if you might address the american century however strikes you? >> we have distorted it but most of the 20th century, it certainly was an american century and i mean that as a complement. the people who talked about it, it was -- i would say this -- about harry lewis's definitions which i read many times. used the phrase many times, described a country which we would like and in many ways still are. the beginning of the 20th century, the average life span of a white man in the united states was 42 years. for a black man was 32 years. our public health system which typified us. we felt we had to do something about that. we felt we had to do something about a lot of things and many of them technological so that we got a jump on the world in terms of technology. we also had a history, not fighting bosnians and the xhosa mars and the serbs. there were no a eleventh century wars to continue to refine. we really did come. one thing i am doing in the book on the japanese in turns is the role of the founding fathers though they were brilliant wonderful men

this morning our topic is publishing and the american century. our format is a little unusual for this annual conference. we will have a presenter, but then instead of serial comments, we will have a more free willing informal conversation among everyone who is here. i'll introduce the members of the panel later on. right now i'd like to introduce our presenter. alan brinkley is the alan nevins professor of american history at columbia. among his works are "voices of protest," huey long, father cobb lynn and the great depression which won the national book award for history. the "unfinished nation," "the end of reform" are two other of his works. the book we're focusing on today and though he didn't ask me to, i'm happy to hold up a hard-bound copy which is still available is the publisher "henry luce and his american century." please join me in welcoming alan brinkley. >> thank you, marty. the title of this session, historians, journalists and the challenges of getting it right is very apt for a talk about henry luce because getting it right was

the century was to be the next great american century. generation deliver that great american century with just terrible unemployment numbers. yes that a little russert you actually got to interview former president bill clinton the father of a failed journalist and so yes yes chelsea how does short lived contract there but anyway phil griffin from imus on the scene when you talk to the tampa bay times that i'm sorry i don't care about journalists i want fair minded smart people who understand the world and interpret it there are journalists great this notion that you somehow have to have done something to earn so-called journalist credentials stop i think there's points to be made either way right as a lot of opinion shows out there and stuff like that. i don't think that phil griffin should be criticized for making a statement there is a reality of the direction that cable television news has gone in he's a businessman he is the president of amazon b.c. he has to have a profitable successful business model i mean come on people have to

can this deliver that great american century with ese terrible unemployment numbers? >> first of all, that's not their fault. their parents's generation did that. i think that what they can do is use their skills at social networking and use their access to the internet for crowd financing and getting substantial amounts of money in small amounts to start their own ngos and make a living doing good and start their own businesses in ways that were not available to their parents and grandparents. i believe as we come out of this recession and hiring picks up, they will be well-positioned to get the new jobs. i also think that they will be more self-reliant and more reliant on their informal networks to actually start small businesses and expand them. i think you will see a whole new sector of entrepreneurialism spawned as a result of the internet. >> but first and foremost, he know he is a political junkie. do you get the sense he is following it? >> he is following it pretty closely. ironically enough the only other person that had these high negative ratings was bill

the 20th century was the american century.. god bless you. god bless america. >> president obama, lorraine county community college in o'leariy, ohio, the president obviously speaking to the heart of the economy and again taking on members of congress who he believes are not prepared in his words to have the wealthy estee responsibility for the economy well and pay their fair share referring to the buffet rule which was unsuccessful in the senate and has been rejected by republicans as well. they believe it is an attempt at class warfare by the administration. we also know the president is headed to michigan, the birth state of mitt romney, who is set to have his strategy in place basically following the president around as we are now certainly in the general election. mitt romney having a prerebuttal in north carolina and also talking about the economy and so again we're watching the latest event. this is the president's second visit to this particular college. he was there january 2010 at the time the ohio unemployment rate

talk about that a little bit. >> the dominant focus of american jewish organizational life in the mid 20th centuryequality that will help to make sure we do as well. by the 1970s, that had been achieved. and jews were moving out of jewish organizations, because they were assimilating into american life. i think the smaller group of people who still wanted to play in the jewish organizational world, essentially turned these organizations into organizations that would be focused on defendingç the policies of the israeli government. partly because of the huge upsurge in attachment to israel that followed the 1967 war and the very bitter attack by the left, unfair attack i would say in many ways, on israel following the 1973 war and the '67 war. and i think unfortunately these jewish organizations now define being pro israel usually as supporting the israeli government rather than supporting the principles of israel's declaration of independence. >> you also one of the things you, you talk about is that essentially, this is a dynamic that i've thought a lot about in other contexts, that there's a gap

because of iraq and afghanistan, a decade worth of war, was not what it was when you think of the american century. we were not held in high regard. and he literally piece by piece put this country back on track. today the auto industry is hiring again. it wasn't. it was literally closing its doors at one point. the financial sector is lending again and much healthier. the economy, rather than losing 800 -- or 750,000 jobs a month, is somewhere around 200,000 a month gaining jobs. and every sector, is it different? is it fast enough? is it diverse enough? he'd be the first to tell you. are the middle class more secure? no. are they where they were before? absolutely much better. but we have a long way to go. >> only one american president in history i think has ever been elected with unemployment above 8%. >> mm-hmm. >> the polls suggest it's pretty close with the assumed nominee mitt romney. president obama, your guy, has a fight on his hands, doesn't he? how is he going to win the economic argument against mitt romney, who will be chucking the kitchen sink at him and saying i'm the business guy

we can make this century another great american century. thank you, god bless you. god bless the united states of america. >> that was the president in climactic form, ending his speech in boca, in florida, taking his fair share economic message to the battleground state. part of that, the so-called buffett rule. the proposal that goes right at millionaires like his rival. and given today's news from rick santorum, almost certainly his opponent will be mitt romney. i want to bring in our panel again. julian epstein and here in new york, all of us watching and listening very carefully. ron, was that class warfare as you have previously described some of the president's speeches about tax and the buffett rule? >> i think it was. let's look at what this was. this was a brilliant campaign speech. if you're looking at the president trying to rally his base and trying to rally progressives, i think this is the beginning of his campaign. if you're looking at this as a substantive policy speech, i don't think so. as jonathan and i both talked, i think the so-called buffett

best infrastructure in the world and we will keep at and make sure that the 21st century is the american centurylike the 20th century. thank you, everybody. god bless you. [cheers and applause] ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it has been nearly 10 years since the release of the third volume of the years of lyndon johnson and in a few weeks, the fourth volume will be published 1980's passage to power. >> this is really a book not to just about lyndon johnson bought about robert kennedy and jack bennett -- kennedy and the interplay of their personalities. it is a very complicated story. aboutt think people know these two complicated people, robert kennedy and lyndon johnson. i had to really go into that and try to explain it because it is part of the story all the way through the end of the johnson presidency. chronologically, at the moment, johnson is passing the 1965 voting rights act and that is where a up

we can make this century another great american century. thank you, god bless you. god bless the united states of america. >> 50 years from now the republicans will be coming on a show like this saying, all we have to do is cut taxes and we will have economic prosperity. no matter what the tax rate is. if it is 2%, they say lower it, we will have more fun. thank you, you're not that predictable but sometimes. here it comes. thank you. thank you. up next, can mitt romney put the infamous dog on the roof forry him be instead of on the roof. david axelrod hit him with it, and he couldn't escape the poor pooch up on his roof. you're watching "hardball." it's time to get going. to have the energy to turn a "to do" list into a memory. to put more giddy-up in our get-along. to keep stepping up even in overtime. it's time to start gellin' with dr. scholl's... ... and mix a little more hop in our hip hop. thanks to the energizing support and cushioning of dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles, your feet will feel so good... ... you'll want to get up and go. >>> back to "hardbal

because of iraq and afghanistan, a decade worth of war was not what it was when you think of the american century were not held in high regard. and he literally piece by piece put this country back on track. today the auto industry is hiring again. it wasn't. it was literally closing doors at one point. the financial sector is lending again much healthier. the economy rather than losing 750,000 jobs a month is now somewhere around 200,000 a month gaining jobs. and every sector, is it different? is it traverse enough? he'd be the first to tell you. is the middle class more secure? no. are they where they were before? much better but we have a long way to go. we have work to do but we can't -- >> what would you put into the must do better box? >> he'd be the first to say the more things to do in sense of getting the middle class the economic security they need. they came off -- literally for the first time in american history from 2000 to 2010, the median income declined. it was the first time in american history the middle class went backwards, not forwards. and you cannot have another decade in w

c campus is a panel on biography:the american century. among those featured is that what the 11 l 8 times book price for biography john farrell for his book on clarence darrow. in two hours a call in program with tracymac millen. the book is the american way of eating undercover at wal-mart, farm ville and the dinner table. three hours as the los angeles times festival of books coverage continues. a panel on nonfiction, narrating disaster. a hole at the bottom of the sea. in four hours and interview and call in program with benjamin bush. his book is just to dust:a memoir. 4 hours from now a panel on nonfiction, visions of the west and in five hours are final call in program for the saturday. steven ross is our guest. the book is hollywood left and right:how movie stars shake american politics. now we take you to newman hall on the usc campus for the first panel session

we can make this century another great american century. >> now pompom and mitt romney on the campaignoday. we will hear a lot more on those themes in the months ahead and back with us to dive into campaign and more is donnie fowler, he directed al gore's field operations in 2000 and political insider extra trord e. /* /* extraordinary. >> a nationwide poll from the washington post of registered voters shows that president obama leads mitt romney 51 to 44%. the nationwide poll is very early. it's only registered voters. donnie, is there anything in that, the president should be looking to? >> we see some things setting up we could preductict a few months ago and on president presidential elections. first, obama is winning women by 18 points. >> that's much bigger than normal he is losing on men, which is normal by eight points, by nine points. so he is doing much better among women and about where you would expect among men. and on almost all of the issues whether it's terrorism, creating jobs, standing up for the middle class, pompom has an advantage over mitt romney the one place whe

the american century was a mistake, the middle class was a mistake, the american way was a mistake, and to go back to some mythical wild, wild west of social darwinism which, in fact, did not ever exist and did not make us the great nation that we are. >> richard wolffe, whenever we've had what some voters might think of as a boring presidential election, i always remind them that the supreme court is always at stake. if there's nothing else you can think of, any other reason you can think of for voting, think about who this person's going to appoint to the federal courts. the judge we heard from in this was appointed by ronald reagan. and does this help the president, highlight the stakes involved in judicial appointments in this presidential election? >> well, it does, and there's a parallel here, i think, with the birth control issue which is that, look, i think it was actually a mistake for the president to engage in this at this point. there would be a time for him to get into the fray on this with the supreme court after they make their ruling. he could have put any number of surr

we can make this century another great american century. thank you, god bless you.od bless the united states of america. >> 50 years from now the republicans will be coming on a show like this saying, all we have to do is cut taxes and we will have economic prosperity. no matter what the tax rate is. if it is 2%, they say lower it, we will have plor fun. thank you, you're not that predictable but sometimes. here it comes. thank you. thank you. up next, can mitt romney put the infamous dog on the roof forry behind pi him be instead of on the roof. david axle rod hit him with it, and he couldn't escape the poor pooch up on his roof. you're watching "hardball." [ male announcer ] considering all your mouth goes through, do you really think brushing is enough to keep it clean? while brushing misses germs in 75% of your mouth, listerine cleans virtually your entire mouth. so take your oral health to a whole new level. listerine... power to your mouth. not in this economy. we also have zero free time, and my dad moving in. so we went to fidelity. we looked at our family's

that is what will make the 21st century the second american century.liberty and freedom around the world, not by just saying it, but by living it every day in the way we conduct ourselves in the way we govern ourselves. mr. president, thank you for setting that example. thank you for inspiring a whole new generation of conservative republican leaders who you helped to create. so many of us who sit in the state houses today are products of your leadership, your willingness to give us a chance to make a difference in our country and your administration and now to make a difference in our states and a country and in the world because of the opportunity you gave us. thank you very much. [applause] [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] joe lieberman is retiring. our guests are the republican and democratic senate directors. it is at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c- span. >> hours this of the commission is to work to see to it that human rights remain an essential component of ameri

college, how they're going to sustain the jobs that we need to make sure that this century is an american century and to make certain that we're allowing our children to outcompete and outinnovate the rest of the world. that's the honest dialogue we want to have against mitt romney and republicans who want to drag us back to the past. >> patrick gaspard thank you so much. we appreciate it. tonight at 8:00 p.m. on msnbc, ed schultz will have an exclusive interview with vice president joe biden. you do not want to miss that. >>> for the first time in months, guns are silent in syria. >>> plus, north korea's rocket is ready for liftoff and could fire at any moment now. >>> but first, today's trivia question. in 1943, which hollywood celebrity to the government enlist to convince americans to pay their income tax? tweet us@dailyrundown. the answer coming up on "the daily rundown." ♪ [ male announcer ] 1 in 6. that's how many struggle with hunger in america. ♪ but what if there was a simple way to feed those in need? now there is. just buy select brands at walmart's low prices during april and you hel

just like the 20th century was the american century. thank you. god bless you. god bless america. [music playing] [music playing] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the general services administration had set up a hotline to allow people to report wrongdoing. that is after waste and mismanagement was discovered at the gsa. including the government trip to las vegas. that hearing is next on c-span two. later, a look at racial profiling by law enforcement officials. >> two things, the first is this is such a complicated concept that we have never ever thought a war like this before. it is very complicated. the second thing is that what is referred to in washington as nation building, really is very targeted war fighting. david reuter spent many years covering news for many years. he won a pulitzer prize this week. he is one of many that you can watch live at the c-span video library. find over a quarter century of american politics and public affairs on your computer. >> now, the general services administration inspector general and the new acting gsa administrato

what i've talked about so far is sort of that foundation of the african-american community that continues through the 19th century. after 1860, washington's african-american population continues to increase in size dramatically. by 1870, there are more than 43,000 african-american residents of the city, one-third of the total population. by 1890, this number had grown to 75,000, and they were still one-third of the population. as the city grew, they grew. and eventually by 1900, washington, d.c., had the largest african-american urban community in the nation, the largest african-american urban population in the nation. this population growth also created a much more segregated city in washington, d.c. as african-americans continued to move in and were funneled into certain sections of this city. by the start of the 20th century, washington's african-american community constituted essentially a separate city within the federal government, a secret city, as one author has described it. now, while we know a great deal about the general history of african-americans in this city, i would argue, i would suggest, that w

gets the strategy right but due to a moral failing -- i mean, that's basically the way 19th century americans are seeing it doesn't succeed. it's mcclellan. what's widely's evaluation of the concept of mcclellan's peninsula campaign? >> it's pretty positive. he doesn't have the guts to follow it through. >> exactly. and not only that. what doeswi widely talk about? >> there's a lot less revolutionary. so there weren't any changes. slavery wasn't touched. >> and whether or not that was really a good or bad thing. is it plausible likely? did you say something? >> would it be possible to bring the union back together? because the south wanted the war to end. they want to stay the same way they were. >> widely is on the fence. if we read his other work, there's a sense that there's a lot of down sides to them. widely doesn't care a lot about slavery. that's one of the reasons that he can take that position. he seems to indicate that wouldn't have worked. his only chance to make it work requires him to achieve a military victory, which he does not. so grant has the better strategic perception. but

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best infrastructure in the world and we will keep at and make sure that the 21st century is the american centurylike the 20th century. thank you, everybody. god bless you. [cheers and applause] ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> now, recalling -- republican presidential candidates mitt romney and newt gingrich speak at the national rifle association meeting in st. louis, missouri. their remarks are about one hour. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you. thank you for your generous welcome. what a job wayne lapierre just did. what an extraordinary man. thank you to chris cox for that wonderful introduction. there is one more person i would like to introduce. i happen to believe all moms are working moms. if you have five mommies -- five sons, your work is never done. my sweetheart, ann romney. [applause] say something. you are welcome. >> this is fabulous. let me give a shot out to all moms that are working. and, by the way, all dads that are working. we love all of you. as a parent, you

tonight, the lives of african-americans in 18th century washington, d.c. we'll hear remarks from lonnie bunch. taking place at st. john's church in downtown washington, this is a little more than an hour. >> thank you so much, neal, for that kind introduction. i can always tell when my staff works on an introduction for me because they tell you everything about me except the fact that i was president of my third-grade class. two years in a row. there's hope for everybody. i can't tell you how pleased i am to be here today, to be part of what is a very important conversation that will illuminate african-american life and work in this neighborhood, which has always been an incredibly important integrated neighborhood. but as i thought about this today, trying to think about how i felt about being here, i kept remembering a letter that i received when i was at the smithsonian, which i guess is now. and the letter said -- well, it started out dear left-wing historian, so i knew it wasn't going to be good, but forget that part of the letter. the letter went on