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

we have herbert hoover on the other side. in terms of prosperity, of course, both of them are running in favor of prosperity. the problem for al smith is you had eight years of republican rule. first warren harding, followed by calvin coolidge. 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, 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

suspected >>darya: a helicopter crash near the herbert hoover dam. >>justine: of former governor of new york plans to testify to a house committee today saying that he has no idea what happened to client money that went missing when he was the head of the forearm and mass global. millions of dollars or missing after he resigned in october. he does not know where the money went but he says he probably plans to flee this it. we have light fixtures of the house committee that is about to get started. we will keep our eyes and ears on this and let you know what happens. >>will: the officers are here, in their warm cars. it is a cold, clear, all morning. i am right in front of the coliseum. the traffic you see is 80 northbound. i had to drive through a little bit of fog coming through nevada this morning, but not too bad. traffic is slowing nicely. >>darya: this is pretty much what the weather will be like for the next week. >>mark: san francisco police are stepping up patrols near shopping malls, especially near union square. the mobile command station h

>> i have a seventh grader at herbert hoover middle school and a 10th grader at wallenberg. president mendoza: excellent. seeing no other comments, roll call please. commissioner tom: yes. commissioner fewer: yes. president mendoza: yes. commissioner wynns: yes. vice president yee: yes. commissioner murase: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. president mendoza: 90. is there anything else you want to say, mr. millis? >> i look forward to working with the pac and making a big impact. president mendoza: thank you. item g is the consent calendar. never mind, i take it back. we have no public comment on item f. we have been off for a little while so i am a little slow around here. he before we go to item g, as a reminder to the public, and individual wishing to address the board on an individual matter can call the board office by 4:30 on the day of the meeting or by completing a speaker card, which looks like this and we have it in the doorway entrance. cards need to be -- cars turned in at the same time an item is discussed will not be accepted. please keep that in mind. item g is t

and he thought herbert hoover had made a promise to. hoover had. but the ku klux klan which is very powerful, powerful political movement then was up in arms over the idea of an irish catholic becoming attorney general of the united states. donovan was a prominent republican made his share of enemies in washington and senate democrats vow to block his nomination. so hoover reneged on the promise until the day he died, "wild bill" donovan never forgave herbert hoover for backing out on the attorney general ship. he returned to new york city, set up a very prominent law firm there, made millions as a wall street lawyer, then 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 it 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 against lieutenant governor lehman, roosevelt's lieutenant governor who is running for governor. said some nast

president and they want to blame him for the recession, they have a way of knowing every night as in herbert hoover lives. >> is there a blame game? >> the economy is turning around very, very slowly. if they're reporting that, that's accurate. if they weren't, they wouldn't bens who. you know, i can't remember those being covered. unfortunately, in other administrations, but, but i think if they do did that, that wouldn't justification for doing it now. >> i think that cal can remember those. >> thank you very much. as abraham lincoln once told me (laughter) there's a template in this. anybody who looks at the media coverage. this is the way it works. if the economy starts to turn around in a republican administration, the editorials, well, it could have been better and sluggish and interview people who blame bush. this, they say, obama's policies must be working and things are better and the media feed this approval among people 0 who don't pay a lot of attention for the news and when the polls come out. obama is up to 49% approval. >> i want today show you a symbol of what you might see as media

yet after the failures of herbert hoover, americans embraced his new deal. 2012 will not be the year of bipartisanship. that's okay. americans are not campfire girls sitting cross-legged, arm-and- arm and singing "kumbaya." we've got tough choices. we can handle tough rhetoric. playing nice and doing nothing doesn't work in kindergarten, and it certainly doesn't work for a 236-year old country. i'm todd buchholz. >> susie: 1,400 hours, over 16 states, and $281 million in payouts. that's this season's crop of almost three dozen college football bowls. tonight's "beyond the scoreboard" looks at whether there are too many bowl games. here's rick horrow of horrow sports ventures. >> reporter: i'm here at the belt bowl in charlotte, north carolina, one of 35 bowls that cynics say is way too many. they miss the point for four reasons. one, it gives 70 schools a moment in the sun. significant recruiting, alumni donation, admission, all tied up in their one big day versus about 20% or 30% of schools participating in basketball and baseball. you understand the difference. second, scarborough

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from the lawn of the white house all the way down the potomac forty five thousand people and herbert hoover ordered him. what's his name the general macarthur to ride through them do you see similarities between then and now and then i mean that's set up the roosevelt presidency could this be setting up something really extraordinary in the next few years political i believe it is there is a righteous anger out there and people feel as if america has gotten off track we truly are serving the one percent and we're leaving the ninety nine behind it was the one percent that drove our economy into the ditch and now the ninety nine percent is suffering people are tired of suffering they want good paying jobs like chris people want to live in their homes securely and they want to be able to send their kids to college as well and so people are here to make a stand and i do believe this is a historic moment krista how much for the for the for you and your peers in the movement how much of this is about moving forward as in let's get some good jobs and how much of it is about looking back as in why

staying out is it because they think the economy's going to go in the tank they don't want to be herbert hoover i think that's part of it and i also think that they really felt that knew that mitt had it locked up i think the consensus was it's minutes this is mitt's year this is mitt's time mitt can get it done i don't think anybody inside the republican party realized what a deep undercurrent of hatred there is within the republican party for mitt romney now how much of that is flip flopping and how much of that is his being a mormon i think it's both i think it's his being a mormon i think it's the flip flopping i think it all comes together they don't trust him they don't like him they don't think he's real they don't think he's a real christian they don't think he's a real conservative they just don't like the man they they consider him the manchurian candidate within their own party right and newt of course isn't i mean he everything about newt is pretty much obvious which is like a ton of money but they like him richard thank you for being so good to be shit remember the old gag david le

know ronald reagan, it turned out he cared more states against carter than fdr carried against herbert hoover. it is october of next year. obama has $1 billion to spend on the kind of negative advertising you have been seeing here. it comes down to a series of debates. who do you think could go on that platform against barack obama and effectively articulate your values, defend your beliefs, and communicate his failures without flinching? i want to suggest almost everybody seems to think that i'm a more effective debater than mitt romney, a more coherent conservative. i first worked with ronald reagan in 1974. i think that i can debate barack obama and begin decisively by telling the truth that the country says, we want paychecks, we do not want more food stamps. [applause] >> i have a question about the national debt. i have a high-level of anxiety about getting obama out of the white house. please describe your plan to pay off the national debt. >> that is a good question. what you have no is a generation of politicians who plan to leave the debt to their children and grandchildren. when i

been on the women are the left door the right the democratic nominee was a member and so was herbert hoover and comings in the communist activist for about the american first movement actually made plans to open in campaign office is in every congressional district to support the most isolationist candidate running for office with a republican nor democrat and never many members of his own party who were strident isolationist. >> on that issue the mineworkers were isolationist but you indicate prior to that college campuses? >> there was some academics. it is interesting that along the coast and the city's among the intellectual class is coming there was more interest in helping churchill and great britain but that is because they were more democratic. they knew where fdr was. but then if you go down the middle of the country, it was more isolationist. >> you mentioned again come of about winston churchill? >> they were really not all that enamored of each other although they have a lot and comment. john b. gem said it was the love of the sea and the strong drink that brought them to get th

jimmy: with a little old driver, so sloppy and quick, i knew in a moment it must be -- >> -- herbert hoover >> jimmy: more rapid than -- >> -- yogurt tubes -- >> jimmy: -- his coursers they came. and he -- >> -- sneezed -- >> jimmy: --and he -- >> -- pooped -- [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: -- and called them by name. now dasher, now -- >> -- spanky -- >> jimmy: -- now -- >> -- gerdy -- >> jimmy: -- and vixen. on -- >> -- fallopia -- >> jimmy: -- on -- >> -- charles barkley -- [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: -- on -- >> -- mucus legs -- >> jimmy: -- and blitzen. his eyes, how they twinkled. his -- >> -- nipples -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: how merry. his cheeks were like -- >> -- squishy -- >> -- birds -- >> jimmy: -- his -- >> -- breasts -- >> jimmy: -- like a cherry. he had a broad face and a -- >> -- stanky -- >> -- hot -- >> jimmy: -- belly that shook when he -- >> -- diddled. >> jimmy: -- like a bowl full of -- >> -- hot sauce. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: and laying his -- >> -- weird sucker pads -- >> jimmy: -- aside of his -- >> -- spicy butt -- >> jimmy: -- and giving a -- >> -- squash -- >> jim

they may now want to be seen as calvin coolidge republicans or herbert hoover republicans? they'll be anything but none of these guys call themselves george w. bush republicans. and that's why it is so remarkable that the republican politics of the ending of the iraq war now are that the iraq war ought not end. that the real problem is that the troops are coming home in time for christmas. republicans, people running for president, elected officials, all of the conservative leading voices on issues like this, they are all against the war ending. >> unfortunately, unfortunately, it is clear that this decision of a complete pullout of the united states troops from iraq was dictated by politics and not our national security interests. i believe that history will judge this president's leadership with a scorn and disdain that it deserves. >> this was a failure by the obama administration to close the deal. at a time when we need troops in iraq to secure the place against intervention by iran and the bad actors in the region, we're going to go into 2012 with none. >> the adminis

though he added this is still the worst recovery since herbert hoover, take a listen. >> the truth is that his economic policies have made us more and more like europe and high unemployment and low income growth, gosh, median income in america has dropped by 10%. he is going to have a hard time putting perfume on this pig. >> the white house pushed back on this said look the president inherited a mess. millions of jobs lost before he took office. is he cleaning up the mess but it's taking a bit of time obviously, shep. >> shepard: the president today looking for lift from one of his predecessors. >> yeah. bill clinton who is somebody who pushes green jobs. so the president was here with the former president in downtown d.c. at a building that is trying to be more energy efficient. they say that will create green jobs. if you listen closely to what bill clinton had to say even as he was praising this policy, he used an adjective that really wasn't on the white house talking points. >> we could create an unlimited number of jobs out of this even in this lousy economy, even with all this

it was herbert hoover in 1929. the -- the historical precedence wasn't on the books anyway. he doesn't have the numbers. his campaign dollars is dwindling. and he doesn't have the infrastructure in place. herman cain has shown he's dogged. >> and resilient. >> resilient. he keeps his eye on the prize. he went back to "the union leader," the new hampshire editorial board he did so badly with the last time. >> let's assume he bows out, who stands to benefit? is it newt gingrich? >> absolutely newt gingrich. what galvanized his conservative base, the talk of getting the economy back on track. that's herman cain's story. and this is why newt gingrich has been on the rise, too. nobody has gotten -- mitt romney hasn't gotten past his 25% ceiling. who is the next not mitt romney? >> he's remained steady at 25%. but there seems to be this vibe of anybody but mitt romney amongst the republicans. why is that? >> the conservative base feels that he has been unprincipled in his policymaking and his leadership throughout the course of his political career. and they just feel like, at the

every president from teddy roosevelt to herbert hoover and those in the middle like woodrow wilson, democrats, republicans and independents supported some kind of eugenics in the first third of the century. today we've got almost everyone condemning it, but i see very few people coming forward and saying it's time to address this with some kind of compensation. >> is there any accurate number of how many people are still alive who were directly affected by this? in the piece elizabeth was reporting some 2,000 may be alive in north carolina. >> that number is startling enough for north carolina, anderson. but also what we do know is that reparations occurred with respect to japanese interment camps, reagan, then president bush provided resource, $20,000 for individuals in those interment camps. i would say that's the floor for these individuals. because that was displacement, loss of property. we're talking about violation of people's bodies. being forced into surgery. being coerced. being told that if you don't sign for this surgery, you're going to be placed in an orphanage or in the case of

house that was a democratic nominee in 1928 was a member, and so was herbert hoover. labor, e.e.cummings, lowell thomas, the commonest activist was a member of the country. american first move was a politically potent that they were actually making plans to open up a campaign office and every congressional district for 1942 to support the most isolationist candidate running for office whether the republican and democrat, and there were many members of roosevelt own democratic party it was strident isolationists. >> on that issue, too, the united mine workers were isolationists. >> right. >> unusual. but you also indicate prior to the seventh that campuses, college campuses where moe -- were more pro-war? >> there were some academics and intellectuals. interesting fact, along the coast and along in the cities, among the intellectual class and editorialists there were more interest in helping churchill and great britain but that's because they were more democratic with a campuses and they knew where fdr was, where his thinking was. but then if you go down the middle of the country,

every president from teddy roosevelt to herbert hoover and those in the middle like woodrow wilson, democrats, republicans and independents supported some kind of eugenics in the first third of the century. today we've got almost everyone condemning it, but i see very few people coming forward and saying it's time to address this with some kind of compensation. >> is there any accurate number of how many people are still alive who were directly affected by this? in the piece elizabeth was reporting some 2,000 may be alive in north carolina. >> that number is startling enough for north carolina, anderson. but also what we do know is that reparations occurred with respect to japanese interment camps. you know, reagan and then president bush provided resources, $20,000 for individuals in those interment camps. i would say that's the floor for these individuals. because that was displacement, loss of property. we're talking about violation of people's bodies. being forced into surgery. being coerced. being told that if you don't sign for this surgery, you're going to be placed in an orphanage or

in towns they called hooverville after president herbert hoover and it was not a compliment.uses or apartments quietly because the landlord showed up and said they had to go. a lot stood their grounds with help their their neighbors. the americans of the great depression organized eviction defense. like the people putting the furniture back in. i quoted a moment ago from brooklyn. sometimes eviction resistance turned into eviction riots. they rioted in chicago in august 1931. three protesters were killed there after 60,000 people marched against evictions. they rioted in the bronx in 1932 after families went on rent strike over prices they could no longer afford. they rioted in cleveland after a bank foreclosed on john and sophie sperenga and the county sheriff kicked them out with their four children. in cleveland, the local small home and landowners federation spread the alarm up and down the neighborhood streets. thousands of people showed up to defend the sperega family. quote, as bliss arrived, they were greeted by taunts and jeers and rocks, bricks, sticks. this account

even herbert hoover, thought of as one of the worst presidents of last century, had a really good ex-president helped out europe after the end of world war ii. >> nick, even though we talk about it potentially now after his first four years, doesn't this just mean it's a lock if there are eight years? bar. basically, yeah, if obama got eight years, he would still be really, really young, just 55 so young, and he is a really healthy guy and smart in so many different ways that even after eight years, he could do -- still do a lot of things on this list, co-runt university, co-join the supreme court, he would have decades in which to make even more of a contribution after he leaves the white house, whether it is after just one term or after two. >> nick summers, senior reporter for news week. nick, great to see you today. thanks for your time. >> thanks for having me. >>> now time for the polysigh bar. >>> mark meck letter is facing jail time for gun charges, arrested the new york city's laguardia airport after a gun was discovered during check in. meck letter told authorities he carries the gun

1932 and i guess he was sworn in and dirty three and i was born in july of 32, but i never knew herbert hoover personally. but franklin roosevelt was the president. he represented the united states of america have more time. and my parents, i never want my new would look to him as the leader of our country. it was enormously important for young man. >> and you were so taken the stevenson and what he said that a sin that has some influence over the fact that he ran for congress at the age of 29, very dark horse 1962. most people don't run for congress utterly. at least they did in those days. as he said, is younger than it is nowadays. what moved you to get answers to? >> well, i was the longest of long shots. i had been away from my home district for a decade. i've done for your sick college cometh reenactors in the navy and then worked in washing 10 for two congressmen. one from ohio one from michigan. i've never met a congressman before in my life and then i'd come to chicago, home. and suddenly out of the blue, a woman who was a congresswoman, who had succeeded her husband and they had occu

. >> reporter: a symbol of the era's end: republican herbert hoover, who presided over the crash of 'hiked taxes in 1931, was thumped in '32 and moved to the waldorf astoria hotel as the great depression deepened. do you read anything into this? i mean, that perhaps the great depression continued for another nine years because rates were jacked up that high? >> there were many factors going into depression. tax policy was only one of them, so it's hard to know. >> reporter: "many factors"-- the vexing problem with trying to pin economic growth on tax rates. as the raised rates of president roosevelt make clear. we airlifted to an island named after him across new york's east river. so next stop roosevelt island, the franklin delano roosevelt drive over there. what happens under roosevelt? >> two big things happen under roosevelt: one-- the top marginal rates increase even more. they go up all the way to 94%, very high top marginal rates. and two-- the income tax, our income tax changes from a class tax to a mass tax. the percentage of potential taxpayers who are actually paying taxes