they were joined by 1400 french ship woodrowe u.s. theon had agreed to send at request of the allies. meanwhile, they tried to get woodrow wilson to send troops of his own. he refused. he felt every resource should be used on the western front, so he refused for months. the allied supreme war council okayed the idea in early june of sending american troops there. 1918,y in mid-july of woodrow wilson spent a long night agonizing over the question. memoir inhis famous which he first argued why he would not send troops to russia and spent the last part saying what he would send troops to russia. the chief reason being to guard millions of dollars of war material sent to the russians to help the war cause throughout the war. secondly, he insisted american troops not get involved in the internal politics or do any fighting produced eight the russians in any way they could -- aid the russians in any way they could. meanwhile, back at the ranch, thegeneral in command of allied invasion moved his troops down to archangel to try to stop the ga

fifty years ago, in this room and at this very desk, president woodrow wilson spoke words which caught the imagination of a war-weary world. he said: this is the war to end war. his dream for peace after world war i was shattered on the hard realities of great power politics and woodrow wilson died a broken man. tonight i do not tell you that the war in vietnam is the war to end wars. but i do say this: i have initiated a plan which will end this war in a way that will bring us closer to that great goal to which woodrow wilson and every american president in our history has been dedicated-the goal of a just and lasting peace. as president i hold the responsibility for choosing the best path to that goal and then leading the nation along it. i pledge to you tonight that i shall meet this responsibility with all of the strength and wisdom i can command in accordance with your hopes, mindful of your concerns, sustained by your prayers. thank you and goodnight.

woodrow wilson died a broken man. tonight, i do not tell you that war to in vietnam is a end wars, but i will tell you this. i have initiated a plan to end the war in a way that will bring us closer to that great goal to which woodrow wilson and every american president in our history has been dedicated. the goal of a just and lasting peace. as president, i hold the responsibility for choosing the best path of that goal and then leading the nation along it. i pledge to you, tonight, that i shall meet this responsibility with all of the strength and wisdom i can command. in accordance with your hopes, mindful of your concerns, sustained by your prayers. thank you and good night. announcer: in a televised oval office dress on november 3, 1969, president richard nixon delivered what was known as the silent majority speech on the vietnam war. next, a u.s. information agency report examining nixon's address in a 15 minute report produced for audiences outside the united states. anchored by baltimore tv journalist wiley dan

the president was woodrow wilson, who would carry out two terms as president. he did not endorse suffrage 1915.until in 1917, they started picketing the white house. two long years of ticketing. they would stand outside the white house and hold a silent sentinel. they would leave their headquarters, which was across the square situated in front of the white house. on the other site of the square where the headquarters. they had adopted purple into suffrage colors with the new around 1913. basically, that is what they did for two years and stood their ground. collegeo included women. even working women would protest as well. working women only had one day off of work a week. they could not protest unless it was sunday. we can talk about working women titlewhere you see the cover of the maryland suffrage news depicting a woman who was seamstress, who had been working for more than eight hours, which are the word -- normal working hours regulated by federal law. working women felt like they were being abused, and there were no laws that could protect them, so this

sea woodrow wilson. that is his statement on this. there is this thing that the americans want to take what they can get but are not willing to give back. this is a real tension in the post war period. the other issue that is concern is american expansion and the economic expansion and setting up markets and trying to push american products. but also this idea that americans seem to be promoting the ar a and that they were more efficient and scientific and could whip europe into shape. europeans didn't always respond all that well to this. wilson and his contemporary viewed the u.s. as having a special ability to have a peaceful world. they felt that war relief should show this. there were some in the united states who doubted this or maybe were a little cynical. this is from a chicago tribune editorial called who will rebuild europe and i will quote a little short segment from it. various american millionaires philanthropic or otherwise propose that the united states shall undertake the rebuilding of europe after the war is over. how

inkland, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. >>> major new developments. police investigating that halloween house party shooting in orinda arrested five people in a series of coordinated sweeps. one in vallejo, one in antioch, one in san mateo, two in marin city all through a shooting in a house rented through airbnb. this video was shared with abc7 news showing a s.w.a.t. team from contra costa county ordering people inside one apartment to come out with their hands up. one neighbor told what's she saw. >> it looked like something you see in a movie. it was police everywhere. and then they -- they let off some -- i don't know what you call them, tear gas up the street. >> orinda police have not said if any of the people arrested today are suspected of firing the deadly shots on halloween. the first four suspecs on this list, jacquez sweeney, jason iles, lebraun wallace and shamron mitched are all charged. the last person, devon williamson is accused of being an accessory. >>> ittialian police officers announced they have just finished their investigation

the president, of course, being woodrow wilson who had been elected in 1913 and carry out two terms as president and he did not endorse the suffrage cause until 1919. so we have about, at this point we're in 1915 and then in 1917 they start to picket the white house so there's two long years of picketing. every day these women would stand outside of the white house and hold their silent sentinel as they referred toby the press. they would leave their headquarters which was across lafayette square which was situated in front of the white house. on the other side of lafayette square was the headquarters of national women's party. they would leave their headquarters with banners in hand, carrying the colors of purple, white and gold which they had adopted purple into suffrage colors with alice paul's new group, the national women's party around 1913, and basically that was what they did for two years and stood their ground. they also included -- you can see at the top there's college women, so they are wearing their banners of which colleges they went to. so they had college women protest

and then the democrat woodrow wilson. especially roosevelt was quite creative with the things that he lobbed against taft but wilson got into the fray and they fought back as well. one of the things i learned from the book. there is a lot of quotes that we hear or read about that the presidents have said about one another that you cannot find them anywhere. one of them is 1912. it was reputed. they said that taft has the brains of a guinea pig. it's a great memorable line but it's nowhere to be found. here you have roosevelt talking about howard taft as a fat ted. where did i find that. i think that was in a newspaper clipping from may of 1912 both taft and roosevelt were making swings through ohio. they were reported on what they said. i think that is when we are getting a window into some of this thinking. one of the more unusual relationships was a very bitter campaign. they hated one another. when they went there about the funeral. and they realized they didn't really like each other. and of course, aunt gerald ford's

and even when woodrow wilson in mid february said enough is enough and cut bait on the operation of the newspapers in the u.s. and it was a moot point because the white sea was frozen and unless they went all the way up to burbank and was attacked in the open field. all they could do is wait and there was another instance of be outlandish operation and the machine guns which don't operate will well when it's 50 below. they brought are sleeping bags with them but otherwise they were pretty well a crypt and got used to it eventually. it wasn't bad except for the shackled to boots and a few of them were just flailing around and around four to six weeks of snow and both were through the snow and had a cases of frostbite and they are not huge and there were 70 men who had the flu before the end of september. otherwise there was another 235 casualties including the flu and it was an accident that for engineers drowned in october of 20 -- 1918. they were going to india get out and influences were accompany i taken over with local british command insisted that the company not crossed the bank t

theodore roosevelt is running a democrat woodrow wilson. it was vicious. especially roosevelt was quite creative with the things he lobbed against taft wilson got into the fray and taft fought back as well. one of the things i learned from the book is there's a lot of quotes that we hear or read about these presidents have said about one another but you can't find them anywhere. one of them was in 1912 it's reputed theater roosevelt said that taft had the brains of the guinea pig. it's a great memorable line, but it's nowhere to be found, , pole that i could find. >> here you have theater roosevelt talking about william howard taft as a fathead. >> yes. >> where did you find that? >> i was in a newspaper clipping from may 1912 i want to want to say, and both taft and roosevelt were making swings through ohio and the newspapers were reporting on what they said. >> you use a lot of quotes from richard nixon in his conversations with monica crowley. >> yes. that's when this was after his presidency, the nixon was more unfiltered perhaps or at least is coming

attack, trying to defend of the white house and theater roosevelt, he's running, and the democratic woodrow wilson and it was vicious. >> especially roosevelt was kuwait created with the things that keep locked against taft but wasn't got in and fought back as well. visiting citizens from the book is just a lot of post that we hear and read about these presidents have said about one another and that if you can't find them anywhere. still one of them was in those reputed the theater roosevelt said this happen. in the principe brains and a guinea pig. as a great minimum bold line but it is nowhere to be found. i cannot find it anyway. >> have theater roosevelt talking about william howard taft. british my neck. >> i say in a newspaper clipping. from may of 19, on the same and both taft and roosevelt were making swings through ohio and newspapers were recording, they said. >> used a lot of quotes from richard nixon in his conversations with monica pro freda. >> and i say that is when missus after the presidency who is the little more and entered. getting window into some of the thinking from h

cauley woodrow with barnsley‘s equaliser in the 94th minute.e side have a really tough match coming up overnight. it's the first of back—to back tests against new zealand. the match comes after they lost their opening game of the autumn series against tonga. dave woods is in auckland for us. disappointment for great britain in their opening test match against tonga last week. this week, they are up against new zealand in the first up many cds. here at eden park in auckland, brian noble is a former great britain coach. how important is it great britain are to win this week? it is extremely important. they went down to the tongans last week and what they would describe as a scrappy affair and in a four match, if you want to consider it in that kind of series, the game becomes vitally important for them. 1—2 tactical changes by wayne bennett, the most significant is jonny lomax, the full—back comes in, are you happy with that selection? i am excited by that selection. he came off the bench last week and had quite an impact. he started embedded's s

servinge longest trustee of the woodrow wilson center and served in all of the various capacities. i was appointed by president ford on his way out. bridge do is we try to the gap between the world of ideas in the world of action. we endow fellowships for people from the world and bring them in assignment ofan two or three years and interface with academics. we have a pretty good reputation. david: what are you most proud of having accomplished in your public life? is it secretary of state, treasury, chief of staff? fmr. sec. of state baker: i am most proud of the fact that i ram those campaigns -- ran those campaigns for president of the united states, served 12 years up in washington, and i left uninvited. [laughter] left, sometime after you you went back to texas and considered running for attorney general. fmr. sec. of state baker: i did run. david: you said someone came up to you once and said you look like jim baker. i don't remember the exact story. do you remember? fmr. sec. of state baker: after i had run for's campaign, i had campaign, i had a lot of television time and t

in doing so, he divides the party and as a result, woodrow wilson ends up winning the election.t party, the republican party, really does divide in such a way that it is not able to reform in any sort of dominant way for years. it is true that the republicans come back after woodrow wilson's presidency for that decade, but then what we see is that franklin roosevelt is able to pick up that coalition and run with it. the democrats are ensconced for many years. at the primary level, and what was important about that period, was that people were questioning party bosses. the progressives who really got going in the late 1890's and carried through all the way to franklin roosevelt's presidency had really been about changing the nature of who were the delegates at these national conventions? they said it is not fair that it is these party bosses or national elites. people should decide. and the people need to have a way to decide. what we saw was that the primary election was created as a way to select delegates to the convention. >> what was the first state to hold a primary? dr. br

because i was the longest serving trustee of the woodrow wilson center. i served in all of the various capacities. secretary of state, secretary of was appointedand by president ford on his way out. what we do is we try to bridge the gap between the world of ideas and the world of action. and we endow fellowships for people from the world of action, bring them in, and give them an assignment of two or three years or something like that. they interface with the academics. and we've got a pretty good reputation. david: what are you most proud of having accomplished in your public life? is it something as secretary of state, secretary of treasury, chief of staff? mr. baker: i told someone this earlier tonight. i am most proud of the fact that i ran those campaigns for president of the united states, five campaigns, i served 12 years up in washington, and i left uninvited. [laughter] david: one time after you left, you went back to texas and considered running for attorney general. mr. baker: i did run. david: you did run. you said someone came up to you once

. >> melanie woodrow was at today's news conference and joins us with the latest. melanie. >> reporter: steve foster says that he takes b.a.r.t. often and that he's had food on the platform before, never a problem. it was different this time. it was about 8:00 in the morning last monday when foster was on the platform of the pleasant hill b.a.r.t. station. he was eating a sandwich while waiting for his train to arrive. a b.a.r.t. officer detained foster, grabbed his backpack. another officer then arrived and cuffed foster. foster says the detaining officers were also calling him names. >> before i can even saying anything -- as you can see he had in his mind he wanted to put me in cuffs. that's basically what happened right here. they were saying i was resisting. i wasn't resisting at all. i had no kind of force to keep them from putting me in cuffs. >> this is a case where a slight admonishment could have easily occurred, but yet it did not. >> reporter: attorney john borrow says foster was racially pro filed. he was cited for eating at the nation and detained abo

melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. >>> a woman from vac avaaville the first to die from the complications fromhy woman who began vaping six months ago. this makes it 40 deaths, the fourth in california. there are more than 2,050 confirmed illnesses. lyanne melendez has the details on the local case. >> the marin county health department says this 45-year-old woman died last friday at the hospital. that increases the number of deaths associated with e-cigarettes to 40. and the fourth in california since july 2019. dr. matt willis public health officer for the county said it happened quickly. >> she had symptoms of a cold for the previous few days. presented to t emergency department rapidly progressed to acute respiratory distress syndrome. was placed on a breathing machine. sent to the icu and succumbed within 24 hours. >> the centers for disease control and prevention recently reported that there seems to be a common denominator in most of the cases. >> samples were taken from 29 patients and found vitamin e acetate in all of them. vitamin e is used as an additive. >> we have over ten samples

. >> melanie woodrow spoke with the woman who took that video. >> reporter: while shopping at stonestownween minors and security. cuevas agreed to talk with us but asked that we not show her face. >> they wouldn't allow me or anyone else to get near them. for me i feel like recording i was doing my part. >> reporter: the security company said it was responding to a physical altercation between six juveniles believed to be siblings. allied universals highly trained security professionals followed proper protocol in order to deescalate what appeared to be a family dispute. our security professionals complete ongoing training to help ensure that we uphold top security standards. cuevas questions why two of the juveniles appear to be handcuff handcuffd. >> for me i always say be the change you want to see. so i was just trying to be the change that i want to see. >> reporter: in the video you can see a couple of younger children attempting to protect the older children. >> i wanted to hug the little boy to be honest, but i could tell that they were all very protective over each other. >> rep

theypersonal would carry banner saying, what would you do for women's suffrage question mark the president, woodrow wilson, had carried out to terms and he did not endorse the suffrage because until 1919. at this point we are 1915. in 1917 they are picketing the white house. every day they would send -- stand outside the white house and hold the silent sentinel. they would leave the headquarters in front of the white house. on the others was the headquarters and they would leave their headquarters with banners in hand carrying colors theurple, white and gold national women's party around 1913. that is what they did for two years. you can see there is college women, wearing the banners of which college they went to. which college women would protest or different state delegations would protest or even working women would protest. working women only had one day off a week from work. that was on a sunday. they couldn't protest unless it was a sunday. you see the title cover of the maryland suffrage news depicts a woman who was white, who was a has been working for more than eight hours today, which ar

. >> this picture, that's from the woodrow wilson -- carry grayson. it's out in front of the old executive office building. he had -- he made a difference, he made an impact. what was? it >> grayson was a doctor, and he also was one of the great horsemen of virginia, he was an incredible writer, a small man, and when woodrow wilson, after the inauguration, there was a dinner, a luncheon, at the white house. one of the relatives, an older woman, fell. and doctor grayson was one attached to the white house as an assistant doctor ritzy, the white house doctor. there is always a doctor assigned to the white house. since the late 19th century. and so, he was so gentle with her, and nice with her, because she was in a fairly hysterical state, that he was detailed through the family, more or less. he became intimate to the family, and became the white house doctor. he was raised to the rank of admiral, and he stayed there, all during the wilson administration. he was intimate with the family, and no one ever knew the wilsons, and it weather then grace. and h

beingesident of course woodrow wilson and would carry terms and he did not endorse the suffrage because until 1919. at this point we are in 1915. in 1917 they are picketing the white house. every day they would stand outside the white house and hold the silent sentinel, as they were referred to by the press. they would leave the headquarters in front of the white house. on the others was the headquarters and they would leave their headquarters with banners in hand carrying colors of purple, white and gold the -- which they had adopted those colors with the national women's party around 1913. basically that was what they did for two years. they stood their ground. , you can seeluded there are college women wearing the banners of which college they went to. in which college women would protest or different state delegations would protest or even working women would protest. working women only had one day off a week from work. that was on a sunday. they couldn't protest unless it was a sunday basically. we can talk about the working women here. you see the title cover of the maryland suffr

. >> abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow was at the cpcu meeting. she's in the newsroom with the latest. >> dan and kristen, the vote followed a series of public comments in which residents and local leaders conveyed the challenges they're facing in the wake of the shutoffs. they may consider taking action if they find pg&e committed violations. >> commissioner cher ohm a -- >> the california public utilities commission voting to formally investigating the pg&e power shutoffs. the the investigation will assess whether pg&e properly balanced the need to provide safe and reliable services when planning and executig the shutoffs. something residents impacted want to know as well. >> many californians are debating whether california is still safe. >> the first phase of the investigation will evaluate the internal coordination, external communication and execution of the shutoffs. >> this will serve as a forum for taking evidence. >> the supervisor, moke simon. >> hopefully we come up with suggestions and solution toss help folks move forward. >> the cit

america west almost like them has done president woodrow terms and i get as you can guess that the image has such it is because the 7 in the back to make the market which is in the big. can get in then. call it the basic it like other popular are you up to much on this one and are likely to. get a nice it will not happen and make the others there you know you watch them sort of invited them to. some of the billions of us at the i started getting it petted almost as it was by some woman calm other women all mine just. head hanging michigan which is based on the most would be himself. we came in late. so almost. nugent then ended his. talk to the public you dollar museum the bush daughters to the human is in there goes the. thank you very much you did i really learned your feel so i think you said a. new talk and alaskan village rapidly losing ground to the road falling permafrost its inhabitants forced to move to safer ground below the west 1st the environment one reads when it says a witness finds people struggling to cope with rights in syria and asks whether those who have the power wo

a survey was done by the woodrow wilson foundation, and discovered that if you give the same test tople who are native americans, only the citizens in one state were able to pass it, vermont. states, the average citizen without studying could not pass the basic citizenship status -- test. there is no one way to solve it. in a modest way, i'm trying to buy historic documents, the magna carta, declamation of independence, and put them in places where people can see them. why is it so important to he this -- to see the historic documents? you can put a facsimile. you can look at a computer screen and see with the constitution says. the human brain does not treat a computer document the same as a historic document. if you go and see the original magna carta at which i bought and put on display at the national archives, you can go there. you can read about the magna carta and its significance. but now you can go there. the same of historic buildings. when the washington monument had earthquake damage, i said i will put up the money because it might take too long to get it done. monticello

. >> melanie woodrow attended that meeting where the depannmanned made. >> reporter: those strong wordsfrom district 1 supervisor who said the shutoffs have been devastating to residents and business owners. lake county has had its share of natural disasters. the supervisor says he considers pg&e's recent power shutoffs to be just as destructive. >> each one of these ps's is turned off, all 67,000 residents without power. unbelievable. >> reporter: he was one of several people who addressed the california public utilities commission today. >> the day that the fire happened, they turned the power off at 4:00 p.m. the fire happened at 7:30 at night. started for the kincade fire. so good intentions don't always get the job done. >> reporter: the network communication chief says a message during the public comment period was of local government representatives talking about the enormous costs. the costs to the governments themselves to provide emergency services. the cost to small businesses. >> reporter: she says costs that shouldn't be passed on to customers. >> our members are upset beca

. >> like woodrow wilson and teddy roosevelt. from the localities. some in some ways it is a dangerous entity by which we mean the soul identity is founded as a nation. on the one hand to see ourselves as a community that is vibrant i'm sitting here in miami the kind of community that people know each other but through that community to share a common community that members of the humanity should not be at odds with each other. in the whole of what we are to belong to. >>host: patrick deneen is the author of t6 we appreciate you co

merchant marine that never left american shores in 1917 president woodrow wilson commissioned the u.s. emergency fleet shipyards across the country raced to build a 1000 steamships in 18 months but mid effort the war ended and 200 some already built ships were immediately rendered obsolete they didn't know how long the war was going to last either so the fact that war ended before they finished the building program was a good thing langley says after the war nobody wanted the ships because their hastily built holes were made of wood not steel eventually a salvage company brought them to mel's bay where they were stripped of valuable metals during the great depression burned and song but they've become an integral part of the environment we're very happy to have and they're still here for us all over enjoy it when you century that these impulses have been rooted here something interesting has been happening in major is restrained and filling them with dirt and sea and animals and birds and now there are small islands with their own ecosystems. the area is now a park where people can pa

. >> here is abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow. >> steve foster says he still can't believe what this expect that to happen at all. >> reporter: a bart police officer detained foster last week for eating a sandwich on the platform of the pleasant hill bart station. foster's girlfriend was with him. >> i told her pull her phone out, because i felt like something wasn't right. >> reporter: one of the officer >> before i can say anything, as you can see, he alrady had it in his mind that he wanted to put me in cuffs. >> reporter: another officer arrive and assisted with cuffing

international affairs from the university of st andrews in scotland and from princeton university's woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs i joined the foreign service in 2002 during a political merit based process under the george w. bush administration and i have proudly served ministrations of both parties and worked for their appointees both political and career prior to my current post in kiev ukraine i served in the political and economic sections at the u.s. embassy in moscow russia in washington i served on the national security council staff as director for of afghanistan and as a special assistant to the undersecretary of state my prior overseas assignments include new delhi india kabul afghanistan bogota colombia and pristina kosovo as the political counselor at the u.s. embassies embassy in kiev i lead the political section covering ukraine's internal politics foreign relations and security policies and i serve as the senior policy and political embassador to the about advisor to the ambassador the job of an embassy political counselor is to gather information

. >> abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow was at a meeting today where local leaders demanded state regulatorsg&e do better by customers. >> she is live in the newsroom with the latest on all of this. melanie? >> dan andy on, strong words from one supervisor who said the shutoffs have been devastating to residents and business owners. lake county has had its share of natural disasters. the county's 1 district supervisor says he considers pg&e's recent power safety shutoffs to be just as destructive. >> each one of these pspss has turned off all 67,000 residents in our area with power. it's unbelievable. >> supervisor simon was one of several people who addressed the california public utilities commission today. >> the day the fire happened, they turned the power off at 4:00 p.m. the fire happened at 7:30 at night, started for the kincade fire. good intentions don't always get the job done. >> torn's chief mindy spat says the message period during the public comment period was loud and clear. >> we heard a lot of local government representatives talking about the enormous cost, the costs to the

just a quick word about the global europe program, which i chair for the woodrow wilson center. this is a program we have designed to do a little bit different. because it looks at the pressures and

for eight years under woodrow wilson, he had been the number two man in the navy. andnderstood how to serve did not hesitate to use presidential authority. when war clouds gathered, he passed over the armies senior leadership to make george see marshall chief of staff. inthe situation grew tense 1940, he reached out to the republican party and named henry simpson secretary of war. frank knox of the chicago daily news, to have been a running mate in 1936, secretary of the navy. when war came, he turned to admiral ernest j king to fight the fleet and recalled admiral leahy to be his own chief of staff. nationlt nudged the toward a war. he was determined not to get too far in front of public opinion, but at the same time, to push the united states toward involvement. struck, king george the sixth wrote roosevelt, by the way you have led public opinion while allowing it to get ahead of you. king wereand the quite close. a point that i would pause to say that roosevelt genuinely enjoyed associating with royalty. calledys called him -- them george, elizabeth, and wilhelm

how do the laws change in response to history and how especially in light of woodrow wilson's re- definition of how justice should be understood according to some elements that they morph as human more's. we should have timeless rates versus more valuable rights. >> you are getting pretty deep into constitutional interpretation. the cases that i'm speaking about the supreme court decided marsh versus chambers. and historically they had been looking at the interplay of religion and governments. you can't endorse religion. they have a three prong test. in this case in which they challenge the prayers has state legislature the supreme court said what i can a focus on all of that. were to look at history and in 1774. the constitutional congress prayed. we will go ahead and allow this. same thing happened in the cross case. in history is very valuable as i think you can all probably gathered from what's happening right now. my problem with those cases is that the history that they can cite is just as malleable as you could offer. the same one that was cited in that cross case. the guy who gave th

placed on president woodrow wilson was so much that he endorsed the cause. >> continued the tour on american artifacts, sunday at 6:00 p.m. and at 10:00 p.m. eastern. you are watching american history tv. >> next, the association of the u.s. army hosts a book for with -- forum with three authors titled "controversial and unconventional leaders in the u.s. army." the generals are george patton, edward allmond and john. >> good afternoon, everybody. thank you very much for being here. this is our annual book program we put on every here. -- every year. we have very talented authors for this year. we appreciate them being here. i have read all their books, discovered some things in the books that we did not know. it is interesting to go back and look at the other perspectives. our way of selecting an author is an author will submit a manuscript. we have a bunch of senior officers. senior means age, not rank. they review the manuscripts and make a recommendation to the director of the book program, and then the wheels start rolling. the negotiation with the publisher goes on between the book pro

i'm a graduate in clarmount, california, and from the woodrow wilson school of international affai affairs. . i joined in 2002 during a mefrt based office and i proudly served at administrations for both parties. prior to my current post i served in moscow russia. in washington i served on the national security staff as a director for afghanistan, and a specif special assistance. a coup as the political counsellor i lead the internal politics, foreignna relations, and securi policies andur the senior polic and political ambassador. the job of an embassy political counsellor is to gather information about the host country's political landscape. to report back to washington toe represent foreign policies, and to as vise the them on foreign false i am also often called upon to take notes for visiting officials with counter parts. some of which may be germane to this inquiry. it is important to note that i'm not a political appointee or engaging in politics. it is not my job to cover or advice on u.s. politics. i'm a foreign policy professional and i focus on the politics of the country in whi

just a quick word about the global europe program, which i chair for the woodrow wilson center. this is a program we have designed to do a little bit different. because it looks at the pressures and stresses and issues that confront the continent of europe, whether that is the arctic, the issues of climate change and trade, whether it is migration, whether that is the big relationships with russia, china, and of course the united states, and whether it is issues that confronted in many different and challenging ways of which our guests will be able to talk extremely eloquently, in this case around the horn of africa. alex needs probably no introduction to any of you. he has been the european union special representative for the horn of africa for years now. it is based now in nairobi and have been working on issues that concern all of us throughout his long career, perhaps especially now on the horn of africa. i'm going to begin by asking him a few questions and then invite you to join in the conversation. this is on the record. we have c-span here. we are delighted to see you.

and they don't want to talk about the democrats in 1920 after woodrow wilson administration. as those proved to be popular after he had a stroke and was unavailable to anybody but mrs. wilson and his doctors over a period of months and months. he didn't have his twitter feed either. you had americans involved and in 1818. a huge recession and influenza epidemic and then would have resulted in about 3 million deaths of the united states. this was devastating and with 34 percent of the population four years later it was 27 percent. the democrats held god in the south but not even all states in the 19 twenties. that yet they did make some progress. even though people predicted they may not last as a party to try to unite a coalition party which is always difficult. they had some assistance from the great depression in 1932 but the evidence is absent the great depression democrats would remain competitive to figure out how to build the politics and the various candidates. . .. . .. thirty years ago beginning of the '90s we were told they had a lock on the presidency and had major

war and reversed the gains of the reconstruction period by real white supremacists elitists like woodrowjust keep them down, you don't tress them to do figure for themselves. you have big state golf, keep them living southern dole. and nobody gets ahead that way. nobody gets a chance that way. you mention hypocritical. i will let you know, i used to work at bloomberg. they had all the soda you could drink. so, you know, i mean, i get a kick out of that. not drinking too much soda was important. but you could go all day and drink 50 sodas if you wanted. but he's not different than the rest of them. this i think is just sort of the tenor of the entire conversation. this is why donald trump represented something different. he's talking about trusting americans. trusting them to know what's right. the left doesn't. >> absolutely right. actually, it's the left and it's also the mindset of tyrannical dictators. think about this playbook of bloomberg. first you disarm a certain part of the population, then you tax that population so you can control their social and economic behavior. and you do

melanie woodrow has this story. >> reporter: dozens of people in costumes arriving halloween night paying to attend a party, never mind the sign outside that said no loud talking, music or noise after 8:00 p.m. the homeowner says he had no idea the party would be taking place. >> they were brand-new guests on the platform, they were coming for one night and that's all we know. >> reporter: chris young said the booking guests reached out to him the next day to report some small damage, saying she fell and her heel went through the wall. we get down here. there's a hole about that big in the wall. >> here's a picture of that hole. >> and the house smelled like marijuana, and we're like orb okay, there's a bit more to this than what's being represented. >> reporter: so he checked the home's ring security cameras. >> the more i watched it, the more it became evident this was a full-on house party. >> reporter: complete with a hot pink stripper pole guests installed. >> scratches in the ceiling, you have a handprint over here. >> reporter: but the most disturbing thing young says he discovered

questions you pass 60 you are sworn in. 90 percent of the people past the same test was given by the woodrow wilson foundation to citizens native born in all 50 states 49 out of 50 majority of native born americans only state past the people don't know as much about history then you run into the problem if you don't know about your past you'll repeat the mistakes so one of the things i'm trying to do is to get people to do this through my philanthropy that we will talk about tonight with the library of congress dialogue so we will talk about how this led to the book. with an interested interest in philanthropy. [applause] paula was given an introduction before. and born in florida and the librarian of the city of chicago. where he was in the past 22 years. and has done a spectacular job as library offia congress. - - library of congress. [applause] >> first you tell everyone one of the secrets as a good library and i have the article. >> i said it doesn't work for everybody but it works for me but the best interviewers have notes. [laughter] because we have worked to gather. but when you wer