hoover but he was not crazy about herbert hoover. he said that man has given me nothing but a vice and all of it bad. [laughter] and retirement to lynch double that law $3,000 per week with a syndicate a popular newspaper column that a boy dick autobiography -- and his world was not a different world and he moved back only to discover the next president had not live-- lived 82 family house. of those crowd of curiosity seekers rolled by in constant procession wended myers trespassed on his porch and trampled on his lawn and peered through the windows. he paid $40,000.2 move to larger quarters, the 16 rooms on 9 acres overlooking the connecticut river, a house far grander but far less grand than pennsylvania avenue. hit was there that he died thursday january 5, 1933 disturbed by a great depression still saddened by his young son's pet passing the return home from his offices at noon and as he shaved day at heart attack felled him. they bury him at plymouth notch in the family graveyard next to his mother and father and sister and the

but he wasn't crazy about herbert hoover. sacrilege, quote cope that man has given me nothing but the ice and all of it bad." [laughter] in retirement, coolidge gal told $3,000 a week offering a popular syndicated newspaper column and he compost the public autobiography, the autobiography of: which. his world was now a different world. he had moved back only to discover that an ex-president cannot live in a two-family house upon an ordinary small town st.. curiosity seekers road by in constant procession. admirers trampled the lawn and trespassed his tiny porch. they peered through his windows. he and grace paid $40,000 to move to larger quarters with 16 rooms on 9 acres overlooking connecticut river, a house far grander than that and far less grand than the one on pennsylvania avenue. it was there that he died on thursday, january 5th, 1933. disturbed by the great depression still saddened by his young son's passing and possessing few and fewer reserves of energy, she returned home from his offices at noon. as he shaved, a h

caller: in your book, was in chapter in there refering to herbert hoover and how he targeted black folksally like the panther party and how that, you know, equates to today? guest: yes, you're absolutely right in that there's very interesting history as the f did you over herbert hoover especially the >> but no, i don't spend that much time discussing that chapter in our racial history. host: how long did it take you to write around how much help did you get to it and what's been the response? guest: well, it took me a while to write. took me about four years to write and challenging because my family was growing at the time. i gave birth to a couple of kids in the process and had a lot of support. from my family, particularly my husband, my mother and my sister. and i've been just tremendously graffed by the response i've received to the book so far. you know, especially from folks who are,Ñignp you know, have f members who are behind bars, who have been newly released and those folks who have been labeled felons, there's just ban tremendous amount of appreciation and gratitude that ki

the data chairman herbert -- her death was preventable. >> just taking a second to cut aid to inch piece of meat would have permitted the prominent. -- to cut a two inch piece of meat would have remedied the problem. >> the family felt that it had to take this step. they said, we are also aware of the health care quality report and we disagree with the findings. >> the nursing home also said that her death did not imply failure of its staff. >> the state prosecutor of maryland said he will not seek another term in office. he has served as state prosecutor for the past six years. he oversaw the prosecution of baltimore mayor sheila dixon. he says he will resign on september 1, the end of his term. >> police have a registered sex offender in custody after he allegedly tried to abduct a 15- year-old girl. the victim's father fly down an officer, alleging michael lee roy thomas tried to snatch his daughter who was luckily able to get away. it happened in southwest baltimore. police arrested thomas at his woodlawn home. he has been a registered sex offenders is 2005. >> baltimore city police

. >> karl rove who was working at the time for george herbert walker bush asked a fundamental questionid i found it increasingly difficult to what good could have gone from burglar raising at the dnc use of that was his way to be an enormous defeat. why? >> the first time i heard curl grove sayre is time with a small file that had to do with him giving glasses to young republicans but nothing really developed of it. but i think his perception it is right and carl has been politically perceptive and what they don't understand is nixon was not calling the shots. msi finally got together in the appendix for the new edition how the flung happen starting a couple years before him where they wanted and they were good about the way the democrats were doing and he wanted dirt on the mocrand constantly pushing him to get the dirty and the way he pushed very few places they could get it then you add into it to the catalyst, the itt scandal that arose in the spring of 72. this is when nixon was accused of having his administration settle the antitrust case for the campaigner bravery there's a who

>> guest: good, in view, is there in a chapter in their return to herbert hoover and how he had targetedfolks especially like the black panthers party and how he quits to today? >> guest: you're right that there is interesting history of cspi under herbert, members leadership targeting african-american groups particularly those that were politically active, have been held, i don't spend much time discussing that particular chapter in her racial history. >> host: please set out this book on did it take you to right? what help did you get? and what's been the response to a? >> guest: well, it took me awhile to write, it took me about four years to write and who is challenging in part because my family was brought and the time. i gave birth to a couple of kids in the process and have a lot of support from my family, particularly my husband, my mother and my sister. and i've been tremendously gratified by the response that i received the book so far. especially from folks who have family members who are behind bars have been really relieved and those folks who have been labeled balance, ther

i want to say herbert -- i don't know. he came to "60 minutes" with this unbelievable story. mike wallace and barry landrieu was the producer. and they went weeks and months going down one afternoon about what the story would be in at the end of the day, barry landrieu, the producer, realized that this guy who it got was actually a fraud and was perpetrating a major fraud on the u.s. government and on "60 minutes" and the news media and barry turned the tables and in the end, you know, his devotion was to the facts, to the truth. and so, so that -- i guess the point is, you know, you can like somebody, you can identify with somebody, but at the end of the day, it's got to check out and we check it out ruthlessly. our devotion to the truth is the matter. so, that's my elaboration. >> i think you summed it up perfectly. i remember one little incident of a guide with stories about and buy a waste since there was something he hadn't told her they couldn't get it from anyone. finally i found the flaw in his background and i put it out there and i remember he said how could she do

guest: well, i would certainly say if you look at the first year, in the case of george herbert walkerbush, we have a president, who was really following through on ronald reagan's legacy. he made decisions really that were in accord answer with those and he was a very experienced man. he had been vice president for eight years and before that, head of the cia and representative and liaison to china. he knew what he was doing and knew he would adjust ever so slightly to the changes within the american economy. now the question that was raised about the first president bush was, was he tough enough. he chose to answer that question in the first year - by sending 24,000 troops down to panama to get mr. noriega. that showed his toughness. he did pretty well the first two years. when president clinton was an elected his job was to mainly mix the economy and he made a number of mistakess. one, his white house was not well structured or tightly run. two, he proposed programs to congress that lacked support. three, he said i'm willing to compromise and the republicans opposed him and the demo

. >> host: in his book "courage and consequence" karl rove who was working door rnc chair george herbertush in 1973 asked one of the most fundamental questions that is asked about watergate. he said, quote, i found it increasingly difficult to defend nixon. what good could have come from burglarizing the dnc? nixon had been way ahead the democratic party was in disarray and the candidate was on his way to an enormous defeat so why? >> guest: you know the first time i heard the name karl rove was when i was asked by the watergate special prosecutor. he was on their radar. he has a small file. and it had to do with his giving classes to young republicans. nothing really developed of it.a but i think his perception is right. karl, has been very politically perceptive. what they don't understand is nixon wasn't calling the shots. these things -- as i finally got together in appendix i wrote for "blind ambition," the new edition, the after word, i was able to understand how the flow happened. how this happened. it started actually a couple of years beforehand. where they wanted to get, you kn

the day, one of the debates clinton and clinton was the perfect, you know, counterpart for george herbert walker bush. where president bush says i will ask jim baker to take a domestic policy and do for domestic. and president clinton says this is what we're worried about. i will do domestic policy in my administration. and for that and other reasons. luck, most of the policies george bush was and i think are very good policies. underrated president, underappreciated president. i wish he won, but he didn't run as good a campaign. and the country was ready for a change. that's another thing. people like a change that some of it is let's try the other g got. >> host: let's go back to that for a second, which is the great triumphs of george h. w. bush on that tax and spending cutting the deficit issue showed a thing that america used to be good at, which is bipartisan compromise. ronald reagan with tip o'neill during the social security thing. that is what has made our country strong, not ideological fervor, but the ability to say let's find common ground, now we can work. that is what we li

calvin coolidge called herbert hoover mr. wonderful and calvin coolidge was, my model president who believed according to amity shlaes, religion long ago determined the world would be better if they involve themselves less than that to me was what depression led to. hoover however was mr. active. police called him a wonder boy. he said he never stopped giving me advice and all of it was bad as the secretary of commerce. he was the first secretary of commerce, the first government official to insist the government had the responsibility to put people in homes and make programs to facilitate that. this all started under hoover. he was a total activist or go all the activity he did, starting with the depression, starting with the crash was wrong. it was a disaster smoot-hawley tariff. he would browbeat banks into keeping interest rates low. he would browbeat the employers into keeping people on the job. he tried to rally wall street and push it and all this was running contrary to what he should have led to his coolidge and hard

women 25 years ago the only vice presidential debate geraldine ferraro then vice president george herbertmack let me help you with a difference between iran and the embassy in lebanon. iran we were held by a foreign government. in lebanon you had a terrorist action were the governmental posted. >> let me say first of all, i almost present vice president bush your patronizing attitude about foreign policy a been a member of congress for six years i was there when the embassy was held hostage and i have been there and i have seen what has happened in the past several months of your administration in. second laid please don't categories my answers leave the interpretation of my answers to the american people who were watching this debate. >> guest: and early example of what hillary clinton and thought she had to confront as well which is a woman needing to prove she understands foreign policy and can be tough for i had an interesting interview with geraldine where she talks about her daughter and what it meant for her to run and then hillary clinton who she is a big supporter but on tuesday

can do and work together to 17 there are pictures in your book of jimmy carter, george bush, george herbert walker bush, bill clinton, but unless i missed something i cannot find a picture of richard nixon. is there a reason? >>guest: there probably is. i had many pictures. there probably are some of those were selected by the publisher. but also, even at to the time that people place the monument, it was at the time president ford had taken toll so there might have been a picture with president ford because he was the person who excepted the first african-american of one of any race with the monument 21714 blocks from here lincoln park at the capitol. the national negro national council of negro women, what is and how long have you been associated with it? >>guest: i have been associated since that day in 1937. two years before that women said what we needed was not another organization about one to bring people together. she said because the negro woman stands outside of the american and mainstream of opportunity empower but we needed to harness our power, if we could do with the problems

president clinton at the time that netanyahu was president in '98, and president bush, the -- 41, george herbert walker bush, over the issue of loan guarantees made it clear that the united states had differences with israel over some things, and the israeli public, in time, came around to realizing that maybe these weren't such good prime ministers. that israel needs good relations. and that was part of the 1992 election result and part of the '98 election result that brought barack to power. >> well, we're not living in '92 or '99 with barack. i would say to you that the real template is the camp david accords of the egyptian/israeli peace. both zoth and baygan could go back to their publics and say, we won. i got something from this kind of deal. and the problem is that this administration is trying to balance israeli and palestinian or israeli and arab interests. it needs to start bonding with both sides. it needs to find formulas in which it can go to the israelis and say, in exchange for some concessions, we will give you something that you desperately want. and what i argue is what the is

herbert for carreon told the members of the harp armonica that he was going to a concert. hours of music and never once will it slow down or speed up by mistake but armstrong who also could play with time stretching it this way and that as he does in the serene trumpet solo that and his 1933 recording of harold arlen's i got a right to sing the blues, hovering miles above the clockwork tyranny of the beat and sounding for all the world like a lordly turn-of-the-century grand opera tenor. the comparison is apt, for armstrong liked, listen to and learned from opera. i like a deep stuff also. which gases me to no end he told orson welles. late in life he remembered buying his first record player, a windup victrola as a teenager in new orleans. he said, most of my records were the original dixieland jazz band but i had caruso too and henry burr, tetrazzini. they were all my favorites and then there was the irish tenor, ,Ñ it gives me an image of the 10. like moving pictures passing in front of my eyes, the town, a check somewhere down the line, and no man with no name you have

. >>> the year before the great depression, republican campaign ads for herbert hoover boasted falselychicken in every pot. now as the country begins to emerge from a near depression, republicans are campaigning on chickens again. our number three story, i'm not making this up, we have the video, the republican front-runner against senate majority leader harry reid of nevada is advancing a health care system in which you would pay for your check ups, x-rays, mammograms, your kid's stitches, with chickens. did i mention i'm not making this up? her name is sue lowden and she has been beating reid handily in the polls. so far on monday, the wealthy former tv news anchor and current gambling executive appeared on local television and outlined her vision of health care reform. the interview aired following remarks she made last week in which she suggested using the barter system to pay for health care and reasonable minds suspected she meant to say patients should haggle with their doctors. nope. as she confirmed in this interview, she meant barter. >> people walk into a doctor's office and

addams, the highly regarded journalist william allen white and the famous progressive intellectual herbert curley who was arguably the profit of progressive democracy and one of the founders of the important journal, new republic are called these individuals played a critical part in the platform's creation. along its length were proposals for national regulation and social welfare that would not be enacted until the new deal. there are striking parallels between the progressive party platform of 1912 and the democratic party platform of 1936. in fact with respect to certain measures, most notably national health insurance, the progressive party prescribed to burkas of commitments remained unfulfilled at the dawn of the 21st century. this was the first time there was a call for a national health insurance system and president obama often points to teddy roosevelt as the first president to propose national health insurance but this did not occur, this proposal, when he was resident, when his reform ambitions were much more moderate record happened in 1912 when he was out of power and scramb

the "uses of the past" by herbert muller -- muller was one of his favorite books, and he would read passages to me. and i learned so much from him and grew so much, i think, because of him. c-span: you credit him with giving him your introduction to liberalism. >> guest: well, he was a -- he was a strong liberal and -- i mean... c-span: define that. >> guest: well, that's tough. you know, i always -- i -- i think of a -- of a liberal as someone with an open mind, an open heart, an open hand, somebody who welcomes change, as opposed to a conservative, who likes to keep things the way they are, someone who really believes in people, and -- and -- and that government has a role and government's role is really to be helping those that -- that don't yet share in the fullness of the american dream, helping those who really need a -- need a helping hand, maybe not -- not for their entire life, but at least to give them a -- a lift up. and i was -- certainly that was my inclination, but i would say, you know, seth, convinced me that that was the right way and that was the -- that was -- that was the

the bush administration, of course, was the worst job performing administration since herbert hoover. i know the gentleman knows that because those statistics are pretty clear, created 19,400 per month you talk about 400-something odd thousand jobs, i agree we need to create that level if we're going to get the jobs your economic program lost. 19,400 jobs, you need 100,000 to stay even. that was the average over 96 months of the policies that were pursued during the bush administration that my friend supported. very frankly, you will remember, during the clinton administration, an economic program that your party didn't support, to a person, everyone voted against it, we created 216,000 jobs per month. now there's no secret as to where those jobs were lost. if you create 10% of the numb of jobs you need to stay even, you're going to go behind and we have a real deficit. the c.b.o. says the program was adopted, that your party opposed, created two million new jobs or retained jobs in our economy. over the last five months, we've had a net positive growth in jobs. we grew 162,000 jobs l

kennedy or george herbert walker bush, that was the defining experience for public people, mostly publicin the late 20th century. john paul stevens is the last world war ii veteran in a position of great prom nance in american life. he's really the last member of the greatest generation to pass from the public scene. i don't mean that he's going to die by any means, but he is leaving his public post. and i think that just shows his perspective was different from a lot of people who are in public life now. you know, one of his uncharacteristic decisions during his tenure was in the famous flag burning case, because he tended to be more liberal, he tended to believe in freedom of expression, even unpopular expression. but he voted that flag burning could be a crime. and in his dissenting opinion in that case he talked about, you know, the sacrifices that american service members made in iwo jima on the beaches of norman normandy. it's a patriotism and life experience that is different from most of us today. you know, you spoke of the last major decision that he participated in, the citizen

when holmes stepped off the court, his colleague urged president hoover krueger -- urged president herbert hoover to name benjamin cardozo. a justice himself, stone offered to resign from the court, in case people would object to cradozo becoming the third -- cardozo becoming the third member of the court from the state. this was a selfless act. hoover finally nominated him in the early 1932. he would serve only six years before his premature death. he is uniformly considered to have graced -- considered among the greats to have graced the nation's highest court. the vacancy then put franklin 6 -- franklin roosevelt in a political bind. he wanted to nominate felix frankfurter. the western states were still without representation on the court. fdr thought ff would be a perfect replacement for brandeis because of their shared religion. geographic considerations were beginning to wane as supreme court selection criteria. justice stone was among a host of frankfurter supporters. he told fdr to ignore the geographic factor and focus on merit alone. president roosevelt ultimately followed the re

i look forward to the 20th anniversary of the ada this summer, a bill signed by george herbert walkeri have profound respect for the tradition and the history of the civil rights commission. that is why, when they ask me to come over recently to talk about the work in the new black panther party case, i said of course. i will be over there in a few weeks to discuss our actions there. i hope that we can reach a point where we can return to our bipartisan routes, because really, civil rights is about bipartisan coalition building. that is what i have learned from the movement, and that is what it is, and that is what i hope it will return to. >> thank you. >> i would remind the senator, he went 16 seconds over his allotted time. >> i guess i am not the ranking member. >> that was not your fault senator, it was mine. >> let me first say, you are being very diplomatic on civil rights. i understand your position on testifying before us. i think senator frank and was correct in the manner he presented that. çthe civil rights commission is an important institution, and it is one that should

this is going to be the worst administration in economic terms since herbert hoover.have a giant energy tax, a giant health tax, the end of the bush tax cuts, it will end up a major burden on this economy. they said on sunday that it was a disaster for small business. an american solution is that we have five specific tax cuts for small business and business in general. they said they thought that business tax cuts are more effective than government spending at creative -- at creating jobs. [applause] let's be up front. we can cut the regulatory burden so people can focus on creating jobs. we can focus on saying yes to -- we propose a 50% reduction in security and medicare tax to jump-start the economy and increase the liquidity at -- the liquidity of small business. i am tired of figuring out new ways to help people that aren't working. i want to find new ways to help people that are working. [applause] in closing, if we're the party that believes 2 + 2 = 4, we're going to tell the truth about terrorism and not hide from it. we'll tell the truth about america and bal

i look forward to the 25th anniversary of the bill signed by george herbert walker bush this summer.und respect for the tradition and the history of the civil rights commission and that's why when they asked me to come over recently about the -- to talk about the work in the new black panther case of course i will come over and i will be over there in a few weeks to discuss options and i hope we can reach a point where we can return to our bipartisan routes because really civil rights is about bipartisan coalition building. that's what i've learned from the movement and as i study the history of the movement that is what it is and that is what i hope it will return to three >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> i would remind the senator he went 16 seconds over his allotted time. >> i guess i'm not the ranking member. [laughter] >> that was my fault, senator. [laughter] >> well, let me first say to mr. perez that you are being very diplomatic on the civil rights. and i understand your position as the testifying before us. i think senator franken is correct in a manner he's presen

i look forward to the 20th anniversary of a bill signed by george herbert walker bush. i have profound respect for the tradition and history of the civil rights commission and that is why when they asked me to come over recently to talk about the work in the blank to the two black panther case i supply will be over there in a few weeks to discuss actions there and i hope we can reach a point where we can return to our bipartisan routes because civil rights is about bipartisan coalition building. that is what i learned from the movement and i studied the history of the movement. that is what it is and i hope it will return to. >> thank you. >> the senator went 16 seconds over his allotted time. >> dalia synnott the ranking member. [laughter] >> that was my fault, senator. >> let me first say to mr. perez that you're being very diplomatic on the civil rights and dalia understand door position as the test of fallujah before us. i think that senator franken is correct in the matter is presented that. i am dustin to the tradition of the civil rights commission but it is an i

clinton was the perfect counter pert board george herbert walker bush where bush says i will ask jimbaker to take up domestic policy and due for a domestic policy and president clinton said what are you worried about? i will do domestic policy in my administration. for that and other reasons the most policies that george bush pursued were good he was the most underrated and underappreciated president i wish you would have 13 he did not have run ask it of a campaign this is another thing about american politics and history that people like a change. let's try the other guy. >> let me push back the dead triumphant of george hw bush with tip o'neill doing so security that is what made our country strong? data is what we lack kin washington the past 10 years you don't celebrate that the neff. you make it seem they give up their principal with and sometimes can make great democracy. >> and the willingness on the principle to compromise is on principal and i could certainly live with the first. reagan could do this. >> host: and gorbachev. >> guest: and dan rostenkowski. [laughter] not the

i look forward to the 20th anniversary of the ada this summer, a bill signed by george herbert walkery of the civil rights commission. that is why, when they ask me to come over recently to talk about the work in the new black panther party case, i said of course. i will be over there in a few weeks to discuss our actions there. i hope that we can reach a point where we can return to our bipartisan routes, because really, civil rights is about bipartisan coalition building. that is what i have learned from the movement, and that is what it is, and that is what i hope it will return to. >> thank you. >> i would remind the senator, he went 16 seconds over his allotted time. >> i guess i am not the ranking member. >> that was not your fault senator, it was mine. >> let me first say, you are being very diplomatic on civil rights. i understand your position on testifying before us. i think senator frank and was correct in the manner he presented that. çthe civil rights commission is an important institution, and it is one that should be on the forefront of advocacy for civil rights for al

when holmes stepped off the court, his colleague urged president hoover krueger -- urged president herbert hoover to name benjamin cardozo. a justice himself, stone offered to resign from the court, in case people would object to cradozo becoming the third -- cardozo becoming the third member of the court from the state. this was a selfless act. hoover finally nominated him in the early 1932. he would serve only six years before his premature death. he is uniformly considered to have graced -- considered among the greats to have graced the nation's highest court. the vacancy then put franklin 6 -- franklin roosevelt in a political bind. he wanted to nominate felix frankfurter. the western states were still without representation on the court. fdr thought ff would be a perfect replacement for brandeis because of their shared religion. geographic considerations were beginning to wane as supreme court selection criteria. justice stone was among a host of frankfurter supporters. he told fdr to ignore the geographic factor and focus on merit alone. president roosevelt ultimately followed the re

the science fiction novelist frank herbert stated, and i quote, the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. our national libraries serve as a much-needed conduit by which we as american citizens gain more understanding of the world around us. first sponsored in 1958, national library week is a national observance sponsored by the american library association and lie barians across the country each april. it is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. all types of libraries, schools, public and academic participate. the city of chicago is home to exactly 79 public loy brears -- libraries and many public libraries with information ranging from cultural specific research to academic. in my congressional district, the seventh congressional district of illinois, we serve as home of the headquarters for the american library association. i am proud to have this great organization in my district, and i am pleased that many of its staff members are my constituents. we have libraries that

mike herbert told me last year that in 2000 -- 2007 and 2008 to nearly 80 percent of the workers in theivate sector. is that right of a ms. fisk? >> i believe it is close to that number yes. >> and by last summer because of the deterioration of the economy, the financial meltdown, most of those general contractors are doing it 60 plus percent of the work in the public sector but we have to sustain the existing jobs and investments and carry that so that the rest of the economy can catch up and the private sector investments that had been made in the past can continue to be made in the future. we need to get through this summer. i think this is one more summer of a stimulus will set the stage and move the country forward. the but unfortunately while we passed our legislation to fully fund the state 20 percent share of the federal highway program, in december the senate has not done that. they only passed the extension of current law through the end of this fiscal. that three additional months. that is not sufficient, that's not a good service to the country. the every witness that we've

and, the peculiar domestic sources of american liberalism lie in the thought of woodrow wilson and herbertcrowley and john daly and that generation. in a way the left has been living off those ideas for 100 years. >> what is your favorite conservative look? >> that is a tough one. i will tell you, i knew bill buckley for 35 years so i suppose not unexpected my favorite conservative book would have been written by bill buckley but actually there are two. i think his books i think are nonpareil and one of his last books called miles gone by which is his own assortment of autobiographical writings. the other is a book called, a book of his features over the course of his whole life called let us talk of many things. those are excellent, excellent introductions to the history of conservatism and the mind of a very special and gifted and brilliant polemicist, my old friend bill buckley. >> duque glenn beck and ann coulter and sarah palin, are they important to the conservative movement, the books that they write? >> they are important provocateurs, as popularizers of conservative ideas. i think