the schools had been integrated under the leadership of david fisher's father, who was the superintendent of the baltimore school system, but many other facilities in baltimore and other parts of maryland were still segregated. this still was the jim crow era, although the end of the jim crow era. of course the civil rights movement had generated a lot of hostility and violence in the south especially in 1961 during freedom riders going through alabama and mississippi. i began to think twice about whether i wanted to go down and spend six months or a year in alabama county court houses and the state archives driving around the state with a car with a northern license plate during those years. but more important in the decision, a fairly important decision i made was the context of the civil rights movement with northern activists, black and white traveling

people like david fisher, gordon wood and brown and sko l scholars have been doing forthe american revolution and the early republic what i and others have tried to do for the civil war and reconstruction period. that's only one area. i always tell college seniors at princeton when they were tried to find a subject for their senior thesis or graduate students looki ining for a topi the first requirement is something you have to be interested in. i talked about the way in which i was going to do a dissertation on alabama reconstruction but grew cool for a variety of reasons about that. despite my mentors initial unhappiness with my change of choice moved to another subject which was one that had come to interest me far more and looking back on that i'm sure that if i had pursued alabama reconstruction, my whole career might have been different. the first requirement is it's got to be something that really turns you on, that lights a fire under you. you're going to spend years on research and writing and rewriting of this dissertation and it has to be something that you're really fascinating wi

david fisher and john ricolta. a big family here in michigan and we would like to thank them. and by the way, my family across this state. i also must recognize our national committee members. >> yeah, great job. >> and our congressman. this is a list. dave camp, fred upton, like rogers, that the potters, bill ixonia, bill belichick. and thank you to our wonderful surrogates. donald trump. it governor tim pawlenty. gov. bob macdonald. the governor chris christie. and you're famous oakland county chair that you love -- let's see, brooks patterson. how could i forget brooks? rep eric nesbit. former state presented a of rocky rakowski. and attorney general, mike cox. i'm sorry to keep going to our state team, lowry and bob. and finally, thank you, kid rock. [applause] the last week, have been going along with mitt, and my son, tagg, too. we have been going all over this state. from the tip of the mid -- [laughter] >> be careful. >> i know, i'd better be careful. but what we have seen out there has broken my heart. i l

we'll also hear from facebook's vp of advertising, david fisher. and then later on this afternoon there's also going to be a panel -- excuse me here, a panel with chief marketing officer from walmart and the president of 1-800-flowers talking about how they're using facebook to effectively market to their users. a chat with a ceo of american express. they'll be talking about their marketing in the social age. back to you. >> julia, thank you very much. >> get out of the bad weather, julia. >> yeah. >> straight ahead as we continue on "power lunch," the dow and s&p at their best levels since spring of 2008. the nasdaq, it's best level in more than a decade. how do you play the bull right now? stick around for some picks. >> and let's take a look at where some of the other averages we track stand right now. new york stock exchange composite down about .3%. utilities higher by about .1%. and the russell down about .5%. >>> apple a bright spot in the markets today. shares, new all-time highs yet again. what a run the stock has had over the past five ye

david fisher, a great job being providing -- presiding officer. and governor romney, what a great way to have you back, and unveiling such important policy information. we know you have a busy days, thank you for investing your time with us. i will invite governor romney back to the club as president of the united states. how about that? ok? say thank you to the united states governor. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> political reporter dave levinthal discusses super pak money in the presidential race. we will talk to pamela banks from consumer union. also, buddy roemer. washington journal begins saturday at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. >> we got started because there were a lot of conservative think tanks that work across issues. there had been no single progressive think tank that works on economic and domestic policy, national security. >> neera tanden on the issue of the washington, d.c. think tank. >> we think there is often and radiology with very little facts behind them. part of our job is to make the arguments and the factual arguments and evidence based a

david fisher, a great job being providing -- presiding officer. and governor romney, what a great way to have you back, and unveiling such important policy information. we know you have a busy days, thank you for investing your time with us. i will invite governor romney back to the club as president of the united states. how about that? ok? say thank you to the united states governor. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> here is a look at the campaign calendar. on tuesday, arizona and michigan hold their primary. on march 3rd, washington has its caucuses. then on march 6th, super tuesday. we will have full campaign coverage on the c-span networks and on our campaign website. >> we got started because there are a lot of conservative think tanks that work across issues but there had been no single progressive organization that worked on economic policies, domestic policy, national security. >> the president and ceo of the center of american progress on the mission of the washington d.c.-based think tank. >> we think that there is an ideology between different decis

by the way, this is really helpful, david fisher and john.family here in michigan. we would like to thank them. scott romney, lin, ron and ronny mcdaniel and other members of the romney and dades family, by the way, my family across the state. i also must recognize our national committee members. sala and holly. and our congressman. this is a list, let me see if i can get through it. dade camp, fred up ton, mike rog,, dad, and bill, dan beneshek, kim wahlberg, and thank you to our wonderful surrogate, donald trump. [applause] >> governor tim pawlenty, governor bob mcdonald. governor chris christie, and your famous oakland county chair that you love, let's see, brooks, brooks patterson. how can i believe forget brooks? representative aaron nezbet, former state rep, and rocky razkowski. and attorney general mike cox. this list has been so helpful. i'm sorry to keep going. to our state team, lori and bob. and finally, thank you, kid rock [applause] the last week i have been going along with mitt, my son, tag, we've been going up and down the sta

take a leave of absence and instead secretary of the navy wells put david dixon porter in command of the fleet that attacked ft. fisher. his first choice for that was farragut and if his health hadn't broken down, he would have been in command of that attack too. >> a couple more calls for james mcpherson. go ahead. >> caller: if the city of new orleans was so important to the confedera confederacy, why wasn't there an attempt to recapture it? >> the confederates did plan several times to attack and recapture new orleans but the union had a fairly large army there. it was called the army of the gulf. first under benjamin butler but then from december 1862 onward who took command in the army in the campaign that captured port hudson north of baton rouge. while the confederates planned a couple of different campaigns to recapture new orleans, they were never strong enough or to put it alternatively, the union force there is were always too strong for that effort to succeed. the attack on baton rouge in august of 162, i alluded to in my talk, when the arkansas moved down there to try to help the confederate army to recap

and instead secretary of the navy wells put david dickson porter in command of the fleet that attacked fort fisher. but his first choice for that was farragut. and farragut's health hadn't broken down he would have been in command of that attack, too. >> a couple of more calls for james mcpherson. here's joe in roncomcoma, new york. jo, go ahead with your thoughts. >> dr. mcpherson, if city of new orleans was so important to the con fed as circumstances why wasn't there an attempt to recapture it? >> the confederates did plan several times to attack and recapture new orleans. but the union had a fairly large army there. it was called the army of the gulf. first under benjamin butler. but then from december 1862 onward under nathaniel p. banks, who actually took command of that army in the campaign that captured port hudson just north of baton rouge. so while the confederates planned a couple of different campaigns to recapture new orleans, they were never strong enough or to put it in the other alternatively, the union forces there were always too strong for that effort to succeed. the attack on b