coolidge.indeed regarding the man who chose his words so carefully it is easy to believe there were no mere words. his entire adult life was spent in public service. councilman, city solicitor, mayor, state representative come lieutenant governor, governor, vice president, president, more officers than any other president ever held. but, it is not easy for him to be a public man, to speak to many persons, shake hands, to do ordinary politicians do as a matter of course, a horrible shame that his professed calvin coolidge possessed him from his earliest days and never let go. he told friends about the little fellow go into a panic of their strange was the house. i thought they just couldn't meet people. most of the visitors with that but mother father in the kitchen. and it was the hardest thing in the world to have to go through the kitchen door and give them a greeting. i was almost 10 before i realized they couldn't go on that way. and by fighting hard to use to manage to get through that doo

coolidge who said -- was it mrs. coolidge? >> her sky parlor. >> she said when i'm in the solarium, don't bother me. >> i just think it was a -- mor children could order their dinner up, less i stop them. >> that is -- the day that we -- or the first couple of days that we all stayed in the white house, the whole family after president bush was inaugurated, we had a very fancy dinner in the dining room upstairs and everyone was there except for barbara and jenna, and we found out where they were when we heard from an usher that they called from the bowling alley and asked for dinner to be brought to them in the bowling alley. their grandmother put a stop to it. >> ordering dinner, imagine. >> did each of you have a favorite room in the white house? >> i loved the west sitting hall with that big window just to sit in, i'm sure you did too. in the late afternoon with the west sun coming in in the winter, it's very cozy and pretty. >> i loved the whole white house, and laura redid and brought the lincoln bedroom back to the way i

i mean this is basically hoover coolidge or harding coolidge hoover it's it's like reince wash recycled back charge number eight shows one in three one in three working families are now low income hourly pay is barely increased in thirty years four million homes have been foreclosed on one in four homeowners are underwater twenty five million americans can't find enough work just you know goes on and on and so are we on the verge of a lost generation of americans well you know tom my generation knows that we will never do as well as our parents that there are far less jobs there's far less security and costs are rising and that's just a reality we face and that's in part why we're in the streets all over the country and that's in part why you've seen you know real rise against the policies that everyone has been talking about you know and i think of what's wrong in this country i think of wrath rafael who's a friend of of ours he's from ohio and he served this country into the year in iraq did everything this country asked of him and then he went to college on the g.i. bill but it wasn'

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franklin had physical problems. >> i'm going with john quincy adams. >> coolidge because he was a whack job. >> go. john quincy adams! >> naked? >> yes. >> i don't believe it. all right. i don't believe this for a minute. i've never seen anybody who's better with people than you besides me. >> they say if your name is difficult to pronounce you are not favored in work, in your personal life, in school. >> who did you sleep with to get this job? >> ha. here's the thing. when people don't know how to pronounce your name, they don't ever say it because they don't want to be wrong. >> he doesn't care. how's by koda? most people go heeyyyy. >> some people are name injectors. >> both ends, so to speak. hoda and then kotb. you know? i mean -- didn't you add an "e"? what did you add? >> an "e." for a few minutes. to help people out. but people kept saying vowels, but it didn't work so i took it back off. >> be you and be proud. >> people with easy to pronounce names were more likely to be favored in political office and job promotions. >> they also sleep with people. let's be honest. >> they do

even calvin coolidge is. you go to his house before his president's and its really modest. it is like, you know, some place you would see in amsterdam with the hoses something. okay tonight but afterward he does have to move into a big place to be harry truman never moves into the big place. his circumstances are sufficiently modest he is the guy -- he is why we have presidential pensions up to that point. you know, we really don't have that. they may be independently wealthy like herbert hoover or they're able to have accomplished something more than truman did, you know, very modest on apparel is a life federal or local county government. so true men really is of very modest guy. he might have been taking all of these to save on gasoline. i don't know. next. >> photographs. the photographs that you have on your side, what can you tell us about this picture of a german holding up this is bigger from the chicago daily? >> okay. i like that cover. that's a great cover. and the picture is about two days out from the election. it's in st. louis. one of his campaigns, campaign

coolidge who said -- >> her sky parlor she called it. >> she said when i'm in the salarium, don't bother me. >> i just think it was a, more of a family place and the children could order their dinner up -- unless i stopped them. >> that is the day, or the first couple of days that we stayed in the white house, the whole family after president bush was inaugurated, we had a very fancy dinner in the dining room up stairs and everyone was there except barbara and jenna and we found out from an usher that they called from the bowling alley and asked for dinner to be brought to them in the bowling alley. their grandmother put a stop to it. >> ordering dinner, imagine. >> did you have a favorite room in the white house? >> i loved the west sitting hall with that big window to just sit in. in the late afternoon with the sun coming in in the winter. it's pretty. >> i love the whose white house, and laura brought the lincoln bedroom back to the way it was. she raise today money, so it was not done by the government. >> well the white house historical association, who are one of the sponsors today

langley at mclean in d.c., coolidge hosts wilson, garfield for 21 straight against hilton.ladies side gaithersburg looking for their 43rd straight win host being whitman. go online to vote. >>> we know there's a lot of betting surrounding the super bowl. jonah retnick laid down $1,000 yesterday that the giants would score first and it it would be a say. he got 50-1 odds. the first score was -- a safety. he got 50 within hundred odds. the first score was a safety. he said he'll give it to charity. >> that is it for us. cbs evening news is next. >> derek is back at 7:00. good night.

to each other as opposed to a slow progression, for example, lucy hays and something like grace coolidge's flapper dresses. if this were chronological, they'd be so far apart, you gowns or items that are back in storage. >> there are some things that are back in storage. one of the ideas is that we can change things out here. if you're not doing every first lady, it eases is pressure on the dresses. we're trying to make them survive as long as possible. some of them have been standing around for 100 years. they need to rest. they need to be out of light. this allows us to change some things around. it also allows some things that haven't been seen before to be seen by new people. i always think of them as being the type specimen gowns. the ones that everyone expect to see for each first lady the sometimes we have others, and those are interesting too. >> there's a lot of fanfare that goes into the giving of the dress. how did that come about? >> people always think the exhibit looked one way. it's been about nine different shows. it's been changing. people think the gown presentation alway

nixon himself said in his memoirs, frank nixon disdained stand pat republicans like harding and coolidge. in fact, frank nixon may have voted for fdv in 1932 and 36. big news. hannah nixon herself according to melvin small voted for woodrow wilson in 1912. at least in 1916. maybe it's recreational reading. he read, in addition to "the l.a. times" as a young man, good housekeeping and the saturday evening post, both of which may have praised 1920s america. hoover's america, to some degree. some of the members of his committee of 100 helped push his 1946 and 1948 campaigns. frank jorgenson, he said i entrust fdr and distrusted him. a rot of us fell he had been soft on communism. i think he was befuddled a lot of the time and fooled by stalin. john francis, he was a big fund-raiser in the san francisco bay area for nixon and many elections between 1952 and 1968. he told his own employer william randolph hearse, that governor fdr, who he met in '33 did not understand fundamentals of the national economy or the u.s. stock market. "when the two of us got to economics, he seemed to think that a

their shoulders, you're not going to raise your arm ace bov your waist and something like grace coolidge's flapper dresses. amazing difference. chronological, they'd be so far apart you wouldn't really be able toll see that. >> you said, we try to put things out that haven't been out in a while. sdp th does that mean there are gowns, the items that be back in storage? >> there are things back in storage that hopefully will come out in time. one of the things, we can change things here. we're not doing every first lady. eases the dresses. we're trying to make them survive as long as possible and some have been standing around hundreds ever years. they need to rest and be out of light and this allows us to change things around and allows things that haven't been seen before to be seen by new people. we have more in the collection than the gowns that i think -- i always think of them as being the -- type specimen gowns. the one everyone expects to see for each first lady but sometimes we have others and those are are interesting, too. >> there's a lot of fanfare that goes into the giving of t

calvin coolidge lead by example. >> you know the vice president of chris was not too shabby either. it is a great, great uncle. >> i said maybe you don't have to be inspiring to be elected. i think you might be right about that. when you are running against a guy who at least four years ago was very inspirational to a lot of people, it would be a good quality to have. >> i suppose so. >> i don't really care. >> sleep walking through this. >> juliette, you said you think newt's advisors are smart to have him not make concession calls after he loses the primaries. and gingrich says given he was out spent 5-1 he was, quote, very, very delighted with the results. >> then there you go. he wasn't faking it. >> i i will leave it to you whether or not you want to believe in it. >> i believe in minute. i believe in my newt. >> you need the next mrs. mrs. gingrich. >> don't even go there. >> if his nickname is minute -- >> that's not what you want. just lastly, las vegas tv station klas is reporting that donald trump will endorse gingrich later today. >> did snoop dogg and ron paul, you said

and something like grace coolidge's flapper dress. if flapper dresses. if these were chronological, you wouldn't be able to see that. >> you say we try to put things out that haven't been out in awhile. does that mean there are gowns, items back. storage? >> there are some things that are back in storage that will come out in time. one of the ideas is that we can change things out here. if you're not doing every first one eases the pressure on the dresses. we're trying to make them survive as long as possible. and some of them have been standing around for 100 years. so they need to rest. they need to be out of light. and this allows us to change things around. it also simply allows some things that haven't been seen before to be seen by new people. we have more in the collection than the gowns that i think -- i always think of them as being the type specimen gowns, the one that everyone expects to see for each first lady. sometimes we have others and those are interesting too. >> there's a lot of fanfare that goes into the giving of the dress. how did t

one of the most corrupt presidencies in american history then it continued through the republican coolidge administration and into the republican hoover administration complete with his stock market crash in one nine hundred twenty nine so by one nine hundred thirty two when f.d.r. came in the american people finally had enough to kick the republicans out of office and as roosevelt. it is not alone a war against want and destitution and economic demoralization it is more than that it is a war for their survival of democracy we are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world to roosevelt our democracy hung in the balance in one nine hundred thirty six and he referred to the enemy trying to destroy us to destroy our democracy as economic royalists they were the banks toure's the corporations the industrial giants of agriculture and machinery. they were the forces that screamed that roosevelt's new deal with things like social security were communism yes they literally called social security was communism and they fought to stop the development of

calvin coolidge. >> calvin coolidge. >> joey taylor is here along with his parents john and samantha.s for coming. samantha, we're going to start with you. we're going to quiz joey coming up in a second. how did this all start. when did you realize he could recall things like that. >> starting when he was about 3 or 4, he quickly memorized the letters and the numbers and that turned into the calendars and whatever's interested him all along soaks it all up. we used to test him. we now know his answers are right because he soaks it all in. >> john, are either you or samantha savants or geniuses? >> no. >> so the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree? i'm just kidding. joey, you know the presidents? >> yes. >> you know what these questions are are, do you. >> no. >> let me ask you. the "today" show started in 1952. who was the president? >> harry s. truman. >> he's right who was president after harry s. truman? >> eisenhower. >> it's 2012. who was president 100 years ago in 1912? >> taft. >> gosh, you're good. who was the only president who was elected to two terms but not in a row? >>

that silence means you did get it because the answer is silent cal coolidge, in 1924, florida had six and they went to the democrat which of course was john w. davis. you knew that of course. >> 104 ballots. >> we'll be right back. eggland's best eggs. the best in nutrition... just got better. now with even more of the vitamins your body needs. like vitamin d. plus omega 3's. there's one important ingredient that hasn't changed: better taste. [ female announcer ] eggland's best. better taste. better nutrition. the better egg. >>> let's bring back the panel, alex wagner, ryan, jonathan alter. you wanted to respond quickly. >> i think the simple case is this, campaign fund regulations since 1974 has driven us in the direction where the parties are more polarized. the parties can't raise soft dollar organizations. the money is going to be spent. it's either going to go to the campaigns or to the shadow organizations. >> money finds a way. it's just like jeff goldbloom in "jurrasic park." >> transparency, which we all agree we need. can't we agree to find out before the primaries who's ge

the man who was the head of this bailout agency who attend calvin coolidge's vice president and he put them in charge of this agency of one point suddenly quit, went home to chicago and a couple weeks later resurfaced as president of the bank and demanded a bailout. [laughter] and he got one. he got one on the public just creamed. they couldn't believe it. teachers in chicago hadn't been paid for something like two years and here is this guy getting a flattish handout. okay, so franklin roosevelt. how do you think he reacted? okay, so franklin roosevelt. how do you think he reacted? in the spirit of bipartisanship. how do you think he reacted? in the spirit of bipartisanship. no. he went after these guys. these are some of his most famous beaches or denunciations of the a lot that we are rewarding the people at the top economic army is starving. he said it was like that. when you get to office he didn't stop doing the bailouts. he did then differently. he did them in a way to ensure basically to restructure the economy. the things they did back then are astonishing. they did it to deli

even calvin coolidge's. you go to his house before he's president, and it's really modest. it's like, you know, someplace you'd see in amsterdam or something, okay? but afterwards he does have to move into a big place. harry truman never moves into the big place. and his circumstances are sufficiently modest that he is the guy -- he's why we have presidential pensions. up to that point, you know, we really don't have that, and they may be independently wealthy like a herbert hoover, or they're able to have accomplished something more than truman did, you know, very modest on the payroll his whole life, federal or local county government. so truman really is a very modest guy. he might have been taking all these walks to save on gasoline, i don't know. [laughter] next? >> the photograph, the photograph that you have on your sign. what can you tell us about this picture of truman holding up this newspaper from the chicago daily -- >> okay. i like that cover. a great cover. i like that. and the picture is, um, about two days out from the election day. it's in st. louis, they'v

even calvin coolidge'. you go to his house before he is president and it's really modest.it's like you know someplace you would see it amsterdam. but afterwards he moves into a big place. harry truman never moves into a big place in his circumstances are sufficiently modest that he is the guy. he is why we have presidential pensions. up to that point you know, we really don't have that and they may be independently wealthy like herbert hoover or they are able to have accomplished something more than truman did, very modest on the payroll his whole life, federal or local county government. so truman really is a very modest guy. he takes all these to save on gasoline i guess, don't know. >> the photographs you have on your sign, what can you tell us about this picture of truman holding up this newspaper from the chicago daily? >> okay, that is a great cover. i like that and the picture is about two days out from the election. it's in st. louis. one of his campaigns, campaign aides has brought him the photograph and harry is just in love with it as you can see. you can see ho

after 1,153 days in office, fdr, calvin coolidge, dwiez eisenhower, and bill clinton had b better records. and this is important, because a lot of the americans are invested in the stock market. according to gallop, 54% of americans own stock through the pensions and the 401(k)s, and the market is not for the very few. the question is will the largess will last. i went to the stock market exchange today, and traders clapped half heartedly, and i have spent a lot of time down there, but i had to confirm that the clapping was really for the milestone. i was told it lacked enthusiasm and drifting upward without conviction and in a word one trader used, lame. well, lame it may but be it is not taking away the point that it has risen so much since the financial crisis. but a rally needs enthusiasm. peter, good to so you. i was down there today, which was pretty neat. i'm going to talk about it later in the show, my first down there in a long time. and yeah, there was not a lot of enthusiasm. what is your view on if we can find a reason for this market rally? >> well, i think that, you know, if

kennedy, reagan, hardy and coolidge, they all did a really, really well and all of the others that didn'tord it. >> it was under kennedy. he lowered it. >> he lowered it from 91 to 70. you want to make it back 70. we can make it back to 70. >> can i tell you what kennedy did? he cut the corporate rate from 52% to 48%. your rep reps blocked him. and he accelerated the depreciati depreciation. he was a pro-growther. >> we have an agreement. we will go back to the kennedy-era tax rates, 70% and the economy will do great. >> if you will get your obama to bring spending down to that level i would almost be willing to do that, but these are wild, crazy spenders who are taxing all of our kids and our grandchildren's money. >> hang on one second, dean. >> sure. >> i want to ask art, as you know, i really love the flat tax, and it stops double and triple taxing. >> exactly. >> here's something that troubles me. newt does not remove the deductions that some of the early scoring from the tax policy center says the newt's plan would lose $1 trillion by 2015 in revenues, and i'm not aware that newt ha

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coolidge upheld it better than any other president.eason that liberals decided to call him silent cal. he wasn't silent at all. ' was the last president to write all his own speeches. rather than argue with him they tried to tell us ignore him and pretend he didn't exist. >> isn't that the way that the founders intended it the legislative branch is the stronger branch. they get out there on the bully pulpit and talk about legislation. the president sits back and sign it. they are the extorres? >> no, that's not quite right. the founders thought the president would be the chief defender of the constitution against encroachment probably coming from congress. there is a reason that they gave the president secret toes out of laws. they wanted to use the veto when they thought the measure was unconstitutional. a lot of modern presidents, eisenhower, even george w. bush have signed bills saying it's not up to me. up to the supreme court to decide if it's constitutional. no view that a 19th century president would have taken. >> george w. bus

coolidge redid the interior and added 18 rooms to the third floor.began the structure was heavily stressed by the haphazard construction. the bill for damages was presented in 1948. president truman became concerned because the floor of his study was vibrating. an investigation was held and the structural weaknesses of the white house became immediately apparent. one of the investigators said, "the building is standing up purely from force of habit." the beams in mrs. truman's sitting room had split. the building was too dangerous for occupancy. the white house was taken apart like a jigsaw puzzle. the pieces were marked and stored away. the whole inside was scooped out. only the exterior walls were left standing. steel beams were rigged in the interior. it was a little difficult to get the new steel beams through the windows designed by mr. hobin in 1790. it would have been easier and less expensive to demolish the whole building, but the white house is so great a symbol to americans that the exterior walls were retained. and then piece by piece the

significant tax reform, i do not know if the american people know that every time going back to coolidgetehhe 20's after kennedy cut taxes, we had significant growth and increase in revenues and job creation. in 1983-1984 nearly 7 million jobs were created at an average of 6% quarterly growth figures. even after bush's tax cuts -- guest: i think what you're talking about specifically is the size and scope of government. and really the way we define that is a single question, and the question is always, who decides? what we believe is in the devolution of power from centralize power in the federal government down to the local level, and when you do that you will end up with different solutions. san francisco will operate differently than dallas, texas. those solutions will be more creative than at the federal level. it is impossible to have a one- size fits all government. it is literally an impossibility. we're talking about scope of government. we believe the cover of it should be smaller. i think most americans believe the same thing. host: mark meckler what is your background? guest:

of significant tax reform i do not know if the american people know that every time going back to coolidge in the 20's, after kennedy cut taxes across the board top to bottom on the wealthy and everyone else in the middle of the recession, we have significant growth and job creation. in 1983 and 1984, nearly 7 million jobs were created. you had an average of 8% quarterly growth. the revenues increased even after bush tax cuts. guest: i think what you are talking about is the size and scope of the government at the federal level and the state level. the way we define that is a simple question. who decides? it is less what is decided then who decides. we believe there is an evolution of power from centralized power to the federal government down to as close to the local level as possible. you will end up with different solutions. san francisco will operate differently from dallas. that is as it should be. those will be more creative solutions. it is impossible to have one size fits all with 3 million people. it is an impossibility. we believe the government should be smaller. most americans