ask any american to name a famous architect, and i'll bet you hear only one name -- frank lloyd wrightgreatest american architect, his concepts on how we live, how homes are designed, uh, it was really revolutionary. >> wright was born in 1867 and was already working as an architect by the time he was 20. over the next 70 years, he designed pretty much anything you can think of -- residential homes, schools, churches, skyscrapers, even museums, like new york's guggenheim. >> he started practicing in the late 1800s. and he really broke away from the traditional models. >> he really changed the way things were built and how people lived in america. >> in the 1800s, victorian homes were what wright called boxes within boxes. square house, square room. you open a door, go into the next square room. he blew all of that open. >> wright wanted buildings in the united states to have their own character, one uniquely american. so in 1937, he bought 160 acres of land in arizona and built what he called his winter camp, taliesin west, right here in scottsdale, arizona. >> he had been here in the

now we broaden a bit where at the end of september, we are doing a frank lloyd wright and hemingway tour of wisconsin and michigan and anyway, we are doing a trip to ireland's next year. -- ireland next year. england trip, 11 presidents in 10 days. patriots.com. host: what is your latest book? guest: i am not in the home stretch but well past the halfway point of a big biography , a surprising biography of gerald ford, who i knew. actually, as an intern in the ford white house, and i am surprised i thought i knew him. i'm surprised 45 years later, there is new information, resignation and other events. it is -- you just have to dig. i have done 170 interviews for this book. you dig and dig in the archives. , who discovered remarkable evidence, it is still there. that is why digging for gold -- host: this is stand in florida. independent line. caller: i am looking at the tv and it says 1968 convention. i was around during the 60's. i was 25. when vietnam was going on and lbj and his press secretary was coming out, lying to the american public about what was going on. they were shooting ki

. >> frank lloyd wright and others have been dead a long enough time. >> gentleman in the second row. >> the basis of evolution 50 years from now but of the presidents and the first lady's. we want to encourage them to collect 50 years from now. >> we have one right here in the center. >> this has been a fascinating day. it was not always a given that the federal government would be located here. the most famous dinner in american history with jefferson and hamilton trading off the location and banking and financial reforms. how would the white house have been different had it been located in philadelphia or new york? any speculation? >> do you want to take this? >> i mean i don't have to. two houses were built in new york and one in philadelphia and george washington would never enter either one of them. even mrs. powell who he adored tried to get him through the front door and he wouldn't. more is known about the one in new york but philadelphia had rotund as in chairs. the last minute they thought it would work. those houses are what they would have looked like. one became a medica

. >> both the eames and frank lloyd wright have been dead a good long time. >> we have a question. this gentleman in the second row. >> that was my question. >> can't improve upon it? >> evolution, when you look back 50 years from now and say, well -- and because it's not just -- it's acquired by this committee, but the presidents and the first ladies, you know, we want to encourage them to collect now for 50 years from now. >> we have one right here in the center. >> thank you very much. it's been a fascinating day. it wasn't always a given that the federal government would be located here, where it is. in fact, the play "hamilton" certainly highlighted the fact that most famous dinner in american history, that jefferson and hamilton traded off the location of the capitol for hamilton's banking and financial reforms. how would the white house have been different had it been located in philadelphia or new york? any speculation, considering, you know, it was a different cultural environment, the northern colonies? >> do any of you want to take this? yes, bill. >> but i don't have to

this is actually by maybal wright, who is frank low to upper -- lloyd wright's sister, another individual rises to the surface during world war i. you see here also, food conservation, wholesome, nutritious foods from corn. i know we make everything out of corn today, but back then, we didn't, so this was kind of new. again, one thing that's worth noting about this is we will ration. during world war i, hoover believed that if you just encouraged people to act correctly, they would ration food themselves, that you didn't need to impose it on them, that they would pledge that. that's debatable premise since we turned to rationings in world war ii, suggests that maybe it didn't work quite as we wanted but nonetheless, demonstrates a larger issue in terms of this centralization of efforts toward the war. even if you were just a housewife, you could find something to do towards the war. and i point to this one, which kind of demonizes, again, i mentioned mercer green johnston as calling germany his satanic majesty. you see it actually illustrated in some of this propaganda. many of these post

now we broaden a bit where at the end of september, we are doing a frank lloyd wright and hemingway tourwisconsin and michigan and anyway, we are doing a trip to ireland's next year. -- ireland next year. england trip, 11 presidents in 10 days. patriots.com. host: what is your latest book? guest: i am not in the home stretch but well past the halfway point of a big biography , a surprising biography of gerald ford, who i knew. actually, as an intern in the ford white house, and i am surprised i thought i knew him. i'm surprised 45 years later, there is new information, resignation and other events. it is -- you just have to dig. i have done 170 interviews for this book. you dig and dig in the archives. , who discovered remarkable evidence, it is still there. that is why digging for gold -- host: this is stand in florida. independent line. caller: i am looking at the tv and it says 1968 convention. i was around during the 60's. i was 25. when vietnam was going on and lbj and his press secretary was coming out, lying to the american public about what was going on. they were shooting kids o