.b.i.

. >> reporter: hoover remembers coming home after a trip finding everyone there crying. everyone except her son johnny. she knew something was wrong. >> i started to turn around and put my hands over my ears and i ran out the door and started to run away because i didn't want to hear what they had to tell me. my sons grabbed me and pulled my hands away from my ears and told me that johnny was killed. johnny was dead. >> reporter: hoover appeared at a mothers against drunk driving event where experts reveal that 26% of underage drinkers are getting their alcohol from parents or other relatives. >> if we could just save one family from going through the heart ache. but it just keeps happening over and over again. >> reporter: the driver 20-year-old kevin coffey pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison. authorities say he'd been drinking at at least two parties before the crash and fled the scene. >> yes, we're angry. we're angry that he killed my son. and that he ran away and left him to die on the side of the road. >> reporter

johnny was dead. >> reporter: hoover appeared at a mothers against drunk driving event at the natural cress club where experts reveal 26% of underage drinkers are getting their alcohol from relatives or other parents. >> if we could just save one family from going through the heart ache. but it just keeps happening over and over again. >> reporter: the driver 20-year-old kevin coffey pleaded guilty to three counts of vehicular manslaughter and was sentenced to serve -- >> we're angry. we're angry that he killed my son. and that he ran away and left them to die on the side of the road. >> reporter: although hoover says she had talked to her son about the dangers of drinking, she's filled with regret and still wonders what, if anything, she could have done to change what happened. >> i think parents need to keep on top of it as best they can and pray for the best. >> reporter: darcy spencer, news4. >> kevin coffey, the driver we just mentioned just had his prison sentence reduced. a three judge panel cut his sentence from 20 years to just eight years followed by five years probation. th

it's hoover. hoover is practically moved.ver turns to truman and says let's start a club. i'll be the president, you be the vice president. the secretary, i guess. over 60 years. people of different parties getting on. it's better. >> truman not only having herbert hoover save the lives of millions of europeans in post war europe, making sure they didn't starve to death but reorganizing the entire executive branch. >> for a democrat. >> for a democrat. >> the presidency was a mess after world war ii. it was a mess. it was herbert hoover who knew what it was like. he trusted him to lead a reorganization. >> you spoke with jimmy carter. >> yes. >> let's talk about carter for a second. obviously, carter has been a great ex-president. he's had difficulty with other members of the club during his ex-presidency. yet, we have all talked about the picture. it's amaze observer, go through his diaries, i will never be critical of him again. reading that, you understand what they have been through. nobody can understand what it's like.

>> hoover lived until '64. >> in september, chuck, carter's going to sue pass hoover.icked out of office at a very young age. clinton spent a lot of time studying carter before he went off to the global leadership. even though they don't always get along. >> i love that somebody tackled it. i can't wait to download the whole thing. our political panel joins me next. >>> but first the white house soup of the day, this is usually a friday favorite, but hey, they're not doing anything publicly, new england clam chowder. [ captain ] sorry folks, our landing time got moved back another hour. [ crowd chatters and groans ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] hunger getting to you? grab a ritz crackerfuls. made with real cheese and whole grain, it'll help keep you satisfied until your next meal. get hunger before it gets you. only hertz gives you a carfirmation. hey, this is challenger. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. >>> this morning the o

depriest attended at the white house at the invitation of wife of herbert hoover. the first special day, march 4th, 1929, was a cold and rain y day for presidential inauguration. nefrtles nefrtless -- nevertheless, president elect, herbert hoover and his wife arrived in spirits for the ceremonies. he in his top hat and she in a plum velvet outfit. as the rain poured down, chief justice howard william taft, administered the oath shortly after 11:00 in the morning. it seems that congressman elect depriest was present at the ceremony based on artifacts shared by phillip depriest, his great grandson, whom you'll hear from a little later today. the inaugural day full of hope, promise and festivities ended with a ball. a few weeks later on april 15, 1929, it was also a rainy day when oscar depriest became the first african-american of the 20th century to be sworn into t more than the usual amount of curiosity always attended upon this most national event. there was much craning of necks, question and an air of expectancy which increased as the time of the opening approac

edgar hoover. >> yes. he did tour through the fbi and brought some of his friends from memphis, the former sheriff of memphis, bill morris. elvis felt there was something getting ready to happen to him with presi

in 1932, of course, he campaigned against hoover and beat him very badly. in 1933, march of 1933, franklin roosevelt and charles evans hughes exchanged letters. franklin roosevelt wanted to know if he could recite the entire oath, not just saying that i do. he asked him and he thought that was okay. he remarked that it was very interesting, he thought, that one former new york governor was going to be administered into another new york governor. they each expressed great respect for each other and look forward to their association and a common enterprise. roosevelt was inaugurated president in 1933. by this time, hughes had made it very strong record as a libertarian. he made some very important decisions protecting freedom of the press, for example, and freedom of association. but what got him and roosevelt on a collision course was the constitutional challenges to the new deal legislation. particularly in 1935 and 1936. the hughes court began to strike down one piece of new deal legislation after another. now, hughes was actually a centrist, he was neithe

human resources management and economics and he's also the morris around cox senior fellow at the hoover institution, and he is a member of the george w. bush institute advisory board. and next to him is governor sam brownback of the great state of kansas. and next to him is larry lindsay, whom you've already heard from today who is president and chief executive officer of the lipped say group. now i'm going to kind of move down here. so this session has been called by amity who is our -- actually, i sort of figure, this is amity's world, we all just live in it. so amity, we call it blitz solutions, right, amity? so i've been asked to start this off by going around or down and asking everyone, what is the one quick, and i mean quick like 20, 30 seconds, don't worry we'll have plenty of time to talk about things that they would f offer as a tax policy solution to help us get to 4% sustainable real growth. so i'm not going to start with john stossel. i'm going to start with larry lindsay. larry? >> 20 seconds. abandon income based taxation, move to business cash flow taxation with border a

think about two more polar opposite people than herbert hoover and harry truman. men had spent the previous seven years working very closely together on things they both cared about that were well beyond party and partisanship like helping european reconstruction. and they have become great friends. so it was at the inauguration that hoover proposed let's form a president's club. and that's when it happened. >> and they even have a club house on jackson square. >> a gift to the club from richard nixon who decided the most important thing was to keep lbj happy, who had left town, who still wanted to be in the game, who was bettering the mixon white house with all kinds of requests and they said let's give him a place to work. and so they created this little house kind of across the street and it's still this use today. >> and one of the earlier references is jfk and eisenhower, we know that at the inauguration in january of 1961, they were not happy. they smiled for the cameras, but they were not happy. eisenhower did not think jfk was ready to be president. but af

johnny was dead. >> reporter: hoover is sharing her experience for the first time.eared today at a mother's against drunk driving event at the national press club. experts say that 6,000 people lose their lives every year as a result of underaged drinking. and newly released information in the case 26% of the time parents are family members are buying the booze. the driver, 20-year-old kevin coffey, pleaded guilt dwroy three counts of vehicular manslaughter and was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison. after the crash he ran away. police say he was still intoxicated when he was tracked down three hours later. three judge panel on friday will consider coffey's request for a sentence reduction. he says it will unfair and vengeful. >> i think by reducing sends the wrong message about drunk driving, seriousness of it, and the running away part. >> reporter: hoover says the judicial process made it even more difficult to move forward. >> we have to go through it all over again. i just -- i can't even believe it. >> reporter: darcy spencer, news4. >> debate is under way

and hoover said, let's change it. had all the cabinet work moved and to this room and it was called the lincoln study before truman got a hold of it. churchill stayed here often. and it was a very popular thing. well, lincoln's house survives. somehow through all the density of law and circumstance, of secrets and public statements and the rest of the conditions that come along with the white house, the private lives and influences of the presidents drift slowly to the surface. there seems no end to it, as evidenced by some of the photographs i've shown you, several of which have appeared recently. thousands of documents on this subject are housed in the national archives, record group 42. fun to go through. and just see what little things are recorded. forming pieces of the lincoln puzzle. from the first presidents who kept good records of the white house lest their successors accuse them of domestic extravagance. the lincoln materials are very full, giving facts and clues to what life in the setting must have been i

. >> from white house, to the hoover building, well beyond, may 2nd is booming with the possibility of a revenge attack. >> i did not even know the anniversary was coming up. >> it is not in the news. now that you mention it it has already been one year. >> there has been a noticeable increase in transportation for the next week or two, but no specific threats. >> however allies remain intent on attacking the homeland, possibly to avenge the death of bin laden but not necessarily tied to the anniversary. >> that is not to say there has not been increased chatter on terrorist websites encouraging attacks on churches and arenas. and this morning has been issued restricting employees to travel until may 5th. three men were arrested in copenhagen accused of plotting an attack. no word on if it was an attempt to avenge his death. there is some worry at home. >> the potential exists that any time though. >> there is always a bad guy. >> the group, judicial watch will repeal the decision of a federal judge to deny their request to make public the photos and video taken during and after the ra

. >> it starts in 1953 when herbert hoover goes up to harry truman at ike's swearing in and says we out to have a club. sounds good. it has its own rules and own rivalries. chris: why is it important to history and why did you write this amazing book about how it helps? i keep thinking when i read it. if anybody falls, they keep them from falling all the way. >> having made those decisions and emerged from the jobs each with their own scars, know how hard it is to do it and been through stuff no one else can understand and they share experiences that no one in their families can understand and that binds them together. chris: and turns out the former president who helped the others the most, president eisenhower. listen to him talking to jack kennedy. >> what about the soviet union, khrushchev announces tomorrow that if we attack cuba it will be nuclear war and what's your judgment as to the chances they'll fire these things off if we invade cuba? >> i don't believe so. chris: what a conversation. you and i grew up with this. chance going to nuclear war and getting advice from the guy w

there was a large group from herbert hoover. the business has not offered any solutions. i request that you support the department's decision and uphold the suspension. >> the 20 day suspension, it seems to have gone to a more lenient place than the 25 day and i understand that it can be up to 90 days on a first offense. >> correct. >> what happened? >> i did not present the case at the directors hearing. i did present some cases today. the director, he took this into consideration. he takes into consideration first-time offenders. he takes it into account whatever information at the time. i was not there that day. >> this is not hold any information about the record. >> how was dr. --, we have not seen him in a while? >> it is there public comment on this item? seeing none, we will move into rebuttal. if you have anything to say, you have three minutes. >> there is a have a penny, take a penny. it talks about the age limit, what your you should be. when reborn. -- when were you born. a large number of use, it was talked about that it does not happen every day. some high

. >> carrie hoover knows the gut wrenching pain of losing a child. her son was among three young people killed in a drunk driving crash. >> it's unimaginable pain to lose your child. >> kids are dying way too young. but something can be done. and it starts with parents. >> in fact, new research from penn state reveals that three out of four teenagers say their parents are the leading influence over whether they drink. >> unlike many of the problems that our country faces, such as cancer and diabetes, this is a problem that can be stopped today, right now. >> matt has teamed up with nationwide insurance to produce the power of parents program using a research based handbook. >> there is a lot in the parent handbook about how to talk to your kid about resisting peer pressure. >> and parent workshops like this one. >> it leads to the belief that it's normal to drink. >> matt is promoting saturday, april 21, as a day to discuss the dangers of drinking. >> it's a national epidemic. >> or getting in a car with someone who has. straight talk now could spare