was quite a backlash among middle class people against militant labor about point and graver grover cleveland would have been an illustration of this you will so got round about that time the clash in the hay market in chicago and with. with the shooting of an a case than the case another case throwing a bar none of the haymarket martyrs so there was quite a lot of. rather dramatic class struggle in the united states in the eighteen seventies a hundred eighty is and it certainly led some of the. upper class. middle class opinion to be very nervous about militant labor but you've got to remember the american business was led by the so-called robber barons at that time and there were also among the farming people you've got a radical movement not so much influenced by marx but which the the the socialists the marxists the internationalist they did warmly supporters and that was former radicalism the grange movement another type of communism what they call the communism of combined wealth they would very much against the large railroad companies for example which would go and take over the land

first national bank versus bill oddie all the way to citizens united none of these decisions grover cleveland one thousand nine hundred eight in the state of the union address your corporations have become the masters of the people the iron heel is on the throat of the people throughout this entire arc there has never been a legislature that has voted for this and there has never been a president who advocated it in fact to the contrary there have been laws against it and there have been presidents who have decried it. what do we do with this doctrine that the supreme court has been slowly and steadily building over almost two hundred year period. to get out of this well look i mean that first of all it's so institutionalized now it's so ingrained in our system that it really would take big steps because you have to do citizens united you have to change campaign finance you have to have publicly financed elections you have to have elections of limited duration you've also got to get out of some of the bad habits where i'm in democracies so so for example the gerrymandering that we have has le

in his eighteen eighty eight state of the union address then president grover cleveland told the nation that was then under the control of robber barons corporations which should be carefully restrained creatures of the law in the service of the people are fast becoming the people's masters where we are again today with all of the slaves to wall street let's look at the bigger picture here though how do you know the question how do these banks get so big it really began as as was just point out with ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred two stopping the justice department from the force of the sherman turn antitrust act which led to a frenzy of mergers and acquisitions the big getting bigger the monopolies forming in every major industry this isn't just banking the m.n.a. an l.b.o. mania of the early eighty's people like michael milken and karl out of for over two hundred years in america every town and every shopping mall had its own unique character stores and manufacturing companies were family owned and passed down for generations but today if you got in an airplane and jumped

i thought about talking a lot more about andrew jackson and lincoln of course to grover cleveland i mentioned briefly. so i did mention a few of those presidents in passing and a couple of lessons that should be drawn in the introductory chapters but i decided it make more sense to concentrate on the modern presidency in the last 100 years compass. it really is a simple as that. you could do the whole thing. maybe a second volume, i don't know. the other thing was, justly of the modern presidents, you want chapters to be about four or 5000 words, or not more than that, even at that length he gets a whole lot about them. so i don't go into their childhood. i don't give allies which i contemplated for a while. and said, focusing in on the constitutional mentioned. i talk about some of their other main things that we think about in terms of the presidents and try to get some other fun facts like how many knew that gerald ford's real name was leslie lynch king? or that jimmy carter was not on the first president born in a hospital, amazing to think as late as 1976 the first time we elected a pres

-- you have reprinted a couple paragraphs of a letter here that she wrote to then-president grover cleveland, in which libby custer writes, "if you knew how, year after year, the sorrow of my life has been intensified with the knowledge that i as a woman could do nothing to establish the proof that my husband did not go to his death rashly, you would realize how earnest is my appeal now that the opportunity has come before you. for nine years, i have only been able to hear the unjust accusations against my husband's name by the hope that a friend would some time be raised up, brave and loyal enough to defend him against the charge of his rashness on the day of the battle of the little bighorn in which he lost his life." and her whole point had something to do with general nelson miles. what was she writing the president of the united states about, and did he know who she was? >> guest: he certainly knew who she was. what she wanted was for general nelson miles, who had been a close friend of the custers and became his the champion of his tactics in the battle of the little bighorn -- he was

really matter, and i thought about talking a lot more about andrew jackson and lincoln of course, grover cleveland i mentioned for degette pre-constitutional president. so i do mention a few of those presidents in passing with a couple of lessons drawn in the introductory chapters but i decided as a practical writing matter it made sense to concentrate on the modern presidency in the last 100 your compass. it really is as simple as that. you could do the whole thing. maybe a second volume, i don't know. and then the other thing was even just looking at the modern presidents and we won the chapters to be bought for 5,000 words, not more than that, even at that you can't say a lot about them so i don't go into their childhoods and i don't give sort of the brief lines which are contemplated for a while. instead, focusing in on the constitutional dimension also along the way i talk about some of their other things we think about in terms of the president and try to give some of the fun facts like to many new gerald ford's real name was leslie king, he took his adoptive father sang or jimmy carter was

and she saw grover cleveland run. >> will?ty impressive endorsements. senator mike lee, who has tea party credit. i think it's impressive the endorsements he's starting to rack up, but you ask yourself why? rubio, it's getting clear that mitt romney is going to be the nominee. for that same logic and rational, the tea party will also fall behind mitt romney because he will be the nominee. >> mitt romney's sweet beach house. listen. >> this is exciting. the jackpot for the mega millions lotly rhode island has reached $500 million. or as mitt romney calls that, one more beach house. >> now romney is catching flak for putting in a car elevator. an elevator for his car. should he just take a vow of poverty until november? will? >> no. i can't wait until he puts a car elevator in the white house. i love this. you are rich. don't hide it. don't worry. it makes the simpletons upset, but show it off. that's who you are. >> jason? >> look, the problem is not being rich. the problem is being the wrong kind of rich guy. he doesn't explai

the two times that ohio has been wrong since grover cleveland, they went to the republican who lost to instead of franklin, instead of john f. kennedy. you can find a path to 270 from obama that doesn't require either ohio and florida. you can't do that with the republican nominee. what if mitt rom. >> were to pick florida's marco rubio? >> i think that would be a smart pick. he's in trouble with hispanics. he's 6 to 1 rid now and he has to cut that 3-1. i agree with florida is a heavy lift. i gave the president some very good advice, and florida is really tough and democratic parties, save your $40 million in some place else and they went down and won florida. i know how tough florida is. it's about six states in one. it's very, very complicated state, but they went before and he just has an unbelievable team. i think he knows where every vote in america is will vote for obama. i'm not kidding. >> he's the guy you want to have on your team then, larry sabato and howard dean. good to see you both. >> thank you. >>> it is time now for another edition of "number ones." we begin with the