this is aren't program year, and we are delighted to be working with herbert hoover middle school. what we are doing is providing a $10,000 grants for the continuity of our program should the current funding run out and also cultural programs for the children through the community interior -- through the community. we were pleased to put on our first event for the school. i am just about to blank on his name. our wonderful instructor as well all volunteered to instruct the students in oregon may -- in origami. we are delighted to be joined by superintended garcia and they also gave encouragement to the kids. i just wanted to let you know about this program. this year we will be providing smaller financial support to the japanese immersion programs and rosa parks and clarendon, and we will be continuing our fund raising in the coming years to expand into other schools going forward, so i want to thank you all for the opportunity to talk about this. foreign-language training is so important. we think that is an important thing we can do. thank you very much. >> any questions from the

aviation, i mean, the great secretary of commerce in those days, herbert hoover, was the great secretary of commerce because it was his job to hire the first air traffic controllers, to site the airports, to come up with federal policy. well, you had to have a stimulating economy to do that. and i looked back and, in fact, ronald reagan was on to this when -- two reagan stories. when he moved into the white house, he ordered some favorite presidents -- predecessors' portraits for the cabinet room. and "the washington post" opined that the old man was already losing his mind because he asked for calvin coolidge to adorn the mantle place. and then we fast forward six years later, and reagan is in walter reed recovering from one of his many surgeries, and he's dozing, and he's got an army blanket on his lap. and, you know, where the knees would be he has this book opened face down with his half glasses on and be some white house aides were there. and how long have you boys been here? not very long, mr. president. we didn't want to disturb your book. i was just reading this book on calvin co

first on herbert hoover and on note woodrow wilson. hoover was secretary of commerce -- commerce. woodrow wilson, the point about whether he was serious about a third term in 1920. >> i just read the biography of calvin coolidge. wilson and wilson's crowd talked about a lot of things, but it was clear to the party that he could not be the next president. that is a little bit of a different category. we did not say roosevelt was secretary of the navy, we said he served the secretary of the navy, but we appreciate the caller. >> james is starting a snack from stanford, north carolina. >> i just wanted to comment -- in the fall of 1940, when the willkie did a whistle stop tour of florida. i happened to be a western union trainee in melbourne, florida. he was on the rear platform of the train. a crowd of 50 or 60 people have the opportunity to shake hands with wendell willkie. that was the comment i wanted to add. >> do you remember if you saw him on the whistle stop tour? what did you take when you saw him campaign? did he leave an impression? >> i was a kid at 18-years old. i was in

he was a devoted progressive and tested herbert hoover. not only did he hate hoover but was very suspicious of hoover. he was convinced that hoover was insinuating himself trying to undermine the new deal which was not entirely wrong. he is an important figure because he was one of two cabinet members in the roosevelt administration who served franklin roosevelt for all 12 years roosevelt was in office the other being frances perkins. he was a very important aide and adviser to roosevelt, one that roosevelt didn't always take very seriously. he was mercurial and a curmudgeon and would try to get his way by threatening to resign but he was also known -- the reason roosevelt put him in charge of the public works administration which ended up with jurisdiction over hoover dam is he was convinced that harold ickes would be so careful with the public's money that he will be disbursed slowly which it roosevelt's inclination. and he did. it was never a with of scandal at the public works administration and it gave us truly enduring public works. t

first on herbert hoover, and also woodrow wilson. over was secretary of commerce before he was the nominee. woodrow wilson, the point about whether he was serious about a third term in 1920. >> i am writing a biography of calvin coolidge. wilson and wilson's crowd talked about a lot of things, but it was clear to the party that he could not be the next president. that is a little bit of a different category. we did not say roosevelt was secretary of the navy, we said he served the secretary of the navy, but we appreciate the caller. >> james is joining us next from stanford, north carolina. >> i just wanted to comment -- in the fall of 1940, willkie did a whistle stop tour of florida. i happened to be a western union trainee in melbourne, florida. he came through melbourne. he was on the rear platform of the train. a crowd of 50 or 60 people had the opportunity to shake hands with wendell willkie. that was either september or october of 1940. that was the comment i wanted to add. very interesting. >> do you remember when you saw him o

his goal at that point was to be attorney general of the united states and he thought herbert hoover made that promise to him and in fact he had. but the ku klux klan which was a very powerful political movement and was up in arms over the idea of an irish catholic becoming attorney general of the united states. he made his share of enemies and senate democrats vowed to block his nomination so hoover printed on the promise until the day he died, wild bill donovan never forgave herbert hoover for backing out on the attorney-generalship. he returned to new york city and set up a prominent law firm, made millions as a wall street lawyer and in 1932 ran for governor of new york on the republican ticket. his gold and was to be the nation's first irish catholic president and new york was the ideal stepping stone for and achieving that. frank and roosevelt 1932 was running for his first term. donovan ended up running as much against roosevelt as he did against lt. governor herbert lehman. he said some nasty things about roosevelt on the campaign trail. at one point he accused fdr of being,

excuse me, herbert hoover middle school. i went there when it was a junior high school. >> we will talk about deepening our understanding of student achievement. and ongoing concerns about the quality of middle schools as well as the process that we are taking right now for the goals for this year. and on behalf, i like to thank the deputy superintendent and the assistant superintendent for taking the time to meet with us. we organized a special meeting in which we had members from the district and liaisons' present. and community leadership from the revisory for special education and graduates that were there to gain a better understanding of how the district interprets student achievement and to answer our questions are around the house student achievement is look at and answer our own questions as well as to discuss what strategy for the district is used to accelerate closing the achievement gap. also, i want to take the opportunity to thank commissioner fewer and commissioner mendoza for stopping by and encouraging us to

>> i just want to add that at the event superintendent garcia and i attended at herbert hoover middle school, he was so surprised when he got a call saying we want to come and see how we can help you. he does not often get appointments from people who want to help in a substantive way what we are doing in the middle school, and i want to express my appreciation to the japan society. >> i would like to thank you for your support of our students. it is wonderful, and foreign languages such an important goal for all of our students to be bilingual by the time they graduate, so thank you for that. it is wonderful. >> we are honored to be able to do something for the school. >> i want to thank you as well. i had the privilege of going to japan for the japan foundation this last year, so it was a real treat to be able to understand the japanese education system, and it related remind us of the strength and -- it really did remind us of the strength and power we have on our language project as well. >> i would like to also thank you if i ever get a chance to go to japan. >> wonderful. thank

what's happening in the last three years on george bush, you know-- next, it will become about herbert hoover. the "fact of the matter" is that obama's policies and the policies of the reid-pelosi congress have made this economy, worse not better. and his idea of the jobs bill was more of the same. well, we'll only do half as much of the same but we'll do more of the same. that's what his jobs bill is. so i hope that the fact is that president obama does run on his record. however, i doubt that he will. i think what he'll do is he'll try to make whoever we nominate somebody unacceptable, and will attack, attack, attack. because the election is a referendum on obama's policies, we're going to have a republican president. >> schieffer: governor o'malley just when you mentioned hoover said "great analogy." >> hey, i'm not surprised. the democrats ran against hoover for 70 years. they got to run against somebody because they sure can't run on "obama-care" or his proposals to increase taxes on employers when the deal we're trying to do is have more employees. so, yeah, they'll talk about hoover. g

first on herbert hoover. and also woodrow wilson. hoover was secretary of commerce.efore he was the nominee. woodrow wilson, the point about whether he was serious about a third term in 1920. >> i just read the biography of -- i am just a white teen a biography of -- writing a biography of calvin coolidge. wilson and wilson's crowd talked about a lot of things, but it was clear to the party that he could not be the next president. that is a little bit of a different category. we did not say roosevelt was secretary of the navy, we said he served the secretary of the navy, but we appreciate the caller. kitty and indeed. >> james is starting a snack -- james is joining us next from stanford, north carolina. >> i just wanted to comment -- in the fall of 1940, willkie did a whistle stop tour of florida. i happened to be a western union trainee in melbourne, florida. he came from melbourne. he was on the rear platform of the train. a crowd of 50 or 60 people had the opportunity to shake hands with wendell willkie. that was either september or october of 1940. that was the

we have herbert hoover on the other side. in terms of prosperity, both of them are running in favor of prosperity. the problem for al smith is you had eight years of republican rule. the republicans have a leg up on the prosperity front. you had the 1920's. it has been a boom decade for wall street and for large segments of the economy. i think the darkest part of this election and the reason i said it really is one of the most vicious elections in american history is our third p, the question of prejudice. al smith -- i think most americans today are more familiar with john kennedy as a catholic candidates. that caused a real star even in the 1960's. al smith raised all of those questions much earlier in 1928. it had already been a decade that had been seized with a lot of questions about immigration, immigration reform, the rights of the two clocks klan. those come into play. >> how did the role of catholicism play out? >> it was a vicious campaign. this was not new to him. when he ran in new york state, he faced at them. i

right before the conservative policies of presidents harding coolidge and herbert hoover through our nation of the great depression it's conservatives who want to erase the last century in america and return this nation to a time when the robber barons ran the show and the rest of the of the country the rest of america was the working poor so when herman cain and the rest of the conservatives say liberals are on a mission to destroy the united states and just have to wonder what the hell are they talking about especially herman cain who wouldn't even be able to make a living much less run for president had it not been for liberals of all races and willing to fight and die for the rights of all as the fame conservative ideologues william f. buckley famously noted a conservative is a fellow standing athwart history yelling stop well thanks to liberals the forward march of human history hasn't stopped and let's make sure it never does. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered this is our website it's a tom hartman dot com free speech or there are two

dollars for us for a start up we didn't do so we tried this before we tried this you know we're herbert hoover raise the top tax rate to ninety one percent it's stayed there from from twenty nine i think it was or thirty or thirty one it stayed there then until nineteen set what was in one nine hundred sixty four and when it was dropped over seventy four percent and it stayed there until one thousand nine hundred six when when reagan dropped down twenty eight percent so we had five but i may have a hybrid of all prosperity while the top one percent a minute i'd like to expose the fallacy of that argument that avoids the actual issue the issue here is that we tax many much less millionaires because so many people again entered into these various schemes that machinations to avoid receiving that money in their hands it's almost analogous to the arguments about minimum wage we say let's raise minimum wage and we neglect the fact that the legal aliens largely are willing to work for less than minimum wage people going to become as a little illegal aliens to avoid taxes yet your point is well taken

there was it would it was herbert hoover who was up to was that all of us are made on god to a revolution of red led to the revolution of franklin roosevelt but let's get it will i mean i'm not going to get into a debate over who's at fault here because you know derek's right that we don't know the full facts of what happened it really bothers me you know scott olsen is a hero this is a marine he served his country but the cops who were involved in this these are people who lay there who lay their lives on the line every single day and i hate to see this dispute breaking out between the occupy wall street protesters the ninety nine percent protestors and the police because at the same time when these cops are going to work every day to go where they're told they protect and they put themselves in harm's way the republicans are calling those budgets those cops are getting laid off they're losing their right to unionize they're losing their benefits and so these two people the protesters and the cops are fundamentally on the same teenager at zero as you patriots and they're heroes and the m

many successes were defeated the ending of the banking crisis for the new administration and by herbert hoover own economic advisor. fdr was opposed to adding pensions to social security and tell the eve of the bill introduction on capitol hill and threatened to veto the bill if it included deposit insurance but was overruled and properly so because then he bled claiming eternity from both of these programs. [laughter] which is the ability to understand. roosevelt's reputation as a liberal, pushed for the balanced budget every year. skeptical of large public works programs in the suitability thought would give him too much authority. and a programs the thought would have to much redistribution of wealth that he read dismiss as the dole but the new deal may have forged an alliance between minorities and the democratic party that has lasted up to the present day but then shortcoming as racial inequality. many have perpetuated discrimination and shortchange black family is in then in the south and the west and then refuse to press for the anti-munching bell. with the political rationale and then

his goal was to be attorney general of the united states, and he thought herbert hoover who succeeded coo coolidge made that promise to him, which he had, but the ku klux klan, a political movement then, was up in arms about a catholic being attorney general. there was a share of enemies in washington, and democrats vowed to block his nomination. hoover backed out on the promise, and thl -- until he died, he never forgave him for backing out. he set up a prominent law firm in new york city, made millions as a wall street lawyer. in 1932, he ran for governor of new york on the republican ticket. his goal then was to be the nation's first irish-catholic president, and new york was the ideal steppingstone for achieving that. franklin roosevelt, 1932 was running for his first term as president. donovan ended up running as much against roosevelt as he did lieutenant governor herbert leiman, the lieu tend governor running for governor. he said nasty things about roosevelt on the trail. he accused him of being "crafty," and back then, that's fighting words, mild today, but another time he ac

we have herbert hoover on the other side. boom decade for wall street and for large segments of the economy, although less for farmers and agriculture at that point. i think the darkest part of this election and the reason i said it really is one of the most vicious elections in american history is our third "p," the question of prejudice. al smith -- i think most americans today are more familiar with john kennedy as a catholic candidate. that caused a real stir even in the 1960's. a real set of questions about the presidency. al smith raised all of those questions much earlier in 1928. it had already been a decade that had been seized with a lot of questions about immigration, immigration reform, the rise of the ku klux klan. those come into play. >> how did the role of catholicism play out? john evers. >> it was a vicious campaign. this was not new to him. when he ran in new york state, he faced it then. in 1914, martin glenn faced anti-catholic prejudice. it showed up in the 1915 constitutional convention as a little bit

he was a devoted progressive, and he detested herbert hoover. pat, not only did he hate hoover. he was very suspicious of hoover. he was convinced that hoover was out there insinuating himself trying to undermine the new deal , which wasn't entirely wrong. now very important figure in part because he was one of only one of two cabinet members in the roosevelt administration his serve franklin roosevelt for all 12 years that roosevelt was in office, the other one being frances perkins. he was a very important aide and adviser to roosevelt. roosevelt did not always taken very seriously. he was the curio, a curmudgeon, would try to get his weight by threatening to resign, but he was also known, the reason that roosevelt put him in charge of the public works ministration which ended up with jurisdiction over a river dam was that he was convinced that it would be so careful with the public's money that he would always disperse it very slowly, which could result. and he did. never a scandal at the public works and ministration commanded give us some truly enduring public works. this g

former president herbert hoover would have been in that camp as well. the thomas e. dewey is somebody who had morphed. from a young man, he had been an isolationist. one of the interesting things is to watch him become a committed internationalists and a champion of bipartisan foreign policy. >> given that, what is the impact of that attitude on all of his presidential bid? he runs in 1940, 1944, 1948. >> i think it was safe to say it was statesmanlike. it did not win him any votes. in 1944 there was a significant conflict between thomas e. dewey and fdr. they disagreed over the united nations. specifically, would the united nations have an army that it could employ a without first securing the permission of member states at the united states? franklin d. roosevelt said, yes, he supported that. thomas e. dooley was not supportive of that. he said later on that history was proven i was right. >> to talk about the divide in the republican party over international issues. do they come back together in temper the 1948 campaign? taft and dewey winds come back together? >>

at the end of this day, we have the most unequal country we've had since herbert hoover. the gap between wealthy and people at the bottom is the biggest we have seen. we have the greatest inequality than any developed nation. will we really pursue a policy to make things more unequal. we have to wait, one last thing, we have to see the economy assess this. if it really brings a lot of growth. that will help. >> that's always the big question. the jobs created is always. >> every tax cut does not pay for itself. the big achilles plan is it's geared for primary voters not general electorate. the tea party was all about dealing with generational theft of deficits and debt. this is about tax cut. tax cut theology about winning republican debate and primary. >> he will cap the budget 13% and 18% gdp. i read that and we know about the budget we didn't have one this year. $882 billion is how much we had to cut it out to cap the spending at 18% gdp. you won't get there through cuts in discretionary. >> you won't. it will come out of medicare. you have to go after medicare. >> the

i think about 1930, 1931 when that's all herbert hoover talked about.e economy just collapsed. do we need to do something about entitlements, yes. do we need to get the debt under control. yes. do we need to be free spending in sanely, no. the notion we should tighten the vise on government right now when we're in trouble doesn't agree with me. >> number one, president obama hasn't really put anything on the table as a conservative that i believe would actually create jobs. that's why there's gridlock. >> let me bring in roland. roland martin, cnn contributor. we feel bad, my friend. an aggie got into the national race, got on the national stage 72 hours, started to flame out. now we're talking about chris christie. are democrats worried about chris christie and should they be worried about chris christie attracting, as joe said, the very independents that barack obama used to be very attractive to. >> this is very simple for any republican watching. stop wasting your time for somebody who is not in the race. the problem with this conversation from day

at the end of this day, we have the most unequal country we've had since herbert hoover. the gap between wealthy and people at the bottom is the biggest we have seen. we have the greatest inequality than any developed nation. will we really pursue a policy to make things more unequal. we have to wait, one last thing, we have to see the economy assess this. if it really brings a lot of growth. that will help. >> that's always the big question. the jobs created is always. >> every tax cut does not pay for itself. the big achilles plan is it's geared for primary voters not general electorate. the tea party was all about dealing with generational theft of deficits and debt. this is about tax cut. tax cut theology is winning the policy republican debate and primary. >> he will cap the budget 13% and 18% gdp. i read that and we know about the budget we didn't have one this year. $882 billion is how much we had to cut it out to cap the spending at 18% gdp. you won't get there through cuts in discretionary. >> you won't. it will come out of medicare. you have to go after medicare

but at its core, people knew that franklin roosevelt, unlike herbert hoover, believed in a positive rolein social justice and economic prosperity and that in the end is what matters. >> american university's allen likt man, nice to see you sir. >>> other headlines in the news. another dramatic rescue in turkey. a 13-year-old boy was pulled out alive from the collapsed building following sunday's massive earthquake. it killed 570 people. relatives say he was trying to dig himself out of the rubble with a rock. >>> a potential glitch in the trial of michael jackson's doctor, conrad murray could push this case well into week six. prosecutors say they need more time to review new evidence. >> the problem from the start, the judge told the jurors they would be done by october 28th. that's today. nbc learned that the judge expressed concern that he'll start losing jurors before the case even wraps up. there you're seeing pictures of baby lisa. new developments in the search for that missing baby. the local attorney for the parents of the case leaving high-profile new york defense attorney to r

they settled in for as long as it might take to make their point to congress and then president herbert hoover. at least that's what the bonus army hoped. the head of the u.s. army, general douglas macarthur looked out at the peaceful protests of the veterans camping out and saw an embarrassment for his commander in chief. mcarthur mustered troops on horseback against the veterans' camp and followed those horses with tanks. the destruction began. >> then troops began to set fire to their wooden shacks. one reporter wrote, "the blaze was so big it lit the whole sky. a nightmare come to life." the president looked out a window of the white house in the direction of the fire then retired for the night. >> and the roaring flames, the fantastic bonus army. that in so disastrously in the shadow of the capitol of the united states of america. >> two u.s. veterans were killed that day, but the movement grew. what does not kill you makes you stronger, they say. news of the raid, the first footage of what had happened reached americans in movie house, in newsreels they used to show in theaters before th

it started with herbert hoover went to roosevelt. it became a depression that did not end until 1947 the idea that war ends depression is an idea still floats around. it gets rid of on plummet but where the people employed? they are getting shot and killed real growth did not come until 1947, after millions of troops came home, the military budget was slashed by more than half, taxes went down 30% and went back to work. we're doing the same thing that the japanese have been doing for a couple of decades, propping up bad debts and that is the most difficult thing we have to deal with is allowing these mistakes to be corrected. these ideas have floated around a long time and they are connected to those ideas of personal liberty. we should see people as individuals and not in groups. it was mentioned in the introduction about who can and cannot serve in the military. i see those problems we have had in the past as too often we see people in the long ago past, people were mistreated because they belong to certain groups. now we still see