it is the chicago tribune headline "dewey defeats truman." your first day of journalism school, they tattoo you with that headline and you're never supposed to assume facts again. because he did not defeat him, for our viewers who are younger than 48. >> your the washington bureau chief of real true politics. you're doing a lot of historical stuff. >> you get my newsletter every morning. >> what makes you think that people want to read about history? >> alltel, history is fascinating and people know it -- well, history is fascinating and people know it. they want to know about their world today. they all have echoes. he is not one of the 14, not on the list, bob dole, but if we had 15, he might have been. bob dole gives a talk in 1996 where he is nominated and he says he is not against teachers but he is against the teachers union. he is attacked for this. that is not that long ago, 1996. this year, 2011, we a documentary movies by liberals about the teachers unions. we have a secretary of education who feels much the same way. he is more dip

>> henry clay. >> tom dewey. >> who did you say? >> stephenson. >> i said henry clay. >> crew of the 14 was not very smart? -- two of the 14 was not very smart? >> it really depends on how you are defining smart. there were people who were really good at running an office. but not running for office. there were people -- which one had the image of not being very smart? you never know. >> george wallace. >> he exploited it brilliantly. >> he almost brought in about it, but he had street smarts. >> mcgovern was a history professor. >> and a world war ii hero. >> let me change my answer. mcgovern is a very bright person. person. >> who would have been the nastiest? >> charles evans hughes. >> coup would have been personally the nastiest? >> henry clay. >> i would not dissent from that. >> if you were african-american, you might want to say george wallace. >> that is different. >> you have done a book on tom dewey, you have done a book on mr. stevenson. if you had to pick another one -- >> that would be fun. >> idec richard is writing a

for those who don't know the origin, tell us. >> it's the dewey system.be funny to take on the rap name alias of melville dewey. i came out with a full-length album. ♪ >>> why are they measuring her with a tape measure? >> we'll show you what she's busting out of. we have the official adele music video that fans have been waiting for. that have earned the keurig brewed seal of approval. the keurig brewed seal is our commitment that the coffee inside will deliver a delicious cup of coffee every time. keurig brewed. look for the only mark of genuine keurig quality. . >>> we have developing stories. one person is dead, a second injured after a crash in kingsville. an 85-year-old died when her cadillac collided with another car. the driver of the civic had to be taken to bayview. >>> some clouds down to the south in the area and we could see a few showers tonight. it'll get chilly this weekend. for those heading to the game sunday expect it down to possibly the 40s and in just about an hour the doors will open for a special benefit. it's an mma fight pitting

the dewey decimal system created by melville dewey who was rabid anti-semite. i love libraries, if you were to give me a choice between a night with cate blanchett or a night locked alone in the library of congress, i would take the night with cate blanchett in a heartbeat but, but, i do love libraries. i do love libraries. i thought i would talk about this new book of mine, "in the garden of beasts" and how it came about. i'm alarmed within my publishing company, crown publishinging within the company they're inherently lazy, they call the book almost exclusively by its acronym, itgob. which sounds like something a cat coughed up. if you say itgob while growling you sound just like the possessed girl in the exorcist. take that home with you, you know? [laughter] at first glance this may not seem like my kind of book necessarily. here it is. this book is set in 1933-34 in nazi germany. hitler, the whole deal. here's the thing, this is exactly my kind of thing because it is about a period that people, i certainly, people think they know an awful lot about but i

street looking forward and see if you can find some people some st louis dewey hudson was how do i. fundamental change change this country change the world if if i ever heard a call a revolution not just. election that was it well we had that massive you know economic crisis and you had a public that gave him a mandate for fundamental change and he campaigned and asked for that mandate and we had fifty nine democrats in the senate we had a democratic majority in the house with the most progressive speaker in our history nancy pelosi and in fact the president put a set of reforms before the congress on issues we have to deal of energy health care the recovery act financial reform and most of his measures were cautious in their conception to be inclined many of them were very crude but even then he had his head handed to him you know the entrenched. financial interests were able to you know dilute the recovery act and weaken it. the lay health care and take out the public option and strip it down. financial reform and just stop the the energy go completely. and so it's a lesson to us

and he never compromised and he defined himself in the public eye that's why we saw that headline dewey defeats truman where even though he was expected to lose he was able to pull out a victory by being a clear person that people may not agree with him on the specifics of every policy but they said there's a guy who knows what he stands for i trust that guy i'm going to stand behind that guy so here's my concern in. in the in the middle with with obama it seems to me not so much that obama is like some wishy washy neville chamberlain although i know there are many on the left who are portraying him that way i think what happened was that they that that he and his campaign over learned the lesson of hillary care you know and when bill and hillary clinton or hillary clinton basically superman put together this thousand piece piece of page page piece of legislation without any input from progress and then dropped it on the speaker's desk and it passes it just blew up in their face and it was the disaster of the clinton presidency and so every single thing that president obama has done he'

oh we have that pesky little first amendment issue dewey that's funny i thought it was a constitutional right not an issue but apparently congressman king just can't wait to find a way to get around it just because we have modern technology doesn't mean that you congressmen think it's a modernized one of the basic rights we have as american citizens just love it when politicians try to trample on the constitution ninety nine percent of the time they wrap themselves in the document talking about how great a visit how it shouldn't be tampered with until those basic rights and freedoms get in the way and then they just say screw it hell if we listen to every time a politician told us that we need to give our rights to keep us safe we have none left so for acting like the first amendment is annoying if you are giving tonight's tolls on wards new york congressman peter king. all right it's time for happy hour and joining me tonight is our hugh producer jenny churchill an economic morris and toro reporter and blogger for talking points memo. thanks for joining the guys. say a rush limbaugh no

with aguanaldo for the first four months after the battle of manila, he came aboard in me admiral deweygave him arms then told him to continue the revolution and we worked with them at in the siege of manila and permitted u.s. troops to come aboard and allowed the u.s. troops to land on the island than the came from very well thought of to a bad guy. the same as possible bella because -- pancho villa because of the policies of the mexican revolution, he had a lot of supporters of the wilson cabinet but did things leading up to that columbus raid massacring 16 american miners january 1960 that caused the opinion of him to change. simile with noriega so there is a history but there was a relationships. i hate to say the united states can be fickle but i would like to think we are better now o 10 more steadfast now but in some cases in the international politics to vocationally make accommodations with the fall less than perfectly clean hands and circumstances can change that past transgrestransgres sions come to act some point* but that is an excellent point* that have been surprising we'

the duodecimal system created by the way by melville dewey, who was a rabid anti-semite. in fact i love it so much that give me a choice between a night with cade blanch at or a night locked away in the library of congress and i would take the night with blanchett in a heartbeat but i do love libraries. [laughter] i do love libraries. i thought i would talk a little bit about this book of mine, in the garden of beasts, and what came about. i'm a little alarmed that within the publishing company, crounse, a publishing company, within the company people -- i guess they are inherently lazy. they call the book almost now exclusively by its acronym which is itbog which sounds a little bit to me like something a cat coughed up. i realize if you say itgob you sound just like the girl possessed in the exorcist. [laughter] at first glance this may not seem like my kind of book necessarily. here it is. this book is set in 1933, 34 in nazi germany, hitler, the whole deal. but here's the thing. this is exactly my kind of thing. because it is about eight per a per code that people thi

i read people like the american philosopher john dewey or religious thinkers like reinhold niebuhr and tillich and so on, and they broadened my horizons. even as i was a marxist, i think i was a rather dissident marxist, always rather suspicious of a good deal in marx, never any pure or orthodox marx. c-span: what about the dinner table conversation with irving kristol, your husband? did you spend a lot of time intellectualizing about these things in the early days? >> guest: one talked a lot with friends and at parties and so on. i cannot honestly say that at a private dinner between my husband and myself that marx was the hot subject of conversation. in college marx was one of the great figures, was one of the people we talked about all the time, if you were an intellectual and if you were a radical. he was the man you talked about. c-span: but if we were at your dinner table -- you say you have two sons? >> guest: no, i've one son and one daughter, elizabeth. c-span: where is your daughter? >> guest: she's in washington now. she too was an editor, a writer. she still manages to writ

if you are around in 1948, the polling indicated that dewey would defeat truman in that election. that did not happen and that led to a lot of rethinking of the methods that pollsters used. and a primary failure occurred, it occasioned a similar reassessment of polling methods. it turns out based on a lot of evidence collected after that that it was a fluke. this was a consequence of the unusual circumstances of that primary coming on the heels of the iowa caucuses. it never happened again in the primaries. some polls to not do as well as others, but none of the primaries and certainly not the general law election produced a big failure. in fact, one of the things that makes us most confident that our method of electing a small random sample of people to represent a large population is valid is the fact that polling has a very good track record of forecasting how elections will come out. in 2008, many polling organizations came within a point or two of obama's victory for the same was true in 2004. the 2000 election was too close to call. the polling was accurate then, too. we pas

brian writes about the series this way -- thomas dewey is one of the people profiled. william jennings bryan and his famous campaign. alongside that, george mcgovern. charles evans hughes. and henry clay. henry clay will be our first subject. that's tomorrow night from his estate in lexington, kentucky, called ashland, a 90-minute live program talking about his history and his legacy and contributions he made to american society, sometimes for good and sometimes for ill as we go through the series. join us for that. sent francisco, john is up next as we talk about last night's debate. republican, you are on. good morning. caller: good morning. speaking of losers, last night i was watching the debate, nothing but losers. let's talk about rick perry. rick perry cut education spending. then he turns to cutting federal funding for firefighters. and now look at texas is burning up. let me go to newt gingrich. it seems last night that he was sucking uup to rick perry, probably in looking to unseat the vice president's position. speaking of losers, all losers. go obama, 2012.

of protecting the american market was in every republican platform from lincoln all the way up to dewey that extent, pat. >> check my new book. >> sam stein, part of the problem right now, sam stein, is the fact for president obama is the fact that we have reached this point. where we were able to disguise this back in the '90s with the dot com boom that went bust, wuwe were able to disguise this over the past decade with a mortgage boom. old books, i wrote a book eight years ago saying it's all smoke and mirrors. but now barack obama finds himself president of the united states at the time there's no more pixy dust out there and cause a new bubble to ride us out another five years. and now everybody's looking at him, what do you do? create new jobs for us, create new industries. that can't be done from washington, d.c. and yet that's what everybody's expecting this president to do. >> i know. in a utopia, there'll be a great bubble that came up and saved us all. but it's not going to happen. i do think there is some promise, and it's probably ironic to say this, but there is promise in

if you are around in 1948, the polling indicated that dewey would defeat truman in that election.t did not happen and that led to a lot of rethinking of the methods that pollsters used. and a primary failure occurred, it occasioned a similar reassessment of polling methods. it turns out based on a lot of evidence collected after that that it was a fluke. this was a consequence of the unusual circumstances of that primary coming on the heels of the iowa caucuses. it never happened again in the primaries. some polls to not do as well as others, but none of the primaries and certainly not the general law election produced a big failure. in fact, one of the things that makes us most confident that our method of electing a small random sample of people to represent a large population is valid is the fact that polling has a very good track record of forecasting how elections will come out. in 2008, many polling organizations came within a point or two of obama's victory for the same was true in 2004. the 2000 election was too close to call. the polling was accurate then, too. we pass ou

george dewey is senior vice president for marketing and communications. a guest of our speaker.rank morning is deputy managing editor for space, aviation week and space technology magazine. brussels injured as opinion editor u.s. days and will report adam, is vice president client strategy with the anti-government, vice chair of our broadcast committee here at the national press club. please give them all warm round of applause. [applause] [applause] >> one may be inclined to call our guest speaker today a renaissance man. to do that would be to set him back several hundred years, so that would be fair. the south african and canadian heritage, he is an engineer his passion for solving problems necessitated that he become an entrepreneur and inventor. we are told he multitask, is a workaholic, got in at 3:00 a.m. this morning. he probably drives fast, but with a preference for energy-efficient vehicles and thanks a lot about life in space. from software businesses to the internet let's not forget about the electric cars, solar energy and space rockets. is france sarah speaker doe

>> yeah, dewey against truman. >> yeah.is. >> '54 phillies with jim bunning. he pitched every four days and still couldn't pull them in. >> if the sox don't make the playoffs, they'll have bested the phillies for the biggest collapse ever. >> well, barnicle, is he going to retire then? >> no, barnicle will remain bitter. barnicle's going to been through -- i won't say much worse. he got through '78, he got through '86, if you can get through 1986, you can get through anything. >> speaking of barnicle, she wasn't really complaining, but she said no whining. and barnicle has a job like this, he should quit whining. >> actually, barnicle, you make one mistake about barnicle's life, he doesn't actually even have a job. he'll be the first to tell you his wife puts him on an allowance. >> and asked us to let him sit here. >> she doesn't dress him, but ann asks if we'll let him sit on the set and he watches baseball games. >> keep him busy. >> when you introduce nicole, you have to introduce her as the author of "it's classified."

george dewey is senior vice president of marketing inc. medications with spacex the guest of our speaker, welcome. frank mooring us deputy managing editor for space aviation and space technology magazine. robert schlesinger is opinion editor "u.s. news and world report." at them is vice president client strategy with tmg government, by shareware broadcast committee here at the national press club. please give them all a warm round of applause. [applause] one might be inclined to color guest speaker today a renaissance man. but to do that would to be to set him back several hundred years of that would be fair. with south african canadian heritage is an engineer whose passion for solving problems necessitated that he become an entrepreneur and inventor. we are told that he multitasks, that he is a workaholic. we are told he got in it 3:00 a.m. this morning here. he probably dries fast we are told that with a preference for energy-efficient vehicles. he thinks a lot about life and space. from software businesses to the internet lets not forge

only franklin roosevelt in 1944 who lost it to tom dewey and john kennedy in 1960 who lost the statei know brian knew that, but a lot of people don't know that about ohio. so that is the key state. but you look at the others. you want some in each region. i've got new hampshire in the northeast. you could argue it's pennsylvania and look, we talk about swing states. if the election were held this november, i think it would be another 1980. it would not be close at all. you would not only have these swing states moving republican, you would have a lot of other states moving republican. but we're looking to 14 months from now and that's why you're a little more cautious. >> gretchen: so let's take a look at the states that you say, without a doubt, will go democratic. there are a lot of them. some of them are the big one, like california and new york, if we can put that map up. so you can see that you have washington state and california over on the west coast and then the majority of the east coast states. those are a deadlock for any democrat? >> they're a deadlock except for a lands

if you are around in 1948, the polling indicated that dewey would defeat truman in that election. that did not happen and that led to a lot of rethinking of the methods that pollsters used. and a primary failure occurred, it occasioned a similar reassessment of polling methods. it turns out based on a lot of evidence collected after that that it was a fluke. this was a consequence of the unusual circumstances of that primary coming on the heels of the iowa caucuses. it never happened again in the primaries. some polls to not do as well as others, but none of the primaries and certainly not the general law election produced a big failure. in fact, one of the things that makes us most confident that our method of electing a small random sample of people to represent a large population is valid is the fact that polling has a very good track record of forecasting how elections will come out. in 2008, many polling organizations came within a point or two of obama's victory for the same was true in 2004. the 2000 election was too close to call. the polling was accurate then, too. we pas

the performance and resilience of men and women and their families who did not shrink from duty when dewey sent them in harm's way. again, thank you for all you have done to make possible what they have done. >> at roll call on behalf of every member of this committee and every member of the senate, and the people who we represent, we thank you for the extraordinary service and your statement as well. let's try a seven-minute first round. let me go back to pakistan. admiral, you make a very strong statement about the pakistanis getting safe haven to the al qaeda group. they are attacking and killing our people. the afghan troops, the coalition troops. and i totally share it and i want to ask the secretary the first question. i assume from your statement that you basically share what admiral moreland has said, perhaps more detail that you did, but you basically share his thoughts about the need for pakistan to and that safe haven situation. >> absolutely. a lot and he said the other day that we are not going to allow these types of attacks to go on, and i am wondering, can you make it clear