. >> guest: i talk quite a bit about gm and charles wilson is a guy who allegedly said was good for gm is good for america, but he actually never said that. it's going to use the quote because i thought it characterized the worst of the corporatism and feeding the elite, the incumbent industry. he didn't say that. he is a guy who cut the defense budget by 20% in the late 19th at ease in this defense cuts come at this budget cut in the late 1950s were the number one reason we telecom valley. a lot of radio engineers moved out there. there's a beautiful part of the country that maybe didn't have jobs and those people were saying well, we want to say here. they created eventually intel and all the rest of them, right? so we were in a very tenuous moment. with a financial crisis that led to that crisis in auto industry. adding on top of that psychologically the failure of the big three automakers, tough call. by the way, i don't know why anyone in this presidential election mentions that this is a bush program. i have a chapter about left, right forward. we need to at least get history rat

and you know, charles wilson is a guy who allegedly said was good for gm is good for america. actually never said that. i looked into it. i was going to use the quote because i got a character is the of corporatism in this type to think of a feeding the elites, the incumbent industry. he didn't say that. in fact, he was a courageous guy. he cut defense budgets by 20% in the late 1950s and those defense cuts, budget cuts in the late 1950s or the number one reason we have silicon alley. a plot of radio engineers had moved out there. it's a beautiful part of the country. suddenly they didn't have jobs and those people said well, we want to stay here and they created eventually intel and all the rest of that, right? so we were in a very tenuous moment. at a financial crisis. there is a financial crisis that led to the crisis in ottawa industry. adding on top of that psychologically the failure of the big three automakers, tough. tough call. by the way, i don't know what anybody in the presidential election mentions this as a bush program. i have a chapter in my forward. i'm not co

we understand he will have-- some people of note on the stage with him packers safety charles wilsons scheduled. and singer james taylor also reported the on the stage with the president. wisconsin is one of several stocks will make today. he will travel to los vegas for a campaign event this afternoon. then he will hop aboard air force one a flight to denver where he will be campaigning tonight will likely stay overnight for continuing on the campaign trail. we're less than a week away from the november election. he will be hitting it particularly hard considering he lost two days of campaigning over the last couple of weeks because he was managing response to hurricane sandy from the white house for the first half of this week. this is what he has been dealing with a lot of responsibility. >> again on the campaign trail. the crowd is bundled up is about 39 degrees in green bay. when the president steps to the podium in a bid we will attempt to bring you some of his life comments. >> and lot of people lost their lives. lot of families have been jealous devastated. a lot of homes and

on the brink of world war one, woodrow wilson b. charles use by 23 electoral votes. percent of the popular vote. it is an election most of us will never forget. we remember it well. the election beecher every count votes in florida, as we were just mentioning, and a turn at the supreme court before george w. bush was declared the winner over vice-president al gore. just five electoral votes. gore did when the popular vote by half a percent, and the number one closest presidential race in history, you're not pointing guess this from 1876. this was like election 2000, only more so. recounts in three states. florida, louisiana, and south carolina. a huge split in the popular vote as samuel tilden, yes, samuel tilden won by 3% of lost the lead for college by one vote to rutherford hayes. remember that? i don't either. let's take a look at the pros and cons. held for those hardest hit by the superstar. they could come in the form of tax deductions. but is this the case with the irs? a lot involved in getting your money. tips on what to do next. what's next? he's going to

unlove you before columbus, ollie wilson, charles blackwell -- [laughter] mary mackey, ishmael reed.wn and fam listically speaking, i can never unlove you. in addition to -- to borrow a phrase from alice walker, collaborating with the ancestors -- i will also be collaborating literally with some of the people that have intersected my life and whose lives i've intersected. things this is a lifetime a-- since this is a lifetime achievement award. a letter to the editor and a pipper in st. louis, the st. louis american, which coincidentally and maybe even ironically is the only african-american newspaper in the country edited by a european-american who is also a protege of mine. [laughter] he asked for some quotes, he asked for some quotes, and so i sent him some, you know, snippets, some thoughts, streams. and he put it in as a letter to the editor. [laughter] you know, feedback about the award. this was an e-mail to him edited. the other day third world literary guru ishmael reed, one of the founders of the before columbus foundation/american book award, phoned to tell me why i was be

charles evans hughes back in 1921. hughes was narrowly defeated by wilson in 1916 before being appointed secretary of state by calvin coolidge enough with the real news now lewis with the water cooler. >> time to gather around the water cooler to watch more exciting details about the david general petraeus scandal. >> petraeus wouldn't turn over the plans on the microfiche, perhaps there was a chase with a mini cooper with saws for hands. >> law enforcement and multiple u.s. officials tell nbc news that e-mails between him and paula broadwell, his biographer, were indicative of an extramarital affair. >> really? e-mail? all they had to do to have america's spy master general was to logon to his e-mail? any way we can intrigue that little sound bite up a bit? ♪ >> law enforcement and multiple u.s. officials tell nbc news that e-mails between him and paula broadwell, his biographer, were indicative of an extramarital affair. >> how exciting! >> little roger moore action there. steven colbert fesses up to an inappropriate relationship of his own. >> it's time for me to come clean. i had an improper relationship with my biograph

american actors and i actually had it vetted by august wilson, read it and checked it out for me and there's another fellow who wrote soldier's story, charles fuller, took a look at it for me. i wanted to make sure my bases were covered. but this new play, what i did was, i feel comfortable writing the characters, but you are never sure. one thing that happened was steven anthony jones helped me a great deal with the african american character. we took it to sundance and what happens when you go to sundance is you bring some actors and some are given to you. i hadn't worked with the actors who we teamed up with at sundance, both excellent actors but people we didn't know so we didn't have a working relationship. there were moments where we worked where i could tell that the fellow, in particular, wasn't happy with his character because i had him standing there while the african american character went on and on. finally he said, phillip, i would not stand there and take that crap. the moment he opened his mouth, i would say stop. okay. so it wasn't contentious but what it was that area of discomfort. racial politics are very tricky this day

a 1916 woodrow wilson was running for re-election against charles evan hughes.ion because he lost california. the reason he did that was that the governor of california, hiram johnson, felt somehow snubbed by hughes. the result was that hughes lost. >> interesting. i really need to take a class from you. i would have never known that fact. but anyway, before we get any further i do want to ask you quickly about the jobs numbers, michael. fdr as i have mentioned, he's the only one to have won re-election with this sort of economic backdrop. higher than 7.4%. >> right. >> how might historians view a re-election victory based on these unemployment numbers? >> i think that historians will probably say that people weighed the two candidates and essentially said that one had a better prospect of improving things than the other. whoever wins. but the way that fdr did it in 1936 when it was 16% was to say, it's still much too high but we're getting better. ronald reagan in 1984 it was in the low 7s. he said the same thing. so if people listen to barack obama, if they fi