but in its purest sense, when andrew jackson was saying, and he is a purely populist. his father was an immigrant who died penniless. probably a squatter. his mother essentially had to work as a servant for her own sister. he was an orphan at 15 or so. he had no means, he had no access. but he was part of the vanguard of the largest unforced migration of human beings to that point in history. the scott irish probably 1/4 million scots irish come to the united states. this is a new immigrant class despised by the elite, they return the favor. but as they move west, their political power grows, jackson then gets to be their leader. he gets to do that. is a perfect populist insurgency. >> -- is on the cover, how is he a populist? and what was the social turbulence going on at the time that helped him along? >> he is populace not just because he was crazy. but he became more populist as he got crazier. was about was a progressive and was definitely an elite. and as he starts out, he is an accidental president. he takes office, but of course, teddy roosevelt being the cocki

and as a fierce indian tighter, he was expected to be at andrew jackson's side. and jackson, who won many military battles and many were fought and his victories were brought on by the fact that he had a large number of american indians as part of his battle group, as part of his army. yes, and he promised those indians who fought with him at the various battles and against other indian tribes and the british at the battle of new orleans, he promised that they would be part of our country. davey crockett was there. and later when davey crockett came here to this congress and andrew jackson betrayed those men and women, those americans who happened to be american indians and betrayed them, crockett would have nothing to do with it. crockett stood firm. and it was memorialized in the walt disney series, but that did not capture the essence of what happened at that time. crockett elected by the people of his state to come here and support president jackson. he stood against that president and he stood for integrity and honor and courage and truthfulness. and he got u

the people were alarmed that there was this group with secret oaths and andrew jackson happen to belong to it. it was sort of a populist way of flanking the populist president. but of course jackson gets reelected. and as far as the cherokee decision goes, marshall just has to live with that. jackson would not see that the law was enforced and it was impressed to the final stage. the final stage would have been if samuel wurster, he is imprisoned to the church is bringing the lawsuit. he would've had to tell his attorneys that the decision is not being followed. georgia is not obeying the decision. therefore the president, the court must notify the president of this and he must execute the laws. but at the same time that this is happening, the nullification crisis with south carolina is coming to a boil. and will georgia join south carolina in the resistance? so the missionary is leaned on by the employer's as new england religious employers say look, drop this lawsuit. we don't want to split the country because of your problem.so he did. we never reached the point of the ultimate clash

george washington, james madison, thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, how they integrate in wrist lives off the backs of blac men, women, and children. tell the truth about george washington he is not heroic in the eyes of every black person in every native american in the country today. host: thank you, john. guest: let's talk about that. i am glad you brought that up. that is one of the things that is very vital to us. one of the chapters in this book is dealing with george washington's slavery and how he owned slaves. what they had you want to say to you is i appreciate you saying back, because you are right. you should never judge any of us, whether george washington, or myself, none of us are who we are on our worst day. there is a wonderful book out there right now about how george washington went after a runaway slave. . none of us are perfect if you

andrew jackson gave the very gracious tribute to him. much more gracious than anything jefferson would have said then marshall said about jefferson. the most gracious tribute of all came from a club in richmond for marshall had played his favorite am every saturday from a two-out sober and they will since john was irreplaceable, the boys club should always have one fewer member. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much, rick. that was marvelous. bill buckley and turns of journalism he valued most was the quality of the words and this led him to make some poor choices of the national review. he gave liberal writers there start or increase prominence by publishing them which annoyed her publisher at the time to no end in wary conservative magazine. but fortunately he did not know is have to choose between the quality of the words in the ideological soundness, but rick for kaiser rudely exemplified what bill wanted a national review writer to be eloquent, cultured, distinct and witty. we can't be sure anymore what bill with in

andrew jackson's presidential victory nine years later clinched the switch back and policy. jackson ran for office as a man of the people, committed to the old republican policies of fiscal reform. jackson meant what he said. tos -- hee stuck stuck to gallatin's policy. jackson could crow that the federal government had repaid the last dollar of its debt. the federal government has never again been free from debt. culture of fiscal responsibility cap public debt in check throughout the 19th century. in peacetime, the government paid most of its bills with import duties that were effectively invisible to most americans. went the war required borrowing, the government intended to pay down the debt after peace returned. modern republicans put a statue of alexander hamilton on the south side of the treasury building in that the early 1920's. the taller statute that dominates the front of the white house is a figure of albert gallatin. that is no accident. for most of the last century, hamilton was not a hero. he was a government elitist. it was gallatin he was remembered as a man

washington and move on to thomas jefferson and james monroe, one of his favorite presence was andrew jackson. so he has several volumes here. james polk, these are pretty much arranged, roughly chronologically. a lot of lincoln biographies as well. he has two sets of these memoirs here. it's a very full collection of presidential biographies. truman as a young man, went up to world war i and served in world war i. during that period, he was very much influenced by wilson. he, many of the policies that he implemented after world war ii, with those we think inspired by a number of the policies that wasn't had tried that failed to get there. example, the united nations was sort of reflected the nations from the first world war. some people in and admiring way, he also, being from western missouri, the frontier when he was growing up, he also had an affinity for andrew jackson. one of his favorite early presence because he was the president truman that were all the people for the common people. truman also sort of kill that girl in the 20th century. its policies and jackson's policies were certa

re any picture of ve the andrew jackson there. ould you talk a little bit about how he connects to this boys he rebellion, black and all of that stuff that was going on, andrew jackson. yeah, no, i think -- >> and i have a follow-up question. >> sure. what jackson represents, if you think about the movement f people after the revolution as, i think it's documented in this image in the left, but really, the movement of people from western pennsylvania, from estern virginia, along the appalachian, into kentucky and tennessee, these are the areas the ich the black boys, groups, were affiliated with them, were moving. these were, james smith is kentucky.o so in many ways, this pattern embodiment n is now of this pattern on the national stage. >> so in a way jackson was onnecting with what the black boys had done 50 years before? point? your >> yes. yes. are there any other questions? questions? frenchman ioned that early on, that all of these people were contributing money. what happened to him? out into the interior? >> yeah, great q

they were so angry about this and, yes, this war was great victory, the spar spangled banner and andrew jacksonn new orleans, don't give up the ship, the glorious victory so-called of 1812 which by the way was failure that james madison was almost hanged by the british, chased him out of washington which they burned, james polk in 1840'ss i want to be a war president too. >> michael, most recent book presidents of war 1807 to modern times, we've covered on several of his books, you can watch all of his past appearances at booktv.org, let's begin with some calls, 202 is area, 748-800 if you live in east and central sometime zone, 748-8201 in mountain and pacific times zones and james is calling again from south bend, indiana, go ahead with your question or comment, james. >> yes, sir, i enjoy your show there, speaking of books and wars, i'd like to get michael's comments on what some call best book ever, bible, the cause of war is greed, the cause of war is sin, and isaiah, trillions -- >> host: where are we headed? james, where are we headed with this? could you -- >> caller: the question is --

>> so you have the picture of andrew jackson there. could you talk a little bit about how he connects to this with the rebellion, black boys and all of that stuff that was going on 80 years before andrew jackson? and i have a follow-up question. dr. spero: sure. what jackson represents, if you think about the movement of people after the revolution as, i think it's documented in this image in the left, that really, the movement of people from western pennsylvania, from western virginia, along the appalachian, into kentucky and tennessee, these are the areas in which the black boys, the groups, were affiliated with them, were moving. these were, james smith is moving into kentucky. so in many ways, this pattern is -- jackson is the embodiment now of this pattern on the national stage. >> so in a way jackson was connecting with what the black boys had done 50 years before? is that your point? dr. spero: yes. yes. >> are there any other questions? >> you mentioned that frenchman early on that jefferson was trying to raise funds for. what

one of truman's favorite presidents was andrew jackson so he has several volumes on andrew jackson here james polk. these are pretty much ranged roughly chronologically. a lot of lincoln biographies as well. he has actually two sets of ulis sis s. grant's memorial moyers sheer it's a very full collectionoff ol' presidential biographies. truman as adown many went off to world war i and served in world war i, and during that period he was very much influenced by woodrow wilson. he as a matter of fact many of the policies he implemented right after world war ii were those we think inspired by a number of the policies that woodrow wilson had tried but hat failed to get through. for example, the united nations was sort of a reflected the league of nations from the first world war. so, we know that he read some people in an admiring way, he also, being from western missouri, the frontier, when he was growing up, he also had an affinity for andrew jackson, one of his favorite early presidents because he was a president truman thought for all the people, for the common people, and truman also o

there's an interesting story in salt lake city, my home, where they change the andrew jackson elemento school to mary jackson and mary jackson was a nasa engineer and the school board said she had the college degree and andrew jackson did not -- [laughter] and we want to point our students towards college. solution.e possible i just wanted to share that comment. >> first, i had the wonderful opportunity -- hello -- the camera is in the way. to read cynthia's book. it's really, really good. good.eally really interesting. your, i hate to stomp on only --tryouts, but not there are remarkable memorials to the civil rights area throughout the south. aware aftermay be the great migration north, many back.es came this is true is tourism and the antle rock nine have inspiration on the capitol grounds. they are larger-than-life. they hardly resemble nine, but they kind of look like themselves. -- the first african-american student at mississippi, there is a statue to that. an installation at the university of north carolina statuteill, the udc that was justifiably torn down. there's a lot in t

of course, there is lafayette square, the centerpiece, of course, is an equestrian statue of andrew jackson. [laughter] in lafayette square, you can find this beautiful statue of lafayette. i did a quick tour through the museum of american history and found numerous mentions of him, exhibitions in the revolution and at tudor place, you can pay a visit there and visitors are reminded of his visit of a print on the wall. this is a washington family punch bowl that was likely used, undoubtedly used when lafayette visited and if you have a careful eye in one of the upstairs bedrooms, you'll find in one of the cases up there, this luster ware pitcher. this is a whole another lecture of the commemorative items that were made around this visit and in commemoration of lafayette. one side of it is this transfer print of lafayette. on the other side is the surrender of cornwallis at the battle of yorktown. and now visitors to this museum can see peter waddell's brilliant depiction of the city during the year of the triumphal visit in 1825. i want to thank my friends here at the george washington univ

we had the federal reserve created after the national bank was demolished by andrew jackson in the early 19th-century. we have the lasting version of the income tax. there was one by the civil war, but the one that really lasted. we have the modernization of the antitrust statute of the clayton act passed following the strengthening the sherman antitrust act, prohibiting any contract trust or conspiracy in the restraint of foreign or trade. we have the creation of the federal trade commission. we have the beginnings of the eight hour day, for the railroad workers. then we have the ill-fated attempt to ban child labor, which i think was undone by the supreme court but later reinstated. that's a pretty long list of things. the thing that strikes me is that, you could talk about each of them individually, and i can do that little bit, but some of the tensions in the society that resulted in those legislations are very much with us today. so the whole, incredible, long, prolonged debate over creating the federal reserve, how much it would be centralized or how much would it be decentralized?

he is the only president we have had since andrew jackson who had no american-born grandparents, all four were born under the union jack. sometimes it can sound patronizing, but the wonderful contributions that immigrants not aade -- he was immigration restrictionist. >> i think that is right. to talk of him as anti-immigration is not correct. the reason he was so confident that the united states could absorb people from all over the world is because the anglo-saxon system of governance was so strong and perfect that it could absorb all kinds of people and would show why it was perfect, why it was better. this is where i come to the complicated nature of that. on the one hand, it was really admirable. this vision of immigration but from a civilization list -- point of viewt was that the country was big enough to absorb anybody and make them into real americans. his view of real americans is probably more narrow than we would say today. question.short point of view was that the country was big theghcould somebody discuss wht status of the issue of public education was at the time of w

this table is one of his favorite books about one of his favorite heroes that's a biography of andrew jackson. an true jackson would be one of his political influences and somebody who he would look to in the history books for guidance as to how to be a president of all of the people. when truman was a young man, just about six years old or so, about the time that his family moved to independence, he was diagnosed as having a condition known as flat eyeballs. and so he received a pair of glasses with a special prescription. he was legally blind. he said later, change the way of his boyhood and that he couldn't play the sports that other boys did. baseball, football and other rough-housing. and it restricted him to playing the piano and reading. and he later claimed that the love of books came to him largely because of that increasingly ability to read. and he claimed that he read by the time he left independence every book in the independence public library. here in this room, they were surrounded by the books that they loved. it's a very eclectic collection of books. he has everything from a

controversy, there is an interesting story in celtic city, where they changed the name of the andrew jackson elementary school to the mary jackson elementary school, and mary jackson was the first -- she was a nasa engineer and the school board said, she had her college degree and andrew jackson did not, and we want to point our students towards college. so that is one possible solution out there, if the last name is lee, find a different name that reflects somebody you want to represent your students. i just wanted to share that comment. >> [inaudible] >> first, i have had the wonderful opportunity of -- hello, the camera is in the way -- reading cynthia's book. buy a copy, sign it in your classes, come on. it is really good. really interesting. patty, i hate to stop on your but youtriumphalism, have to taste -- not only is there a fabulous installation in montgomery, alabama about lynching, they are our remarkable memorials to the civil war throughout this up. there is marvelous african-american tourism throughout the south. many of you might be aware that after the great migration to the

there's an interesting story in salt lake city, my home, where they changed the andrew jackson elementschool to mary jackson elementary school. there jackson was a nasa engineer and the school board said she had the college degree and andrew jackson did not everyone to point our students towards college. that is one possible solution. if the last name is lee, find someone who you want to reflect to your students. i just wanted to share that comment. >> first, i had the wonderful opportunity -- hello -- the camera is in the way. read cynthia's book. it's really, really good. everybody buy a copy. bookout because it is really good, really interesting. patty, i hate to stomp on your western triumphalism -- western tryouts, but not only -- there are remarkable memorials to the civil rights era throughout the south. there is well organized african-american tourism for the south. many of you may be aware after the great migration north, many families now come back. there are school reunions here there is black tourism and the little rock nine and the installation on the capital grounds. they

i hope he'll do what andrew jackson did saying to heck with you.f you think i should abide by it you come and enforce it. judge jeanine: this did not seem to hurt the democrats. democrats going on vacations with lobbyists. she was in hawaii. the american people, are they buying this feeling that it's all donald trump's fault when he's the guy who is holding strong to his promise and yet he's getting criticized by everyone? >> the people that hate donald trump still hate him. nothing changes. nothing will change. these are irrational people. they don't think with their brains. they think with their emotions. but there are a lot of americans who didn't vote for the president and don't even like him. but they can look at this objectively and they are not stupid. they can see nancy pelosi cares nothing about dreamers, about government employees and she is not willing to say anything in way of compromise to bring about some solution. she just wants to make political points. the fact that she said not one time for the wall. then the idiotic statement tha

also talking about abolishing the electoral college that elected democrats going back to andrew jacksoncies that won't work and will cause middle class taxes to go up. kevin, great to see you both. deneen, it's like democrats are walking around like they are in that movie "bird box" tblienlds folded. if they enacted all the federal programs they would have to tax the middle class. >> democrats haven't learned anything from the last presidential election which was about jobs and the economy. and they are running around talking about anything but the jobs and economy. but keep running around with the blindfold upon because they are not connecting with the voters. people want to be able to support their families and they want disposable income. what they are proposing, higher taxes, the new green. it's not going to help hard-working americans. liz: they are talking about raising taxes about climate change. but kevin, you saw what happened in france when france tried to do that. people rioted in the streets. >> i as we have seen after day one of democratic control, the democrats have glen p

token, grant is the only president in american history from andrew jackson to woodrow wilson, nobody else serves two terms except for ulysses s grant. today, historians consider him the first of the modern presidents. he did a lot of things, particularly in foreign policy, that was not done until grant came along and did what he was going to do. he did not like being president. the only reason he said he was president busy was worried if some house was elected, they would lose the effects of the war. keep in mind, he is the only president, only president between abraham lincoln and lyndon johnson to do anything about african-american citizenship. this is another major thing. >> we will take your questions. sir? >> not sure this is on or not. i enjoyed the book. you indicated that grant was very fair in his presentation, was not arguing for to go position or anything, that was only reporting. the footnotes help understand his thinking. grantstion is, what did leave out that was significant? john: good question. good question. one of the major things, and we could spend a lot of time o

you write in this book that andrew jackson was probably our first celebrity president in your view. why do you say that? >> well, the battle of new orleans was a pretty big deal.

it's a biography of andrew jackson. andrew jackson is one of his political influences and somebody who he would look to in the history books for guidance as to how to be a president of all of the people. when truman was a young man, just about six years old or so, about the time that his family moved to independence, he was diagnosed as having a condition known as flat eyeballs. so he received a pair of glass was special prescription. he was legally blind he said later change the way of his boyhood and that he couldn't play the sports that other boys did, baseball, football, and other roughhousing. and it restricted him to playing the piano and reading. and he later claimed that the love of books came that him largely because of that increasingly ability to read. and he claimed that he read by the time he left independence every book in the independence public library. here in this room they were surrounded by the books that they loved. it's a very eclectic collection of books from a couple of editions of the holy bible

that's why he says crazy things about andrew jackson, for example.hink that the bottom line is you need to vet the information getting to the president, not because you don't want people placing things on his desk like omarosa was placing breitbart articles and other kinds of things, you need the information to be vetted because like nancy pelosi said, you need to operate from the same set of facts. >> right. >> when you're dealing with public policy. so the big issue i think that we've been dealing with from the beginning is that he is not living on the same planet. he is not living in the reality where you have a certain set of facts and then we can work through the details. we're talking and trying to negotiate with somebody who is literally living in an alternate reality where there are terrorist flooding over the border, where there are folks i guess throwing drugs over the wall. >> turning left and then right. >> hitting people on the head. sometimes it's funny, but on the other hand, it's not because we've shut down the government over this al

and john quincy adams, who was swept away in a populist wave at the behest of andrew jackson.ystery deepens when we think about what happened in his life. you to think of what i am about to take off as not just bullet points on a piece of paper, but think about the political drama likely to attend many of these things. he led us into a war with spain in 1898. it ended up being a huge success. it was a three month for. we destroyed the spanish empire and destroyed to spanish fleets, the atlantic and pacific. we became an empire by acquiring pro -- puerto rico, guam, and the philippines. we liberated cuba. hadould have kept it but we already made a commitment that we would not. he kicked spain out of the caribbean and turned the caribbean into an american lake. he acquired hawaii through negotiation and annexation. he set in motion the event that to the panama canal. gets an awful lot of credit for that, but it was really reversed the policy of cleveland who was an anti-expansionist and said we will move on this canal and set in motion the studies and actions and planning that l

talkers using this slur in front of native american heroes standing in front of a portrait of andrew jacksonof the worst catastrophes for native americans in our country's history. this is what the president does. i think i'm going to disagree with jennifer a little bit. i think when you see this, and clearly this is setting up for 2020. donald trump is going to hammer this for the entirety of the 2020 campaign. if elizabeth warren and democrats generally don't have a clear and consistent response to this sort of racist language, it's going to be detrimental to them. democrats frankly didn't do enough to reach out to latin -- latino voters to black voters, other minority voters to organize them, register them and get them motivated to vote. if they make that same mistake in 2020 by not addressing this head on, it's to their peril. >> jeremy, i want to get your take. jennifer, i want you to respond to that. >> when he attacked her personally, hillary personally, that we would ignore. when he attacked a hispanic judge that was weighing in on his case, when he said that people crossing the bord

andrew jackson fought a duel every second tuesday of the month or whatever he was doing. in this case, they fight a deal at lake merced and terry shoots broderick and kills them. a lot of the country has no idea. it's out in california. there's no tv coverage. nobody texts from the duel. "did you see what terry did?" but it's certainly noticeable to politicians and opinion makers. and it reminds them of the beating of charles sumner. this is a violent issue. and by the way, since we're in nevada, i have to mention this. david terry, later, is still practicing law in california, and he ends up in a case against a mining and banking magnet who basically controlled the comstock lode. and sharon have had a mistress and there was a big legal fight over whether he had agreed to marry the mistress,, or under common law what have you. they wound up in court. and the first time the ruling goes against the mistress, she pulls a gun. the next time the ruling goes against her, she pulls a knife, and terry pulls the gun. later, they bump into the judge on the train, the supreme court

in fact, one would probably have to go back to andrew jackson to find anyone who has occupied the white house with as much nult, drama and disruption. watching his first two years in office what is striking about donald trump is watching any u.s. president i have watched or read about, he is a gambler, unconstrained by press department, history, norms, or official advice, trump simply acts on his impulses and his ideas. sometimes this can be refreshing. he has forced washington to take a closer look at assumptions about china. he asks what exactly is being accomplished by america's military interventions in the middle east. he has focused attention on the problems of the working class in an age of globalization and technological revolutions. but the problem is that trump's same style, impulsive, erratic, disruptive, means he has no thoughtful policies of his own. his management style is so impeerious and narsest issic that he struggles to retain talented official. he has no background in policy nor any inclination to learn anything about it. so he simply wings it. the result is that he

martin van buren [ laughing ], you don't hear many people quote martin van buren, in fact he was andrew jackson's vice president and a master politician. but he said, at one point that government should not be operated based on the excitement of the moment, but on sound and sober thought. and i think that's maybe one of the things that may be missing here now. but that's just my opinion, clearly underlined. >> i think what you're getting at, it feels to me like the president is fairly separated from his government. and maybe that's natural because the president didn't, the government. he hasn't been engaged in this process, but when i read about how the white house works, there is a way in which the president is normally deeply engaged and pushes people and pushes thing back. but it's a give and take in the president is totally enmeshed in the machinery of government and two years in, the president seems to strain against the machinery of government and say, that i think this is what it should be. but, the government doesn't work that way, the government doesn't work on bid broad pronouncements,

people say, andrew jackson was populist. he was a man of the people, so to speak, and he did attract a great hordes in -- i remember when he was first inaugurated, he invite everybody to the white house, and they made shambles of the place. but he -- >> i can't say i remember that. >> i was going to say. >> anyway, he nonetheless had a sense of where the economy was going and the like, and to even think of him in the same terms as today is a mistake. so, i think we're in a very extraordinary period at this stage. i do not know how it's ultimately going to come out but it is different. productivity growth, which has been essentially averaging 2%, 3% per year growth, it's upward, we're now down to a little over 1%. have been there for quite a while and unless and until we attack this and as adrian was mentioning, what we suggest in the back of the book is how to -- what to do with entitlements and the swedish example he gave is basically the means by which we can get out of it if we went in the same direction as they, but if y

granty the same token, is the only president in american history from andrew jackson to woodrow wilson, nobody else serves two terms. except for ulysses s. grant. historians consider him the first of the modern presidents. he did a lot of things, particularly in foreign policy that were not done until grants came along. president.like being the only reason he said he was president because -- was because he was worried if somebody else was elected, they would lose the effect of the war. >> you can watch the entire program on the memoirs of lewdness is -- ulysses s. grant tonight. presidency, richard moss talks about how presidents have used covert means to conduct since the diplomacy. mr. moss is the author of nixon's back channel to moscow. johnson and nixon as well as a 1968t overture, the candidate hubert humphrey, which he declined. the gerald r. ford presidential library hosted this one our 15 minute event. there out to tonight's engagement. we are honored to have richard maas here to speak about his new "nixon's back channel to

a casualty of the personal and political war between president andrew jackson and senator henry clay.or treasury secretary is a rarity in the senate's history of advice and consent. >> only eight have been rejected to the united states senate. narrator: but in 1989, the institution's past echoed through its debate. >> roger taney who is rejected for the secretary of the treasury. narrator: as politics in the senate turn partisan and personal once more, with a high-profile cabinet nomination. >> our body is awash with hypocrisy. >> i do suggest that the constitution and 200 years of precedent dictated that the president should have his chosen cabinet. >> in 1989, president george h.w. bush nominated a former u.s. senator from texas, john tower, to be secretary of defense. >> please understand that the old-boy network is not working in this case and we will do what we think is right. >> and very quickly, an opposition began to develop. >> over the course of many years i have encountered the nominee in a condition, lack of womenty, as well as with to whom he was not married. >> i would h

>> well, i think in fairness i think andrew jackson probably came to him in a dream and said not onlyve avoided the civil war, but he would have in fact built a war and preve prevented all these problems. they are out of proposals to make. they are out of arguments to make. so you are just throwing everything up there and seeing what is sticks. i mean there are people out there who agree with the president and they just happen to be hosts on fox news. and it is a very shrinking component of the population. but they are delighted. >> and dean, we live in this media world, you are in talk radio, what would bill shine have to say to laura ingraham and sean hannity and others to get them to back off and let's him back down? because the outcome here is, mr. president, you get nothing, you back down. what do they have to say to get him to say fine, i'll you just back down and tell his supporters there is no wall? >> nancy pelosi said yes, i'll offer a dollar toward the wall which is great. so she has allocated one dollar for the wall. she really said that in a presser. >> didn't she say bea

but by the same token, grant is the only president in american jackson tom andrew woodrow wilson, nobodylse serves two terms, nobody else serves two terms except for you leases s grant. ulysses sorians -- grant. he did a lot of things particularly on foreign policy was not done until grant came along and did what he was going to do. but he did not like being president. the only reason he said he was president was he was worried that if somebody else got elected, they would lose the effects of the war. >> learn more about the people and events that shaped the civil war and reconstruction every saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern on the on american history tv here on c-span3. lnouncer: new york governor smith was the democratic party's nominee in the 1928 presidential election, losing to republican herbert hoover in a landslide. next come the historian robert charles,alks -- robert talks about his book "the revolution of '28: al smith, american progressivism, and the coming of the new deal." helpedgressive coalition shape a new liberal agenda for the democratic party, paving the way for the poli

this guy was not only the biggest racist since andrew jackson, but he was a card-carrying klansman.ot only did he set back civil rights in this country for minorities, he said that human rights during world war i for 100 years. cannot be in that because of the legal framework now protecting civil rights. we don't know what he would do without that. let's get woodrow wilson in their. -- there. host: the former vice president spoke yesterday in washington, d.c. you can see remarks online at c-span.org. we spoke about small harris earlier. you can see her remarks on our website. caller: hi. i just wondered about the shutdown. everybody is blaming president trump, yet the congress failed provide theduty and funding and an appropriation as part of the fiscal year. they sit around and want to keep doing these continuing resolutions, that way you cannot get any changes in what we are .oing or how we are doing it they don't want to do their job. why don't they want to do their job? if they can get in on that this bill together, they can hide omnibusgoodies -- an bill together, they can hide

caller: let me give you an presidencyok at the of andrew jackson. my goodness.ohn marshall, the supreme court passed, past some -- something about the indians in georgia and they overran the president and the president said you did that and now we will force it. --have always been a country if the american people would study the history, if they would understand that. i have seen specials on tv where they interview some college students. they can't even tell you who the vice president is? host: so specifically your optimism doesn't extend to this president? caller: i believe he wants the best for the country, i wish he would not tweet as much as he does. host: are you an agreement over the shutdown the money he wants for the border wall? caller: i don't disagree with them. it's like a rat. if you corner around he will fight. look at israel. israel has a wall. the wall and china doesn't work, fine. .t was only four feet high israel, because they were having a real problem, they built that wall. look at the stats. they have been going -- they're are almost at the

now, extraordinary american figure, president, one of our best diplomats when he ran against andrew jacksonor president he was portrayed as an elitist and that he took his bath with no. which was then considered a huge sin, a symbol of decadence, absolutely false. that is was a guy who swam in the potomac each morning and freezing weather so no was not his way of bathing. but that kind of thing has been around forever. what you see in modern times is precisely because everyone is now a journalist, everyone is now a publisher, everyone now can go online because the intensity and the loudness gives it a dimension that we haven't had before. and more and more, we are going back to what newspapers were once prevalent in this country and that is they were really party organs. they were there for political purpose, not quite as bad as the french were but you knew you had your favorite paper, if you are a political persuasion or its had a certain look on the world. amazingly in 1896 thenew york times , a new publisher took it over, the sulzberger family and in tennessee and they decided they would

jackson books in new york city to hear about the life of president eisenhower's national security adviser, robert cutler. then on tuesday at the new york historical society, columbia university american studies professor andrewll bank coe will recount the political and moral divisions that separated the united states in the leadup to the civil war. and on thursday at politics & prose bookstore in washington, d.c., the time as chairman of the nuclear

jackson granted a gag order in the manafort case. manafort was not nearly all over the airwaves the way roger stone has been in the past. >> neil: so he wouldn't do a judge andrewpolitano anymore. >> no. the last interview he give will be sean hannity tonight. i believe that will kick in -- >> neil: you broke a lot of news. so let me ask you, if this were to go to trial, i know i'm leaping ahead here, when would it go to trial? >> he said it's going to go to trial. that statement might have been intended for the president's consumption about a year from now when the president will be caught up in the iowa caucuses and new hampshire primary. nearly three years after bob mueller was appointed. so mueller has guaranteed himself and his team another year in office because by all the things that they -- >> neil: we would not have a report out of mueller by then? >> i doubt it. >> neil: wow. >> i doubt we'll get a report from mueller until the people he's indicted and needs to try have been tried. why? a lot of information comes out in cross examination at trial which you don't always anticipate. mueller and his team are going to want to have the benefit of that info