at the age of 7 he was christened frederick frederick law olmstead jr. and frederick law olmstead jr. and also olmsted was in his 40s or 50s when he he had this young boy. and rick entered college when olmsted was an old man, in his 60s. and there are wonderful letters in which olmsted just demands that rick, you know, sort of account for his time, show his passion for landscape architecture as he's starting away in school. and rick deflected one of them by simply describing a football game. [laughter] dad, leave me alone, here's a new sport which you don't understand at all, i'm just going to describe the action. really i feel like the interesting thing with rick is he had all this parental pressure which was, you know, unavoidable, but he also seems to have had a genetic bequest, that's the only way to put it, of olmsted's talent, olmsted's vision for landscape. so when rick finally found himself despite all this pressure, rick proved to be an incredibly able architect, and he took landscape architecture, he and john charles who teemed up in -- teamed

frederick doesn't buy anything that's not on sale.his is one of the meat aisles where frederick shops. he says you can pick out items from an aisle like this, but have to watch out for sales. you can only pick out a little bit at a time. if you do that, you stand a good chance of tapping out your card every month. basic stuff here, toothpaste. >> can't do it. >> can't buy toothpaste. >> can't buy toothpaste, can't buy soap, can't buy deodorant. >> why not? >> it is not edible, you cannot buy it. >> for those items, you have to use your own money, if you have it. frederick says at 53, first time unemployed, his pride has taken a big hit from this. >> i don't want to be -- i have to eat to live. that's the only way i can do it these days. i can't go around begging or a sign on my chest, i need something to eat, help me i haven't eat today or help me i need something to eat. >> this prevents you from having to do that. >> from begging and panhandling, this prevents me from doing that. i have pride. i am a human being. >> as eager as he i

frederick doesn't buy anything that's not on sale.is one of the meat islands where frederick shops. he says you can pick out items from an aisle like this, but you've got to watch out for sales, you can only pick out a little bit at a time, and even if you do, you still stand a pretty good chance of tapping out your card every month. basic stuff here like tooth paste? what about that? >> can't do it. >> reporter: you can't buy tooth paste, you can't buy soap, you can't buy deodorant. if it's not edible, you cannot buy it. >> reporter: for those items, you have to use your own money, if you have it. frederick says at 53, first-time unemployed, his pride's taken a big hit from this. >> i don't want to be on them. because if i didn't have to eat, i sure wouldn't be. but i have to eat to live. that's the only way i can do it these days. i can't go around, you know, on the street begging, or with a sign on my chest saying, i need something to eat, help me, i need something to eat. >> reporter: so this at least prevents you from having to d

frederick law olmstead jr. was in his 50s or late 40s but old again by the standards of the day when he had this young boy. rick and ecology when olmstead was in his 60s. there are wonderful letters in which olmstead demand that wreck account for his time and show his passion for landscape architecture and rick deflected one by describing a football game. football is a brand new sport. here's a new sport you don't understand and describe the action and touchdown that celebratory bonfire afterwards. the interesting thing with rick is he had this parental pressure which was unavoidable but he also seemed to have had a genetic request of olmstead's talent and vision and rick finally found himself despite all this pressure, proved to be an incredibly able landscape architect and he took landscape architecture. 18 up in a very uncomfortable firm and took landscape architecture throughout the 20th century and a lot of projects and all kinds of things all over the country. one other footnotes is rick professionally dr

and so he -- this was in frederick. and on september 9th he writes out orders to divide up his army into four segments. stonewall jackson was going to go to the west and completely surround harper's ferry. and he sent these out by courier to all the general involved. and the copy that went to stonewall jackson, jackson read it and then copied it again for d.h. hill who had been under his orders. one of the couriers was also taking the same message to d.h. hill and, of course, it never arrived, and it was drop inside a clover field south of frederick. and when -- we don't know why this happened or how it could have been prevented or at least discovered because the courier was supposed to deliver the envelope in which the message came with the signature that went back to the headquarters, but it did not go. my own theory is that it was a careless courier, and then he discovered he'd lost it, went to d.h. hill's headquarters and asked around and said, oh, yes, we have the orders. so he felt much relieved, presumably, and w

frederick law olmstead. mr. trained to report on mr. olmstead's numerous designs which include new york city's central park in boston's emerald necklace and also, mr. olmstead's experience as a journalist and abolitionist. this is about an hour and 20. [applause] >> thank you very much. this is great fun for me. i ran classic park for 20 years than i thought i had read everything there was to know about frederick law olmstead until i read justin's boat. it is a very, very fabulous and fun book to read. i was very pleased that justin asked me to come and ask him a few questions about olmstead because i learned so much in this book. plus i learned a lot about the history of that time period, which is a fascinating time. the time before the civil war, what is happening in this country, all the things that can happen afterwards moved so fast, just like today. but i'm not sure we can still produce this genius of place. but anyway, justin is a highly praised -- has written two great biographies, one about alan greenspan and what about ralph n

are they talk about frederick churches milan now?> i guess olmstead didn't have anything to do with it. he is a relative of olmstead. they are close in age and both grew up at hartford. they don't seem to have had -- i don't have any confidence. i took that maybe he was a grand committee can take figure and maybe olmstead and he. given the commonality, i took the lack of relationship this may be a sign that olmstead are a bit more standoffish. they didn't want to collect too much. he was much more comfortable for whatever reason and they were very, very close friends. i couldn't tell you what vox had to do, but he did help. >> that's really another one along with maryann, you know, the daughter where it would be wonderful to know about whatever, the prickly distant relationship, or maybe it wasn't, but that's the existing record as i was able to encounter it. >> i think we have time for one last question. >> you said that the family -- i had a trammingic personal life with loss of children. they were loss older. was it illness or acc

chin shows us you how this week's jefferson award winner has been doing it for>>> reporter: teray fredericknsformed her hayward home into a headquarters for giving. as her two daughters nerd adulthood she made a new commit men to serve her community. >> it's something i have always wanted to do but i was, you know, raising kids, doing the wife thing and taking care of home. >> reporter: in 2008, teray founded the ascending sisters social club. the nonprofit collects close an food and donates them to hundreds of low income people mostly in oakland. her eight volunteers help her decide which neighborhood to serve next. >> oakland needs uplifting, someone to grasp and just hug the whole city. and, you know, that's what we're trying. >> reporter: besides the clothes and food distribution every other month the club also hosts backpack giveaways, christmas toy drives and hiv prevention awareness events with local biker clubs. teray, a medical assistant, said serving her community just feels right. >> i used to repossess cars, believe it or not. [ laughter ] >> and i did not like taking. i did not

>> fredericks got its name from frederick billings, former president of the northern pacific railroadho they honored by naming the town after him. >> the railroad created the town and almost by accident. >> there was a nearby town by the name of colson which expected to be the next great railroad town. because they raised prices and made it inconvenient for the railroad the railroad decided to build their own town. the town of billings. billings basically prosper the. coulson disappeared. >> about the only thing left of coulson is boot hill cemetery. >> this is the burying grounds of coulson. most people buried here died violently. there were murders, suicides and accidents. they died with their boots on. so we call it boot hill. >> when the railroad came in, billings grew so quickly, one rider said like mushrooms after a rain storm. it quickly took on the nickname, the magic city. >> the town's history is dotted with a lot of colorful characters. for example, calamity james. >> calamity was quite a character. she did all kinds of thing no women would do, no lady anyway. she rode a st

you see his relationship with frederick douglass. douglas said lincoln was the only white man he ever encountered who made him feel comfortable. aaider lincoln's second inaugurl address frederick douglass went to the white house for reception and was held up in line because he was black. he gets in and when lincoln sees him he goes up to him and says mr. ip uglas, there's no person whose opinion i value more than yours. what did you think of the speech? he said was a sacred effort. because of emancipation not for the first time in the united states our military became a great foct te for liberation. thousands of slaves flocked to it. the front lines of the union army became great moving camps of freedmen. at an end of the war when lincoln entered a bombed out richmond word began to spread that he was there and you had a black laborers coming out. the whites of richmond were not so thrilled. they said praise the lord. they fell on thhhr knees in front of lincoln and he had to say don't kneel to me. you must neil to god only and thank

frederick douglass went to the white house for a reception. want to let him in because he was black. he gets in. when lincoln sees him, he goes up and says, mr. douglass, there is no person i value -- whose opinion i value more than yours, what did you think of the speech in he said, i think it was a sacred effort. because of the emancipation our cuventry became a great force for liberation. thousands of slaves glocked -- flocked to it. the front lines of the union army became a great moving camps of freedmen. at the end of the war, when lincoln entered a bombed out richmond, word began to spread that he was there and you had all the black laborers coming out, the whites in richmond weren't so thrilled. they came out and they said praise the lord and fell on their knees in front of lincoln, and he said, don't kneel to me, that's not right, kneel to god only and thank him for the libeyo enjoy. we shouldn't sugar coat lincoln, he had the racial at tutesdz of his time. you can see in the course of his administration his mind change. the reason it

. >>> reporter: teray frederick has transformed her hayward home into a headquarters for giving. as her two daughters nerd adulthood she made a new commit men to serve her community. >> it's something i have always wanted to do but i was, you know, raising kids, doing the wife thing and taking care of home. >> reporter: in 2008, teray founded the ascending sisters social club. the nonprofit collects close an food and donates them to hundreds of low income people mostly in oakland. her eight volunteers help her decide which neighborhood to serve next. >> oakland needs uplifting, someone to grasp and just hug the whole city. and, you know, that's what we're trying. >> reporter: besides the clothes and food distribution every other month the club also hosts backpack giveaways, christmas toy drives and hiv prevention awareness events with local biker clubs. teray, a medical assistant, said serving her community just feels right. >> i used to repossess cars, believe it or not. [ laughter ] >> and i did not like taking. i did not. my boss used to tell me, we're not going to get this mo

. >> frederick law olmsted is remembered for designing new york city's central park, but justin martin looks at his life as journalist and abolitionist. also in washington, booktv stopped by a book party for juan williams' latest, "muzzled." and inside the world of "the pirates of somalia." sign up for booktv alert, it's weekend schedule's in your inbox. >>> and up next on booktv, michael wallis recalls the life of frontiersman david "davy" correct. crockett. it's about an hour. >> thank you so much. it's great to be with you. and it's wonderful to come into a city where there's rain. [laughter] um, i live in, my wife susanne who's with me -- you'll meet her later -- we live and have lived for some years in tulsa, oklahoma, where there's plenty of water and wood, it's a very green place, but like the rest of this nation it's been stricken, and temperatures in triple digits for many, many days. and that's the way it's been for us most of the summer because we're now in the last leg of this national book tour, and we've been all over the country, deep into the eastern united states on th

after plunging over five frederick points. the euro is treading for $1.17. they have formed the biggest pop market. antitrust authorities say they want to examine the deal in detail before giving consent. there were is somewhat concerned that the company might dominate merges and derivatives. the new company would have a near monopoly. the eu commission has until mid december to make a decision. one of the highest courts in france has ordered a possible investigation into misconduct by the new head of the international monetary fund. prosecutors have accused her of using her authority what she was the french finance minister. >> the investigation surrounds a 285 million euro payout in 2008 when she was finance minister. the recipient was a business tycoon who was locked in a dispute with adidas. he claims that a state-owned bank had defrauded him in the deal. she is now being investigated over her role in the multimillion-dollar arbitration deal. her lawyers say that she did not have any wrongdoing and what comes to investigation. >> i think it will be very

washington and george washington carver, but she lectured about the contribution of frederick douglass, w.e.b. dubois, and how jackie robinson dubois, and how jackie robinson had broken the baseball barrier.

mason-frederick has found the business, but they are not hiring as many people as they like. >> borrowing money is so much more difficult right now that there is a state of unknown. that state of unknown is "-- is what is keeping people from moving forward with projects. >> it is a prosperous place, but even here there is gloom. the economy is just bopping along the bottom. now a few economists say the figures point to another recession. things could actually be getting worse. there are new worries. >> sales are definitely down. people are not spending as much money. my husband is unemployed right now. i am the only income that my family has. we are barely scraping. we can pay our rent and our bills, but that is about it. >> it is down right now. i thought it was coming back. in the summer, we had a couple of good months. this political snafu in washington and a higher gas prices wiped it out. >> obama is enjoying his party, but as the dow plunges, the president has little to celebrate. >> the entire police force in a town in northern mexico has resigned after two colleagues were killed b

simon worked closely with a british writer, frederick forsyth, and frederick forsyth's novel, "the odessa file," became famous as you probably all know. based on on the novel, a film was made, very successful with famous people, actors mic max mill yang shell, fellow austrian, and the music was composed by andrew lloyd weber. so it was really a best seller, and the movie was all over the place. and since then imagination was dominated by the odessa. whenever you were talking about these perpetrators, of eichmann and many other well known perpetrators, you would immediately talk about odessa. but the to december saw was -- but the odessa was mostly fiction. an organization like the odessa almighty with unlimited resources and responsible, kind of worldwide responsible for the escape of these perpetrators never did exist. it's, basically, fiction. it's a mythical story. it has nothing to do with the facts. the reality was much more complex. simon, why did he do it? there are a couple reasons for that. one reason was, certainly, he wanted to keep this topic alive. in the 1950s and 1960s espe

. >> frederick murray, an amazing man. he has a ranch in healdsburg. we are celebrating a taste of sonoma. we have to his daughter. hot north the arcti >> >> the gorgeous day in the south bay. as we had to the peninsula upper 7 is a long debate. 92 in fairfield. >> here they are, dressed like farmers. june adrienne from murray. they had a ranch in healdsburg. i was lucky enough to meet a frederick memory. perhaps this is the daughter of june. your father was an amazing story. look at these pictures. >> he was in radio, film and television. >> he was an iconic movies. double indemnity and then he did my three sons. tell me about the ranch. >> people can come to iran? >> this is a wine tasting. " our decided to post this again. this is our sixth year. we are holden retrospective and one of our barns with a history of the ranch in the family. if it's a bit of a pictorial. we'll have been your pores. beautiful food. it is quite an event. >> condition of many of your parents' friends. >> jimmy stewart and his children. six >> i married a man because he look

washington and george washington carver, but she lectured about the contribution of frederick douglass, w.e.b. dubois, and how jackie robinson had broken the baseball barrier. and we remembered the opera singer who was not allowed to sing in the hall and had to sing in lincoln center. all the discrimination and the local in justices. like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they built a house adjacent to the main hospital. the white people were not supposed to be in the same room with an n-person. you know the n-word? i said to myself at the end of the day that i love my country and i'm glad that that day, i took a stand. i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of separate but unequal. it is understates rights -- is under states' rights. after lincoln had fre

you can see it in his relationship with frederick douglass.ouglas said that he was the only white man he had ever encountered that made him feel comfortable. frederick douglass went to the white house for a reception and people did not want to let him in because he was black. when he is received in the receiving line, he says there is no person whose opinion that he valued more. he called it a sacred effort. not for the first time in the united states, our military became a great force for liberation. the front lines of the union army, at times, became moving camps of freedman. at the end of the war, when lincoln entered richmond, which had been bombed out, word began to spread that he was there. all of the black laborers came out. they fell on their knees in front of lincoln and he had to say -- do not kneel to me, you must meal to god for the liberty that she will hereafter and joy. -- that you will hereafter and joy. we should not sugarcoat him, he had the racial attitudes of his time, but the reason there was such a change was because blac

. >> frederick is a relaxed sort of place with a prosperous few but even here there is gloom.in streets up and down america it seems the economy is bumping along the bottom. some say there is another recession. they're in a minority but could things be getting worse? >> in the shops there are no worries. >> sales are down. people aren't spending as much money. my husband is unemployed right now and i'm the only income that our family has. and we're barely scraping. i mean, we can pay rent and bills but that's about it. >> it's down right now. i thought it was coming back in the summer we had a couple good months and then this political snafu in washington and the higher gas prices has wiped it out. >> at the wax obama he enjoys his party but the real president has little to celebrate. >> we need to cheer ourselves up. the diversion of the office like no other. the tv comedy a crossover hit when it came from britain to american. how will it play in afghanistan. audiences will get their first glimpse. the creators say it is a depiction of daily afghan life with comic relief. >>

frederick douglass at a funeral for one of the great abolitionist of boston.a talked-about theodore parker who was a well-known clergymen who lost his congregation because of his radical views. she talked about charles sumner. she worshipped the ground he walked on. and would go to a little soiree. they had won every sunday afternoon. oliver wendell holmes sr. looked at her and said you have how many sisters? she said four. and all as tall as you? he was a very short man. a lot of anecdotes and descriptions of people. she knew henry david thoreau's character several times. after his death she brings him up as the favorite writer of a young man and boosts him because henry david thoreau had been forgotten. emerson and louisa may alcott tried to keep him in public view throughout their lifetime and eventually he was appreciated but he died with 700 copies of merrimack river in his room because he hadn't sold them. he was quite neglected for years. there's an essay called henry david thoreau called walking which is one of the more famous ones. the companion he is

before then we have very interesting accounts by men like frederick douglass who in his autobiography noted that when he went to london and was a guest of the duchess of sutherland said afterwards, as you know, in england americans who would, you know, refuse to shake his hand in america would ask him for an introduction to the duchess. right, right, right. douglass and others, as you say, found racism not nearly as pervasive in britain as they did this united states, including in the northern united states. >> guest: that's right. the fascinating figure who i think -- >> host: black abolitionist woman. >> guest: exactly. who trained to become a doctor and, ultimately, practiced medicine in the italy, she left the forth north feeling, you know, really persecuted and wrote about that once she reached england where she became a friend of feminists and others. and said that, you know, she felt her color to be a chain around her neck in new york where she was kicked off endless trams and that kind of thing. but not in england. >> host: right. on the other hand, i don't think you would pro

somehow create it by only american events and ideas such as you know massachusetts puritanism or frederick jackson turns the front seems to me to be distorting history that's the one idea the second idea which is probably more controversial is the idea that somehow since the end of the cold war american exceptionalism become more nationalistic more aggressive and more of a problem for the rest of the world if i go to you peter i mean a lot of people say american exceptionalism is a problem from americans also i mean how do you reflect about what godfrey just said because he basically did deflates it or it diminishes they did is that america is just an extension of a european experience in many different ways though you could say that republican ideas came to the fore there but in any other ways are americans exaggerating who they are and what they are. well i don't know you know it's very much a matter of degree no sensible person would imagine that the american culture began in seven hundred seventy six and didn't have important roots and in europe of course it did. the question really is

>> that's cameron, frederick, jonathan and madison. >> reporter: so you have four?eporter: how old are you? >> i'm five. how important is miss brenda to you? >> very important, because they look forward to coming down here every day. >> reporter: thomasville was once the furniture capital of america. but after plant closings and thousands of jobs sent to china and south america, the county's unemployment rate has grown to 10.8%. >> thank you. you're you're welcome. >> reporter: for a lot of people in thomasville, including brenda, hard times go back generations. >> my mom one day she was like six and there were six other brothers and sisters and she's standing on the chair and she is boiling water to pour dirt in for them to have dirt soup. i can't imagine anybody having to go through anything like that. so i cannot see any child go hungry. >> reporter: if you go to washington and talk to president obama, what would you say? >> i would ask him to please let every child in america eat a free breakfast and free lunch every day. >> reporter: it's awfully expensive, isn

the day before at about nine thirty in the morning the chief of police guy named robert frederick showed up i'm a chief of police and. he told me to go down to the court and ask first day of addiction. now when they had the eviction hearing i never entered the jurisdiction of the corps i did not cross that railing and step on that vessel you'll see any oranges or really don't look because they're represent ships railing so you're actually leaving the land and entering like maritime law when you walk into these courts these legislative courts or at least submitting to the jurisdiction of the court and you're making the case that you didn't submit but so so they can say well what happened they they never actually came to evict you then they never came to a big me i have my day or two after the eviction hearing. i sent in a petition killing court under the declaratory judgment act because they used the language issued a judgment against me a month before the hearing but the judgment isn't even signed so in my petition i asked them who is it judgment against the state created entity or the l

>> and frederick march, he's like in his late 80s and anxiety and not wanting to drop this great opportunity. big time. >> imagine making movies, because of the pace of them, unlike live theater, there's no real nerves because if you make a mistake you just redo it. >> oerk, no, but it's the whole -- you know, the term, dropping the ball. that's what it feels like. remember with crazy heart, for instance, what an opportunity to do this movie with -- >> it was the perfect film. >> oh, my gosh. >> your dream role. >> burnett is in charge of the music. how wonderful. yeah, but are you going to be able to pull it off? are you going to do it. >> it's like the wide receiver going out for a long ball. please, let me catch this thing, you know. >> fascinating. >> yes. it creates more anxiety. >> yeah. and when you played that role, obviously music being this great passion outside of movies for you, you could see it in the depiction of the character. i mean, have you ever thought that could have been you? you could have had this career and ended up like washed up old cowboy has been? >> i'm glad i li

brazil, and cuba, and in america, the novel particularly inspiring to african americans, the ex-slave frederick douglass cited no one had done more for black people in america than harriet beecher stowe. how could it be a catalyst for civil rights? after all, that's not how most people today see the novel. the title character, uncle tom has box a by-word for a spineless sellout, someone who betrays his own race. we tend to think of the novel of an old-fashioned sentimentsal affair that teaches the deaths of the enslaved black man and his blond angelic child friend, but this view, this negative view is egregiously inaccurate and does a gross injustice to uncle tom's cabin. he's actually a muscular dig mid man in his 40s notable precisely because of his not have betrayeded his race. one reason he passes up to chance to escape the kentucky plantation is he doesn't want to put his fellow slaves in dangerrings and later on endures a brutal whipping that leads to his death because he refuses to tell his master where two enslaved black women are hiding. as for little ava, she bravely accepts her comin

frederick douglass at a funeral for one of the great abolitionist in boston. about theodore parker, who was a very well-known clergyman or actually had lost his congregation because of his radical views. she talks about charles sumner. she just worship the ground sumner walked on and you know she will go to a littles for a. theater of parker had won every afternoon and she describes oliver wendell holmes sr. looked up at her and said, i hear you have how many sisters are there? she said for and he said and all his tall as you? a very short man, so she does have a lot of antic notes and descriptions of people. she uses thoreau as a character a number of times and in one of her later books long after thoreau was dead, she brings him out as the favorite writer of the young man and kind of boost him. thoreau had been forgotten and really emerson and louisa alcott tried to keep him in public view. throughout their lifetimes and eventually he was appreciated, but he died was something like over 700 copies of the week on the merrimack river in his room because he had

frederick yolanda is one of the union leaders that doesn't want to give up jobs or benefits. i have to ask you, is that a realistic view of what the postal service is facing? >> good afternoon, and how are you doing today? >> doing well. >> we are disappointed in the announcement because next week we're about to enter into collective bargaining session with the postal service, and we're disappointed they have chosen to take the collective bargaining into the halls of congress, and it distracts congress from the real issues they need to be addressing, which is the prefunding of future retiry health benefits and recognizing the pension surplus the postal service has in both retirement systems. >> let me ask you, what would you do? we're talking about the postal service losing $8 billion last year alone, and the forecast is not for any turn around that i can tell. >> well, what would i do? i would ask congress to act and fix the crisis they created. what the congress did was mandate, i believe, as you alluded to, the postal service prefund the future retirement benefits for the

i am a human being. >> reporter: frederick says he has other priorities.o get out of the transitional home, and to do that, like so many others, he has to find a job first. like tens of millions of other americans he will be on the food stamp program for a little longer. >> coming up, a woman showing the world the results of a facial transplant two years after being mauled by a shim pansy. and transfer between accounts, so your money can move as fast as you do. check out your portfolio, track the market with live updates. and execute trades anywhere and anytime the inspiration hits you. even deposit checks right from your phone. just take a picture, hit deposit and you're done. open an account today and put schwab mobile to work for you. [ martin luther king jr. ] i still have a dream that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream today! [ male announcer ] chevrolet is honored to celebrate the unveiling of the washington, d