mr. hoover. so who is j. edgar hoover in 1919? he was a young lawyer. he was two years out of law school. living at home with his parents, who had gotten his first job through a political friend. however, during the time that he had been in president palmer's office and at the justice department, he had been promoted repeatedly. he had been given pay raises. difficult assignments and was viewed as a rising young star in the office. he made a good impression at every step. he dressed well, he had an eye for detail. a clean desk, good organization, he volunteered for assignments, he did them well, he works nights and weekends. he studied issues, collected data, always had answers to questions, was extremely confident. if you know any people like this in your workplace, be very careful. what happened with president obama palmer's leadership and management? they went off and launched the palmer. this cartoon shows the basic strategy of the palmer raids. it's not showing it? there we go. there you see uncle sam kicking the red alien back where they belong. t

i was thinking, too, of mrs. hoover, who loved reading and who enabled readers and did enabling of reading all her life. >> she was the head of the girl scouts. >> she was head of the girl scouts, so she's always thinking about how to train up and lead out. she and president hoover translated "res metallica" from latin. having gone over hoover's college records i know this from stanford, and she brought readers to white house. i was just reading a story when her back was out once and she had to lie down and there were new learners, adult literacy people, from the mountains, who did not know how to read until adults, who came to see her, and she was so sick, but she nonetheless received them upstairs because she knew it was important for them to meet the first lady, even if the first lady wasn't doing too well. she said, what do you read? here's what i read. don't read trash. read the great works. she was always there. with that in the background for president hoover, for these projects and also with scouting. a lot of t

but the question is did i come across during the animosity between hoover and mr. donovan. i did not research that particular thing. i can't say. we have time for more one. is there anyone who hasn't had one. i'll be here afterwards. anyone who hasn't asked a question yet? okay. i'll get you after. >> i forget. thank you. i wanted to know if it's possible to document the efforts of. presidents and attorney generals ho get rid of him and how he managed being forced to resign. >> can you document the efforts of several presidents there were several who thought about getting rid of him and why they did or did not. yes, there had been several books written about that. and turns out that several presidents thought about it actively including nixson, kennedy, truman, and others. they all decided not to for various reasons. i think it's overly simplistic to say that hoover blackmailed them. i think the presidents decided that political risk of firing j. edgar hoover the way it would make a president look weak on crime or communism or irritate some of the allies on capitol hill was

mr. drawing stick figures over here i welcome margaret hoover, will cain and mr. ali velshi.ng all. >> good morning. >> good morning! >> let's start with the stick figures, velshi, what is going on. >> bad news. >> i haven't been here for a while so i didn't know i had to bring a newspaper so everybody else has newspapers so i'm making my newspaper called "the news" i don't know if you can see that, but it's called "the news." >> we cann't see it. >> i put europe headlines and jpmorgan as one of my headlines and i'm working on it. >> why don't you keep drawing and we're moving on. >> i just read this article a couple days ago how two-thirds of americans didn't believe the stimulus, federal stimulus programs had worked and i ran across this, you paid for it, stimulus dollars funds studies into sexual history and erectile dysfunction and america wonders $1.5 million distributed by the university of california san francisco to a study on erectile dysfunction. >> i'm going to help margaret download apps to help stories about the bridges and built and the roads that were built and

mr. obama. joining me now are hillary rosen, a cnn political contributor and democratic strategist and margaret hoover, a republican consultant, cnn political contributor, and the great granddaughter of president herbert hoover. margaret, who was born in my home state of iowa, a hero to iowans. margaret, for months democrats have said a republican war on women will help president obama. these polls, are they telling us something different? >> i think that it's true. i think the republican or the republicans' war on women was this mechanism that seems to have been contrived by democratic strategists but in order to exploit the gains among women. the truth is when you look at the numbers democrats and president obama need to win more women because they're losing men. and so they won women handily in 2008, split women evenly in 2010. they need women to come back to the democratic fold if they're going to win in november. >> and certainly women were really energized in 2008 and that is something that is important from the democrats' point of view. hillary, i want to ask you. women care about jobs more tha

hoover to george h.b. bush and bill clinton. sunday at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >>> six-term senator richard lugar of indiana was defeated in the gop state primary on tuesday. mr. mourdock joined us on c-span's washington journal for 30 minutes. >> well joining us on the panel is richard mourdock, who knocked off richard lugar in the primary on tuesday. mr. mourdock, thank you for being with us. if we could, let's start with what we were talking about with our audience a little earlier this morning. and that's president obama's statement endorsing gay marriage yesterday. i want to get your reaction to that. >> i was surprised me made it. as i traveled the state of indiana in the last 15 months, i've not heard the issue come up i don't think more than twice. and clearly in a state like indiana that is very conservative, that the president won in 2008. it will certainly work to his disadvantage here, and i see that happening in the other so-called critical swing states. i think that's going to be more of a negative than a plus for the president. >> what about your personal view? if it comes before the senate, what would your personal view be? >> well, i am one w

. >> will cain, columnist, margaret hoover, worked at the bush white house and author of american individualism and mrrc lamont hill. professor of columbia university and host of our world with black enterprise. shall we get going? let's. the frienenzy over the facebook ipo. today is the day we'll find out how much it will cost to get a piece of the social network when it goes public on the nasdaq tomorrow. it is expected to create 1,000 new millionaires. really? and maybe a bunch of billionaires as well. what many people are asking is to buy or not to buy? that is the question today. ali velshi and christine romans have very, very different opinions on whether you should buy in or not. i'm curious. do you buy? i'm on facebook. love facebook. is this going to be apple or not? >> remember, apple went sideways for a long time and almost went out of business first, right? it's more like google maybe. google went up. >> both were game changers. >> that's right. >> this is going to be history one way or the other. the way i see it, this is the second transformation of the internet. the reason i say that, r

mr. lehrer recently appeared on booktv to discuss their books. in "the president's club," time magazine's nancy gibbs and michael duffy examine how presidents from hooverto obama worked with and against each other during their terms in the white house. this is eighth. ninth is "killing lincoln" by bill o'reilly and martin dugard. then "manhunt" recounts the 10-year search for osama bin laden. this is tenth. go to nytimes.com and click on arts to find out more.