agreed not to run for president that meant coolidge could run and in exchange coolidge would push forcontrol of this project. that was the deal that was struck. it was a secret deal and controversial. there is evidence that it happened. but george morris got a hold of the scandal and found out about the secret meeting and blasted it all over the media. once it became a public scandal, coolidge backed off. henry ford by then already said he would run for president. so ford took himself out of running for president prematurely and he never got the project but he also never got to be president. if he was president my idea he would be up president unlike any we had ever had. he would have been an autocrat. he would've been unable to deal effectively with groups like congress or the press. he just want his own way it would have been a very interesting four years. but it didn't happen. in fairness ford didn't really want to be president. he knew he was lucky to have the job he had as the world's richest one-man band this enormous profitable company and could do what he wanted and tell anybo

precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance,, coolidge revival. an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body and then return it safely to earth, reentering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about have that the temperature of the sun, almost as hot as it is here today i do all this, and do all this and do it right and do it first before this dictates and we must be bold. from the one who is doing all the work so i'm just trying to stay cool for a minute. however i think we're going to do it and i think that we must pay what needs to be paid. i don't think we need to ought a waste of money, but we need to do the job. and this will be two in the decades of the sixties. and maybe done well some of you are still here at school at this college and university. who will be good to the terms of officer some of the people who sit guns platform. i will be done, and will be done before the end of this decade! and i am delighted that this show is playing a part in putting a part on the moon as part of a great nat

. >> reporter: this past april, charles coolidge the only other living medal of honor recipient from world war ii passed away. you are the last man standing. >> yes. >> reporter: does that add to the feeling of responsibility? >> it does, yes, it does. >> reporter: do you wonder why he have been given so long to live? >> maybe i'm making somebody else's life a little better. a little more meaningful. >> reporter: woody williams has led the most meaningful life possible. although he puts it differently. >> i'm just absolutely the most fortunate person you could lay your eyes on. >> reporter: and one more thing we learned about the last man standing. standing. he is also the coolest depression. multiple symptoms hold you back. it's hard to get out of your driveway, and yoyour own wayay. gotttta change t this. soso you doctotor tells yoyu abouout trintellllix, a a prescriptition medicinie for r adults witith depressis. anand you feelel this ovoverall relilief. yeahah. and trinintellix hadad no sisignificant t impact on weighght in clininical tria. trintetellix may i increase suicidalal

this is coolidge corner roughly 100 years ago and what it looked like. in many ways, it does not look a lot different today, certainly a lot busier. but you see all of the old buildings in the center there, they are still there today with different shops of course. this was one of the reasons why the family moved to brookline. for a quieter setting where they could raise their family, but also having close access to shopping opportunities into that street car system where the family could ride back into boston to visit their family and friends. mrs. kennedy was often very fond of bringing the children to historic sites and really teaching them about massachusetts history. this is a picture of the second home that the kennedys owned. it is a -- at 51 abbotsford road. it's just a few blocks away from the birthplace. so the kennedys would live in this home from 1920 to 1927. it is where bobby, patricia and eunice were all born. you can see it is a big much -- a much bigger house. they were becoming wealthier. they also had an expanding family. so that is on

three years later in 1925 president calvin coolidge was the first president to deliver a speech that was specifically written for and delivered to a radio audience. it's very hard today to comprehend. just how startling it was for americans to suddenly be able to hear the actual voices of their leaders, especially their president for the first time and to hear them speaking live. truly revolutionary and it radically changed political life and norms. now i should mention that many early radio speakers were not very skilled in the art of talking over the airwaves some politicians found it difficult to transition to this new communication medium. they weren't accustomed to oriating to a large crowd from a raised platform speaking loudly and forcefully they didn't understand that people experienced radio speeches in a different more intimate way. radio audiences consisted largely of people sitting alone or with a small group of family or friends in their homes or businesses. now politicians continue to speak in a traditional oratorical style on the radio, but there was a very different s

now that i really couldn't get to, grace coolidge for example in the 1920s, is one of the most fascinating. we don't really know. she had the reputation at the white house for being a frivolous, should the tragic death of her son, so that wasn't a frivolous time but in general she is pictured with raccoons and dogs, and wearing fashionable clothes. she doesn't seem to have an opinion on anything. she says she was never consulted on anything that mattered, but after she left the white house, she wrote poetry, she got involved in causes. i think that there was a lot more to her than we ever knew. i would just like to ask her what she was thinking about when she was holding those raccoons and posing for all of those silly pictures, when she could have been doing more. >> there's another person like that. she wasn't first lady very long, mrs. garfield. her husband was assassinated very soon. but she, she was a very bright young women. went to the same college. she and her husband started out at the same college in ohio. they happen to speak on the same program and she and everyone else said th

whenever james monroe mother died or chauvin coolidge is favorite, knowing gloves but in any case, theseurines of presidents, i realized he's not a president but a little bit of history that accumulated in my brain in the way i looked at history which is what i can bring to the study of john marshall, not the facts because there are facts all over out there and it'sud this thinking about different things about american history is what i love about it and why marshall? well, after i had done buchanan, i still speak about buchanan because there isn't another buchanan expert out there but i wanted to see somebody who was important but not all that well-known. i've always thought about the 18th century, i worked at a tv station down the street, sometimes i'd work at night ande i would, the lights are dim and liberty bell is there, i see an loperation of ben franklin and thomas jefferson walking down the street and they would say, big party last night so i want to know about the rest of their time for what they do. marshall, picked up a marshall biography instead of a hamilton biography, used

and it would minera james monroe's mother died or what calvin coolidge favorite spots were. in any case brought me these figurines of presidents part i rose marshall's not a president. the point is its little bits of history but accumulate in my brain and the way i looked at history is alone more upbeat i would say. that's why i can bring to the study of john marshall. there plenty facts out there. this is things about american history and that's what i love about it. why marshall? after i'd done buchanan and is asked to speak about buchanan because who knows or not another buchanan expert out there i suppose. i wanted to choose somebody who was important but not that well known. i've always thought about the 1h century. oh it did tv station that was down the street from independence hall. sometimes at work at night the lights are sort of dim on the background the liberty bell is just there. i saw an apparition of ben franklin and thomas jefferson walking down the street. big party last night. [i want to know about the rest of their time. and marshall i feel, as i tell peopl

starts from a statement by calvin coolidge who said anytime you see -- coming down the street you chances are nine will go into the ditch before they get to you. certainly have one intended to have to deal with but that's not a bad philosophy. i think in many respects what we are doing is worrying about russia and china in particular and exaggerating the degree to which these are important. i certainly agree there's a lot of the book looking backward looking at how indirect respect the threat is exaggerated of the military threat during the cold war. it just seems to me in many cases i think chris said don't just do something, stand there so i think that's complacency and basically that the is going to self destruct and if we get to close we might have to do something but the best thing is to let it happen. many respects the soviet union and china self-destructed during the cold war. that's basically the way things had to go went to consider it. in the case of china, china is getting richer. why is that bad? the more stuff we can buy the more stuff we can sell to them. we don't like what'

hoover did not oppose trade with russia, and they constantly awarded president coolidge and hoover not to -- diplomatically as this latest were dishonest and hostile to american values. these reasons made it difficult for her to find support for feeding the russian people. to the american people, to the americans who had just objected to feeding russian citizens, they said we should make some distinction between the russian people, and the group that has seized the government. i think you will need to separate in your mind, the 200 communist in russia from the 150 million russian people. russian relief was the largest humanitarian effort to date. and not only provided food, but fought disease as well. it set abdul ousting campaigns against this issue of tyson and her not collections against diseases for 8 million people. and also donated about 2 million dollars and other medical supplies, it donated about 1.5 million dollars worth of clothing, and provided seed for the 1923 harvest. by the late summer of 1923, the worst was behind the russians. as the drought had ended, and a record-br

. >> a short flight president obama's first are visit to havana first since coolidge represented a shiftme here to bury the last remnant of the cold war in the americas. >> president obama restored full diplomatic reels with cuba, eased restrictions on travel and allowed cuban americans to send unlimited money to cuba. fox news travelled havana in 2015 as american businesses explored opening ventures there. >> cuba is changing. for many they say too slowly. then the trump administration. >> i am canceling the last administration's completely one sided deal with cuba. >> president trump restricted money sent toe cuba. the state department reduced staff in havana after mysterious attacks hit diplomats. with days to go in the trump administration, the u.s. returned cuba to the list of countries it considers sponsors of terrorism. during the 2020 campaign, then candidate joe biden said he would mostly restore the obama approach. >> we have to vote for new cuba policy as well. >> some democrats are pushing the administration to fulfill that promise. 745 of them wrote the president that, quote

did not oppose trade with russia, but he constantly warned president harding and then president coolidge not to recognize the soviet union diplomatically as its leaders were dishonest and hostile to american values. these same reasons made it difficult for hoover to find support for feeding the russian to people. to the russians who rejected feeding them said, we must make a differential between the russians and those. russian relief was the largest humanitarian effort to date. it not only provided food but fought disease as well. it set up delousing campaigns against the spread of typhus and provided inoculations for various diseases for about 8 million people. it also donated about $8 million and other medical supplies. it donated about $1.5 million worth of clothing and provided seed for the 1923 harvest. by late summer of 1923, the worst was behind the russians. as a record-breaking desire resulted, the governor decided to steep. in fact, the soviet government began selling grain to foreign markets, prompting hoover to cut all support to the russians. it should be noted that the ara

but at the same time, he praises calvin coolidge for cracking down on the boston police strike. now, once wilson has his stroke, he's basically out of the picture. and his cabinet is divided. on one hand you've got palmer, the secretary of state lansing, albert burleson, the postmaster general, and probably most importantly, wilson's chief adviser john tumly who is on the crackdown side of the reds. on the other hand, you've got his secretary of labor, his secretary of the interior, secretary of the navy and secretary of agricultural, who says that they've gone too far. but no one is able to stop a. mitchell palmer. what's sort of interest is there's good historical evidence that in the midst of this red scar herbert hoover is actually investigating both wilson and lane for their opposition to the justice department's crackdown. now, this is a fair question, maybe we can get to it in the question and answer. how much of this was all sort of self-interest by some of the key players and how much of it were really believing that there were problems? so how does this end? we'll open

grace coolidge's social secretary wrote in the 1930s that everything the first lady says and does is taken as an indication if not a reflection of the president's attitude toward his political future. the first lady's audience is both the same as the presidents. that is the whole nation really the whole world, but they each have their own special audience. he has politicians and traditionally she has had women. there's been a long-standing sense that the first lady represents and can distinctively speak to american women. and finally attention her unique position means she has everyone's attention. and as the first lady is almost always better liked and earns higher approval ratings than the president. we often want to hear from her even when we don't really want to hear from him. these five advantages give her an extraordinarily powerful voice. thus all first ladies are optimally situated to be the communicator in chief. even so communicating from the white house has always been an impossible balancing act between and among any number of shifting constituencies and expectations. som