sense ideas, reading books they unfortunately don't get to read in high school are learning about calvin coolidge they respond with great excitement. permit me to plug my foundation for another second, at the coolidge foundation, specialized high schools in new york. it is a serious competition, they are very expensive, a full ride to college. we have 15,000 kids registered to apply for four scholarships. what to those kids want? they want the money, they want independence from their parents, a lot of them, doing things on your own, it is important to send signals to young people, they are doing things on your run, going around way. it is our reward system, how you can figure out what you can get. to change the political culture, 16-20-year-olds and show them what is in it for them, played a natural wisdom which they have and say we understand you might think this and have it wrong. >> i encourage all of you, buy a copy for your friend or your enemy. all of you will be enriched by reading this wonderful book. [applause] >> coming up on c-span2, books about the military, talk about warfare in the

about for each or decca or reading books they don't get to read in high school learning about calvin coolidge. i see they responded with great excitement. i hope reihan salam will permit me to plug my foundation at the coolidge foundation, it's like the specialized high schools in new york or the rhodes scholarships which really are about academic merit and its quite serious competition and we have 4 scholarships a year because they're very expensive . it's a full ride to college and we already have 15,000 kids to have registered to apply for 4 scholarships per year. what do those kids want? and what the money, they want independence from their parents, not to have to fill out their fafsa but a lot of them like the idea of doing things on their own so i think it's important for all of us to send signals to young people that you will be rewarded for enterprise, for trying, for doing things on your own and currently our system doesn't particularly do that. it's more our reward system is about how you can figure out what you can get from the point of view of a 17-year-old so i think it's a chang

one of my favorites is calvin coolidge.t was during his time that radio came into being, and he did 22 speeches into the radio microphone. for people who remember his image, it was not terrific for television, but it was terrific for radio. it was during the time that he was on radio, the audience built -- it grew. just like how c-span started out with 3 million homes and then we went up 100 million homes. he's started out with very few radio stations and went up to several hundred more. those stories exist with each president. john: right, right. any thoughts on press relations, presidents that you know of? brian: i think kennedy was brilliant at it. he charmed everybody, but he charmed the press too. i do think of franklin roosevelt. he would have the whole white house press corps into his office once a week. just sit at his desk and field questions and -- he knew how not to answer. when you spend that much face time with the president, it's a very effective in getting them to pull their punches. >> this is where i will b

calvin coolidge carried new york city. the last republican to do so. al smith, of course, carried new york city but he carried a lot of other cities as well. and what's fascinating to speculate is would that break through in the south, would that have been a one time event or might it have foreshadowed. i can't tell you. i can't answer that. and i think a lot of economists if they're honest seyou had the crazy system where germany is borrowing the rest of the world owed it. but american banks were loaning money to germany, which then used the money to pay off so in addition you had a rotten bank system. there were banks speculating on the stock market. i mean there were banks doing things to positive money that would shock us today. you had wall street speculation, rank overheated, baseless, lots of people buying stock on margin, which is to say in effect they were borrowing funds and if they borrow down they'd have to sell their stock to pay off -- i mean the whole system was rigged. who would believe it was the cumulative impact of the war, and it's

franklin was always tipped his hat and respected him and as a republican and attorney general and calvin coolidge and then to respect the new deal and the became chief justice. >> you assisted refugees in hungary in the fifties. how do you explain to understand but to say they were not talking to each other. that's true that they said so to be so filled with that excitement and that meaning of what the revolution was all about to say mr. president don't you think there's something more we might have done to help the freedom fighters? he said without hesitation no. and i was standing there and then to go into that historical discussion, beginning 1919 right as they took over hungary to always look for an opportunity so when he saw that to get the world to look at them and to say the revolution began october 23rd. the suez was october 29 they are totally unrelated is it is that so? maybe we could have done something. to know what's going on on the road. [laughter] >> this is for vanden who pulls. living through tumultuous times or has there been material differences? with the cold war, socialis war

the best evidence of that is cities american cities. ,calvin coolidge carried new york city, the lastublican to do so. al smith of course carried new york city, but he carried a lot of other cities as well. you had actually the makings of an early realignment. had there not been the great depression, and hoover's reputation had in fact not been destroyed during his single term of office, what is fascinating to speculate is would that break through in the south, would that have been a one-time event, attributable to al smith as an opponent, or might it in fact have foreshadowed the party system? brian: how did the great depression come about? richard: i, i cannot tell you. i cannot answer that. i think there are a lot of economists who, if they are honest would respond the same , way. there are clearly a number of factors, some of which are easily identified. i mean the dislocations of the , war. crazy quotecrazy, system, where as part of the versailles agreement, basically crushing reparations were demanded by the victors of defeated germany which was really in no position economicall

calvin coolidge carried new york city. the last republican to do so. al smith, of course, carried new york city. but he carried a lot of other cities as well. >> you had actually the makings of an early realignment. had there not been the great depression, had hoover's reputation, in effect, not been destroyed during his single term of office, what is fascinating to speculate is, would that breakthrough in the south, would that have been a one-time event, attributable, in fact, to al smith as an opponent? or might it, in fact, have foreshadowed a two-party system? >> how did the great depression come about? >> i can't tell you. i can't answer that. and it think there are a lot of economists who would, if they're honest, respond the same way. there are clearly a number of factors, some of which are easily identified. >> i mean, the dislocations of the war. we had this crazy, crazy quilt. just a - where as part of the versailles agreement, basically crushing reparations were demanded by the victors of a defeated germany, which was really in no position e

the united states, warren harding, calvin coolidge, herbert hoover, was not friendly to the left in any way, and the labor movement didn't really come back to life in a big way until the 1930's under franklin roosevelt. >> thank you very much. we have again just wonderful questions coming in. this is a group of history educators, of course. >> i can see. [laughter] >> you can see them? , i'm seeing a number of questions about your primary sources, if some of them are available digitally, particularly that matthew showed, -- map you showed, or will they be cited and reproduced in your upcoming book? >> that amazing map i found online. i couldn't tell you exactly the website involved, but i think if you google "ethnic map of new york, military intelligence 1919," it will very quickly bring something up. one set of resources that are online now, through an --anization, a website cald , associated.com with ancestry.com, has digitized a vast number of military records. they've also digitized the records of the bureau of investigation's spying on subversives during this period, because this i

they remembered calvin coolidge coming out once or twice but they thought that was perhaps to see if anyone was tilting food. truman knew everybody by name on the staff, knew all about their families. this wasn't a politician's device. just the way he was. the whole give them hell, harry. yes, harry truman, on-the-job, in the office, at the white house, with his people at the lowest level or highest level, never gave anyone hell. he never raised his voice. if anything he's remembered for being how considerate he was. and then for small favors and courtesies he would do. >> david mccullough's appeared more than 75 times including 50 appearances on book tv. up next he discusses his biography with john adams at 2001 book was a recipient of the pulitzer prize. >> guest: john adams was born in 1735, he lived until 1826, to the age of nearly 91. he lives longer than any president in our history. he has been commonly thought of as a rich boston blueblood. he was none of those, he was not rich, he is not bostonian and he was on a blue blood. he was a farmer's son but because a scholarship to

one of my favorites is calvin coolidge. it was during his time that radio came into being, and he did 22 speeches into the radio microphone. for people who remember his image, it was not terrific for television, but it was terrific for radio. it was during the time that he was on radio, the audience built, it grew. just like how c-span started out with 3 million homes and then we went up 100 million homes. he's started out with very few radio stations and went up to several hundred more. those stories exist with each president. john: right, right. any thoughts on press relations, presidents that you know of? >> i think kennedy was brilliant at it. he charmed everybody, but he charmed the press too. i do think of franklin roosevelt. he would have the whole white house press corps into his office once a week. just sit at his desk and field questions and -- he knew how not to answer. when you spend that much face time with the president, it's a very effective in getting them to pull their punches. >> this is where i will be ve

writings of this particular anti-immigrant organization also leaving eugenicists, also president calvin coolidgeho in 1924 signed immigration policy as a defense of america for americans. that is perhaps this document that i found in the archives dot perfectly encapsulated what america for americans really means. in the 1920s, the ku klux klan claimed to speak for all true americans by condemning the flow to take advantage of the u.s. who published and hurt the native born outside and became an allegiance to the flag's. this pamphlet was titled america for americans. it's red, white and blue cover featured a hooded klansman with an enormous american flag. the message inside was clear immigrants are a threat to the united states. white protestant americans are the only true americans and vigilance and regulations through the campaign of racial violence was the only way to protect and america for americans. by the 1920s, congress established discriminatory national origins but kept the doors open to immigrants in northern and western europe but closed it to almost everyone else. countries like gre

in the article in this particular organization, also by leading eugenicist, and also president calvin coolidge 1924 signed immigration policy as a defense of america for americans. but it is perhaps this document i found in the archives that perfectly encapsulated when america for americans really means. the ku klux klan claimed to speak for all americans by condemning the flood of foreigners who took advantage of the u.s., who pushed the nativeborn aside and teamed leading to foreign flags. this pamphlet titled "america for americans", it's red, white and blue cover featuring white, showing an enormous american flag. the message inside was clear. immigrants are a threat to the united states. protestant americans are the only true americans. vigilance and regulation through the kkk's campaign of racial violence was the early way to protect and "america for americans". by the 1920s, congress established a national origin that kept the doors open to immigrants in western europe but closed it to almost everyone. countries like great britain, ireland, sweden received nearly 87% of the thesis while

well, seated in the president's pew tonight are students from calvin coolidge high school in washington, d.c. they participated in a podcast with me and wonderful students. and i would like them to stand. are they here? [ applause ] and so tonight, they're in the president's pew. and one thing we like to think of as educators, as we plant the seat and water the seed, but we may never see the results of that education. and we hope one day, these students and their peers are back here, maybe as president of the united states, sitting in the president's pew. so they're great friends of mine and it's great to have them here this evening. we have the privilege of having two wonderful presenters tonight, david rubenstein is the cofounder and co-executive chairman of the carlyle group. he has been the chairman of the board and held senior governance positions with many organizations that you're very familiar with, including the smithsonian institution, the john f. kennedy memorial performing arts center, which is the living memorial for president kennedy, the harvard corporation, duke universi

and was that in mind, where did calvin coolidge rank? [laughter] richard: he did not say much but what he said was funny. [laughter] grover cleveland who was -- true story, grover cleveland, very few friends on capitol hill. particularly in the talkative field because itself the world's greatest delivered body. late one night, middle of the night, mrs. cleveland wakes the president. and says, there are thieves in the house. he says, no, my dear, thieves in the senate. [laughter] harry truman said, without a sense of humor, a man would go crazy in the oval office. and i think there is a lot of truth to that. douglas: i once did a book on the notes of ronald reagan. he kept this elaborate note card system filled with jokes. any speech he would go, you could pick, it could be dogs or kiwanis clubs and he would have them all in order and he would pull the card and he would put these jokes in his speech. it went over very well. reagan was all about humor. i think it is a key quality to being a successful president like you said. there are exc