leuchtenbug commodores is on herbert hoover and he mentioned this evening herbert hoover was an orphan and that shaped his personality and so was jackson, yet they had different personalities. could either of you speak on how their backgrounds they were different but they were both orphans, and i realize there is no psychologist here tonight, but could either of you speak about how their experiences shape them as orphans and yet they were both very different. >> first of all yes i did from on andrew jackson. arthur schlesinger jr a few know schlesinger scholarship it's like being asked by the whole thing to write about the birth. this was a big deal and i was honored to get the request and this whole event is in some ways in great honor to arthur schlesinger her, jr.. it's quite true jackson's father died before he was born, killed by a tree falling on him and the circumstances of his mother's death and brother's death during the revolution i think were very particular. his mother died basically trying to nurse relatives and friends from the area of north carolina and south carolina ch

happened to herbert hoover would've been a great president.he would've been a great president if not for the great crash and depression. if herbert hoover had been elected eight years earlier, in 1920, he would've been terrific weird kid that mindset, the talent, for dealing with the status quo, extending and preserving the status quo. but when things change or medically, right beneath the sea come he didn't have the flexibility to deal with it. having said that, i think that there's one other aspect of ro

his suite was directly above herbert hoover's hoover lived at the waldorf at the time and truman and hoover had sort of a back and forth, a complex relationship. truman rehabilitated hoover's reputation after roosevelt died and change the name of what was it, bolder dam back to hoover dam said they become quite close the thin in the election of 1952, truman again invoked the name of herbert hoover as comparing eisenhower to-- the democrats ran against zuber for 30 years and, you know with some success so harry was not about to stop so i think they had a tip that the time because there is no record that the two of them saw each other while harry was upstairs and herbert was downstairs. i have always wondered how they manage. the staff of the walled darth most binnun penson evil's trying to keep this couple apart not to mention that that was macarthur was six floors up. they took in broadway shows. they went to the 21 club, where all the rich and famous went in shortly after they got there another diner came in. the governor of new york, f. thomas duly which presented a problem for the

he said well, i think if you would go to various presidential libraries perhaps starting with herbert hoover's library in on u.n. and going at least through every presidential library through lyndon johnson, he said i think he would find a lot of stuff in presidential papers that has not been redacted by your former employe year the central intelligence agency. so i say that is a great idea and that is exactly what i did. i went to austin texas and hyde park and some places i can't stand other places i stayed in a hostile sleeping in a room with 46 other guys because i like to eat well so that's what i did. so that was the second serendipitous event and then the third one occurred one day as i was walking out of the navy department library at the end of the day's research. a gentleman coming out of the adjoining building noticed i was walking towards the bus stop and he said where are you going and i told him and he offered me a ride. he turned out to be a navy historian who had published a work on naval operations during the cuban missile crisis that had a few pages on guantanamo. and he not

as soon as the world starts to tight el we'll go through a herbert hoover 1937 type experience, wheref you balance a budget during a recession, depression or deflation, it is absolutely fatal. and history has shown that. >> what is fatal is when you spend all the money you could have used to cut taxes to at least get job creation and then have deficits maybe you could grow out of, you spent all this money,out haven't created jobs. now you might see the light. other countries that can't afford it start pulling their programs, we see the assets in the bank are still there and they still smell and they're still overwhelming compared to their gdp. >> not really. >> stop being so parochial. this is not about the united states when it comes to moves on the dollar. this is about the relative -- there's two sides to each currency trade. it's about the relative position that other governments with even higher levels of debt find around the rest of the world. >> right. that's true. >> the lucky thing about the united states is, in many respects, you're still the reserve currency. people still f

william leuchtenburg author of "herbert hoover." and timothy naftali author of "george h.w. bush."all three biographies are part of the american presidency theories published by times books. the event hosted by the national constitution center in philadelphia is in our 15 minutes. >> good evening. welcome to the national constitution center. and steve franken, the vice president for education and exhibits. happy presidents' day. it's an honor to welcome historians william leuchtenburg, gary may, and timothy naftali to discuss the american presidency. from the unexpected of john tyler that herbert huber faced to the administration of george h.w. bush in the end of the cold war. we anticipate a fascinating conversation that will touch on presidential leadership as well as the achievements and challenges that each president faced. tyler ascended to the presidency in 1841 and george bush, 41 as he's affectionately known around here left office in 1993. if you do the math, that's more than 150 years of history. to lead together a conversation covered that much ground requires someone wi

community people feel strongly about removing water from the ecosystems and people from stolid like herbert hoover the water that flows to the sea and used is wasted. i am somewhat neutral on the subject i don't take the strong position that strongly that you can never take the water act of ecosystems i think the world is what it is and we have to use it but we have to preserve ecosystems on the other hand. >> i am with water advocates here in town. great speech i look forward to reading the book i may not be a youngster but happy to report that the beautiful actress jessica biel has some did not kilimanjaro and i have what should that -- i have watched that very attentively but all of these are part of the solution to building awareness of global save water and sanitation in challenges. one quick question you mention the two 1/2 billion without sanitation and the lack of an allegory for that issue i think we did have one and that was senator paul simon and he was with us. kudos to senator durbin and corker now for picking up the ball to continue with his legacy the water for the world act and so

have had the lowest job production in this country when we have had -- that we have had since herbert hoover. as a result we are very much down in terms of jobs for people who are out of jobs and need jobs. i will tell the gentleman -- i want to also say i want to thank the gentleman and his colleagues on his side of the aisle for their positive participation yesterday. positive in the sense that, yes, we didn't agree, but nobody expected there to be agreement down there. everybody was all of a sudden going to change their perspective on how you get to where we all want to get. but i thought the american people as i said, had an opportunity to see some serious people who had differences of opinion discuss them in a civil and i thought productive manner. i think that's a good civics opportunity for the american people. and very frankly we ought to do more of that because unfortunately all too often they see us on the floor not uncontentious which we do pretty much working together, but they see us on the contentious where tempers can get hot and the american public draws the inference that th

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