henry ford, a junior partner proposed a less expensive model n. his senior partners argued for the more expensive model k. alexander malcolmson and friends lost when ford bought them out with borrowed money. thereafter, the ford would be self-financing with henry ford in control. first, he designed the right car, the model t. made for farmers they'd lurch through mud ford streams plow through the snow. there were still only 200,000 cars in a country of 89 million people. if ford could get the price down to $600 he could tap that vast market. but how? how to improve productivity? auto industry historian stephen meyer. labor turnover approached 370%. the quit rate was 370% of the work force. to maintain a work force of 13,000 he had to hire 54,000 workers a year. here's where we get the $5.00 day-- nearly doubling the unskilled workers' wages to provide the financial incentive for the worker to produce at a much faster rate and a much faster pace. ford got a grip on labor by doubling his workers' wages but he had to cut costs radically elsewhere. no

they eventually sell it to the ford museum or they sell to it henry ford which now it's at the henry ford museum in michigan. you know the carriage itself is a fairly -- that typical carriage. i mean, this is a carriage that required a driver. you can see the seat up front. so in order to really operate this carriage, you need to have various kind of servants and staff at your disposal. it's not the fanciest of carriages. but surprising to surprising to me presidents supplied their own vehicles when they become president. the lincolns had three carriages, this for daytime, another carriage that was closed for, you know, bad weather and there's a third carriage that no one has a good description of. we don't know what that looked like. after the assassination, robert todd lincoln, with mary starts to dispose of some of the lincoln's property. the carriage itself is sold to a doctor in upstate new york who uses it for his daily routes and then eventually, it's sold to the studebaker brothers building a collection of historic characters. they were carriage builders before they actually b

that original rocking chair is in the henry ford museum now. it was the property of the ford brothers. it worked its way to henry ford's museum, no connection, long before the m.p.s. with acquired the structure. there were two guests in the box with a lincoln's that night major henry rathbone and clara harris. president lincoln was watching the play, "our american cousin," a comedy. the play written by a british playwright named tom taylor in the 1850's was a satire of american society and manners. it was her 1000th performance. he was the one on the stage, the only one when john wilkes booth leaves about three quarters of the way through the play. here we have a photo showing you the rear side of ford's theatre. the alley is still there. this was taken many years after 1865. the bay windows would have been a doorway. that would have been where john wilkes booth would have fled out the back of the theatre where he had a horse waiting for him on which he made his escape through this alley. the area of major activity on the night of april 14-15, 1

i talk about henry ford a lot in the book. henry ford raised the wages of his workers in the early part of the 20th century to well above the market average. it is taught in history class in school that he did this so people would buy his cars. the reason henry ford raised the wages was because he was too expensive not to do it. he was experiencing 370% annual turnover at the factories. it was too expensive to continue losing workers, he offered a higher wages so they would not even. -- they would not leave him. capitalism does not necessarily bring the kindest people into the business world but it makes them kind in actions. ford paid extra because he was tired of losing workers. we see this with companies across the income scales. starbucks offers health insurance because they want to keep good workers around. you look at the higher end, a company like google. i offer free lunch, free massages, also its of things to make it exciting for the workers to come to work every day. it is not for love that capitalism creates such ab

butvery the guardian group was henry ford's family bank. t was actually edsel ford's family bank but everybody knew where the money came from. and the decision not to bail out the guardian group was informed by the rfc's actions six months earlier to bail out another important bank, central republic trust a big bank in chicago. central republic was the family bank of charles dawes. it was called the dawes bank. charles dawes was former u.s. vice president. charles dawes was former president one week removed when the bailout occurred of the same reconstruction finance corporation say you can imagine the congressional criticism to which the rfc and the administration were subjected over that decision and a bout in response to play tough when another big politically connected bank came to the brink in early 1933. there was also the failure this time to anticipate how disruptive the collapse of lehman brothers would be and here too i would blame the lessons so-called lessons of the great depression. the conventional narrative about the great dep

and so a group from henry ford health system developed a feedback system on cd that would help show them the image and a trained sonographer could see it on the ground. they have taken that technology and put it on ambulances. and what i really like about it is they have been using it for prenatal care in remote areas. >> the space station is a science lab. but it's also a home. so we couldn't leave the mock-up without having a look around. >> here's the u.s. lab. >> i love it. >> the station itself has about 935 cubic meters of livable space, though it might not always feel like it. >> watch your head, especially right here. >> right. >> these are -- these are the sleep quarters. so this is your personal space. >> this is it? >> this is it. and they get decorated, so they get personalized inside. you've got some real nice fans blowing on you at nice so you don't suffocate. >> can i step in here? >> yes. don't tell anyone. i'll try it out. it could be pretty relaxing. do you strap in then? >> basically you have a sleeping bag that's velcroed to the wall. you also have a head strap becaus

>> well, a couple points with all due respect to naomi, if only henry ford had naomi around advise himhow to run a business the world would be a better place if the left just told andrew carnegie and the rockefellers this is really how you should run your business. don't worry about that profit stuff. i mean that's idiotic. you should build it into pensions. i mean one, it's not the left's place. however well intended they are to tell businesses how to unare. getting back to the point about the union, suzy has it right. this is a shell game as john implied. in fact it is interesting that unions aren't out there busting their chops to get people to use more money. they are to get non-union people money. what's the end game there? they look good it's great p.r. look how wonderful the unions are. join us increase our coffers. two, by raising the rates of non-union member they in fact take mare union members more competitive. why would you now hire what used to be a $10 person that is $15 when you can just get a union person? so john said it's a shell game and it makes the unions look good

history will probably rank him alongside henry ford and fed and on porsche. what he did recently was very unprofessional stop he tried to start a war. >> he resigned [no audio] it was time to pull together and get back to business. >> the volkswagen name stands 14 spirit and a strong performance -- stands for team spirit and a strong performance by everybody. >> vw still makes its money on conventional cars, but he wants to position volkswagen to become the world's number one mobility provider. so, last year's operating profit was a record 12.7 you billion euros. investors want that kind of support to continue. >> at what investors want and what they expect to happen are two different things. conrad and does -- then does his take of things from the floor of the frankfurt. >> big words from volkswagen ceo, but they did not impress investors. there were many losers this today. neither were investors impressed by strong earnings reports. the bank ubs, even lufthansa all of these companies posted higher earnings than analyst predict it. what made the move -- the

and since the days of henry ford, the american auto industry kept its hand on the wheel and its footthe accelerator. detroit sold the big car. and american drivers bought it. high gas mileage didn't mean much to people used to 30 cent gas. 1973 changed that. war in the middle east and an oil embargo were followed by short supplies, gas lines, and skyrocketing prices. higher gas prices de datsuns anyotas look a lot better. to some, importing japanese cars meant exporting american jobs. so why not just cut imports to save jobs? for drivers, cars are transportation. but in detroit, cars are jobs, good jobs, and lots of them. for auto workers, more imports would mean more layoffs, often permanent layoffs, and a search for new work by men and women who had spent their lives on the assembly line. president douglas fraser of the powerful auto workers union took the workers' case to washington. his mbers and their employers needed protection from their japanese competitors. protecting auto workers and the auto industry made little sense to believers in free trade, like economist robt crandal

pay that installmen >>> still ahead ford motors sees the future of the automotive industry >>> henry ford may have been the man who made detroit the motor city but today, the company bearing his name is looking west for innovation. specifically silicon valley where the auto maker opened a technology center. philip lebeau has more from palo alto california on ford's push into the heart of the tech industry. >> it's a very different environment. ford ceo mark fields calls this the future of ford. far from the nearest assembly plant or a design studio ford is working with the latest technology in the silicon valley to develop cars and trucks. >> the level of intensity this i'm hearing from talking with folks i meet out here they have never seen the amount of interest in one industry by this community in a very long time. >> reporter: ford and other auto makers are racing to make sure silicon valley giants like google and tesla do not take the lead in building connected and autonomous drive vehicles. that means giving consumers tech features they haven't behind the wheel. >> they're coming in

henry ford understood the value of a fair wage shocking the world in 1914$1914 by offering a five perhat doubled the average factory wage at the time. he reduced turn over and made it possible for his assembly line workers to afford the cars they produce. a healthy economy depends on it. let me know what you think. >> that is it for this edition of abc7 news our coverage continues on twitter, you can find us on abc7 news bay area and abc7 news.com as well. i'm ama daetz. >> from all of us here we appreciate your time and will see you again at 9:00 and 11:00. we still have a few minutes left. lacey, didn't you have some kind of a big test at work? yeah, and i totally aced it. i'm officially allowed to sell drugs. welcome aboard. tomorrow's my first day representing galaxy-payson pharmaceuticals. they also make peanut butter and nuclear submarines but i'm not licensed to sell those. well, they do have to worry about national security. you don't want peanut butter to fall into the wrong hands.

henry ford understood the value of a fair wage shocking the world in 1914$1914 by offering a five per roughly $120 in today's money. that doubled the average factory wage at the time. he reduced turn over and made it possible for his assembly line workers to afford the cars they produce. a healthy economy depends on it. let me know what you think. >> that is it for this edition of abc7 news our coverage continues on twitter, you can find us on abc7 news bay area and abc7 news.com as well. i'm ama daetz. >> from all of us here we appreciate your time and will see you again at 9:00 and 11:00. just can't seem to escape... another sneeze attack... you may be muddling through allergies. don't get caught off guard. try zyrtec® dissolve tabs. powerful allergy relief, now in a tablet that starts dissolving instantly. zyrtec® dissolve tabs. muddle no more™. this is "jeopardy!" please welcome today's contestants -- a telecommunications technician from greenville, south carolina... a stay-at-home parent from rochester, new york... and our returning champion -- a chef from steamboat springs, colo

henry ford famously took control of his supply chain by producing the components he needed for his own cars instead of buying them from a third party. >> i'm going to make a leather company and have a rubber plant. he's going supply his own tires. then he said since i'm doing that -- here is the part i love i might as well sell it to pontiac. >> with the fate of moody's in the back of his mind he quickly realized his restaurant portfolio including his restaurants could benefit from the system since they had overlapping needs like bread, meat, pasta, and dessert. >> why don't we create reno provisions to put it under one facility to produce from there. we'll create a store. and we'll create white labelling and selling it ourselves and our restaurants and other restaurants. so we have these three levels of three areas that we vertically integrate coming from the hub of the kitchen down stairs. >> it may sound simple but the move to control his supply chain was risky. not only did he have to find financing to build a facility but he also had to figure out the logistics of making things he

henry ford famously took control of his supply chain by producing the components he needed for his own cars instead of buying them for a third party. >> i'm going to make electrical parts, then i'm going to make an electrical company and supply my own tires. shoot, since i'm doing that this is the part that i really love i might as well sell it off to pontiac or whoever else. so that's the idea of this white label. >> with the fate of moody's always in the back of his mind he quickly realized that his restaurant portfolio, including campo, chez loui and burger heritage could benefit. >> why don't we create reno provisions. as we do that, we'll create a store. if we do that we might as well create white labeling sell it to ourselves, all our restaurants, then we also sell to other restaurants so we have these three levels three areas that we vertically integrated all coming from that one hub of the kitchen at reno provisions. >> it may sound simple but the move to control his supply chain was risky. not only did he have to find financing to build a facility but he also had to figure out

the great grandson of henry ford told bloomberg the company will have to deal with two different worlds. it has to have the intellectual for -- intellectual horsepower to navigate an uncertain future. grads weigh in on shocking things they did in college and what they're planning to do after graduation. meet the class of 2015. and we take back -- take a look back at 40 years of saturday night live. on the next hour, go pro to be more than a one trick pony. story at the moment, the biggest tech deal in history. --adcom to be bought by bought $437 billion. businesses are sitting on piles of cash. brooke sutherlin wrote about this today. she is with us now, and so to his tom giles. we love our superlatives here a bloomberg news. the biggest news is two companies are not household names. semi conductor or industry is prime for consolidation. to fund thesey chip designs of people are turning to acquisitions as the way to grow and keep expansion going. scarlet: we have heard spinoffs and splits pivot that has been the trend for ebay and semantics. why is that more attractive than an outright

the great-grandson of henry ford said the company has to build great vehicles and also has to have the ability to navigate an uncertain future. amazon plans to expand its lineup of private label brands. it will offer a range of grocery items such as milk, serial, and baby food. the move is similar to what retailers have done with in-house labels. they generate bigger margins. morgan stanley getting a big upgrade from moody's. the company raised the long-term rating by two steps. this review takes into account new regulations that would help lenders weather emergencies. spectacular new view from the tip of manhattan. the new deck at one world trade center is now open to the public. the observatory occupies the top three floors of the 200 story tower. you can see 50 miles on clear days, sometimes looking down on clouds. those are your top stories. coming up, cardboard and cameras. how google is taking on facebook in virtual reality. ♪ scarlet: google has just unveiled the jump, they go pro camera rig to support 360 degree video which will be available on youtube this summer. you can watc

the great grandson of henry ford told bloomberg the company knows it will have to deal with two differentgrade vehicles and it has to have the intellectual horsepower to navigate an uncertain future. for the first time in more than to get -- decades, chevrolet will build its camaros in the usa. the company is moving production to2016 models from canada lansing, michigan. the plant will add 500 jobs. been elected to the president of fifa. jordan'-- survived a challenge from jordan's prince ali. scarlet fu joins me with more. still standing. you wonder what the repercussions will be. we will we speaking with jimmy conrad, a retired soccer player who played on the u.s. national soccer team. i want to get his take on what the repercussions are because he has seen it on the field and he can compare and contrast his time versus playing at a fee for event.- fifa the culture is one of retribution. a lot of people talk about this. >> brenda gave me the best explanation. i asked why outside of the realm of sports, outside of foot all, soccer, should anybody care about this and he said, it is about

every driver but you [ laughter ] >> jimmy: they found that you, the lone perfect driver, are what henry forde dreamed of the future of the automobile. according to the survey, the texter is the most reviled driver, followed by the tailgater and the left lane hog, which i think covers pretty much all of us. they also found l.a. has the second rudest drivers in america second only to new york. we don't mean to be rude here if l.a. we're just in a bad mood because we haven't had any gluten in over five years [ laughter ] >> jimmy: the survey says the least popular passengers on the road are backseat drivers. i would have said carjackers. i'd have went with them [ laughter ] >> jimmy: if you've been watching our show the last few weeks you know i recently launched a campaign to raise awareness of bad behavior. it's called the finger of shame. i asked our viewers to take pictures of things going on in public with the finger in the frame pointing these bad things out, and then to post them to instagram or twitter with the #fingerofshame. we get hundreds of them every day. a lot are about other dri

on the other hand, i think some wag today said, you know, the ford foundation gave away henry ford'sand the gates foundation gives away bill gates' money, and the clinton foundation gives the clintons' money. david: yeah. >> so it is, it does not work on the same philanthropic model that many of us are familiar with. david: final question. i know it's hard to find anybody that's willing to investigate, let alone prosecute the clintons in any way, shape or form, but shouldn't the irs be investigating the clinton foundation, what it is, whether it's extended beyond the bounds that a nonprofit should be allowed? >> yeah, you would think. remember, we've had these reports about how much money went to the administration and upkeep of the clinton foundation, just alarmingly high percentages of their revenues went to that. this is something, obviously, the clinton foundation has a 501(c)(3) charitable, tax-exempt status, something the irs would look into. they keep an eye on foundations to see how much they're being used for their actual philanthropic purpose versus, you know, enriching the

we were not meant to live in our cars but even if we were auto companies might -- the cars -- >> henry ford. >> he did. the cup holder was one of the biggest innovations. cars have become dining rooms. we don't want them to become living rooms. it's also the fuel the time the frustration and what about bad whether. really severe weather. and there was a time in 2014 in atlanta workers could not move. for 20 hours. that's really scary. aside from cramped space people could die. these are the dire consequences. it does not have to be that way. we don't have to accept this and there are solutions many of them are already in place. >> it's interesting. we don't have to accept it. we have never really accepted the normal. this is a country that has always thought that tomorrow could be better than today. you mentioned the intercontinental railroad, the interstate system. it isn't like we have not dreamed big and produced big in the past. what do you think at this moment now -- going back to the question of leadership but what are your thoughts? you touch on many of these in the book. >> in the h

it's understood, a henry ford concept where he hired people on the assembly line to build cars they would buy. >> reporter: is it a problem that they still make some money for the city. >> right now a lot of these properties aren't worth what the taxes are on them. some are $60,000 for a small row house that has the back demolished. and it's not worth $60,000. but they're on the books and records. they're almost caught in a catch-22. those taxes that are back due are assets. those assets but for the quality and the rating of their bonds. and so without those assets, they're not going to be able to borrow money that easily, so they can't get rid of them that easily. what we need to do is create a neighborhood environment that generates taxes and replace it with some income-producing status. >> reporter: geraldo, programs that throw money have a record of failure. dan and don say they have a better way. forgive the tax liens that weigh too many down and give them a decent place to start a productive life. >> of all the folks we've interviewed over this long week, these young voices have res

. >> the three siblings lived in this house now preserved at the henry ford museum in dearborn michigan clergyman their mother susan died of tuberculosis in 1889. two older siblings left home to start their own families. >> the house had no running water no. indoor plumbing. no electricity. no telephone. they did have books. lots of books. >> wilbur of was planning to go to yale when an accident changed everything. >> he was hit in the teeth with a hockey stick playing hockey when he was about 18 knocked out all his upper front teeth. he retreated from the world, not going out to do much of anything ever for three years. >> he ended up opening a bicycle shop with his brother in 1893. they even designed and hand built their own brand of bike. >> if you were coming in to buy a bicycle from the wright brothers you come in this door, you come over here and wilbur or orville would wait on you. >> but in their spare time, the brothers became obsessed with the idea of another form of transportation. flying. reading everything they could find about previous experiments. what was the public view

mccullough tells the story of an american story in the era of thomas edison and henry ford at the dawnthe american century. we have the author of "the wright brothers" with us right here david mccullough. you've done it again, sir. >> thank you, chris. >> john adams, harry truman and now you've discovered it's like discovering the statue of liberty like lee iacocca and there it was all the time we grew up reading the landmark series, "the wright brothers," how do you do this? how do you find the iconic american story that others have walked past and not stopped to examine? >> i don't know. i've reached a stage in my working life and in my life when i'm look ging back at what i've been doing. i never thought too much about is there a theme or is there the repeating approach or whatever but i realize that almost everybody that i've written about was out to accomplish something difficult against the odds, against public opinion or even against -- in the face of public ridicule but would not give up. george washington would not give up in 1776 when everything was going against him. harry t

the cars became -- is the henry ford health to build the middle class with the automobile. just do he did and cars have become dining rooms for many people but we don't want them to become living rooms. but it's also the fuel, the time time, the frustration and what about bad weather? we have had some really severe weather and there was a time think it was in 2014 in atlanta where cars couldn't move. >> host: the ice storm. just go for 20 hours and people were stuck in their cars. that's really scary because aside from cramped space people could die. these are the dire stories, the dire consequences and it doesn't have to be that way. that's the other message of "move" that we don't have to accept this and their solutions. many of them are already in place and the rest of the country. >> host: it's interesting you say we don't have to expect it. we have actually never really accepted the normal. this is a country that has always thought that tomorrow could be a better than today. you mentioned the intercontinental railroad. you mentioned the interstate system. it's not like

in 1926 henry ford had a conversation with a chicago entrepreneur william stewart darling. the conversation prompted darling to transform his equipment company into a manufacturer of fire trucks. when darly rolled out the first commercial fire truck later that year built on the chassis of the model t, it marked a new chapter for a business that has remained innovative and competitive to this very day. after william darley passed away in 1935 his wife mary took the reins. she ran the company for 40 years, raising a family and building on an iconic idea. today, darley still manufactures fire trucks and pumps just like this one and as the company points out after 100 years, you can still talk to a darley. so i did. i talked to three darleys. last summer i had the opportunity to meet the founder's grandsons, peter paul, jeff. jeff told me that buyers get to choose between over 150 shades of red. that's even more than you'll find at revlon. he told me unfortunately it's a little lost on him since he's also colorblind. jeff and his brothers lead the business these days fulfilling

it's like henry ford giving people a raise to buy more cars. >> yes. >> why do you feel this was so important> if you boil it down to why i did it a big reason i did it you have a lot of ceos on the show. you have them daily, tens of ceos on these shows. the thing i've realized is that the skill i was blessed with being hopefully a decent ceo, i'm nothing without the folks that work with me. and so no ceo, whether it's what anyone from any fortune 500 company, their skill is tied to those folks directly under them. i realize that. that i'm nothing without these folks and that i want to give back to them. in terms of giving back through upward mobility. >> why not give everybody a raise or one-time payout or put the money in an investment fund. >> i was thinking about that. you get a car, you get a car. not as good looking as oprah, not as flamboyant or austacious. you're not suddenly going to be able to afford college. >> you saw at an evening event that a lot of people couldn't come because they didn't have transportation. how did that help you make the leap to the college idea. >> it's a gr

i do not know whether henry ford was with the workers, but he wanted them to have enough to buy his carshat makes a lot of sense. host: flint, michigan, david, democrat. caller: hello to representative rangle. i am asking him please hold to your guns, do not give the president that authority. i love the president, i think he has done a great job on health care and other things. i think he is dead wrong. do not go along with it. i'm going to call my representative. flint has been devastated by all of our jobs leaving here and going overseas for years and years. now there are hardly any jobs and the young people cannot find anything to do. stick to your guns. host: kevin mccarthy, the majority leader in the house said yesterday they have the votes, when trade promotion authority comes to the house possibly in june, they have the votes. guest: you are talking about what people think is in the bill. you are talking about a bill that no one knows what is in it a bill that does not have jobs and it. and you need to have a reverse party vote, i have not seen anything like this in the 4 decades

people you did for the innovators if you were covering the auto industry to be like talking to henry ford and the dodge brothers etc.? >> guest: sure. the early people are no longer with us. robert is one person i wished i could have talked to. he's the co- inventor of the microchip in other words working with bill shockley originally who had created as part of a team to transistor and that sort of conduct or electricity and you can make it a little bit more in pure by the semi conducting qualities change. you can replace those horrible vacuum tubes with a transistor. and then what bob does with a group of people because it is old teamwork. >> he does something even more. he creates a company that is called intel but it's a new type of company. they sit in a big open space and so that whole new way of doing business in the digital age and he was a mentor to steve jobs but he was so nice he could never say no to people which is why he had to form a partnership at the beginning because he at least knew how to get the microchips out the door by telling people no come you have to focus or you

squawk alley" for a thursday, joining us henry blodgett, the founder, editor and ceo of "business insider." kayla is out working hard. with us as always, john fordpost 9. henry we'll talk in a moment. but first a quick check of the markets. the dow holding on to a nice gain, up 154 points, a lot of it on the strength of big multinationals as the dollar is at a four-month low. we'll talk about it as we get going. in the meantime, we want to update you on a headline we brought you, we have live pictures of another train derailment. this one outside of pittsburgh, about ten cars on a substantially long train, a freight train in this case. according to our local affiliate, the cars are empty, no injuries have been reported. it comes just on the same week as amtrak drain 188 killed seven people, 200 plus injured, just a tragic case. and will feed no doubt the argument about rail infrastructure in this country. guys. parenthetically. kansas city southern does cancel their guidance on volume and revenue for 2015 as the rails henry deal with safety issues, they deal with fourex issues. >> with respect to amtrak, you have to come back to the discussions

donna, up the back stairs with 31 other people to the house chaplain's office where chaplain ford married us at henrylay's desk, the great compromiser. and then he walked back downstairs with us, we had a reception in the office and he pulled donna and i aside and said, i only have two things to tell you two. paul, always hold her hand and never go to bed mad. mr. speaker, sometimes you set the bar too high. [laughter] i have removed pillows from my bed so as not to elevate the temptation for donna to smother me. [laughter] there are so many things privately that i love about him that we share. he had a passionate love for boxing. he knew boxing, he knew boxing like the famous author who recorded almost everything of significance about american heavyweight boxing. we went to a fight, we went to golden gloves, we went to the olympic trials, we went to tons of professional fights. it was like going to that fight with ned flasher. he'd be sitting there and reciting to you the ring scores of the fight. he knew every -- like every hobby and interest he had, he wanted to know everything there was to know a

ford as the next their man of the jointly chiefs of staff. he has fought in if my afghanistan and rack wars. he replaces martin dempsey expected to step down in september. >> john henry smith will be here with much more about general done ford. >> a food blogger stirring up information about healthy eating the food babe, next. >> in today's healthbeat, a surprising new find about type two diabetes. researchers in the united kingdom found die betsics overweight but not obese outlive those who are a normal weight. diabetics with normal weight tend to have a more aggressive form of the decease. panera bread is getting rid of a long list of artificial ingredients, among them, artificial sweeteners, preserve actives and flavor enhancers. it's also the first national restaurant chain to post every ingredient it is getting rid of or plans to on line, what it calls its no-no list. it wants to make changes by the end of 2016. >> she calls herself the food babe. she's an activist and uses her blog to try to change the way we eat, but not everyone thinks she's doing good. erica pitzi met the woman on line. she has created controversial. >> we are talking with the food babe she

ford family. we appreciate you bringing this here to grand rapids again. another excellent program. thank you all for being here. i'll start with you, margaret. margaret hoover, whose great-grandmother was lou henry hoover. and clifton truman daniel whose grandmother was bess truman. and of course everybody knows that susan's mom was betty ford. each of them served in those unique and very interesting times. i want to start with you margaret, because yours is the longest span between great-grandmother and yourself yet you have a lot of interesting insights about a woman who served in what was a very difficult presidency. margaret: she did indeed. thank you, first, to susan for inviting us here tonight. thank you, rick, for hosting and to the foundation for hosting us all here. it's really a privilege to be here in grand rapids and see the museum and library for the first time. we have done this a little in the past together clifton , susan, and i. so forgive us, we may jest a little in between the three of us. to lou henry hoover, my great-grandmother who i never knew, was born in 1874 in waterloo, iowa, was raised in california, and died in the waldorf historia where she died with my great grand

henry safford, went outside and he saw the commotion too. he heard the shouts that lincoln had been shot. safford couldn't get to ford's theater there were so many people outside in the street. he retreated, came back to his house, and went up these stairs and stood at the top of the staircase. he was up there watching as the soldiers pounded on the door of the house next door and they couldn't get in. and he saw there was lincoln in the middle of the street being carried by soldiers and they didn't know where to take the president. safford went outside got a candle, stood at the top of the staircase and shouted bring him in here, bring him in here. dr. leo heard that and shouted to the officers and soldiers, take the president to that house. they crossed the street and came up these stairs. and so as lincoln was being carried up the staircase he was still alive. unconscious. and the sight of abraham lincoln here at the top of the staircase was the last time the american people saw him alive. so dr. leo came in this door. and he told safford, take us to your best room. now, the hallway's narrow. it was already filled w

ford to obama." we are with the co-authors of that book, marvin and deborah kalb. henry is waiting in virginia.as in vietnam in 1969 and 1970. when i had issues with ptsd, i was really messed up when i first came back, but it was no such thing to the v.a. -- they kicked you to the curb. i also had issues with rashes, skin rashes. they did not do anything. now they do give you a little benefit. my issue is that back then, when we first come back from vietnam after being shot at and watching all this murder and stuff in vietnam, there was no treatment for us. i think they wanted us vietnam veterans who are old now and they want us to go off somewhere and die. host: do you want to jump in? guest: the caller raises an excellent point. i think that ptsd is something that has become more widely understood in recent years unfortunately, during the time that the caller and others were coming back from vietnam, it was not understood or treated. today, i think there's a lot more understanding of it and what it can do to people and the treatment that people need. and people who serve in the military, and

donna, up the back stairs with 31 other people to the house chaplain's office where chaplain ford married us at henry clay's desk, the great compromiser. and then he walked back downstairs with us we had a reception in the office and he pulled donna and i asaid and said -- aside and said, i only have two things to tell 2000. paul, always hold her hand and never go to bed mad. mr. speaker, sometimes you set the bar too high. [laughter] i have removed pillows from my bed so as not to elevate the temptation for donna to smother me. [laughter] there are so many things privately that i love about him that we share. he had a passionate love for boxing. he knew boxing, he knew boxing like the famous author who recorded almost everything of significance about american heavyweight boxing. we went to a fight, we went to golden gloves, we went to the olympic trials we went to tons of professional fights. it was like going to that fight with ned flasher. he'd be sitting there and reciting to you the ring scores of the fight. he knew every -- like every hobby and interest he had he wanted to know everything there