hendrik: correct. brian: were you chairman? hendrik: i was not. now the chairman is red cabinet, the person here in washington. brian: how big an impact is it that vandenberg is from grand rapids? hendrik: we grew up with ford as our congressman. he went to congress before i was born and then became president in 1974. so he is one of these figures that we almost risk taking for granted until he became president and we realized how momentous his brief administration was as a point of american history. he got his start through the offices of arthur vandenberg. brian: a historian we have had here a lot moved to grand rapids to do a biography of gerald ford. hendrik: we have occasion to get together occasionally. he tantalizes me with some of the research he is uncovering. on president ford. i have been privileged to be privy to some of that and it promises to be a terrific book. brian: how much does gerald ford and vandenberg represent your own feelings and politics? hendrik: i grew up in an age where my political awareness i trace back to 1966 becau

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hendrik hank meyer with his book the man in the middle of the american century. himself in opposition when fdr is elected and the democrats take the majority in the senate. he is in opposition for the next dozen years. that means that to get anything done, which often meant resisting some of franklin roosevelt's initiatives, there needed to be a coalition. he needed to reach across the aisle. "q&a" tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> next on lectures in history, i was state university professor teaches a class on food during the great depression. she describes the way families try to stretch their money and food supply, often while gardening, buying cheap ingredients, and eating the same thing over and over. her class is about 50 minutes. prof. riney-kehrberg: greetings everybody. ourre going to be starting discussion of the great depression. what we are going to

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. >> hendrik hank meyer with his book -- the man in the middle of the american century. >> vandenbergfinds himself in opposition when fdr is elect did in the early 1930's and the democrats take the majority of the senate. he is in opposition for the next dozen years. that means that to get anything done, which often meant resisting some of franklin roosevelt's initiatives, there needed to be a coalition. he had to reach across the aisle. >> q&a, tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> this morning, kaiser health news correspondent talks about the new tax laws impact on the affordable care act and what other changes congress and the white house may be considering to health care. from the foundation of d

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. >> hendrik hank meyer with his book "arthur vandenberg -- the man in the middle of the american century." >> he finds himself in the opposition when the democrats take majority of the senate in the early 1930's. he was in opposition for the next dozen years, which meant that to get anything done, which often meant resistant some of fdr's initiatives, there needed to be a correlation. he had to reach across the aisle. >> q&a, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on >> sunday night, federal appellate judge john newman looks back at his 38-your judicial career in his book "bench." he is interviewed by richard blumenthal. newman: as a -- richard blumenthal: as a judge for 35 years, was that a difficult transaction and did you ever -- transition and did you ever miss advocacy? : it was not difficult. i have known people that became judges and so disliked the decision-making process they left the bench. i was glad to be an advocate. i found the decision-making process, while it was different, enormously challenging, and while i

effective in the mid or long term and the commission asked for short term measures that came nothing hendrik the environment and vironment of the minister was more or less empty handed she said she personally would say that the carmaker refit the cars was fitted on something that that to make it more efficient but that would be very costly and so far the german government has denied to do that and this bill be part of the coalition talks and we don't know what the outcome will be so far the german government protected car makers from these costly solutions and we have to wait until the new government is there and then we've got all the other countries and you're mentioning mentioning the costs there if if they're all going to get sued maybe that's the cheaper option bad. but the court in luxemburg is not stupid of course this will be affected in they would see what the economic advantages and disadvantages and then the find of it will be hefty if it comes to a fine this is a very long procedure which takes at least two years but if the fine comes it will be a talking about billions of euros

. >> hendrik meyer with the man in the middle of the american century. >> vandenberg finds himself in opposition the early 1930s. he's in opposition for the next dozen years. that means to get anything done which often meant resisting some of franklin roosevelt's initiatives there needed to be a coalition.

. >> hendrik meyer with the man in the middle of the american century. >> vandenberg finds himself in opposition the early 1930s. he's in opposition for the next dozen years. that means to get anything done which often meant resisting some of franklin roosevelt's initiatives there needed to be a coalition. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. it's brought you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> president george w. bush has taken up painting creating a series of portraits of military veterans. they have been published in the book, portraits of courage. at the presidential library he talked about why he painted veterans of his time in office. this is one hour. >> good evening. i have the honor of being the president of the foundation. thank you. in honor of our men and women who defend our freedom around the world in uniform, please stand in germany for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, o

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tim brown, howie long, jerry rice, ted hendriks. it's about the people for me. that's a big reason that i'm here today. >> grady jackson would be one of those people. the former defensive lineman credited with bestoiing one of the most talked about nicknames on gruden 20 years ago. >> you have some history going back to the chucky days. how often were you reminded? >> i was reminded all last week. looking at espn and seeing me. darrell russell and all the other guys. it's going to be a great time here again. >> lincoln kennedy played along side grady jackson both irnds june gruden. what is jon doing today? >> he's diligently at work creating an offense. >> in the press conference yesterday, was that the jon gruden that you thought you would see? >> without a doubt. you saw the remnants. he's been hunkering to get back into it. >> in my heart, i feel this is the thing to do. this is what i want to do. >> maybe it's because he feels he has unfinished business. that competitive edge is in all of us. i think i can get out there and block somebody but i'm not going t

. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," hendrik meyer.talks about his book "arthur vandenberg: the man in the middle of the american century." >>